#I just love this album. and I love them. so why not! lol

[power-chords]

apologies if you've explained this already, but tumblr search is trash, so I have to ask... why the obsession with michael mann, how did that start?

Oh, man. It’s a long story! In the early days of the pandemic I got a call from my favorite rock musician that he had read a short essay I’d written on his solo album, and he wanted me to contribute a piece to his band’s forthcoming box set. Dream come true obviously, couldn’t say no, so I immediately buckled down on the research end, which for me involved a deeper dive into said musician’s love of film. Mann was on the list of suspects alongside more definitive entries like Coppola and Scorsese, but that turned out to be a happy accident of misreading. (Major shout out to Adam here, by the way, because without his guidance I would have been working with a much more meandering home-brewed syllabus.)

I enjoy movies like any properly adjusted American but they don’t tend to put a spell on me the way music does, or make me want to disassemble the whole contraption piece by piece like a good written story. And Mann’s work was the first time I’d ever encountered films that could have the same effect on me as music and literature. They were hypnotic and enchanting and propulsive, like my favorite records, but they also suggested this dense subterranean architecture of potential meaning, obscured from immediate view but very much there and carefully, deliberately encoded. In other words, these films were like texts imploring (really, daring) you to interpret them.

That’s Mann’s methodology in a nutshell, basically — it’s a seduction gambit, and on me it worked spectacularly! It tapped into my grotesque hedonic animal brain and sparked an intellectual curiosity as well. For me that combination has a narcotic quality that’s hard to explain, but I have an addictive personality. And the more I watched his work, the more it ensnared me like The Footage.* (“WHAT is going on? What is this film doing to me??” Etc.) You have to understand I have no prior experiential basis for this, so as far as I’m concerned it’s witchcraft. By the time I turn in my piece for the box set I have this collateral situation developing, ha ha, oh no, and here I am three years later.

Initially I had wondered if Mann had been an influence on Dulli, but it turned out to be a case of convergent evolution. Or something akin to it. I think they’re just similar in terms of what subject matter they’re attracted to, maybe in their modes of perception and how they make aesthetic/narrative sense of the world. And there is some part of me that keys into that sensibility — whichever part precedes organized expression, maybe even conscious comprehension — and finds it cathartic and liberating and all that good stuff. (I’m a Safety First adrenaline junkie these days so I try to limit my habits to art and pop culture.)

And then he and Meg Gardiner co-wrote an actual book which provoked further investigations, escalations, whatever you want to call them. It turns out that the abyss really DOES stare back into you in the form of numerous spooky historical coincidences. I’m like afraid of Heat 2 at this point because the more I go trawling around in there the more it becomes an eldritch object, LOL. I’m the closest anyone has come to living the film Jumanji, let me put it that way. But the experience has been a blast. And I feel fortunate to have found yet another creator on par with Dulli and Townshend whose work I will be able to take with me and return to over the course of my life, and seek shelter in in that way.

*EVERYBODY READ PATTERN RECOGNITION BY WILLIAM GIBSON!

#I’m sorry that is the most abridged possible version lmao

[camellcat]

starlight by weezer is such a post-doomsday tenrose song... every time I listen to it I just see ten curled up on her bed in the TARDIS desperately clutching at something of hers

#or putting on a brave face pretending everything is fine when it's SO Not Fine. expecting to see her around every corner but never doing so #probably also rose pov but I thought of ten first so the post is about him #sorry to put weezer on ur feed but also I'm not at all #it's such a simple song. it's sooo simple. I love it. oh. so them #I lovee seeing song posts I love MAKING song posts I simply cannot help myself #honestly the more I listen to the green album the more ways I try and connect it to timepetals #I just love this album. and I love them. so why not! lol #ik ninerose is 1940s swing and tenrose is 1970s punk rock but I AM sticking both of them into... #well whatever the fuck weezer is #ANYWAYS #timepetals #tenrose #tenth doctor #rose tyler #doctor who

[goldensunset]

surprise art attack!!! here’s @deityofhearts ‘s cashmere, everyone’s favorite whimsical tiefling

#pose taken directly from the kikuomiku4 album cover bc i’ve been listening to UFO on repeat for idk how many days now #finally gave me the inspiration i needed to do something like this it’s like both sad and super whimsical #actually tbh it gives me more wishful vibes now that i think about it but 1. idk what wishful looks like and 2. cashmere design my beloved #kikuo just in general has a lot of whimsysad and/or fundark which is why i love him #tbh ufo has quickly shot up to one of my fave songs it’s the iconic accordion and the tempo being unstable in places #uh anyway ignore me being a kikuo nerd again #wahhh this was fun to work on it has consumed me these past three days #jumping up and down hehehehehe #glad i finally cut to the ‘it’s done *collapses*’ stage of the arting process bc i’ve been having trouble finishing pieces lately #man i WISH i could come up with poses this good on my own. idc i’m still proud of this #my art #ok yeah i just got the time total. 12 hours #i knew it would be a long time but i didn’t think that long #tbh a lot of that was spent inefficiently bc i kept having to resize the image up when i realized the pixels were too crunchy #and when you make an image bigger the lines get blurry so then you have to redo them. yeah i had to do that TWICE. like a dummy. #12 hours used to be like par for the course for me but i’ve finally gotten faster. or maybe i’ve just stopped doing as many full figures #lol

[puppyeared]

38 and 39 for the ask game!

(Love your art by the way)

38: fav song at the moment?

pawprint panic | party at club bug | love birds

39: youtuber you've been obsessed with and why?

link to scruffy's youtube channel

#i dont really have a set music taste cuz i just listen to whatever i like but i think i lean towards bedroom pop??? #these songs come to mind bc theyre relatively new so i havent gotten tired of listening to them yet lol #i do love snailshouse's love songs and ordinary songs 5 albums.. as well as cavetown and sidney gish #but i dont have any real way of discovering music outside of oc amvs and listening to the rest of an artists discography #i also dont watch a lot of youtubers to begin with but i really like scruffy and solo solo travel.. hes a japanese travel vlogger that #my mom likes and he usually rides trains and documents the whole trip. doesnt speak but writes his thoughts in subtitles #hes pretty funny and his videos are relaxing to watch so i can see why my mom likes him lol #i highly recommend scruffys fnaf sound effects videos.. its interesting to see how sound design is incorporated as a part of #game atmosphere without even realizing it!! and his video for totks instruments is interesting too!!! #ask #ask game #answered #yapping #doodles

[ikyw-t]

dirty work the unbelievable album that you are....... like Under A Paper Moon (with the iconic and perfect screams at the end), the perfection that is Return The Favor, the quick wit and absolute bop of Get Down On Your Knees, Heroes which has one of their best bridges EVER, not to mention the absolute fan favorites that are Time-Bomb, Guts, A Daydream Away....... dirty work I love you so much forever and ever 💙

#NOT TO MENTION THAT GIRL WHICH WAS THE FIRST ATL SONG I REMEMBER BEING ACTUALLY OBSESSED WITH 💙 #UGH!! incredible album!!!! #all time low #also im listening to so long and thanks for the booze for the first time in ages and like damn this shit slapssss #idk why but he sounds so much younger on this one song than he does on the rest of the album #lol idk .... god i just love this band so much. i just find them to be so healing. like they just speak to my heart so directly #i love them beyond words actually #🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 #atl

[boy-armageddon]

YES my username on yt is a blood bros reference :33 i need to go to crimes world again i know in my heart and soul that i love her but i seldom show her attention .. i need to care her more ..

HOOFRAY!!!! also pretty please do!!!!!!! for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#such a good album it is Insane that like. you never really see it talked about outside of certain spaces #and even then it was originally derided for being much less heavy than its predecessors #such a smart album lyrically and even in just like certain songs like peacock skeleton with crooked feathers #which btw is my go-to song to introduce people 2 them #for obvious reasons. the way the vocals play off each other #the keyboard #aforementioned lyrics because man they’re good at writing political lyrics that are simultaneously very pointed and relevant to this day #and also just plain fun. the way they word stuff rolls off the tongue very well #which I suppose is very much in part to Whitney being a very literary guy from what I’ve read up about him #SPEAKING OF!!!!! Jesus Christ the vocals. the vocals #(positive) #very very powerful for a guy who was like…. 21-22 at the time of recording I’d reckon? #I know whitney’s vocals are a turn off for the band for most people but imo? it’s one of the main appeals. 2 me he is like an insanely good #vocalist. almost jealous that he can hit those notes as a cis guy and I can’t cause omfg in like. wolf party near the end #HOW DOES A GUY MANAGE THAT….. #I love how they incorporated elements of other genres in it. like I don’t see them as indie rock like people #for whatever reason #like to describe them as in that album #but you can hear the elements. bringing up wolf party again cause nick zinner did some of the guitar in that and he’s in an indie band no? #yeah yeah yeahs or whatevs. they’re cool seeming I should check ‘em out #ALSO sorry I kind of glossed over Blilie. he’s really fucking good in the album obvs!!!! #pretty sure he did the album art which. omfg it’s had an aesthetic chokehold on me as of late #and also just. he has a nice voice #the sort of warbley thing he has and also his screams… goated #contrary to my posting #I’m actually a bliliegirl I’d consider myself lol. Whitney happens to also have a psychic chokehold on me #this is obvious. I go by Johnny and want to go blonde HMMMMM I WONDER WHY.. #my bad for rambling in tags I just. I love that album so deeply #it’s very meaningful to my identity and songs like the title track and beautiful horses just. get me right at my core #evil neighing compilation

[kindaorangey]

truly cannot explain the connection i have to the 1975's music. yes some of it is nostalgia but i genuinely do not have any other artist that has interested and confused and irritated and saddened and endeared me so much all at the same time and i do mean that about the music itself rather than about the band members. i've spent so much of my life listening to them and they cover so much ground while also having so much terrible samey shit that i wind up loving anyway. i'm so done with matty healy but i will not be able to let go of this music without giving it a proper sendoff, y'know.

#thunder rambles #n its not even the thing people have with like mcr or tøp where the music gave me something to hold onto through a rough time #ive just loved it in so many different ways and for reasons that have changed over the years like. #i know i sound like i drank the kool aid. im working on it #edit: i have some more soppy sincere things to say about why i love their music so much #it's for the same reason i don't think i'll ever love someone exactly the way i loved the friend i had in year 8 #to love someone just because they're there at a point of naievete in your life #i got into the 1975 because my toxic best friend whom i had a crush on said i had to like them #and also because their first two albums are sooooo geared towards 14 y/os in terms of sound #but then abiior came out. and i didnt like the singles. and then i came back to it and i fell in love with it. #it's just so weird to simultaneously love something for nostalgic reasons and from just appreciating good art #like its all shitty nostalgia bait. but it's also genius in its conception. but also not all the concepts work in execution. but also the #raw unpolished shittiness of those things are compelling in their own way. #basically basically. i cant get over the way their music grew up with me. and also im a sucker for any art that has something to say #about the digital age #i sort of love their music like i love my siblings lol. like i have always loved my siblings even when my relationship to them is miserable. #i grew up and around you i cant exactly extract you from who i am

[insert-neologism]

sugar water by flower face

#yellowjackets #jackieshauna #this is the 4th installment of 'making edits to every song from the album 'shark in your water' to jackieshauna' #guys weve come so far im so proud #only like. Idk 6 more songs to go? not sure but I WILL do it. #anyways so I dont fully like this one. like I think it's good its an alright edit #but doesnt live up to my standards. but Idk what i couldve done to make it better just yet soo #mostly i dont like the ending (the song is like 3mins with an amazing solo but I didnt have any ideas for that) #but I am very proud of the like fast parts #notably 'he likes to keep me half way out' and 'he's got a sharp twist no he's wicked in the heart etc' #REALLY proud of yk girls like me weve got a slow pulse. TRUTH #lol I always use that for anything that has to do with sleeping/cold ive come to realize #just like the bridge is synonym for dreaming Idk why #mine art tag #omg also love the float up to the sky part #the beginning not though which sucks bc the beginning is definitionally (?) the first thing ppl see. #BEAR WITH ME IT GETS GOOD #anyways this was the firdt song in which i had like any problems with the lyrics. curious #still loved making it #i have SO many ideas but I cant rlly make two edits at the same time like I hab to finish one and then I can start the other ones #soo youre gonna get them but probably after the shark in you water thing is donee #stay tuned gamers #mitos incredible life #jackieshauna: The Shark In Your Water

[outeremissary]

I always think I never had any particular interest in albums rather than individual songs (product of iTunes), but when I go back to relisten to stuff I remember from childhood I think that's maybe not true. I was always picking up music as individual 99 cent songs after hearing something on the radio, but my parents bought things as albums (like normal adults) and there were a lot of artists they enjoyed who I listened to as albums. Especially artists where they only had the one album for a given artist. Anyway today I'm remembering how obsessed I was with We Are the Night by The Chemical Brothers in middle school.

#I think that this is actually an album we owned because I became so obsessed with the one song on it that got radio play #and I was let down that it was the one chemical brothers album we didn't own so my dad got it since he was a fan of their older music anywa #I have such vivid memories of these songs... I think battle scars was my favorite #listening now my first thought was it had to be a budget blvd of broken dreams for kid me since my parents despised green day as sellouts #but I can hear the unique qualities in it that I loved when I listen more carefully. there was an air of horror to it to me #other albums I remember listening to a lot were the understanding by röyksopp and season of poison by shiny toy guns #I didn't grow into my dad's rock and metal until I was a little older lol #hm. I'm adding turned to real life to some things I think #rambling #if you're wondering why sometimes I just say random things about myself at length it's because 1) I feel like it just because #and 2) I worry that if I don't write down things as I remember them I'll forget them again #posts for myself.

[polaraffect]

found my old ipod... tell me why I forgot about the absolute BANGER that is Back To Earth (feat. Fall Out Boy)

#damien.txt #THE BRIGHTEST THINGS FADE THE FASTEST!! #brb putting this on my current playlists omg #why do we collectively as foblr never talk abt this song omg #anyways scrolling thru this ipod is WILLLDDDD #i had it from like. 2014-2019. long ass time. was using ipods wayyy longer than anyone else lmao #there are some. real interesting selections on here dkdgwjhdk #nothing that's weird just a lot of things that are like omg.... i forgot abt that... #it has all of the old brobecks albums like happiest nuclear winter & understanding the brobecks which like #tbh i dont even really know how to access now! i definitely dont still have the files from when #i originally put them on this ipod. but wow. banger songs #also have all of the original waterparks albums/eps lmao crazy #it also has all of my ripped from youtube panic 'singles' lmaooo like mercenary & c'mon & the live version of karma police #absolutely went hard to that cover of karma police and honestly?? still do #this is such a time capsule lol it has all of 21p's discography too which like. lol. sometimes i forget i was like that #has a lot of ripped from youtube english covers of vocaloid songs too lmaooooo real of past me #looking at this... pretty sure all the panic albums on here are t0rrented too lmaooo real of me. before i even knew #why i think this is bc under vices & virtues it has oh glory & stall me & turn off the lights just. in the track listing #this is so fun wow i love. music is so good you guys #I HAVE THE LIVE VERSION OF BANG BANG BY GREENDAY WHERE THEY SAY #'No Trump No KKK No Facist USA' THATS SO FUCKING REAL OF ME SKGDKSHDJDB #and of green day. ofc. #this is so much of a trip down memory lane #bruises and bitemarks by good with grenades..... omg......... #anyways ill stop listing things in the tags but. omg. this is so fun. #bout to go put so many of these songs i forgot abt back into my playlists djhdkshdjd

[leatherbookmark]

somewhat pleased to announce that in case someone wanted to know, and i really don't see why they wouldn't, the cameras that atz use in the cawaii men photoshoots are

fujifilm simple ace p&s camera (for taking photos), and

most probably? pentax spotmatic (the one hj, sh and jh pose with)

#YOUNG PEOPLE NOWADAYS!!! they're wasting film like pros :''') #shrimp thoughts #actually this is terribly artificial behaviour. i was not organically possessed by the urge to check what kinda camera are they posing with #but i DID think it would be funny if i did and then acted like it's a completely normal thing to do. hence. #i should learn up on hj's photography... he did have an exhibit a while ago after all #i'm curious about the pics the guys took with the fuji cameras! what % of them was unsalvageable lol #i know it was probably cold/late/both outside and that they were on a schedule but yknow what they say #or maybe they don't. but anyway the person who picked up THING three seconds ago acts like they know everything there is to know about #THING. and so. as this very person. i'd like to say the pics would probably be better if they could take them outside? you can see #the p&s all have flash but still! oh also that reminds me of my minor gripe w/ atz photoshoots namely. they're All Indoors #well not ALL all but sooo many of them are and it pains me because i love outdoorsy photoshoots #like the one in the diary ver of fever 3 or the second part of the fever epilogue diary ver #...and fever 2 diary ver too. wait are diary versions just More outdoorsy/less Studio Photography? HM #but anyway! i just like when models can interact/blend in with their surroundings. it's always much more interesting when there's something #Else going on in the photo than just one color background/the walls of a room. this is why i loved l**na's predebut album photoshoots becau #*because each was in a different location! several different locations even! sometimes you'd even get a photo that has no people in it #simply because the surroundings are so pretty! #oooh now that i think about it d-day is like that too. yoongi heard me grumbling abt how much i hate those empty pages in bt/s albums #and went Not On My Watch lol #anyway. sorry i'm rambling for no reason gkhsfgkjfsf

[statementlou]

Hope it's okay to ask you this, really wanted to know WHY there's a label of being unlabeled? Like doesn't that defeats the purpose of having a label? Cuz when you say queer, you can be anything you want to be but when youre unlabeled, youre either straight or gay... right?

Definitely okay, and glad to ramble about it all! But first and most importantly, "unlabeled" IS NOT A LABEL! So yes it absolutely defeats the purpose of having a label and like that's the idea? It simply says nothing. [EDIT: wait there's an 'unlabeled flag'?? and apparently this is about discourse about that? I... whatever. I still feel this answer is valid and covers it fuck it. But also not claiming labels and claiming a flag are IMO opposite things so like- whut? Just... don't wave a flag? Tada you are unlabeled!]

I agree that queer is a wonderful catchall word that allows you to say, "I am not straight but anything beyond that is detail that I don't feel the need to list right now"- but saying you are queer does very much mean saying out loud "I am not straight." Whereas saying you do not wish to be labelled is instead a way of dodging the question, of saying "I don't want to talk to you about that. I'm not telling you that I'm gay or straight or questioning or anything else, because it's none of your business." Mostly I assume you are asking me about why Harry has said that he prefers not to label himself and my first answer would be that the difference between Harry saying that and Harry saying "I identify as queer" is just HUGE and that's probably the biggest reason. Like SO DIFFERENT in terms of impact and headlines and repercussions! There's a scene in the movie 'I'm Not There' where they are reenacting the drama of a famous moment where Bob Dylan shocked the world by playing an electric guitar at a folk festival, which without the context of the time and the cultural moment seems kind of silly now, like what's the big deal, so how to convey to the modern audience what it felt like at the time? Filmmaker Todd Haynes does it by having the actor playing Dylan (Cate Blanchett!) slowly open the guitar case, pull out a machine gun, and turn around and spray the audience with bullets as they scream in shock and betrayal. As I see it, that's pretty much what it would be like if Harry were to say he was queer at this moment. And it would change everything for him forever and it would be a media and discourse storm like I can barely imagine. It would be NOTHING like him simply refusing to answer the question by saying unlabeled which causes some online discourse and feels pretty obvious for those of us who already know he's queer, but doesn't really change anything.

So no, I don't really think it needs to be looked at too hard, why Harry might say such a thing: but as it happens I personally kind of believe that he meant it more than just as a way to dodge questions. And while I can't possibly say if that's true or what he really feels because how could I or any of us know, since I do sort of identify with that I can say something about my feelings and why even I, a person who isn't closeted, might say such a thing if people were asking me those questions, which is naturally very specific to me, but I can see where there might be some kind of parallels.

I've been out and comfortable with the idea of myself as a queer person for as long as I've been old enough to have any identity at all in that sense. So I just went ahead living my life and taking it for granted that nothing would ever change (literally always a mistake)… but the wonderful thing about having stability and a sense of safety is that it allows you to actually develop and grow and as a result of that things do change, because flux is a part of life. Like one thing I have seen a lot of over the years in queer communities, for example, is people growing into different gender identities at various stages of life. There are definitely lots of trans people who know for sure very young, or who aren't exposed to those ideas until later but as soon as they are they know; but there are also a lot of people who grow into new identities over time, whose relationship to gender changes. Where it absolutely isn't a case of always having been a man or a woman but simply constrained by society, but of things evolving and shifting. Or of desires shifting, people who have been very very end-of-the-spectrum only gay or only straight experiencing different attractions for the first time very late in life. I myself have experienced some of this stuff. And it feels as confusing and destabilizing as I imagine it is for many people to initially realize they are queer, having to rewrite my whole sense of the things about me that I thought I knew for sure. And relevant to this discussion: as a result I DON'T KNOW what my labels are now! I simply avoid talking about my specifics of identity because the long winded and confusing answers to those simple questions is just like… not anyone's business?? I don't want to talk about it outside of like, therapy? It feels intimate and private, not to mention how vulnerable it would feel to share this unfinished process and all the confusion it entails. So "queer" is great and handy and I claim it because I'm not closeted so I can and it makes things simple but what if I weren't out? And the paper was asking me? Yeah I would also decline to state.

idk I mean tl:dr most likely Harry said that mostly as a way to dodge the question but for simply one possible hypothetical, let's say for example that he has identified as gay since his early teens (likely imo) but in his 20s began to grapple with the idea that he may not identify as A Man, is attraction to men still "gay", is it something else, what is the right label… everything gets muddled and confusing and I think there are a million variants of this that could cause someone to question what exactly their labels would be and to prefer not to use any, that's all

#blah blah blah #or like I have gender stuff but they/them pronouns are not right for me so while someone could say #why not just use gn pronouns! why be unlabelled well #there's nothing wrong with that probably more of my friends use they/them than not it's FINE but #nothing is right for everyone. maybe queer doesn't feel right to harry or to someone else #identity is weird #anyway I fucking love Todd Haynes movies so sometimes thats just my reference point for things #but upon reflection actually the scene in Velvet Goldmine (yes also todd haynes) where the (male) leads kiss in front of the cameras #and then are blindsided by the reaction and noise and everyone shoving in their faces with flashes and screamed questions #and invasive comments and burn their albums and talk about them on the news.... #would probably have been a better point of reference lol #but eh that's just too on the nose #adding because it seems this question is born of harry waving a certain flag harry waves all the flags that means nothing #I mean it means something that he waves them at all but he isn't bi ace lesbian and brazilian #he waves them all #thats irrelevant

[ladychlo]

Asks in tags:

#@stunt asks sorry guys I'm answering you here bc I dont want to spam or overwhelm the dash #1) new anon #depends tbh on how invested you are but yeah this one can be annoying but not the worst lol #2) rambling anon #hi love! its up to you to believe in whatever you want I personally dont agree maybe bc what looks real is just not #3) alter ego anon #the contradiction itself can make you question why it is even happening lol? #I think that's the thing of them trying to be who they are the best they can in a situation that is so very limited #choices and lack of choices so to say #4) I'm so private anon #exactly #and Idc if you believe in that relationship or summat but you can't ignore the fact that he can't shut up about privacy and them being all #'beinh private' then they have more pap pics than every one direction album booklets 😭 and whenever there is a sighting aligns with promo #like make it make sense #5) PR mess anons #yep its just that #a pr mess from the start from them breaking Covid restrictions when it was at worst state #to making the movie itself the last priorities while feeding rumours and drama #6) no need to post anon #I AGREE #I dont like that as well

[creaturebehavior]

this song has been stuck in my head all week for some reason.

#i always love songs/artists that resemble imogene heap even slightly lol #i’ve noticed if a song has even one sound that reminds of me imogen heap im immediately way more interested in the song lol #idk why i wouldn’t even consider myself a huge imogen heap fan #i did listen to them a lot freshman year of high school which is why it hits the nostalgic part of my brain just right #but idk i couldn’t even tell you the names of any of their songs or albums at this point even the watcha say one #cuz i did listen to them a lot but only for like a year or two and mostly on shuffle or pandora #so idk but their sound is really appealing to me for some reason #i guess it’s the robotic thing #i’m obsessed in general with vocoding and auto tuning and voice editing and remixing and stuff #so i guess that’s the root of it actually #music

[musicrunsthroughmysoul]

I forget that I've been listening to Bitter by GHUM for well over a year now, because the other day one of the songs from that album came on shuffle on my mp3 player and (without checking) I obviously knew that it was GHUM but I was like, 'Hmmm, I'm not sure my memory of their song's titles is that good, but I think this is "Deceiver"?' and it totally was. Surprised myself that I AM more familiar with their music than I think/remember. That being said, Bitter was 100% one of the best albums of 2022. I can't remember at the moment what all albums came out in 2022, but Bitter might be my favorite, anyway.

#I'm dying to see GHUM live god dammit. I love them so much. #OMG I /JUST NOW/ followed them on IG and found out they're working on new music AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! :'D #honestly it's no offense to GHUM at all but if it's on 'Bitter' and it's not ''Perro'' or ''Bad Brain'' or ''Bitter'' #then I'm like 'there's a 1/6 chance I'll know and get this song's title right.' LOL I do love the WHOLE album though!! #''Perro'' and ''Bad Brain'' are just my faves off that album which is why I definitely know them. the other is...the title track so... #random rambling

[lesbianlenas]

tswift rereleasing speak now just unlocked a memory in me that for christmas of 2010 my parents had gotten my aunt & uncle the speak now cd as a gift i think perhaps w another cd or two but anyway i was 10 at the time & i just remember that i kept like staring at the cd from where my mom was keeping it bc i thought she looked so pretty on the cover 😭 like i would pick up the cd and look at it like hm this is so interesting…….cannot imagine how my 10 yr old self would have reacted to the new cover i prob would’ve been like “mom can girls like other girls?” 😭😭

#michelle speaks #i literally remember my aunt & uncle opening the gift and being like haha taylor swift :) bc i was laser eye staring at the cover lmfao #i was reminded of this bc i wanted to hear the updated versions of the couple of songs i used to listen to from that album #when i was like 13 bc i don’t think ive listened to any of those songs in yrs…… #but as i was listening i was like wait let me enlarge the album cover actually so i can look at her ❤️ #and i was like omg……..just like when i was 10 👁️👁️ #i remembered before the giving them the cd as a present but i forgot abt my obsessive staring at it lmao……. #i think that’s why i remembered so well that they got them that cd. bc i’m p sure there was others & i do not remember them at ALL #anyway i had an awful day but that brought me a moment of joy. thank u to my 10 yr old self for being so lesbian 🤩 #but like lol. when i was 12 and got an ipod tswift was like one of the first artists i looked up bc i remembered her from that lol #i was like w/o ever listening to her music i love taylor swift i have to buy her music rn lol. & i know it was 2012 bc it was right when #she was releasing singles from red. i bought the single versions of the promo songs and i went thru the album & chose which songs to buy #the day it came out lmao……i didn’t have a lot of money on itunes so i had to be picky u know…..i think that’s why the only tswift songs #i never deleted off my itunes were 3 red songs lmao……special to me 🤩