Emotional content

I'm listening to a mash-up mix http://8tracks.com/vinkerekniv/perpetually-played-mashups where people put the words of one song to the music of another. I love that type of interaction even though I couldn't pull it off if I tried.

It reminds me however that music it completely emotional content and rhythm even if I can sing the words to many of my favorite songs, they make very little sense as stories or written word. Just try and write down the many Na na na na's of the song Hey Jude and you'll understand what I mean.

Which is precisely why writers can't write songs in stories. They connect great stories and a clever rhyme or two to good songwriting. And that it ain't. Songs are more of a base feeling expressed and only need to be written down to allow you to move further along in the feeling of the music. Adding your voice to it only improves the experience.

Which is why I believe humming and mumbling along to your favorite work is so important to all of us. I haven't met anyone who doesn't love music. The difference in what they like however is based more on emotional content than what the content of the song is.

The difference between a country song about losing everything and a rap song on the same thing is really more of a difference on how to deal with it and the emotions involved. They aren't the same. Which is why I think when I listen to music that although I don't particularly like certain styles of music, that there can be an exceptional work in that style that won't let me completely hate the genre.

Again it's not plays on words, or fast fingers in music that matters. It's completely about conveying the most basic emotion you can feel into sound and letting the words echo the feeling not the situation.