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enchantedsleeper) wrote2024-04-27 03:55 pm
enchantedsleeper) wrote2024-04-27 03:55 pm
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Starting Three Weeks for DW & a new song obsession
After my preparatory prompt-posting (very satisfying alliteration) for 3W4D, I didn't get around to making a post yesterday because I had some other stuff to finish in the evening. Still, even if I only post every other day, that'll still be a lot!
I have a couple of prompts I want to use during this event, one of which is my own writing-about-fanworks prompt, but I was also inspired bybluedreaming (who had a challenge involving putting your music library on shuffle and then using the song that comes up to write a flashfic) to shuffle my music library and write about whatever song comes up. I never get tired of writing about music, so I would find that really fun!
But today my song has been decided for me, because one of my favourite bands, Marianas Trench, has a new song out and IT'S SO GOOD:
It's possible that no-one here knows this band (I found them via Spotify's recommendations years ago and I've met a couple of fans completely in the wild, one of whom is a friend of mine, but I understand they're kind of a niche band to like), but I still really rec checking out this video, which just has gorgeous animation. When I saw "lyric video" I was expecting, well, lyrics on a black screen, but it's nothing like that! It could almost be a short film.
I'm already obsessed with this song and listening to it on repeat 😍 It hits several notes (pun intended, if you like xD) that feel like they were designed to appeal to me personally, like the orchestral elements, the heavier guitar (which is rarer in pop music nowadays and really feels like it calls back to the music I loved in the 00s), and at 3:05 the song starts giving me distinct Baba O'Riley vibes, with the... twiddly bits? (the fast-paced didlidlidlidlidl) and the chords over the top. I love Baba O'Riley, so that's an awesome association for me. (I don't know if it's intentional, it's not an absolute similarity, but it really struck me).
I also love the lyrics, and if we were still in the days of MSN Messenger I would 100% have "But what about all those voices in the night? Speaking all the things that keep me from a normal life" in my status xD Or a forum signature.
I have a couple of prompts I want to use during this event, one of which is my own writing-about-fanworks prompt, but I was also inspired by
bluedreaming (who had a challenge involving putting your music library on shuffle and then using the song that comes up to write a flashfic) to shuffle my music library and write about whatever song comes up. I never get tired of writing about music, so I would find that really fun!But today my song has been decided for me, because one of my favourite bands, Marianas Trench, has a new song out and IT'S SO GOOD:
It's possible that no-one here knows this band (I found them via Spotify's recommendations years ago and I've met a couple of fans completely in the wild, one of whom is a friend of mine, but I understand they're kind of a niche band to like), but I still really rec checking out this video, which just has gorgeous animation. When I saw "lyric video" I was expecting, well, lyrics on a black screen, but it's nothing like that! It could almost be a short film.
I'm already obsessed with this song and listening to it on repeat 😍 It hits several notes (pun intended, if you like xD) that feel like they were designed to appeal to me personally, like the orchestral elements, the heavier guitar (which is rarer in pop music nowadays and really feels like it calls back to the music I loved in the 00s), and at 3:05 the song starts giving me distinct Baba O'Riley vibes, with the... twiddly bits? (the fast-paced didlidlidlidlidl) and the chords over the top. I love Baba O'Riley, so that's an awesome association for me. (I don't know if it's intentional, it's not an absolute similarity, but it really struck me).
I also love the lyrics, and if we were still in the days of MSN Messenger I would 100% have "But what about all those voices in the night? Speaking all the things that keep me from a normal life" in my status xD Or a forum signature.
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*wanders off, howling*
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