DevonDreams
Choosing three songs from the same artist wasn’t a bad idea per se, but as a consequence your trinity comes off as awfully samey-sounding. I do think that the songs you chose fit exceptionally well with the scene you described, but for such an unusual concept, I would have liked to see more detail.
that G.U.Y.
This entry cracked me up
It’s like you went out of your way to make it as ratchet as possible. (I’m allowed to say “ratchet,” right?)
One thing I’ve noticed about you is that your taste in music is impressively eclectic, and you really use that to your advantage here. The songs you chose conveyed three different moods (tranquility, panic and… relief?) while still maintaining the surreal, psychedelic atmosphere. I guess my only complaint is that I’m not sure that the last song fit with the ending of the story; “Hey Mama” is a little too high-energy to accompany relief.
MusicLoverDude
I have a feeling you’ve been watching a lot of cartoons lately
As much as I enjoyed this entry, I think you chose the wrong round to submit it. Being in love can feel like a drug-induced high (plenty of artists have made that comparison), but I don’t really get a psychedelic vibe from either your songs or your analysis of Helga. I guess you could see her Tsundere-like behavior towards Arnold as…abnormal, but not surreal.
Kxvk
Oh, a genre analysis! That’s not something I expected to see this round.
The first song in your trinity didn’t sound all that dissimilar from the J-pop I had heard before. The second two, though, sounded like nothing I had ever heard before. Both of them sounded like bizarre genre mashups, and the erratic melodies made me feel… uneasy, on a visceral level. I get the feeling that I would be even more freaked out if I could actually understand them. But unless I’m mistaken, that seems to be the intent of the genre.
Xedretinz Lododnz
Oh, dear lord, Happy Tree Friends. I saw it for the first time when I was eleven and I was absolutely mortified.
On the positive side, you described the show in a pretty appetizing way, and almost convinced me to start checking it out again. (I’m not sure I will, but I’ll let you know if I do.) I also liked how you included a description of each song, connecting it to both HTF and the round's theme. On the negative side… “Mass Text”? Really? I kind of get what you were going for, but there were other songs you could have chosen if you wanted to convey “trippy” and “stupid” at the same time.
Overall, though, I’d say that HTF is more than demented enough to base a Trippy Trinity around, and for the most part, you pulled it off.
By the way, is Flippy supposed to be a shell-shocked war veteran? If so, that’s… pretty damn tasteless, but hey, so is the rest of the cartoon.
Witch Privilege
The trinity starts off well, but it gets sidetracked halfway through. By the time Ellie’s song comes around, it just becomes a standard love trinity, with little relation to the round’s theme. As for your song choices… “Clumsy” is pretty freaky, as far as pop songs go, but “Fallin’” is too mellow to accompany a bad trip, and “Still Falling For You” doesn’t really evoke the round’s theme at all.
fireaero
Very creative concept! We’ve already seen a personal narrative from the perspective of a drug user earlier, but you put a fascinating twist on it by framing it as a chat log. I do like that you used harsh, abrasive music for the final part of the story, when the conversation turned sour. Although, it’s kind of odd that Sarah would suddenly want to start talking politics with you when she knows you’re high as a kite. I guess she just wanted to get a kii out of whatever bizarre answer you gave, but if that’s the case, then her response was awfully defensive.
That, and I laughed out loud when Papyrus’s theme started
swiftie13
Haunting, engaging, and filled with descriptive language specifically crafted to evoke the mood of both the songs you chose, the story you told and the theme of the trinity. Honestly, this entry is almost too perfect to judge.
I guess the one strike against it would be the explanation, which I thought was unnecessary.
Kingie
See, one thing I’d like more of the contestants to understand is that there’s a difference between being laconic and being lazy. Fortunately, you seem to understand it perfectly.
Here, the words are few and far between, but that’s done deliberately, because (as we can interpret from the formatting) they’re supposed to represent the sparse, sporadic thoughts of a tripped out druggie. And for what it is, it works beautifully well.
Hugamari
Are you for real? You had the gall to call this your most personal entry ever, when its just some underwritten, no-effort piece of-
-oh. Oh, that’s not the real entry. Phew!
As for your real entry… well, for what it’s worth, I think you’re the first contestant in the history of the Holy Trinity to use their own music. I do like how you described your songs in detail and really got into the creative process behind them, so it didn’t just feel like an advertisement for your soundcloud.
On the other hand, I was expecting something a little more… personal. I kind of wish you talked more about how the songs represent you as a person, rather than just the technical aspects of the music you make. What draws you to dark, surreal music?
Temporal
Well, you certainly get an A for effort. That’s not a backhanded insult, by the way; it’s clear you put a lot of work into this trinity, and for that, you have my respect.
Now, as for the trinity itself… let’s just say that I was really impressed by two thirds of it. For each song, you include a narration of the experience (Experience), a scientific explanation behind it (What’s Happening?), and a description of the song you chose for it (Song). The “What’s Happening?” sections are both well written and well researched, and the “Song” sections demonstrate a great ear for detail on your part.
The narrative parts, though, were pretty underwhelming IMO. I thought your prose was too monotonous (“You see this. Then you see that.”), especially considering the subject matter.
jpow
I’m not sure I really get your entry. If the theme is “Trippy Music from Around the World,” then… well, first of all, I think you could have gone for something a little weirder for the African song. Second of all, what exactly are we listening to? Are they just three vaguely psychedelic songs that happen to be from different continents, or do they represent musical genres/ cultural traditions that originated on those continents? This is the kind of entry that begs for some kind of description or explanation, but you don’t give us any.
It was one of the more thorough entries. I felt like you were one of few to really embrace the "trippy" idea, so good job.
