Musical Myths?

One of the amazing things about music is that no two songs are the same.  Each one has its own sound, feeling, and texture.  No two stories tell the same story.  Two rappers may rap about how they both came out of the same hood, worked for the same drug dealer, and dated the same women in high school, but their songs tell different stories.  Non-lyrical works-like classical, instrumental, and electronic music-tell an even more abstract and unique story.  So it would make sense that every time you listen to a new song, you are hearing a new story.  However, according to myth theory, all stories are the same, so while you may think that you are hearing a new story, you are really listening to the same story over and over again.

Myth theory is the idea that every story follows the same pattern.  To summarize it (and I'm skipping some of the steps) There is a hero-the main character-who lives in a troubled world.  The character receives a call to fix a problem in sed world.  At first he resists, but then he accepts the challenge.  The hero then meets his allies and enemies.  He faces challenges and then overcomes them, often with the help of a special power or weapon.  The hero then dies, but is reborn and the story ends.  Now it is fairly easy to apply this to written stories, both fictional and non-fictional, but does it apply to music and the story(-ies?) it tells?

Lets look at two pieces of music, one with lyrics one without.  In the song "Shots" by Lil' John and LMFAO, the artists talk about drinking extreme amounts of alcohol.   They never declare a hero and at the end of the song, the listeners are supposed to so drunk that they cannot actually say words.  If we are to assume that the subject(s) of the song are the hero, and they answer the call to drink, then they die at the end, but are not reborn.  Because of this, I believe that some-not all, but some- lyrical music does not follow myth theory.  Non-lyrical songs are much less likely to follow myth theory.  In the Classical piece "the four seasons" the composer has four pieces, each one representing one season.  The pieces don't tell a collective story, about a central character, rather just how things change and flow from one season to the next in a continuous circle.  Nothing broken, nothing needs fixing, and no hero is even present.  This also proves that non-lyrical music is very unlikely to follow myth theory.  With no words, non-lyrical music tends to be about feeling, which never follows a set pattern.