Cause I got lyrics and you ain't got none
After reading a good friend's blog about heavy political vs lighthearted lyrics in music, it got me to thinking how we make decisions on who we listen to in music based on politics.Here's my response to the piece...
I'm definately with you "I got more rhymes than the bible's got Psalms" is just much more fun to listen to.
Of course the Everlast project and the HOP project are two totally different animals. Lyrics are definately one person's expression of what's on their mind and we all know he's got the right to express it. I won't pay for it though.
Although, we comprimise that principle depending on how we like the music though, don't we? Which sucks, because I own almost every album Rage Against the Machine has put out and I certainly don't support their political leanings.
For me personally, I put a larger weight on the music and melody than I do the lyrics. But that shouldn't justify supporting an artist who preaches something I'm principly against.
posted by fuel52 at 10:12 AM
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Very nice...I agree wholeheartedly
I haven't blogged or visited any blogs in a month. As for politics in music, I'm cool with it to a point. One of my favorite singer/sogwriter/musician/lyricist is a guy named Bruce Cockburn. I got the chance to catch him at the House of Blues about a year and a half ago. At this point in his music career his stuff has become so political that it is getting hard to stomach. Part of the problem is not that he's political but so hopeless and bitter with the way things are going poilitcally. I think it's the combo of very political and very bitter/negative that really turns me off. I'd much prefer the way U2 does it. They get you to think about something not by being so negative but by living out a different kind of politics.
Welcome El C.
I think it's a pretty good theory as to why U2 has been so relevant over such a long period of time.
I remember my mother telling me that negativity and bitterness is a sickness just as cancer is and will eat away at you. It permeates your life and corrodes everything you're passionate about and will eventually kill you and most of the time it spreads to other people.
I have to think the lyrics in a lot of artists music does the same to their own fans.
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