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sorcyressBefore he wrote Rent, Jonathan Larson wrote a musical called "Tick, Tick...Boom!" which I have never seen.
I have the soundtrack though, and there are a couple songs that have been in regular rotation on my playlists since basically freshman year of college. "Louder Than Words" is the fourth most played song in my entire iTunes, for instance, and 30/90 should score similar1.
30/90 has the repeated refrain "turn thirty, in the nineties" or sometimes "turn thirty, nineteen-ninety". It's a song about getting older (why can't you stay twenty-nine, hell you still feel like you're twenty-two) and about birthdays and stuff like that. And I have thought occasionally, vague and wistful, that I was barely existent in 1990, I can't quite have this cultural touchstone of turning thirty then.
Except I'm turning thirty this year. And "turn thirty, twenty-nineteen" scans *just* fine. Which means I've been singing different lyrics for the last six months, ever since I figured it out. It works for me, just fine.
Thirty nineteen, thirty-thirty nineteen. Scream it at the top of your lungs, kiddo.
~Sor
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1: So, there's a handful of songs that got a boost when I moved from Vera to Kela -basically whatever was on the phone at the time. Apparently Louder than Words was and 30/90 wasn't, which is the only way I can explain the 300 plays difference between them (especially since I actually prefer 30/90 as a song, like always.)
I have the soundtrack though, and there are a couple songs that have been in regular rotation on my playlists since basically freshman year of college. "Louder Than Words" is the fourth most played song in my entire iTunes, for instance, and 30/90 should score similar1.
30/90 has the repeated refrain "turn thirty, in the nineties" or sometimes "turn thirty, nineteen-ninety". It's a song about getting older (why can't you stay twenty-nine, hell you still feel like you're twenty-two) and about birthdays and stuff like that. And I have thought occasionally, vague and wistful, that I was barely existent in 1990, I can't quite have this cultural touchstone of turning thirty then.
Except I'm turning thirty this year. And "turn thirty, twenty-nineteen" scans *just* fine. Which means I've been singing different lyrics for the last six months, ever since I figured it out. It works for me, just fine.
Thirty nineteen, thirty-thirty nineteen. Scream it at the top of your lungs, kiddo.
~Sor
MOOP
1: So, there's a handful of songs that got a boost when I moved from Vera to Kela -basically whatever was on the phone at the time. Apparently Louder than Words was and 30/90 wasn't, which is the only way I can explain the 300 plays difference between them (especially since I actually prefer 30/90 as a song, like always.)
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on 2019-01-02 01:26 pm (UTC)no subject
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on 2019-01-02 08:44 pm (UTC)Today is my 30th birthday, in fact. Listening to it makes me feel grateful how little I relate to the sentiments it expresses.
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on 2019-01-05 06:07 am (UTC)I like the music, I like it so much. I like the shift in tone when it croons to "Peter Pan and Tinkerbell, which way to Never-Never Land" and I like the the punchy notes a couple lines later. Most of all I love love love the build-up at the end, repeating 30/90 until you get THIRTY THIRTY NINETY which is a joy to scream.
In general, I often like musical pieces where I find the lyrics meh-to-indifferent. See also, my longstanding weird with Taylor Swift (how does Love Story appeal to me so much as a piece of music when it's got _those_ words aaaahhhh). My most recent play-on-repeat obsession is Hollywood Ending from Anna and the Apocalypse (no spoilers in video, no blood either although the movie itself is a zombie flick and accordingly gory). The lyrics are...okay? Certainly fun to sing, but not anything that really pulls.
Now, going the other way, for stuff where the lyrics do matter, look no further than Vienna Teng, who is a minor goddess in my pantheon. Her song "Never Look Away" is full of lines that catch my breath in my throat and make my heart hammer harder. "I want to witness the beauty of your repair". "Someone ought to corrupt you on the dance floor and take you home" "Some nights we open up the flood and some nights we are lost. Some nights we're choking on the words, but some we light on fire".
And then there is, of course, The Tower --that link is an annotated post of the lyrics, trying to make it clear how and why it means so much to me. The post is nearly a decade old, and I still stand by every word in it. (Perhaps that should scare me, seeing how little I've changed, but then, it always was a very deeply fundamental set of lyrics)
So yeah, that's probably WAY more digression you were looking for, but seriously, at least two-thirds my taste in music is exclusively in the way the sounds go. That's why I love 30/90 so much, because it just sounds completely right to my ears.
(I do really like the line "Can't you be optimistic, you're no longer the ingenue" though.)
~Sor
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on 2019-01-08 01:52 pm (UTC)I listened to "Hollywood Ending" and will now be playing it constantly for the next few weeks. Thank you!
Lyrics are huge for me. It's rare that I can really enjoy a song if I dislike/disagree with the lyrics. I have an really unfortunate attraction to "Blurred Lines". My brain just loves the sound of it, but I had to force myself to give it up because the lyrics are so appalling.