«Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato

the ramblings and half baked comments of amateur “experts “

I resemble that remark!

@ticat

He only "has a point" regarding the limited scope of what he chooses to listen to.

It’s a moot point to those of us who are aware of excellent songwriters Beato chooses to ignore. And, he's not a lyricist so he's hardly an "expert" when it comes to that craft. 

However, I suspect such sweeping (albeit erroneous) claims do garner him more hits... which begs the question: for a guy who purports to be an "educator", how much do facts actually matter to him?

I think some of you miss the point of what Beato is saying; which I mostly agree with. He is not saying that there are no good lyrics being written today. He acknowledges that there are. He is saying that today there are few songs with good lyrics relative to their popularity (number of listens). Top ten songs today have, by and large, pretty awful lyrics compared to top ten songs of, for instance, the Beatles era.

I don’t share the cynical view that he is expressing these opinions for effect and his own popularity.

The Beatles era was 60 years ago. And it’s not like the Beatles were riding incredibly Deep lyrics and their first few albums, either. I challenge anyone to look at the top 40 charts from this week in 1964, 74, 84, 94, 2004, Etc, and see how many of those popular songs have really deep lyrics.

Edit: with the exception of 1984 which had some killer lyrics this week, but jyst about everything else in those decades was pretty Bubblegum and forgettable

The lyrics of Dead Babies are killer.