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This is a nice but strange song. It's strange because is a mix of three cultures. The instrumental music is the one of an old traditional English song: "Scarborough Fair". The lyrics are, however, completely different and the song is written in Galician language (very similar to Portuguese). It is a song by Luar na Lubre, a Galician folk band whose name means "Moonlight in the Celts' sacred forest" And in this performance, that took place during the celebration of the 25 years from the creation of the band, then invited to Diana Navarro, who is an Andalusian singer (Southern Peninsular Spain). These are the three cultures: English, Galician and Andalusian.
The interesting fact is that the instruments are similar to the ones of Celtic music (you can see a Galician pipes, for instance), but Diana, the girl who sings the first one, does interpret in the style of Southern Spain, specially about minute 2:20 and when she ends the song. These are the best parts in my opinion.
The video includes a translation, but it has some errors. A better translation is here: lyricstranslate.com/es/romeiro… And here is the video. Enjoy!
The interesting fact is that the instruments are similar to the ones of Celtic music (you can see a Galician pipes, for instance), but Diana, the girl who sings the first one, does interpret in the style of Southern Spain, specially about minute 2:20 and when she ends the song. These are the best parts in my opinion.
The video includes a translation, but it has some errors. A better translation is here: lyricstranslate.com/es/romeiro… And here is the video. Enjoy!
A song about Poe's Annabel Lee
I feel a bit of nostalgia. I am terribly busy these days and I remember some things when I can rest for some minutes. I hope to start sending stories here soon, but this brief journal is devoted to something different. In 1987 I was in my first year in High School. In TV or in the radio a song titled Annabel Lee could be heard. It was a song by the band Radio Futura (Future radio), that disappeared in 1992. I remember that I liked it. It is sad for me that modern music made in Spain is, mainly, reggaeton-like, and I yearn for the old bands. Annabel Lee song is based in the poem with the same title by Edgar Allan Poe. Here is a link to a video with the song, with subtitles. It has subtitles in Spanish, in English with the lyrics translated and, between parentheses, the lines of Poe's poem that inspired each sentence in the lyrics. Good old times, when musicians got inspired by poems. Enjoy the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX_xUAW38no
Size of women in fantasy as a metaphor of power
This is a journal that I started to write in my mind some months ago. I came up with it when I knew about a story by Arthur C. Clarke in which a man falls in love with a gorgeous alien girl. The love becomes contempt when the man discovers that the alien girl was about 27 feet tall (9 meters).
I did not understand why a beautiful 27 feet woman could cause so much contempt, considering that Arthur C Clarke's character was previously in love with her. However, I never understood why some men are reluctant to date taller girls, although I think that this question is a different one, since in literature, most things are symbols or metaphors.
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About female bodies in fantasy
This is a strange journal entry for several reasons. One of them: it is related slightly to my novel, but I would like to write about things that are external to the plot. Other one, criticising some traits that I do not like about beauty and body types in women. But the reason that makes me feel that this is a "strange" journal is that I did not start to write Sails in the Distance in order to criticise the question related to extremely thin women as the only possible beauty standard, but Neivria became an involuntary protest against that.
This journal was conceived after watching a news in TV. A very famous brand or model agency presented
Sense of wonder in fantasy and a Twitter tip
I will start this entry with the twitter tip. If you use Twitter for promoting something, you could consider to create your own "hashtag". In that way, if you post one tweet at day using your hashtag, if you press on it in one of your tweets, you will find a number of tweets about it. For instance, for my novel:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/sailsdistance?src=hash
This is a lot of information about the thing that you wish to promote that you can share in other pages.
In connection with sense of wonder, I think that a very important thing when you create fantasy worlds is pay attention to the "wonders". In the real world, you can find wonders
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It's very interesting mix of cultures in the song that actually blends very well, I liked it a lot. Thanks for sharing! 