Zippers Should Be Allowed To Make

Zippers. An underappreciated part of our everyday lives that allows us to connect with many things. Similarly, musicians apply zippers to their music by connecting parts with individual additions to infuse their style. Many jazz artists utilize the zipper verse to keep their songs new and fresh when performing for different audiences. Other artists who utilized the zipper verse may have intentionally or unintentionally added it to their music, but, for many, it helped as it made the song memorable. The addition of zipper verses has revolutionized music for decades as it has changed the freshness, feel, energy, and story of the song just by replacing words. The zipper verse consists of singing the song normally, but then adding a few words to …show more content…
The song will still sound the same, but it now includes extra words that the artist decided to fill in to change the song's feel. Some may say that a zipper verse is just a normal song, but in the jazz era many songs were solely repetitions of the same chorus. In other words, some songs did not have defined verses but rather zipper style lyrics to keep the music upbeat and exciting. In an article, the author Cat states, “If I had to explain it, it’s a song where the verse is mostly the same. Just a few keywords swap out,” (Cat). This truly is the easiest way to define it; there is no deeper meaning other than artists wanting to tinker with their music. The zipper verse has been so impactful that many contemporary artists still use it. The zipper verse has been used vastly by many artists and has remained relevant for decades. There are a few different ways to infuse it into music, which can be shown in these examples. In Robert Johnson’s “Hot Tamales (They’re Red Hot),” he uses the zipper verse method many times. The lyrics themselves are quite repetitive, but Johnson cleverly alters a sentence in each verse to change the feel of the