Activity #24 Song Set
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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
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"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
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(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
Date: 2019-04-06 07:39 am (UTC)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)
Re: Big God
Date: 2019-04-06 03:34 pm (UTC)Re: Big God
Date: 2019-04-06 03:35 pm (UTC)Haha, very indecently so, yes. :)
Re: Big God
Date: 2019-04-07 12:38 am (UTC)Re: Big God
Date: 2019-04-09 02:11 am (UTC)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.
Re: Big God
Date: 2019-04-08 08:55 am (UTC)Re: Big God
Date: 2019-04-09 02:12 am (UTC)Re: Big God
Date: 2019-04-08 06:58 pm (UTC)Re: Big God
Date: 2019-04-09 02:12 am (UTC)Re: Big God
Date: 2019-04-10 06:46 pm (UTC)Re: Big God
Date: 2019-04-28 05:06 am (UTC)Re: Big God
Date: 2019-04-13 08:03 am (UTC)Re: Big God
Date: 2019-04-13 12:03 pm (UTC)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.)
Re: Big God
Date: 2019-04-21 09:14 am (UTC)Re: Big God
Date: 2019-04-28 05:06 am (UTC)