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It's important to me that Lestat is completely fucking deadass about the music. When Daniel is making fun of his lyrics and he defends them with those rattled off pretentious monologues about the deeper meaning behind his art it's like. Whatever opinion you have about the quality of the songs he is not trolling. He loves it and he takes it seriously. In the book a love for music is literally the reason he drags himself out of his grave. Lestat's foundational years are premised on a miserable existential dread and sense of meaninglessness and disbelief in God (and all the trappings of goodness/evil/redemption that come with that) and the only thing that pulls him out of his depression spiral is the idea that he can do real good in the world by performing and playing music. Like unironically "making art is the meaning of life" is a central throughline of TVL. At the end of episode three he's like "I should've stopped but I couldn't because I loved the music too much" HE'S DEADASS

This isn't even me saying his lyrics aren't stupid like long face comes to mind as like. Diagetically that's his nothing song about Having Fun and Having Sex. BUT I will say he is also completely serious about stupid/fun/shallow songs being important and meaningful because they make people feel good. It's commedia all over again it's the same argument he had with nicki. Like he believes in this.