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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
You mean like a ballad? 
I guess what we're trying to prove (if anything) is that songs don't need to be all about the music. Much pop music, in my view, looks at words as secondary, rather than as important as the music that goes along with them. The best songs (again in my view) are those that are as lyrically strong (or stronger) as they are musically. A "song," traditionally, refers to a musical composition with voice. Musically, you have instrumentation that focuses on voice, but what that voice manifests doesn't have to be poetically (referring to "meaning and movement") vapid.
Good contribution, btw.  |
I knew you were going to come back at me with something like that. Of course, some poetry is expected to be set to music, but most of it isn't. And that which isn't, isn't expected to conform to anything outside of certain structures that I know nothing about. It is what it is.
I feel the same way about music and its lyrical content. Some music is strong lyrically and some isn't. I think if I were to give it more thought, I could debate with you the idea that the best songs are those that are the strongest lyrically. Maybe because I am somewhat obsessed with music - all kinds of music - some of which has great lyrics, some of which has inane lyrics and some of which has no lyrics at all, therefore I do not think that words are as significant in deciding what is a great song as you do. Like rb said, I think it is more an aesthetic preference. And not such a surprising one, given what I know about you.
