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Newguest Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary
Soap box at ....
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But it is not enough to have a good lyric or a great idea. If the tune or the musical location aren't right then you might as well be standing on a soap box at Speakers' Corner.
--- I understand that good lyrics is not enough, you also have to find a good melody and "musical location" (whatever it means?) otherwise your song would be useless/pointless/ I'm not sure this is what he means by saying: standing on a soap box at Speakers' Corner?
But it is not enough to have a good lyric or a great idea. If the tune or the musical location aren't right then you might as well be standing on a soap box at Speakers' Corner.
--- I understand that good lyrics is not enough, you also have to find a good melody and "musical location" (whatever it means?) otherwise your song would be useless/pointless/ I'm not sure this is what he means by saying: standing on a soap box at Speakers' Corner?
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Speaker's Corner is a spot in London where the condemned were allowed to speak their piece before continuing to the gallows to be hanged. I think that the reference here alludes to the idea that nobody will listen because it's useless.
- Speaker's Corner is a spot in London where the condemned were allowed to speak their piece before continuing to the gallows to be hanged.
- I think that the reference here alludes to the idea that nobody will listen because it's useless.
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Speaker's Corner is a spot in London where the condemned were allowed to speak their piece before continuing to the gallows to be hanged. I think that the reference here alludes to the idea that nobody will listen because it's useless.
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Speakers' Corner is in Hyde Park if I remember correctly. And nowadays it's not the condemned. It's anybody who wants to lecture on anything. You or I could do the same. It was mostly religious fanatics the day I passed by. Whether by tradition or by law, they all stand on some sort of platform. It doesn't have to be, literally, a soap box. (Soap crate is more like it.) That is, they can
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Thanks, CJ, for the additional info about the soap box and not being on British soil. Not sure I had heard that before.
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