Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Good music doesn't require good lyrics.
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Because everyone realized that music is the lowest of all the arts and they don't care anymore
oh god
if you think music "these days" has bad lyrics, you're just not looking hard enough.
and Lil Wayne doesnt have good beats? thats the main reason i listen to him. i lvoe his beats and bass. IF i was a lyric hippy im sure i cant find ppl singing about how horrible it is to live in the ghetto or whatever shit is considered 'good lyrics' to sing about.
that chart makes no sense....
Nowadays all you need is a good hook and some electro beat.
It's funny though cause I was watching Adam Lambert last night on MTV and I was wondering the same thing. These songs don't have any stories to tell or any lessons.....they are just notes. Like someone took a note saying "If I had you!" and stretched it out into a song.
Edit: Now shut up and listen to Adam Lambert!
Yeah, and like Shadowsworn said, it's just asinine to think no modern music has good lyrics.
"Don't call my name, don't call my name, Alejandro
I'm not your babe, I'm not your babe, Fernando"
I'm sorry but if that isn't poetry in its purest form then I give up!
Modern yet unknown band. I love them and their lyrics are pretty cool too.
Wuthering Heights are great. :)
Wintersun, I'm guessing you know Insomnium, they have some pretty kickin' lyrics.
As far as hip-hop is concerned, Canibus and Jehst are my favorite lyricists.
Inugami Circus-Dan has amazing lyrics if you can understand Japanese or find translations.
you should listen to some reggae,really good music with some nice lyrics
You used Eminem's song with RIHANNA to show that commercial MCs are still...GOOD?
Things have changed since I went to bed last night. It appears we now live in Opposite World.
Be right back, meeting with the Chocolate King himself, Mr. John Dorian.
Real music brah.
The problem with all of your lyrics is that they all have a distinct lack of pirate.
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If you could sit down and write a top 100 song in 15 minutes with little to no effort, you'd do it too.
People care about effect. People care about catchy-ness. People care about something thats marketable. People care about whats cool.
Unfortunately, whats "cool" is pretty shitty at the moment haha. Just hang out and wait. Maybe your scene will be invaded next and ruined by the mainstream!
my favorite lyric is "I *** blood". dont tell me that doesnt mean anything.
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some additional things here
[QUOTE]The stage is set my friends for the play that never ends -
this comedy we call the Church Bizzare,
once you enter you are bound to find salvation by the pound,
assured the more you pay the nearer God you are.
Your mouth so paralysed with fear you dare not speak,
your eyes so blind and hypnotised you cannot weep,
so blinkered to reality that you no longer care,
that profit is the prophet of corruption and despair.
Bring on the dancers - bring on the clowns,
who invite you to ride on their merry-go-rounds,
they make the money and they make the rules,
you ''Born-Again-Christians'' are born again fools.
[THE EVANGELIST PRAYER:]
God of wealth and God of migh