When I listen to a song I focus on all aspects of it, like the lyrics usually need to have something meaningful to me for me to spend my precious time listening to it, and it has to be professional in terms of the creator’s “musical ability”
If a song has well written lyrics but no musical quality I will very likely not want to listen to it
If I like the instrumental part (and singer) of the song, it is possible I may like the song even if the lyrics are not in tune with my values (even though less likely) or talk about something irrelevant to me
I don’t have a real appreciation for painting and more visual stuff, but I would probably enjoy something creative in the general sense of the word
Some of my favorite songs are those below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_hOR50u7ek - Prokofiev Dance of the Knights
I like it because it is a atonal song (meaning it doesn’t follow classical music theory and it doesn’t have a “tone”), so it sounds like nothing I’ve ever heard in other music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjDojEOiMcE - Everything Lifehouse
I don’t know what I like about this song, but it really touches me in a way I can’t explain. Since the first time I heard this song I felt something unconscious and hardly unexplainable about it, it feels like coming to a good and safe place in the realm of unconsciousness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2376smbzl8 - By The Time This Night is Over
I love this song very much, and I have no idea why. But I could listen to it forever. But I supposed it has something to do with the musician, his musical instrument and how he expresses romantic feelings through this music. Also the singer has a good fit with the emotions expressed in the song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGrLb6W5YOM - All By Myself - Céline Dion
I don’t know why, but I like this song very much. I don’t listen to it very much, but I have heard it many times in many places and movies and it really touches me, and I could listen to it forever if I had to. If I were to guess, I would say that I like how this song is well planned to every bit of note, as for someone who had a strong inspiration to create this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX_m1E_Fz3M - Tu es bom - Jason Lee Jones
I like this song due to the combination of the lyrics and the instrumental. I like how it sounds as a whole. And the lyrics are very in tune with my values (it is a christian song and it reflects to me well how a real worship should be)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsZvjqG2lec - Wenn Worte Meine Sprache Wären (If words were were my language)
I like this song as a whole (the clip, the lyrics, the instrumentals, the musical theory behind it etc). It also speaks about how impossible it is for him to describe the experience of having met this woman, in a very idolized way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sv_876eqxg - Even when it hurts - Hillsong
This is a song that my first love used to listen to (I met her when I was about 19 years old) and I integrated to my list because I like it too, and I listen to it from time to time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC8qPpnD0uE - What comes around goes around - Justin Timberlake
This song makes me have feelings that I cannot describe really. I liked this song even before I learned english so I can totally say that it has nothing to do with the lyrics (and I don’t like the clip at all, but the song is another story and at a completely different level..)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb6-X2VTcTA - Looking Glass - Allan Holdsworth
Songs I don’t like
It’s hard not to see value and beauty in a song, but I’ll try my best to get the ones that would never choose in a list of songs (an exception are songs that aren’t very good technically, like one with a “bad singer”, poor instrumental, etc)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Y36AY8coU - Raridade - Anderson Freire
I don’t like this song because it idolizes the human and puts him on a pedestal for reasons that are not clear to me (even though I agree that everyone is special and stuff), and I don’t like that people sing it as if it were a worship song, because it is clearly a song that was created to sell. And the song says that if you fail at something or if you fall into “sin” it is because the world made you do it, and it takes away the responsibility from the person.
I would like to say that I don’t like most of the songs from this singer (he is also a writer).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=450p7goxZqg - All of Me - John Legend
I have to say that this song is beautifully played in the piano, but I don’t like the song as a whole, and I’m not really sure why I dislike it (but I guess it has something to do with the fact the the lyrics focuses totally on superficial things about “love”, like in “love all your curves and all your edges”)
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