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Just to add something here.  I know someone who was involved with JA and experienced his lyric writing first hand.  He churned an entire album's lyrics in a few hours sat on a bench in a garden.  That amount of writing in such a short space'o'time can only support the 'drivel' aspect.  If your lyrics are basically sound and rhythm and no content, you can achieve this power writing mode but are negating most of what real poets cling to, meaning.  If you have to consider the meaning of what you are writing, I venture you can't power write unless you are a genius which he ain't.  And he's not a poet either.  I hope he's got a chair that really fits him.

 

Martin