Meme!

[oyceter]

I am bored, ergo I meme.

Some song lyrics I particularly like:

1. "Like a self-help manual that's been written in Braille, it seems the more that we touch, the more we learn about our failures"
2. "Another cog in the murder machine"
3. "And she closed herself off like a fan"
4. "I know you want to make the news, but lately all you do is memorize headlines"
5. "'It's crypto-fascist mania, it's silicon deliria.' 'Yeah,' she said, 'you're right, but I like the cafeteria.'"
6. "The truth is I bleed you when these frequencies cut me"
7. "Plastic sweat, metal skin, metallic tears, mannequin"
8. "Touch me with your naked hand, touch me with your glove"
9. "You love white veins, you love hard gray, the heaviest weight, the clumsiest shape"
10. "The answers are out there in the drowning deep"

Also, I always get annoyed when the song lyrics meme passes around, because half the music I listen to isn't in English. So here's stuff probably no one will guess, but what the heck:

11. "我醉過 真夏冰釀的梅酒"
12. "寂寞很吵　我很安靜　情緒很多　我很鎮定"
13. "始まりの朝の　静かな窓　ゼロになるからだ　充たされてゆけ"
14. "此時此刻有你陪 所有的痛痛飛"
15. "天青色等煙雨 而我在等妳 炊煙裊裊昇起 隔江千萬里"

ETA: Answers

1.
2. My Chemical Romance, Teenagers. I kind of love this music video. Cheerleaders dancing in gas masks!
3. Suzanne Vega, The Queen and the Soldier
4. Thea Gilmore, Juliet (Keep That in Mind)
5. Dar Williams, Alleluia
6.
7. Janelle Monae, Many Moons
8. Leonard Cohen, Dance Me to the End of Love. I think this line is so sexy.
9. Okkervil River, A Stone. I also love the line about the princess who's "lovely and stubborn and brave" because of the rhythm.
10. Vienna Teng, Harbor.

Too lazy to translate for these, but rough approximations:
11. 梁靜茹, 不想睡, something about getting drunk on icy cold plum wine in the summer (though I swear, I've seen it as "good wine" too while karaokeing...)
12. 孫燕姿, 風箏, something like loneliness is loud, I am quiet, lots of emotion, I am composed. I swear, it sounds better in Chinese.
13. 木村弓, いつも何度でも, something about first morning, quiet window, body turning into nothing slowly disappearing.
14. 呂莘, 痛痛飛. This is totally just here for the pun! The title means "hurts fly away" but it also sounds like "completely fly away."
15. 周杰倫, 青花瓷. Er. Too hard to translate! I actually love the lyrics of this whole song because the Chinese is so pretty (but hard! I barely understand it). I, uh, also totally want to request this video for Yuletide this year. Reincarnation! Girls with swords! Wind machines dramatically blowing back hair and clothes!

Comments

[torachan]

#2 is My Chemical Romance's Teenagers.

And yeah, I'm always annoyed that I have to cut out so much music I listen to when I do memes like this, but I know no one will guess otherwise.

[oyceter]

Yup!

Do you mostly listen to Jpop? I wanted to more J- and Kpop lyrics up, but sadly I don't understand them as well as I do Cpop.

[torachan]

I listen to Japanese and English stuff pretty much equally, with Korean and Spanish next, then a handful of other languages much less frequently. (Japanese and English are the only ones I can really understand fully, so they're probably the only languages I'd use in a lyrics meme.)

[rachelmanija]

3. "The Queen and the Soldier," Suzanne Vega.

5. "Allelulia," Dar Williams.

7. This is by Janelle Monae, right?

8. "Dance me to the End of Love," Leonard Cohen (& chorus of swooning women)

9. "A Stone," Okerville... something.

10. "Harbor," Vienna Teng.

11-15. I might be able to hum some of these!

[rachelmanija]

7. Could it be "Many Moms?"

[oyceter]

Bwahahaha yes!

[oyceter]

Yup to all!

I think you can hum 13 and 14... the others haven't made it to happy cds yet because they're more ballad-y!

[rachelmanija]

I love ballads! In your copious spare time (ha ha ha) maybe you could make me a ballad CD! Would you want an entire CD of murder ballads, or would that be too much? I bet I could get together an entire CD of women murdering men, turning the tables on evil elf knights, etc.

[oyceter]

Bwahaha that would be awesome!

Er, except "ballad" here as in Cpop cheesy ballad, not so much with the traditional! Ha, I think I will just post the answers to the last five, since I don't think anyone's going to guess =(.

[rachelmanija]

Oh, I knew what you meant. I love cheesy ballads. (Was just procrastinating by listening to David Cook sing "Hello" on youtube. You have corrupted me with your love of young singing white boys!)

(rubs hands together) The CD will arrive at some point. I think I will call it LOBSTER MALLET.

[oyceter]

Bwahaha! Emo white boy rock, see! I also love his Eleanor Rigby (which I think was better than Mike Lynche's cover yesterday) and Billie Jean, which I think I showed you.

OMG that should so be a band name!

[rachelmanija]

I also listened to Eleanor Rigby.

[oyceter]

Eeeexcellent.

[oyceter]

I posted the vids to the C- and Jpop!

[coffeeandink]

All the songs where I know the singer but not the song!

2. My Chemical Romance
3. Suzanne Vega, "The Queen and the Soldier"
9. Okkervil River, "A Stone"
10. Vienna Teng

[coffeeandink]

Wow, looking at Rachel's, I so should have been able to guess more. I suck at this game.

[oyceter]

I always suck at it too! It is nice to be able to post it so I can sit smugly, knowing all the answers!

Also, Rachel has all my happy CDs, so she sort of knows most of my favorite songs.

[oyceter]

Yup!

2 is "Teenagers" and 10 is "Harbor."

[tessercat]

hunh. I do not know any of these, but judging by the snippets, I should! *stalks post to wait for answers* ^_^

[spartezda.livejournal.com]

#4 looks like Juliet (Keep That In Mind) by Thea Gilmore.

[oyceter]

Yup!

[dhobikikutti]

Heh. 90% of what I listen to isn't English.

[oyceter]

I know, it's so annoying! (Not your listening to non-English songs, just the whole "no one is going to guess my lyrics!" thing.)

[bellyjeans]

Oh man, I actually knew that Jay Chou song. I have like 10% understanding of that song's lyrics but what I do understand I really love.

[bellyjeans]

And the music is just so pretty. I am a sucker for anything that sounds vaguely like traditional chinese instrumentation in pop songs.

[oyceter]

I can't understand half of it, but it's so pretty sounding! And I love how it sounds like wen yan wen. And yes, I am a total sucker for traditional Chinese instrumentation in songs too!

[wcynic]

I few weeks ago I was binging on one of 梁靜茹's songs, but now I am over it. I have weird music-listening habits. I listen to one song over and over and then move on. The one I'd been listening to over and over was 屬於 and embarrassingly enough, I only discovered it because it was the themesong to this crappy HK-TW joint venture TV series or something.

I want to do this meme, but it'd be mostly Eason Chan lyrics!

[oyceter]

Hahaha! I totally have several songs I listened to over and over and over because they are on dramas. I think most of my KPop collection is in fact drama-centric.

I am also totally obsessed with 梁靜茹's 小手拉大手 right now.