I was asked what
draws me to a song – the music or the lyrics.
My first thought was “ummmm of course the lyrics!” I mean that is what
makes a song special right – the words?
How they speak to you? How they
give pause in your brain to make way for pure emotion:
“The sacred
simplicity of you by my side.” Vienna Teng
(these words made me sigh and shiver all at the same time)
Yet there is the
melody. Can I like a song for its
lyrics if the tune is bad? I mean I have liked songs with bad lyrics because
the music was good. And usually I don’t
catch the lyrics on the first listen – it is only after time or if I make a
point of trying to listen that I understand the lyrics. Logically then it would be the music. So then maybe it is the music that first
catches my attention but the lyrics that make it a favorite?
In an effort to
answer the question, I looked at my MK Random playlist to see if there is a
pattern to why these songs are important to me.
The list presented another reason other than notes or lyrics. Association.
Several songs on my list are there because of why I heard them –
introduced by Chad. There is
a song that is on there just because it is Rylee’s “sparkle” song and it makes
me so happy to hear it because it makes her so happy to hear it. There is a song on the list because I heard
it on a favorite TV show during a climactic moment. The list also has songs because I like how the music makes me feel. Free.
Or happy. Or sad. Or iintrospective. Still other songs have lyrics make
me think of someone, some time, or take me somewhere.
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