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| Do you apprehend the lyrics in your favorite songs? |
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theman
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 Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 3:40 pm Post subject: Understanding lyrics in music |
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Hi, does anybody here not listen to the words in songs?
I find if I try to understand the poetry of a song I don't enjoy it, I like the way the lyics flow but they have no meaning for me.
Just curious.
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duncvis
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| Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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I prefer to listen to the lyrics in songs as you might guess from the number of 'favourite song lyrics' posts I make, but am occasionally disappointed if they turn out to be rubbish.  If thats the case I try to focus on the flow as you say - in the case of artists singing in another language, eg Rammstein, or nonsense {Cocteau Twins} it just sounds good anyway... |
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Serissa
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| Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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| I can pick out the lyrics at an only slightly sub-par rate depending on the singer and how much attention I'm focusing. My dad's worse but I really do think it's an Aspie thing to not be able to decode lyrics. |
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duncvis
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| Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Serissa wrote: | | I can pick out the lyrics at an only slightly sub-par rate depending on the singer and how much attention I'm focusing. My dad's worse but I really do think it's an Aspie thing to not be able to decode lyrics. |
I dunno.... I'm pretty good at picking out lyrics, its the cadences of normal speech, picking it out from background noise and decoding it in real time I have more trouble with. |
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ScottyFresh
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| Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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So long as I'm not listening to Pearl Jam, yeah. And I hear Vedder's only gotten worse...
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DivaD
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why spoil beautiful music with words?  |
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Mockingbird
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| Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Lyrics are what I enjoy most about music, and I'm unusually good at picking out lyrics and decoding them, however I do tend to listen to music over and over. Okay, I obsess over music and listen to it over and over and over and over and over again. I usually start on the lyrics after I've listened to it 5 or six times through, when I've gotten the general flow of the music. |
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AbominableSnoCone
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| Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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I think thats a pretty normal thing for all people NT and AS alike
But yeah, I don't usually understand the lyrics until I've heard the song a few times or looked them up.
Unless I'm really familiar with the band and the singer's voice.
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theman
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| Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Mockingbird wrote: | | I obsess over music and listen to it over and over and over and over and over again. I usually start on the lyrics after I've listened to it 5 or six times through, when I've gotten the general flow of the music. |
If I do at all, that's the way I do it.
I usually get carried away by the emotional response I have to the music, so a song about suicide, for example, might end up meaning something completely different, then if I read the lyrics it tends to ruin it, kinda like "seeing the movie after reading the book" syndrome.
So yeh....... what he said.
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Sarcastic_Name
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| Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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I can only usually pick out a handful of lyrics, so I usually look up lyrics if I like the song and then memorize them. I don't think much about lyrics, but some songs I need to know the lyrics to.
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ghotistix
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 3:22 am Post subject: |
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| I'm pretty bad at deciphering lyrics, so I usually look them up if I like the song. I appreciate it when a band goes to the effort of writing clever lyrics (Arcade Fire, Page France, Wilco, etc.). Then again, I have a great love of instrumental or non-English music as well. |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 7:42 am Post subject: |
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I have trouble hearing some song lyrics, especially sung by artists like Edwyn Collins.
Sometimes double meanings come abit later, and often with poems I come-up with over elaqborate notions at what they may be hinting at.
Does anyone else have difficulty with books with creating a flowing mental image in their head?
I have had a bit of difficulty with that as often it is fragmented and if there is too much infomation I get confused.
Also I have noted that characters in books assimilate in their appearance people who I know as opposed to creating a whole new character.
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hecate
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writing and re-writing the lyrics to my favourite songs is one of my habits. sometimes i will get a bit fixated on a song, so writing out the lyrics helps me to stop obsessing over it.
most of the time, i find that the lyrics seem have a different meaning to the emotion conveyed in the music- i've always found it much easier to label the emotion of a song than identify my own feelings.  but the rare occasion when the emotion in a good song matches the lyrical content is like heaven on earth for me! 
i love finding out about the inspiration for a song, the process of writing it, the subject matter, additional influences and the author's thoughts on the finished product.
it annoys me if a songwriter makes an error in the lyrics, for example: "if she floats then she is not a witch, like we thought,*" from serve the servants by nirvana. i suppose it is within the realm of possibilty that this was intentional, but i doubt it. abstract lyrics annoy me too.
* it should be "if she drowns then she is not a witch, like we thought."
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ilikedragons
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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| I cant understand what they sing. |
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Jonny
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 4:23 am Post subject: |
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I NEVER listen to lyrics when im listening to a song. Not consciously anyway, i do however eventually pick it up and start singing to it.
I only look at lyrics when im not listening to the music, i read it as poetry. I also absolutely love breaking down the lyrics into meaning and imagery. I probably gonna write my interpretation of Dark Side of the Moon soon 
Im like Theman, just get absorbed in the music. The vocals are like another instrument in the band as far as im concerned. |
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