Phoenix Wright (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
wright_idea) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
futurology2015-11-29 07:50 pm
wright_idea) wrote in futurology2015-11-29 07:50 pm
UN: turnabout
[This is dumb. Nobody's going to buy this. But I guess I can at least propose it and see if anybody comes up with anything better.]
Hey, uh. So I heard about the whole prison thing. And I know we're probably not the most popular people in town at this point thanks to some of the stunts we've pulled lately. So... look, the thing is, we need to get the truth out there. As long as people are just hating each other and think we're a bunch of lunatics, we're not going to get them to the table, so to speak. And the King's definitely not going to help us, and ALASTAIR isn't either. So, well...
Okay, just hear me out a bit. So I've been thinking about some of what people have talked about on the network, about music and stuff. And, well, I think I have an idea of what might at least give everybody SOME sort of common ground to push through the walls:
We need a song.
Okay, yeah, I know, it sounds cheesy. But I don't mean something that can immediately change hearts and minds by listening to it once like you see on television -- er, for people who don't have that, it's a box that plays pictures and stuff we have back home. It's complicated. But I think we may be able to utilize a song to good effect.
What I'm proposing for our musical folks is that they write an earworm.
[Okay, probably should explain that one too, huh...]
Er, how to explain... It's not really a worm. More like... well, have you ever had those moments where you get a song stuck in your head, and you're either really digging it, or it's driving you nuts? And either way, you talk about it, and someone else has the exact same experience, and so on? It's a huge far shot, since I don't know if there's a common taste in music, but I think we should make a song and start sort of spreading it subtly. A few hummed bars here, a bard on a corner there. I'm sure a lot of people really want something to take their minds off things, so a really catchy song might help. Then other people will start humming it, or singing it, and then maybe if each side starts to hum it, and have similar feelings towards it...
I don't know. It probably sounds stupid. But it's all I've got right now.
[Although...]
Actually, while I'm at it... there's got to be other things we can start to spread as well. Stuff to start shaking peoples' certainty about each side. Rumors. I'm pretty sure I know at least ONE guy who's good at that.
...A-anyway! Thanks for your time. I, uh... eh heh.
[He looks really embarrassed.]
Hey, uh. So I heard about the whole prison thing. And I know we're probably not the most popular people in town at this point thanks to some of the stunts we've pulled lately. So... look, the thing is, we need to get the truth out there. As long as people are just hating each other and think we're a bunch of lunatics, we're not going to get them to the table, so to speak. And the King's definitely not going to help us, and ALASTAIR isn't either. So, well...
Okay, just hear me out a bit. So I've been thinking about some of what people have talked about on the network, about music and stuff. And, well, I think I have an idea of what might at least give everybody SOME sort of common ground to push through the walls:
We need a song.
Okay, yeah, I know, it sounds cheesy. But I don't mean something that can immediately change hearts and minds by listening to it once like you see on television -- er, for people who don't have that, it's a box that plays pictures and stuff we have back home. It's complicated. But I think we may be able to utilize a song to good effect.
What I'm proposing for our musical folks is that they write an earworm.
[Okay, probably should explain that one too, huh...]
Er, how to explain... It's not really a worm. More like... well, have you ever had those moments where you get a song stuck in your head, and you're either really digging it, or it's driving you nuts? And either way, you talk about it, and someone else has the exact same experience, and so on? It's a huge far shot, since I don't know if there's a common taste in music, but I think we should make a song and start sort of spreading it subtly. A few hummed bars here, a bard on a corner there. I'm sure a lot of people really want something to take their minds off things, so a really catchy song might help. Then other people will start humming it, or singing it, and then maybe if each side starts to hum it, and have similar feelings towards it...
I don't know. It probably sounds stupid. But it's all I've got right now.
[Although...]
Actually, while I'm at it... there's got to be other things we can start to spread as well. Stuff to start shaking peoples' certainty about each side. Rumors. I'm pretty sure I know at least ONE guy who's good at that.
...A-anyway! Thanks for your time. I, uh... eh heh.
[He looks really embarrassed.]
no worries, I disappeared for like two weeks
no subject
[Though I do wonder what sort of lyrics she writes...]
no subject
I tried asking around our group [via a really long post] when I first arrived, and I didn't hear back from anyone. I guess it's not really in the usual skill set of most of the people working with ALASTAIR. I know there are some bards of some kind around here, though I haven't talked to them much. They don't seem to appreciate competition.