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Lyrics are written or spoken components of songs and songs (with vocalizations) are poetry. Poetry is an artistic expression of ideas and feelings. I suppose
by andsam 7y ago
Lyrics are written or spoken components of songs and songs (with vocalizations) are poetry.
Poetry is an artistic expression of ideas and feelings.
I suppose all songwriters could preface their music with : "I plead the 5th amendment"
- s_y_n_t_a_x 7y agoBards used songs to tell of real tales. Just because lyrics are poetry, does not mean the story it tells is made up. If a rapper rattled off GPS coordinates bragging about where he buried a dead body, and the police found that body there, would you support using that as evidence to start an investigation into the rapper?
- andsam 7y agoYour line of questioning is disingenuous Rappers today use songs to tell of real events but if the king hangs a bard or jester for a song or joke he doesn't like, it is a despotic use of power. The courts job is to fairly dispense justice and utilizing someone's artistic expression to punish them and then at the same time discounting it if it would exonerate them is an abuse of that power
- DubiousPusher 7y agoThat is totally different. In that case the rapper conveyed something material about the case not an expression of sentiment.