this is an extremely Micah Sommersmith song. Some of the wordy, dense lyrics really work for me - the multi-syllable rhyme in the chorus is great, the bridge crosses a line into "you will only get anything out of this if you read all of these citations", which I'm not doing because I don't think a song should really need that much additional info to stand up (plus I have 42 other songs to get through). It's not a dealbreaker though, just going through my thoughts! The song is very enjoyable despite that criticism, the jumpy rhythms on the verse are infectious and the chorus is catchy.

You got a chuckle out of me ith "Diagramming sentences is where the money's at." I like the accordion that drives the piece. I also like the implementation of the challenge, talking about Chomsky... but I also feel like there's a ton of "backstory" to the lyrics that I'm missing out on. Reviewing the lyrics in writing, I can see that they're extensively annotated, and... yeah, I'm not reading all that. I'm not above using a link to one obscure word when I transcribe my lyrics, but what you did was... a lot, dude. Anyway, your arrangement is unique and performed well. The chorus is catchy, and I like how it deflates the pomposity as a punchline in the end "It's all a load of crap if you're asking me." Fair enough, I suppose.

This sits firmly in the Micah comfort zone--nice uptempo feel, a flurry of dense, nerdy lyrics delivered with great confidence, and great accordion playing as usual. I like the switch between the kind of sparse, marching rhythm in the verse and the fun, energetic choruses. The lyrics all scan and rhyme well. Now... setting aside the question of whether linguistics is lucrative, I didn't find the lyrics as interesting as I'd hoped when I first scanned through them and was excited to see a bunch of stuff I recognized--there's no actual conceptual content, just a lot of surface-level name-dropping. The chorus has a bunch of big words in it but the actual statements are akin to saying "The time signature is determined rhythmically, the scale is determined melodically"--kind of meaningless, not something anyone would really say. I guess maybe as part of defining terminology in a Linguistics 101 class...? And also I'm not sure "determined" is really the right word here. I figure you knew when you wrote this that I'd pick it apart, so I felt like I had to oblige a bit 🙂 It's OK, but it just didn't quite deliver for me despite my being basically exactly in the target demographic, i.e. "people who have heard of wugs."