• ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialEnglish
    36·
    3 days ago

    Everybody famous is totally overrated.

    Bob Dylan for example barely qualifies as a musician, yet he’s considered one of the best songwriters ever. I’ll never get it. My son wrote more inspired lyrics and played the guitar better a month after picking it up for the first time when he was in high school: where’s his Nobel Prize?

    • 𝕛𝕨𝕞-𝕕𝕖𝕧@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      well, people like dylan and tyler are creative despite their simple or “stupid” lyrics because they made music that spoke to people and therefore sold copies. nowadays it’s more about selling ad space but it’s the same deal. not every feeling or thought people have is complex, sometimes it can be distilled down quite a lot. there is skill to doing that and doing it well.

      i mean, fuck man, anthony keidis of the red hot chili peppers constantly and intentionally sings in literal gibberish.

      the words don’t gotta make sense in music, they’re not the whole thing. that’s part of the beauty of it.

      • JillyB@beehaw.org
        4·
        3 days ago

        the words don’t gotta make sense in music, they’re not the whole thing. that’s part of the beauty of it.

        Thanks for pointing this out. People act like lyrics have to be fit for dissection in English class to be good. If they were, none of the meaning would get to you while you actually listen to the song. The lyrics and the rest of the song need to work together to make you feel something. Extremely simple or even nonsense lyrics can bring you to feel something more strongly than if they were deep and brooding with big vocabulary and metaphors. If Tyler’s music doesn’t make you feel something? Then don’t listen.