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The prompt was 'Swan'
bweeeeeeeeehhhhhh
update: it's gone from a semitone to roughly 58 cents off but it's still really really annoying. never thought there would come a day when i'd wish to be tone-deaf
my family and i have been fighting a nasty bronchial infection for the past week and a half and today i woke up with an earache from sleeping on my side
AND NOW EVERYTHING IN MY RIGHT EAR SOUNDS A HALF-STEP LOWER THAN IT SHOULD BE
i can't listen to music because it sounds exactly like this
like i'm bummed but it's also extremely funny
some of the soup recipes ive found remind me of when i was like nine or ten and battling a cold so my tastebuds were off. and i put grape juice in my chicken noodle soup. and it was my new favorite food for about a week
it's hell trying to find medieval western european recipes that are 1. somewhat autism-safe, 2. don't contain nuts or other allergens, and 3. aren't some horrible food crime
though you don't have to tell me that restrictions like these completely defeat the purpose
if one is to prepare a historical meal, one must make the conscious decision to eat something completely rank, get overstimmed and die of anaphylaxis and also tastebud poisoning
i must have a crap ton of space between my ears because it took me this long to figure out why some folks (myself included) may not have recognized "Somebody Super Like You" as a rework/musical mutilation of "Phantom's Theme"
The chord progression of Phantom's Theme's verses is altered slightly in Somebody Super, so the brunt of the similarity comes from the "i-VI-i-VI" heard at the very start of each verse - and from a musical standpoint, those chords on their own aren't terribly unique. You can hear them in the guitar riff of Echoes and the overture to ALW's Phantom Of The Opera, among oodles of other examples.
Interestingly, within the film, the progression is also in the verses of "Old Souls" (albeit in the key of C minor), which'd lead one to think that Somebody Super and Life At Last were both ripping it off, just different parts of it, when this wasn't actually the case
The similarities between Somebody Super and Phantom's Theme would've been made obvious during the bridge, which introduces a key change and a contrasting, major chord progression, kept identical in both songs. Issue being: the bridge of Phantom's Theme wasn't included in the film, likely for the sake of pacing. it's a creative decision that 100% made sense for the scene, but would unfortunately have musical repercussions later down the line.
probably common knowledge but that's my autism for the day