Quick silly question regarding music

[Mayne]

Anyone else deaf when it comes to hearing lyrics in a song? I can not understand what the singer is saying in a song...but I like the song because of reasons regardless.

Have a friend who only needs to hear any song once and can recite it back to me...which kind of always irked me.

Tell me I'm not the only one who is deaf to words in a song.

 

[Captante]

Sorry bro .... you ARE the only one.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

All singers have clear voices. Why else would they be lead singer?

 

[Spacehead]

I hate to admit it but i'm in the same boat as the OP.
Generally i hear vocals as just another instrument in the song. I'll look up the lyrics later if the songs interests me enough.

The older i get the more i gravitate toward instrumental music though.

 

[master_shake_]

i don't think you are deaf to the lyrics.

you're probably just listening to the music and ignoring them.

 

[Jeff7]

Same here. I suck at hearing people talking if there's background noise, and I'll get virtually nothing if anyone else is talking within earshot. Insufficient filtration. :\

 

[MongGrel]

YMMV.

Some bands rely more on actually hearing lyrics more than others.

"Scuse me, while I kiss this guy"...

Lyrics investigation

In February 1964, an outraged parent wrote to Robert Kennedy, then the Attorney General of the United States, alleging that the lyrics of "Louie Louie" were obscene. The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the complaint. In June 1965, the FBI laboratory obtained a copy of the Kingsmen recording and, after four months of investigation, concluded that it could not be interpreted, that it was "unintelligible at any speed,"[54] and therefore the Bureau could not find that the recording was obscene.[2] In September 1965, an FBI agent interviewed one member of the Kingsmen, who denied that there was any obscenity in the song. The FBI did not interview songwriter Richard Berry, nor did they consult the lyrics on file with the U.S. Copyright Office.[2][55]
A history of the song and its notoriety was published in 1992 by Dave Marsh, but permission could not be obtained to publish the lyrics.[56] Richard Berry told Esquire magazine in 1988 that the Kingsmen had sung the song exactly as written.[8]
The lyrics controversy resurfaced briefly in 2005 when the superintendent of the school system in Benton Harbor, Michigan, refused to let the marching band at one of the schools play the song in a parade. She later relented.

:sneaky:

 

[Fern]

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida?

Nuff said. The lyrics of many songs are often incomprehensible. (E.g., "strange magic" or "scratch my dick"?)

Fern

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Often incomprehensible. Failing that, you could have hearing loss in certain frequencies that is causing you trouble.

 

[MongGrel]

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida?

Nuff said. The lyrics of many songs are often incomprehensible. (E.g., "strange magic" or "scratch my dick"?)

Fern

I used to love playing the drum break from In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida just casually about the second or third break in the bar band days.

Just playing around when the guys walked off, I'd do a little and stop and have women in the room yelling don't stop, was about a drummer version of a lead guitar player soloing.

I used to really get into it and just run through the whole break now and then if the crowd was into it.

Made the band more popular.

 

[Matthiasa]

When it's in a language I don't know I am the same way... the voices just become other sounds to the music.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

It's just you. I even know the lyrics to "Louie Louie".

 

[Fritzo]

I have that problem, but I also have tinnitus, so I can't understand a lot of voices.

 

[Linux23]

your brain is not powerful enough to process the lyrics and the instruments at the same time?

 

[Ichinisan]

Anyone else deaf when it comes to hearing lyrics in a song? I can not understand what the singer is saying in a song...but I like the song because of reasons regardless.

Have a friend who only needs to hear any song once and can recite it back to me...which kind of always irked me.

Tell me I'm not the only one who is deaf to words in a song.

This is me.

 

[destrekor]

I can do that, where it's just part of the background noise.

But I can also get right into songs and follow along with the lyrics and enjoy them.

But don't dare ask me to recite any lyrics without the song already playing. I am terrible with quotes of any kind, be it lyrics, famous quotes, or quoting a funny line in a movie or TV show. I hate it - I am not made to remember words in that way.

 

[IronWing]

Wrapped up like douche, another runner in the night....

 

[Oyeve]

I have excellent hearing, its off the charts, I literally hear whispers across the street. That being said, being a hardcore music lover and wannabe audiophile I have always had trouble deciphering lyrics. My ears hear every nuance in music, even the technical screwups but I focus on all of the sounds and the least focused part is the singing, unless its an aria.

 

[CZroe]

What really annoys me is when I seek out the transcribed lyrics only to find that someone was even worse than I was at deciphering them and yet thought they were doing some kind of service by spreading the wrong lyrics around. Ugh.

 

[futurefields]

i find it easier to decipher lyrics before the loudness wars started

now everything is compressed, clipped and peak limited to death

vocal tracks are double/triple/quad tracked with whisper tracks, falsetto tracks, octave down tracks and then all blended together into a fat sausage, deessers applied, tube/tape distortion, doubling or triple harmonizing certain words for emphasis, auto tuned, sent to 3 or 4 different reverbs and delays

 

[FeuerFrei]

I don't put too much effort into resolving the lyrics and even less effort into trying to figure out what the singer is referring to.

I've been conditioned by so many senseless lyrics that I seldom seek any deep meaning.

I know Taylor Swift had to go back and re-edit a song to remove the "starbucks lovers" by enunciating properly.