First the music, then the lyrics -- and make it rhyme!

Why I can't use Pandora 1.0 in its present state on my Nokia Lumia 920 (even though I wanted to!)

Sorting it all Out — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:03:32 GMT

Technically this is technical; it's a product review. But it really isn't technical...

Right after

re: First the music, then the lyrics -- and make it rhyme!

lucinda — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:28:38 GMT

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

re: First the music, then the lyrics -- and make it rhyme!

Kevin Lucas — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:59:56 GMT

Woh this lyrice is very embllishing what a great this song.

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Sorting It All Out — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:04:29 GMT

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Sorting It All Out — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:13:41 GMT

So I was telling somebody about how I had just been in Cleveland visting family and spending time with

re: First the music, then the lyrics -- and make it rhyme!

Michael S. Kaplan — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:16:17 GMT

Well, note that I'm not saying the lyrics are irrelevant per se; they are just not relevant in the places they are being used in movies and TV. The songs themselves often have meaning, but it takes somebody who is really paying attention (e.g. me) to be able to bother to notice that they songs often don't match where they are put....

I might have to give some examples to make this point more clearly, I think. :-)

re: First the music, then the lyrics -- and make it rhyme!

John Cowan — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:50:04 GMT

I think that lyrics-irrelevant songs are a fairly new development: there are still plenty of kinds of music where the words matter quite a lot. Before the Age of Rock, I can only think of opera as lyrics-irrelevant, and even opera makes plenty of sense if you understand Italian. :-) Folk songs, hymns, country songs, national anthems, protest songs: all those are full cooperations of lyric and melody, and if anything dominates, it's the lyric. (The U.S. national anthem's melody is an old drinking song.) And all of those descend from poetic traditions that use rhyme.

Of course, this is language-dependent: Irish uses assonance rather than rhyme in its traditional poetry, and likewise in traditional songs. There are even songs with alternating lines in English and Irish; pairs of English lines rhyme, whereas pairs of Irish lines assonate, creating something very rich and strange.

And then there's "You Are My Sunshine", which dates to the 1940s and has a very traditional form, except the lines mostly don't rhyme -- though some do assonate.