[sards]

I agree with you, Dominic. To me, lyrics are secondary. If I want poetry, I'll read poetry. In fact, when I listen to music I rarely even pay attention to the lyrics. Sure, there are some songs in which the lyrics are prominent either for being terrible - I'm thinking of modern pop country music here - or for being good, but most of the time I consider the vocals just another instrument.

Also, I'm sort of a music snob in that I believe that I like music purely because it is objectively good; this means that I like certain stuff from virtually all music genres. I tend to look down a bit on some people because I think they listen to music for more superficial reasons: they listen to something because it's "cool," because it's associated with a particular subculture with which they identify, because it's perceived as culturally or socially relevant by critics and the cultural elite, etc. I realize that my snobbery isn't really justified, but that's the way I feel.