lyrics subforum

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Defining lyrics as sung poetry is like defining a pepperoni pizza as spoiled meat on spoiled milk on spoiled flour and water.
I don't quite get this one though, like lyric is more than a poem intended for music? Why are they all spoiled, why not processed and cooked together?

A pepperoni pizza could be mischaracterized in a way that makes it sound gross. Lyrics can be mischaracterized in a way that makes them sound mundane or alien. But lyrics are a distinctive poetic media with no validating aesthetic criteria.

I don’t want to go to grad school to develop one. I want to go here.