I got another song that’s going in the
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I got another song that’s going in the novel.
It’s not my usual aesthetic but I can’t resist the stars thing. So imagine all the lyrics transposed into less-Earthbound ones, and this is a pop song Poe decides to add to his repertoire when he hears it because he is always looking for pithy, slightly-melodramatic pop songs that work well with one dude and a guitar.
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Johnny Cash doesn’t count as country music, hush.
Also I’m not into filk, which is sort of sad– like, it seems like it would be so up my alley, and in practice every example of it gives me hives and I don’t know why. (I love pineapple and it burns my mouth so I can’t eat it fresh, so don’t feel bad if you’re into either filk or pineapple, they’re just not compatible with me consuming them. This is a value-neutral thing.) I’m not going to filk these songs, I’m just using them as a shortcut to imagining the music that would really be in the story. And of course Poe wouldn’t really be playing a guitar, but as someone else pointed out, the only way Star Wars really makes sense is if you view it kind of like Tolkien’s worldbuilding, where really everyone is totally alien but he translated the Hobbits into archaic English so the reader could relate. Likewise, the actual humans in Star Wars are probably really aliens so bizarre we’d not even know where to begin understanding them, but if you just– recast them as humans and re-imagine the whole thing from that perspective, then it makes sense. But you’re starting with a conceit of making these Utterly Alien creatures actually Just Like Us But Superficially Different.
So if I want them to have guitars, they have guitars. And there’s a space version of Johnny Cash, and Poe cribs shamelessly from him. Because Poe isn’t a singer/songwriter, he’s just a performer, in the old-fashioned way of people without reliable recorded entertainment who are used to making their own. He’s no rockstar, he’s just the guy you can count on at the session.
I’m not totally done with the music posts I don’t think, but I lost focus on them a bit because, y’know. The novel. I’m actually starting to organize it into chapters, which is kind of really exciting, so.
And there’s artwork and I’m really excited about it. Depends how this week goes, if I can make it assume its Final Form or not.
I got another song that’s going in the novel.
It’s not my usual aesthetic but I can’t resist the stars thing. So imagine all the lyrics transposed into less-Earthbound ones, and this is a pop song Poe decides to add to his repertoire when he hears it because he is always looking for pithy, slightly-melodramatic pop songs that work well with one dude and a guitar.
~~~
Johnny Cash doesn’t count as country music, hush.
Also I’m not into filk, which is sort of sad– like, it seems like it would be so up my alley, and in practice every example of it gives me hives and I don’t know why. (I love pineapple and it burns my mouth so I can’t eat it fresh, so don’t feel bad if you’re into either filk or pineapple, they’re just not compatible with me consuming them. This is a value-neutral thing.) I’m not going to filk these songs, I’m just using them as a shortcut to imagining the music that would really be in the story. And of course Poe wouldn’t really be playing a guitar, but as someone else pointed out, the only way Star Wars really makes sense is if you view it kind of like Tolkien’s worldbuilding, where really everyone is totally alien but he translated the Hobbits into archaic English so the reader could relate. Likewise, the actual humans in Star Wars are probably really aliens so bizarre we’d not even know where to begin understanding them, but if you just– recast them as humans and re-imagine the whole thing from that perspective, then it makes sense. But you’re starting with a conceit of making these Utterly Alien creatures actually Just Like Us But Superficially Different.
So if I want them to have guitars, they have guitars. And there’s a space version of Johnny Cash, and Poe cribs shamelessly from him. Because Poe isn’t a singer/songwriter, he’s just a performer, in the old-fashioned way of people without reliable recorded entertainment who are used to making their own. He’s no rockstar, he’s just the guy you can count on at the session.
I’m not totally done with the music posts I don’t think, but I lost focus on them a bit because, y’know. The novel. I’m actually starting to organize it into chapters, which is kind of really exciting, so.
And there’s artwork and I’m really excited about it. Depends how this week goes, if I can make it assume its Final Form or not.
