Hello everybody,

I'm a linguistic major and now I'm about to do a genre analysis about song lyrics. My potential research question is: What do writers need to know about the target audience to write successful texts? I'm basically thinking about the perspective of the song writer trying to convey different messages to different groups of listeners, for example, people suffering from marital infidelity, or people going out of love, etc., via the lyrics. What's difficult for me is that songwriting is pretty much out of the scope of my knowledge and I don't have an idea where to find supporting articles on this topic. Does anybody here have a clue? Thanks!!!

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