Lilly Allen - Its Not Fair...

Lilly Allen - Its Not Fair...

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pistonlager

710 posts

195 months

Friday 3rd July 2009
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elster said:
pistonlager said:
Goochie said:
Dracoro said:
It's not JUST about the lyrics you know.

How do you cope with instrumental music? winkbiggrin
To be honest I dont normally listen to lyrics (much the the wife's annoyance) but radio edits do often sound blatently edited.
It's just bad song writing ability.
Why?

Radio edits are just for kids.
For example.

....off the cuff ,
off the wrist,
like mrs Palmer,
You get my drift....

It took me seconds to write that.
Perfectly suitable for a pop song.
You'd never get away with using wker in a chart release.

Another classic way of suggestion is to move sylabil positions in a word, or misplace accents.
Vowel pronunciation too.

Sound like a South African by replacing all your vowels with an I.







brum

5,892 posts

207 months

Friday 3rd July 2009
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pistonlager said:
elster said:
pistonlager said:
Goochie said:
Dracoro said:
It's not JUST about the lyrics you know.

How do you cope with instrumental music? winkbiggrin
To be honest I dont normally listen to lyrics (much the the wife's annoyance) but radio edits do often sound blatently edited.
It's just bad song writing ability.
Why?

Radio edits are just for kids.
For example.

....off the cuff ,
off the wrist,
like mrs Palmer,
You get my drift....

It took me seconds to write that.
Perfectly suitable for a pop song.
You'd never get away with using wker in a chart release.
You'd never get away with replacing one word with twelve either - even if it does rhyme it still has to scan

HRG.

72,857 posts

240 months

Friday 3rd July 2009
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Pfft, anyone else remember listening to Friggin in the Riggin at school?

FEZZA_RS

909 posts

186 months

Friday 3rd July 2009
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Es are good Es are good hes ebeneezer goode

Edited by FEZZA_RS on Friday 3rd July 17:29

cazzer

8,883 posts

249 months

Friday 3rd July 2009
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Tonight you're mine, Completely
You give your love, so sweetly
So tell me now, and I won't ask again.
Will you still love me tomorrow.

Caused a furore at the time.
Cos lets be honest...its not subtle is it smile

Alfanatic

9,339 posts

220 months

Friday 3rd July 2009
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My dingaling generated huge quantities of admiration and uproar.






And so did the song, probably

tenfoot

21 posts

179 months

Friday 3rd July 2009
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You guys want to worry. I swear my 4 year old daughter was using our (rotary) washing line for pole dancing the other day.

becksW

14,682 posts

212 months

Friday 3rd July 2009
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Lyrics have always been risque. Though admittedly maybe slightly more subtly done (though not always).

I remember singing a track off Adam and the Ants Prince Charming album. It was called S.E.X. Read the words to that and you'll see what I mean. However at the age of 7 I didn't know what it all meant so I was oblivious to what I was singing. They were just words. I don't remember my parents stopping me (and my parents were strict) it was only several years later when I cam across it again that I realised what I was saying!

Alfanatic

9,339 posts

220 months

Friday 3rd July 2009
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becksW said:
Lyrics have always been risque. Though admittedly maybe slightly more subtly done (though not always).

I remember singing a track off Adam and the Ants Prince Charming album. It was called S.E.X. Read the words to that and you'll see what I mean. However at the age of 7 I didn't know what it all meant so I was oblivious to what I was singing. They were just words. I don't remember my parents stopping me (and my parents were strict) it was only several years later when I cam across it again that I realised what I was saying!
Crikey you're right. I used to sing that one too, also had no idea what it meant..

Timberwolf

5,347 posts

219 months

Friday 3rd July 2009
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Negative Creep said:
That's one of the great things about edited songs - often you will think the edited word is far stronger than it actually is
Done rather well in this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90-nVPxR57U

It's impossible to listen to without filling in the words. (Although that is rather the intention.)

pistonlager

710 posts

195 months

Saturday 4th July 2009
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HRG. said:
Pfft, anyone else remember listening to Friggin in the Riggin at school?
No! But I remember Captain Pugwash, Seaman Staines and
Master Bates, classic.

Dave^

7,386 posts

254 months

Saturday 4th July 2009
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Timberwolf said:
Negative Creep said:
That's one of the great things about edited songs - often you will think the edited word is far stronger than it actually is
Done rather well in this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90-nVPxR57U

It's impossible to listen to without filling in the words. (Although that is rather the intention.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM


hehe

brum

5,892 posts

207 months

Saturday 4th July 2009
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Really? You really remember all those characters?

lambo_xx

2,199 posts

198 months

Saturday 11th July 2009
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Oh it's not that bad, admittedly probably not something children should be singing in front of their parents, but lets be honest they all know what the words mean and would hear it in the playground anyway.

Evangelion

7,744 posts

179 months

Sunday 12th July 2009
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pistonlager said:
... No! But I remember Captain Pugwash, Seaman Staines and
Master Bates ...
Sorry. This is a complete and utter myth.

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/pugwash.asp