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doctorwhoisadhd · 1 year ago

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fucking fascinated with the way mitski just straight up DOESNT follow a rhyme scheme in just about any one of her songs i can think of (and even when she does it's only barely, aka only for part of a song or only rhyming using slant or identical rhymes) and yet she is known for her lyrics being fucking insanely good

#ari opinion hour #literally so much fucking respect for her #francis forever + strawberry blonde + washing machine heart are closest to having actual real rhyme schemes #(& the former 2 have the closest thing to a Song's rhyme scheme. like specifically a rhyme scheme thats structured the way a SONG'S would b #but they still highkey do not follow the rules that even other atypically structured modern vernacular songs follow #(vernacular music is what musicologists call traditional / pop / folk music. its the everyday stuff / the opposite of art music (classical)#ive looked at most of her most popular songs / the ones that people love the lyrics of and like #nobody first love late spring me and my husband i bet on losing dogs a pearl liquid smooth i want you last words of a shooting star pink in #the night a burning hill townie texas reznikoff your best american girl + the 3 i already said #LITERALLY NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM HAS A TYPICALLY STRUCTURED RHYME SCHEME FOR VERNACULAR MUSIC #heres the rhyme scheme for francis forever: ABCB'/DD*D*D/ED'FG/DD*D*D/HID*D (' = slant rhyme * = identical rhyme)#here's strawberry blonde: ABCC' / AA'CC' / D / EE'CF*F*C' / DDC''HH'C''' (x3) / II (more apostrophes = different slants)#WHEREAS BY CONTRAST here's dancing queen by abba which has an ACTUALLY typical structure for a rhyme scheme in vernacular music:#AA’BB / CCDD / EEE’ / FF / BBBB / AA’BB / GGH / FF / BBBB / AA’BB / B (postchorus verse prechorus chorus coda)#ALSO to compare: yesterday (the beatles): A*AAA* / B*BBB* / CCADDA* / A*AAA* / CCADDA* / A*AAA* (just verse + chorus)#stacys mom: A*A*A*A* / BBCC / DD / A*ADDAA / A*A* / AAEE / DD / A*ADDAA / A*ADDA AADDAA (intro verse prechorus chorus coda)#see WAY LESS COMPLICATED. and WAY more repeated letters!!

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