Music Lyrics

Originally posted by Starrman
Well it seems bizarre to me. I dunno, maybe I'm missing something.

Yeah, you're missing the fact that we all find beauty in different stuff.

Originally posted by darvlay
That's not true. There was that time in 1993 you used to play Creep repeatedly in your bedroom until you sobbed into your yearbook, no?

Not true. But there was the time when Sabrina's songs stirred something inside me.

Originally posted by Palynka
Not true. But there was the time when Sabrina's songs stirred something inside me.

She should spell it Sabrinha.

Originally posted by Starrman
Well it seems bizarre to me. I dunno, maybe I'm missing something.

If it makes you feel better, I think most people who view music as a casual escape, rather than a serious artform, would likely agree with you. 😉

Originally posted by darvlay
Yeah, you're missing the fact that we all find beauty in different stuff.

Not at all, I've been supporting subjective aesthetics.

I guess I just find it weird that you don't listen to the lyrics or that if you do, none of them has said anything you were interested in, or that mattered to you. Do you ever sing along to songs?

Originally posted by darvlay
If it makes you feel better, I think most people who view music as a casual escape, rather than a serious artform, would likely agree with you. 😉

Elitist.

Originally posted by Starrman
Not at all, I've been supporting subjective aesthetics.

I guess I just find it weird that you don't listen to the lyrics or that if you do, none of them has said anything you were interested in, or that mattered to you. Do you ever sing along to songs?

I do sing along to songs! Often. Although, I admit to being one of those people who get the words wrong when trying to follow along (likely because I focus on the melody more than the words)

By the way, I wouldn't say that none of them have ever interested me.

Originally posted by Starrman
So you're seriously saying that if *insert a favoured artist here* was singing 'blah blah goo goo, I love to rape small children, but lovely people climb that steeple, reaching for some oatmeal' or the like, over a song you know well that it wouldn't matter as long as they were singing it in the right way? And what's the 'right' way?

Here are the lyrics to the song "Ivo" by Cocteau Twins.

Ivo, Peach blow, Pandora, Pompadour
Pale leaf, Pink sweet, Persephone, we all adore Ivo
Ivo Ivo, bit animal, Ivo Ivo
We all adore Ivo Ivo Ivo
With the part animal, Peep peep, we all adore Ivo
We all adore Ivo, Bit animal, Ivo Ivo
We all adore Ivo
Ivo Ivo
With the part animal
(x2)

Predentive, Predo
Pra-da-da-dee

Ivo, Peach blow, Pandora, Pompadour
Pale leaf, Pink sweet, Persephone
(x2)

We all adore
Ivo
Bit animal
Ivo Ivo
We all adore Ivo
Ivo Ivo
With the part animal
Ivo Ivo
(x2)

Ivo, Peach blow, Pandora

Check out that song, it's pretty amazing.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
Here are the lyrics to the song "Ivo" by Cocteau Twins.

Ivo, Peach blow, Pandora, Pompadour
Pale leaf, Pink sweet, Persephone, we all adore Ivo
Ivo Ivo, bit animal, Ivo Ivo
We all adore Ivo Ivo Ivo
With the part animal, Peep peep, we all adore Ivo
We all adore Ivo, Bit animal, Ivo Ivo
We all adore Ivo
Ivo Ivo
With the part animal
(x2)

Pre ...[text shortened]... nimal
Ivo Ivo
(x2)

Ivo, Peach blow, Pandora

Check out that song, it's pretty amazing.

I'm not suggesting that there aren't songs in which the lyrical content matters less than the melodic content, artist like Kate Bush for example. I just dispute that as a blanket statement lyrics are unimportant.

Originally posted by Starrman
I'm not suggesting that there aren't songs in which the lyrical content matters less than the melodic content, artist like Kate Bush for example. I just dispute that as a blanket statement lyrics are unimportant.

Well, let's try and test this theory.

In your mind, ss there a song that carries itself entirely on lyrical content whilst being completely hampered by poor or unoriginal musicianship? If so, what is it about the lyrics that spoke to you?

Originally posted by Starrman
I'm not suggesting that there aren't songs in which the lyrical content matters less than the melodic content, artist like Kate Bush for example. I just dispute that as a blanket statement lyrics are unimportant.

Well, that's personal. To me, they usually don't matter but strong lyrical content can add to the music.

Originally posted by darvlay
Well, let's try and test this theory.

In your mind, ss there a song that carries itself entirely on lyrical content whilst being completely hampered by poor or unoriginal musicianship? If so, what is it about the lyrics that spoke to you?

No, but that's not what I'm suggesting. I believe the sum of the parts is the most important thing, though there are songs in which the lyrics are the major factor for me.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
... but strong lyrical content can add to the music.

Agreed.

Originally posted by Starrman
No, but that's not what I'm suggesting. I believe the sum of the parts is the most important thing, though there are songs in which the lyrics are the major factor for me.

Can you at least provide an example of so-called important lyrics?

Originally posted by darvlay
Can you at least provide an example of so-called important lyrics?

Well, remember I haven't said they were objectively important, only important to the listener xymself. An example of lyrics which I think are the major factor in a song: YouTube