«Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato
He know better than me. He is a musician and i am not. I dont listen contemporary lyrics anyway, they are not all bad for sure, but what is good enough is few waves in an ocean of bad to worst...
I will never dare to claim it because i am old, not a musician anyway, i listen classical old music and world music and Jazz...
And old very old lyrics from Franco-Flemish school to Léo Ferré and to the genius Bob Dylan Dylan...
Just write what you think about Beato informed opinion...
I like him because he spoke bluntly and is enthusiast musician ...
My three favorite more powerful song ever written Are : Jacques Brel : "Ne me quitte pas" Léo Ferré : "Avec le temps"
Bob Dylan : "Murder most Foul"
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Some qualifiers are needed. While there are great lyrics in some modern songs, the change I notice is in lyrics of the popular / radio play / awarded music when comparing songs from the 60's and 70's to today's music. Lyrics are not given importance today, and honestly, the youth don't seem to care. My son says (and it is the position of his peers) that lyrics don't matter as much as the beat or the overall feel of the song. Worse, some of the lyrics of the music are disgusting. Music, like everything, goes through cycles. Perhaps one day, pop/popular songs will be lyrics-centric again. |
The disintegration of speech and language depth in lyrics is not a fact about "taste" but about mind conditioning in an uneducated controlled social fabric.. The mastery of language by song writer artist is a strong indicator of their mastery of music too. At least a genius musician can collaborate with a poet... The decline of the poetic content and value of music goes with a simplification of chords, harmony, and the reduction of musical time complexities to a mere beat... Music for robot is not a question of taste but a question about the social fabric inducing consumers habits.
Why do you think Joni Mitchell hated Madonna ? As a work of art hate manufactured product.
" Beat is not music, it is mind under control using bodies said my training G.I. sergeant; who himself never dance"-- Groucho Marx
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In Herman Hesse novel "the Glass bead game" there is a quote about a Chinese emperor ordering the music master to his throne to be punished because of the troubles in the Empire.
In Imperial China in the golden era the link between the harmony in the social fabric and the high state of the music were fundamental... This is not just an anecdote but pure science or pure experience...
Now put a bad music which appeal to the animal and violent part of men with disintegrating lyrics near water crystallisation process... Then try it with a christian monk and Buddhist monk prayers... Analyse the resulting water crystallisations...
Music and audio are not about taste but about our own acoustic and musical education... Poetry in music is not about mere taste it is also about good harmony and complex musical time...
Then music is not about leisure time merely but about a "felt change in consciousness"... |
