#PLEASE listen to this record

[floppyfishe]

Jai Paul - Bait Ones (Leak 04-13)

The mention of this album probably only raises the eyebrows of the mySpace blogosphere goblins of the early 2010s (guilty as charged), but the mark it left on the zeitgeist of the 2010s is pretty undeniable.

 Everything about this album bleeds romance, from its clear and heart-aching tribute to neo-soul from the likes of d’Angelo and Lauryn Hill, its intentionally smoky, foggy mixing, to the whole narrative of its release (or lack thereof). 

It’s really important to take its unfinished nature into account. The story from the artist himself is that it was leaked in its entirety pre-mastering and pre-even having finished the album by someone in whom he had placed his utmost trust, and the trauma of it draining any motivation from him to create at all. 

And it’s so, so, infuriating. Because even in its unpolished state, this record genuinely changed how I look at music. Being so attuned to the sparkly finish of modern pop, the messy and overt sidechaining and the uncomfortable, intimate closeness of how it’s mastered blew my mind. A lot of this is thrown into the lead demo, BTSTU, at its very peak, and no wonder it blew so many people’s minds when it dropped out of nowhere in 2011 or so. It’s starkly minimalistic with not much but a kick, snare, and an incredibly jarring bassy sawtooth LFO as its lead synth to accompany his again very closely mixed whispered vocals. Possibly because of the sparseness of it all, it’s intoxicatingly romantic and nostalgic. The other demo, Jasmine, takes the close mixing and pumps it up to 11, and as a more traditional love song, it makes a lot of sense, and it oozes with yearning with his up-to-your-ears voice providing dissonance with its gated and distant synths and percussion. Both these songs have an incredible level of soul and polish to them. 

And so  it makes listening to the rest of the album fill me with that same level of yearning, an endless stream of what-ifs and what-could-have-beens, and ruminating about missed opportunities. Even the fragmented half-of-a-concept demos like Chix are drop dead gorgeous.  The absolute standout is Str8 Outta Mumbai, which I still think should’ve been a lead single, with its exuberant Bollywood bombast, and the Vani Jairam sample from Meera that genuinely hit me in the face like a brick covered in jasmine garlands and caked in sandalwood. It really was the first time in years of having grown up as an outsider to two cultures that I really felt like I could embrace the over-the-top, maybe a little cheesy joy of the music of my roots, where before I tended to be quite pretentiously ashamed of the excess of Bollywood and filmi music. It’s honestly really liberating. I’ve gone back to listen to other filmi greats like Lata Mangeshkar ever since. 

It really does say a lot that even though in Paul’s eyes, this album is always going to be half baked, these fractions and halves and almost-theres of ideas still filled every corner of my brain, heart, and soul. It really is that important of an album to me. With this having from such a personal place for me, let alone it being unfinished, it really doesn’t feel right giving it a numerical rating, so I won’t. 

#jai paul #musicreview #bait ones #if youre reading youre probably quite close to me #PLEASE listen to this record

[ghostespresso]

staff logging on to tumblr dot com today

#staff sweetie i Promise you an algorithm would kill this webbed site #changing the way reblogs look/work would Absolutely kill this webbed site too #this is a Blogging Platform i dont want it to be like tiktok or twitter jesus #if you NEED to change something literally listen to the the Tumblr Users you pretend you cant hear #if money is what you need make your userbase Happy and you should be fine #the shop is fine blaze posts are fine ad free subscriptions are fine but dont get rid of shit that Works For You in favor of making money #someone really laced up their clown boots today im. so tired staff please dont #tumblr staff #EDIT: staff updated their original post to say we were all misunderstanding but #that doesnt stop the post from being stupid #the whole post was worded for Investors and then presented to the userbase #if you say 'we have big changes planned!' and dont put in the 'as options' its Your Fault that people read it as 'were changing everything' #staff isnt stupid. they know how they Should have worded it better than what they did #so yeah. someone Did lace up their clown boots before they hit post #edit pt 2 lol for the record i dont think tumblr would actually go through with all their changes in that post #they know how the userbase is and there are A Lot of us #i just dont like how? idk. condescending? the post sounded #and out of every place on the internet being being burned alive in the name of money #tumblr is the one place i know enough about to be Actually mad at lol #ive really liked some stuff staff has done in recent years #but talking to your userbase that way wasnt one

[art-i-sticks]

They got her. @twigs-sprigs and @greenflowerceo got Rach

#ninjago #lego ninjago #greenflowershipping #forgivenshipping #greenflower #ninjago lloyd #lloyd garmadon #brad tudabone #ninjago fanart #-turns on camera- hey it’s me Kass #I’ve been out here #hiding myself from… *them* #-I go silent as a muffled voice can be heard in the distance- #Listen #I haven’t been converted to Greenflower yet but I don’t have long #-the sound of multiple pairs of footsteps approaches-​please send any support if you can #-with the opening of a door light bursts over me. Someone yells- #Please! Be quick! Please! PLEA— #-The recording ends-

[jiyaneru]

always an angel, never a god

#am i the only one obsessed with boygenius right now #i swear to god its been a month and they are all ive been listening to please #i love my gay boys. #my pretty fucking messed up boys #i love them so much i just want to hurl #boygenius #phoebe bridgers #lucy dacus #julien baker #boygenius fanart #the record #the film #jiyaneru #janeru draws #illustration #art #sapphic women #i love them

[nametakensff]

Okay. I made that blessing wav I mentioned I would!

Involves lots of saccharine blessing, pet names, praising you for getting all your sneezes out, and comments on how good it must feel and how at one point you sneeze all over the place 💕

#I'll never really love my own voice but it's the voice I've got so!! #please be kind and move on if this isn't your thing #I'm really quite shy having listened to this back haha #it's one thing actually talking to someone like this in person but recording it was a trip #anyway I hope some of you get a kick out of it #sneeze wav #sneeze kink #snzfucker #sneeze fucker #snzblr #snz kink #ntwav

[medusamagic]

I need people to recognize that saying "I'd fuck/get fucked by a trans woman" is a stance that quite a few far-right folks have. You're not special for saying the quiet part loud. If you want me to believe that you actually care about trans women, say something when we try to call attention to issues that affect us.

#transphobia #transmisogyny #for the record #I'm not just referring to the predstrogen situation #though that really fucking sucks #trans women have been complaining about being shadowbanned over tame/sfw stuff for years #and no one listened until it was too obvious to deny #but even then smear campaigns are happening to trans women all over the place #including on tumblr right as you speak #trans women experience disproportionate rates of poverty #trans women are denied access to rape shelters because we're seen as intrinsically predatory #despite experiencing disproportionate amounts of rape #and yet for so many of you activism begins and ends with 'being a chaser on main' #please #I'm just begging to be heard #vent

[minalover]

underrated visuals in teen wolf | 1x01 wolf moon inspired by fandom on the rocks' pack dynamics podcast (episode one)

i'm a nerd by association. i've been scarlet-nerded by you.

#twedit #fyteenwolf #teen wolf #teen wolf edit #scott mccall #scott mccall edit #stiles stilinski #stiles stilinski edit #derek hale #derek hale edit #my edit #mine #& #recording this podcast has been SO fun and so has revisiting the source material tbh but i keep watching these episodes and going OH MY GOD #please consider giving the pod a listen!! <33333

[dearreader]

i really wish that olivia released the more risqué lyrics with guts spilled (with all american lips/and all american tits, cause i miss the way he kissed and the way he grabbed my ass, is she friends with your friends? does she give great head?) cause like… that would’ve really been the guts spilled

#i’m still upset she she cut the ‘does give better head’ #THATS SO FUCKING UNHINGED AND FITS THE STORY OF THE SONG #LIKE YEAHHHHH SHE IS OBSESSED AND SHES SO INSECURE AND #olivia please i beg of you to just swear all over the record for no reason #kelly babels #guts (spilled) #kelly listens to music

[nonbinary-enderman]

listen. i am an avid mumbo enjoyer. i really am. but listen to me. listen.

kakashi "ethoslab" hatake did not carry the entirety of naruto on his back just to lose the sexyman tournament here

do your part. vote etho.

#mcyt #hermitcraft #mcytblr #mcyt sexyman #ethoslab #how do i tag this. i. auagh. #LISTEN every time ppl say ''etho isn't drawn like kakashi'' i lose a little bit more of my mind #he IS. the main differences are changing the outfit and giving him animal/mob traits #VISUALLY THEY'RE DRAWN SIMILARLY. i was in the naruto fandom. i know this. #and it makes sense because they're The Same Person #like. personality. behavior. all of it. The Same. #philza is cosplaying as urahara. etho is recording minecraft videos from the hidden leaf village. #canada is a lie. vote kakashi. #(also joe. slipping in my own horse here at the end. please vote joe. ethogirls please i am asking u) #hc #vwoop

[catboygirljoker]

(fully aware of how unhinged i sound) hey is it just me or was he breasting kinda boobily here

[video ID: a short, silent clip of xigbar walking out of a dark corridor towards xemnas and ansem. end ID]

#listen i. i clowned on his kh3 design so much. and i was right to. please fuck that old man back up #but let it be known. stated on the public record. that xigbar is xigbar #and i am still down absolutely cataclysmic #kh #blakeposts #xigbar #luxu

[automatonknight]

id: a stylized, digital painting of robo-ky from guilty gear. he’s shown from his head to a little below the shoulders, facing the viewer and holding a tangerine in front of his face, which obscures it partially. he’s wearing a white button up with the sleeves rolled up. the background shows trees, a blue but slightly cloudy sky and the sun in the upper right corner. end id

#GRAAAAAH THIS WAS SO FUN #art #fanart #guilty gear #robo ky #robo ky guilty gear #guilty gear robo ky #mmmm as a fun fact i can tell you that i mostly listened to nothing but flowers and matame please carita feliz while drawing this #also to in the shadow of the valley #i recorded the progress on this but idk when i'll post a speedpaint. or if i post it #whatever.....look at my sillyguy #summed the videos up and this took a bit over 3 hours :3 not bad i think #OH AND ALSO. listened to when the tide comes in by ruphus. really cute and upbeat song :]

[widevibratobitch]

do you too completely and utterly lose every last bit of your sanity at the way he delivers that or egli viva e di mia man poi muoia or are you normal

#ettore bastianini #la forza del destino #i havent thirsted for him publicly in too long. #his carlo di vargas just does things to me that no other role is quite capable of doing. #(looking at the 'ella morrà' moment from the 1965 recording with corelli...... christ) #anyway when i say i hate all men - it is never. NEVER. about bastianini. please always keep that in mind. #anyway miky made me listen to dfd's verdi recordings again and i had to listen to bastianini as a therapeutic emergency #or i would have offed myself frfr 💀 #rossini girlies....... time to rethink your life choices. it is not too late yet. remember this is what you're losing..... #opera tag #verdi #im also losing it at thet dramatic spin at the end skdhsjshddb god im obsessed with him

[milfdarthrevan]

AAAHHHH i wanna find a discworld play i want to BE IN a discworld play i just miss acting guys i miss it so much

#i've found a few recordings on youtube #was watching a guards guards one from the 90s i think for a bit #but i did not like any of the character choices vimes was making #he was being portrayed as a happy drunk. listen there are many ways to describe vimes but happy is 100% not one i'd use most of the time #ESPECIALLY in g!g! #he is a miserable wet cat of a human being #carrot was perfect tho #anyways. if anyone has information about discworld theater in the united states and where someone could theoretically find a performance #PLEASE let me know #honor reads discworld #discworld #monstrous regiment #yes this is literally just the first page of the forward

[igneouswyvern]

the zestiria timeline baffles me to no end because i know all the camlaan stuff takes place 17 years before the events of the game and i know it has to be that way because that's the only way for sorey and mikleo to have originated in camlaan. and yet. what do you mean heldalf has only been living with his curse for 17 years. what do you mean the celestial record is 21 years old. what do you mean camlaan has only been around for less than 30 years. in my head all this stuff takes place on a waaaaaay larger scale like heldalf should have been wandering the earth in solitude for at least a century right? you're telling me it only took him 17 years to give into the malevolence? what a loser. and the celestial record felt like an ancient book from a time long past when they were nerding about it in the beginning of the game. you're telling me it's barely older than sorey and mikleo themselves? and you can't just go around calling a village that existed 22 years ago and was lived in for only 5 "the origin village." like nah that thing has to have been around for at least 50 before you go calling it something as dramatic as that. idk. in the two-and-a-half-years in between playing zestiria i forgot all the lore and i had it in my head that shepherds were like a once-every-one-hundred-years deal and michael was from like ages ago and all this stuff was ancient as hell. and it feels so silly to me that it was all so recent

#again i get that it has to be a really crunched together timeline to get the sorey and mikleo origins to work but #i simply think it should have worked differently. whether or not it works as well narratively. stuff that feels ancient should be ancient #at least. AT LEAST. maybe they could have made michael and heldalf and the celestial record and camlaan be 100+ years ago. #and sorey and mikleo were in the era of a different shepherd. or something. again it objectively doesn't work as well but #listen i just want my ancient celestial record. i want my camlaan is super old. i want heldalf to be even more tragic #i don't care that mikleo has to be the sacrifice for heldalf's curse. you can bin that it isn't important to me #just give me heldalf wandering the earth all alone for hundreds of years please that's all i want #tales of #tales of zestiria #wyvern rambles #wyvern's zestyposting #rants

[holdingcourtwiththevoid]

Going a little insane in the difference between Will's delivery of the "of course not, Richie" line on the live show recording of Nerdy Prudes Must Die and the official cast recording

#npmd #nerdy prudes must die #i hadnt rewatched the scene in a while and it hit me how differently he says them #the cast recording is more like mocking #go listen and please help me formulate these thoughts omg

[samyelbanette]

I think that today, after my exit interview is finished, I’m going to listen to Exit Emotions for the second time.

#the first time was February 27th. the day the record came in the mail #to the 3 people who recommended me bands that I still haven’t listened to #please understand that I haven’t listened to ANY OTHER MUSIC either #(also. im baffled by people saying EE is better than LOTSAD. cuz its not)