Musical Expression

“You know I’ve got this theory, there are two kinds of people in the world. There are lyric people and music people. You know, the lyrics people tend to be analytical. You know, all about the meaning of the song. They’re the ones you see with the CD insert out like 5 minutes after buying it, pouring over the lyrics, interpreting the hell out of everything. Um, then there’s the music people, like Brooke. Who could care less for the lyrics as long as its just got like a good beat and you could dance to it. I don’t know, sometimes it might be easier to be a music girl and not a lyric girl. But since I’m not, let me just say this. Sometimes things find you when you need them to find you, I believe that. And for me it’s usually song lyrics.” - Peyton Sawyer
 
Above is clear evidence of a failed attempt to be deep. Does she not realise that music too speaks its own language? The structure of the music, the beat, the melody, the dynamics, the tempo all speak words of emotion, musical words. As stated in a previous post of mine, music is what feelings sound like. The content of a song does not lie merely within its lyrics. This coming from a verbal linguistic person. A person who tends to feel the need to express and analyse all in a linguistic manner. Music too can be interpreted in a diversity of ways, similarly to words. What means something to a certain person, means a completely different thing to someone else, hence promoting misunderstandings. However as one may have realised, misunderstandings are a common side effect of freedom of speech as one shuns the simplicities of dictatorship and indoctrination. Freedom of speech is a complex concept. A concept that many feel should be a right, as opposed to a privilege. However, with power comes responsibility and with the power to express whatever one wishes, maturity is fundamental.