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The Piña Colada song carves a trajectory across the chart over the course of the song.
Every Step You Take is so far on the right that it doesn't show on the chart.
this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2023
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Creep by Radiohead and Creep by TLC both kind of work here. Huh.
Fairytale of New York starts top right and ends bottom left
I'd like to see a sequel to this comic that actually does plot the trajectories of songs that have story development:
- The Pina Colada Song
- Fairytale of New York
- Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
- Paradise by the Dashboard Light
etc.
Isn't Call me Maybe the one with the twist at the end of the music video where the guy turns out to be gay?
That's the music video not the song itself I think.
Whose POV does this describe for Somebody I Used To Know?
What does it say about a person who can hum or pick out almost any of these songs but never could have plotted a single one?
I would have placed "That don't impress me much" further left, actually.
He forgot far down left "Warriors of the World" from Manowar
I wanna see where Stan is on this graph
I kinda love this. I think this could become an organizational system for all relationship songs, sort of like the Dewey decimal system.
"I Will Always Love You" is further left than I would have expected it to be