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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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