MONOLOGUING THE SONG
💬 Monologuing the song is not doing you a whole lot of good.
🎓 We treat it like a sacred acting-class ritual… but it rarely delivers anything you can actually use.
🙅♀️ A song isn’t a monologue in disguise. If the writers wanted spoken feelings, they’d have written spoken text. They wrote a song because the words are meant to be sung.
🎶 And when you strip the music away, you strip away the thing that tells us how the character feels: the contour, the pressure, the breath, the stretch, the swell.
🧠 Speaking the lyric might help you decode logic. But it won’t give you the behavior. Singing is a different medium with different physiology and different truth.
💡 So instead of asking how the character would say it, ask how they would sing it. Let the score tell you what the spoken version can’t.
