From a2612eaa55c13734a5d7dfd04dc61167217234cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederick Yin Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 20:49:02 +0800 Subject: music/clancy_review: end of semester, backslide --- docs/music/clancy_review.md | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/music/clancy_review.md b/docs/music/clancy_review.md index d4f95d4..d5d7320 100644 --- a/docs/music/clancy_review.md +++ b/docs/music/clancy_review.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Review of _Clancy_ (2024) -Last Updated 2024-03-31 +Last Updated 2024-05-13 ## Overcompensate @@ -109,3 +109,60 @@ obscene margin. I hope they die. Here's hoping my luck works out on April 2. I hope it's less than $100, but at this point it's not really about cost. + +## Brief intermission: end of semester + +So I guess I wrote this on 2024-03-31: + +> - Despite probably intended to resonate with students, it did not +> resonate with me because I'm doing pretty ok this semester and am not +> contemplating suicide no thank you will check back when i need it + +This did not age well. + +Later on, the triplet of EECS courses nearly killed me (see [Winter 2024 +wrapup](../umich/w24_wrapup.md)). It's the most "Next Semester" moment, as +this line repeated in my head: + +> Can't change what you've done +> Start fresh next semester + +## Backslide + +Oddly poppy. Lots of Asian influences. Like the flutes in the verses and +zither-like riff at the end. The zither, as Paul Meany revealed, was +actually a chopped-up sample of the muted piano in another WIP track. He +nailed the feel though. + +Musically, there was nothing remarkable. Lyrically, there was nothing +remarkable. Apparently the title "Backslide" has biblical origins, but +I couldn't care less. What I assume it means is a relapse into some old +bad habits. + +In a line Tyler discussed how he regretted making "Saturday" on _Scaled +And Icy_ (2021). Back then he described it as a "bop" (it is). Poppiest +song on the record, climax of chill-ness. I do not know the reason why he +regrets it now, nor do I care. Artists change their minds, and set +different standards, and I'm the victim of the inferiority complex that +interferes with my music making. + +Last year I made a song, [This Song Will Uncure Your +Depression](uncure-your-depression.md). I never listen to it. The +unhealthy tendency to compare my work to those produced in a studio has +made it very hard for me to appreciate my own music. Because I made it, +I know how far it is from what I wished it sounds like. + +I wish some day I could be proud of a song I made. + +The selling point of the song is its MV. Josh Dun directed it. It's part +of the plan to shoot one MV for each one of the songs, set to be released +on the same day of the album, which was a late decision that postponed the +release date by a week. + +I bet the boys are having fun coming up with all sorts of crazy shit. In +"Backslide", Tyler bought bread buns, ate some, traded one for a cup of +lemonade, littered all over the street while riding a bicycle, and got +showered in rain and leaves. When he got home, Josh was grilling beef as +Tyler dumped the bag of soggy bread on the pavement. + +He is a menace to society. -- cgit v1.2.3