Emily/21/Bi and while I'm not 17, Dancing Queen is still my anthem. I obsess over stuff easily, so there’s a lot of fandom stuff on here along side aesthetic stuff... but let’s be real it’s mostly memes
listen just because a song was written before 1920 and has a fiddle in it doesn’t make it a sea shanty
I saw a ‘sea shanty playlist’ with finnegans wake in it and I almost died
a sea shatny is an unaccompanied work song with a call and response structure just because a folk song is about the sea doesn’t make it a shanty
actual tall ship sailor here! this isn’t quite accurate. there are two main categories of sea shanty: working shanties and fo’c’sle shanties.
working shanties are (obviously) songs sung while working. they typically have a steady beat and a call and response format - useful not only for keeping a massive crew all hauling on a line / heaving on a capstan together, but also for not becoming mind-numbingly bored as you do this for hours on end (raising an anchor could literally take an hour in the days before hydraulic windlasses and propeller-driven ships. last time i did it, even with using the ship’s engine to get us over the anchor, it took about fifteen minutes of constant work to get the anchor up). there are subcategories of working shanty based on what kind of work you’re doing (short haul, long haul, capstan e.g)
fo’c’sle shanties (short for forecastle, where the common jack tar would sleep/hang out) are another story. they were sung purely for entertainment, sort of like campfire songs. as such, they are much freer in form - they often aren’t call and response, and they rarely keep as steady a beat.
either of these two categories can be accompanied! the shantyman would often play the fiddle while standing on the capstan as it rotated, and of course in fo’c’sle shanties anything goes. besides, if you wouldn’t slam a traditional irish tune for having guitar playing chords behind the melody (an innovation that only came about in the 1970s, and piano accompaniment in the 1920s, prior to which everyone just played the melody in unison), there’s no need to slam a shanty for having accompaniment, even non-traditional accompaniment. it makes stuff sound nicer!
They really went and fixed every issue with the original in one go huh
My understanding is that it’s not even a reboot.
It’s just a continuation of the franchise without the “Jack Sparrow” character. It’s a whole world of piracy, magic, and adventures, so why limit it to revolving around the adventures of one dude and his friends?
From what I’m hearing, it’s going to focus on the character of Redd from the ride.
Remember the one part in the ride where the pirates are auctioning off the women? And a bunch of the pirates are chanting “We wants the redhead!” and sure enough, there’s a gorgeous redhead getting auctioned off?
Well, luckily, Disney recently changed the scene. There are now no women getting auctioned off, and the redhead, since renamed Redd, is a pirate captain in her own right.
The reworked character has become so popular that she’s actually a walk around character that you can meet in the park.
I really hope the rumors are true because we deserve a movie or twelve about female pirates
