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Mark Jacobsonsays
No. All Billionaires.
The means by which they accrue that wealth may vary, but they’re all policy failures either actively or passively exploited. And being a billionaire is an affliction one can easily cure themselves of. To not do so is a choice, and one with consequences.
cartomancersays
The sentiments are, of course, bloody obvious. But “corruption” is three syllables with the second stressed – it does not fit the metre at all, and ruins the rhythm. You need a two-syllable word with the first stressed. Off the top of my head I would suggest “bleakness”, but I’m sure there are other appropriate choices.
Hemidactylussays
cartomancer @2
My sense of timing ain’t the best and I intuitively winced exactly at “corruption” but to me it seems Kerr makes effective use of a shoehorn to kinda make it work? Oddball dissonant timing? I’m willing to overlook it.
chigau (違う)says
cartomancer #2
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John Moralessays
“O tidings of wicked and greed, wicked and greed
O tidings of wicked and greed”
S maltophiliasays
“O tidings of wickedness and greed, wickedness and greed
Silentbobsays
@ 2 cartomancer
That makes no sense; it’s three notes. To fit a two syllable word you have to stretch the first syllable over two notes. {Cuh-um-fort and joy.) A three syllable word works better than the original.
@ 違う
Bless your heart.
Silentbobsays
Also, obviously these things are subjective, but “wicked” or “wickedness” is a fatuous lyric. Redolent of a belief in some unspecified “sinfulness”. “Corruption” is to the point and much better.
StevoRsays
Sing it loudy outside the offices of helathcare insurers and billlionaires homes! If you dare and please do..
Just be prepared to run..
cartomancersays
Silentbob,
The original stretches out a two syllable word into three beats in just such a fashion, so I would expect a parody to do the same. The dissonance comes from the fact the original stretches out the stressed syllable, whereas a three-syllable English word will almost inevitably have a stressed and an unstressed syllable in that position, suggesting an altogether different rhythm. In the original case, the natural stress of “corruption” falls on the second syllable, leaving that unstressed first syllable “cor” after another unstressed syllable in “of”. The rhythm is strongly iambic, and two unstressed syllables does not an iamb make.
If you’re going to make a parody song, at least make a good one. The subject matter deserves it.
StevoRsays
FWIW This song sounds pretty good and flows pretty well and naturally for me. I reckon it works.
You can criticize this song all you want, but have you heard all those Christmas carols being played in malls this time of year? They’re crap. They’re not Mozart — I haven’t heard Misericordias Domini playing on the radio recently. It’s all sentimentality and novelty songs.
I’m declaring “Fuck the Pain Away” as the Christmas carol of 2024.
The sentiments of that Martin Kerr work are absolutely correct and excellent, regardless of any quibbles about the grammar, or lyrical fit to the music, etc.
So, in the spirit of this post election ‘holiday’ season: ‘Bah, Humbug on all the jebus tinsel bullshit.’
@1 John Morales is quite correct. Taylor Swift is someone I can respect. There may be others, Tut, the odds are that the ratio of corrupt ahole billionaires to decent billionaires is nearly a million to one.
“Corruption” may not fit the metre perfectly, but it damn sure fits the message. This singer did okay with it, and other singers may handle it differently.
And as they say in the Folk Song Army…
Oh, the tune don’t have to be clever
And it don’t matter if you put a couple extra syllables into a line
It sounds more ethnic if it ain’t good English
And it don’t even gotta rhyme!
Surely not all billionaires.
*From TeT:
“Reginald Selkirk
10 December 2024 at 8:09 am
<a href=”https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-paid-eras-tour-crew-performers-197-million-bonuses-1235198279/””>Taylor Swift Awards Eras Tour Crew With $197 Million in Bonuses”
No. All Billionaires.
The means by which they accrue that wealth may vary, but they’re all policy failures either actively or passively exploited. And being a billionaire is an affliction one can easily cure themselves of. To not do so is a choice, and one with consequences.
The sentiments are, of course, bloody obvious. But “corruption” is three syllables with the second stressed – it does not fit the metre at all, and ruins the rhythm. You need a two-syllable word with the first stressed. Off the top of my head I would suggest “bleakness”, but I’m sure there are other appropriate choices.
cartomancer @2
My sense of timing ain’t the best and I intuitively winced exactly at “corruption” but to me it seems Kerr makes effective use of a shoehorn to kinda make it work? Oddball dissonant timing? I’m willing to overlook it.
cartomancer #2
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“O tidings of wicked and greed, wicked and greed
O tidings of wicked and greed”
“O tidings of wickedness and greed, wickedness and greed
@ 2 cartomancer
That makes no sense; it’s three notes. To fit a two syllable word you have to stretch the first syllable over two notes. {Cuh-um-fort and joy.) A three syllable word works better than the original.
@ 違う
Bless your heart.
Also, obviously these things are subjective, but “wicked” or “wickedness” is a fatuous lyric. Redolent of a belief in some unspecified “sinfulness”. “Corruption” is to the point and much better.
Sing it loudy outside the offices of helathcare insurers and billlionaires homes! If you dare and please do..
Just be prepared to run..
Silentbob,
The original stretches out a two syllable word into three beats in just such a fashion, so I would expect a parody to do the same. The dissonance comes from the fact the original stretches out the stressed syllable, whereas a three-syllable English word will almost inevitably have a stressed and an unstressed syllable in that position, suggesting an altogether different rhythm. In the original case, the natural stress of “corruption” falls on the second syllable, leaving that unstressed first syllable “cor” after another unstressed syllable in “of”. The rhythm is strongly iambic, and two unstressed syllables does not an iamb make.
If you’re going to make a parody song, at least make a good one. The subject matter deserves it.
FWIW This song sounds pretty good and flows pretty well and naturally for me. I reckon it works.
You can criticize this song all you want, but have you heard all those Christmas carols being played in malls this time of year? They’re crap. They’re not Mozart — I haven’t heard Misericordias Domini playing on the radio recently. It’s all sentimentality and novelty songs.
I’m declaring “Fuck the Pain Away” as the Christmas carol of 2024.
The sentiments of that Martin Kerr work are absolutely correct and excellent, regardless of any quibbles about the grammar, or lyrical fit to the music, etc.
So, in the spirit of this post election ‘holiday’ season: ‘Bah, Humbug on all the jebus tinsel bullshit.’
@1 John Morales is quite correct. Taylor Swift is someone I can respect. There may be others, Tut, the odds are that the ratio of corrupt ahole billionaires to decent billionaires is nearly a million to one.
Gosh, I haven’t heard this on any radio station…I can’t imagine why…
“Corruption” may not fit the metre perfectly, but it damn sure fits the message. This singer did okay with it, and other singers may handle it differently.
And as they say in the Folk Song Army…
Oh, the tune don’t have to be clever
And it don’t matter if you put a couple extra syllables into a line
It sounds more ethnic if it ain’t good English
And it don’t even gotta rhyme!
Sorry — “Rhine.”