#i like it when theres just like. one bar in a different time sig and the music moves on like nothing happened

[marijanetunes]

the thing about using uncommon time signatures is that sometimes you can like. Feel the smugness in the music. it doesn’t ruin the song for me because i’m also smug about that sort of thing but like you can often psychically detect when the song is written with a vibe of “oooooo guys check it outtttt we wrote a song in 7/4 or some shitttttttt”. and like thats fine. i honestly have a thing for pretension and egotism and slightly masturbatory experimentation in art. but some songs in uncommon time just feel so much more intuitive. finding one of those is so blissful like it just feels like a knot in my brain is unravelling. smug uncommon time feels like i’m engaged in combat with the music, like i’m on a mechanical bull or trying to outwit a trickster god. intuitive uncommon time feels like realizing you’re fluent in a language you’ve never spoken before. my goal for 2025 is to become even more insufferable and pretentious.