Lyrics lacking creativity

Lila

Lila

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Alright, I won't deny that I like some pop music. But what really annoys me about it is that much of it lacks creativity when it comes to lyrics. "I need you, oooh, I'll never leave you again, oooh..." that's what I really hate. Music, especially music having to do with love, can be so beautiful and unique. But now it all sounds the same! Of course, there are some artists out there who do an amazing job of involving creativity in their lyrics. But there are others who just don't.

Anybody else hate this?
 
Definately.:rolleyes:
Thats the second reason I don't listen to much (read:practically none) modern music.It all sounds the same to me.:eek:
 
Ooooohh, I hate that ferociously!!

Back when I was a young man and active in evangelistic music ministry, contemporary Christian music had not gotten far enough clear of the ultra-narrow vocabulary-confines of Southern gospel. Almost two out of every five songs I would hear was a variant of the following:

"I used to live in sin,
And I didn't have peace within,
So Jesus saved my soul,
And cleansed and made me whole.
His mercy changed my life
And took away the strife;
In fellowship divine,
I'm His and He is mine."

But at least those songs RHYMED, even if it was the SAME eight or ten rhymes endlessly repeated. NOW, the standard worship chorus sounds as if its words were assembled by randomly taking out of a basket some phrases like these:

We worship You
We honor You
We praise You
We love You
Come among us
Come inside us
Be our Savior
Be our Master

Each one of those phrases, if assumed to be addressed to the real God and not to a mythological Babylonian sea-dragon, is perfectly all right as far as it goes; but the completed lyrics VERY seldom have rhyme, OR content of any depth at all.
 
YES.
i mean there are a few songs, i admit, that i listen to - and they do have very repetitive, similar lyrics.

but other than those songs, i find them so annoying. many of my friends really enjoy songs like that, but i don't see the point in them [ the songs ]
 
lieke said:
You should listen to Relient K, they definitely got some clever lyrics:D
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Relient K is amazing! I love them!!
I have heard sooooooo many songs that are all about the same exact thing! I mean, nowadays, the only reason people like songs are because of the beat or the music, not the lyrics.
 
Copperfox said:
Each one of those phrases, if assumed to be addressed to the real God and not to a mythological Babylonian sea-dragon, is perfectly all right as far as it goes; but the completed lyrics VERY seldom have rhyme, OR content of any depth at all.
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Know what's worse? Music that has so empty lyrics that you can either sing to Jesus or your boyfriend, it will 'fit' either way. Bad, veeeery bad! :mad:
 
NotATameLion said:
Yes, they are genius! My favorite band! Matt Theissen is amazing- his voice and songwriting skills. You can never say that RK's songs are boring or repetitious (sp?). :p
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I'll have to start listening to them then! :D It's the same way with Switchfoot. They're like, amazing at writing lyrics... I spend days unraveling the meanings and symbolism of their songs.
 
Your Sister Lila said:
I'll have to start listening to them then! :D It's the same way with Switchfoot. They're like, amazing at writing lyrics... I spend days unraveling the meanings and symbolism of their songs.
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If you love Switchfoot, you'll like Relient K. I love both of them.
The lyrics to 'The Last, The Lost, The Least' have a lot of meaning to them...
 
That's why I avoid love songs altogether. Safe Evanescence. Amy Lee can sing. Her voice always makes me think of a siren for some reason.
 
Copperfox said:
Each one of those phrases, if assumed to be addressed to the real God and not to a mythological Babylonian sea-dragon, is perfectly all right as far as it goes; ...
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This 'one size fits all' variety of praise chorus is why we've made it a guideline at our church that there must be at least one chorus/song per set that specifically names Jesus/the Holy Spirit and/or the Father/Creator as who we are singing about. It's rather sad, that we even had to say that.


And yes, empty repetitious lyrics do rather get on the nerves... though they certainly aren't an entirely new phenomenon.
She loves me, yah yah yah
She loves me, yah yah yah
She loves me, yah yah yah yaaaahhhh....

I find my preferences run to either instrumental or songs that tell a story, maybe for that very reason.
 
HugsForReepicheep said:
Know what's worse? Music that has so empty lyrics that you can either sing to Jesus or your boyfriend, it will 'fit' either way. Bad, veeeery bad! :mad:
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I know what you mean! One time at a worship service I was siging one of thsoe ( as we called it in my university's Speech and Debate Team) "My Boyfriend Jesus Songs" As I sung it I began to think, " I heard this song soemwhere." Then I caught a rerun of the TV show Smallville and lo and behold there it was!

I remember reading somehere that CS Lewis thought of hymns at one point as being third rate poetry set to forth rate music. I'd say that pop music ( which includes most worship sonsg saddly) is 18th rate poetry with 20th rate music. Or maybe it's Vogon poetry.
 
'tis the sole reason I hate covers. Whether or not the cover sounded better than the original (which seldom happens) the music and lyrics lose all depth when another band redoes them to get more money.
just a few;
-Take on Me covered by The Jonas Brothers (I'm sorry JB fans but that all but killed any hope of me ever liking them)
-any cover of the song I Melt With You by Modern English
-any cover of a bob dylan song (so what if he's not the best singer, no other band could ever capture the same feelings in those songs, even if the lyrics are the same)
 
There's this one song my friends has on her iPod, I don't know the name of it because it's completely stupid and I didn't pay attention! Talk about lack of creativity, but the first line goes: I can ride a bike with no handle bars, no handle bars and then there's another line about the telephone or something like that. It's SO STUPID!
 
Pirate Queen said:
There's this one song my friends has on her iPod, I don't know the name of it because it's completely stupid and I didn't pay attention! Talk about lack of creativity, but the first line goes: I can ride a bike with no handle bars, no handle bars and then there's another line about the telephone or something like that. It's SO STUPID!
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A bike with no handelbars...isn't that a unicycle?

You know it used to be that annoying songs were just written for children and song by big purple carpet bags that were allegedly dinosaurs or cackling red muppets.
 
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