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Interesting/unique lyrics in dance music
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| Mr Game+Watch |
I remember a discussion I had with an ex of mine, who complained how superficial and silly dance music lyrics were. While I explained that many of the best dance tracks are instrumental (or have vocal snippets), and Dylan-style poetics isn't really the purpose of the music, I can't really deny her claim. Most of the lyrical tracks tend to be relationship ballads typical of pop music, thinly-veiled drug references, Hardwell crap about how even though there are millions of people at the festival we are still alone, or Underworld-style stream-of-consciousness.
So I ask, what dance tracks do have more complex, dare I say, meaningful lyrics? I quite liked Lily Wood and The Prick - Prayer In C, due to the slight originality of the content and the bleak picture it paints. There's also Leftfield's track "Open Up", a scathing critique of Hollywood. And I quite like Probspot's "Jump The Next Train", for something a bit more morose. But what other songs do you find have interesting, poetic, deep, or unique lyrical content? |
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| Paradox Lost |
| I mean, the lyrics to Above & Beyond's 'No One On Earth'- about being infatuated with an alien- are at least unique, especially as far as trance lyrics go. |
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| hoopoe |
| The number one go-to vocal trance record 'Delerium - Silence' is about rape. See also 'Plummet - Damaged'. |
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| Kilixpree |
| the obvious one is 'you are sleeping', right? although pqm is not the author of the lyrics ;p |
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