«Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato

Language exist in social context...

Muddy Waters wrote great lyrics we called blues classics ...

but the same thing today said by an another voice with the same words will be ridiculous.

Then what define good lyrics and bad one are not only the individual singer but the social context and specific era....And the microtonal accents of his vocal chords....The same text read by X will sound atrocious and read by Y marvellous...

Poetry lives also in time eras...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyjRslYlC3A

"Brown Sugar" by The Rolling Stones - Do I really need to post the lyrics here?

As an aside, back in nineteen eighty and something I read Up And Down With The Rolling Stones (because the review in Playboy seemed interesting) which was theoretically authored by an "insider" and I remember the author claimed that Brown Sugar was referring to unrefined heroin. 

Oh and let’s not forget about Ted Nugent.

A lyrical genius of the 20th century.  It's hard to keep a straight face as I type that.  

Another interesting Beato short video about what make music good and more than good  but not about lyrics here :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34hQvMhHL34

I had to do a google search because I’ve lost track of the years, but Justin Townes Earle’s first CD release was in 2008, and according to Wiki, he followed that with seven more. I admit that I haven’t heard everything that he did, but I listened to a public radio station that played his stuff and I thought that what I did hear was pretty good. And all of it from the 21st century.