> I like a lot of electronic and instrumental genres that have no lyrics. [...] While I love lyrics too as rap is my favourite genre, the music and beat [... is

> I like a lot of electronic and instrumental genres that have no lyrics. [...] While I love lyrics too as rap is my favourite genre, the music and beat [... is] what makes a song a song, for me. Funny because a song is that which is sung. Technically you can sing non-lyrically (vocalizations that are not words) and still be singing a song, but that's an edge case. An instrumental piece is not a song even if you have a music player or database where that word is the field label. They use that word in that place because it's a decent fit enough of the time, but if you look up "song" in a dictionary, the definitions do all involve things like singing, vocals, lyrics, etc. The members of an orchestra don't ask each other what song to play, they talk generally of pieces and specifically of concertos, études, etc. until a guest vocalist appears for a song.