(February 9, 2018 at 2:04 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(February 9, 2018 at 1:45 pm)Minimalist Wrote: You can sing a song about dog shit but it remains dog shit.
But if it's a good song, it doesn't matter what it's ultimately about. It remains a good song. Aretha Franklin's "Climbing Higher Mountains" is one of my favorite tunes ever. Everything that woman touches becomes gold. Plus that, to me, the song merely uses religious symbolism to talk about real-life things. In this case, difficulties and tribulations--something everybody has, regardless of their religion. A lyrical song is just a poem put to music. Any one poem can be interpreted in a number of ways.
If you pass up rocking to gospel music because you're an atheist, you're missing out.
I don't not like gospel music due to my atheism, I don't like it because I don't like how it sounds.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
