Oh Weird

[liralen]

When I listen to music with English in it, it's hard to write something that's counter to the mood and concepts of the song. When I listen to music in Japanese, which I don't understand much more than a word or two of, I am fine. Interesting...

Comments

[calm-isolation.livejournal.com]

I am exactly the SAME way!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*grins* Cool to know. It's been a while since I could listen to music at all, so it's a new discovery for me. Hee.

[xshelaghx.livejournal.com]

Makes sense to me.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*grins* Neat to know it makes sense to someone...

[summer-queen.livejournal.com]

Ditto. I much prefer to to work listening to Japanese vocals (though I do understand more than a little bit, it's still distant enough from full comprehension to be background noise, rather than disruptive).

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool. Yeah, I would have thought your comprehension would have made it different, but... neat.

[zangetsugirl.livejournal.com]

*hops on board the weird train* Same for me. That's why I mostly write to instrumentals and random anime music. But the songs are intended to invoke a certain feeling through the combination of music and lyrics, right? I mean, that's pretty much the whole point. So, if you're not getting the message from one or the other, you can just apply your own mood. Or something.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Ah. *nodnods* That makes some sense.

I only just started listening to music again, and I remembered that a long time ago I used to love writing *to* music... and it was suddenly... huh... I can't write anything to any music... weird.... *laughs*

[annieroo2.livejournal.com]

It's not weird. Our brains like harmony. Dissonance is disturbing and harder to process so it makes everything harder.

I actually prefer silence when writing, but because I can't always get that I've learned to block out a lot of background information when I need to.

My kids have trained me well. ;)


btw love your icon. I know it's not Buttercup, but I haven't seen that cartoon in ages. Is it a powerpuff boy?

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I'm finding that headphones and a chosen environment are pretty conducive to writing, as it shuts out the kid sounds.

Oh! I think I made it at this site (http://www.creativeadornments.com/nephco/powerpuffgirls/ppps.html) It's supposed to be me as a Powderpuff Girl. *laughs*

[annieroo2.livejournal.com]

Great site! It was fun playing around. :D

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Hee! Good. I'm glad you had fun!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

There are boys, too!

[morgainelefae.livejournal.com]

i find i have the same reactions - i tend to listen to music that i don't know the language quite right when i write- i fine, for instance, the mars volta to be particularly inspiring. or gogol bordello, which, i suppose both of them have english in them, but they're also a polyglot, so it's kind of similar. but then, the mars volta is largely instrumental and soundscape, so... yeah. i don't know. whatever inspires, right?

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Right. Wow... I've never heard of any of those folks. Now I want to check them out...

Thank you!

[morgainelefae.livejournal.com]

the mars volta is the first track on the fantrack i made of downed*angel for gabe, and there's a gogol bordello song on the soundtrack i made for sol, if you're interested. :)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Ooo! Thank you!