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Mar. 2nd, 2019 01:51 amOkay, so I got to thinking, and one of things I love about music is seeing recurring themes. These ideas which, I blow up in mind; these recurring themes. And I know I'm probably making more of this than it really is, but it's part of the mythos of following a musician to me, what lyrics and themes the grapple with again and again. It's just so cool.
The one which prompted me to write this is seeing the new single by Dessa - Grade School Games, which I am listening to on loop as I write this. I heard the title of it, and well, it fitted? She's been grappling with that metaphor for a while now; the the way you're raised and how it influences your life, and the metaphor of childhood games being the ratrace of our adult lives (And several other things in that general ballpark). It's a fascinating theme and it's really neat to see different explorations of that angle in her music.
This can also be really small; I've noticed in a few songs that Thousand Foot Krutch have this lyric "If Words can be weapons" and (let me be clear this is almost certainly me reading too much into a lyric that got used in a couple of songs, and that I have no knowledge of what the artist was actually thinking here, I haven't even looked and I'm not seriously into that artist), but it's a big part of my image of that artist; that theme, that feeling of surprise that words can change things, that they *matter*. I love it.
I think part of it is that music is the medium which conveys emote and themes best to me. I tend to read very literally and I'm often actively unwilling to dissect the content. RPGs and video games are for fun, so recurrence is about aesthetic and story, more than deep emotion and meaningful themes (Plus, have you ever tried to get half a dozen people on board on the same emotion and themes and direction without serious direction and rehersal? It takes far more than I have to give at my current level of skill. Well, I guess I'll have to get better. But I digress). When I look at visual mediums, I just look, I just see, I don't emote so much? And I don't really do video when I can avoid it. So when I want to emote deeply, when I want to express a feeling or a mood or a theme, then music is where I go (Well, I find someone's music. I'm about as unmusical as they come, when it comes to creating the stuff, and the price of that is speaking a language someone else wrote. But then, I'm not a genius, and my heart, sadly, does not encompass the world, so I will probably be the better for that. Purity of the note is sacrificed for the ability to dance more than once dance. If I could dance.) Take that entire above paragraph with a pinch of salt or two, it's most exaggerations and oversimplifications to try and pick apart a thought.
Wow, I got off topic. I also used up all my positive intensifiers. Well, maybe. I could probably come with some other ones. Oh! Awesome! It's also *Awesome* to pattern-match these recurring ideas and themes and lyric fragments in the longer view of an artists work.
The one which prompted me to write this is seeing the new single by Dessa - Grade School Games, which I am listening to on loop as I write this. I heard the title of it, and well, it fitted? She's been grappling with that metaphor for a while now; the the way you're raised and how it influences your life, and the metaphor of childhood games being the ratrace of our adult lives (And several other things in that general ballpark). It's a fascinating theme and it's really neat to see different explorations of that angle in her music.
This can also be really small; I've noticed in a few songs that Thousand Foot Krutch have this lyric "If Words can be weapons" and (let me be clear this is almost certainly me reading too much into a lyric that got used in a couple of songs, and that I have no knowledge of what the artist was actually thinking here, I haven't even looked and I'm not seriously into that artist), but it's a big part of my image of that artist; that theme, that feeling of surprise that words can change things, that they *matter*. I love it.
I think part of it is that music is the medium which conveys emote and themes best to me. I tend to read very literally and I'm often actively unwilling to dissect the content. RPGs and video games are for fun, so recurrence is about aesthetic and story, more than deep emotion and meaningful themes (Plus, have you ever tried to get half a dozen people on board on the same emotion and themes and direction without serious direction and rehersal? It takes far more than I have to give at my current level of skill. Well, I guess I'll have to get better. But I digress). When I look at visual mediums, I just look, I just see, I don't emote so much? And I don't really do video when I can avoid it. So when I want to emote deeply, when I want to express a feeling or a mood or a theme, then music is where I go (Well, I find someone's music. I'm about as unmusical as they come, when it comes to creating the stuff, and the price of that is speaking a language someone else wrote. But then, I'm not a genius, and my heart, sadly, does not encompass the world, so I will probably be the better for that. Purity of the note is sacrificed for the ability to dance more than once dance. If I could dance.) Take that entire above paragraph with a pinch of salt or two, it's most exaggerations and oversimplifications to try and pick apart a thought.
Wow, I got off topic. I also used up all my positive intensifiers. Well, maybe. I could probably come with some other ones. Oh! Awesome! It's also *Awesome* to pattern-match these recurring ideas and themes and lyric fragments in the longer view of an artists work.
