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Activity #24 Song Set
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
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
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
Big God
You need a big god
Big enough to hold your love
You need a big god
Big enough to fill you up
https://abload.de/img/guardian06_35_49_02qfkwe.png
https://abload.de/img/guardian12_09_39bkfj22.png
https://abload.de/img/guardian07_10_17barlk9c.png
https://abload.de/img/guardian08_26_51_02x0jha.png
My fave Guardian fanvid set to this song (pretty much spoiler free) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc57mMO4fBA Big God
Lyrics:
https://genius.com/Florence-the-machine-big-god-lyrics
I absolutely want to make another one. I hope I'll have time for it towards the end of the month. (Actually, I even want to create a whole new comm for song sets now. :D)
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Haha, very indecently so, yes. :)
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I feel like the text overpowers the rest (like it usually does in my first attempts), but maybe for a set where text is the main attraction as it were, it's not quite as bad.
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I feel like the text *is* a bit overpowering. I always start out with text that is too big. But in this case, since it is all about the text, I left it like that.
(I am not joking when I say I am thinking about creating a challenge comm just for song sets.)
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