when a word is sung like what it means...

TheGhost
TheGhost Posts: 540
edited June 2013 in Words and Music...Communication
Is there a term for when a singer sings a word in a way that suggests the meaning of the word? I think Ed does this brilliantly. An example would be the way he sings "cringe" in "Sometimes". It sounds just like he's cringing. Anybody have other examples?
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  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,948
    "Chafe" beneath the clouds.
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  • shetellsherself
    shetellsherself New Jersey Posts: 8,835
    DTE...I crawled the earth, but now I'm higher

    When he raises the pitch on higher. You have me looking for more now...
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  • TheGhost
    TheGhost Posts: 540
    shetellsherself wrote:
    DTE...I crawled the earth, but now I'm higher

    When he raises the pitch on higher. You have me looking for more now...
    Exactly. It's not like onomatopoeia where the word sounds like what it means, but where the singer MAKES the word sound like what it means. I'm trying to think of another... Eddies so good at singing things and adding emotion to them, but sometimes he really sort of illustrates the word with his phrasing, tone, pitch, attitude.. Maybe when he sings "burn" in "Nothingma", it sort of has a burnt, dry sound to it. Maybe I'm having a bit of Synesthesia! (when people can see sounds and hear colors, etc..)
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  • ozgurkd
    ozgurkd Juneau, Alaska Posts: 434
    sometimes very scary
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  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,948
    Chases them away.
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  • ozgurkd
    ozgurkd Juneau, Alaska Posts: 434
    feels like nightswimming
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  • shetellsherself
    shetellsherself New Jersey Posts: 8,835
    They don't compare.... RATS!
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  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,948
    I'll pay it off in blood, let I be wed...
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  • ozgurkd
    ozgurkd Juneau, Alaska Posts: 434
    feels like getting wet in a shy rain
    Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
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