/lit/ - Literature

I have a phd in song lyric analysis and I can tell you the real objective answers. I love Morrissey and Scott Walker but their lyrics are absolute shit. Scott Walker's later ones are good but more poems than song lyrics and always seemed to me a struggle between imagism and Pasolini. There's a lot of good songwriters in the romantic tradition, like Leonard Cohen, but the truly great songwriters of the 21st century like Stephen Merritt employ the language of popular culture and toy with cliche. The only truly literate post-modern songwriter is Nick Currie; the fact that no posts ITT mention him as "the greatest or most significant" songwriter of the contemporary age only tells you how far /lit/ is from a place for serious literary discourse.

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