This episode…a giant praying mantis with a gun. You’re welcome.
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Increasingly with newer music (even songs I like), I feel like if I started singing it, you wouldn’t know what I was singing. Even if you knew the song well.
Like, in older songs, the emphasis was on the tune of the vocals, and the instrumentals were mostly there to back it. If you started singing it, there would be no mistaking it for another song. This wasn’t always good–everyone would love to get “do you like piña coladas” out if their head–but it’s so satisfying when it’s a song you like. And the lyrics got so bizarre (“revved up like a deuce in the night”) you couldn’t confuse them, either.
Newer songs, the vocal melodies are usually pretty simple or even completely flat, with all the tune in the instrumentals–which are themselves so complex no human being going “da na na na” could hope to emulate them. The lyrics are also more coherent and generic, so they don’t stand out as much.
What are some exceptions in modern music you can think of? Give me something that’ll get stuck in my head for weeks and leave me wanting to belt it out in the shower. This goes for niche stuff, too!
Just found out about the the horny goose design from Balto III. I just wish it hadn’t been 1.) meant to be a literal goose and 2.) for a kid’s movie, because dang, I can’t think of many other instances a chubby older character (with jowls!) was played this sincerely as sexy
GOD human walk cycles are so much harder than bugs’. All the legs mean an insect or arachnid is fairly stable. Walking on two legs, though, there’s all this constant counterbalancing to keep from falling over. And that’s not counting all the deformations of squishy flesh to keep in order….