Lyrical Integrity
Back in the day when I was a teenie bopper, I listened to the radio driving to school a lot. It didn't bother me. As I got older, the radio made me want to eat Elton John's glasses until I died. I haven't turned the radio on in years. Literally years.
The problem was not the music itself but the lyrics. I like pop music and don't have a problem admitting it. I can listen to lots of stuff, and songs focusing on production values are on my list of yum-yums. But the words...THE WORDS!
This doesn't even make sense. I can't fathom any human being actually sitting down, writing that on a piece of paper, looking at it, and deciding it deserved to be a song. A four-year-old could accidentally write better lyrics than that during a seizure.Originally Posted by Black Eyed Peas
I guess I feel if you're in a posi<b></b>tion to put out tunes and be heard by so many, you should say something important. Personal, political, not auto-biographical, anything that holds some real merit. It's not that hard! Take Justin Timberlake for instance; I like the sound Timbaland has concocted for him and such, but every single song is just about some girl. And 99% of them are about getting in her pants. Same thing over and over and over. It's like Little Timberlake has no thoughts in his head at all.
I just need my songs to be about something these days or I can't stomach them. I'm not asking for Shakespeare, but Great Jubbah. Avril Lavigne's lyrics are so middle-school that I can guess what she's going to say before she even says it. She'll say "do" and it will rhyme with "you". If she says "be", you know you've got a "me" coming.
And write about something other than love. Yeah, it's universal, but so is every other emotion. Try out some fear or frustration or something. I want Regina Spektor lyrics to Madonna music. That would be so much conglomerated gay that I would turn into a rainbow made of happy and float away.
Alright, let's get to the part everybody skips to, the topic:
Say you can't both as would naturally be desired: do you care more about catchy music or interesting lyrics?
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