Word: songfulness
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...come up with the lyrics first and say, "I'm writing a song about this"? Yeah. We all live in different cities, so what we'll do is, I'll e-mail them lyrics, and we'll send MP3s back and forth and eventually get together. It's cool, 'cause I've done this with quite a few people now. I'm doing it with Tegan and Sara, with the New Pornographers, with Grant-Lee Phillips, Jill Sobule, Jon Brion - it's huge. There are a lot of songs - I think it's going to be a double or triple...
What are the songs about? They're all pretty dirty. The titles are things like, "I'm in Love with Someone Else, so F___ You" and "Eat S___ and Die." But the songs themselves are so very beautiful. One of the ones I'm doing with Patty Griffin is an imagined duet with me and my dog. You know, if my dog could sing to me, what would he say? That one is sort of whimsical, but others are real raunchy. It's like my stand-up comedy but in song form. (See pictures of the history of stand...
...obvious question is, Why are you doing songs? I was inspired by Madonna. I've been doing comedy music in my shows for the last few years now. I saw Madonna playing the guitar and I was like, "I want to do that!" I mean, if she can do it, I can do it, right? But it's really hard. So I came up with the idea of collaborating. But every time I meet with somebody to write a song, they give me a music lesson. Basically, I have some of the best musicians in the world teaching...
...Game Music Club at Berklee, says that he created the club to promote video game music as a genre. “Video game music is really underrated still,” Nakama says.While most people envision video game music as the typified Super Mario Brothers’ theme song of the ’80s, over the past five to 10 years, much of its composition has moved to extremely complex orchestral scoring. It no longer fulfills what Sweet calls the “assumption that video game music is a bunch of blips and boops and beeps...
...show? JH: I just went to the dress rehearsal yesterday, and I was blown away by how hard everyone worked. I couldn’t pick out just one or two acts. We have very graceful, soft pieces, and we have Korean hip-hop, with the song Purpleline, as well as an imperial fan dance. THC: Which performance in this year’s show do you think exemplifies the mission of AADT the best? JH: The mission of AADT is to have fun. It doesn’t matter if you have or have not danced before. It?...