#piano again

[jellyskink]

You CANNOT tell me Bill Cipher had enough patience to actually learn an instrument

[casekt]

Not me making plans n doing research for a solo black metal project stopppppp why am I like this I'm not even a man

[tinnedmarlin]

trying out new hobbies

[socallmedaisy]

absolutely obsessed with the implications of the different versions of the ballad now we have the full picture. it really is a masterclass in songwriting.

we start with nicky's version. the road is a metaphor for death, but it's about acceptance ("tame your fears, a door appears, the time has come to go"). it resolves musically, we end on the note we began on. it's in a major key, it sounds happy. it's a fun little tune.

agatha takes this and twists it in the version that plays over the montage of her killing covens. some of the chords are the same (A and D in the chorus) but they're minor versions now. it sounds dark and sad. agatha is grieving. when the other witches join in the harmonies are sinister, adding notes from the minor key. this becomes canonised in the sacred chant version: for 260 years agatha has been stuck grieving nicky.

enter lorna wu. her version is in a different key (p sure it's E flat major at the start). there are still some minor chords but the overall effect isn't the same, it's a major key. partly this is a trick of the instruments and the rock/pop vibe but we know there's a still a mother's grief about not being able to save her child (and herself?) in there, but she's more positive about this than agatha was: she accepts her own death, and she will protect alice if she can, but ultimately the road is still a metaphor about death and everyone walks it, but this time lorna changes the lyrics (the door doesn't appear to death in this version, it appears "to love that never dies" the people we love stay with us after death). and then the bridge. now a bridge musically takes us somewhere new, quite often it signals a key change, a turning point in the lyrics, something shifting. here I think the function is to show us that lorna is not accepting of agatha's static version of the ballad that has stayed the same (unable to move past her grief). the key modulates to a minor one (I think it's A minor), it's sad as lorna tells alice that though lorna will die, she'll always be with her: "if I can't reach you... if I can't hold you, remember what I told you". I think it's significant the last chorus is "we" go down, down, down the road. everyone walks the road to death. it's part of life. agatha can't accept this, but lorna does. she'll see alice at the end.

[squuote]

ive done a piano drop joke before and by god ill do it again. piano crashers

[staticair]

[piano time]

This piece was done for the amazing @calvinahobbes for the @phandomgives creator raffle!

[souenkun]

I need the pokemas anniversary to come soon so we can hopefully see volo go batshit crazy again for the second time!!!

[pondanimal]

the fabled pink nightie

this is the particular post im referencing, no clue how accurate it is but the imagery was so vivid i was instantly obsessed

@m1ssunderstanding

[in-lemonade-skies]

yeag,

[azuries]

close call!

[bajablastflavoredsaxreed]

i hate him so much<333

[hyakunana]

The Black Rabbit Brotherhood

[space-sheep08]

Actually so tired that people mainly focus on the bdsm when they talk about La Pianiste when we literally have this dynamic right here. Like, that's insane.

What if you were a little girl in her 40's who couldn't grow up because of your mother-wife who made you sleep in her bed and forced you to repress every sexual desires and thoughts of becoming your own person just to keep you close to her ? What if you fought back and yearned for dangerous things out of her reach ? But also, what if you let her because it's all you've ever known and been taught to want ?

[starryluminary]

I really can’t overstate how damn funny this game is

[pictureday2005]

DONT REPOST THIS thanks

[pinktrashgoblin]

”Two sides of one coin.”

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Don’t worry. They’re still gonna try to kill each other quite a bit.

also I’m not apologizing for lycan

Btw, the song Cuda plays is an actual song! I nabbed the tab off of Musescore, but you’re gonna have to work to figure out what it is if you don’t already know ;] here’s a little hint: it’s played in D flat major, and I had to mess with the score to get it to fit lmao

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