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A thread to discuss My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the tie-in media.

All of the usual forum rules apply. In addition, please remember that the thread is discussing a kids' show, and it's primarily focused on the work itself, not the fanfic — in particular, we don't want to see lewdness creeping in.

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I don't know WHAT the Hell happened (I blame shenanigans) but we're going to start from scratch. Post your feels for this awesome show again! Naow!

Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM

KylerThatch literary masochist Since: Jan, 2001
literary masochist
#38351: Jan 14th 2014 at 9:33:11 PM

Here.

This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...
marcen12 Sigh from Under The Floorboards (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Sigh
#38352: Jan 14th 2014 at 9:37:32 PM

I drank most of the brain bleach! Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday to the song that will never end!

https://youtu.be/_1F5HhUvFbM?si=csgwerqELcG6615q
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#38353: Jan 14th 2014 at 9:38:37 PM

I've seen a bunch of people say this but I don't get it either. What's wrong with the animation?

I think the main problem is that the way they jump back and forth in unison in front of the cart looks really unnatural and it happens repeatedly. It reminds me more of that fan animation of Luna dancing.

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Sydxelia Are you into... Vinyl? from Cranberry World Since: Nov, 2010
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#38354: Jan 14th 2014 at 9:50:54 PM

Yeah, the dancing just looked weird to me.

@ Ike: Try this.

I put my friend in a coconut! He lives in my hat! Hey, come hang out!
Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#38355: Jan 14th 2014 at 9:59:06 PM

At least it wasn't a 'Dick in a Box' joke.

But now it is.

That's a tumblr moment.

Hello? "Generosity"?

Way too generic musically, and too story-dependent lyrically. Doesn't really play its genre off the plot or setting (imagine if Rarity did, say, a Sinatra-style thing instead. Also I totally want to hear Rarity do that). It felt like the sort of generic ballad a Broadway musical does as filler between the songs people actually remember.

Come to think of it, all of Rarity's songs throughout the series sound pretty much the same.

This show's music just tends to be strongest and most memorable when it breaks out of Generic Girl Show Music and hits other genres.

edited 14th Jan '14 10:06:17 PM by Pykrete

Sydxelia Are you into... Vinyl? from Cranberry World Since: Nov, 2010
Are you into... Vinyl?
#38356: Jan 14th 2014 at 10:05:56 PM

Rarity reacts:

I put my friend in a coconut! He lives in my hat! Hey, come hang out!
Swasfewses Hermit from New York Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky
Hermit
#38357: Jan 14th 2014 at 10:07:21 PM

Doesn't really play its genre off the plot or setting
Generosity is explicitly inspired by and styled after Big Band music, which owes part of its popularity long ago to the city.

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Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#38358: Jan 14th 2014 at 10:15:21 PM

It wasn't big bandy at all. The song was like 90% generic guitar/piano/xylophone pop. The only thing that really set it apart from Art of the Dress or Becoming Popular was like, one very understated trumpet for half a verse (and not secretly being a Barbara Streisand cover).

I mean, I've played big band. It sounds like this:

Imagine Rarity busting out saucy jazz.

edited 14th Jan '14 10:19:03 PM by Pykrete

Swasfewses Hermit from New York Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky
Hermit
#38359: Jan 14th 2014 at 10:17:02 PM

*shrug*

Tell that to Ingram then.

Generosity is intended as a modern interpretation of a Big Band style song to evoke a feeling of old New York/Frank Sinatra nostalgia.
Which, considering it is modern Manehattan, I personally think he nailed what he was going for.

edited 14th Jan '14 10:38:04 PM by Swasfewses

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IkeAndMike Exists for some reason from Earth Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
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#38360: Jan 14th 2014 at 10:18:12 PM

Thanks, Syd.

Well, goodnight.

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#38361: Jan 14th 2014 at 10:22:38 PM

I'm always so lost when it comes to music theory.

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Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#38362: Jan 14th 2014 at 10:27:20 PM

Generosity is intended as a modern interpretation of a Big Band style song to evoke a feeling of old New York/Frank Sinatra nostalgia.

Key words.

The influence is detectable, certainly (especially in the ending when they finally let the brass show some teeth), but it's incredibly watered down with generic modern pop. Big band music is typically either way more somber or way more bombastic. I mean, that was the point — contrasting the big city's flash with its dark side.

You know, I kind of want to hear a version of the sad reprise with more traditional jazz/bluesy accompaniment, because the tune is at least mildly compatible with it if you're careful with the chords. Tenor trombone, Harmon mutes, the works.

edited 14th Jan '14 10:40:43 PM by Pykrete

Swasfewses Hermit from New York Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky
Hermit
#38363: Jan 14th 2014 at 10:31:00 PM

I'm hearing plenty of it listening to the instrumental, but if you say so.

edited 14th Jan '14 10:34:50 PM by Swasfewses

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#38364: Jan 14th 2014 at 10:41:17 PM

I don't even know what Big Band is. Based on the discussion I assume it involved jass or brass of some kind.

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Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#38365: Jan 14th 2014 at 10:43:48 PM

I'm willing to concede that it sounds like Broadway (or at least modern Broadway pop — in fact, it sounds pretty much exactly like modern Broadway pop). Just...the least remarkable part of it.

[up] Big band is pretty inextricably rooted in jazz, blues, and swing. Culturally, it was part of the period following the World Wars, Great Depression, and Prohibition, and reflected a lot of very intense sentiments about war (where big bands were often used on tour to raise morale), wealth disparity (performers were often intimately familiar with both sides of the poverty line), economic corruption and runaway crime, and race. Instrumentally, that usually means heavy brass and/or sax, prominent bass, occasionally string harmony, and liberal use of tonal modulation (mutes, growling, loose articulation etc.). Musically, it means a whole lot of darker sound and even outright dissonance. In its more upbeat moments, it was rowdy and edgy, and a literal fuck the police. In its softer ones, it was a bittersweet, broody kind of intimate. The dual style very much represented a big city's schizophrenic nature as centers of both high- and low-life, where there can be as little as a few yards of alley between the two, and where performers from shiny bars hang up their hats in shitty apartments made of 40% mold by mass.

IMO neither rendition of Generosity really hits that, though the reprise at least comes workably close. Rarity's happy and then sad, but overall in a very gentle, major key way. Big band wasn't just about throwing in a few trumpets — the darker, bluesy, dirtier kink in the chords and tone is what really defined it.

edited 14th Jan '14 11:36:19 PM by Pykrete

IrishZombie Since: Dec, 2009
#38366: Jan 14th 2014 at 11:57:32 PM

If you need to know what big band music sounds like, then just think of this tune.

Admittedly, there is more to big band music than swing, but it typically is, and even when it's not it tends to have the same instrumentation.

darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#38367: Jan 15th 2014 at 5:15:02 AM

I'd say there's no such thing as generic girly music, whatever that's supposed to be. I can say for instance that becoming Popular is not the same genre as art of the Dress. And I'll vouch for Hearts strong as Horses. Repetitive it may be on the chorus, but it's a march tune so it makes sense, and there's a lot of good harmonies in it.

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#38369: Jan 15th 2014 at 5:57:25 AM

Post of the Day #622

The up-side down flying does look pretty fun, the rest, not so much. Those are some really great sketches as well.

how did the pinecone eating thing start, anyway?

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#38372: Jan 15th 2014 at 6:20:36 AM

an old friend of mine who i was... emotionally attached to had gained superpowers. she soon went mad with the power and started wrecking the city. i had superpowers too, so when i caught up to her, I had to fight her while trying to talk her out of it. all the while, this was playing in the background.

edited 15th Jan '14 6:21:22 AM by crimsonstorm15

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#38373: Jan 15th 2014 at 6:22:35 AM

Did you watching anything about superheros before going to bed?

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Darling.
#38375: Jan 15th 2014 at 6:26:12 AM

I know THAT feeling. Stuff you didn't even know you retained in your memory just decide to all come up at once.

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