Your Most Hated Song (country, house, rock, genre, fan)

lucifer_sam · 10-27-2008, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Did I say Francis Ford Coppola wrote The Godfather? I was making a comparison between movie directors and musicians. If you'd like we could make the comparison between authors and musicians as well though, since I don't think Mario Puzo is any more of an advocate of mob violence than Stephen King is an advocate of people abducting and torturing their favorite author.

Mario Puzo romaticizes a good deal about the Mafia. I'm not so sure about his intentions in writing The Godfather.

And there are artists who are imperceptibly connected to the content of their lyrics. I'm not suggesting Ice Cube or NWA actually acted how they rapped, but there are definitely black metal bands that take their lyrics to heart. Just look at Mayhem.

**Janszoon** · 10-27-2008, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

Mario Puzo romaticizes a good deal about the Mafia. I'm not so sure about his intentions in writing The Godfather.

And there are artists who are imperceptibly connected to the content of their lyrics. I'm not suggesting Ice Cube or NWA actually acted how they rapped, but there are definitely black metal bands that take their lyrics to heart. Just look at Mayhem.

I'm not saying there's no such thing as people who do what you describe. There are definitely examples, like Mayhem, of people whose act is their real life. I'm just pointing out that for some reason some people have this automatic assumption that song lyrics are a literal description of the singer's personality or beliefs and for whatever reason these same people usually don't make the same assumption about directors or authors.

I guess my point is that an artist is separate from their work and it's important to keep in mind that the stage persona of some gangsta rapper or metal singer is most likely just a character that they are playing. I mean look at Ice Cube. On the one hand he wrote a bunch of violent lyrics for NWA but on the other hand he wrote, produced and starred in the movie Friday which has a pretty strong anti-violence message. I think there's obviously more to the guy than some violent NWA lyrics.

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Originally Posted by WendyCal

Yeah, that's part of it ~ i wouldn't write songs/poetry that was violent, either.

For them to be good songs, you have to have some sort of passion for what you're saying, i would think. If that's the case, i (personally) wouldn't be very creative nor enthusiatic.

Lyrics don't have to be literal. Most aren't. I mean, autobiography isn't the only way to express yourself. Just think of all the great books and movies out there that are fictional stories. The people who created them were still able to be passionate about their creation without actually having or even desiring the experiences of the characters in their creation.