Cognitive dissonance with music !

Hey guys,

I was listening to Maroon 5 when drunk, when I heard the song 'Animals'. My drunk brain loves the shit out of that song, but the LYRICS ! They are so rubbish ! I hate the lyrics but when drunk i seem to love the song ! Have any of you ever had such an experience ?

I don't hear lyrics unless I focus on listening to them. So I kind of just naturally listen to music like a drunk person would. As long as a song sounds good, it's a good song to me. It doesn't have to mean anything at all.

Finding out the lyrics to Frank Zappa songs after listening to them for years was a funny revelation.

I believe this phenomena is why pop music is so easily fabricated and why "club music" is so bad.

That being said, there are too many people that don't care about lyrics in songs. I guess that's fine, but then the music should make up for it (yet strangely it doesn't). I can't find any other explanation to why some of this modern stuff is so liked beyond the fact that people are drunk 75% of the time.

@cornbredx: Yes most club music, while not sober i like most of them. Other wise not at all, well apart from a few :)

Unfortunately I'm as uptight, snobby & almost militant about music when intoxicated as I am when drunk. Hearing music I don't like and can't escape from has ruined a good night before. It's annoying.

If half the western fans of Jpop and Kpop knew what the words actually were, Jpop and Kpop would lose half their western fans. Mind-bogglingly inane!

That's not cognitive dissonance.

Who? I believe it is. I think a lot of Jpop and Kpop fans have convinced themselves that the music they're listening to is some deep experience full of the wisdom of the east when in actuality it's the same old "Won't you be my boyfriend?!?" crapola.

Your problem is listening to Maroon 5. Don't ever listen to Maroon 5.

Huh-Huh-Huh-Huh-Hurricane! VENUS!

I think that most progressive metal is only good when you don't listen to the lyrics. It's not that they're awful so much as just nonsense.

Cognitive dissonance, by the way, is the condition of holding two conflicting points of view. For example, I hate Maroon 5, but I like this song. This typically leads to the psychological effect of one of those two opinions being changed, i.e. you will either decide you don't actually like the song or that you do actually like Maroon 5. The first scenario is more likely because your opinion of Maroon 5 is likely to be more long-standing/cemented.

There's a Kimbra/Foster/ATrack song out there called Warrior. The melodies are good, the hooks are great, but the lyrics are about how scientists are bullies and how children know the truth and the entire thing is a paean to ignorance.

LOL bingo!

Its the one 5 you don't listen to. Oh, and 5ive.

I don't listen to pop, but this is a big part of why I listen to foreign music. I secretly know they're saying dumb stuff, but at least I can't tell.

I think lyrics are as important as the music itself, but I can let bad ones slide if it sounds good enough.

I listen to a lot of foreign music so I rarely have this problem. The lyrics are most definitely bullshit, but I can never tell. I tend to think as long as you enjoy the tune of the song it's okay if the lyrics are bad. I don't listen to music for insightful wisdom in the first place.

The instruments can definitely speak for themselves; you don't need lyrics. I like a lot of songs where the lyrics are bullshit. Hey, I like songs with good lyrics too, but it's not my priority.

So you listen to Five Star?

Sure. They were our answer to the Jackson Five. If 3 of them were women.

I believe it was Sammy Hagar who said the lyrics don't matter so long as it sounds good with the music.

I'm rather inclined to agree.