I love that podcast Aimee Mann did chatting with Rebecca Sugar about the art of songwriting And throwing this subtle shade "You realize no one ever says 'tonic and gin', and the reversal doesn't actually have any artistic meaning It's just what we call a 'cram'"https://twitter.com/TJFlamson/status/1385412361477967879 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I mean Aimee Mann is obviously a genius but I think she’s wrong on this one. The reversal puts emphasis on gin, at the end of the line, and the point is not just the alcoholism but the kind of alcoholism for which mixers are the barest fig leaf.
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Replying to @disappearinjon @arthur_affect
I always liked when she used "swim or sink" in "Invisible Ink," because I thought it was focusing on the high chance of failure, but apparently it was just lazy songwriting.
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Well, songwriting is, you know, more art than science, and whether an inversion has an artistic meaning is always going to be subjective Presumably she's just biased against Billy Joel for the reasons many people are
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