The Two Tracks - Rules and Similarities

Joe Meek - I Hear A New World
I hear a new world
I hear a new world (I hear a new world)
Calling me, calling me (calling me)
So strange, I'm sorry (so strange, I'm sorry)
So strange, I'm sorry
Haunting me, haunting me (haunting me)
How can I tell them? (how can I tell them?)
How can I tell them?
What's in store for me? (what's in store for me?)
What's in store for me?
I hear a new world (I hear a new world)
I hear a new world
Calling me, calling me (calling me)

How can I tell them? (how can I tell them?)
How can I tell them?
What's in store for me? (what's in store for me?)
What's in store for me?

I hear a new world (I hear a new world)
I hear a new world
Calling me, calling me (calling me)


Calling me, calling me

Themes and Rules
There is a lot of repetition in this song as the main focus of this is more the sound effects and the overall theme of distress and disjointedness as it takes a comfortable tune that was common in pop music at the time, but brings in lyrics that are vague and ominous. The main verse has a layout of

A, A + (A), B, C + (C ), C, D + (D), D, E + (E), E, A + (A), A, B

Therefore there is no real fixed rule that it follows however there almost is as it nearly follows the idea of AA, B, CC, D, etc. The disjointedness of the rule relates to the song and emphasis the distress Joe Meek was aiming to connote with this song. How can I bring this idea of distress to my project?

SOPHIE - Faceshopping
My face is the front of shop
My face is the real shop front
My shop is the face I front
I'm real when I shop my face

Artificial bloom
Hydroponic skin
Chemical release
Synthesize the real
Plastic surgery
Social dialect
Positive results
Documents of life

Oh
Nana-nana-nana-nana
Nana-nana-nana-nana-na
Na-na-na-na-na
Na-nana-nana

My face is the front of shop
My face is the real shop front
My shop is the face I front, front
I'm real when I shop my face

Scalpel, lipstick, gel
Action, camera, lights
Violence in your heart
Memories of love (What?)
Professor?

Oh
Nana-nana-nana-nana (Hold it)
Nana-nana-nana-nana-na
Na-na-na-na-na
Na-nana-nana

My face is the front of shop
My face is the real shop front
My shop is the face I front, front
I'm real when I shop my face

So you must be the one
That I've seen in my dreams
Come on, touch me
Set my spirit free
Oh, test me
Do you feel what I feel?
Do you see what I see?
Oh, reduce me to nothingness
Yes, yes

My face is the front of shop
My face is the real shop front
My shop is the face I front, front
I'm real when I shop my face

And you know what I want
My face is the front of shop
So give me what I want
My face is the real shop front
I said everything I want
My shop is the face I front
So give me what I want
I'm real when I shop my face

And you know what I want
My face is the front of shop
So give me what I want
My face is the real shop front
I said everything I want
My shop is the face I front
So give me what I want

I'm real when I shop my face

Themes and Rules
There is a a lot of repetition in this song as well and generally all throughout Experimental Pop as its taking the element of repetition in Pop as a way for the music to be memorable and simple. However this Sophie pushes this concept a bit further by slightly changing the repeated (and therefore memorable) verses so that it still has that element of accessibility however isn't as boppy and easy to sing along to. The lyrics are vague and don't make alot of sense and along with the distorted music it can overall be distressing yet still is accessible as dance music. The layout of the song is

A, B, C, A, D, C, A, E, A, F, F

This conveys the element of taking conventional themes of Pop and experimenting with it as it almost follows the general pop music structure of

A,B,A,B,C,B (Verse / Chorus / Verse / Chorus / Bridge / Chorus) 

and 

A,B,C,A,B,C,D,C (Verse / Pre-Chorus / Chorus / Verse / Pre-Chorus / Chorus / Bridge / Chorus).

It's most similar to the second layout however includes extra elements such as an extra bridge and the repeated verses at the end which are just slightly different and more clashing versions of the verse/chorus. *No distinction on which verse is what.

Similarities between both songs

• Disjointed/distortedness
• Lyrics are vague
• Lyrics work hand in hand with rhythm/sound effects - usually the rhythm is most important or the lyrics become part of the beat.
• No distinction of which verse is the main verse or which is the chorus, etc.
• Repetition