It's been a long time since I've posted on this site. It's hard to motivate yourself when you have no readers, you know:P
Well, I have a pet peeve, if you will. Something that has driven me over the edge so much, that I just have to talk about it someplace. I realize that most people don't care (such is the nature of pet peeves), and that's why I've chosen to rant at the internet about this.
My peeve? songmeanings.com
Whenever I want to find a discussion on a piece of music, I go to google and search for the meaning of X song. To give you an example, I wanted to find some opinions on the meaning of the Dream Theater song, "Ministry of Lost Souls", a very poetic ballad about love and sacrifice, but very thick. I was hoping to see if someone had decoded it. Always at the top of every list is SongMeanings.com. I see the page title, "Ministry of Lost Souls song meaning" and I click on it, excited to read a thoughtful piece on the story of the song.
And what do I get?
The lyrics.
That's it. Just they lyrics. I want to shoot the person who registered that domain name. The website contains only the content of the song, which is the opposite of what I was looking for. There is a huge HUGE difference between content and meaning, and one that anyone with half an understanding of the English language should understand. This irritates me to no end.
I thought, certainly, there must be some outrage on the internet over the name of this website. I looked on their forums, and found nothing, which didn't surprise me, since someone who regularly uses such a site must not notice this blatant misnomer.
But I couldn't find any. I searched for things like "song meanings misnamed website" "song meanings bad name" "song meanings stupid website" with various Boolean syntax combinations and turned up nothing. and I frankly can't believe that there isn't anyone who has noticed this before.
By the way, if you're actually reading this, leave a comment so that I know there are readers out there and I'll keep writing.
