Posted on 06/22/2022 1:05:47 PM PDT by Thistooshallpass9
In this episode, we look at the magic that can happen at the intersection of music and language — magic so powerful that it may have played a role in bringing down the Soviet Union.
As Edgar Yipsel Harburg said, "Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.”
A lot of modern music is junk food for the soul.
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Agreed. The vast majority of music is detritus
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.
-Frank Zappa.
But they are usually about an exclusive kind of eros-driven love. If more of them were about the philia and agape types of love instead, then maybe we would have more social harmony.
C’mon people now, smile on your brother ...
Definitely an admonition for philia there. But for every one of those, there’s a hundred “Oh baby, I Love Your Way”s
Rhe vast majority of modern pop music is a toxic raging dumpster fire.
The only listenable music being composed today is movie music.
Yip Harburg wrote some clever lyrics.
He was a master for sure, and that was before you could rapidfire your rhyme and synonym inquiries on a computer
Ya, "Strut" by Bob Seger does that to me.
This only scratches the surface.
A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you night and day
Just like the strain
Of a haunting refrain
She’ll start upon a marathon and run around your brain
You can’t escape she’s in your memory
By morning, night and noon
She will leave you and then
Come back again
A pretty girl is just like a pretty tune
The kid who sat next to him in elementary school in New York was Ira Gershwin.
The kid who sat next to him in elementary school in New York was Ira Gershwin.
Clever : )
Ohio Express - Yummy Yummy Yummy I got love in my tummy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yijqy48mmG4
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