#NowPlaying Better by Cody Fry (with Cory Wong & Metropole Orkest) It's gonna go on my "Heart Soaring" playlist. youtube.com/watch?v=5S3bTo…
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#NowPlaying Better by Cody Fry (with Cory Wong & Metropole Orkest) It's gonna go on my "Heart Soaring" playlist. youtube.com/watch?v=5S3bTo…
Cody Fry's "Better" is, I think, my favorite instance so far of "scotch snaps", the pattern of little pairs of short syllables (here [if I] [let you] [love me] [better]). Usually in Gaelic music & recently hiphop. I usually don't like them much—they seem overwrought/affectatious
this rhythm's recent popularity in hiphop has some people accusing white singers of cultural appropriation or something when they use them, which... lol, my ancestors were singing these rhythms back in scotland centuries ago 🤷♀️ @AdamNeelyBass w/ the scoop youtube.com/watch?v=i7cG9Q…
DAMN. Just watched vid 2nd time & was struck by something I hadn't picked up on before. Spanish amphibrachs (eg "tequila") are unstressed-stressed-unstressed, with the stressed one long, like in latin music English ambhibrachs (eg "implicit") are u-s-u, but stressed syll short?
@AdamNeelyBass kinda says this 1min into the vid, but it's easy to miss there. trochee = 2 sylls, first stressed, second unstressed English (particularly American) compared to various European languages has remarkably short stressed syllables!
But I think when I first heard this I was thinking of it as "short but still longer than the unstressed syllables" And now... I'm pretty confused. Sometimes "unstressed" syllables are literally called "short" & "stressed" called "long". Paging internet linguist @GretchenAMcC