Membaca struktur ABA'B'CA sebagai representasi dari kehancuran hubungan (rupture) menunjukkan betapa dalam niat sang musisi.
Membaca struktur ABA'B'CA sebagai representasi dari kehancuran hubungan (rupture) menunjukkan betapa dalam niat sang musisi.
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B' sebagai Simbol "The Rupture" (Perpecahan): Jika B adalah puncak keharmonisan persahabatan, maka B' (B-aksen) adalah versi yang terdistorsi. Melodi terfragmen, terdengar "kurang vokal" atau tidak utuh. Ini secara auditif menggambarkan komunikasi yang mulai terputus, pesan yang tidak tersampaikan, atau kecanggungan yang muncul saat hubungan mulai retak. Ketidakharmonisan di dalam variasi yang terfragmentasi sering kali menciptakan rasa gelisah (anxiety). Ini menggambarkan fase di mana "tarian" mereka mulai kehilangan langkah, tidak lagi sinkron, sampai akhirnya pecah.
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B' sebagai Simbol "The Rupture" (Perpecahan): Jika B adalah puncak keharmonisan persahabatan, maka B' (B-aksen) adalah versi yang terdistorsi. Melodi terfragmen, terdengar "kurang vokal" atau tidak utuh. Ini secara auditif menggambarkan komunikasi yang mulai terputus, pesan yang tidak tersampaikan, atau kecanggungan yang muncul saat hubungan mulai retak. Ketidakharmonisan di dalam variasi yang terfragmentasi sering kali menciptakan rasa gelisah (anxiety). Ini menggambarkan fase di mana "tarian" mereka mulai kehilangan langkah, tidak lagi sinkron, sampai akhirnya pecah.
Teori Rondo (ABACA): Ide...
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Teori Rondo (ABACA): Ide bahwa lagu ini seharusnya menjadi Rondo jika mereka tidak putus ikatannya adalah observasi yang sangat brilian. Dalam struktur Rondo, tema A akan selalu kembali setelah setiap penyimpangan (B, C, D). Ini melambangkan kepastian. Jika hubungan mereka sehat, seberapa jauh pun mereka berkembang (B atau C), mereka akan selalu kembali ke "rumah" yang sama (A). Jika B' (keretakan) itu tidak ada, maka transisi dari B langsung kembali ke A, lalu ke C, dan kembali ke A akan membentuk siklus persahabatan yang abadi dan stabil. Namun, dengan adanya B' dan C (yang biasanya merupakan bagian paling kontras atau emosional), struktur ini menjadi linear dan tidak kembali ke siklus yang stabil. Ia menceritakan sebuah progres perjalanan dari perkenalan, konflik, kehancuran, hingga akhirnya A yang terakhir bukan lagi "kepulangan", melainkan "kenangan terakhir" (penerimaan).
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Mengapa ABA'B'CA Terasa Lebih Menyakitkan? Struktur ini tidak melingkar sempurna seperti Rondo klasik. Kehadiran B' memastikan bahwa pendengar tahu ada sesuatu yang salah. Ini adalah representasi jujur dari sebuah hubungan yang tidak berakhir dengan happy ending. Bagian C sering kali menjadi bridge emosional yang paling dalam; momen di mana realita benar-benar menghantam sebelum akhirnya ditutup oleh A yang terasa sangat sepi.
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Read all the comments here and no one mentioned Rick Ross as the Crack Hitler! Shame on you! Look him up or Gary Webb's story!
Read all the comments here and no one mentioned Rick Ross as the Crack Hitler! Shame on you! Look him up or Gary Webb's story!
I was just sent this song by my boyfriend last night. He has this endearing tendency to send a song to say something meaningful or emotional that he can't say directly.
I was just sent this song by my boyfriend last night. He has this endearing tendency to send a song to say something meaningful or emotional that he can't say directly.
I've listened to it multiple times, looked at the lyrics and all the interpretations. One thing is very clear - this song is versatile - people relate to it - but for their own, varied reasons. I think that's what art is all about, right?
I've listened to it multiple times, looked at the lyrics and all the interpretations. One thing is very clear - this song is versatile - people relate to it - but for their own, varied reasons. I think that's what art is all about, right?
So... for me, before reading all the interpretations, it felt very personal and felt like it related directly to my situation.
So... for me, before reading all the interpretations, it felt very personal and felt like it related directly to my situation.
I agree it’s a Christian fearing…..
I agree it’s a Christian fearing…..
“I don’t pretend to know what you want, but I offer love”; with those chords, best line ever x
“I don’t pretend to know what you want, but I offer love”; with those chords, best line ever x
It doesn't surprise me that people would really turn this toward religion. As against religion as Maynard or the band may be, i don't get that from this song.
It doesn't surprise me that people would really turn this toward religion. As against religion as Maynard or the band may be, i don't get that from this song.
Being someone who struggled with different addictions i can definitely relate to every line in this song.
Being someone who struggled with different addictions i can definitely relate to every line in this song.
"There's a shadow just behind me, Shrouding every step I take, Making every promise empty, Pointing every finger at me."
"There's a shadow just behind me, Shrouding every step I take, Making every promise empty, Pointing every finger at me."
Drug/Alcohol addiction promises alot but there is always a price. People get high to feel good. However, You will feel empty when you aren't high, but you will be judged when you...
Drug/Alcohol addiction promises alot but there is always a price. People get high to feel good. However, You will feel empty when you aren't high, but you will be judged when you are. Hence the reason it makes "every promise empty and pointing every finger at me"
"Waiting like a stalking butler Who upon the finger rests. Murder now the path called "must we" Just before the son has come."
Addiction stands like a butler that follows you and like a butler it promises to help you through your day and the analogy of the butler on the finger as a way to use. Alot of drugs will lay on your finger especially if your snorting.
"The path called 'must we'" references to me the "Rules of the world". Kind of a Damned if you do Damned if you don't kind of thing. Addictions will tell the user that they need to not be concerned with what "needs to be done". Just sit back and use/drink/smoke/whatever.
"Jesus wont you Fucking Whistle Something but the past and done Jesus won't you Fucking whistle Something but the past and done"
Reaching out for answers but feeling like your past is the reason you won't ever find forgiveness or peace.(I mean come on how many of us have felt the negative effects of a night drinking/partying/smoking/whatever and gotten sick and cried out to God even if you don't believe he exists. "God if you get me out of this i'll never drink again".) Asking "Jesus if you are real all i want is a whistle" or "God if you are real now would be the time to show it".
"Why can't we not be sober? I just want to start this over. Why can't we drink forever. I just want to start things over."
This is the argument every person has at one time or another during their time of addiction. (if you haven't then congrats you are the first i've ever heard of.)
"I am just a worthless liar. I am just an imbecile. I will only complicate you. Trust in me and fall as well. I will find a center in you. I will chew it up and leave, I will work to elevate you Just enough to bring you down."
The reality of what our addictions bring in the end. And i'm not talking about the recreational or social users, i'm talking about the ADDICTS who need it. Those who cant function in their day without whatever their addiction is. (i'm not condemning, i was there at one point too and i know how that battle goes.)
So there's my take. it's all based on personal experience so i could be way off. I'm not personal friends with the band so obviously i can't say this is what they meant, but when i listen to this song, this is what it tells me.