"Just a little bit louder, because this song is intended for humans, okay? Way Back Into Love, take two."
Alex Fletcher
Music and Lyrics
2007
When you combine talent with praise, and intuition with creativity, you get the character chemistry of Alex (Hugh Grant) and Sophie (Drew Barrymore) as two creative minds with musical intuition. Music and Lyrics is one of those films that places chance and talent alongside relationships and belief in ones words.
What makes one strong is often at times understanding when one is weak. What makes one weak is understanding why the strength in one has failed.
Music provides outlets for people. Lyrics are the stories embedded in the beat of a drum, the chords on a guitar, or even the melody in someones voice. When words are tough to come by, a musician is forced to create a lyric with meaning, gist and interpretation so it makes sense to the world in which one is listening.
We can look at life in competition as music and lyrics. Without the music in ones head, the lyrics are far fetched and unobtainable if not fully exhausted with a complimenting sound.
Lyrics define the ultimate meaning of a person's soul. The music guides the notion of storytelling beyond the sound, the tune or the beat. Music allows one to place themselves in a correlation between life and its challenges. This film allowed ones humble nature to relatively find inspiration in anothers creative mind. This film demonstrates that music is about the lyric and the lyric is about ones soul.
When we think about our favorite songs are we actually listening to the words, or are we enjoying the tempos? When we think about our favorites songs are we reliving in those circumstances through the idea that we are one of the characters?
I love when songs are catchy, they seem so appropriate for pop culture, yet you look back on them some ten years later and realize that they made no sense at all. But remember, they made sense to the artist crafting them. Think about a song that you can say compliments both the music and the lyric. Think about that song with a different sound, or a different chorus. Would it be as catchy? Would it be as profound?
I find music as an outlet. I find lyrics as an explanation. When you combine the music with the lyric, you are ultimately combining the acceptance into someones story. Now if we could only dance to the beat of our own drum we might be getting something more profound. We may perhaps get an answer.
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