listening to a song vs looking up the lyrics

[Kyle Nuva]

why is it that we miss hear something in a song? we can make out most of the words most of the time but other times theres gonna be one word/lyric or two that sounds like another word or its really unclear and sounds like gibberish, so you look up the lyrics and you just might be surprised at how wrong you are. why is that? the recording? the singer? both?

[Xero_Daxter]

I’m gonna make a song with lyrics you can’t even understand. It’s like mumble rap without the rap. It’s just mumble.

[Birds]

Originally posted by Xero_Daxter:

I’m gonna make a song with lyrics you can’t even understand. It’s like mumble rap without the rap. It’s just mumble.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiddpbEf31I

[Xero_Daxter]

Originally posted by Xero_Daxter:

I’m gonna make a song with lyrics you can’t even understand. It’s like mumble rap without the rap. It’s just mumble.

https://youtu.be/WZ_mPQUj_4w?si=3z94ILihYkggZLwn

[De Hollandse Ezel]

I strongly listen to songs for the lyrics.
-> I mostly only listen christian music (and of those with that label only a very small selections, as any with lyrics that are not correct I will not listen.

think more old hymnes from 1800 than those modern empty repeat the same sentence 50x ones.

as many of those are in german or english.. both not my native language, and as they tend to use very typical words in those languages... it does occationally happen songs contain a word I not know..

sometimes that is clear.. I hear a word I not recognise and look it up in the dictiionary..
but sometimes it sounds very close to a word that I do know.. and I may have sung a song for years wrongly...
-> this is with certain accents even more the case.

thing scorned, adorned.
or wrought, and tought..
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but usually it did not change the meaning much.. but in occation it can twist things around.
like the biblical line :

hence why I make it a habit to read the lyrics before listening to any new song.

[sleeps]

whatever i'm sad, i listen to happy song

whatever i'm happy, i read happy song's lyrics

[Fake]

Youtube.

Plenty of music has lyrics added.

[ZOMBIECRUNCH]

You have to listen to the song first. Then you have to relate to the song for the lyrics to make sense. You will not understand the infliction of the words being sung just by reading the lyrics.

[ZOMBIECRUNCH]

Originally posted by Xero_Daxter:

I’m gonna make a song with lyrics you can’t even understand. It’s like mumble rap without the rap. It’s just mumble.

Can you understand the words that are being sung with this song? Can you even make out the lyrics?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-hFg9XiBpA

[Acetyl]

My misheard lyrics are usually superior.

[Yew Nough]

Nah, there have been a few cases where the written lyrics online were wrong.

I would only read the lyrics if it came from the artist in some form

[Acetyl]

Originally posted by Yew Nough:

Nah, there have been a few cases where the written lyrics online were wrong.

I would only read the lyrics if it came from the artist in some form

The CD insert or some other official art is usually the only way to get at the creator's conscious intent. Though I've seen those written wrong as well. Sometimes an artist themselves lies and will doa sort of mind splitting by overlaying two separate lyrics, one with ascending tone, one descending.

I thought it was interesting recently. The Grimes song "Kill V Maim". The line "Cause we can make em all go crazy, we can make em wanna...", any site you look up online with have the lyric as "wanna die". The lyric is never completed in the song, it's blank. Never stated. Everyone just fills it in the same way. Like a game of telephone, people can't do verbatim, stuff gets made up.

[ZOMBIECRUNCH]

Originally posted by Yew Nough:

Nah, there have been a few cases where the written lyrics online were wrong.

I would only read the lyrics if it came from the artist in some form

Originally posted by Yew Nough:

Nah, there have been a few cases where the written lyrics online were wrong.

I would only read the lyrics if it came from the artist in some form

Would you know that the song One from Metallica is anti-war without anyone telling you? You could still get that from reading the lyrics. But why would you if you could just listen to the song. Album art also helps paint a image that the artist is going for.