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Old 06-04-2025, 07:09 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by DriveYourCarDownToTheSea View Post
For me, the point of music is ... well, the music. I listen to a lot of music that doesn't have any "lyrics" at all, so they aren't really terribly important to me.

There are a few songs that I like mostly because of the lyrics, but probably 99.5% of the pop music I like, I like because of the music and are indifferent about the lyrics.

Some perfectly nice music that has no lyrics at all:

I totally agree with you. If the music is awful I'm not even going to look into the lyrics, even if they're absolute poetry. I mean at that point I might just look at it as a separate art form.

That's a lovely piece.
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