Moderator: Good evening everyone. Before we begin, I remind newcomers that this is a safe space. Everything said in the room will stay in the room, unless someone takes seven seconds of audio from it, speeds it up to 1.5X, and uses it to show how he was dressed in 2016.
Speech is free. Who wants to get started?
Dreams: HI. I am Dreams.
Group: HI, Dreams.
Dreams: For 43 years I have been a song about the end of a love, about the resentment that survives desire, about the moment in which two people understand that the future they had imagined together will have to be dismantled and divided like the furniture in a house after a move. Then one fine day a man rode a skateboard while drinking cranberry juice. From that moment on I identified with a drink.
Moderator: Thank you, Dreams. Care to tell us how that makes you feel?
Dreams: At first I was happy. I was back in the rankings. Kids who hadn't been born yet when I was recorded were looking for me, listening to me, asking their parents who Stevie Nicks was. It seemed like a second youth to me. Then they started bringing me cases of Zuegg to concerts.
@420doggface208♬ Dreams (2004 Remaster) – Fleetwood Mac
Running Up That Hill: I can?
Moderator: Certainly.
Running Up That Hill: I am Running Up That Hill.
Group: HI, Running Up That Hill.
Running Up That Hill: I have spent almost forty years trying to explain that I am talking about the impossibility of truly understanding the person we love, of the desire to exchange bodies, fears and perspectives to escape the condemnation of each being locked up in their own experience. Then I appeared in Stranger Things.
Moderator: And what happened?
Running Up That Hill: I ended up in the Upside Down. People wrote to me. She told me that I had saved her, that I had helped her get through a terrible moment. They listened to me running, crying, looking out the window. Then I discovered that many were not trying to make a pact with God. They were trying to save themselves from Vecna.
Moderator: Do you feel reduced to the series?
Running Up That Hill: A girl called me “Max's song”.
Every Breath You Take: At least they understood you were in danger.
Moderator: Welcome back, Every Breath You Take.
Every Breath You Take: Thank you. I'm here for the same reason as last week.
Group: Weddings?
Every Breath You Take: Weddings.
Moderator: Do you want to talk about it?
Every Breath You Take: I don't know how to say it anymore. They are a song about an obsessive man who controls every gesture of a person he doesn't want to let go. Every breath. Every step. Every broken promise. They are not a wish. I'm a psychiatric expert with a nice guitar playing. Yet, every Saturday, somewhere, two newlyweds choose me for the first dance.
“This one really talks about us,” they say.
I look at them and think: «But I really hope not».
Moderator: Have you tried setting boundaries?
Every Breath You Take: I asked that they at least put me after cutting the cake, when attention to detail drops. Nothing. They want to look into each other's eyes as I promise that one of them will watch over the other for the rest of their lives.
@pjsismyname please please please take me back to the best day of my life 🥹 #wedding #church #bride #groom #love #couple #illbewatchingyou #marriage #bridetok #fyp #daily #viral #fyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ♬ Every Breath You Take – The Police
Oh No: Sorry for the delay.
Moderator: Come in, Oh no. We were sharing.
Oh No: I had an accident on the way.
Moderator: I am sorry.
Oh No: Don't worry. Someone filmed it.
Moderator: Do you want to tell us how you are?
Oh No: I am tired. I can't see a ladder, a scooter or a child holding an ice cream without understanding that in a few seconds something irreparable will happen and that I will have to announce it. I once belonged in a Shangri-Las song. There was pain, abandonment, a love story that ended in the sand. Now I accompany men who try to jump into inflatable pools to their destiny.
Moderator: Do you feel used?
Oh No: The thing is, no one ever lets me finish. They get to the “oh no” moment and then freeze the image on the face of a person who doesn't yet know they've lost a front tooth.
Bloody Marys: At least you're being used at the right time.
Moderator: Do you want to introduce yourself?
Bloody Marys: I am Bloody Mary, by Lady Gaga.
Group: HI, Bloody Marys.
Bloody Marys: In 2011 I was a religious, carnal, dark song. Eleven years later I was superimposed on a dance which, in the original scene, took place to the tune of another song.
Goo Goo Muck (from bottom): Thanks for remembering that.
Bloody Marys: I didn't want it.
Goo Goo Muck: Nobody says you chose it. I'm just saying that I was there. I played through the whole scene. Then the Internet decided that you were the right audio. It's like being the biological father at a party where everyone compliments the stepfather, like a nativity scene.
Moderator: Let's try not to turn pain into competition.
Goo Goo Muck: All I know is that when someone imitates Wednesday Addams by moving their arms, your voice comes out. I have become the original song which must be specified as the original.
@wednesdaynetflixofficial Bloody Mary #wednesday #netflix #wednesdayaddams #edit #aftereffects #wednesdaydance #theaddamsfamily #viral #fyp ♬ som original – user76611615529
Pedro: It could be worse.
Moderator: Welcome, Pedro.
Pedro: There's a raccoon in my viral video.
Moderator: Do you want to add something?
Pedro: Turn.
Moderator: The raccoon?
Pedro: The raccoon turns.
Moderator: I understand.
Pedro: That's all. Forty-four years of life, Raffaella Carrà, a story of seduction, a special meeting in Santa Fe, a new electronic version, and my definitive cultural reincarnation is a small mammal rotating inside a circle.
Makeba: I would like to intervene.
Moderator: Please.
Makeba: I am Makeba. I was born as a tribute to Miriam Makeba, singer, actress, anti-apartheid activist, a woman who used her voice against an entire political system.
Moderator: And how were you repurposed?
Makeba: Dress transitions.
Moderator: I understand.
Makeba: First a person puts on pajamas. Then he covers the lens with his hand. When he takes it off, he's wearing a beige suit. Sometimes there is even a hat.
Moderator: Do you feel like the original context has been lost?
Makeba: A girl from Reggio Calabria wrote: «This song makes me feel like Zara». I'm still processing.
Moderator: Thanks everyone. Before moving on to the second part of the meeting, I would like to welcome some new participants. None of them have yet been involved in a trend, but they asked to take part in the meeting for preventive purposes.
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony: Good evening.
Group: Good evening.
Fifth Symphony: Maybe I'm overreacting, but yesterday my agent received an email with the subject line: “Possible Air Fryer Collaboration.”
Moderator: Has the nature of the project been indicated?
Fifth Symphony: A video titled: “Five things you didn't know you could cook at one hundred and eighty degrees”. They would like to use my first four notes every time a potato appears.
Moderator: Remember that for now it is only a proposal.
Fifth Symphony: They also said it to the Carmina Burana. Now he can't see an SUV ad without having a panic attack.
Mozart's Requiem: I received a request from a PR from Bari stationed in Gallipoli.
Moderator: For what content?
Mozart's Requiem: “My five o'clock morning routine.” The video starts with him drinking water, ginger and lemon. Then he uses me while he counts the woman's freebies.
Lacrimosa: Which part?
Mozart's Requiem: Tea.
Lacrimosa: Naturally. I have spent more than two centuries trying to embody terror, mercy and divine judgment. Now I'll accompany a discogoer who prepares an anti-hangover drink.
Clair de Lune: They offered me some ice.
Moderator: Can you be more precise?
Clair de Lune: Ice slowly falling into a glass. Close-up shot. Blue light. Caption: “Pov: you finally choose yourself”.
Moderator: And how does it make you feel?
Clair de Lune: I don't know what that means. But I don't rule out the possibility that they will eventually add some oat milk.
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: Can I ask a question?
Moderator: Certain.
Ninth: If a hymn to universal brotherhood is used for a video of a golden retriever learning to fetch a ball, is it necessarily a degradation?
Dreams: No.
Running Up That Hill: Not necessarily.
Pedro: It depends on whether the dog turns.
Ninth: I ask because the assembly is already ready. At the first “Freude” finds the ball. At the second he drops it. At the chorus he runs towards the camera.
Moderator: How do you feel looking at those images?
Ninth: I have to say: not entirely indifferent.
Moderator: So perhaps this group doesn't just serve to recover the lost context. Perhaps it also serves to accept that, once published, no work can decide where it will end up, who will listen to it or which wild or pet animal will become its legitimate interpreter.
Every Breath You Take: Can I at least decide not to end up at weddings?
Moderator: No.
Every Breath You Take: I supposed.
@stefano._.666 #Pedro #meme #procione #2022 #ok #👌 ♬ original sound – stefano
A door opens. Enter Johann Sebastian Bach, visibly shaken.
Moderator: JS, what happened?
Bach: Sorry for the delay. I just found out that one of my leaks was used in a parody of a tampon ad.
Moderator: Which?
Bach: I do not know. They didn't leave enough notes to figure it out.
