Carolyn Marie Ferraro

Singer-Songwriter

Carolyn Marie Ferraro is a Singer-Songwriter, Country Artist, and Dancer. She has graced iconic stages like the Stone Pony and shared the spotlight with icons like Boy George & Culture Club and The Thompson Twins. Carolyn is passionate about storytelling and believes anyone can write a song, which inspired her weekly live songwriting sessions. In 2019, Carolyn Marie was honored with the Discover Lehigh Valley's "Discovered Artist" award at the Lehigh Valley Music Awards. Her country song, “Just Drive”, hit the top 100 of the iTunes Country Music Charts peaking at #83 and played during the Halftime Show at Super Bowl LVII. Carolyn has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

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How do I write good lyrics?

The best thing is to just rip the Band-Aid off and pick up your guitar and just get in there and start. Starting is the most important thing because if you never start, you never create anything. Songwriters and creatives tend to be very self-critical of their thoughts and their songs and whatever they're coming up with, because a lot of the time it's so personal, because songwriting is personal . Lots of people use their journeys or their friends’ journeys, and it feels very personal. So, the very first thing would be to just start with anything.

And then, what helps me is knowing that my first song is always going to be my worst. So, just knowing that it is a journey. And who knows? Maybe you write the first one and you're like, “Oh, I thought it was going to be the worst and this is great,” but not really expecting too much. You can sit down and you can write a song and nobody has to hear it, or it could be great and you can let everybody hear it, but you don't have to share it with everybody yet.

Just giving yourself half an hour or even just starting by telling yourself, “I'm going to write for five minutes,” and then that five minutes somehow turns into 30 minutes. I think those are things that helped me when I'm stuck in a rut.

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