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| From | Career Records <eldeluxe@mcn.net> |
| Subject | Re: bridge/We can work it out |
| Date | Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:48:29 -0700 |
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Well that is a clever bit of writing... The verses are sung double time,
then it goes to half time on the bridge, with the 3/4 section going
heavy... wish I'd thought of that.
That's my gripe about a lot of modern stuff, power pop or otherwise.
It's just one tempo all the way thought, usually too fast or too slow.
No one dares do any thing this clever for fear of confusing the radio
consultants. On top of that, the drums are so stiff, and it's always
that same damn snare sound.
RS
Jocelyn Geboy wrote:
> okay, i'm no beatles or music expert (as in the
> mechanics of it), but it's all twisted. because,
> while the main part of wcwio is faster on the surface
> (rolling along), the bridge gets slower word wise, but
> the intensity of the notes below it seem to speed up
> and thicken.
>
> does that make sense??
>
> jocelyn
> --- Eytan Mirsky <eytanmirsky@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > ARticle:
> > The song "We Can Work It Out," for instance, has a
> > typical
> > McCartney optimism to it, until the bridge, thought
> > to be by
> > Lennon, becomes darker, more dubious, and more
> > hurried
> > on the bridge - "Life is very short, and there's no
> > time ."
> > Says Mann: "It's like the devil's advocate."
> >
> > Me:
> > I'm no Beatles expert, but (every one of my songs
> > has a bridge and) I don't
> > get this. Doesn't the bridge actually seem slower,
> > not faster. It even goes
> > into a kind of psuedo 3/4 time at the end of the
> > lines, kind of like it's
> > winding down, mimicking the lyrical idea that
> > "there's no time."
> >
> > Personally, I was never sure I really understood
> > this song anyway. I always
> > thought the lyrics had a deliberate irony to them. I
> > mean "We can work it
> > out" if you see it MY way, but if you insist on
> > seeing it YOUR way, then
> > everything might fall apart. Maybe this isn't
> > deliberate?
> >
> >
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