Why do I hate this?
Be Magnified
It’s not the song itself, which I have heard done nicely and non-schlockily.
But good grief ..... all the instrumentation, and then, that cheesiest of cheesy pop song tricks, the transposition up as we reach/repeat a final refrain.
Give a listen to the full audio preview - I’d be interested, why does this stuff sound so awful to me?
posted by Cantor @ 4:34 PM
6 comments
6 Comments:
Why does it sound so awful to you?
Maybe because you don't like your emotions to be manipulated so obviously. You prefer to be manipulated less obviously. :^)
I haven't heard the clip, but from your description I'm afraid it would test my charity.
The link doesn't work now. "Internal Server Error." Did you generate all kinds of bad publicity? Bad Cantor, bad Cantor! LOL
Hm - works for me....
Hmm, why use a deceptive cadence to set the word "magnified," I wonder.
This song would sound very much at home in a Disney movie musical -- as the soliloquy of some young character(s) resolving to right some wrong, perhaps.
I see this as highly appropriate for a Christian movie soundtrack.
It is also *exactly* the kind of music played in the wealthier Southern Baptist services. I've been to them (my relatives), so I'm not being at all facetious. The time comes, a girl or a group of girls takes the mike, a CD is cued up in the background, and the entire congregation sits and listens as the girls sing these musical-type songs. It's very like karaoke. I'm not casting aspersions: if this is how they sincerely worship, I have nothing to say. But it is useless to deny that, in Roman Catholicism, this sort of music represents a clearly Protestant import.
mary jane
A Protestant music director once told me that a sure-fire way to get the congregation to be moved emotionally is to make them sing some song structured around the Stages of Life: birth, youth, middle age, old age, and death. This taps into some area of the brain that connects memory and emotion, so that they get this combined rush of memory and benevolence "under the aspect of eternity," as they say. No one is immune!
To play on this deliberately strikes me as manipulative and wrong, as it forces one's reflection to focus on oneself, and grow maudlin.
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