>>4204377Definitely. I was talking about music with some co-workers at the office and apparently some local guy was getting big and they were like "Oh the songs are so good!" i was like "what kind of music is it?" and they are like "rap, R&B" and I said "Okay, well what makes the songs good?"
"I don't know they just are"
"What is the subject material of the songs? What does he sing about?"
"uh...like...weed and sex...and stuff"
"Okay so as an artist, you have a blank white canvas and you could paint whatever it is in the world you could think of and this artist paints a pot leaf."
"Well it isn't the lyrics its the beats"
"well first off those "beats" were made by a drum machine program. They couldn't NOT be solid. But let me ask you this, If you took the lyrics out of the song, and it was just instrumental, would it still be as good?"
"Yes!"
"Then why did he even write the lyrics in the first place"
"Well...no...uh..."
People don't know why they like the things they like and it is just weird to me
