• joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    1 month ago

    I suppose, they just have been doing it so long that it didn’t seem like an art anymore, but it still is commercial as it may be. I would just be supremely bored but they are obviously not so good for them. I make music mostly for myself as well nowadays.

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      1 month ago

      Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for literature. There are a lot of albums of his I’d consider unlistenable. I don’t think he cares what I think. He doesn’t care what the Nobel committee thinks either since he didn’t show up.

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        1 month ago

        His lyrics have always been on point though, sure I think that’s generally true of most musicians, at least successful ones, to listen to your muse and not care. Or any artist for that matter. I suppose in my mind I am separating what I feel is a overrated cartoon from other art we’re talking about. That’s just my opinion. Bob Dylan also cared about things, the whole I’m so cool I don’t care about anything crap is so old, and lazy.

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            1 month ago

            Humm, I suppose I can’t speak for them, I put myself through a hell when my loving creations went basically unnoticed, but that is because they were from my heart and not something I was trying to make popular or a copy of something else I guess. A lot of music is made to be popular, of course, or throwaway sometimes, so you’re right I spoke too soon. I do that sometimes, thank you for your reply and insight.

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              Good to hear other opinions when they exist(assuming they aren’t asshats giving the opinions, which I hope I’m not one)

              I think it was in relation to Big Me or Monkey Wrench, but there was an interview with Dave Grohl about his lyrics and at the time he was like these songs need words so I put some together there’s nothing special about them they don’t really have any great meaning I just needed to sing something.

              Like a guy like Dylan his lyrics are an incredible part of the song, but there are so many musicians that don’t even write lyrics in any way…because they aren’t lyricists or even singers.

              I just wanted to offer my opinion because it seemed so wrong from my point of view I don’t want some kid or just a newbie beating themselves up because they don’t think they can write lyrics. They aren’t failures because of it. Words do mean things if you intend them to, but they are also just sound and if you know anything about Bjork everything is music lol