Song #6 - Video

[fourwayconnection]

Aight, raise your hand if you've heard of Elvis. Or Little Richard. Or Chuck Berry. If you haven't, either you're freakin' lying and I'm calling you out on it or you're from another world so you're excused.

Anyway! They're all forms of rock and roll. Now, if you didn't know, the totally awesome inventor of that was this badass chick named Rosetta Tharpe. Seriously, she made, like, the first rock and roll record, was super popular, all that. She inspired all those guys up there, everyone's popularity combined throughout the ages made it a big thing, and there you go. Music genre.

[That is probably not exactly how it works, but Kirikou is a simple kid.]

But that's how it is in my world. Here, they still have rock and roll- I know, I've seen the CDs and all that- and it's probably in a lot of other people's worlds too. How's that happened? Did it just come around in a completely different way, like different recipes for the same thing? Or are there, like, alternate universe Rosetta Tharpes?

I dunno, just thinkin'.

Comments

[bertall]

...We never had anything like that where I'm from. We had music, but, uh... It wasn't really wide-spread or anything. Usually it was just people with an instrument playing for fun or for money in the streets or a bar. And it's not really loud like some of the stuff here.

_{[If he had to give it a name, it'd probably be folk. Or something close to that.]}

[fourwayconnection]

Sounds old timey... But there's nothing wrong with that! [Kirikou gives a thumbs up.] Do you remember any of the songs?

[scratchitti]

Concurrent evolution? I mean the idea that alternate worlds have humans is weird enough, getting into cultural things will just make you tired.

[fourwayconnection]

Conwhat.

[Sorry, Neku, try again. He flunks his tests all the time, so why this poor soul is thinking about this sort of thing is a mystery for everyone.]

[scratchitti]

Oh, uhm... like when something evolves to end up similar to another creature but isn't actually related. Usually because they had a similar diet or way of surviving.

Since a lot of worlds have humans, it makes since our cultures would end up similar in some ways even though they're not connected. Because humans are... well still human.

[fourwayconnection]

Oh, I see... That makes sense.

You're pretty smart. Where did you learn about that from?

[unfulfilledstrex]

Ohhhh! Music! I love music, the weather is just so fleeting and bountiful. A quick cut to the weather and our listeners are swept away with calming comforts of the guitar and informed about what is to come as the tune bleeds through their eardrums and shoves the knowledge straight into their cerebellum.

[Of course in his world music is used as literally the weather on his radio show.]

The constant music here is a little...dull. At first I thought it was the weather but this is just a annoying normality!

[fourwayconnection]

[It takes him a second to connect 'weather' and 'music' together, but he can't help but be interested.]

Seriously? Your weather spots on the radio are music?

[Sounds like his kind of place. Oh how little he knows...]

[unfulfilledstrex]

Oh yes! Desert Bluffs doesn't get much diversity when it comes to our weather, but it is soothing. Just shut your eyes and let the weather waft over and invade your thoughts.

[fourwayconnection]

Well... I'm game for that, but I don't know what the, uh, weather sounds like from Desert Bluffs.

Do you remember what it sounds like?

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[the_pilgrim]

I've heard of them...but I can't say I particularly care for that genre of music.

Video

[fourwayconnection]

That's fine! I was just talking about how well known they are then if anyone likes them or not.

What kind of music do you like?

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[the_pilgrim]

Me? Well, I really appreciate the classics, l-like Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven....

Video

[fourwayconnection]

...You sound like a seriously serious kid.

[ignisinfernale]

Never heard of her. Heard of Elvis though.

[ Because really, who hasn't heard of Elvis? But then again, he was never too focused on the western music scene. So... tossing out another question to something he does know. ]

Ever heard of Glay?

[fourwayconnection]

Glay...

[Give him a second. When he finally gets it, he punches his palm.]

I think I've heard of them. I'm not really good with, like, Japanese music, but weren't they a super big deal?

[ignisinfernale]

Aa. Started back in the 80s. I was still a kid when I first heard their stuff.

[ Hmm... who else... who else... ]

Them, X-Japan, The Tempters. That's the kind of shit I grew up listening to. Didn't really get into the Visual Kei stuff. Ever heard of that?

[fourwayconnection]

Visual kei? Yeah, I know about it. It seems like a really flashy kind of style, visually anyway, which seems pretty cool. I can see why people would dig it just for the aesthetic alone.

[fatalissimo]

[...huh.

Also hello again, you.]

Huh. That's a pretty valid point - I wouldn't be surprised if it came around in a way that's similar but not...quite the same, though. I don't know, a lot of things here seem watered-down or like weird imitations of the actual thing.

[...]

...You know, Roselia Tharpe, maybe.

[fourwayconnection]

...This place needs its pun license revoked.

This place needed it revoke yesterday.

[fatalissimo]

Right.

At the same time, I wouldn't be surprised if that's exactly what we're looking at - just to make the rest of us roll our eyes a little harder.

[fourwayconnection]

Eugh. Isn't there like a llama or something responsible for all of this? Can we file a complaint to it? [Kirikou that's not how it works] Or at least send it something for a better sense of humor.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

Honestly, there's alternate versions of a LOT of stuff from back home.

I have a Blue Cloyster Cult CD somewhere around here. It's not exactly the same, of course, but y'know, definitely related.

I kinda just don't question it, at this point.

[Video]

[fourwayconnection]

But it's so weiiiiird.

And the puns are going to drive me off the deep end at some point, honestly.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

I've been here for almost five years.

Eventually you just get numb to the puns.