NationStates Jolt Archive

Simple question, when you keep listening to a song and you start liking it, how often are you going to go and learn the lyrics of that song?

For me, it's when the song's particularly good, I'll most likely go and learn the lyrics, so I'd go with Option 2.

What about you?

ADDED:

For clarification purposes, this poll is about how often do you get out of your way to learn a song. So if you never particularly try hard to learn the lyrics, and just settle on what you get from the song, then you classify as Option 5.

I always pick up the lyrics from pretty much every song I listen to.

are you kidding me? I learn lyrics to songs I don't like, I can't help it, I just remember all of them.......it's annoying.

I figured out that my kids do that too though so in homeschool I tend to "sing" things we are trying to learn and memorize.

are you kidding me? I learn lyrics to songs I don't like, I can't help it, I just remember all of them.......it's annoying.

Same here. That's why I don't like radio. :p

Same here. That's why I don't like radio. :pWho needs radios anyway. They only play stuff I don't like :D

I always pick up the lyrics from pretty much every song I listen to.Pretty true of me too. I was driven mad at school by the fact that I could remember the lyrics to pretty much every Queen or Beatles song without trying but had to sit and force myself to memorise speeches in foreign languages for oral exams.

I don't sit down and learn them, I just pick them up from listening to the song.

Pretty true of me too. I was driven mad at school by the fact that I could remember the lyrics to pretty much every Queen or Beatles song without trying but had to sit and force myself to memorise speeches in foreign languages for oral exams.
yeah, I have the same problem. I figured out that just about anything can fit the tune of Amazing Grace though so if I can sing it with that then I can remember stuff easier.
(it's dorky but it works)

I am probably the only person in the whole grocery store who you can find singing her grocery list in the frozen section to see if she missed anything... LOL

which is funny too, since most old TV theme songs go the other way (you can sing the tune with the words to Amazing Grace and it works)

Who needs radios anyway. They only play stuff I don't like :D

Damn straight. I haven't listened to the radio (not counting getting into the car while a radio is playing, etc.) for years.

Who needs radios anyway. They only play stuff I don't like :D

Incorrect. They play the same stuff that you don't like until you like it.

Damn straight. I haven't listened to the radio (not counting getting into the car while a radio is playing, etc.) for years.
You're missing out. Non-music radio is generally brilliant (Radio 4!). I don't know about Australian radio, but I imagine there's some good talk radio.

You're missing out. Non-music radio is generally brilliant (Radio 4!). I don't know about Australian radio, but I imagine there's some good talk radio.

Why would you want to listen to people talk? That's boring!

Why would you want to listen to people talk? That's boring!
Because it's funny and interesting?

Anybody who hasn't needs to hear "Just a Minute" from BBC Radio 4. Genius.

You're missing out. Non-music radio is generally brilliant (Radio 4!). I don't know about Australian radio, but I imagine there's some good talk radio.

Probably, but why listen to that when I can listen to internets "radio" that is actually good?

Or even better, CDs I already own. :p

I have a 1 gb flash drive devoted to lyrics.

i hardly ever even listen to lyrics for most songs until i've heard it at least half a dozen times (at a guess). lyrics are just part of the song - part of the noise - and i generally listen to the music, the guitar-work or the drumming more intently than the lyrics.

i also have trouble understanding the singing with a lot of songs

then again it depends on the song. most metal for me is about the music, but a lot of punk, say, the real meaning is in the clever words. love ballads, when there's little else but the lyrics (celine fucking dion springs to mind) then its hard not to pick up on the words.
however that doesn't mean i learn them... that still takes time (crap memory)

I don't usually memorize the lyrics except through repeated listening. However, I do make it a point to look up the lyrics that I can't catch from the song.

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. It's usually the tune that grabs you first, and then you pick up on the lyrics. On rare occassions it will be the lyrics alone that will attract me to a song. Mostly they are not important.

I love Pearl Jams 'Yellow Ledbetter' and have no clue what Eddie is singing.

I have a 1 gb flash drive devoted to lyrics.
Is that not what your brain is for?