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January 16

Love me again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfihYWRWRTQ

Hello. this song is in D minor or G minor ? The key is strange. 166.48.196.217 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 02:34, 16 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's not clear, is it? Luckily we get a clue - it's the same chord progression as Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" (except transposed - "Get Lucky" starts with Bm, "Love me again" with Gm). This posting gives an analysis of "Get Lucky", and ascribes its catchiness to it being not in a major or a minor, but in a mode, where it never resolves to the tonic chord. So it never feels like it's got an end or a beginning ("All ends with beginnings", goes "Get Lucky", rather knowingly), pulling you along with the expectation of resolution that never comes. Grr. So "which mode?" you might reasonably ask. This Reddit discussion tries to debate that - is it B-Dorian (which would put "Love me again" in G-Dorian) or F#-Aeolian (which would put "Love me again" in D-Aeolian)? It depends on what you consider to be the tonic chord, and the song is constructed not to ever resolve to tell you that - so both are valid interpretations. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 14:55, 16 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not the asker, but that's some great analysis Finlay! SemanticMantis (talk) 16:41, 16 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A film with heroe stroking his lips with his thumb ?

Helleo Learned Ones ! I watched again yesterday-night one of our greatest french cult movies : Breathless (À bout de souffle, 1960). And among other references to movies of the time (i.e. in the streets of Paris, posters of Ten Seconds to Hell , The Harder They Fall , & Westbound ) , there was Belmondo stroking his lips with his thumb... And I can't remember in what film I saw H. Bogart having this tic ? Was he alone to do it then on the screen ? Thanks a lot beforehand for your help, & t.y. Arapaima (talk) 12:26, 16 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Maltese Falcon. There is a brief (in my memory concise) analysis of the J. P. Belmondo / F. Truffault (oops, Godard) scene here. --Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 18:44, 18 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yeees !! . IOOO thanks Cookatoo, & also for the fine analysis you pointed to me Arapaima (talk) 10:47, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]