Are you supposed to be able to understand song lyrics?

Actually you are not, the writers don't pay much attention into making sense in the lyrics they just care about them sounding good and with rhythm you can just enjoy without thinking too much, if you read the hit formula by Max Martin (very people know him but he has written songs for many mainstream singers from the Backstreet boys to Taylor Swift) he basically says you only need a song to sound appealing and sometimes he and other writers don't even care about grammar, just how it sounds and if you are able to understand what they are saying that is much like a plus, obviously this is a generalization since they are other songs who rely on the lyrics but the majority only care about the rhythm of the word arrangement even if it doesn't make sense.

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