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1. Hugamari - Theodore
The imagery here was very ClarksonSlays, see you in court fat! This was an interesting concept, not as far out as I would've liked but it was fairly original.
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I was worried about it myself, but I also thought "Just how 'out there' can you get before you're just being weird for the sake of being weird?"...I didn't want that at all, seeing as that's one of my biggest issues with a certain eccentric woman. I wanted the concept to be...idk unfamiliar, but I know it's not really novel or anything.
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"Lights" by Ellie Goulding kind of handled this topic as well - being afraid of the dark and turning to others for comfort - but I thought the fact that this centered on a teddy bear of all things was quite interesting.
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Example 1. Mine is more being scared of storms than the dark, but I get the point here anyway. My song isn't "I've never seen anything like this.", it's more of a "That's an interesting twist to things.", which is what I got from 8th and Pears' posts in here. I'll just use them posting
Shadow, for reference. Love songs are anything but new, but them having the focus of the song being on their shadow suddenly puts a new twist on things. I guess I kind of wanted that, but I didn't want to outright steal an idea from f(x), so I handled it a bit differently. Idk if it worked or not, but whatever.
EDIT: I thought about making my song about the perspective of a dog who is scared of storms (aka my dog), and I think that would've been a better perspective as far as the challenge calls for, but I REALLY felt that I could write this song much better than from the perspective of a dog, and getting "messy" or "clunky" wasn't a critique I was ready to face.
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I think this is the, if not one of, first song(s) of the season that had a heavy amount of imagery but made it work.
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I really wanted to make sure my imagery had a reason to be there! Imagery is great and all, but its power comes from explaining a situation in a vivid and creative way, so throwing any words that sound pretty into the fan only makes for a pretty sounding phrase, and I know I'm guilty of that myself (Yozakura and Daybreak, off the top of my head.), but I knew it was too late to be doing that type of thing this far into the game, so I'm glad king of imagery himself felt the imagery had purpose.
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The first stanza of the chorus is definitely your standout lyric from the season, and one of the biggest standouts overall.
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Well damn, I'm honored! I'll take your word from it as someone who has read all the songs this season.
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The only place where I thought it got a bit out of hand was the first stanza, where you were describing a dream which of course could be anything, so you threw a lot of vocabulary and images out there as if it were a cadenza. Don't let your word choices - i.e. "apex" - get the best of you.
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The dream was so convenient to write to, I actually wrote the second verse first, just to get the verse structure down, then I just ran with whatever images popped into my head. Could be considered lazy, I suppose.
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Still, this was really well done.
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I was thinking to myself all week that I totally missed the mark, but I feel a bit better now! Thanks for your review, as always, Temp.
#1 confirmed!
