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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
Everything from piper to the final cut is unassailable
money and time are both incredible songs gtfo if you disagree
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I want to chop that stupid saxophone in half.
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Originally Posted by MariaExpressesHerself
not really. Those are not just any concepts, but huge and very abstract ones. I guess being pretentious means giving yourself an air of knowing about very complicated things without actually being able to live up to that pretension. Writing a song about a complicated concept in a serious way implies that you think you have something interesting to say about it. If someone mentioned to you that they were writing a song about time, wouldn't you think them pretentious?
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Just sounds like you're assigning a seriousness and depth to those concepts that you're expecting those songs. You can write an unassuming song about time. It's an abstract and large concept but you can focus on small parts of it.
Either way, calling things pretentious is pretty pretentious.