As a writer myself, I have great respect for all writers of all kinds. Authors, novellists, journalists, bloggers, poets...
Lyricists. Especially lyricists.
For me the true essence of a song, especially songs nowadays, is not in the music, which is mostly synthesized and heavily edited and digitally embellished. In this day and age, the most pure, most human part of a song is no longer the actual music, but the lyrics. There is no way around writing lyrics if you want a song that can be sung to. No matter what, someone must think up words to be set to the music.
And there is so much you can say in a song - so many things you can say that, if it weren't in a song, would be so cheesy. You can show how happy or how sad you are, how heartbroken and depressed or elated and over the moon you are, whether you're off with the fairies or down in the dumps. Things that are so hard to tell people normally without getting criticized, you can say in a song.
And, if you come from a music background like me, I find it easier to get over something if there's a song I can relate to. Whenever I'm so down, or so high, that I'm at loss for words, I post a song on this blog. I always hope that people could see songs the way I see them...
But no-one does.
3 comments:
I do, and I know lots of other people who see them as works of art, but as more than art, as human essence themselves. People say that they could sing before they could talk, and I sometimes hear the toddlers I babysit sing themselves wordless songs while their drawing. It's part of our souls, part of *us*. Its beautiful and its the ideal way to express emotions, because it's more than just words, it's all the elements of human nature.
I don't agree. I think it is the music just as much as the words that give a true insight into a persons music. Sometimes when I'm listening to a song, the lyrics fade away and all I hear is the strumming of the guitars and the steady beat of the drums...I think that is what is most important.
Oh, and just to annoy you, I'm posting this as anonomous. But here's a hint: I go to your school. You DO know me.
lol
hi LR that last comment was not me by the way
anyways keep up the good/ funny posts
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