blame it on the English major in me but words are very important. There have been melodies that I have enjoyed until I heard the lyrics and then the melody itself became distasteful to me. Its kind of like people--I'll meet someone and think they are attractive yet when I discover they have a horrid peronality, I no longer find them attractive (or the opposite--people I didn't originally find attractive become so because I'm so enamoured of their personality).
There are many many songs that I recognize by beat alone, just as I would recognize them by the lyrics. If a song truly has meaning for me, the lyrics and the melody are inseparable--if I hear one, my mind supplies the other. When a song has lyrics, I tend not to like the instrumental versions--the lyrics and the melody belong together.
Yet I love compositions that are pure melody (as my huge classical and jazz collection can attest). But if you were to put lyrics to those pieces, my mind would protest because it recognizes them as masterpieces all on their own, not to be diluted with lyrics :p
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Date: 2006-08-31 03:23 am (UTC)There are many many songs that I recognize by beat alone, just as I would recognize them by the lyrics. If a song truly has meaning for me, the lyrics and the melody are inseparable--if I hear one, my mind supplies the other. When a song has lyrics, I tend not to like the instrumental versions--the lyrics and the melody belong together.
Yet I love compositions that are pure melody (as my huge classical and jazz collection can attest). But if you were to put lyrics to those pieces, my mind would protest because it recognizes them as masterpieces all on their own, not to be diluted with lyrics :p