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| A bit disingenuous, no? | |
| Posted by: Billhaven 02:53 pm EDT 08/31/18 | |
| In reply to: What?? - KingSpeed 01:07 pm EDT 08/31/18 | |
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| If you happen to rich And you feel like a night's entertainment You can pay for a gay escapade If you happen to be rich and alone And you need a companion You can ring (ting-a-ling) for the maid If you happen to be rich And you find you are left by your lover And you moan and you groan quite a lot You can take it on the chin Call a cab and begin to recover On your 14-karat yacht! WHAT!? Money makes the world go around ...the world go around ...the world go around Money makes the world go aroung Of that we both are sure... *rasberry sound* on being poor! Money money money money Money money money money Money money money... When you haven't any coal in the stove And you freeze in the winter And you curse to the wind at your fate When you haven't any shoes on your feet Your coat's thin as paper And you look 30 pounds underweight When you go to get a word of advice From the fat little pastor He will tell you to love evermore But when hunger comes to rap Rat-a-tat rat-a-tat at the window *knock knock* (at the window) Who's there? (hunger) oh, hunger!! See how love flies out the door... |
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| re: A bit disingenuous, no? | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 04:23 am EDT 09/01/18 | |
| In reply to: A bit disingenuous, no? - Billhaven 02:53 pm EDT 08/31/18 | |
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| Good point. But the chorus is more repetitive and less interesting than "Sitting Pretty" to me. | |
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| re: A bit disingenuous, no? | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 11:31 am EDT 09/01/18 | |
| In reply to: re: A bit disingenuous, no? - KingSpeed 04:23 am EDT 09/01/18 | |
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| ...and during one of those patter sections, there's that "ooh, money money money" riff going on in the background. More repetition. To try to succinctly and rationally make the point I was trying to yesterday - Many songs rely on some small sense of repetition, because that's how song form is built. Titles get repeated, or key phrases, or, lists get built so that there's a sense of formal unity in a refrain for the audience to grab onto quickly. That's incredibly common, and nothing extraordinary. "Sitting Pretty" makes use of some of that. IMO, there's no more sense of repetition in that song than in many a typical standard. "Money Makes The World Go Round" happens to be a terrific song that is built largely on constant, insistent repetition - right from the way that literal consecutive repetitions of one single phrase make up most of the chorus. The repetition of the word "money" pervades the song as a mantra. And not only is "money" a counterpoint to the first patter section as I noted above, but the 2nd patter section is done as a round, so the words are being repeated just after we've heard them in counterpoint fashion. (And although the main lyrics in the patter sections are not built on deliberate repetition, the music to those sections relies on short repetitive phrases, figures., and sequences.) "Sitting Pretty" is a very typical standard AABA song, using expected elements of long-form repetition as many/most songs do. "Money Makes The World Go Round" is built on a more complicated structure, and the lyric relies on much more prevalent and extraordinary small-form use of repetition (i.e. the same words or phrases literally repeated over and over next to each other). The song's veritable building block is repetition, in a way that most songs are NOT built. Auf wiedersehn, A bientot, (drumroll out). ;-) |
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| Precisely. nm | |
| Last Edit: KingSpeed 07:04 pm EDT 09/01/18 | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 07:03 pm EDT 09/01/18 | |
| In reply to: re: A bit disingenuous, no? - Chromolume 11:31 am EDT 09/01/18 | |
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