tinny: Jake Peralta from Brooklyn Nine-Nine misquoting "eyes closed, head first, can't lose" (b99_jake eyesclosed headfirst)
tinny ([personal profile] tinny) wrote in [community profile] icontalking2019-03-30 05:42 pm
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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 [personal profile] 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] 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

[personal profile] timetobegin 2019-04-07 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
I thought for sure i would struggle with this so hard, but i managed a bigger set that i thought!!



captain marvel, and song is from the soundtrack "you gotta be" by Des'ree
You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold
You gotta be wiser, you gotta be hard
You gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger
breyzyyin: (Breyzy: brace yourself)

[personal profile] breyzyyin 2019-04-07 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
These icons are beautiful! That's such a perfect song for a Captain Marvel set. XD

[personal profile] timetobegin 2019-04-07 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
:) thanks,and yes it fit so well!!
colls: (SW Leia TLJ)

[personal profile] colls 2019-04-08 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
A+++++++
This is an awesome set.

[personal profile] timetobegin 2019-04-09 08:38 am (UTC)(link)
:) thanks!! once i got the song, it was ok, but oh man finding a song is the hard part!
colls: (WW Diana)

[personal profile] colls 2019-04-09 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
That's what vidding is like. (LOL)

[personal profile] timetobegin 2019-04-09 08:38 am (UTC)(link)
thank you!
singedsun: brie larson as captain marvel (captain marvel)

[personal profile] singedsun 2019-04-10 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
This is an amazing set! I love every one of these.

[personal profile] timetobegin 2019-04-10 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
thank you!
seraphina_snape: Parker from the TV show Leverage. She is wearing a white shirt and is smiling. (Default)

[personal profile] seraphina_snape 2019-04-10 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Cool icons - the lyrics fit incredibly well. Perfect song choice, really.

[personal profile] timetobegin 2019-04-26 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
:) thanks!
abyss_valkyrie: made by <user name=narnialover7> (Default)

[personal profile] abyss_valkyrie 2019-04-12 08:07 am (UTC)(link)
WOW!!Amazing set here!Seriously loving the colours and the way you used the various fonts!Awesome crop in 1 and 5!
Edited 2019-04-12 08:08 (UTC)

[personal profile] timetobegin 2019-04-12 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
thank you!! It was agonisng lol, was out of my comfort zone
thisbluespirit: (Default)

[personal profile] thisbluespirit 2019-04-21 09:14 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, these are really gorgeous!

[personal profile] timetobegin 2019-04-26 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
thank you so much!
fueschgast: Darcy watching a CRT TV that shows Pietro at Wanda's door. (Default)

[personal profile] fueschgast 2019-04-22 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I like the consistent look of these icons, individually (how the text color fits with the rest of the icon) and as a set.

[personal profile] timetobegin 2019-04-26 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
:) thank you!
luminousdaze: a humpback whale spy hopping (DW: New Wave Doctor)

[personal profile] luminousdaze 2019-04-23 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
Those look so cool the typography & coloring rocks!

[personal profile] timetobegin 2019-04-26 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
thanks :)