"One of the things that I always want people to be aware of is that if I'm talking with a kind of sense of dissatisfaction about the behavior, I'm normally talking about me. So when I say, 'You're so conceited, I said I love you', it doesn't necessarily mean that I'm saying that. You know, it could be them saying, 'You're so conceited, I said I love you. What does it matter if I lie to you?' I don't know. I mean, that wasn't answering your question at all, I'm kind of trying to dodge it."
January 19, 2016: Matty clarifies that, sometimes, when he uses the word 'you', he's actually referring to himself. (source)
i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.
does anyone have like an anti aesthetic. like something you look at and can recognize as a complete fashion/interior design/artistic movement and understand it but it makes you shudder seeing it. i am not talking like “its morally bad” “its poorly structured” like just sheerly devoid of joy for you actually invites a repulse response.
Had this Headcannon that when Multi-Lingual Dick and Jason get drunk they start singing Ballads in Spanish. Yeah some classical shit like Vicente Fernandez but also the most wild Selena you've ever heard.
Dang, Charlie and Emily really are calling out society:
“Was talk of virtue just pretension? Was I too naive to expect you to heed the morals your purveying?”
“That’s what the fuck I’ve been saying!”
“If Hell is forever, then Heaven must be a lie. If angels can do whatever and remain in the sky. The rules are shades of gray when you don’t do as you say.”
"I wrote that chorus four years ago and I wrote the verses three or four months ago. Now that's not to say that 'The Sound' is like an old song, but I mean that melody has been knocking around for like, four years, so I think that it kind of… because it was stuck in my head so long we had to get it out there."
January 19, 2016: Matty discusses 'The Sound' and how the chorus predates the verses. (source)
So we've all heard of the "I Want Song" genre in musicals.
But what about the "Let's talk about the bitch behind their back like they're not in the room" song, or "singing s*** behing a bitche's back". There's a surprising amount of them.
"Belle" from Beauty and the Beast
"Scrooge" from Muppet Christmas Carol
"Maria" from The Sound of Music
"Look at Me I'm Sandra Dee" from Grease
"You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" from How The Grinch Stole Christmas
"Jackass In a Can" from Galavant
"Phony King of England" from Robin Hood
"Stepsister's Lament" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
"Non-Stop" from Hamilton
And, of course, the man, the myth, the legend...
"We Don't Talk About Bruno" from Encanto
You can learn a lot about a character and story from what they sing versus what other people sing about them.
Something I miss from earlier eras of the creative side of the internet was things just being unabashedly low-budget. Just all unashamedly amateur, unprofessional, ‘I don’t own a good camera but I have a story to tell you’, ‘I can’t afford a good mic but I have a song to sing for you,’ ‘I don’t have any kind of background in editing or lighting and I only just picked up this guitar last Tuesday but here’s an entire musical me and my friends wrote about our favourite book, we filmed it on a potato and put it up on YouTube in ten minute segments because we thought it was pretty funny.’