O....Kay....

[ladynox25]

So you have the Beatles' song Paperback Writer. And you have the Monkees' song I'm A Believer. And you put the lyrics of the former with the music of the latter using digital technology. And you get what I heard on the radio on the way to work today.

The effect was...weird.

When you listen to a song over and over again and memorize it and sing along to it, your brain starts to expect the next note, the next word before it comes and if something breaks the rhythm that you're used to, the result is...jarring.

Especially when you tune to the station in the middle of said song so you don't know what they're doing ahead of time. It took me only a few seconds to know that something about this wasn't "right". And it took me only a few seconds more to figure out what was going on.

Not that it was bad, per se. Just...odd. Not what I am used to.

So my reaction was, o....kay....

Comments

[panacea1.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of something bookwoman72 and I (and our evil friends) used to do for amusement back in high school.

I don't know who it was that first noticed you can sing the poetry of Emily Dickenson to the tune of "Amazing Grace."

Nor can I recall who observed that the lyrics and melody of "Amazing Grace" are interchangeable with those of "The Yellow Rose of Texas" and the "Gilligan's Island" theme song.

I do distinctly remember many hours of amusement by the mixing and matching thereof. There were other familiar songs that can be abused the same way - I don't remember most of them now, but "Jingle Bells" works.

(You may have to repeat melodies, double up verses, or stretch a few syllables here and there to make 'em fit, but it's well worth the effort.)

Enjoy :-)