See, this is baffling to me. Like, I can't understand the concept at all. Do you find the lyrics funny/sad/happy/etc? I can get that, but then it'd be the same reaction from just reading them, rather than the song/music itself. Would you say it determines the type of music you like? I would enjoy all of the same music that I listen to, even if you replaced the lyrics with gibberish. Or nothing for that matter. I enjoy the same music and it's karaoke/instrumental version. I gave it a listen (though just briefly. one song all the way through and a couple others skipping around). Got nothing from it. A bit slow. A bit boring. Just some stories on top of plain music. I'd rather read the stories and get it over with faster than having to listen to a generic noise painfully waiting to hear the rest of the story. I find those are some of my favorite. Simply because I can listen to them later and recall the scenes from the movie or tv show. That and the music itself is pretty good and fitting for whatever scene it was made for. During the movie itself though I'm wrapped up in everything, and pay about as much attention to the music as I do the background.I do. I am incredibly passionate about music. I have cried to it, laughed to it, got angry or placated while listening to it or playing it, any range of emotion you can experience I have probably experienced through music.
the first time I listened to All Hail West Texas it broke me down to the core.
TV music does very little for me though, the same goes for movie music. I'm too busy paying attention to what's actually happening.
It is the total package of the music. It is can be the lyrics, it can be the songwriting, it can be the context of the music itself or the way that fits into the package of an album or EP. It is always, always, the reverberation of a musical concept or expression of a persons life in the form of musical notes that moves me. I find it to be a beautiful thing. The thing with listening to lyrics as opposed to reading them is that you lose the passion of the voice, the inflection and whatever other emotion is conveyed the the singing itself. It is how I can relate to a particular piece of music in the context of the song having been written, or my life at the time, or anything else really. It's hard to explain but maybe that has given you an idea of what I'm trying to convey. I can listen to anything from All Hail West Texas to this to this to this and get some sort of emotion out of it. If it's well done then I can appreciate it. But that's easier said than done. Something like Halloween, Tron, The Godfather, or songs being used in a movie such as Fight Club work really well for doing exactly what you brought up.I find those are some of my favorite. Simply because I can listen to them later and recall the scenes from the movie or tv show. That and the music itself is pretty good and fitting for whatever scene it was made for. During the movie itself though I'm wrapped up in everything, and pay about as much attention to the music as I do the background.