+89 Some people say that music today sucks because the lyrics mean nothing, well some of the greatest music of all time has had no lyrics in it. Music isn't all about the lyrics it is about the beat and the rhythm, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

the beat and rhythm of today is so indifferent to the other beats and rhythm of today... and if a song has lyrics and they make no sense than yes, that music justifiably sucks

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Nah, "Like A Boss" is a good song, same with most of ISMFOF's songs

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So many songs today do not have the same rhythm you need to stick your head out of mainstream and look at some other bands.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

when people say music today they are usually talking about mainstream... trust me, i`ve found wonderful music of today, but yeah, i`ve always thought music today usually meant mainstream

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It doesn't, that is just stupid. There is way to much music to classify music today as mainstream

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That doesn't even make sense

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't know about you, but when I think music today, I think GOOD bands

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It depends. With a truly beautiful song, the music has the emotion and progression/expression of feeling, whereas the lyrics describe the emotions the music is giving/tells a story/etc. But with most of todays music it all sucks D:

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Look beyond what you hear on the radio. There is some AMAZING music being produced today.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The lyrics, beat and rythm all have to do with the music, but what makes a song truly good is the emotion behind it, why it was written. Yes some of the greatest songs had no lyrics, however, a lot of them (Mozart, Bach, Beethoven) were written in a time when lyrics just weren't used as much. These days, people like something to sing along too.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I agreed with the first part... and then I saw the last sentence (that needs a comma in it). Music should be about the beat, rhythm, and the lyrics combined.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I thought I deleted the second part, I don't agree with it either and I wrote it :/

by Anonymous 13 years ago

besides I wasn't saying it is all about beat and rhythm I said it shouldn't be all about lyrics. Some songs have a really good beat and rhythm but I see people hating on it because of the lyrics, that is why I said that but I meant to delete it cause I didn't like it

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh, okay. Though, if you ARE looking more for beat and rhythm, go listen to music that's in a language that you don't speak. I do that when I want to listen to the actual music part of it (the notes and not the lyrics that by themselves would be a poem).

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah I know, I fail I did this on my Ipad so it doesn't always work :/ I would kill to edit this and remove that part. >:( I mean to disagree with your own post. :(

by Anonymous 13 years ago

There's so much more than just rhythm and beat to good music. There's the actual sound in the music itself. Good rhythm and a sick beat a good song does not make.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

and while some of the greatest pieces of music have no lyrics, that does not mean that when a song has lyrics that they do not matter. If a song chooses to have lyrics and wants to be taken seriously, it should approach lyrical poetry. Nowadays people just throw together whatever random autotuned words sound catchy. It can be rather annoying.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Music is art and people have different tastes towards art. So you might say that nobody has the right to bad mouth any art. BUT there is art that took a lot of talent and art that was just thrown together because the "artists" knew it would sell.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Sort of like the modern art pieces that are just 3 giant squares of paint, all the same size/shape.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Proof that this post is true: Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin. Goosebumps.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Also: the score from the movie Amelie, and other movie scores. Sometimes I'd rather listen to these than songs with lyrics.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Gershwin is like my favorite, along with most of the other great musicians and composers of the early 1900's :D Rhapsody in Blue is what got me hooked on this genre.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think it's a combination of both. Like, if the beat and rhythm add to the meaning and emotion of the song.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

There's only 2 kinds of music: good music and bad music. In the case of hip-hop and rap old music is sampled to make new music so most of your argument is invalid.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

if you are taking the time to put lyrics to your music, you better put time into making them good lyrics. There's nothing I hate more than a song with a beautiful melody, and the lyrics are shit.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Music is about expressing feeling. How this is expressed (lyrics, instruments, beat, etc.) is what makes it good. You can't say that music with lyrics is better/worse than music without because there are so many different songs with so many different meanings. There are amazing songs from this generation, and every generation before us, regardless of how they are composed.

by Anonymous 13 years ago