Lyrics vs. Background Music

[Tori_J]

Both matters to me. I love when the lyrics is good, but if the lyrics is good but the background music isn't, what's the point.

[Brett Linette]

I don't care how good the beat of a song is if the lyrics to the song aren't good.

[Inge van Tonder]

I think both is important to me. If the two does not fit together, I don’t enjoy it very much.

[Kidd Essence]

It's really a combination. If a song has a great tune but meaningless and empty lyrics, I would pass.

[Owuamanam Eberechukwu]

Which do you care more about when listening to music? The lyrics or just the background music? I think I care more about the lyrics, but that is just me.

Lyrics if I am out to listen to the song. Background if I am reading with it. The two works fine. But a song needs to have a good lyrics before I fancy it. Therefore it is lyrics

[Tina Masha 1]

I'm not going to be able to leave any of them out. I'd listen to both the melody and the lyrics!

[estanlypido12]

It’s lyrics for me. It’s the beginning of all; without it, there’s no music. Even though there are songs without lyrics, it plays a vital role in the industry. It’s the life of every music.

[Helen Akoth]

That really depends. If it is a from a language I understand, I prefer it background, but if it is from a foreign language, I go for the lyrics, preferably the translation.

[Laww]

Honestly for me, they both play major roles on how we perceive music. The background declares the tone and the lyrics shed light.

[PrincessVenus554]

I think my answer could be both. Both affect my listening, but sometimes the tone is what commences. Listening to it so many times made me assess and consider the lyrics.

[Almira789]

It depends though. However, most of the time, it’s the music first that hooked me. But, liking a particular song would edge me to look at or even memorize its lyrics.

[maglalangara496]

Lyrics vs Background music is a hard choice, but I would choose Lyrics. Lyrics is the most influential in a music part because the meaning is inside the lyric and we cannot understand it without lyric. In a lyric, we learn a lot of lessons depending on its genre, and this makes us generate realizations on life experiences.

[Etini Willie]

I listen to music expecting to get a message from the song. So I am particular about the lyrics of a song. The background music still has to be enticing to the ears anyway. If a song has good background music without good lyrics, I would never listen to that song more than once