Revs Advanced Member
Austria
2,584 posts Joined: Oct, 2008
Posted - 2010/03/17 : 21:30:53
Yeah unfortunately there's not much of it almost nothing actually. Would you class Let Me In from Michael Mansion as an intelligent track? Many people have been liking it for it's good vocals/lyrics.
The sample in this track for example is from Maya Angelou's poem "On the Pulse of Morning" which she read at the 1993 presidential inauguration of Bill Clinton ;)
That proves that the one who made the track is really someone intelligent, and who knows about things happening in the world, that's important imo. Someone cultivated :)
That narrows down your tastes a whole lot, since intelligent vocals are probably around the odds of 0.00001% in dance music.
To me, vocals are an instrument, just like the synth lead of the percussions. They must have a good flow and a good melody. Just like a synth, some vocals sound cheap, and some are just plain annoying. The LAST factor that comes into the equation for me is if the lyrics make any sense, if they have any kind of poetic quality or if the matter is of any relevance.
pretty much agree with you Matricks. what matters most to me is i guess it's call the instrumental part of the song, especially considering that edm isn't popular b/c of the meaning of the lyrics. of course it has to sound decent, but i'm not going to give a shit what the meaning behind the lyrics are, intelligent or not.
here's one for you revs. and good luck w/ finding "intelligent" tracks
audiophilic New Member
United Kingdom
20 posts Joined: Mar, 2010
Posted - 2010/03/18 : 01:23:18
quote:Originally posted by DJ Revs:
Yeah unfortunately there's not much of it almost nothing actually. Would you class Let Me In from Michael Mansion as an intelligent track? Many people have been liking it for it's good vocals/lyrics.
A lot of Michael Mansion songs have lyrics beyond the usual stuff. Yeah, Let Me In would have somewhat intelligent lyrics. I guess that's one of its claims to fame (other than it sounds really amazing)
Nick of Bang New Member
United Kingdom
28 posts Joined: Feb, 2009
Posted - 2010/03/25 : 19:16:47
Do people still care for vocal-based hardcore?
I hope so... or my new album is completely stuffed !!!
As for the lyrical content, there's always the fear that the listener "won't get it", but I know they always do, and different people interpret songs in different ways. You can look at a single sofa and it's a certain colour, certain shape, but will fit in a thousand different living rooms.
A great song can be interpreted to fit a thousand different life stories.
I once got an email from someone who had lost a best friend to cancer, and at her funeral they played the Ham mix of Shooting Star. I had always seen the lyric as a "boy and girl" thing, but here we're two best friends and their lives fitted perfectly to the lyric now her friend had gone.
I get the criticism about the "love" element, but that's a tough one because love is such an emotive subject. I wrote Follow The Dream which avoids relationship love, but it's not as emotive as one of the new songs on the album where she calls the guy at home and his wife is sitting right next to him and she's trying to get him to say something wrong in the hope he'll wreck his marriage and she'll have him to herself.
You gotta have a story!
I'll climb back into my little box now.....
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