Re: [mb-users] ARs for references in works?

2013/10/1 Per Starbäck <[email protected]>

> Has ARs for references in lyrics been considered? I mean things like a
> work-to-work AR from The Wombats' "Let's Dance to Joy Division" to Joy
> Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart". (Lyrics "So let the love tear us
> apart, / I've found the cure for a broken heart, / Let it tear us
> apart, / Let the love tear us apart".)
>
> Or from Camera Obscura's "Lloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken" to Lloyd
> Cole's "Are you ready to be heartbroken?".
>
> Or work-to-artist from Leonard Cohens's "Tower of Song" to artist Hank
> Williams (because of lyrics "I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does
> it get? / Hank Williams hasn't answered yet"?
>
> There would probably be problems with unclear references that people
> wouldn't agree on, but I think it would be fun and interesting to have
> such information. What do you think?
>

Definitely. But to be useful, we should be able to add comments in order to
explain the AR. Unfortunately, the AR structure currently does not support
comments AFAIK.

Maybe it is time to request for a comment field on ARs. Of course, this
field should not be always present, I guess most of the ARs wouldn't have
one. On second thought, the AR comment could simply be initialized with a
copy of the edit comment. I often miss the edit comment.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
(davitof)

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