Pop Sonnets: Shakespearean Spins on Your Favorite Songs, by Erik Didriksen
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The Bard meets the Backstreet Boys in Pop Sonnets, a collection of 100 classic pop songs reimagined as Shakespearean sonnets. All of your favorite artists are represented in these pages--from Bon Jovi and Green Day to Miley Cyrus, Beyoncé, and beyond. Already a smash sensation on the Internet--the Tumblr page has 50,000+ followers--Pop Sonnets has been featured by the A.V. Club, BuzzFeed, and Vanity Fair, among many others. More than half of these pop sonnets are exclusive to this collection and have never been published in any form.
Pop Sonnets: Shakespearean Spins on Your Favorite Songs, by Erik Didriksen- Amazon Sales Rank: #58716 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-06
- Released on: 2015-10-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.29" h x .68" w x 5.50" l, 1.25 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 128 pages
Review "Ingenious is the key word here."—Free Lance-Star“To put it mildly, this is a terrific feat of will and intellect.”—Pop Matters“[T]his is a terrific feat of will and intellect.”—PopMatters“This is a must-have for literary buffs and music fans alike.”—Paste magazine“One of the very best collections of pop songs written in the style of William Shakespeare that I've read so far this year!”—“Weird Al” Yankovic“Pop Sonnets is one of the absolute best of the disreputable breed of impulse-buy humor books. Didriksen brings an authentic dedication to craft and a lively sense of humor to this highly specific project.”—NPR“...smart and funny...Any reader who is intrigued by this concept will enjoy its fantastically skilled execution.”—Library Journal“This book is made for drinking games or could moonlight as a pub quiz helper, and a well-loved teaching resource.”—Monsters & Critics
About the Author Erik Didriksen is a software engineer, musician, sonneteer, and trivia enthusiast. He lives in Astoria, New York.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Love it! Well done! Excellent gift book. So Fun to Read Outloud! By SBCincinnati [[VIDEOID:bad595d236159d769a2e3aff0a51de95]] I don't think I have ever posted a video review for a book. However, this book is different as sonnets are meant to be read outloud. Please note in advance that I am not Ian McKellen (by a long shot), so take the video in the spirit is was intended.Pop Sonnets, by the creative Erik Didriksen, is divided into five sections:1. Sonnets of Love -which includes song like "Call me Maybe," "I'm a Believer" and "Roxanne"2. Sonnet of Despair includes "Oops! I did it Again," "Tainted Love" and "Free Bird"3. Songs of Time and Mortality: "Livin' on a Prayer", "Royals" and "Let it Go," are included in this section.4. Rogues, Rascals and Wanton Women" Include "The Safety Dance," "All About that Bass," and "Ice Ice Baby."5. Ballads of Heroes contains songs like "Bohemian Rhapsody", "My Way" and "Rocket Man."Over 100 sonnets are included in this ingenious book. Songs range from late 1940's to current recordings. Totally love this book. I am making a list of who I need to get it for.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Fun! By Marcie A few weeks ago, I watched a TED Talk about Shakespeare and music. The speaker, in an attempt to help kids (and adults) try to understand and relate to sonnets and iambic pentameter, paired Shakespeare with hip-hop and hip-hop with Shakespeare. The rhythm from both music and sonnet seemed to transcend flawlessly into each other. So when I came across Pop Sonnets, I was more than excited to see how Erik Didriksen could tackle this.In case you're not familiar with Erik Didriksen, let me enlighten you a bit. Erik runs a Tumblr page called, you guessed it, Pop Sonnets. It has a pretty big following and has been featured on many sites. His page is dedicated to rewriting songs into sonnets and it's brilliant--just like this book. I'm familiar with about 99% of the songs and sonnets of this book so as you could probably imagine, I enjoyed every page. It's clever, it's fresh, and it's fun. Erik Didrikesen oozes creativity.Here's a sonnet from a song that everyone on the planet is probably familiar with: "Let It Go" by Idina Menzel.This mountainside, engulf ’d in snow untouch’d,reveals the isolation I command;the icy storms that I once tightly clutch’dwithin my heart are blanketing the land.No longer could I heed my parents’ willto hold my youthful hopes and fears at bay;so all have seen I’ve mastered winter’s chill —my years of forced seclusion toss’d away.The page hath now been turn’d; I’ll break the chainsthat kept restrain’d my true identity.This queen will rule, but o’er her own domain,without a care for what they think of me.— I’ll not again the falling snow withhold,for I have ne’er been bothered by the cold.Idina Menzel, “Let It Go”Pop Sonnets is a book that I think every music lover can appreciate. Even if Shakespeare isn't your thing. But perhaps after reading it, you might find yourself appreciating sonnets a little bit more. Also, don't forget to check out his website, it's hi-larious.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. My new favorite poetry book By Maria Beadnell This is appreciating Shakespeare inside out--comparing his intake-of-breath sonnets to the cheesy pop songs we know and love and hate.This is, for me, a perfect fit. Because Shakespeare did not know he was SHAKESPEARE. He was writing pop songs. (They just happen to have been a) really good b) universally appealing enough to have stood the test of time c) have a folio so we know what they were--most writing from this time has completely disappeared.)I have a pretty good grasp of the sonnets, having written a jukebox musical that used them as the source material. And yeah, for all the genius of the structure, a lot of them are as self-indulgent, silly, and vacuous in content as anything Britney Spears ever did. Actually, Brit comes off a lot better re-written in 14 lines. I found that I could appreciate most of the pop songs examined in this volume better, after reading the content in a new way, and without the catchy music. The ones for which I didn't know the songs came off as pretty good poetry.I was a little disappointed that you couldn't actually sing them -- how I would have loved Rick Astley with a few "thous" and "forsooths!" But as poetry, I found this volume very readable and enjoyable and, best of all, it illustrated just how universal the Bard's inspiration is. Anything pop stars write about, Shakespeare already has.
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