listening to music, lyrics drive your attention first or the music?

Hello voldrox, I listen with my heart...it's the melody I appreciate songs from other countries eventhu i don't understand the lyrics,...by listening to it's melody. I had this favorite song from a friend in Tamil..."EN SWASAKAATRE" The very first time i listen to this song...i really feel in love with it. While listening to that song...with my eyes closed,i feel like,i am wandering from the other dimension... The instrument used...the singer's voice,everything in harmony. I like love songs,mellow touch and country songs... My favorite singer is Barry Manilow...and Jim Brickman. I like their songs and compositions...i can relate with it,and i could live with their lyrics

Hi voldrox, How are you? How is your studies? The first attention should be on music but I will listen the lyrics too. You know in our native language there are so many meaningful old songs and all are much popular. The music and lyrics are equally attractive. Now I doubt those kinds of beautiful songs are coming out now. I really love melodies especially the songs in 80s.

I think it's always the tune and the melody that catches my attention first, cause usually you won't understand the lyrics that well, not unless you listen to the song intently, or not unless you're reading the lyrics while the song is playing. Hehehe. So if the melody is nice, then I would definitely check out the lyrics if its also nice. If it's not, then I'll still listen to it, I won't mind the lyrics. Hehehe. But if the lyrics is as good as the melody, then definitely it would go directly to my ipod.

It is definitely the music that moves me to like it or not. When I listen to mainstream radio stations it seems that the music is bland and perhaps more lyrically driven. I listen to a nation wide alternative station that plays all different types of musical genres, but they are more artistic in their music and not commercially driven. I like a song that can move me either physically or emotionally. I prefer songs that start out slow and then build up momentum as they go. One by Metallica and Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin are two well known songs that come to mind right now that do this well. It is interesting when listening to one of my favourite bands Pink Floyd. One songwriter, Dave Gilmour was into the music and wrote long songs with amazing changes in the tempo throughout. Roger Waters wrote more from a lyrical viewpoint and his songs were the short ones and some that were not so appealing to me. The Wall album was almost totally his work and there are a lot of songs on that album that I do not like, although I quite like listening to the album as a whole instead of just a few songs here and there. Pink Floyd albums do not do well on shuffle!

in the past, i'd prefer to the music because of the lyrics. sometimes the sad lyrics attrace me a lot. really very strange, now when i think of it. mostly attracted first by the rhythm now. beautiful melody is a great joy of life.

I'm a drummer myself, but I've always been attracted to music by the lyrics first. I don't really care for much music unless it tells a story or is something I can be inspired by or relate to. I didn't really start to appreciate the actual form or progressions of music until I studied theory and jazz in college.

For me it is the music that grabs my attention, the rhythm and the instruments used, then once I get familiar with the song and it grows on me, I start reading into the lyrics, some lyrics can be really profound, others are just vacuous and meaningless. My genre is pop music, mainly from the 80s. I like to learn the words off by heart as well because I find that when I get 'blue' I can sing my favourite song (providing no one is in the room with me!) I can't sing for toffee so I would never subject my awful voice onto anyone. Music is a wonderful soother, stress release and a comforter especially in times of 'depression' and 'melancholy'

I pay a lot of attention to the lyrics, but I like a variety of music, too. I like music from the 40s some, 50s the most, 60s some and then after that, not as much. I like some rock, some country, some blue grass, some jazz, some blues, but no metal unless I'm really, really angry about somethingand I'd like to do something drastic. I think Spike Jones is a riot, and some of the others that write funny stuff to music is a lot of fun.

Usually I'm catched by music instead of lyricsI prefer soft and gentle melody. And it always move me deeply. When I listen to them, I'm attracted by melody. In another word, sometimes it's a little difficult to catch lyrics.

Music with good melody, beat and rhythm catches my attention but still, I pay more attention to the lyrics of the song. :) I love songs with good lyrics. Those lyrics that I can relate to. Sometime I feel that those songs are made for me. :))

I enjoy electronica and trance style music,IDM, down-tempo, trip-hop and anything related to that because the music is generally pretty awesome. It takes a pretty good electronic artist for me to listen to them because I'm also a really big fan of metal. When it's a metal band that I'm listening to or a band that has a vocalist then the lyrics have to be good or I generally can't listen to the band. There are way too many bands out there that have good music but there singer completely ruins it.

well gud morning ma sweet frnd :P :P well i dont really go into the lyrics... if d music is gud and beats makin me high.. den whateva mayb the language i m gonna listen to it until i get over it. ... or d music makes me sick. .. lately i have been listening to avial - nada nada.. . donna weat dat means ... but theres a sudden energy in the song that keeps me kickin .... and i love it :):) MUSic is wat i value more than lyrics... happy mylotting :)

I think music is the first to attract my attention to the song. Because I am not such a big fan of hard rock, trance or hip hop music, (I think I am more towards pop genre), thus if the introduction of the song is too much for me to handle, I will just give that piece a miss. But definitely lyrics is as meaningful and so is the singer's vocal. Because these are all the things that makes the song attractive to me. If the vocalist is unable to project out the emotions of the lyrics or if the lyrics don't really voice out the music's theme, I might not be attracted to the song.

I gotta say that the melody catches my attention first, and then that would lead me to listen to the lyrics very well. I like the song if it's beautiful both in the rhythm/melody and lyrics.

Definitely the music, every time. Get the right beat, the right sound and the music can take you away.

This is a good question. What catches my attention first is the music itself. When I like the music I will then listen closely to the lyrics to see if it's also good. If the lyrics are not good, I don't bother with that music anymore. Even though the quality of the music catches my attention first, for me the music and the lyrics should both be good.

Music 1st... but some songs are nice even without the music..

The music first and as the beginning of almost each songs starts with Music and if that music is not ear friendly then who will listen to the words!!!

for me too its music first. i listen to the guitar most avidly because i'm crazy about the instrument and i play it too(though i'm still learning to play on my own). lyrics, of course, catch up later. even i don't listen to hip hop, trance, etc, kind of music. i listen mostly to rock music as a whole.

i like to listen to the music, i never really pay attendtion to the lyrics.. but i think i should sometimes.. if the song has a good melody and its catchy i love it no matter what it saids.than as time passes by and i realize what the song reallly means i laugh at myself, most songs these day dont have much morals