I'd expect a pun, myself.
Meme from all over:
If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach. -- Alfred Hitchcock, 1899 - 1980
If I wrote fic/drew art/vidded/folded origami/etc today, the readers/viewers would immediately be looking for... what?
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This is happening in a few weeks. I'm tempted to go--hey, free admission!--but these things always wind up disappointing me. I think I didn't get the "appreciation for live music" gene. I like to be doing something else while I listen to music, or else I just get bored. Plus, bugs and heat. Maybe I'll just stay home and listen to YouTube videos of these artists? The Quebecois band is very cool, as is the East African dude.
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More music recs! All of one artist, this time, because I have had a bit of a Natalie Merchant renaissance. (I was such a huge fan in middle school and high school. Tigerlily was one of my very first album purchases, and I wore that CD out.)
Apparently she gave up writing original lyrics sometime in the past ten years, because after an album of folk songs, last year she set a bunch of children's poetry to music. Thankfully, by "children's poetry," I mean "poetry about or aimed at children," not poetry by them.
Not quite half are things you might find on CDs that are actually for kids, but the rest of the music is meant for adults. The styles range from jazzy to folky to a sweepingly symphonic in a way that reminds me of a movie soundtrack. My favorite is Spring and Fall: To a Young Child, which is a setting of the most depressing poem ever, thank you so much for making me want to slit my wrists, Hopkins. The song's pretty, though. Sad, but pretty.
If, after that, you're longing for old school, 10,000 Maniacs-era Natalie Merchant, have Headstrong, which has recently become one of my favorites.
And finally: Heaven, a duet between Brett Dennen and Merchant. The lyrics are basically a riff on the less-interesting half of "Imagine," or possibly a song Band Aid contemplated doing before settling on "Do They Know It's Christmas?", but if, like me, you're good at ignoring treacly, hippy-dippy lyrics, the music is good. Merchant's low alto and Dennen's super-high tenor blend well together, and I really like the light dissonance they produce in the chorus.
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comments over there.
If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach. -- Alfred Hitchcock, 1899 - 1980
If I wrote fic/drew art/vidded/folded origami/etc today, the readers/viewers would immediately be looking for... what?
*
This is happening in a few weeks. I'm tempted to go--hey, free admission!--but these things always wind up disappointing me. I think I didn't get the "appreciation for live music" gene. I like to be doing something else while I listen to music, or else I just get bored. Plus, bugs and heat. Maybe I'll just stay home and listen to YouTube videos of these artists? The Quebecois band is very cool, as is the East African dude.
*
More music recs! All of one artist, this time, because I have had a bit of a Natalie Merchant renaissance. (I was such a huge fan in middle school and high school. Tigerlily was one of my very first album purchases, and I wore that CD out.)
Apparently she gave up writing original lyrics sometime in the past ten years, because after an album of folk songs, last year she set a bunch of children's poetry to music. Thankfully, by "children's poetry," I mean "poetry about or aimed at children," not poetry by them.
Not quite half are things you might find on CDs that are actually for kids, but the rest of the music is meant for adults. The styles range from jazzy to folky to a sweepingly symphonic in a way that reminds me of a movie soundtrack. My favorite is Spring and Fall: To a Young Child, which is a setting of the most depressing poem ever, thank you so much for making me want to slit my wrists, Hopkins. The song's pretty, though. Sad, but pretty.
If, after that, you're longing for old school, 10,000 Maniacs-era Natalie Merchant, have Headstrong, which has recently become one of my favorites.
And finally: Heaven, a duet between Brett Dennen and Merchant. The lyrics are basically a riff on the less-interesting half of "Imagine," or possibly a song Band Aid contemplated doing before settling on "Do They Know It's Christmas?", but if, like me, you're good at ignoring treacly, hippy-dippy lyrics, the music is good. Merchant's low alto and Dennen's super-high tenor blend well together, and I really like the light dissonance they produce in the chorus.
This entry was originally posted at http://icepixie.dreamwidth.org/800195.html. It has
comments over there.