anyone just sink into the sounds of music so much that you forget how english/your language sounds like, and you just hear some alien language in the song?

I was about to comment how relatable this is having ADHD, and then I saw what community this is in. So yeah its very relatable lol.

This might be adjacent to, or part of, auditory processing disorder. I'm ADHD/apd it's a killer combo.

Sometimes there's songs with next to no singing and I get this feeling of belonging and sadness, but I love those songs.

While I can’t relate to not enjoying lyrics in songs, I have an adjacent perspective. I love listening to each instrument on its own, like focusing on each one, but at the same time. Sounds odd, but it’s like if I close my eyes and let the music wash over me, every piece of the song plays as if individually, yet I can hear them all at once, and it is beautiful. Additionally, I like to think of vocals as their own instrument. Less of a separate thing from the instruments and instead just a different one.

This last one probably stems from my love of metal music, since often screaming and/or yelling is put in there, which means several words in a row that don’t have variations in pitch. It’s almost like “vocal percussion” in that sense.

I am partially deaf so it's hard for me to hear lyrics, specifically the consanants of words. So I always sink into the song as a whole and vocals are just an instrument to me. When I read what the lyrics actually say I cringe a bit.

Holy crap yes—I just started making music with AI and it's an absolute black hole. I can finally start to create a certain mood or feeling I've wanted to capture in music and I get completely lost on repeat. I have always loved the deep levels of escape that some music nails really well, but now I can almost craft that for myself and it's wild. I guess sometimes getting lost in the music like that can feel like a bad thing, but other times that huge blurry mess of sound is kind of a nice escape.

Yeah, a bit. I prefer instrumental music partly because of this, partly because lyrics distract me if I'm already doing something that involves words or writing.

Only when I'm super, super baked. I've always been more of the opposite; able to discern the actual lyrics even though the singer is mumbling through or the balance is off so the lyrics are being drowned out by the instruments. Kind of a disappointment considering my local grunge and alternative station when I was a teen had contests to guess the correct lyrics on Nirvana songs and shit, but the prize was always for something at a bar so I could never actually win the prize despite knowing the answer. :(

Often that is the case, especially if the lyrics are not clear enough to make out. Even when they are, auditory processing disorder is a lil shit sometimes.

Sometimes, though, something in the lyrics will jump out at me...a particular turn of phrase, poetic devices, alliteration, some deep metaphor...and that pulls me out of the music and into hearing the lyrics. The music is now in the background of the audio painting and the words come to the foreground.

Bloodywood

Ahhh yeah. You need better headphones my dude. This was my issue for a long time until a buddy shipped me an HD598 and changed everything for me. 🤣