OK, though I've been in the music business for far too many years, much of that in Nashville where songwriters are king, I've never stopped to read the dictionary definition of "song" before today. And yes, you are 100% correct with the idea that a song contains lyrics, or is "suggestive of a song" if not (whatever that means). And in the future it may be best to only use "Song" to mean lyrics/vocals. ButโฆEdwardKiy wrote: โ30 Mar 2021I beg of you, give me a link to a dictionary which has this broadest sense of the word song which means any piece of music, because I think I might be going crazy here. To me that sounds like "boxing was meant in the broadest sense - you know, where you can use guns, rocks and roundhouse kicks".
โฆthe "problem" IMO is that just about EVERYONE uses the word "song" in their competition name or description. In a quick search over the last year I found three "song competitions" here at ReasonTalk, most of which had instrumental tracks submitted/winning (didn't do a full scientific study on this, there may be more "song" competitions, and there may be more vocal entries, aka "songs", than I found).
Even the Reason 1.0 competition announcement on Twitter says: "๐ช๐จ๐ต ๐๐ถ๐ผ ๐ด๐จ๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐จ ๐บ๐ถ๐ต๐ฎ ๐ผ๐บ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ ๐ถ๐ต๐ณ๐ ๐น๐ฌ๐จ๐บ๐ถ๐ต 1 ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ฝ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฌ๐บ?"
So, much like calling tracks "stems", calling the act of setting basic levels in a DAW "gain staging", or even calling Live "Ableton", seems everyone is using "Song" to mean "composition". And just like "sick", "bad", "cool", now have totally different meanings, expect more words to follow, and choose your battles (semantics matter totally to me with technical descriptive terms, in music terms not so much).