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aquaenumen

The Thought Police Are After Me

Sep 15, 2009 17:03

Listening to The Resistance [music store link], I was kind of idly thinking about my 1984 fanmix and how it'd be very appropriate... then Muse started singing about thought police and I thought "Hm, that's a bit on the nose there, isn't it?"

Of course one of the reasons I love Muse is that pretty much all of their songs can be related back to 1984 ( Read more... )

it's all fodder for the fanmixes, let's talk about fanmixes baby

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ovrthinxit September 15 2009, 22:21:22 UTC

To speak to the tackiness or whatever of reusing songs that you've already chosen for another fanmix - my first instinct was to say, "no, of course not, the songs just work." And then I realized that's about the most insultingly un-analytic thing to try to use to validate the intense amounts of thought and worry that go into your fanmixes.

Ultimately, what I look at when I'm asking myself what I think of your fanmixes is the character/s and arcs that you're illuminating, and the success I think the mix itself has in addressing them. If the mix functions in parallel with the plot of the original text, how closely does it follow and how true does it stay to the perspective you've chosen for it? How much could I hear a character saying/thinking the lyrics? Could I hear the tone of the music and feel it suits him/her/them ( ... )

aquaenumen September 16 2009, 05:30:24 UTC

I'm still of the opinion that the first physical response to art is an emotional, rather than analytical one - you look at a painting and say "I like it / I don't like it" before you deconstruct it. After deconstruction you may revise your opinion, but the first reaction you have is going to be "it just works for me / it doesn't work for me".

But yeah, I do tend to think a lot about what I'm writing/fanmixing/drawing, and while I don't necessarily require that kind of analysis in others while they are making their things, everyone I make requisitely does. So yeah, maybe I do overthink them, but I also... I guess, overemotionalize them? Not in terms of dramalama bang bang is this song making me cry or not, but whether the emotional resonance of the songs in sequence is emotionally "tuned" to the note I want to hit.

Sometimes I hit that, sometimes not. That's what she said.Yeah, that's exactly what I want people to be considering: the mix in relevance to the characters in question. So that makes me feel loads better ( ... )