Just Lyricism....

Modern music and I don't get along very well. The problem I have with it is I like songs that have a strong lyrical content, that actually tell some sort of story. However the lyrics of many modern songs, especially the ones aimed at the clubbing scene, just seem to constructed from one unrelated sentence after another like they're being said by a slightly attention-deficit schizophrenic. I mean I don't see why being pissed you never got to ride in a Concorde suddenly reminds you that while you've been to Southampton, you've never been to Scunthorpe. Concorde didn't even fly from Southampton.

Though this isn't what really bothers me, the worst trend is that an alarming amount of songs now use words and phrases that don't even make sense in their lyrics. My favourite example of this is Taboo's verse in Boom Boom Pow which goes a little something like this: "I'm on that super sonic boom, y'all hear that spaceship zoom (which in itself doesn't make sense because space is a vacuum so no sound, but even I respect I'm reading too far into that one) and when I step into the room, those girls go apeshit ....oom"

Seriously? 

Now I'll admit I'm no expert having never written a pop song of my own but something does seem a little half-arsed when you rhyme boom, zoom and room with a nondescript grunting noise. He was three quarters of the way there with so many words to pick, groom, doom, ....flume? I would hope that many people would agree with me that that is fairly lackluster songwriting.

That song was number one for 12 weeks. I'm obviously in the wrong here.