Lyrics set to modern tunes

[Tulana]

Is this allowed?

I was pondering this possibility with GorillaAM - using Britney Spears music with Zalanthan lyrics. If you were a bard, would it be okay to sing:

"...Oops, I did it again
I messed with a scrab..."

?

[Marauder Moe]

For something as popular as Britney Spears I, personally, would not be amused.

[tortall]

Hehe, that depends on the person.

Some people will love it, some people would want to kill your PC for singing it.

[Gimfalisette]

As the player of a few successful bard/performer characters, I implore you not to do this. You will only make IC life harder for those who are really making the effort.

[brytta.leofa]

I don't recommend trying to adapt Gilbert & Sullivan lyrics.

If I were doing song adaptations, I would take it as a requirement that the result not be recognizable as an adaptation.

[brytta.leofa]

Howsomever:

My loneliness is killin' me!
Where have my clannies gone? I do believe (do believe!)
when they aren't with me I lose my mind; give me a sign--
BASH ME, DUMMY, ONE MORE TIME!



A sand-filled sparring dummy swings back and forth on its rope.

[tortall]

Howsomever:

My loneliness is killin' me!
Where have my clannies gone? I do believe (do believe!)
when they aren't with me I lose my mind; give me a sign--
BASH ME, DUMMY, ONE MORE TIME!



A sand-filled sparring dummy swings back and forth on its rope.

That's the greatest Arm song EVER!

Edit: Though some songs that might be more suited for Arm: something like celtic/english/scottish traditional music(danny boy, lass from the low country, ect)

I don't think traditional is the right word... What IS the right word?

[Mood]

This is gypsy music.

[Malifaxis]

Some people will love it, some people would want to kill your PC for singing it.

I'm one of these.

I would kill you instantly, without mercy, without remorse.  When questioned by the templarate, I would plainly state my case, offer them tons of money, and then walk free, knowing I had improved the game.

Sorry, but that's my honest opinion, and I know I'm not alone.

[Mood]

Some people will love it, some people would want to kill your PC for singing it.

I'm one of these.

I would kill you instantly, without mercy, without remorse.  When questioned by the templarate, I would plainly state my case, offer them tons of money, and then walk free, knowing I had improved the game.

Sorry, but that's my honest opinion, and I know I'm not alone.

I'd help.

[manonfire]

I had a character who sang Zalanthanized Marshal Tucker Band songs.

Cause really.. who listens to Marshal Tucker anymore?

[Reiloth]

If it isn't a song that I readily recognize, is obscure, and the lyrics are actually better than anything you could fathom writing, by all means, go for it.

I think its worse to see bards who think they are hot shit, write awful prose, and expect everyone to shit nuggets of gold. And then give them their shit nuggets of gold. Fuckin' bards.

[Delstro]

If it is creative, and not completely wild, I would enjoy someone putting new songs into a Zalanthas setting.

If it is really out there, I'll leave and not go around your character anymore. Fucking heru got ran over by a carru. I hate that song.

[jhunter]

Some people will love it, some people would want to kill your PC for singing it.

I'm one of these.

I would kill you instantly, without mercy, without remorse.  When questioned by the templarate, I would plainly state my case, offer them tons of money, and then walk free, knowing I had improved the game.

Sorry, but that's my honest opinion, and I know I'm not alone.

I'd help.

You'd both have to race me to it.

The corpse of the blond-haired, fake-breasted woman lies here ripped to pieces, burned, riddled with arrows, daggers, knives, swords, and various other implements of war protruding from the parts. It appears to be in a puddle of vomit with urine and feces also adorning the remains.

The massive, wiry-bearded templar has arrived from the north.

Looking around, the massive, wiry-bearded templar says, in sirihish: "-What- happened here?"

Shrugging, the filthy, lean-muscled man says, in sirihish: "Dunno Lord Templar. The bitch was singin' some fuckin' weird ass shit and then *POOF* she was all over the place. Thinkin' it was foul magickers that did it."

Several other patrons nod firmly in agreement before turning back to their drinks.

[Qzzrbl]

Some people will love it, some people would want to kill your PC for singing it.

I'm one of these.

I would kill you instantly, without mercy, without remorse.  When questioned by the templarate, I would plainly state my case, offer them tons of money, and then walk free, knowing I had improved the game.

Sorry, but that's my honest opinion, and I know I'm not alone.

I'd help.

You'd both have to race me to it.

The corpse of the blond-haired, fake-breasted woman lies here ripped to pieces, burned, riddled with arrows, daggers, knives, swords, and various other implements of war protruding from the parts. It appears to be in a puddle of vomit with urine and feces also adorning the reamins.

The massive, wiry-bearded templar has arrived from the north.

Looking around, the massive, wiry-bearded templar says, in sirihish: "-What- happened here?"

Shrugging, the filthy, lean-muscled man says, in sirihish: "Dunno Lord Templar. The bitch was singin' some fuckin' weird ass shit and then *POOF* she was all over the place. Thinkin' it was foul magickers that did it."

Several other patrons nod firmly in agreement before turning back to their drinks.

LOL!

[Archbaron]

I know someone who got an e-mail from staff and a bad account note for this. Don't do it.

[FantasyWriter]

Howsomever:

My loneliness is killin' me!
Where have my clannies gone? I do believe (do believe!)
when they aren't with me I lose my mind; give me a sign--
BASH ME, DUMMY, ONE MORE TIME!


F***in awesome!!!


A sand-filled sparring dummy swings back and forth on its rope.

[Lizzie]

You sing, in a slightly nasal high baritone, while bouncing your body left to right on one bent knee after the other in pure rock fashion:

"My-aye-aye-aye-aye WOO! M-m-m-m-MY TULUKI"

...and summarily get torn to shreds by the angry mob.

[Belgoikiss]

I know a certain someone who likes to sing horrible real world- zalanthafied clips of a shittastic song while hunting. 

[jhunter]

Adds a few names to the list of people's pcs to kill.

[FantasyWriter]

I had a dwarf once, that every time he got drunk he would start singing this:

I've got a lov-el-ly bunch of elven skull (dil da de)
All of them sittin' on me shelf (dom dom dom)...

You get the idea.
He had words for the whole song.

He weren't no bard, though.

[Shiroi Tsuki]

I don't mind people setting songs to certain RL tunes... because frankly, no one is going to know what tune you had in your head when you were making it.

But I very much mind Zalanthanized versions of popular music.  The key word being popular, some you can get away with without people telling.  I feel that this really sets apart the people that actually put a lot of time, energy, and thought into their bards from those who just take a Britney Spears song and change some of the words.

[Marauder Moe]

Modern musical lyrics seldom make any sense anyway.  You rarely get a complete sentence and rhyming is losing popularity as well.

For text-based barding I suggest stick with accompanied poetry, ballads, and folk songs.

[Rairen]

I really, really can't write poetry so, after a few hard lessons learned, I steal anywhere I can, when playing musically inclined characters.    Using real life songs gives you a cadence and, for what it's worth, makes it more interesting for me to perform.  (It's expanded my shower-singing repetoire, by far.)  As said above, the better bet is to remove the lyrics as far as possible from the originals for the sake of immersion.

Looking over my song lists, the majority of my inspirations are folk pieces or new works inspired by folk pieces.  There's three from 'modern' music and of those, only one of them is vaguely "popular"... but it originates in Germany.  I'd dare anyone to pick it out of a line-up.

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