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sweet-billy t1_je9jn7b wrote

Music is an aural experience, not an oral one! Personally I don't care about the lyrics. I barely notice them. I feel like those who say they are of equal importance must have genres they're not keen on, so an artist could be writing the best lyrics you've ever seen, but if you don't dig the tune, you're surely not going to want to listen to it just for the words?

But I also feel that any aspect of any art is in the eye of the beholder, so how and what any one person enjoys is no more or less valid than anyone else, so knock yourselves out!

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Sea-Amoeba-3388 t1_je9qqyb wrote

It is oral in origin though, the oral tradition of passing down stories relied heavily on song, that's what songs were, stories. That doesn't mean that we have to tie all music to stories today but that's where its roots lie. But like you say, it's all down to what each person takes from it, and today's music has come a long way from intergenerational story-telling.

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sweet-billy t1_je9r943 wrote

I'd say songs are oral, just that music is an aural experience.

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