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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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− | There are also certain types of people that may describe themselves as "lyric deaf", which is sort of the lyrical equivalent to being | + | For some modern songs, the vocalist chooses to perform the track in a way that emphasizes emotion, accent or style over clear pronounciation of the lyrics. Some forms of music, for example the Jazz style Scat, use purely nonsensical lyrics while some styles of dance music use a single line of lyrics repeated throughout the track. |
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+ | There are also certain types of people that may describe themselves as "lyric deaf", which is sort of the lyrical equivalent to being [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_deafness tone deaf], although it doesn't have an underlying medical understanding. Some people that describe themselves as tone deaf are even quite musically capable. | ||
The comic is illustrating (in text form) how listening to such a song feels before you have learned what the actual lyrics are. The lyrics are represented in an indecipherable way, with a few mildly recognizable words. This represents the auditory experience of being able to hear and understand some words (perhaps incorrectly), but not all of them. | The comic is illustrating (in text form) how listening to such a song feels before you have learned what the actual lyrics are. The lyrics are represented in an indecipherable way, with a few mildly recognizable words. This represents the auditory experience of being able to hear and understand some words (perhaps incorrectly), but not all of them. | ||
− | Another example of this experience can be seen in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxELSzay2lc this British TV commercial | + | Another example of this experience can be seen in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxELSzay2lc this video] of a British TV commercial from the 1980s, showing someone who has misheard Desmond Decker's The Israelites as "My Ears Are Alight". |
− | This experience is similar to that shown by the character | + | This experience is similar to that shown by the character [http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Havelock_Vetinari Havelock Vetinari] in Terry Pratchett's Discworld book [http://www.ealasaid.com/fan/vetinari/vl-soulmusic.html Soul Music]. Rather than listening to music, he preferred to read the printed sheet music. |
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+ | ''In fact the kind of music he really liked was the kind that never got played. It ruined music, in his opinion, to torment it by involving it on dried skins, bits of dead cat and lumps of metal hammered into wires and tubes. It ought to stay written down, on the page, in rows of little dots and crotchets, all neatly caught between lines. Only there was it pure. It was when people started doing things with it that the rot set in. Much better to sit quietly in a room and read the sheets, with nothing between yourself and the mind of the composer but a scribble of ink. Having it played by sweaty fat men and people with hair in their ears and spit dribbling out of the end of their oboe...well, the idea made him shudder.'' | ||
For a related experience see {{w|Mondegreen}}. | For a related experience see {{w|Mondegreen}}. | ||
− | The title text elaborates on the fact that [[Randall]] has the same experience when trying to understand | + | The title text elaborates on the fact that [[Randall]] has the same experience when trying to understand song lyrics as when he sees text in his dreams. The last part of the title text is written in strange scripts to illustrate how he feels when seeing text in his dreams. Translated it says: ''it's hard to read and I can't focus.'' |
− | Note that it looks like the song lyrics were written by drawing in a tool | + | Note that it looks like the song lyrics were written by drawing in a tool like MS Paint and then cutting out pieces and shifting them slightly. |
− | + | ==Possible lyrics and songs== | |
The closest guess on the lyrics is this: | The closest guess on the lyrics is this: | ||
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− | + | ''I can't even tell her'' | |
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− | + | ''Anything she wanna'' | |
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+ | ''Had beautiful sang or kill'' | ||
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+ | ''Forgetting love.'' | ||
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(Note that the first line also might be ''I can't even '''help''' her''.) | (Note that the first line also might be ''I can't even '''help''' her''.) | ||
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*If the first line is ''I can't even '''tell''' her'', it could come from | *If the first line is ''I can't even '''tell''' her'', it could come from | ||
− | :{{w|Joe Budden}} | + | :{{w|Joe Budden}} song ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJPZtoH_wok More of Me]'' |
:From the [http://genius.com/Joe-budden-more-of-me-lyrics lyrics]: | :From the [http://genius.com/Joe-budden-more-of-me-lyrics lyrics]: | ||
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:''And '''I can't even tell her''' some fights ain't fight worthy'' | :''And '''I can't even tell her''' some fights ain't fight worthy'' | ||
:''Cause my pops got 20 years clean, but her pops got 20 years dirty'' | :''Cause my pops got 20 years clean, but her pops got 20 years dirty'' | ||
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:''All I can do is just wait'' | :''All I can do is just wait'' | ||
:''Until the clouds are all blown away'' | :''Until the clouds are all blown away'' | ||
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− | + | *The second line ''Anything she wanna'', varies a lot, plausible songs are 'The Lazy Song' by Bruno Mars, 'Dark Horse' by Katy Perry, 'She Looks So Perfect' by 5 Seconds of Summer, or perhaps 'American Dream' by MKTO. | |
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+ | *The fourth and final line ''Forgetting love'' comes from Taylor Swifts 'Red' | ||
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+ | It might also be the case that [[Randall|Randall Munroe]] made up the lyrics himself and that these songs coincidentally share the same lyrics, because they are very cliché lyrics occurring in many pop songs. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:FOR♡ITiNn⊣GLOOOO!VEEE ?.- | :FOR♡ITiNn⊣GLOOOO!VEEE ?.- | ||
− | :[Caption below the frame:] | + | :[Caption below the frame:] |
− | :Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be able to understand | + | :'''Sometimes I wonder what it would''' |
− | + | :'''be like to be able to understand''' | |
− | + | :'''song lyrics without looking them up.''' | |
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