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ficmylife4 · 1 year

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How Surface Pressure Works & Why It's Catchy

Luisa is my favorite character and this was my favorite song from Encanto, and understanding the work and technical skill in how the lyrics and music were chosen and paced to aid the feelings is impressive!

#youtube #prosody #lyrics #song-writing #lin manuel miranda #encanto #luisa #trochee #poetry

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notesonartistry · 2 years

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2. Taylor Swift & Bon Iver

Lyrical Themes and Moods

One of the most interesting contemporary collaborations is the unlikely union of pop superstar Taylor Swift and Justin Vernon, aka Bon Iver, a renowned figure from the alternative Americana/folk scene. Though on the surface the two could hardly be more different, their recurrent collaborations since 2020 — on a pair of songs they co-wrote for her albums, “Exile” and “Evermore,” and two Big Red Machine numbers that have them vocally hooking up, “Birch” and “Renegade” — clearly demonstrate their musical chemistry. These powerful tracks are equally marked by Swift’s solemn intensity and Vernon’s air of mystique.

Writing Style

Bon Iver songs are less repetitive than both Swift’s solo songs and their collaborative efforts, proving that in the lyrical sense, Swift influences Vernon as well. Their scores of slang usage, lyrical density and complexity are interestingly almost identical.

Working together, however, they use more sophisticated, less common words.

Swift and Bon Iver use a very similar percentage of perfect rhymes (overall) in both their solo and joint works. In terms of rhyme placement, solo Swift tends to employ more middle of line rhymes, while the Vernon-Swift duo uses more rhymes at the end of lines. Overall, as we saw with the Beatles, their co-writing creates richer textures.

Musical Composition

Harmonically speaking, In both their duets and respective solo works, Swift and Bon Iver are highly diatonic. Vernon scores higher in the versatility of melodic groups, meaning that his solo works are much less melodically repetitive. His hooks are also shorter.

#variety #song-writing #taylor swift #bon iver #happy to discuss this #if anyone has thoughts

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evidently-endless · 1 month

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i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.

#i love reading your examples! however next person to be like um actually this exists?? it’s on sight #i know it exists. i think it’s fun. that’s why i think more people should do it.#sometimes i think the confessional style loses impact because everything has to be excavated from the depths of the soul #and somehow. confessional writing seems to be going with the most disaffected bland sound possible. odd.#i love deeply personal songs! i love when songs sound like they mean something to the artist!#something something wider issue of mining trauma and being performatively vulnerable for quote unquote content #idk i don’t have the actual knowledge to write about this well there’s just something not landing for me recently #mine

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mournfulroses · 2 months

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Sara Teasdale, from The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale; "Song,"

#lit #sara teasdale #poetry #quote #words #writings #fragments #typography #song #quotes #p

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lucidloving · 2 months

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Girlpool—Before the World Was Big // memorial bench quoting Toni Morrison's Sula // @inanotherunivrse // Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You // Zadie Smith, Swing Time // Fall Out Boy—The Kids Aren't Alright // Audrey Emmett // Mikko Harvey, "For M" // Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi) // Langston Hughes, "Poem"

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whendidmythoughtsgocrazy · 2 months

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One day I will stop falling in love with you. Until I do, I'll be thinking of you.

k.b. // laufey, philharmonia orchestra - let you break my heart again

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firedragon1321 · 2 months

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#writing #writing memes #writing community #character death #i was just listening to a song for vibes #and then #PLOT TWIST PLOT TWIST PLOT TWIST #don't mourn for that character she had it coming from a book ago #tw gun #and ofc this is the fallout of a battle i didn't write yet yay

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astearisms · 9 months

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fionna and cake drawings before and after watching the episodes so far. it’s nostalgic and somehow cathartic and poignant and relatable and—it just started

#i’m part of the demographic where i was a kid when adventure time started and now watching fionna and cake as an adult makes me emotional #because did they keep us in mind when writing fionna and her attitude towards life #the dissatisfaction #the hoping for something more #something more magical than this dreary life filled with working to live and living to work #it’s so reflective of how life feels for me and perhaps many of us #and also Simon’s episode was so sad but so well thought out #exploring his feelings after the events of the adventure time finale is something I’m glad we get to see #there were already so many layers to his character in AT but now it feels like we get to dive deeper #I also felt emotional hearing Rebecca Sugar singing and writing a song that encapsulates his feelings so well #😭 it’s been awhile seeing her work exist alongside these characters #and all of these emotions get stronger because I remember AT being the one to inspire me to be a storyboard artist #when I was younger I used to follow many of the board artists here in tumblr and would get so inspired by them #to create simple but powerful boards that can capture the feelings of characters so well #Rebecca Sugar’s songs for the AT characters inspired me so much too #I’m sorry this is long I’m just feeling so many things experiencing all of this again as an adult #my art #fanart #adventure time #fionna and cake #fionna the human #cake the cat #simon petrikov

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p0nur4k · 2 months

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#spilled ink #quotes #poem #writers #cytat o ludziach #love #cytat z piosenki #life quotes #song lyrics #my writing #overthinker #overthinking #love quote tumblr #i miss him #i miss you #books

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lesbicosmos · 1 year

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when hozier said "if im a pagan of the good times, my lover's the sunlight" and when hozier said "no grave can hold my body down, i'll crawl home to her" and when hozier said "i slithered here from eden just to sit outside your door" and when hozier said "heaven is not fit to house a love like you and i" and when hozier said-

#this man just writes about women like women write about women yk #also yes ive used two of these lyrics as sapphic fic titles #hozier #take me to church #work song #from eden #francesca #unreal unearth #sapphic #lesbian #sarahs having a Lesbian Moment

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moonlightint · 2 years

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“no grave can hold my body down. i’ll crawl home to her” …. yea …. that. that or Nothing

#hozier please #give me a chance #imagine him writing a song about you!!????!!!#nonody could ever tell me shiT Again.#hozier

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hrokkall · 28 days

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Mama gave me music lessons,

now I play the saddest songs

#ULTRAKILL #Ultrakill spoilers #<- God I hope everyone who hasn't played the update has that blocked by now #Gutterman #Gutterman ultrakill #Mother mother mother of me. Save me mother mother mother of me. Save me. Mother mother mother of me save me #Also shoutout to ME for writing a snippet that predicted this in DECEMBER of last year. That I completely forgot about.#It was not NEARLY as emotionally devastating as what was in the game though. Holy Shit. So I HAD to draw something for the real 7-2 poem #Also if you scrolled through the tags this far; caption is from an unreleased Mother Mother song that I've loved dearly for many years.#Hrokkall art #1k

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notesonartistry · 2 years

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I feel after Midnights, folklore and evermore is more easily digestible. So that's why these new stans are jarred and confused

I think that many people made value judgements based on production - e.g. they assume upbeat (glitter pen) songs are frivolous and lacking depth. For someone who became a fan during folklore or evermore that didn't explore the rest of her catalogue, Midnights will definitely be a different proposition and maybe require more time to get used to.

However, they still have those albums they liked - they can continue to listen to them anytime if they prefer not to persist with Midnights. Just because you like one thing an artist produces, you're not obliged to like everything. What I would say is that the lyricism is still there - Taylor didn't become a bad writer because she decided to use different production elements and maybe over time the new songs will be less jarring. Think about Closure, which is sooooo jarring in it's production - I was really surprised on my first listen, but I love it now.

#song-writing #folklore #evermore #Midnights

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kingofmyborrowedheart · 1 month

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Begging swifties to understand that Taylor didn’t write reputation and Lover with the knowledge of how the relationship was going to end and that trying to “excavate” those albums for evidence to prove a specific theory as to why it ended is not how they should be viewed. Taylor wrote those songs feeling a very specific way because that’s what she was experiencing and she is now reflecting on them with hindsight and relates to them differently than when she first created them. These conflicting emotions can exist; how she views it now doesn’t diminish how she felt about it when she first released it.

#taylor swift #don’t know if I’m expressing myself as properly and as articulate as I’d like #but both of the emotions she’s feeling about the songs can coexist #like little lover can still be a love song that’s what it was for her for a while #but she can also look back and say ‘oh maybe this wasn’t the best’ but it doesn’t void what it was originally #like I keep seeing things like oh she wrote this lyric in lover about him not showing up and it’s like no that’s not right #like yes you can see her underlying anxieties and fears in those songs because she was open about them #it doesn’t mean she predicted how it would end #there was a point in time where she thought this man was the one and would write about feeling that way

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biboomerangboi · 9 months

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Irish-uwufication is so fucking weird anyway but like people act like Hozier - who writes primarily blues songs about politics, books and music he finds interesting, and having sex with hot women he picks up in bars - is just a nature man is so weird. Like you have Americans saying he is a bog man, he only writes acoustic songs about chaste love and nature. He lives in the woods and doesn’t interact with society at all. He is made of trees and fairies because that’s what Ireland is.

#saw a tiktok and got passionate #so many Irish poets get this treatment too it’s weird #hozier #andrew hozier byrne #Hozier writes about politics all the time #he has an entire song based on albums he likes #not to mention he talks all the time about how influenced he is by black blues singers and rhythm guitarists not white acoustic guys #zee rambles

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lucidloving · 2 months

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D. Alan Holmes, Enlightenment // Signet Amenti // @cryptonature // Alan Wilsom Watts // Evan M. Cohen, "Oceans" // Nikita Gill // @pauladoodles // Julian Gough, "Minecraft End Poem" // Sleeping At Last—Saturn

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