I'm amazed by the furious nature of the uproar
over lyrics the last couple of days. ; Serious question, am I the only
person here that thinks that music is almost always better without lyrics?
Lyrics in music strike me as being akin to a car that somebody decides
to cover with bottle caps or pennies or stuffed animals or whatever happens
to strike their fancy. No matter what you paste on the car, it's
superfluous and doesn't make it a better car. More often than not,
lyrics appear to be a way of compensating for poor composing or crappy
poetry, or the combination. Byron doesn't need
melody. Stravinsky doesn't need lyrics. They stand quite well
on their own strengths without extraneous bric-a-brac.
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question/observation
2007-11-16 by jonesalley