Is it me or have lyrics in trance tracks just gotten plain boring lately (strike that, the last 8 years or so). I mean they have always been somewhat stupid, but in the past at least they where stupid in a way.

Seems like older vocal tracks used a lot of metaphors for things while newer tracks just kind of say it very plainly.

Example in Flesh...

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The light is going blue. Morning approaches. The pain's still here. I'm empty - empty - empty. Sounds of the world, Of laughter and tears. I've nothing left. I'm empty - empty - empty.

What the fuck does "The light is going blue" even mean? I don't know but its awesome!

I can't even think of an example of a bad newer vocal track, the lyrics don't even stick in your head anymore.

I mean as cheesy as it is Bullet in the Gun will always be in my head, its catchy and its odd in content and that made it awesome.

Sad that vocal trance is filled with no talent ass-clowns these days.

*edit*

I just tied this into my theory of Reason killing trance music.

Vocalists were harder to get back then. Everyone was spending money on hardware and only the people that actually had talent could afford to get a singer in and do some lyrics. Now you get jerk asses who make a crap song in Reason, get it signed to a label that accepts anything and then they get a cheap vocalist to sing their crappy ideas.

It took a serious investment to make dance music back then! Now its filled with everyone.



Democracy just doesnt work people!

Last edited by Joss Weatherby on Jan-18-2009 at 03:17

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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby I just tied this into my theory of Reason killing trance music.

What the hell has that got to do with lyrics? Or anything else for that matter?

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery What the hell has that got to do with lyrics? Or anything else for that matter?

Too many people making music and it over-saturates the market. Given that most of it will be on the lower side of 0 in terms of quality it has a negative affect. Since EDM for the most part is such a small market it is really noticable and affects the over all perception and quality of work.

Its not specifically Reason in general but for a while there was a notion of "Reason Killed Trance" but really it was the mass availability of powerful desktop DAWs (Cubase, FL Studio, Sonar, Logic, etc).

Giving any Joe-schmoe the power to make music with little or no formal training in music theory or anything even related to the concept of music has a damaging affect.

It ties into vocals in that before cheap DAWs it cost thousands of dollars to aqquire anything close to what the power of something like Reason gives you. So making dance music was an investment, even more so than most other genres of music.

Not that it is so cheap, people can go "shit i got an awesome beat" or something like that and hire a vocalist to sing their lyrics. Since they probably suck at making music in the first place, their talent for writing lyrics is probably pretty bad as well (not alaways true).

Also now that anyone can basically record decent quality sound these days their are a lot more shoddy vocalists.

Basically the democritization of electronic music has hurt it more than it has helped it in terms of quality.

Of course this is just my opinion and based off of my percetpions of trends and attitudes.

why the hell does all dees radio stations play all dis cheesy music all the time and call it trance. Its ruining my job.


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in love in love

face down

ass up

that's the way we...

doesn't it mean that the sun is coming up and since it's her last day on earth she needs to make love with someone before the god or gods take her flesh away????

ARE YOU KIDDING

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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby Basically the democritization of electronic music has hurt it more than it has helped it in terms of quality. Of course this is just my opinion and based off of my percetpions of trends and attitudes.

maybe if you're only talking about ratio of 'good' to 'bad', otherwise it depends on your willingness to wade through shit - the higher it is, the more beneficial the democratization of electronic music has been (for a listener).

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