1. When the key changes in a song.
2. Pictures of princesses by Edmund DuLac in Stories from the Arabian Nights
3. Just before I fall asleep on a hot night I throw my covers off. I wake up chilly a few hours later and pull the cooled covers round myself.
Don't like hot sticky pillows.
ReplyDeletei once sent a girl the dulac picture of the princess on a pile of mattresses with the message "don't sleep on your own tonight"
ReplyDeleteNumber 1 yes, but only when it goes somewhere. When the song changes key to string things out and mask the fact that it's a boring song, then it's a Bad Thing.
ReplyDeleteEg: Michael Jackon - Earth Song: bad.
James Taylor - Mexico: good.
I like the way you hear the change, and then your brain tries to pretend nothing is different. But I'm going to look out for good examples and bad examples from now on, and next time I mention it you will think me a model of good musical taste!
ReplyDeleteIt's like the old trick of repeating the last line and fading out for no good reason other than that the arranger can't think of a way of ending it.