: Aha!
* Webstream now works. No sign of continuous commentary but I'm acting very nicely as a 'roving reporter' with pitchside comments. Unfortunately we're about as close to a canicule as we're going to get this year - I'd rather have been in the rain.
* It took three months, but Umbrella has finally earwormed me. I'm pretty sure there's got to be something good about that song. It's certainly not the lyrics, which are amongst the worst in chart history. It's probably not the melody, which is simplicity defined, but without being that effective. (As good a rule-of-thumb as exists; would this song work stripped down to a piano accompaniment? Without question, it wouldn't, and that says a lot.) It might be the drum loops, but plenty of other songs that have Got A Good Beat^ don't work any better for it, and many more are worse for it. (The dance remix of St Elmo's Fire complete with sluts in the video, which pretty much stripped the song of all the redeeming features it had - and hearing the original on cable TV yesterday confirmed there's plenty of redeeming features there - illustrates that.) Lawks, what could it be?
(I know why it's selling so steadily, though. Wet summer, chav word-of-mouth...)
* Back to good news; the commentary is going quite brilliantly. In fact, I'm noticing I'm an extrovert in many respects, particularly when using my voice and having control of a situation. The latter is just my interest pattern; the former is down to Gemma's focus on diction, for I now know my speaking voice will not let me down horribly.
^ 'Got A Good Beat' is a trademark of Weaver, 2007.
* Webstream now works. No sign of continuous commentary but I'm acting very nicely as a 'roving reporter' with pitchside comments. Unfortunately we're about as close to a canicule as we're going to get this year - I'd rather have been in the rain.
* It took three months, but Umbrella has finally earwormed me. I'm pretty sure there's got to be something good about that song. It's certainly not the lyrics, which are amongst the worst in chart history. It's probably not the melody, which is simplicity defined, but without being that effective. (As good a rule-of-thumb as exists; would this song work stripped down to a piano accompaniment? Without question, it wouldn't, and that says a lot.) It might be the drum loops, but plenty of other songs that have Got A Good Beat^ don't work any better for it, and many more are worse for it. (The dance remix of St Elmo's Fire complete with sluts in the video, which pretty much stripped the song of all the redeeming features it had - and hearing the original on cable TV yesterday confirmed there's plenty of redeeming features there - illustrates that.) Lawks, what could it be?
(I know why it's selling so steadily, though. Wet summer, chav word-of-mouth...)
* Back to good news; the commentary is going quite brilliantly. In fact, I'm noticing I'm an extrovert in many respects, particularly when using my voice and having control of a situation. The latter is just my interest pattern; the former is down to Gemma's focus on diction, for I now know my speaking voice will not let me down horribly.
^ 'Got A Good Beat' is a trademark of Weaver, 2007.