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vvvexation ([personal profile] vvvexation) wrote2010-07-07 05:45 pm

Writer's Block: More than words

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I'm not sure there are any lyrics that do that. There are some that resonate with me, but mostly in a head-nodding "ah yes" kind of way rather than a shivery kind of way.

No, what I get shivers from is the music itself. The "Die mit Tränen" bit in the first movement of Brahms' Requiem? Oh gods. And don't get me started on Biebl.

And yes, there are more "modern" songs that can have a little of the same effect on me; synthesizers often hit an interesting spot in my brain, and so do strings in the right context. But it really isn't the lyrics that tend to do it.

[identity profile] flwyd.livejournal.com 2010-07-08 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
A few years ago, I listened to Ali Farka Touré's Diaraby and had to stop working for a few minutes while I cried at the sadness and beauty in the song, even though it's in a language far away from any family I know.

[identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com 2010-07-08 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. I thought I caught a little French or French creole in there.