Trouble hearing lyrics in songs?
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I've heard it a few times...and yes, I know what you mean.
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The existence of the leader who is wise
is barely known to those he leads.
He acts without unnecessary speech,
so that the people say,
'It happened of its own accord.' -Tao Te Ching, Verse 17
My native tongue is Dutch. Most of the time I watch Dutch TV. The problem is, that I often can't understand what is said. I have to record the sound in my head, replay it, and then interpret my mental recordings.
I sometimes watch English and German TV, or someone on the Dutch TV speaks English or German (with Dutch subtitles). And then it is suddenly not a problem anymore. I understand and can follow anything that has been said.
Is it me or my autism? Apparently not. My parents have the same problem, and none of them are autistic. I have also tinnitus, but that can be ruled out as well for the same reason. It is the poor speaking skills of Dutch program and movie makers.
This.
I listen to it as absolute music, so I always forget to pay attention to the lyrics.
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Now this is why I love this site as I've never seen or heard that sentiment anywhere else apart from my mind !
I often tell people that when I listen to any kind of music with lyrics - I hear words as just another sound rather than a meaningful word . So I have NO IDEA AT ALL what a song is about but I can remember every NOTE OR SOUND of that song ..
Am a musician, of a genre that either does not use lyrics or uses them rarely.
I listen to electronic music and most of the stuff I listen to is also electronic (non-vocal).
I'm far more use to trying to listen to music actively rather than passively.
I try to pick out every sound, texture and instrument, and, electronic is usually a very repetitive genre with subtle differences here and there, so I try to discern and analyze all the small changes.
Don't have any issues hearing lyrics in electronic, as I'm use to it.
Other genres though, are a different question, as they are made differently.
Rock/country lyrics I can pick out every 2nd to 4th word, usually due to the vocalist having a far more unclear voice.
Pop music just sounds very congested to me as the vocals are overly-loud and the instruments crushed so they can barely be heard.
I also focus far too much on trying to hear the instruments.
Rap, don't even ask. Far too difficult.
Every 3rd word seems to be a common swear word, making it very distracting, they're far too fast, and I just find singing more easier to interpret than speaking.
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This happens to me a lot! I thought I was the only one. Often I can't make out exactly what a singer is saying, especially when I hear a song for the first time. I have to listen to it multiple times or just look up the lyrics. With TV I can usually understand, but the closed-captioning is always on just in case. I find it very helpful, and often I enjoy reading the lines even more than hearing them.
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Not lyric based, but sorta the same:
Was watching TV last night and noticed something odd. It had a few people in a crowd. There were certain vocal types that I just could not understand at all. I could understand certain qualities in the same scene and then a different person would talk and it sounded a bit like Morse code in that I could only hear punctuated sounds and not words. Most of them I had to piece the conversations together by context....really disrupts the flow of things, eh?
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