icontalking | Activity #24 Song Set

tinny posting in

Maybe it's the advent of Spring that's making my muse run into weird directions and coming up with increasingly hard challenges... but we'll try something that used to be a staple in LJ iconmaking and that I haven't seen in over ten years:

Song sets!

A song set consists of icons with the lyrics of one song. Since it's a really old (i.e. extinct) thing, the only example icons I have are my own:

"I don't want to worry whether we're going to stay together until we die"
(Cake, "Love You Madly" lyrics)

In my set, I tried to make every single icon contain meaningful text, but that's definitely not a requirement.
I've never seen a set so large that it contained a whole song - but I won't stop you!
Apart from the text, the icons don't have to look the same or fit together in any other way.

Thanks to

yourlibrarian, who made me look into songsets some more, I found another example set:

"I want a girl with a voice that is dark like tinted glass, I want a girl with a short skirt and a long jacket"
by

errantnotice here
(Ha, another Cake Song: "Short Skirt, Long Jacket" lyrics)

* Really the only rule is that the lyrics should be continuous within the song from one icon to the next.

* Every icon should contain at least one word.
* If you can't make a part of the lyrics work:
** not all words have to be readable!
** NEW: you can leave out short connecting words (like "and", "that",...)
* You can choose any song, or more than one song if you make more than one set.
* If you want to leave out parts of the lyrics, just make separate sets.

* This time there is a minimum of 2 icons: the smallest set is a set of two.
* You can make as many icons (and as many sets) as you like.
* Please link the song lyrics, and/or put the parts you used of them in your comment with your icons

* Please submit your icons (and URLs!) to this post, all in one comment (if possible).
* Everyone can participate, you don't have to be a member of this community.
* I will collect all the icons from the comments and make a result post
* Everyone can leave comments on the inspiration and activity result posts
* There is no voting

Deadline: Saturday, April 20 2019, your end-of-day

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From:

tinny

Ask them here!

Edited Date: 2019-03-30 04:44 pm (UTC)

From:

extrapenguin

If I, hypothetically, wanted to make an icon set for a song not in English (and for a canon neither in English nor the song's language), must I make the icons in the song's original language, or am I allowed to translate into English?

(I have eleventy billion ideas, please send help.)

Re: Questions?

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tinny - Date: 2019-03-31 09:34 am (UTC) - Expand

Re: Questions?

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extrapenguin - Date: 2019-03-31 09:48 am (UTC) - Expand

From:

colls

A fun version of this would be to select one song (something super popular that most people would likely be familiar with?) and see what results people come up with.
Maybe screen the results and have a "reveal" (or not, whichever).

Re: Questions?

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tinny - Date: 2019-04-09 12:53 pm (UTC) - Expand

Re: Questions?

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colls - Date: 2019-04-09 01:07 pm (UTC) - Expand

From:

yourlibrarian

Song set icons seem like such a cool idea! I looked on Fanlore to see if they had an entry on it and I couldn't find one. I thought I'd get a stub started there. Could you tell me any more about them? Do you know when they started?

From:

tinny

I remember trying to put together a rec post a while ago and not finding anything "official" either.

Here's the only comm I found that is not yet deleted and has "songsets" as an interest:

https://30-songset.livejournal.com/profile

They were created in 2006, but I'm pretty sure they were a latecomer and not the beginning.

Their affiliates also look icon-challenge related, maybe you can step through those and find more info?

I remember trying to make a songset in 2004, so I must have seen them around back then.