Pet Peeve #13,730,873,457

[neversremedy8]

When a song contains vocals, even if it's in lilting-fucking-Latin, it has lyrics. Don't fucking cop out on a lyrics site by claiming the song is "instrumental." If they just repeat "peach" over and over again, it has lyrics. If the singers say "di-da-da-di-la-di-di-di-da" it's still said to have lyrics. If you don't know the lyrics, English, Latin, or Slavic, don't fucking add a page to the artist's site claming the song is instrumental! To summarize:

Singing in Latin = lyrics (in Latin!).
Instrumental song = no fucking lyrics.
Song labeled "instrumental" when I can fucking hear lyrics = lazy dumb fucks who don't want to be bothered with being honest and saying they don't fucking know.*

Let's face it, if all music with lyrics in Latin were simply "instrumental," imagine how difficult it would be for the Gregorian chanters, or hell, any Roman Catholic singers of hymns and chants to create their devotional music.

Have I used "fuck" enough in this post? If not, I'm sure I could work more fucks and fucking into it if need be.

*This also, somehow, correlates to my pet peeve about the lazy fucks who write closed captioning for films that have more than one language in context who, when there are no translations (or even if there are) into English, choose instead of giving the phonetic spelling of the language in question simply put in Speaking X Language (where "X" is Transylvanian, Hutese, or something else entirely). Did it ever occur to them that maybe people who enjoy the movie AND language might want to know how to say that particular phrase themselves (assuming it's a true translation)? For example: at one point in Bram Stoker's Dracula, Gary Oldman says something to his three females in Dracula's native tongue. It sounded pretty damned authentic, and I wanted to know exactly how to articulate it, since he was mangling his voice and the sound effects disrupted easy ability to pick up the phrase. What did the closed captioning have to tell me? "Speaks foreign language." They couldn't even be bothered to tell me what language! And I know for a fact that the CC on some movies does give a Romanization of the language in question. I want that every fucking time I watch a movie. I want to know EXACTLY how to pronounce it, because my eyes pick up easier what my ears try to comprehend, if I have both together, SNAP! It's in my brain for good. Thus ends my ranting for the moment.

Comments

[rhonan.livejournal.com]

I don't know, Cocteau Twins used voice as an instrument, and they considered their 'songs' to be instrumental pieces with the human voice as an instrument.

[neversremedy.livejournal.com]

Given their perspective, ALL music using a voice is simply "instrumental." The Cocteau Twins, however, do not define music as a whole. They can define their songs whatever they want, but when any other band has lyrics that are in a language I used to be fluent in, I don't appreciate these pop-up infested lyrics sites to tell me the songs are instrumental. At least www.alwaysontherun.net has the decency simply to not provide lyrics because the owner doesn't know yet. If she thought they were instrumental, she would have said so in small print beneath each song title.