Words Suck

[quido]

dat post count

[Ahldagor]

Originally Posted by quido [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

dat post count

almost three times mine...maybe i should stop being social and play red?

[Archalen]

I don't look at it the same way you do Jeremy. I'm a songwriter/ musician, and I appreciate it when I hear an artist who is able to make an old theme sound new. In my view, I don't isolate the vocals necessarily in my judgement; rather, they interplay with the music, and how well they do this affects how I like both. I was listening to a song the other day that said "explode," and the music mimicked the word in a subtle way. That is clever and interesting to me.

More onus is inevitably put on articulation when you read literature; literature is a different art form than music.

Of course there are plenty of bad lyric writers and song writers out there just like there are plenty of bad story writers. However, many of the songs that become popular (from new artists) are successful because they make you feel something - ego, pride, justification, sadness, anger, loneliness, and you feel some kind of emotional connection to them. Or they are catchy as hell and make your ear pussy feel good.

[stonez138]

So songs lyrics are bad because their shorter then books? So longer books are always better then shorter books too right? Does that means Kafka sucks because he wrote short stories not long novels?

[hatelore]

Originally Posted by Derubael [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Is poetry stupid too?

Many songs are just poetry put to a melody. If the use of prose, metaphors, style, and rhythm to express an idea or feeling is not a valid or intelligent manner of expression, go ahead and throw out the majority of our literary works along with every song ever created.

Not saying all lyrics are good, poetry, or worth listening to, but to put a blanket statement of 'all song lyrics r dum' is wrong.

Or did I just get trolled?

Go read some Bad Religion lyrics, and be impressed.

[indiscriminate_hater]

What books you reading jeremy

[radditsu]

Originally Posted by indiscriminate_hater [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What books you reading jeremy

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[quido]

I only read Maxim

[Took]

I agree. I don't even really listen to or pickup on many lyrics in songs I like. I never remember them anyway at least.

[Utmost]

I like this thread. Although I am a bit disappointed to find out that my band name "The Wind Ensemble" has already been taken.