Deborah PickettPortable video recording studio engaged. #BigBoatStuckSong #video
I made this daft animation in Procreate for #BigBoatStuckSong #MusicVideo.
While scouring the web for images for #BigBoatStuckSong #MusicVideo, I found this extremely upsetting [for a typographer] image from hotel quarantine in 2021.
Hivemind, I am looking for a dozen or so typical Herald Sun (or other critical newspaper) front page headlines whinging about Dictator Dan during the pandemic, as part of a montage for my #BigBoatStuckSong music video. Does anyone here happen to have access to them and can sneak me some low-resolution JPEGs?
Obviously I will not become a subscriber and I will not encourage you to, but perhaps you already have institutional access?
Edit: Free membership of the State Library of Victoria gives me access to scans of the Herald Sun. Now I just have to brush up on my search-fu. Thanks for the advice!
MyFirstFusionEffect.m4v #BigBoatStuckSong #MusicVideo
@SeaFury 🎵
The Spirit of Tasmania
Sailing thirty-two years strong
The story, sure to pain ya
Is familiar to this song
They’ll surely try to blame the schmuck
Who read the blueprint wrong
Don’t mind that there’s a big boat stuck
You’re stranded in Geelong! 🎵
#BigBoatStuck #BigBoatStuckSong
The Spirit of Tasmania
Sailing thirty-two years strong
The story, sure to pain ya
Is familiar to this song
They’ll surely try to blame the schmuck
Who read the blueprint wrong
Don’t mind that there’s a big boat stuck
You’re stranded in Geelong! 🎵
#BigBoatStuck #BigBoatStuckSong
An excavated Viking
Longship propped upon its blocks
Magnificently striking
Locked up tighter than Fork Knox
Discovered in alluvial guck
We stuck it up on chocks
It's ceased to be a big boat stuck
A comic paradox
If you're a Bandcamper, you can now find Big Boat Stuck there as a free download.
Big Boat Stuck, by Futzle
track by Futzle
Has anyone found the easter egg in verse 5 yet? #BigBoatStuckSong
LYRICS: The climactic C♯dim7 coincides with the word "stuck" in every stanza. The dissonance of the chord juxtaposed with the invocation of the big boat getting ~stuck~ meshes nicely. There's a pregnant pause after the word, a missed beat in the lyrics, for you to savour the stuckness. And then the tension resolves into the punchline at the end of the stanza. Having the song title be the only words that are repeated each stanza helps to emphasise the moment, because like a maritime disaster, you see it coming well ahead and can do nothing to prevent it.
MELODY: A classic hill, rising from low register to high at the climax, descending quickly to the conclusion. During the hook, the notes dance about dangerously. The notes themselves are all the white notes of the C major scale (easy to play on a harmonica) but the intervals are a bit odd, again to set up tension for the dissonant "big boat stuck". The same three-note phrase is then repeated exactly afterwards, this time leading to a resolution, as if we ended up in a melodic cul-de-sac, backed out and had another go.
I'd like to say that this was all deliberate, but it all happened subconsciously during composition and I've only noticed it after analysing my own recording.
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