Musical Annoyances
OK, so first comes the disclaimer… I am a huge music fan, I would say I cannot think of the last time I did not listen to music for a period of an entire day. Also, I do not claim to be an expert on music, but I do consider myself somewhat of an authority as a listener as, like a lot of people, I have numerous years of experience in this category. Now that we have that out of the way, there are certain things that I have witnessed ruining perfectly good songs otherwise and here are some examples:
- Long Fade outs — we know what it’s going to sound like and how you will say those same words for the next 3 minutes, so please spare us the white noise and just do a quick fade out, or better yet, have a good ending that punctuates the song.
- Singing about nursery rhymes or making childhood references that should be relegated to subject matter that actually warrants it.
- Repeating the same word or phrase more than 3 times consecutively without offering even a vocal change to it. Seriously, most people don’t have the attention span for this.
- Song titles with the word “song” in the title — we know it’s a song, there’s no need to remind us. It would be equivalent to labelling everything edible at the grocery store with “food” after the item’s name. This is unnecessarily redundant and unimaginative – especially for an “artist”.
I would like to thank the makers of Audacity which I commonly use to edit out those irritating long fade outs to make a decent song with extraneous banality added into a decent song again.