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  1. I can agree on some of your points, but as far as music goes, I find that unless I listen to the entire song carefully I tend to criticize it when I hadn't really absorbed the meaning of the lyrics. - Lil

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  2. I need to make a clarification.
    The context of the words I quoted doesn't matter in this case, since I am simply pointing out an obvious contradiction between words and music. I'm not criticizing the lyrics on their own. I'm questioning their relationship to the music itself. The presence of this paradox does not depend on whether Switchfoot thought they were "adding to the noise" or not. Neither does the contradiction depend on what the other singer meant by the phrase "I'm trying to hear that still, small voice".
    The contradiction I see is this: these artists are doing hard rock while simultaneously contradicting the very nature of their music with the lyrics they have written. In the case of switchfoot, the song might as well have asked, as it blasted away, "Are we adding to the noise?" A laughable question. The other singer would have whispered her song if she'd given any real thought to the words she was saying.

    You also need to see that right here I am often talking about two different things in the same article: music and lyrics. When I say "music", I am reffering to particular pitches, rythms, and harmonies. When I say "lyrics", I am of course referring to words of a song. Both may be criticized on objective grounds but and both are distinct even when they are joined.

    Thanks for your criticism. It's helped me to understand my own position more clearly.

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  3. The comment above by "Michael Smith" was written by me.

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