Those who wanted to keep your music as hobby, what are your musical hobby goals?

[ghettosynth]

Louie Louie vs Imagine vs Every Breath You Take

Imagine has some of the most banal lyrics ever. It's like it was written by a child.

People connect with the lyrics. Whether you like it or not is beside the point. I am not a beetles fan for the most part, but you knew the song right off of the bat. Had I cited something that I actually like, you'd probably have to go look it up.

The point is, these are classic examples of:

1) A song that average people can't make sense of the lyrics and like it just for the delivery
2) A song that average people connect to for the lyrics
3) A song that average people often misinterpret the lyrics

[ghettosynth]

Was Kate Bush not big in America?

No, not really.

[melomood]

This was always my fave;

Thank god Peter Gabriel recruited her to be on the melty face album

[ghettosynth]

Why has Kate Bush’s “Running up that hill” taken off. Is it because the lyrics connect with people, the great tune/sound design or just because it is being used in the very popular Stranger Things and any song would have got a similar boost?

Curious what you folks think.

Stranger things.

[vurt]

could be, although im not noticing a limahl uptick.

[BONES]

People connect with the lyrics. Whether you like it or not is beside the point.

So what you say is right and what I say is wrong? If you want to prove me wrong, provide some f**king evidence because I could list 100 songs with nonsense lyrics that were hugely successful. I'd start with Plastic Bertrand's classic Ca Plane Pour Moi and go from there.

I am not a beetles fan for the most part, but you knew the song right off of the bat. Had I cited something that I actually like, you'd probably have to go look it up.

I'd recognise a quote from 100 different TV commcerials, it proves nothing except that if you hear something enough times, it sticks in your head.

[melomood]

Why has Kate Bush’s “Running up that hill” taken off. Is it because the lyrics connect with people, the great tune/sound design or just because it is being used in the very popular Stranger Things and any song would have got a similar boost?

Curious what you folks think.

Stranger things.

Stranger Things hardly explains the laundry list of covers of the song I've found,or how decades later I still have younger gay men asking me if I've ever heard it because it connects with them on a level str8 white guys will never understand fully. You'd be surprise how much the LGBT community can give something longevity.

[melomood]

Take that to the bank AND the quoted out of context thread

also,its worth noting Stranger Things has a strong LGBT fan base on account of the strange,boyish looking girl that liked toaster waffles and had no real family

[vurt]

Take that to the bank AND the quoted out of context thread

also,its worth noting Stranger Things has a strong LGBT fan base on account of the strange,boyish looking girl that liked toaster waffles and had no real family

and now will has the joan of arc hairdo, the circle is complete...

[Chemik]

AND....back to the topic.

I've been writing songs and making cassettes, CDs, now digital albums since 1988. I've played live in my old industrial band back in the day. Why do I constantly write music, keep releasing albums, even though I have never made more than $150 over my entire musical life, a mere tiny fraction of what I put into making music? Because there is nothing like writing a good song. If even one or two people end up buying one of my albums, then that is 1 or 2 people more who got to hear that song you were so proud to write. Makes it all worth it to me.

[ghettosynth]

People connect with the lyrics. Whether you like it or not is beside the point.

So what you say is right and what I say is wrong? If you want to prove me wrong, provide some f**king evidence because I could list 100 songs with nonsense lyrics that were hugely successful. I'd start with Plastic Bertrand's classic Ca Plane Pour Moi and go from there.

I posted three songs that are well known for the characteristics that I describe. A few minutes with google will give you all the evidence that you need. There's no need to post 100 successful songs with nonsense lyrics. I've given you a very common one. There are plenty more, e.g., "bird is the word."

That there are songs with nonsense lyrics doesn't mean that people don't connect to lyrics, as I said, e.g., Candle in the Wind, or that people don't misinterpret lyrics and connect to the misinterpretation. All are true statements and there is plenty of evidence for this.

[donkey tugger]

People connect with the lyrics. Whether you like it or not is beside the point.

So what you say is right and what I say is wrong? If you want to prove me wrong, provide some f**king evidence because I could list 100 songs with nonsense lyrics that were hugely successful. I'd start with Plastic Bertrand's classic Ca Plane Pour Moi and go from there.

I posted three songs that are well known for the characteristics that I describe. A few minutes with google will give you all the evidence that you need. There's no need to post 100 successful songs with nonsense lyrics. I've given you a very common one. There are plenty more, e.g., "bird is the word."

That there are songs with nonsense lyrics doesn't mean that people don't connect to lyrics, as I said, e.g., Candle in the Wind, or that people don't misinterpret lyrics and connect to the misinterpretation. All are true statements and there is plenty of evidence for this.

Are you saying that people may like different songs for different reasons, at different times depending on mood/circumstances etc? That some people aren't just monolithic angry curmudgeons?

Preposterous notion.

[Hink]

AND....back to the topic.

thank you ^^^^^^as I have said before, I am not a babysitter and we dont to to bring on more issues...the topic is not about what kind of person someone else is.

[vurt]

Was Kate Bush not big in America?

No, not really.

explains a lot.

[vurt]