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Originally Posted by maximusveritas
Well, if you heard a song whose lyrics were comprised of racist hate speech, would you still like it as long as it had a good beat? I'm not comparing Christian music to hate speech, I'm just saying that it is impossible, for me at least, to completely seperate the lyrics from the music.
In fact, the lyrics are the most important part of the song for me. I can still appreciate an instrumental song or even a song with unintelligible lyrics, but I think songs that use their lyrics to convey a deeper meaning are more valuable. You may disagree, but I hope you now understand where people like me are coming from.
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#1) I, as many people do, listen to David Allen Coe. Pretty much all racist hate speech.
#2) So, you are saying that music by itself, without words, can't convey a meaning??? I can interpret the meaning of many songs without lyrics. It's called emotional connection, what art is all about. If I want to listen to people's opinions verbally, I would just as soon hear them speak, because I rarely can make sense of what they are singing without reading it first. I'm too busy listening to the music.
#3) You just reduced music to beat??? That's like saying the "Mona Lisa" is just lines. Do not most paintings have form, colors, and values??? Does not most music have rhythm, pitch, dynamics, and expressions (not to mention so many more elements)??? They all meld together to make an extension of the artist's emotion. Sadly, music is becoming more of a convenient way of spreading political views rather than conveying their emotions. I enjoy hard rock music because of the raw energy that goes into it. I enjoy country because it sounds like they are either having fun or in deep sorrow. I enjoy the emotion of music. I only listen to the words after listening to it a few times. Oddly enough, I am a music major, and my chosen instrument is voice. When I sing, I have to interpret what the lyrics mean through my voice, not by just simply repeating the words, but by putting the appropriate expression in my voice, thus making music. It is one thing to like music or appreciate it, it's a totally different thing to connect with it emotionally. I sometimes feel like I am inside music itself, and that I can manipulate its meaning to whatever I please, as long as what the artist has made it into agrees with me. All that, and I don't smoke pot, do any kind of drugs (not even prescriptions), or drink. That's why I find all music attractive. It is sound that the artist has harnessed and formed to convey what he/she is thinking/feeling. Music can be mental, but it has so much more to offer.