Animate

About Animate

Overview

"Animate" is a song by Canadian progressive rock band Rush from their 1993 album Counterparts. The song reached number 35 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart in 1994, staying on the charts for three weeks. The band's singer and bassist, Geddy Lee, said "I love 'Animate'. I think it’s one of the great songs we've done. There's something about the bestiality of that song, the insistence of it." Composition and recording "Animate" features Lee playing his bass with an old amplifier that was in the studio garbage and repaired by one of the studio's technical assistants. Shirley wanted Lee to play his parts to "Animate" with it. "It sounded great, I had a tremendous amount of energy, and all the explosion sounds of it kind of disappeared in the track, so you're not really aware of the fact that it's an amplifier on the verge of death." Lee liked Peart's count in at the start of the track as it displays a "human touch". Lyrically, Peart wrote the words about one person yet structured them to make it as if it may concern a relationship, "almost a love song." He thought that such love lyrics had become a cliché throughout the 1980s, however, and turned to works by Jung and Camille Paglia to understand "what the modern man was supposed to be." Peart said he plays a "basic R&B rhythm that I played back in my early days, coupled with that hypnotic effect" that bands like Curve and Lush used. The song is in the key of D minor. The lead vocal ranges in pitch from B3 to A5.

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Notable quotes

“Yoshiaki Nishimura, a former Miyazaki stalwart who produced the Oscar-nominated The Tale of The Princess Kaguya, said the industry was struggling to “face up to a lack of animators, bad working conditions and perhaps a lack of creativity”.”
— Agence France-Presse, “Japan’s anime industry in crisis even as global popularity soars”, (16 Jun, 2019).
“'It's like building a cathedral, in which only a few seconds of animation are completed each week.”
— Jim Bresnahan Interview with Director of Rio 2, Entertainment.ie, 3 April 2014
“After seven years of consecutive growth, the anime industry set a new sales record in 2017 of ¥2.15 trillion ($19.8 billion), driven largely by demand from overseas. Exports of anime series and films have tripled since 2014 -- aided in part by sales to streaming giants such as Netflix and Amazon -- and so far show no signs of slowing.”
— Emiko Jozuka, “Japanese anime: From 'Disney of the East' to a global industry worth billions”, CNN, (28th July 2019).
“"I think [adult studios] are afraid of CG coming into the market because it will affect them, and they aren't able to do it themselves because they do not have the creativity or the skills," says Darron. "If they do hire someone, they're not willing to put up the budget or give it the financial backing required."”
— Regina Lynn, “Animated Porn Makes Moves”, WIRED, (12.01.06).
“Any story can be told in animation…I’m hoping someone will try to tell a story that’s brand new…not one that’s similar to every other story we’ve seen.”
— Tom Ruegger, "Tom Ruegger", Laura, Animation Insider, (3 September 2015).
“Anything can be done live-action if you have unlimited time and unlimited money. But it wouldn't have looked like the book and it wouldn't have kept the same emotion as the wonderful paintings that Chris illustrated. So I don't think it would have been as true to the book if it was done live-action.”
— Robert Zemeckis, "Tom Hanks and Director Robert Zemeckis Discuss "The Polar Express", Rebecca Murrary, About Entertainment.

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