Have you ever heard where 70% of communication is non-verbal? Like, your body language and tone of voice and facial expression, etc., carry 70% of the message, and the actual words you choose carry only 30% of the message. I think, for some people, myself included, that's how music is. The words are important, but if the words are mediocre and the music is great, I'll enjoy the song...if the words are fantastic and the music is blah, I probably won't like the song...best thing being the lyrics and the music are fantastic, but the music, for ME, will always win out as more important. I mean, I can listen to an instrumental and get all kinds of meaning and enjoyment out of it, and not care what the title is, and not ever need to hear any words to it...and that's complete music to me, just like a song that has words.

Sorry for the tangent. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

I do think that some people listen more to the words and don't care as much about the music...just a different set of ears, I guess. --Jean

[This message has been edited by JL (edited 09-21-2004).]