after a bit more googling i found this excerpt from an interview by The Indie Handbook:
TIH: How would you say your classical training has influenced your songwriting?
SW: Honestly, the singing, I don’t think about it at all. But at the beginning of the writing process for Shark’s Teeth, I was listening to a lot of Boulez and so I was trying to write songs, more so trying not to be prescriptive of the songs, not dictating the form of the songs. Allowing the harmony to take it to a different place, or not having repeated choruses or kind of trying to find different ways of setting the text, so in a certain way the texts was more important, the texts and the harmonies were the priorities. You can see that with songs like “Goodbye Forever” or “If I Were Queen”.
so that may be part of the answer. but also i notice that there's a joke in the pronunciation: so far as i remember, Boulez does actually pronounce his name with a Z as in Zebra. one would might expect a silent Z as in Chez Moi. So when i this verse, i expect 'Boulez' to rhyme with 'Way' (like 'Chez') form the previous line; which it does not...
Boulez is a 20th C french composer. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pierre+boulez
after a bit more googling i found this excerpt from an interview by The Indie Handbook:
TIH: How would you say your classical training has influenced your songwriting?
SW: Honestly, the singing, I don’t think about it at all. But at the beginning of the writing process for Shark’s Teeth, I was listening to a lot of Boulez and so I was trying to write songs, more so trying not to be prescriptive of the songs, not dictating the form of the songs. Allowing the harmony to take it to a different place, or not having repeated choruses or kind of trying to find different ways of setting the text, so in a certain way the texts was more important, the texts and the harmonies were the priorities. You can see that with songs like “Goodbye Forever” or “If I Were Queen”.
so that may be part of the answer. but also i notice that there's a joke in the pronunciation: so far as i remember, Boulez does actually pronounce his name with a Z as in Zebra. one would might expect a silent Z as in Chez Moi. So when i this verse, i expect 'Boulez' to rhyme with 'Way' (like 'Chez') form the previous line; which it does not...
:-)