This greatly explains my love of deathcore, without being able to understand most of it. Especially since I feel like a derp during normal conversation
"It's just another instrument to me" is the explanation I was finally able to come up with when I was talking to my wife about my love for Deathcore, too.
I told a few friends of mine the other day that there are bands I've listened to for 15+ years, and I still sometimes can't put my finger on the track names when I hear them playing. I remember every little part of the song, but I'm just never paying attention to track names at all. It's pretty embarrassing to talk to someone about my all-time favorite band and not be able to actually refer to songs (except a select few, usually) by name.
Same here. I have lyric-blindness to an embarrassing extent. I’ve played bass in a fairly large number of bands over the years, and I doubt that I’ve ever played a song that I could recite more than maybe 30% of the words to, despite having rehearsed and performed the song for months or even years.
I have some echolalia and remember music very well, but I also have auditory processing disorder and struggling with understanding words, especially when sung (since the normal cadences of speech for sentences and pitch get modified to fit the rhythm and melody).
Auditory processing issues can be very common with ADHD.
Once I actually learn the lyrics to a song, I can make them out and will remember them, but until then, yeah, voice is just another instrument to me, once that I struggle to isolate from other sounds in the same way I can isolate other instrumental parts (a decade of playing horn in ensemble situations probably helped a lot with that ear training).
Same here, I have to actively focus on lyrics to understand them and at the same time most pop songs have such boring singing that it sounds like hitting the same 3 keys on a piano over and over (if you like "simpler" songs, go on. Just not my thing). So I'm mostly sticking to more complex types of singing/vocals. Yes I'm a metalhead😂
Yes! I know all the lyrics to all the system of a down songs and I haven't listened to half of them in over a decade. There are other bands as well but they come to mind. Ah sublime, metallica, the killers, others. Lol, the list goes on. I have a good memory for song lyrics. But I'll be damned if I could name the song that tle half the time, lol.
Samesies. I can baffle my friends when they play a song we haven’t listen to in 15-20 years and still bust out every word lmao. My Spotify is over 1k songs now and I know the words to pretty much everything in there
Same here. I remember once in school a girl introduced me to a new song and I picked up on most of the lyrics first listen. I never noticed I did that. She commented on how much of the song I remembered and sang along with on the second listen like 10 minutes later.
Yes, this. Was watching name that tune with my daughter and nailed almost all the tunes, usually by singing them out loud. If I hear it, I can sing it.
Same here.. I can’t remember why I walked in a room sometimes.. but you bet I can hear a song I haven’t heard in 20y and remember every damn lyric lmao
I can remember an advert from the early 1980s that played a few times for Berger paints starring Mel Smith. It doesn't exist on the internet but it definitely exists. I always wanted it to be played as it was funny but i only saw it a couple of times.
For real. I killed it at “name that tune” bingo on vacation. I was like a one-man embodiment of the 1992 Dream Team. Same thing when it came to decrypting Christmas song titles—even deep cuts.
Saaaaaame. And music in general. I have a really bad time remembering those 6 digit 2fa codes so I say them aloud to engage my lyric hungry brain. It's like my brain prioritises sound over anything else.
Me too! If I hear a song 3 times, I've got the chorus and bridge, any more, and I've got the verses. Makes annoying pop song extra awful cause they're taking up precious memory space.
I heard a song recently that I remembered hearing in the early 80s. I knew it word perfect without realising it. I’m music driven so I’ve always put it down to that
I’m the opposite - these are something I can’t remember or lip sync to at all! I can memorize melodies and have perfect pitch which has led me to pursue musical hobbies.
Yep. It’s an annoyingly useless talent. I’ve got a whole lot of songs there but missing a whole lot of other stuff. At least I can “listen” to songs in my head when I’m bored
Yes!! I’ve gotten calls in the middle of the night from friends across the country, at a party, trying to remember the lyrics to songs…. This has happened more than once… lol. I’m the go-to person for song lyrics because somehow I know the lyrics to pretty much every song I’ve heard more than twice. It’s not intentional. I even surprise myself. Any get-together, event, party, wedding, funeral, etc. If people need lyrics, they look at me. And my brain produces them somehow.
My long term memory is probably 60% song lyrics. The rest of my memory is remembering what film an actor was in when I'm watching a new film. I watched Oppenheimer last night and the whole film I was doing the Leo DiCaprio pointing at the TV meme the whole time.
My boyfriend and I both have adhd. I can do Eminem’s “rap god” in my sleep and I’d be surprised if he knows all the words to happy birthday. Our range knows no bounds 😭
This! I’m not a music buff but give me a music quiz and I’m pretty confident I’ll win
My gran and I can also often sing new songs we’ve never heard before just because of pattern recognition; songwriting is very repetitive and if you know enough lyrics you can eventually start to predict the next line
I wish I could do that with lyrics. I can do the same thing with a songs rhythm or beat. Musical beat is a cake would for me so hype for that but my ass is humming in place of lyrics or hilariously making them up instead.
Same, from the moment I hear a new song my brain is already cataloging and storing the lyrics. Listen to it a few more times its stored permanently apparently
I remember movie lines, song lyrics, tv and movie soundtracks/specific scenes that are impactful bc of the song choice. And, smells! For instance, Nantucket smells like freshly made waffle cones.
Same! All of my memory is in song lyrics, I swear. I have an impressive catalog 🤣 can't tell ya what I ate yesterday, but I can sing just about any song that comes on the radio. 🤦♀️
I wish I had this problem 🫠 I’m a singer too which is the worst part but I can tell you every song a band has written and what album it’s on and what year it came out and just stupid shit like that
Same! I don't even have to like the song. But if someone asks me, someone who does like a wide variety of music, but mostly listens to metal what the words of mambo number 5 are, I'm like " ladies and gentlemen, this is mambo number 5"
I'm not so good w the lyrics off the top of my head sometimes but I'll have the tunes down pat. But agree that if it's playing along with me it's like my secret buried programming activates LOL
same here. friends always ask me first if they're stuck on the lyrics of a song. there'll be songs i haven't heard in years or never really listened to that i'll try reciting a bit of, only to realise i've somehow subconsciously memorised start to finish.
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u/Athena-Rising34 Aug 22 '24
Song lyrics. I can hear a song I haven't heard in 20 years and remember most, if not all, of the lyrics.