V vs SFBM 2:, lyrical comparisons Options

[LiveRoCkS77]

Please feel free to compare lyrical mishaps from these two albums. Post the worst and post the best. /By the end, hopefully we can mostly agree as to which was most poorly written.

My vote goes to V....although I'm open to being proven wrong.

Let the shitslinging begin!

This post has been edited by LiveRoCkS77: Sep 7 2011, 7:24 am

[Pokey]

Lazy songwriting in Ed's case, is not good .. when he's good he's amazing, when he's bad he's deplorable.

I think the open interpretation is a big part of it, not everything, but a part of it. The fact you can listen to SS for example and get a lot of different theories on exactly what a song is about and no one really be right or wrong, can be pretty special. Its not that they're nonsensical lyrics, just very open to interpretation. Where as SFBM it's all very "this is what this song is, nothing else". It's quite dull.

It's not a grammatical failing to say that the overuse of similes is a major failure. There is nothing grammatically incorrect about it or anything. Song writing is one time when grammar and the general laws of English can be thrown out the window - poetic licence. Sometimes it can actually enhance songs to take a little liberties with grammar and such. Sometimes you can even draw really beautiful similes. But when overused and really unimaginative its very dull. It sort of does go hand in hand with the open interpretation thing ... that style of writing isn't promoting creativity or indeed as you say, asking the pertinent questions. It's specifically saying "hey look at this, its like this". Its very limiting.

V's lyrics are all over the place and completely different to anything Ed had written before. It was like he just got coked up and thought he'd give something new a go (strong possibility thats what happened maybe!). So it's hard to get too worked up or angry at them because they're just ... throw away. Where as with SFBM you get the feel he sat down and went "ok, lets give this my best shot to write something good". And it churned out what it did.
I'm certainly not saying one is better than the other, just that one is worse than the other