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Originally Posted by The Probabilist  A happy life is a boring life? Sorry, but I can't relate to that. How is there beauty in sadness?
Anyway, what matters is the lyrics and not the melody or instruments. The music itself is a very strong medium into the subconscious mind as it loves patterns. This is why the lyrics has such a strong influence in your subconscious behaviour. I suggest listening to HunaTrainer podcast #012 over here. It starts at about 13 minutes. |
I think there are myriad beautiful sadnesses..for instance, the death of a loved one. It is sad, but at the same time they return to where they came from. Tornados are magnificent and beautiful, but rarely bring good to us. Hope itself is beautiful and yet kind of tragic.
However, I completely disagree on your point about lyrics, because those are just poems, and poems arent music. Melody and the instruments are what make up music, and are more important to music than the lyrics, because without melody, rythym and the instruments, its not music, but without lyrics iit can still be music.
They can betray each other though, for instance, The Cure has some of the happiest sounding songs, but the lyrics are horribly sad. Jeff Buckley has some beautifully optimistic lyrics with very sad music.
Not only that, but the music itself changes the state of your brainwaves, which is why Baroque music is considered to be superlearning music, because of the state it puts your brain in. While words can do that, its nowhere near as powerful as the music. Words are arbitrary in comparison, and the music is the vehicle for the words, and not the other way around.