Trance MusicFollow

I like the stuff. I really do. I have a bunch on my iPod, some of which I even paid for. I like to turn on a free trance radio station and just leave it on all day. I didn't think there was anything that could make me, well, not like it as much.

But then I made the mistake of actually listing to the lyrics.



There's no meaning there. There's no depth. It's variations on the theme of "I'm in love with you" and "will you have sex with me?" Desperately, I tried to find some translations of ones in other languages, but my favorite non-English one turned out to have "You are so hot" as its primary lyric, in German. Only a few songs actually broach anything other than the same poppy crap lyrics in mainstream music, and those aren't even really that good.

I will never pay attention to vocal trance lyrics again. I will only enjoy the ambiance, or find lyric-less stuff, or set God is a Girl into the player on repeat indefinitely.

Isn't this like being disappointed that your dog doesn't meow?

If I'm going to be pretentious and eschew American pop music, I damn well expect what I'm listening to to be inherently superior. I like Ayumi Hamasaki from Japan, for example. She can't sing terribly well, but she writes wonderful poetic lyrics that are usually about things other than relationships. (Usually. She too is capable of vapid relationship meandering.) And her "music by committee" managers manage to make a finished product that's pretty damn good for pop music.

I don't think it's too much to ask for wholly good music, is it?

Which is a shame, because their music has more depth and meaning than 90% of the crap that gets churned out on the radio.

Granted, that's not saying much at all.

 

You could just go here:
http://www.dawnmetropolis.com/
pretend that you're artistic
enjoy nostalgic sounds in the form of music without those pesky lyrics to try to prove to yourself that you have any kind of depth to your personality
and generally get over yourself


then again, I've been drinking.
What the hell do I know?