Subsonic Radio

I was listening today, and a really soft version of Beauty & The Beast was playing. I checked the "now playing" page, and here is what it said:

Walt Disney World - resorts - Wedding Pavillion - Beauty And The Beast

I don't know about you other guys out there, but if my wife played "Beauty and the Beast" at our wedding, I'd take it as an insult! She certainly is beautiful (and I can be a beast), but I don't think I would want to be told that at my wedding!

Anyway, I thought it was ironic that this song is played at a wedding pavilion, and it was funny to me.

Haha. I can see what you're saying, but the song is so beautiful that it just has to make it into there.

That is an irony, isn't it?

haha ya... that's kinda funny!

"...Both a little scared, neither one prepared..."

I dunno, seems to fit.

Well, it is a "tune as old as song..."

I also have a problem with the "finding you can change, learning you were wrong" bit - all of a sudden I'm giving up my ability to claim I'm always right! By the way - that never works

I find it very fitting.

Sounds like a good choice to me!!!

There's a lot to be said for lyrics in songs. I've never paid much attention to lyrics in music. That's why I'm a fan of most anything without lyrics. (Classical, Soundtracks, Trance, Ambient, New Age, and my very own Background stream here.) Recently, I've been paying attention more. Those times where I stop and pay attention it seems so fitting sometimes. As some of you mentioned, some of the lyrics actually DO work quite well. The ironic part is actual words "beauty and the beast". I guess I would be the beast.

Calypso wrote:Sounds like a good choice to me!!!

Uh-oh. You're not basing that on our picture, are you?!?!

Cute, too cute....

subsonic wrote:There's a lot to be said for lyrics in songs. I've never paid much attention to lyrics in music. That's why I'm a fan of most anything without lyrics. (Classical, Soundtracks, Trance, Ambient, New Age, and my very own Background stream here.) Recently, I've been paying attention more. Those times where I stop and pay attention it seems so fitting sometimes. As some of you mentioned, some of the lyrics actually DO work quite well. The ironic part is actual words "beauty and the beast". I guess I would be the beast.

That's really interesting as I have the same problem - I am a professional musician/composer and years of training have resulted in an almost total ignorance of lyrics in favour of analysing the music (it's the way we are trained). I have to focus so hard to stop concentrating on the music and pick up the lyrics. I must say - sometimes I am really glad that I do work this way as usually when I do hear the lyrics to pop pieces I find them very cheesy and formulaic as a result of the lyricist's too hard attempt to conform to predictable rhyming patterns. The "Energy" song is a good example of this.

Anyway, back to the plot! Beauty and the Beast does certainly have an ironic twist - but it could be worse; they could be playing "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" from the great movie ride?

LOL - I have a great friend who got married at WDW and her first dance song was this version of B&B. It's a really pretty version of the song, but I chuckled about it at the time, too.

Uh-oh. You're not basing that on our picture, are you?!?!

Of course not. That would be from past experience!!!

What Calypso means to say is that all men are beasts.