And Lady Mondegreen
Nov. 24th, 2004 09:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynI realize all the Yanks on the list are probably all toddling off for various Thanksgiving activities, but for my F&F friends, advance notice (or warning as the case may be, since it could suck!) that I'll try to get part 3 of Ciudad de Estrellas up on Sunday. I wrote like a mad fiend to get this finished so I could do my usual post-a-story-on-my-birthday tradition; not that anyone will appreciate this, but there you are. I'll give you a link once it's live.
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lierdumoa has posted her new Fast and the Furious vid, by the way, so head over to her journal and DL it. I haven't had the chance yet (DSL Friday! Yay!)to see the new complete version but I'm sure it rocks mightily. So, so excited.
Even though I wanted to put some space between hers, and my, vids for the movie (since movies, with their limited material, tend to start seeming way too repetitive when a lot of vids come out; it can have a wierd effect of turning people away from the movies, too, if you're not careful: witness Hard Core Logo), it's made me want to do the other song I had in mind for the boys. So the other day I went looking for lyrics to it, because I know that most fans can't seem to hear lyrics (like, well, most people can't either) and this is a techno, beat-heavy song that I'm sure will result in most of my friends whining, "I can't understand a thing he's saying." Most of the time you can find lyrics that seem to have come from either sheet music or the album itself.
But this song, Loaded Gun by Hednoize, seems to have generated one set of lyrics that are passed around from place to place, and they're just... absurd. I'm almost tempted to buy the original album even though I have no money just to see if they have a lyrics sheet, because the soundtracks that most people are familiar with the song from (La Femme Nikita and 3,000 Miles to Graceland) don't have lyrics included, and it seems pretty obvious that someone transcribed what they were hearing without trying to make sense of them, and those are now the only lyrics available. It bothers me in the sense that if I actually do the vid at some point, people might go looking for lyrics, and they'll get something that might not make sense with the visuals.
To whit: The song starts out very cool for Brian's POV -- "I'm living two lives/ I'm high and I'm low/ Two minds/ I push and I pull/ Jekyll or Hyde/ You'll never be sure" and then the person who provided the lyrics writes: "Sometimes I'm light as a bird." Oookaaayyyy. Now, it's pretty clear, even when I don't have the music cranked to wall-shaking levels and the treble/mid-range increased (and here is my public service announcement for people who have trouble with lyrics: if you would turn down the freaking bass a little and increase your mid-range and treble a tad, you will probably find it easier to catch vocals. Not always, but this helps, and most people have the bass at too high of a frequency so that the reverb drowns out the vocals. That's what equalizers are for), I can tell that he is singing "Sometimes, the line is a blur." Because, you know, this makes actual sense: the guy is talking about living two lives, the line of which life he's living is a blur, and what on earth would being light as a bird have to do with being two-faced? I ask you.
Then the chorus comes and even though I'm not sure I agree with the rather unimaginitive transcriber about some of those, the next verse I can almost, almost go with the first line "I'm filling your eyes." Because, okay, it could fall either way -- feeling all right or filling your eyes or hey, maybe even feeling your eyes. Whatever. But then this chick's got "And now that you know/you're inside, locked in the door." Okay, maybe the subject is an extremely thin person who could really be locked in a door, but I'm betting that it's "lockin' the door" which makes a lot more sense with the next line "You know you can't hide/ 'cause I have the key". You see my dilemma.
Now, I love a good mondegreen, I do. (If you're not familiar with the term, a mondegreen is a misheard lyric, for instance " 'scuse me while I kiss this guy" instead of "kiss the sky". Find out about them here and at many other places.) In fact, I used to troll for mondegreens, I love them so. But it annoys me when people who clearly can't hear lyrics fill in the blanks and then those lyrics they post get passed around. I could be wrong about Loaded Gun, maybe they really are light as a bird and locked in a door and feeling eyeballs, but somehow, considering that all the other lines make a kind of story sense together, I'm not convinced. And yet, that's what gets posted and that's what people will find if they search. A long time ago I checked for a song that was also on the LFN disc that has never been published, so it was impossible to get any actual confirmation of the lyrics. Since the person transcribing them had never clearly heard of the word dissonance, they had come up with something like "does with us" or whatever. Seriously, if you're vocabulary impaired or you like your bass a little too much, skip the lyric transcribing. It may not be the job for you.
Needless to say I will not be linking to those lyrics if I do the vid. It's so funny, though, to see how many lyrics places there are now. I still remember just a few years ago when ASCAP/BMI shut down the international lyrics server (all you young whippersnapper vidders who think the music folks aren't scary and not worth bothering keeping your vids on the down-low about? Go back and read the history on that), but in the intervening time there has been an explosion of lyrics pages. Obviously, though, quantity does not equal quality. ;-)
And now, I wish everyone in the States who practices such rituals a happy t-day.
lierdumoa has posted her new Fast and the Furious vid, by the way, so head over to her journal and DL it. I haven't had the chance yet (DSL Friday! Yay!)to see the new complete version but I'm sure it rocks mightily. So, so excited.Even though I wanted to put some space between hers, and my, vids for the movie (since movies, with their limited material, tend to start seeming way too repetitive when a lot of vids come out; it can have a wierd effect of turning people away from the movies, too, if you're not careful: witness Hard Core Logo), it's made me want to do the other song I had in mind for the boys. So the other day I went looking for lyrics to it, because I know that most fans can't seem to hear lyrics (like, well, most people can't either) and this is a techno, beat-heavy song that I'm sure will result in most of my friends whining, "I can't understand a thing he's saying." Most of the time you can find lyrics that seem to have come from either sheet music or the album itself.
But this song, Loaded Gun by Hednoize, seems to have generated one set of lyrics that are passed around from place to place, and they're just... absurd. I'm almost tempted to buy the original album even though I have no money just to see if they have a lyrics sheet, because the soundtracks that most people are familiar with the song from (La Femme Nikita and 3,000 Miles to Graceland) don't have lyrics included, and it seems pretty obvious that someone transcribed what they were hearing without trying to make sense of them, and those are now the only lyrics available. It bothers me in the sense that if I actually do the vid at some point, people might go looking for lyrics, and they'll get something that might not make sense with the visuals.
To whit: The song starts out very cool for Brian's POV -- "I'm living two lives/ I'm high and I'm low/ Two minds/ I push and I pull/ Jekyll or Hyde/ You'll never be sure" and then the person who provided the lyrics writes: "Sometimes I'm light as a bird." Oookaaayyyy. Now, it's pretty clear, even when I don't have the music cranked to wall-shaking levels and the treble/mid-range increased (and here is my public service announcement for people who have trouble with lyrics: if you would turn down the freaking bass a little and increase your mid-range and treble a tad, you will probably find it easier to catch vocals. Not always, but this helps, and most people have the bass at too high of a frequency so that the reverb drowns out the vocals. That's what equalizers are for), I can tell that he is singing "Sometimes, the line is a blur." Because, you know, this makes actual sense: the guy is talking about living two lives, the line of which life he's living is a blur, and what on earth would being light as a bird have to do with being two-faced? I ask you.
Then the chorus comes and even though I'm not sure I agree with the rather unimaginitive transcriber about some of those, the next verse I can almost, almost go with the first line "I'm filling your eyes." Because, okay, it could fall either way -- feeling all right or filling your eyes or hey, maybe even feeling your eyes. Whatever. But then this chick's got "And now that you know/you're inside, locked in the door." Okay, maybe the subject is an extremely thin person who could really be locked in a door, but I'm betting that it's "lockin' the door" which makes a lot more sense with the next line "You know you can't hide/ 'cause I have the key". You see my dilemma.
Now, I love a good mondegreen, I do. (If you're not familiar with the term, a mondegreen is a misheard lyric, for instance " 'scuse me while I kiss this guy" instead of "kiss the sky". Find out about them here and at many other places.) In fact, I used to troll for mondegreens, I love them so. But it annoys me when people who clearly can't hear lyrics fill in the blanks and then those lyrics they post get passed around. I could be wrong about Loaded Gun, maybe they really are light as a bird and locked in a door and feeling eyeballs, but somehow, considering that all the other lines make a kind of story sense together, I'm not convinced. And yet, that's what gets posted and that's what people will find if they search. A long time ago I checked for a song that was also on the LFN disc that has never been published, so it was impossible to get any actual confirmation of the lyrics. Since the person transcribing them had never clearly heard of the word dissonance, they had come up with something like "does with us" or whatever. Seriously, if you're vocabulary impaired or you like your bass a little too much, skip the lyric transcribing. It may not be the job for you.
Needless to say I will not be linking to those lyrics if I do the vid. It's so funny, though, to see how many lyrics places there are now. I still remember just a few years ago when ASCAP/BMI shut down the international lyrics server (all you young whippersnapper vidders who think the music folks aren't scary and not worth bothering keeping your vids on the down-low about? Go back and read the history on that), but in the intervening time there has been an explosion of lyrics pages. Obviously, though, quantity does not equal quality. ;-)
And now, I wish everyone in the States who practices such rituals a happy t-day.
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Date: 2004-11-24 09:57 am (UTC)HAH! And Amen. Sheesh.
shut down the international lyrics server
I remember that! Not that I was vidding at the time, but I've always been a lyric fiend. I was terribly upset when that resource was taken away from me.
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Date: 2004-11-24 10:37 am (UTC)Best to you and yours.
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Date: 2004-11-24 11:28 pm (UTC)http://www.honeybat.com/kristin2/othervideos.htm