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Well, if you haven't checked out her "Dust in the Wind" collaboration with Algal the Bard (on his channel) that's linked at the end of "House of the Rising Sun", definitely do that. I wouldn't consider myself an expert, but the "Bardcore" channel has quite a few playlists of period songs done in an instrumental 'bardcore' style, which seems like the popular approach. I have yet to run across anybody who does the 'full monty' (by which I mean, including vocals) as well as Hildegard does.
Her version of āCreepā is actually my least favorite, because I feel she really needed to do more with the lyrics. āWeirdoā makes no sense in an old-fashioned sense, as āweirdā means āfateā, often āultimate fateā as in āyour deathā, but also in the sense of āprophetā or āfortune tellerā. I am creep, I amā¦ fated to die? I am a reader of entrails? I amā¦ what? I donāt get it. These donāt mesh at all with the song.
Thatās not to say I donāt like her music. I do! Iām a huge fan! My favorite is actually āPumped Up Kicksā for doing exactly what I said āCreepā doesnāt do and translating a school shooter into a Welsh archer defending against an English invasion forceā¦ āI doth gaze upon the fyrd and I maketh a planā where āfyrdā is an Anglo-Saxon army. Itās brilliant.