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

Questions?

[tinny]

Ask them here!

[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?

[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.

[yourlibrarian]

That helps, thanks! At least it'll give me enough info to say something and, hopefully, someone else who knows more can help fill it in.

[tinny]

I found one set here:

https://errantnotice.livejournal.com/12305.html

Apparently, the rules were a little different in some places: they made 30 icons from one song, and the icons didn't have to be ordered within the set, but there had to be three consecutive words on every icon.

[yourlibrarian]

Helpful! I've done a bunch of edits but looks like there's a lot that can be added.

[breyzyyin]

Song: "Belgrade (PXLTR)" by Battle Tapes (gen:LOCK Season 1 Opening Theme)

Lyrics Used: "With a heart like yours, search and destroy / You take whatever you're owed / I can't let you, I can't let you go / We pretend in the darkness"

Fandom: gen:LOCK
Characters & Icon URLS:
1. Cammie (http://i64.tinypic.com/2m333mt.jpg)
2. Valentina (http://i66.tinypic.com/2u7oy2w.jpg)
3. Kazu (http://i68.tinypic.com/oumjd5.jpg)
4. Yasamin & Julian (http://i64.tinypic.com/9fz6us.jpg)
5. Sinclair (http://i63.tinypic.com/2ijl150.jpg)

~I hope I did this right! O_O; This was a pretty interesting challenge! I'm not super confident with using text in my icons, but I love this song and series and was excited to try icons inspired by it either way. XD

[excelsior_hallelujah]

I found some more info on LJ, this is very cool!

https://aefallen.livejournal.com/5412.html - All the links are broken, but 2003!
https://buffy-icons.livejournal.com/371209.html - Same for this
https://yummy-songsets.livejournal.com/2898.html - And again, hmph.
But yummy-songsets has a quick primer on songsets in their profile! https://yummy-songsets.livejournal.com/profile

Some more LJ songset comms:
https://titan-songset.livejournal.com/profile
https://naruto-songset.livejournal.com/profile

A few more posts:
https://zombieful.livejournal.com/929.html - 2004
https://crapnahalficons.livejournal.com/10848.html - 2004
https://icon-heap.livejournal.com/1508.html - 2005

And interesting- one from 2015! https://summer-of-giles.livejournal.com/398974.html

[tinny]

Yes! You absolutely did this right!

I like how all the text is at angles, there's a real emotional theme going on there with the shadows in the images and the desperation in the lyrics. It's all perfectly readable, too, you did an amazing job!

(Also: good song!)

[tinny]

Thank you for finding some with working image links! The two posts from 2004 are exactly what I was thinking of, and they're really good, too!

Re: Questions?

[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?

[tinny]

*Very theoretically*, I have the same problem. :D

Honestly, I'm open to everything here. I considered making icons with the original Chinese on it, or using Orange Biscuit's translation, or ... both?

You are definitely allowed to translate the song to English!

Connection between song and canon(s) is not required - so you can mix and match those as you please, too.

Re: Questions?

[extrapenguin]

I might do two versions, with the original and the translation. (No connection required, I know, and this one doesn't have such a thing - "You are my rising sun / and my only homeland" is merely too apt to pass over...)

[abyss_valkyrie]

This is such a cool challenge! <3

[breyzyyin]

I'm glad I did the challenge correctly! It was a really interesting experience since I don't normally use fonts/text. Thank you! ♥

[yourlibrarian]

Thanks for the links! I'm about to leave on a trip (in the midst of packing, in fact) but I will follow up on this when I return.

Big God

[tinny]

Okay, I made a first set:

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)

[extrapenguin]

Behold, for I come with two (and might return with more)! Thank you to tinny for helping with the text placement of the first icon.


"Oot mun nouseva aurinko / ja mun ainoa kotimaa"
Song: Vesala - Tequila
Fandom: Guardian (镇魂)

Translated ver:

"You are my rising Sun / and my only homeland"

Fandom: Guardian (镇魂)

URLs:
https://i.imgur.com/beMvrdC.png
https://i.imgur.com/8WSy2F5.png
https://i.imgur.com/BpkEXlr.png
https://i.imgur.com/rZdrSpY.png

---

"In blood and tears / A thousand times / We stand against / We'll always hold the line"
Song: Within Temptation - The Reckoning
Fandom: Guardian (镇魂)

URLs:
https://i.imgur.com/1MW1y6T.png
https://i.imgur.com/qhsPxRO.png
https://i.imgur.com/VPq4ADM.png
https://i.imgur.com/IbdjaZ6.png

Re: Big God

[breyzyyin]

I love this set! The images really fit the lyrics. ♥

Re: Big God

[tinny]

Thank you! <3

Haha, very indecently so, yes. :)

[breyzyyin]

These sets are so pretty! I love how the coloring in the second set totally matches the lyrics' tone. Great job! ♥

[extrapenguin]

Thank you! ♥ I had a lot of fun making them match the song.

[timetobegin]

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

[timetobegin]

your text looks great! nice job

Re: Big God

[timetobegin]

your text placement is LOVELY great colours too