People who don't pay attention to lyrics

CleverNickname · February 22

I recently found out that my wife of 17 years and mother to my beautiful children doesn't really pay attention to the lyrics. I guess she just lets the vibes roll over? She doesn't really appreciate clever lyrics or concepts.

I need some time to come to grips with this.

gernblansten · February 22

52 minutes ago, CleverNickname said:

I recently found out that my wife of 17 years and mother to my beautiful children doesn't really pay attention to the lyrics. I guess she just lets the vibes roll over? She doesn't really appreciate clever lyrics or concepts.

I need some time to come to grips with this.

If she doesn’t really appreciate clever lyrics, does she really appreciate clever nickname?

CleverNickname · February 22

She's mostly in to me for my penis.

Celery Man · February 22

I made $27 in performance royalties as a composer in 2023 and couldn’t accurately transcribe the chorus of a single one of those songs

Edited February 22 by Celery Man

Herpa Derpa · February 22

6 hours ago, CleverNickname said:

She's mostly in to me for my penis.

Appears she's not the only one not paying attention.

Ten Bears · February 22

You know how big his dick is? Does he know you know?

Pokoloco · February 22

Didn't take long for this to turn into a dick thread.

tbone_ · February 22

My ex once told me she wanted Angel From Montgomery to be played at her funeral. I said have you ever read the words, you might want to do that. She said I don’t care it’s a pretty song.

yoladu · February 22

it's fun to stay at the YMCA

hullabelew · February 22

One of my wife's coworkers wanted us to name our daughter Roxanne.

Me: No way
Her: But you like music.
Me: I do...And you have obviously never listened to the lyrics.
1: Every time someone would say her name, someone would start singing that song
2: It's about a hooker. Not naming her after a hooker.

BrickHorn · February 22

I generally focus on the music and don’t pay attention to lyrics. My wife is the opposite. It makes it nearly impossible for either of us to help the other identify a song.

Kennythetiger · February 23

5 hours ago, hullabelew said:

One of my wife's coworkers wanted us to name our daughter Roxanne.

Me: No way
Her: But you like music.
Me: I do...And you have obviously never listened to the lyrics.
1: Every time someone would say her name, someone would start singing that song
2: It's about a hooker. Not naming her after a hooker.

Sarah’s not a hooker but she’s in a lot of songs.

hullabelew · February 23

Went with Claire, written by a buddy from Birmingham.

baboso · February 23

St. Claire of Cedar Rapids.

Kennythetiger · February 23

19 hours ago, tbone_ said:

My ex once told me she wanted Angel From Montgomery to be played at her funeral. I said have you ever read the words, you might want to do that. She said I don’t care it’s a pretty song.

Well, she’s right.

Underdog · February 23

Wait… it’s not wrapped up like a douche?

smuggs · February 23

One of my first music memories is riding around Houston with my mom running errands in the family van, listening to "Hard Egg Tonight" by the Eagles.

Ten Bears · February 23

While lyrics are very important to me the first time or two listening to a song I barely pay attention to them. If there is no good hook, melody ect then I couldn't care less about the words.

Al Czervik · February 23

I will never be able to correct:

‘I’ll never be your pizza burnin’

Damn, must be the English accents.

gofuckyourself · February 23

Is this the new "Born in the USA" discussion thread?

BrickHorn · February 23

1 hour ago, Ten Bears said:

While lyrics are very important to me the first time or two listening to a song I barely pay attention to them. If there is no good hook, melody ect then I couldn't care less about the words.

+rep for the rare correct use of “couldn’t care less.” Although I considered deducting points for the rare misspelling of “etc.”

Napoleon · February 23

Most songs over the years, I listened for the music, the beat, the chorus maybe if it was catchy.

Never bought albums, never cared to read the lyrics printed out on the album sleeve.

Never even thought about finding songs with lyrics that expressed what I couldn’t find the words to say. 🤷‍♂️

I listened to most of the Old 97s lyrics because I have casually known Rhett since he was in 7th grade and he’s a friend, but I don’t know the back stories to his songs from being friends, but rather because I have heard him talk about the next song when chatting with the audience. Even then, I don’t know if he is telling the truth or if he has created a story that audiences like.

In films I analyze the dialogue, but in songs… I listen to and think about the lyrics of just a really small percentage of the songs that I have ever heard.

Degenerate Gardner · February 23

20 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

I generally focus on the music and don’t pay attention to lyrics.

Same. I mostly default to a gestalt, listening to what the lyrics sound like as part of the music rather than picking apart for meaning or detail. That sometimes comes later.

locodos · February 23

I was driving and Paula Abdul's "Rush Rush" came on the radio, first time I'd heard it. I swear she was saying Push instead of Rush... I was in shock they'd play that explicit stuff on the radio.

freyguy · February 24

you cannot expect me to enjoy Yellow Ledbetter and attempt to decipher what Eddie is saying...all at the same time.

I'll just give him the benefit of the doubt that he's not spouting off some crazy bullshit.

tbone_ · February 24

On 2/23/2024 at 8:00 AM, Kennythetiger said:

Well, she’s right.

I mean I guess if you want a song sang at your funeral about a lady who is so miserable in life she just wants to die, but yes it is a pretty sounding song.

Celery Man · February 24

She was just low key calling you ugly, player

tbone_ · February 24

Good point

WhatTheBuck · February 25

On 2/23/2024 at 9:22 AM, hullabelew said:

Went with Claire, written by a buddy from Birmingham.

Could be about a city in Wisconsin.

Napoleon · February 26

On 2/24/2024 at 11:05 AM, tbone_ said:

I mean I guess if you want a song sang ❌ at your funeral about a lady who is so miserable in life she just wants to die, but yes it is a pretty sounding song.

A song cannot be sang anywhere.

Just an FYI.

Saying that it can be is making more than just the dead person miserable.

BabaYaga · February 26

"Mumble" rap has entered the chat....

Scraps · February 26

Lyric guy here...especially for "country" music.

Rimbo · February 26

Pretty much usually listen to music for the rhythm, melody and harmony. Sometimes I eventually learn the words, and sometimes find out that they mean something. And that's cool when I do.

Generally, if I'm listening to lyrics, it's because the lyrics are even more tasteless than mine.

"First of May, First of May, outdoor fuckin starts today..."

"a mortician was arraigned for relations most unseemly with the recently deceased and drained ... your honor, she came on to me, she came on to me, she was lyin' there with such provocativity..."

"i take a healthy bite from your dainty fingertips..."

CleverNickname · February 27

@Rimbo that's crazy to me. On par with people who dont rver have an interior dialog or can't visualize things.

Dbeasy · February 27

I rarely listen to lyrics. I have chronic lyracosis.

Rimbo · February 27

29 minutes ago, CleverNickname said:

@Rimbo that's crazy to me. On par with people who dont rver have an interior dialog or can't visualize things.

Seems pretty normal to me.

Al_4_ISU · February 27

On 2/23/2024 at 8:54 AM, baboso said:

St. Claire of Cedar Rapids.

Only does what anybody would

Al_4_ISU · February 27

I was at a wedding that used "One" by U2 as a song during the service. That was cringeworthy.

Al_4_ISU · February 27

On 2/23/2024 at 10:34 AM, Ten Bears said:

While lyrics are very important to me the first time or two listening to a song I barely pay attention to them. If there is no good hook, melody ect then I couldn't care less about the words.

I'm absolutely a lyrics guy, but there's got to be a good melody or riff. Great songwriting is when a strong melody meets meaningful words, and it can be stripped down to one person on an acoustic guitar and still make you feel.

Shoxthemonkey · February 27

I have some sort of hearing/cognitive issue that doesn't allow me to understand the lyrics the first few times I hear a song unless it is sung like a church hymn or somesuch. This was troubling before the internet because not all albums had a lyric sheet. I would look at sheet music at the music store to get shit figured out. Once I see the lyrics they are stuck in my head and I can hear the lyrics correctly. "Sinkhole" by DBT became much more meaningful after I did a lyric search. I want it played at my funeral.

Ten Bears · February 27

2 hours ago, Shoxthemonkey said:

"Sinkhole" by DBT became much more meaningful after I did a lyric search. I want it played at my funeral.

Wut?

"And now, friends and family of Shox, I would like you all to listen to one of his favorite songs that I believe is about (checks lyrics) some southern yokel dreaming of killing a banker that foreclosed on his family's farm and then throwing the body down a sinkhole on the farm."

Red Five · February 27

Non-lyrics guy here. Don't care at all the vast majority of the time.

Celery Man · February 28

Is she saying “create an angel for me that flies from Montgomery”, or is she saying “turn me into an angel that flies from Montgomery”?

Al_4_ISU · February 28

On 2/27/2024 at 10:49 AM, Ten Bears said:

Wut?

"And now, friends and family of Shox, I would like you all to listen to one of his favorite songs that I believe is about (checks lyrics) some southern yokel dreaming of killing a banker that foreclosed on his family's farm and then throwing the body down a sinkhole on the farm."

I'm going to assume my fellow Midwesterner lost a treasured family farm in the 80's. The sentiment of Sinkhole would appeal to a lot of folks who lived through that time in a very existential way.

19 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

Is she saying “create an angel for me that flies from Montgomery”, or is she saying “turn me into an angel that flies from Montgomery”?

I've always taken it as the latter. She wants out of her dead relationship.

Edited February 28 by Al_4_ISU

jimmyjazz · February 28

19 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

Is she saying “create an angel for me that flies from Montgomery”, or is she saying “turn me into an angel that flies from Montgomery”?

Not quite either, but more the first. She wants an angel to fly her out of Montgomery.

troph · March 6

On 2/26/2024 at 7:51 PM, Rimbo said:

Seems pretty normal to me.

Same same.

don’t get me wrong I’m a big Texas country and singer songwriter fan and so I know a ton of lyrics but I can turn that off an enjoy the sound of the human voice as just another instrument. And it’s pretty much a requirement if I want to chill with out falling in a hole as much of the good chill music out there is sad as fuck.

troph · March 6

But no way angel from Montgomery is an appropriate funeral song…

“How the hell can a person
Go to work in the morning
And come home in the evening
And have nothing to say?”

not a funeral lyric but a damn great one to be sure. Lots of ways to measure your relationship and agreeing with this lyric and having the same disdain as the writer / singer is one of them.

Edited March 6 by troph

Kennythetiger · March 7

On 3/5/2024 at 10:47 PM, troph said:

Same same.

don’t get me wrong I’m a big Texas country and singer songwriter fan and so I know a ton of lyrics but I can turn that off an enjoy the sound of the human voice as just another instrument. And it’s pretty much a requirement if I want to chill with out falling in a hole as much of the good chill music out there is sad as fuck.

Hell fire, I’m about as midwestern as a person can get and the other day when I was hauling cattle I caught myself singing along to that new Beyoncé song. Catchy tune.

MidTexHorn · March 7

I'm kinda sorta one of these types. Music is mostly about a vibe for me. I almost always either instantly love or hate a song based on "how it sounds" and whether it strikes an emotional chord with me or not. Yes there are songs where I love the lyrics, but I'm rarely drawn to a song for that. Unless it was written by John Prine or Townes Van Zandt.

Hank Kingsley · March 8

I'm definitely music first and lyrics second. I'm sure there's been some studies done on why people's brains react differently.

Personally, musicianship is the most important aspect for me. The artist/band HAS to be great live. Any time a new band comes on my radar, I immediately go watch live videos on YouTube. If they pass that test, then I'll dig deeper into their catalog.

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