Thursday, September 13, 2007
Lyrical Brooding...
So this morning on the way to class I was jamming out to my favorite jam session music or as my mother and boyfriend affectionately calls it, my “angry music”: Breaking Benjamin and Three Days Grace.
But then again, my boyfriend jams out to Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera while working out…no accounting for bad taste, right? Don’t get me wrong, I like Christina Aguilera but Britney Spears makes me want to put anchovies in my ears and bang my head against the wall, REPEATEDLY.
Anyway, I digress, so this morning I was in a particularly pensive mood and I started thinking about the song lyrics (I often do this, I just don’t usually blog about it)…do the writers really experience these things? What do some of the metaphors mean? Are the metaphors supposed to make listeners apply the story to their own live? But if listeners do not know what the song writer means how can listeners personalize the song?
Am I the only one who actively thinks about song lyrics, their meanings and tries to “decode” them? ¶ posted by CiCi at 3:16 PM •
But then again, my boyfriend jams out to Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera while working out…no accounting for bad taste, right? Don’t get me wrong, I like Christina Aguilera but Britney Spears makes me want to put anchovies in my ears and bang my head against the wall, REPEATEDLY.
Anyway, I digress, so this morning I was in a particularly pensive mood and I started thinking about the song lyrics (I often do this, I just don’t usually blog about it)…do the writers really experience these things? What do some of the metaphors mean? Are the metaphors supposed to make listeners apply the story to their own live? But if listeners do not know what the song writer means how can listeners personalize the song?
Am I the only one who actively thinks about song lyrics, their meanings and tries to “decode” them? ¶ posted by CiCi at 3:16 PM •
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You aren't the only one.
U2's The Joshua Tree changed my life. (Sorry, I know that dates me).
And the reason I hate much of what passes for contemporary pop music is that the lyrics are so inane.
Either the lyrics are dance-rhythm gibberish (which is great for working out, but not much else) or they make universal claims that no one so young should feel confident in making.
Or maybe I'm becoming a curmudgeon?
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U2's The Joshua Tree changed my life. (Sorry, I know that dates me).
And the reason I hate much of what passes for contemporary pop music is that the lyrics are so inane.
Either the lyrics are dance-rhythm gibberish (which is great for working out, but not much else) or they make universal claims that no one so young should feel confident in making.
Or maybe I'm becoming a curmudgeon?
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