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What I loved is the dramatic irony.

Everyone who watches it already knows, note for note, the finished song being crafted. Only they don't. We get to watch the song's creators stumbling towards the light. We feel satisfaction as they approach the "true" sound.

As in a pantomime ("it's behind you!"), John says "attracts me like a cauliflower", and we all silently shout "like no other lover"

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I found their approach to writing lyrics extremely interesting. They're not singing words in the beginning, just syllables and "word shapes". The music is dictating what the words should sound like, and they fill in the meanings behind the word sounds retroactively over time. The lyrics are being molded like a lump of clay where you don't know what you're going to end up with when you first start. Just pushing around clay until it looks nice. Hey, that kinda looks like a nose.

Silly ideas can sometimes yield musical dividends. Jack Harkness's theme from Torchwood has a distinct stuttering, marching rhythm; turns out the composer originally scored it for a scene where Jack crashed through a barn wall on a tractor to catch some bad guys and he set the tune to the rhythm of the phrase "here he comes on a ruddy great tractor".

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