Song Deconstruction

Silly Love Songs: Wings

Silly Love Songs: The Replicants

 

While the lyrics in the cover of Silly Love Songs are exactly the same, it’s the melody that varies greatly. In the Wing version, the melody is very light and happy, yet in The Replicants version, the song takes on a very dark and hypnotic melody that sounds very far from the original. The rhythms in the two versions are also a little different. Wings version has an irregular rhythm, fluctuating often and not following much of a pattern (as seen in the emotional structure section of my listening analysis).  The Replicants version is irregular in the sense that it isn’t always regular or irregular. It starts off regularly, rising and falling in what seems to be a pattern, but near the end of the song, roughly the last two or three minutes, the rhythm is completely irregular and chaotic. This is similar in the songs intensity, as that also doesn’t stay consistent. Some parts will be very loud and intense, while others fall into being more quiet and hypnotic. Wings keep their version at about the same intensity throughout, a nice, even, easy to listen to intensity. Both songs keep a rather low pitch, but The Replicants is only slightly lower. Wings version has a very simple timbre, another thing that keeps it easy to listen to. It’s smooth and a little flat in that sense. The Replicants start in that manner, being smooth and easy to listen to, but by the end of the song the complexity is amped up and the listener can feel a little lost in all the complex textures.

Silly Love Songs when done by Wings is a very light-hearted, up-beat song about…love of course!  It has a nice, up-beat, moderato speed that keeps the listener in a good mood throughout the song. It keeps it optimistic and happy. When the song is performed by The Replicants however, the speed is andante, almost adagio. It’s much more hypnotic and almost creepy in nature. It definitely does not leave the listener in the same mood as the original version.

These songs are so drastically different; it’s really hard for me to say which one that I like better. That’s like asking if I like Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO more or The Ballad of Mona Lisa by Panic! At The Disco. The genres are just too drastically different for me to be able to pick one of them. I actively listen to both versions of these songs and I love them both, I think it really just depends on the kind of mood that I’m in~