Sensemaking
Audiences tend to put films, novels and other texts through a wringer of meaning. If enough sense doesn’t come spurting out the other end, they are readily disgruntled.
“I don’t want to see a ghost/It’s the sight that I fear most/I’d rather have a piece of toast”
But there is one art, one type of text, that has garnered a sort of diplomatic immunity from this requirement of meaning, and that is songwriting. Lyrics are consistently permitted to soar over details such as sense.
Which is not to suggest that lyrics are the simple cousin in the arts family. Many lyrics are brilliant, and the way they can sweep over the globe is exhilarating. But there is something remarkable about the way utterly inane lyrics can achieve meteoric success.
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