Round and Round

The fact that this song has harmony in it doesn't necessarily affect my opinion of the song - harmony in songs can be really cool and interesting if done well, emphasis on the 'done well'. In Round and Round, the harmony doesn't seem to be very... well, harmonic, with the voices being layered on top of each other in such a way as to make the song incomprehensible. This incomprehensibility is what negatively affects my opinion of the song, since most of the time, I really want to be able to clearly hear lyrics in whatever music I'm listening to, and this song does not deliver in that department. The fact that it has a prominent bassline could sway my opinion closer to the positive spectrum of things, since it certainly makes the song catchy and fun to listen to, but the garbled lyrics sort of overpower any positive aspect the bassline could have donated to my opinion of the song overall. The correlation between the facts I picked out and my opinion in this situation is that the harmony causes me to dislike the song and the prominent bassline somewhat increases my liking of the song, but not by much. I do have biases in music, one of which being the aforementioned desire to hear the lyrics clearly, which certainly aided in forming my opinion of the song. However, songs with this sort of 'sound' to them, full of synthesizers and the like, are not unfamiliar to me, so, overall, any sort of instrumentation bias didn't come into play. All in all, my opinion of the song was pretty much single-handedly made negative by the indiscernible lyrics caused by a shoddily executed attempt at harmony.