dragonworks
Banned
How in the world do you know that ?
Is that even true ?
actually it is the only thing 95% of listeners think they hear.
How in the world do you know that ?
Is that even true ?
When I listen to music, it's like a peanut butter an jelly sandwich. You've got a percussion/rhythm section (the bread) carrying the music to your ears, the guitars and pads/strings/vocal oohs and aahs in the background (butter to help it go down smooth). The main music progression/riff (the sugary bit) and the vocals (peanut butter). It's the first and most dynamically entrenching part of the song. If you get a good hook, it gets stuck (just like gluing your mouth shut) and you remember it. You may not know all the words, but some lines will always stick out (like the crunchy bits in the peanut butter).
...(MAN I MUST BE HUNGRY with all these food analogies)
If you write songs that aren't instrumentals {}, how important are the lyrics you write, in general ? Are they meaningful, are they meant to be meaningful ? Are they an afterthought ? Are they more important than the music or less so or are the two indivisible ? Are they just carriers of the melody or rhythmic shapes ? Is their meaning irrelevant as long as they fit well ?
In my opinion, the melodies, rhythms and musical composition of a song cannot stick out as a song without lyrics and vice-versa. Both the song needs the lyrics and the lyrics need the song.
I spend hours and hours writing pages of lyrics about what is important to me. Lyrics benefit songs in a way that no musical instrument can.
So yes, I think they're incredibly important, if not crucial.
If anyone hasn't already heard of or listened to ELBOW, then please do. The lead singer, Guy Garvey, is a lyrical god.