It has been 'revealed' that Lady Gaga writes her lyrics on a typewriter. One wonders why. Everybody used to, of course. Bob Dylan turned out most of his early masterpieces with a typewriter and a stream of cigarettes. Just like reporters did in the old days when I first joined a newspaper.
The discipline of the typewriter is that you have to try to get things right without starting again too many times, otherwise you create a mess – either on the page or in the wastebin or on the floor.
All those screwed up bits of paper used to be used in the movies to show how hard the writer was working – or how hard the writing process was.
Perhaps Gaga also sits surrounded by balls of discarded paper to illustrate the intensity of her creative processes.
And maybe also typewritten lyrics are not a bad investment for the future – since they'll be around to be sold to collectors in a few years' time, and far more of a genuine historical musical document than a computer printout.
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