What should Lyrics in trance & progressive go about?

[Laan]

Originally Posted by Bitman 2.0

i like to hear about love lyrics, maybe personal experiences, about life, etc..

something inspiring and smart like poetry.

You gotta listen to rap music for that

[t4e]

the heck with vocals...especially the damn whiny ones, male and female alike...all the love lyrics are cheesy..with very few exceptions the bottom line is...no vocals please

[leana]

Originally Posted by t4e

the heck with vocals...especially the damn whiny ones, male and female alike...all the love lyrics are cheesy..with very few exceptions the bottom line is...no vocals please

ohhh yeah i agree with you, no vocals

[dfx]

Originally Posted by t4e

the heck with vocals...especially the damn whiny ones, male and female alike...all the love lyrics are cheesy..with very few exceptions the bottom line is...no vocals please

full ack
exceptions are very rare, and mostly in older tunes... did vocal stuff get worse with time or did my taste change?

[krio]

Originally Posted by Laan

You gotta listen to rap music for that

Maybe You should become a critic

[Neil Bamford]

i think having vocals in songs is good and everything but im still a firm believer that its all about the music. its not often nowadays (im not even that old!) that you get songs with no vocals in. trance is the modern classical music!

but if there is a vocal in a tune it has to sound original and be a right tune at that. too many vocals sound proper cheesy and it does my head in cos the music behind is quality. in fact, everyone i know hates male vocals in tunes when i find them better than female vocals (perfect e.g. dogzilla - without you)

Above & Beyond and Armin have cracked vocal trance though.

[wabbit76]

My favoured genre is progressive trance/minimal trance, but I have to say that most of the tracks become bullshit because of the so called "lyrics". Adding lyrics is the worst thing most people do with this kind of music. Most of them sound as if the creator of the track didn't have the faintest idea about what those english sentences mean, they are so dumb and stupid. Making a point by quoting lines from famous movies is another thing Mr and Ms DJs can make fools of themselves with. I can describe what I feel very easily when I listen to tracks with dumb lines in them: I feel kinda ashamed by the fact, that after many years of listening to Pink Floyd, blues music, rock and even metal, I listen to something that reflects the mind of an I-know-what-is-what-teenager.

My favourite is:

This is true love we make
Down on the streets
But I can do my best

WTF? Ok, I get the point, but that point is microscopic.
Yeah, that was a great thing to say, especially in that hyper-affective way you did it boyo.


Seriously, why can't everyone just make tracks like Reefer Decree's Nightvision, no bullshite, just powerful music.


Another point of mine: if you've got something to say, then say it like Infected Mushroom does it, your own thoughts with your own words. But don't cut and paste quotes from their original context, that will only prove that your braincell count is at the level of a wannabe teenager.

[Diane]

Originally Posted by dfx

full ack
exceptions are very rare, and mostly in older tunes... did vocal stuff get worse with time or did my taste change?

no you're right ... vocals have changed lately... they are less trancey than they were few years ago .. in my opinion. for instance ... this new track "going wrong - avb" ... is a good exemple of the new flow about vocal. And I hate it !!! absolutely ... !!!! its vocal TRANCE not vocal pop-rock-tranceifihave2minsleft .... è_é lol but well .... at least there are "small" djs / producers who still do good vocal trance tracks !

[JayCan]

Originally Posted by dfx

For me personally, the beauty of trance lies within its senselessness. Pop music is mostly about some artist (or songwriter) trying to tell the audience something via the lyrics. In trance, the actual message is the music itself. No need for any meaningful vocals or lyrics, the music itself is all that's needed. If there are any vocals, they need to be there to support the tune, and not be the tune. Therefore, it doesn't even matter what the lyrics are about, or even if there are any lyrics. Nonsense vocals are perfectly fine, if they suit the track. And to be honest, for vocals/lyrics that are actually meaningful, I don't really listen to what they're saying...

Originally Posted by piccoli

well for me since i listen trance, all the lyrics are always about love or love related and some times they are very emotional and suits the occasion, others are very sad.

But my preference goes just for the instrumental trance tuune.

But a instrumental tuune can be emotional too, there are some that brings me emotions really deep from inside me and it's something i can't control it.

/...signed

but there are some tunes they are just great cause they have a wonderful combination of Trance surfaces and lyrics...for example AvB - If you should go, AvB - Burned with desire...and also some of Dave Gahan-dirty sticky floors just work so perfect causing on this combination...without the lyrics this tracks didnt work for me

[olduser]

My opinion: Vocals shoul be used (only) as a mean to supplement the trance song and not the other way arround as seen in many cases

[Aveon]

I like vocals sometimes... I used to be completely against vocals. Until I started appreciating vocal trance and writing my own love lyrics... but someone posted earlier and was right... usually ends up being VERY VERY cheesey.

[Martin Mekk]

the songs should be with lyrics about love becouse the trance music is most beautifull genre in the world so what can be most beautifull than love

[Psytronic]

nuthin
they should b banned

[olduser]

Originally Posted by Psytronic

nuthin
they should b banned

LMAO Hahahaha!!!

[Hailstorm]

The only thing that matters to me is that the lyrics should sound good and should be in harmony with the tune. There's for example Feel me through the radio by DJ Shog. I find the lyrics kinda stupid but i enjoy listening to the track anyway.