My 15-year old son told me about this site, SongMeanings. Love the idea. People commenting on lyrics and making connections that way. Just take a look at the discussions around A Day in The Life.
As with anything else 2.0, these things improve with time and increased “liquidity”, as people learn about the subtlety of the mashup. I can see so many ways to vary what I see at SongMeanings, having people come together with comments and views and ratings around a catalogue of “things”. And I am sure that most of them are being done already.
Wow, what a great idea – thanks for the heads up on this.
This is exactly what social media’s all about for me. People accuse the whole UGC thing of lacking in depth – but how much more deep can you get than hundreds of people’s combined thoughts on something so personal as the interpretation of their favourite song?
And as expected, an extraordinarily large number of comments on ‘American Pie’! :-)
Great find – more should be done with opening up lyrical content using audience commentry. Open sourcing an artists processes would make RadioHead be seen as cunning marketeers.