yes the question of the "same power" is tricky, bcz it's never the same twice (one obvious pop fact is that things can quickly wear out their huge first welcome)
so i would say that thrillpower is relative in a slightly different sense -- it's a quality of a given item AS JUXTAPOSED with a given backdrop (where each song has a backdrop formed of the ten other songs); it's situational rather than always-present-and-the-same
certainly i think you're right that you would never feel that a group of 11 songs were identically thrillpowerful EVEN IF each would go on to win against its own (other) ten
perhaps this is bcz when you ask "what stands out most?" the answer can't be "everything" -- and we tailor our idea of what "standing out" is to ensure this
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Date: 2007-04-26 02:57 pm (UTC)so i would say that thrillpower is relative in a slightly different sense -- it's a quality of a given item AS JUXTAPOSED with a given backdrop (where each song has a backdrop formed of the ten other songs); it's situational rather than always-present-and-the-same
certainly i think you're right that you would never feel that a group of 11 songs were identically thrillpowerful EVEN IF each would go on to win against its own (other) ten
perhaps this is bcz when you ask "what stands out most?" the answer can't be "everything" -- and we tailor our idea of what "standing out" is to ensure this