11-12-2003, 10:45 PM
Is singing not music? Can't someone just be a good singer? Is it wrong to simply appreciate the ability to sing well?
In terms of not writing his own music or lyrics, actors are the same way. They rarely write their own movies that they are starring in, and they rarely direct the movies they star in? And, those movies are not automatically good just because they have done so. But there are actors who do not write and who do not direct, but they are artists because they can act well. They can see the meaning behind the words, and they can act their scene and communicate the emotions, desires, and feelings that the director wishes to show.
A singer can do the same. They can take the words of the song, the music of the song, and communicate the feelings and ideas that the producer and songwriter wish to show. And there's a beauty in that, in a singer communicating a feeling in a series of words that someone else wrote, of the ability to say what someone's else is trying to say.
In terms of not writing his own music or lyrics, actors are the same way. They rarely write their own movies that they are starring in, and they rarely direct the movies they star in? And, those movies are not automatically good just because they have done so. But there are actors who do not write and who do not direct, but they are artists because they can act well. They can see the meaning behind the words, and they can act their scene and communicate the emotions, desires, and feelings that the director wishes to show.
A singer can do the same. They can take the words of the song, the music of the song, and communicate the feelings and ideas that the producer and songwriter wish to show. And there's a beauty in that, in a singer communicating a feeling in a series of words that someone else wrote, of the ability to say what someone's else is trying to say.