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: Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
2009-02-24 18:56:00

Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
2009-02-24 18:56:00

Mood: sad
Music: Nick Cave, 'O'Malley's Bar.'

Questions for a Music FAQ.

So, in an effort to distract myself from being sad...

I'm setting up the FAQ Pages over on my website, since it's a good way to keep my hands busy. One of the pages is, naturally enough, going to be questions about music and filk. I have three CDs, I attend a lot of filk conventions, it seems like a good thing to do. Now, I know that I have many non-filk readers on this journal. So I put forth this query:

What questions do you have about filk?
What questions do you have about my music in general?

Please let me know what it would help you to know, so that I can put all the pieces together coherently!

Tags: common questions, requesting things

spectralbovine

February 25 2009, 03:11:02 UTC 8 years ago

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What the hell IS filk? Are song parodies filk? That's how I first heard the term. Is it any geeky song? Or any song sung by a geeky person? Do you have to have a beard? I DO NOT UNDERSTAND.

archangelbeth

February 25 2009, 03:18:04 UTC 8 years ago

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*not seanan,but here's what I'd say...*

1: Filk is A) a parody of an existing song, usually with a SF&F slant, B) any original song that has a SF&F slant C) Folk music for SF&F fans, D) sometimes all of the above.

2: Yes. Weird Al's stuff? Totally filk, even if he doesn't know it.

3: Also yes. "Rocket Man"? Quite arguably filk, though that particular songwriter never wrote any other filks.

4: Often yes.

5: Gracious, no! There are a lot of female filkers!

seanan_mcguire

February 25 2009, 03:21:19 UTC 8 years ago

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Well, since the point is to get questions I can answer, I'm going to go ahead and leave them unanswered on this entry, hence actually encouraging website traffic. ;)