My Weekend in Pics

[alycewilson]

I would have posted something yesterday, but I spent the day finishing up my iPod playlist for the hospital. This might not have taken so long except that: 1) I have a HUGE amount of music on iTunes, including new songs I downloaded at the recommendation of friends and family; 2) After putting together both "upbeat" and "relaxing" playlists, I

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[creature_girl08]

The big perades are nice but the idea of this small one is wonderful. Relaxing weekends are a good thing.

Since you had not posted I started to wonder if you had gone into labor. Glad it was just a nice weekend.

[alycewilson]

I thought that people might think that. Nope, not yet!

[just_the_ash]

There's a whole page on TVTropes -- Lyrical Dissonance, I think? -- devoted to either happy-sounding songs about horrible things ("Maxwell's Silver Hammer," anyone?), or more rarely, slow dirges that have what are supposed to be uplifting lyrics, e.g. Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World."

[alycewilson]

The funny thing is that "It's a Wonderful World" was one of the songs my sister gave me, but I can't listen to it any more without seeing the ending of Good Morning, Vietnam or Dr. Strangelove. Yes, and you can thank Stanley Kubrick for ruining "Singing in the Rain" for me, too.

I wasn't terribly surprised that a lot of happy-sounding mellow folk songs were about sailors lost at sea or people contemplating suicide, but I was a bit surprised that some songs with really positive refrains had otherwise tragic lyrics.

It was interesting, too, to discover that some musicians (such as the Moody Blues and Willie Nelson) are almost unfailingly positive.

[just_the_ash]

I read somewhere, maybe on that very page, that "Singin' in the Rain" got used because it was the only song McDowell knew off the top of his head. (He also gets an entry on the "Hey, It's That Voice!" page for supporting Mark Hamill on the voice cast of Metalocalypse. Viddy well, O my brothers: the Force is strong with this one.)

To me, Willie Nelson's Teatro album is almost entirely an example of Lyrical Dissonance: "Darkness on the Face of the Earth" is a cheery, uptempo rhumba... musically, but lyrically it's a breakup song!

[alycewilson]

Well, the only Willie Nelson album I own is "One for the Road" with Leon Russell, so that might be an outlier. :)