Is this sort of awesome, or awful? I really don’t know. Bear with it for a verse or two - her voice is, ah, Raw and Untutored - but let me know what you think. Is it fanfiction - which I hate, loathe, despise and abominate - or somehow cooler than that? You tell me. I know it’s filk, but I’m so new to that concept I actually don’t have an opinion about it yet. Which pretty much puts the universe in a state of flux.
Patchy, I’d say. Some of the lyrics are touching, and some of them just sound obnoxiously faux-Jossian - too many damns, for one. I hate it when fans try to emulate a writer’s writing style - it’s like all those commenters on Pioneer Woman who talk about their punks with self-conscious beeziness and say “dadgum”. Weedy, is what it is… which is largely why I hate fanfiction. The other reason is that I’m a LOTR fan, and to see people who think they can emulate Tolkien’s bleak, spare, deceptively arid writing style by keyword-stuffing “glimmering” and “fey” into descriptions of violet-eyed half-Elven princesses, well, it makes me want to cause messy death. Which is not the case with this song, I hasten to add. At its worst it just makes me wince a bit and go “Puh-leese”.
And that’s what I look for in a song.
Susan Z. Swan Says:
— As to the song > it mostly does a good job in integrating in the real lyrics of the Ballad of Serenity with new lyrics and almost makes it all work. Don’t mind the roughness as the rendition with the series itself is pretty rough. Thanks for the reminder of my all-time fav show (and to pass up B5 took some doing!).