Song Lyric Flowcharts

Song Lyric Flowcharts

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About

Song Lyric Flowcharts are a series of graphic charts and diagrams that visualize the lyrics of popular songs in a sequential order, in similar vein to the use of LOLgraphs.

Origin

On August 17th, 2009, Tumblr[6] user Jeannr posted a flowchart outlining the lyrics for the 1983 soft rock song "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler (shown below). In the first five years, the post gathered upwards of 2,700 notes.


TURN very now and then I Get a little bit loncly and you're never coming 'round tired of listening to the sound of my tears nervous that the best of all the years have gone by terrified and then I see the look in your cyes BRIGHT EYES CROON Fall apart CROON BELT--- CROON NOW TONIGHT NEED YOU MORE THAN EVER! For the better understanding of Total Eclipse of the Heart http://jeannr.tumblr.com

Precursor

One of the earliest known online projects devoted to flowchart visualization of popular song lyrics was launched as a single webpage under the domain Jamphat.com in November 2007. The site featured a series of Microsoft Office charts breaking down the semantics of hip hop & rap song lyrics.

Spread

On August 18th, 2009, BuzzFeed[2] reposted Jeannr's flowchart. On December 11th, the "Total Eclipse of the Heart" flowchart was highlighted by the Internet news blog Urlesque[1] in an article about notable Internet flowcharts. The same day, Tumblr user loveallthis[3] posted a flowchart for the 1968 rock song "Hey Jude" by The Beatles, which credited Jeannr's original chart an inspiration (shown below). In five years, the post gained over 16,800 notes. On July 13th, 2010, a flowchart for the 1980 new wave song "Whip It' by Devo was submitted to the /r/pics[4] subreddit (shown below, right).


hey Jude make it bad take a sad song and make it better don't be afraid you were made to go out and get her let me down you have found her, now go and get her let her into your heart remember to let her under your skin can start then you to make it better begin better better better better better waaaaa na loveallthis.tumblr.com lyrics sony atv Circumstances when whipping it should be considered Has a problem coime along? Has a good time turned round? Yes Yes 0 must not unless vou Whip It you Has the cream sat out too long? must Have you ever lived it down? Yes Yes not until they Yes is it whipped good? 0 Yes Is something going wrong? Has anyone gotten away? Yes 0 Move Ahead Crack that whip Revision: 0.1 Author: JT

On October 20th, YouTuber lyricalflowcharts uploaded a video showing the creation of another flowchart for The Beatles' song "Hey Jude" (shown below). In the next four years, the video garnered more than 180,000 views and 150 comments.



On January 24th, 2011, the webcomic Xkcd[5] posted a flowchart illustrating the lyrics for several songs with repetitions of the word "na" (shown below).


HEY HEY GOODBYE NA NA BATMAN KATAMARI LAND OF DAMACY! 1000 DANCES

On January 31st, 2014, the Redbull[7] music blog highlighted a flowchart illustrating the lyrics for the 1971 rock song "Black Dog" by Led Zeppelin (shown below). In the following three months, the post gathered more than 2,000 Facebook likes and 280 tweets.


BY LED ZPPELN HEY, HEYAH, AH MAMA CHILD BABY SAID WHEN YOU WALK THE WAY YOU MOVE THE WAY YOU SHAKE THAT THING GONNA MAKE YOU BURN STING WAY WATCH YOUR HONEY DRIP CAN'T KEEP SWEAT GROOVE AWAY AH YEAH, AH YEAH

Notable Examples


Exploring the Bowieverse the I'm papers floating Space Oddity IS THERE LIFE want in to know a most whose pe- shirt youcu- wear way put helmetI on 25,3536 it's time the stars Remaining 42 to look I leave the very you've I'm capsule different, really stepping made through the the grade door take Iyour protein pills 2, 5, 11, 20 6,21 Ground Control ) to Major Tom 13 engines on check / ignition), I commencing countdown THIS IS if you johncabrera.tumblr.com Find a Shawty She hit the Flo? She have ther apple-bottom jeans? Not a Shawty Yes Shawty Did Yes Not Get LoWNext Thing You Know? No Fur Boots Shawty Got Low With Fur Low? < Whole Club Low? Yes Who's Looking at Her? Low? Yes Low?YYes Spend all of My Dough Whole Club LoW? Yes OH YEAH I'LL TELL YOU SOME THING YEAH YOU'VE GOT THAT I CAN'T SAY CAN'T HIDE THINK YOU'LL UNDER- STAND WHENI THAT FEEL I CANT HIDE HOLD WANT TOYOUR HAND AND WHEN I TOUCH YOU I FEEL APPY... INSIDE ITS SUCH A FEELING THAT MY LOVE OH PLEASE SAY TO ME YOU'LL LET ME BE YOUR MAN START HE 90S? NO YES STOP STOP HANMERTIME COLAGORATE LISTEM robblatt.com Keep on dancin' as the room gets hot Baby baby that's quite a lot Show us you got YOU The party's just begun, we'll let you in KITT Say you wanna go for a spin uk . DRIVE US WILD Are looking fancy and I like your style you'll be mine for a while YOU KEEP ON SHOUTING I WANNA ROCK AND ROLL DRIVEALL NITE AND YOU CRAZY PARTY EVERY DAY ooh ooh give you up let you down run around and desert you make you cry say goodbye tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna 6x gotta make you understand I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling

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