Alex-
yeah the amount of posts for Silver Springs is a bit deceiving, and it will be a tricky thing to work through to figure out exactly who said WHAT about Silver Springs...and what was just chatter. The moderator of a song writes the final interpretation. If you go into the lyric interps archives, the name of the moderator for every song is bolded among the list of "contributors."
In terms of still being able to put in your own two cents, of course you can, the ultimate power of what the song is about comes down to the moderator. If I wanted to write the final interp for SS as being all about...i don't know, stevie's perception of chris and john, i could (okay maybe Marty would have some problems with that one and Stewy too...so maybe I should shy away from that tactic...damn it!
)But you get the point. It's better if you include everyone's thoughts and cover all aspects of a song instead of tossing out someone's interp b/c you don't agree with it. People like it better if they can sense their thoughts in the final. But at the same time, try to take a somewhat firm stand on what the song is about overall...makes it more convincing that way. Go look at "The Second Time" (yay one of mine!) and "Just Crazy Love" (I think...no I think I mean "Hollywood Some Other Kind of Town") and you'll see examples of taking a song through two aspects throughout the whole interp.
Doing final interps is fun, a bit of work but not bad (stay away from the damn album interpretations though....lots more work there!) but its hard when you get little to no responses...I've seen some where there was like one response. BUT in the OLD OLD days (like when I first came to the ledge) people would get seriously like 20 responses to a song. And imo that would be almost TOO many. We used to be able to do two interpretations A WEEK...and then every two weeks..and then two a month...and now we're down to one a month....sad sad stuff...but i think it's because the fave songs have all been done...so now we're redoing them!! Yippee!
okay long response that didn't say much...ah well...
becky