![]() Also it was fresh after having made pure noise earlier. “The idea of composing a sweet pop song that sugar-coated some lyrical horror and sending it hurtling up the charts appealed to our sense of humour. That was down to original vocalist David Conway – now a published science fiction novelist – Shields explained. Your conscious – mine, anyways – doesn’t know what’s going on.”Īn earlier, indie-pop incarnation of the band had been more focused on writing “perfect pop songs with sick lyrics”, as an NME journalist wrote in 1988. If you just write whatever’s in your head at the time, it’s your subconscious. If you try to be clever and wordy, unless you’re really clever, the chances are you’ll fall flat your face. “When you know you really have to do it, you just forget everything and you do it. They tended to emerge from his subconscious, Shields told Melody Maker in 1990. There’s nothing there that ordinary people don’t say to each other when they’re alone.” ![]() Our lyrics are quite explicit occasionally but it’s all real. People who experience the pleasure of any sexual thing will find something there, I think. “It’s not hard, industrial music or anything like that. In 1990, Shields teased NME with the fact that the lyrics were often “pretty sensual”. The group, led by Kevin Shields, have never clarified the largely inaudible lyrics to their songs, even within the liner notes of their own records, a mystery that has added to the group’s mythology. My Bloody Valentine were holdouts to the world of streaming, finally uploading their catalogue in March 2021 when they signed to Domino Records. The offending lyrics appear to have been removed from Spotify as of 21 January but they remain on Musixmatch, the site Spotify partnered with for lyrics integration. We’re not sure where they got them from, probably one of those bullshit lyrics sites on the internet.” “These lyrics are actually completely incorrect and insulting. “Just noticed that Spotify has put fake lyrics up for our songs without our knowledge,” the band tweeted.
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