«Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato

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.  

Omg, @mapman ...I for one was thrilled when 'popular music' began to grow up 'n away from 'bubblegum songs' of the early '60's.....spent too much menial mental energy perversing the lyrics into X or demonic versions....I've fortunately forgotten more than recalled, to y'alls' benefit and relief.....

@mahgister  *wry Laugh* "...I coulda' been ah contender..."  Even D. Byrne in his book notes he'd do the music and fill in the lyrics to suit the stanzas....which does 'splain the topics and phraseologies'....

When asked about his collaboration with Twyla Tharp, he had no comment....one was left with either he was chided into it or was somewhat embarrassed over it.

I don't know or know of any 'perfect personage'...now or ever....really.

Given the antics of those of Now and Before, fame and fate seems to follow PR and  word of mouth of the beguiled of their respective eras....and I'll stop this line of reasoning before I begin to tick some off in a major way.

Happy PreNew Year....more than happy to close it out, but not looking forward towards the next 4.

Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est