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Tue, 21 Dec 2004
Mikal is not over analysing. - 10:52
Yesterday I
commented on
the Ben Folds Five song Brick after seeing
Mikal ask a
question
about how other people perceive the song. Mikal
thought
I may have been criticising him for over analysing the lyrics, I really
wasn't. I mentioned I had not listened to the lyrics of Brick properly until
after I heard Ben Folds talking about the song in interviews. I did also say
some fans seem to over analyse songs, I don't think Mikal has, listening to
lyrics and noticing what they are about is not the freaky analysis I was
thinking of. I was thinking more of
this
sort
of
thing.
I agree with Mikal that the lyrics in songs are important and can be a
form of poetry, heck this is something I constantly point out with
Ani Difranco
lyrics, they are a form of poetry and
worth reading in their own right. I guess I was not so much commenting on
Brick, or Mikal's interpretation so much on how some fans may take analysis
well beyond what artists ever saw in their own music.
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