Activity #24 Song Set

[tinny]

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

Comments

[timetobegin]

thank you!

[timetobegin]

really nice lyrics, like your text work too, nice fonts!

[timetobegin]

It took me ages to find a song!!!
I did eventually look at soundtracks which helped

[timetobegin]

good choice!!!! i especially like how good the last two fist, but the text and composition on that first one is great!

[timetobegin]

ahaha good job!!! like the coloured theme as well!

[extrapenguin]

Thank you! Zhu Hong especially I am proud of - she has excellent expressions, and that's a nice moment of her growing into her powers and having an appropriately awe-inspiring expression.

[extrapenguin]

Thank you!

[colls]

That's what vidding is like. (LOL)

[colls]

Thank you!

Tyrion ♥ - that one is my favorite of the set, too. :)

[colls]

Thank you! :)

[colls]

Thanks! This challenge was harder than I expected - not the song choice but the image choice once I got the song. Jon and Ygritte were the only ones I knew going in.

[colls]

Nice cropping and the text on #2 is my favorite (both content and composition of it).
I like that you have a color theme for the set, it works so well.

Re: Questions?

[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).

[colls]

I realized as I came back to reply to comments that I forgot to inlcude my urls.

Here they are:
https://i.imgur.com/4jOm9nQ.png
https://i.imgur.com/jvf2XYn.png
https://i.imgur.com/fZ3Y1Wk.png
https://i.imgur.com/9Pt93pJ.png
https://i.imgur.com/7OwPZ4X.png

Sorry about that! :) (I'm a pesky participant who can't read instructions - LOL)

Re: Questions?

[tinny]

Yes! I am honestly thinking of creating a comm just for songsets.

The low-maintenance variety would be like iconbattles or 10variations, where everyone can just claim a song and then post the results whenever they like.

The high-maintenance variety would be like you suggest: choose one song for everyone to use. we could then also make result posts with voting, and the winner chooses the next song. (Or to avoid empty times, the one after that). Or if we do it without voting, ask everyone and do a round robin of suggestions from all participants.

My only problem is that i don't have time to run another high-maintenance comm.

Re: Questions?

[colls]

Or... the challenge could go back and forth.

But yeah, another comm would be something to keep up with. I'm tempted to volunteer to help, but am running vid_bingo and have another comm idea percolating.... so.... *hands*
Maybe just rotating the theme in here periodically would work.

[extrapenguin]

Thabk you! I loved making the switch from Shen Wei to Ye Zun so the icons would tell their own internal story of "it's me, mwahaha!"

[extrapenguin]

Thank you! I started with #4 and then worked my way out, so I used the same texture set combos as a theme. I'm glad #2 came across as tender, like I intended is!

[singedsun]

This is an amazing set! I love every one of these.

[timetobegin]

thank you!

[seraphina_snape]

Cool icons - the lyrics fit incredibly well. Perfect song choice, really.

[seraphina_snape]

I love the colourful text! It works really well wit the icons!

Re: Big God

[seraphina_snape]

Lovely, as always! *g* The last one is my favourite - the FILL really pops! And I love the font colour on the second one.

[seraphina_snape]

I really like the first icon - very pretty!

[seraphina_snape]

They're all great, but I love the colours in the second one! *g*