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Originally Posted by boo boo
So while we are talking about "the message" of songs, are you saying the message is the most important aspect of a song and determines weither it has passion or not? What about instrumentals then?
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I can't speak for anyone else, but I think the "message" can help to
inspire passion or point out the passion (singing "la la la" might be ambiguous; singing "I'm going out of my mind with a pain that stops and starts" helps to pin down the emotion. It does not necessarily create the emotion). Instrumentals can certainly have passion, just as riffs can show passion. The intro to You Really Got Me comes to mind.
And I think lyrics are tremendously important. The cliche goes that lyrics don't matter as long as the music's good; to an extent, that's true, but some lyrics are so absolutely inane that no great tune, arrangement, or performance can overcome them. It depends on the kind of lyrics. I'm not as bothered by "meaningless" lyrics that are added as filler than "message" lyrics that try to put a point across and fail miserably ("In The Ghetto," anyone?).