So there you are, and out of nowhere a great song comes on the radio or you get that great song stuck in your head. Does this ever happen to you? It does to me quite often. I actually write about songs a lot and I sat here listening to a song by Paramore called Only Exception and I have this epiphany. I, in my vast and great knowledge of music, which is not much at all to be honest I just like to try to make myself sound cool, have figured something out. What is it that makes a great song? I have decided personally that it is three things.
Let me put the disclaimer out there right now so that you who care about things like that can relax. I am not a musically “endowed” person. I play the guitar and love to rock out some Praise and Worship music to our Father in heaven. I do some rap videos for the kids at Bay Shore every year (check out the links, each is a separate link), but I am not really close to being an expert of any kind. This is, however, a well-thought out opinion; well, thought-out anyways.
Great songs are sung to your very heart.
I hear this song by Paramore and I cannot help but remember a time where my girl and I were in a same boat. I had everything I ever wanted when we met. I had confidence drawing from God. I was closer to God than previous years. I had total dependency on Him and I was completely independent and in need of no one. I guess you could say, I was good to go. I needed no one, nor did I need anything. Then, without any warning whatsoever, she came into my world. I sit there and think about all of the things that people often dream up of why they will or will not go out with someone and I can honestly say that she is the only exception.
Great songs have a musically engaging momentum.
A great song plays with the music as much as they play with the words. If there was such thing as a musical pun, it would apply in a great song. For the Paramore song, the part where she states “I’ve got a tight grip on reality but I can’t…” and the music breaks down and speeds up, takes me to another place and time. I used to go to a Christian High School where they played these movies in Bible class about the “evils” of music. I do not think music is evil at all. I think it moves. I think God knew what he was doing when he created sounds to sound good together. I think God delights in music. I agree that it can take you to a different place in your world, but maybe that is the point. Sometimes you just need to be in a different world… do you not?
Great songs never get old.
I think of all of the songs I can listen to over and over and over again. They never get old, until the radio starts to play them, but if you are like me at all, you do not listen to the radio. A great song never dies. It’s like a legend. It never gets old and the story is always better the last time than it was the first time.
I hope you found this one engaging. There are not really huge God thoughts or anything, I just simply wanted to share my brain for a minute for all of you.
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Food for thought: If you have an “only exception”. Why not tell that person? You never know how a kind word can cure a confused heart.
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