Why don you capitalize PSB song titles the way the Boys themselves say they e supposed to be capitalized, with each one written as if it were a sentence (for example, “Tonight is forever” instead of “Tonight Is Forever”)?
It’s not out of ignorance. Boneheaded contrariness, perhaps. But at least it proves I’m no mere PSB sycophant. More seriously, folks—and I sincerely hope I’m not going to offend anyone by saying this—I personally regard the “official” PSB way of capitalizing their song titles to be a stylistic affectation that no one else is obliged to follow. Call me old-fashioned (irony intended), but I don’t see why I or anyone else should deviate from the conventions of title capitalization that have served the English language and the worlds of publishing, journalism, and academia perfectly well for the past two centuries or so. You might respond, “But they wrote the songs! The songs are theirs! So you’re wrong to capitalize them differently!” No. Once an artist shares his or her work with the public, he or she no longer “owns” it. To be sure, the artist (or publisher) generally owns the copyright to that artwork and thereby has certain exclusive commercial, financial, and other “intellectual prop
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