As the bouncy plucks and resonant acoustics of the nylon-string guitar line underscore “Going Home,” vocalist Josephine Foster joins in, crooning, “I am going home.” Her vocal inflections are sweet and sombre, resembling the warbling mimicries of a lark as a spidery electric guitar melody spins between the interweaving words.[Read More…]
Hot Take
Song lyrics don’t need to make sense
By Charlotte Hayes, Staff Writer
While songs like Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide” contain lyrics more profound than most poetry in the modern canon, others just kind of…feel right. Sometimes, when it comes to the words to a song, what is being said matters so much less than how it’s said. Nonsensical lyrics can operate as everything from metaphor to verbal percussion, each allowing an artist to alter the confines of traditional language use within the medium. So whether it’s Hozier’s “Drain the whole sea, get something shiny, something meaty for the main course” in “Take Me to Church” or the (in)famous “If I was a sculptor, but then again, no” from Elton John's “Your Song,” maybe it’s better to not think too hard about what anyone’s singing and just let the music move you.