@tarilaran replied to your post “Not a request, but not sure how best to add this: ...”:
OK so how would you make something like that, mechanically?
Primary vocals could be coded so that words fall entirely within beat boundaries--then you're just doing the interlaced poetry trick
true, that's one way somebody could do it! and I hope somebody does!
but...if they were a master. someone really willing to get their hands dirty. they could make it so that the words that are spread across multiple beats form different words when cut apart and reassembled with every other beat missing.
would it be difficult? for sure. it would take a lot of time and effort, but I believe that it could be done.
in fact, I know it could be, because very rarely, something like that happens by accident - like when this part of Bad Romance:
I want your horror, I want your design
'Cause you're a criminal as long as you're mine
I want your love
chopped up in such a way that it sounded like:
I wore a onion tie, 'cause criminal vagina love
is it exact? no. but is it close enough that it sounds, consistently, like it could be those words? I think yes.
it happens in snippets - there's also Andrew In Drag where "There is no hope of love for me / From here on I go stag" chopped into "There hope of lee for my ghost", which while not a sentence, is kind of words. like, "ghost" was clear there, and was fun!
anyway yeah, there are a couple ways it could be done. and I do desperately want someone to make me a song that chops into something magical