Friday, April 15, 2011

Lyrics Talk Reality?

Eminem lyrics talk about hate, anger, distress, love, killing and so much more, but that does really shows our reality? I hardly accept this. Of course lyrics can transcend boundaries, barriers, ideologies, social statuesque and many more. It can convince rivals to unite, it can disturb homogeneity, it conveys an intention, and it can depict anger, frustration, unjust. It is always difficult to say lyrics we hear represent our reality. In a single music we can find stack of lyrics with lots of contradictions, the artist’s opinion or belief, his/her own experience which may be exceptional. A musician who portrays his ex-wife as a rival for death, by no means accepted in any social standard. We must not forget that some artistes intentions for capitalizing financial ceiling by being exceptional with odd styles and lyric connotations. To be accepted with the set apart groups, age categories, ideologies they transmit messages that knock down the group mind setups. Of course this may not be their reality. On the flip side of coin lyrics can easily bypass wronging for better. It can unite uncompromised views and ideologies. We have seen music can bring social change for better, for creating awareness, for mobilizing society. The art has both ears and eyes. The imagination, the memory it creates can be dear to our heart. Sometimes a single line is vocal in telling our reality. It creates imagination for reaching every beat of heart. In between the two extremis, music lyrics can be fun, that doesn’t have any value than relaxation, in some music we can find pile of lyrics that doesn’t have sensual meaning than just bunch of words scrambled in a crowd. But we just enjoy the beat, the wording as nothing but entertainment. In short lyrics can do good or bad, can manipulate or sell an opinion, can be cliché nothing worth than fun.  

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