#I love this album it means so much to me

[orikeel]

Listening to Mean (Taylor’s version) and realizing that it’s indeed been 13 years but really I’m now living in a big ol’ city and all they’ve ever been is mean

#please i need a moment I don’t think I will recover from this #the way 14-year-old me and 26-year-old me are the same person but also two completely different people at once #INSANE #I love this album it means so much to me #to me Speak Now is THE album and is rewinding my brain exactly like it did 13 years ago #taylor swift #speak now #speak now (taylor’s version) #music

[userwoosan]

Im genuinely sick of the disrespect towards yeosang by both fans and fucking kq themselves. What is it. Why do they hate him so much or disregard him i DONT GET IT. Yeosang is literally the sweetest most caring person in ateez and y'all treat him like fucking trash all the time and im sick of it i am SO sick of it please let the man breath. The way his smile dropped and those photos of him tearing up a but because his name wasn't called like fuck off kq what is wrong with this fucking company

#im so annoyed and upset #i love yeosang so much he holds the most special place in my heart nlt even one that wooyoung or san could fill for me #he means a lot to me and to atonys and yall treat him like fucking garbage #when i first became an atiny over a year ago everyone praised kw for being such a great company #caring about ateez a lot #and literally within the first album comeback they went to shit #what the fuck #jake.txt

[mukuberry]

This voting period really just feels like im watching a bunch of people force a gay man back in the closet

I know thats not people's intentions but literally how else is he going to take this guilty vote. "I just don't want him to think his lying was okay" he doesn't! And he's not going to think that! He's actively trying to stop lying! All guiltying him will do is tell him he should have kept lying and continuing his relationship!!

"I just want him to have some kind of consequence for what he's done" Was Hinako literally dying not enough??? Sure, he didn't love her, but he still LIKED her. They were friends, they lived together, he married her because he WANTED to love her! He is literally drowning in guilt because of her death, I think he's had enough consequences by now. He might not be wearing his ring anymore, but he still carries it with him, he is very clearly still grieving her death.

"Innocent votes have no effect on him" Yes they will!! It didn't do anything last time because we forgave him for the wrong reasons and because he absolutely hates himself. Assuming we're right about him being gay, which I'm pretty confident we are, having his 'true' self validated rather than his fake one will 100% have a bigger effect on him this time. Guiltying him will only make his self-hate worse and show him that only his false self is forgivable, so he should keep lying to be accepted.

I know most people's intentions are not to make him keep lying, but regardless of whatever intention you have, it doesn't matter how you want him to take it, you can not ignore how he will actually take it.

#milgram #kazui mukuhara #this was just meant to be a mini-rant but it turned semi serious so im maintagging :< #ik im just shouting into the void at this point but watching his vote go down is stressing me out;; #as always feel free to tell me im wrong ♡ i would love to talk to someone who wants to guilty him #ive seen a few ppl mention the album art as a reason to guilty him as well #i dont have too much to say on that but milgram also pushed us to forgive kotoko and look how that went #just because they're potentially trying to push us to guilty him doesn't mean thats the 'correct' option

[kindahoping4forever]

AshtonIrwin: Have you ever seen a professional musician in the studio? 😂 “THANK YOU CLEVELAND!!!”

#'wall of sound vibes' sir that is actually dirty talk to me oh i am going to be unbearable when this album comes out and I can't wait #5sos #5 seconds of summer #ashton #ashton irwin #ai2 #ai fm #Instagram #ai ig #video #kh4f post #i was just about to take a rainy day nap so shouts to my guy for not waiting until I was asleep to post for once lmao #i have so many feelings about this footage #and like I'm loving that so much of this content is from this one particular day like does that mean this day specifically was eventful #was this song a breakthrough is this song Important or will perhaps turn out to be the single or was this day just a vibe and thus content #exciting times #anyways #arm #oh also the first clip is from ai fm i just couldn't figure out how to link that as well without messing up the formatting #proud of myself for making it thru these tags without bringing up his thighs ok byeeeee

[milkhorns]

𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶 🌃

((💖A lorde related doodle for the tenth anniversary of pure heroine!💖))

#yeaaah baby nice aster lorde posting!!! #i know this is technically the love club cover but i wanted to doodle something lorde related for the pure heroine anniversary #pure heroine means so much to me #my favorite album ever!! got me thru highschool fr #lorde #pureheroine #lordefanart #doodles #myart

[h0neytune-cherub]

Miharu Koshi, Parallelisme +

#Miharu Koshi #Parallelisme #music recs #fave albums #somehow this is sonically describing New Year desires for me #This album is off-kilter; strange; dramatic; pensive; contemplative and most importantly: fun. I love it so much. #And by most importantly I mean: I think Koshi prioritizes a fun and playful atmosphere for the overall impression of this album. #And it's achieved through an engaging experimentation with sound and singing style. c:

[questwithambition]

“[lt's about] the significance of something so mundane but so remarkable - to experience a bed that has been warmed by somebody else in a space that you now share now with somebody new. It's a love song."

~ Hozier, on "To Someone From a Warm Climate (Uiscefhuaraithe)"

#quotes #when I say this album has driven me insane I mean it so much #unreal unearth #hozier #love #lyrics #music

[itspileofgoodthings]

Midnights—based on each song’s level of clarity/murkiness

Lavender Haze —-murky, murky, muuuuuurky, with one hilarious flash of clarity courtesy of “get it off my desk!”

Maroon—somehow both murky and clear, the vision is clear, the memories are stained and soaked and bloodied in a red bath of murkiness that never settles

Anti-Hero—crystal clear, one of the clearest songs on the album

Snow On the Beach—murky. murkiness has never been prettier to be fair, but this song shrouds.

You’re On Your Own, Kid —clear. clear-eyed. Surface of a clear pond on a clear, calm day kind of clear. Limpid, crystal, shining.

Midnight Rain—the shadows never end but chase themselves in a pattern across a violet-gray landscape.

…Question? —murkiness was invented for this song. the bridge has the sheen of clarity borrowed from the lightning strike for one second but in the other ways this song is the murkiest of all

Vigilante Shit—-clarity that chooses to shroud itself in the disguise of the night but is still very clear.

Bejeweled—this is another both/and song. The murkiness offsets the clarity and vice-versa —the song SPARKLES —but make no mistake. this is not a clear-eyed song.

Labyrinth—Murky City. Lost in the Labyrinth of my mind really says it all.

Karma—another song up there for the clearest on the album. Not a secret or dark thought in sight —-the sunlight pours in in this song and that’s what makes it feel so good.

Sweet Nothing —deeply clear. Shining waters. Small and precise like a pebble but also like a point of light.

Mastermind—murky but with all the force of Taylor’s personality trying to lift it to clarity. The song soars in pockets of brightly falling light but overall I think it stays in the shadows.

#midnights #taylor swift #okay this made me love midnights so much more hang on—- #Also no I can’t really explain what I mean but it makes sense to me! #also murkiness is not a moral failing or an artistic insult #btw #it’s just how I feel #Should I do the vault tracks #tbh I feel like those ARE all clear #The shadows/murkiness really belongs to the standard album edition

[finexbright]

i know some people say that he relies on fans too much but i don't think you'll say that if you see the genuine emotion on his face while talking about fans and the support he's received over the years and how much we've done for him. the sheer overwhelm and gratitude on his face as he spoke about how if it weren't for the fans and how much we boost him up, he wouldn't have moved from the sound of walls to the sound of faith in the future, which to be fair are miles apart and takes some artists years to move between genres. he's well aware of how the industry has betrayed him but he's truly reached a point where he does what he does for the people who love him and no one else and i'm so proud of him for that. i know in this industry radio play and awards and public promo matters, but to see him talk about us has made me realise that to him success means that his music was loved by his fans and everything else is just a bonus. he was sat there, a full few weeks after his album going number one, and he still couldn't believe it. he looked like he didn't know how else to say thank you, and like words were falling short for the amount of gratitude he wanted to express. being in the crowd last night made me realise just how much he values the artist-fan relationship he's built with us and he wants to keep working towards keeping this connection strong and tight knit and creating this community together 🫂🤍

#like. i know so many people complain about him not getting radio play #but being there last night made me realise that he's aware of it and he will shade it but at the end of the day #to him what matters is us loving his music and being so gassed for him and his career #he even said that this album and the sound was a culmination of what both he and us wanted #like. it was his way of sort of saying ''i know you wanted me to go punk and so i did and i'm glad you loved it'' #and like when i say he's truly doing it for the fans i don't mean it in a fan service way i mean that he's doing what he loves #while also completely trusting that we'll love it and give it all the hype that it deserves #given how much the industry has sabotaged i know it would've been hard to move from walls to fitf and its sound #but he only did it because he knew we'd eat that up #and i'm so proud of him for making an album that he genuinely loves and is so pumped for performing #you could see it on his face last night that he too was thinking about how he was gonna miss tour and how excited he was #i honestly can't wait to see how fucking awesome tour will be 🤍 #meant to post this last night after the q+a but my hands were freezing so you get it now

[dummerjan]

i just came across ai covers on youtube and people are requesting songs in the comments instead of getting enraged and i am further losing hope in humanity and turning to misanthropy

#meins #for a minute i got really excited about henning may singing take me to church :( #i hate people #have you no appreciation for or understanding of art? clearly not. #why would you want to listen to an ai generated song? even if it sounds like your favourite singer it's not them #it has no feelings to meaning to intention. it is empty and soulless #reading the booklet for sinéad o'connor's album of traditional irish and folk songs gave me so much appreciation for her #she wrote a little bit about each song. why she chose it or what it means to her. #it has added so much to my enjoyment of those songs and i think of it whenver i listen to it #they were chosen with intention with love with a deep appreciation for the music and lyrics and there is a story behind it all #it is art and love and human #i see aboslutely no appeal in ai generated 'music' or 'art' #and i hate that i fell for it for a minute #i was sceptical because i had never heard of henning may covering hozier and since it wasn't just 20-60 sec i am certain #i would have heard about it by now #and something was just a little bit... unsatisfying? something was missing which does apply to a lot of cover songs #(i could go on hour long rants about why people fuck up danny boy (and sinéad o'connor does it best (because she actually takes her time) #or trash madonna's version of don't cry for me argentina (again a song ruined for by everybody else but sinéad - once she has sung somethin #i have a hard time enjoying it by anybody else. the parting glass is an exception. hozier's version is phenomenal)) #but! henning may not giving it his all for a cover? unlikely. very unlikely. #anyway this concludes my tuesday night rant. rather here in the tags than some poor person's inbox. #or i would have kept fuming by myself for another hour or two

[orrsoared]

SAM FENDER - THE LITERAL LOVE OF MY LIFE - IS COLLABING WITH NOAH KAHAN?

I AM NOT GOING TO BE NORMAL ABOUT THIS!!!

#yknow what i am gonna brag - I was a fan of Sam even bf his first album came out #found him through a springsteen cover! #I genuinely love him and his music means so much to me #I wish seventeen going under existed when I was in HS

[beforeyougo-turnthebiglightoff]

i dont like how many pop culture references matty healy understands it genuinely scares me

#half the time its like just normal regular person typing #but im soo used to celebrities typing like really professional and all “Guys. Thank you so much for all the love 🥺 We love you guys so much #and we hope you love the new album just as much as I did when I was making it 😉 Lots of love 🥺🥰“ #BUT HIM. WHY DOES HE KNOW WHAT BRUH MEANS. WHY DOES HE KNOW HOW TO BE SARCASTIC. LIKE #no omfg its so NORMAL i cant do this i cqnt explain it #like why do you know how to use :) and ❤️ ironically STOP. IT. #fucking terrifies me im so srs #blah blah! #matty healy #the 1975

[insert-neologism]

bad astrology by flower face

#yellowjackets #jackieshauna #ITS DONE OMG ITS FINISHED #what do I do now. with my life (ranking) #also ive decided i am gonna do literary analysis. on all of em #literally i have NO idea if anyone cares. well. i do bc I care and tbh that's enough to me #<- guys look im living so healthy #anyways this was a blast #hope somebody has at least discovered flower face trhu me bc its one of my fav artists #mitos incredible life #mine art tag #also im sorry the like long scenes 3 and 4 arent on beat :/ i love that song but it has so long instrumental stuff and idk what to do there #ALSO!! i had it all planned out like at least half in my docs (like always) #and then in the middle i was like 'omg what if I only show jackie-after-the-argument and shauna-after-jackies-dead' #(excluding the argument and the flashbacks (they used to hear us thru the floor)) #which was. restricting. very much #also meaning was changed (originally wanted jackie to have the line 'idc if ure not made for me' but the only scene i could think of was th #ure hungry for and that was the next scene already so.) #anyways this was originally gonna be lottienat before i started with The Shark In Your Water #bc I thiught it fit them SO well. (still do) but now I like have to get away from the jackieshauna thought and then ill do the lottienat #probably #omg also I want everyone (who has read this far. whoever would do that) to know i was running on like 25 screen #recordings and 3 jackieshauna scene packs form yt #that's why. I dknt have that many clips alright im not using like 10 scenes over n over on purpose #gotta go but im gonna make a wrap post thingy once im back slay #no actually I get like average 7 notes (<- that's a lie Idk bc I didnt count) but im proud of myself this is amazing #ive wanted to do smth similiar alr #but it was some album by alec benjamin and a different thing for every song (like a poem‚ a painting or a play) #but I lost motivation this is the first thing that i actually pulled though all the way I think #jackieshauna: The Shark In Your Water

[thenwethrowitonthefire]

it doesn't have to be that way.

okay

I need you to know that I've been thinking about this ask non-stop for the last 3 days. This song came for us all and took us under its wing. I live here. It's a gem of a song. (This reply will get very long.)

My first time hearing it was live, as it was for a bunch of us as the album release was at the beginning of the tour. To set the scene, I was obviously really excited for any new songs I'd be hearing that night, and then Russell introduced the song like this:

"This is another brand new song for any of you who feel like maybe you're not on the right course. [He pauses briefly.] It's a song that's called 'It Doesn't Have To Be That Way'."

I was already nearly in tears, and then it started:

They always said that you cannot change your mind, Do it once and you're defined, do it twice and you're divine

...

It doesn't have to be that way, okay?

Every line of the entire song hit me like a brick while also being the most comforting thing I've ever heard. It was beautiful. And coming from the guys who for over a decade have been my personal champions of "things not having to be that way", the guys who are my people, who have by their very existence been telling us all this exact message for all these years. And here it was, in words, aimed at all of us.

They always said that you need to have a plan, Doesn't matter, any plan, any plan they'll understand, It doesn't have to be that way, okay?

... They've not been known to go for songs that bring people to tears, and I'm not known to be the kind of person to listen to songs and cry. And yet here we were.

While I can write an essay on every verse, a part that's especially meaningful to me, as a queer person, as an aspec person, is this:

They always said that it must reflect your life, And incorporate your strife, maybe mentioning your wife, It doesn't have to be that way, okay?

These *are* lines that seem to reflect their life (the entire song seems to, just as it does ours), and they're all things I've always loved so much about them, things that have paved the way for all of us. But I'm going to especially highlight the "maybe mentioning your wife" line. Here we have two (likely) heterosexual men, but they don't bring their love lives to the public eye - very consciously, and by choice. What they do with their lives is all about their music. Their lives are highly meaningful, to them and to so many people, and you don't need amatonormativity or the nuclear family to have a beautifully meaningful life. They show that every day, in all they do. Their work has always attracted many queer people of all sorts for obvious reasons, and it's been so easy to find aspec people among the fans which is a real treat. While they likely both have partners, the beauty is that we don't really know. We don't know that part of their lives and we don't need to know to know them, if they're not telling us it doesn't concern us. There's a lot of people who don't understand this though, people who feel like they don't know who Sparks are as people because these people feel like in order to know who a person is, they need to know their relationship status and whether they have a family. (In reality these people are looking at the wrong things, they're trying to classify and understand life in the only way they know, and therefore they seem to be unable to see what's there.) The added beauty of all this is that it doesn't just gives Sparks some privacy, but also it creates a safe space for all of us who aren't looking to live that way, who aren't looking to build our lives around a romantic partner, for whom the ideal life isn't one where you build a family, or for whom that do wish to live that way but where it isn't the thing that defines you. You don't have to mention a partner or make your life about that. It doesn't have to be that way, okay?

And then there's those parts of the song that go,

I may be wrong, I'll pay for it, I'll pay for it,

No chart-bound song, I'll pay for it, I'll pay for it,

No sing along, I'll pay for it, I'll pay for it

I'll pay for it

Which can be read and felt in a number of ways which all mean so much to me ... There's their own lives in it, where they've always done things their way, where people may tell them to not do things that way, and where it might not work out - I'll pay for it, I'll pay for it. Theres our lives, where we equally all make our decisions, try to just live our own ways to the best of our abilities and where we make mistakes - I'll pay for it, I'll pay for it.

And then, thirdly, to me, there's the feeling to it where they've got our backs. No chart-bound song, no sing along, that can be about an album not becoming the success it was hoped to be, but if you just look at No sing along, I'll pay for it, I'll pay for it, to me there's also an aspect of not wishing it upon another - instead carrying it for you, don't sing along. (This feeling feels further supported by the ending of the song, how 'bout a drink, I'll pay for it, it's been too long, I'll pay for it, which to me reads as paying for that drink for your friend so no one has to go through it alone nor without support.)

I'll look uncool, I'll pay for it, I'll pay for it

I'll look the fool, I'll pay for it, I'll pay for it

I'll look too schooled, I'll pay for it, I'll pay for it

I'll pay for it

The price of authenticity, the price of following your heart and your beliefs. And we all felt that.

As you can tell, this is one really really special song. It had so many of us in tears. We all spoke about it for weeks, I'm still talking about it. It's kind of like Sparks' life concepts we all already understood, that drew us here in the first place, got beautifully distilled into a song. (So much of this recent album has that quality, and it was felt all throughout the entire tour too.)

Every night Russell gave the song a slightly different introduction that hit people right in their heart. There's a quality to it performed live that makes it hit even harder than on the album. I recorded it at every show I've seen. Here's two of them:

... it especially hits hard when you're near the front, looking at these guys with your big eyes, locking eyes for a second and you know they know. (I also did a quick shot of Ron's Jordans here, seeing him wear them was always a dream of mine and here I was, stood right in front of him seeing him wear Jordans.)

#thanks again for these asks you've been sending <3 #sorry it took so long to reply. this one means so much that it's hard to translate all the feelings into words #what i feel and what it means is so much more and so much bigger than I can say. but I've tried my best #it's important to me that they're both over 70 too. they don't like mentioning their age. but they're beautifully young guys. #the way they age is another 'it doesn't have to be that way'. #we go through school with the conditioning that we need to have our shit together at 20 and #there's all these beliefs in society that a life is over or stops being worth something at a certain age. it's complete bullshit #they've been going their entire lives. reinventing all the time. #when they were my age they hadn't yet made a lot of the albums that I love the most. it's never too late. You're not old. and never too old #it doesn't have to be that way. okay? #Sparks #Russell Mael #Ron Mael #Sparks (band) #it doesn't have to be that way #The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte #ask #anon

[monkeytrick]

I found my paddle I found my paddle around Midnight

#Bandcamp #I’ll start doing this more maybe #the jesus lizard #This song is so beautiful and cute to me it makes me feel like I’m getting kissed by little funny fairies #I love this album so much in general it makes me imagine little spiders acting out all the songs in a spider theater #Spider land lol! #I like adding lyrics bc it makes it feel like this means anything

[cloxite]

sometimes the birthday girl is an album, happy 20th bullets <3

#bullets is officially my age too so it's fucking me up rn how is he 20??? 😭 #this album means so much to me but i'll save it for a diff post #gerard way #frank iero #ray toro #mikey way #gee #frank #ray #mikey #mcr #bullets #my chemical romance #i brought you my bullets you brought me your love #my chem art #my art #clip studio paint #illustration #bullets20