I totally disagree that lyrics don't matter.
Can anyone say RAP or HIP HOP would have survived without the lyric?
The only people I ever hear that from is Musicians. People who don't write lyrics or play instruments don't think this way, IMHO.

I don't hear people (fans, non musicians) vocalizing guitar riffs or drum rolls, they don't hum harmonica parts or twiddle Banjo licks. When they whistle a song they don't whistle the music or the lead guitar break. They whistle the tune they remember and that is the melody which is sung in the lyrics. If they know the words they sing along. They sing the lyric hook.

Yes many times the people don't know all the words. They might not even understand the lyric. Many songs have been analyzed and picked apart to try to figure out what the singer was trying to say. Why? Because the Lyric mattered.

There was a discussion here about Alanis Morissette's song You Oughta Know and how important the song was. Can anyone really say the lyric didn't matter in that song.
IMHO the song would have been nothing without the Lyric.
Yes it would have made a good instrumental but it would have been forgotten.

How many of the 450,000 songs entered in the last JPF Awards were instrumentals?
How about the next awards be just instrumentals? Let's see how many entries you get.
I seem to recall an awful lot of lyrics being sung at the Awards show.
And yes I do agree most lyrics are not very good. Most are crap. It is really hard to write a good lyric.
So are most instrumentals that's why they need a good lyric to make them a good memorable song.
There are after all only twelve notes but there are thousands of words.

Last edited by Bill Robinson; 09/29/10 04:47 AM.
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