#and this song just...hits deep

[honeywafflez1art]

Forever caged.

#SONGBIRDDD my beloved I will protect you with everything I got😤 #cyberpunk 2077 #songbird #song so mi #phantom liberty #the relic #No but actually. SongV has me FEELING things #Star crossed lovers once again #They could've meant the world to each other #But Song's betrayal and just the fact that they're both so not ok :(( #Her story and that lack of control over one's life hits me so hard #Idk how they manage to make every character and their experience so deep believabale and relatable #Cyberpunk my beloved💞💞💞

[bleaksqueak]

Since I posted some of my old fanart yesterday... if you're not familiar with Slayers, and thus have never heard its amazing music, do check it out. It's largely by the same songwriter, Masami Okui, that did Utena's iconic opening (Rinbu Revolution) and ofc (TRUTH) and sung by a duo of her and Hayashibara Megumi (you know, the GOAT)

The entire OST pretty much slaps. there's only a couple of bad image songs in an absolute expanse of pure gold. GIVE A REASON, the opening to the second season, tends to be the reigning favorite. (I've a hard time pinning down my absolute favorite... of the original openings, it might be Breeze, but all three are so good. Of the entire catalog? Impossible to choose. Midnight Blue, Raging Waves, Within my Unlimited Desires, Gloria, Get Along... Impossible Choice)

#slayers #the slayers #music #anime #90s anime #Gourry's image song So In the World is like the cutest thing too #the series itself is a deep lore D&D parody swords and sorcery action/adventure series #very firmly a dramedy but when it decides to be serious it goes hard #it very rarely decides to be serious so it's always kind of a thrill when it does lol #but this post is about its soundtrack #namely its vocal songs #and as I said they slap a ridiculous amount #so here #Youtube #what if I go back and put Get Along in here too because I love it so much #I love any version that leaves lina's ramble in at the start #and the lyrics of I WANT THIS I WANT THAT... IT'S JUST HOW GIRLS ARE (showing lina blowing up shit lmao) #Hold on the memories of riding with my granddaddy to the big city next to us #so I could go to suncoast and get the new vhs release of NEXT when it was first being published in the US #just hit me like a sack of bricks #that's a good memory...

[just2bubbly]

ok hear me out, 'The Black Dog' is wolfstar coded and not just because of the literal connection with Sirius Black and his animagus but in general. The Dog is very obviously Sirius and the way she goes on building the first verse of long lost friendship and relationship- "I am someone who until recent events shared your secrets with" and that's easy to tell Sirius and Remus were one half of the Marauders and they were friends, lovers and obviously shared everything with each other. The location is the Marauder's Map and it could possibly be a memory that Sirius can't get out of his head while being in Azkaban that relates closely with Remus who is having the same flashback but at a bar or in a deep emotional capacity when he sees a black dog that reminds him of Siri. "She's too young to know this song" is Tonks (no offence to her but ye) the age gap is there, she was there when Sirius was alive and it was a visual representation of Remus choosing her above him. When Remus steals glances at Sirius when he thinks no one is seeing for 'old habits die screaming' and now he doesn't know what to do with this for he feels Sirius is too lost in despair. Post Azkaban Sirius is "moving through the world heartbroken" and with desires of having a friend in Remus if not a lover. "And it kills me, I don't understand"— is very clearly the chaotic mess inside Siri's head as he takes over his life after 13 years of imprisonment. "Now I wanna sell my house, and set fire to all my clothes," is perhaps the disdain with Grimmauld Palace and his past that he tried so hard to escape haunting him like a full circle. "This tail between your legs, you're leaving" is again his untimely death, too soon and a life too short with great regrets and glorious moments.

You can't tell me this song isn't about Sirius Black

#ttpd #ttpd era #ts ttpd #the tortured poets department #taylor swift #sirius black #song lyrics #the black dog #remus lupin #wolfstar #remus x sirius #harry potter fandom #marauders era #the maruaders #nymphadora tonks #remadora #im just looking too deep at things but I have had this theory for a long time now and I'm not gonna shut up about it #also the line “you deserved a brave man” what a hard hitting line #I'm not sobbing at the reference you are #woah it's unbelievable my good life can't have it with this much angst #I need to read a fic over this matter #as soon as possible

[theotherrichardpapen]

...because any moment may be our last. everything is more beautiful because we're doomed.

#looking through my drafts and seeing this post unfinished and knowing in my core I'll probably never actually finish it . #but strangley enough i don't hate the way it looks with only those 2 panels ? beauty in simplicity or something idk #woe unfinished post be upon ye #honestly probably wouldnt even bother posting it were it not for the fact i was hit by a sudden wave of sadness #by being reminded out of the blue that alex really does just . lose nigel that night #enough deep level analysis my brain is all out i think . but just the simple fact that nigel dies that night #and alex has to go on for the rest of his life post-ending carrying that grief and loss with him #i know we talk about how nigel isn't truly 'gone' in the sense that they're one now and jack is supposed to be an amalgamation of the two #a product of their union and 'consummation' that night at the yard #but he's still gone . no matter how much alex might try and follow in nigel's footsteps #no matter how hard alex tries to tread that same path nigel did to feel close to him #he's gone . they will never have that moment beneath the house ever again . and alex has to go on living with that #anyway . normal again . imagine dropping a song rec like i used to. aha . go listen to sick like me by in this moment. #like minds #murderous intent #nigel colbie #alex forbes #nigel colbie x alex forbes #edit : THEY'LL NEVER HAVE THE MOMENT UNDER THE HOUSE AGAIN !!!!! #thinking about the moment where nigel sits across from alex after he shoots john #and the contrast to the scene in the crawlspace . nigel is trying to connect he is trying to get alex to see to understand #but now alex is closed off. something may be irreparable broken between them #do you think it was the moment where nigel starts to despair . to plead . realise that he needs to find a way to make alex truly see #i need to get some sleep

[natjennie]

i have imagining my blorbos set to songs disease. it's terminal and unbearable.

#every song i listen to its like. wow that's insert character here #recently? the captain. #but also ed and stede. #also nandor. #also richard and jared. #it goes back and back and back #whoever it happens to be at the moment #but god it hits so deep in my soul and makes me ache #why? what is it that makes it hurt like that. to just listen to music and imagine a character. #its entirely fictional. its my own imagination that's hurting me

[daisychain-unchained]

It really is never over

#geniuses have epiphanies during mundane tasks #not to get deep on a meme post but even his backing vocals have a level of ascension #after the sweetness of her laughter line he hits this heavenly ahhhh #this is just one of those songs you never get over #and this template perfectly captures how I feel about the bridge #jeff buckley #lover you should've come over

[clarabowmp3]

11 year old me heard ”our song is the way you laugh” ONCE and her standards have been astronomical ever since

#me and WHO #the rest of the song is so lighthearted and fun and then this deep cut hits owhhhhh #just to be so in love #and in such a simple way

[givemeanaccountalready]

Musings on Deep Cover

So, I was fiddling with my ladies of Milgram post, and uh, I started thinking about Kotoko's diss track.

The lyrics transcribed on the Deep Cover video are:

UNDER Doltish 001 Parasite / UNDER Obscene 002 Slut / UNDER Incessant 004 Phony Queen / UNDER Doomed 005 Dissection Pawn / UNDER Concealing 007 Deceiver / UNDER Inept 011 Guard

My favorite is Ninjastic Cheetah's fan edit on YouTube which has these lines:

UNDER A worthless 01 parasite / UNDER A vulgar 02 slut / UNDER A stubborn 04 perjury / UNDER Unsalvageable 05 dissection / UNDER Lying 07 madman / UNDER Unloved 11 prison guard

Again, I love the psychic damage of "unloved" being Es's insult, but that's not the point I want to discuss before I turn in for the night.

Don't get me wrong. I love the diss track. I really do, but if I were Kotoko, I would have gone for the jugular and called out their insecurities when dropping names to emphasize how little I thought of how their justifications:

UNDER Fatal 001 leech / UNDER Lonely 002 little girl / UNDER Whiny 004 usurper / UNDER Short-sighted 005 savior / UNDER Selfish 7 manipulator / UNDER Misguided 011 pretender

Now, as fun as that was, this wasn't just a little aside. In Kotoko's diss track, she doesn't say anything that couldn't have been picked up from listening to voice dramas (if Kotoko did in fact eavesdrop on all the other prisoners' interrogations) or found within the timeline conversations. In their second trial interrogations, Yuno admits to being a sex worker and having an abortion, while Kazui laments the fact that he's lived his entire life as a liar and states that he should have kept lying for Hinako's sake. Shidou agrees with Es that his murders involved his work as a doctor and hints that pressuring families to donate the organs of their brain-dead loved ones wasn't the only murder he's done. I've kind of said it before when I said "Local man discovers empathy," but I think he pushed patients to undergo risky, new surgeries in hopes that it would treat their conditions, and it was only when his wife and two boys were in the hospital that he realized the terror those families felt when their loved ones went under the knife. Haruka admitted to killing things smaller than him to gain his mother's attention and his unhealthy dependence on approval from his "mother" figures is obvious in the second trial. Muu contradicts herself a lot when defending herself from what she perceives to be abuse and preens under the positive attention Haruka gives her. She does seem to think herself above approach like a queen would. With Es? I think it was Kazui who said it best back during the first trial: the only difference between Es and the prisoners are the roles assigned. Undermining their authority and implying they can't do their job is a surefire way to piss off Es. Why do I bring this up?

I think Kotoko may know less than we and Es do.

Mainly because it hasn’t really been explained how the song extraction device works. We know that it pulls memories from an individual’s subconscious and turns them into a musical number. We know that the in-universe explanation for the time gap between trial songs is that it needs to charge between uses. That’s stuff Jackalope told us back in the Welcome to Milgram video. From the voice dramas, we know the general procedure is that a prisoner is called to the interrogation room, Es arrives late as a power move and then interrogates the prisoner until the bell sounds and we can hear machines or something whirring and clanking in the background. Since it’s an audio, we don’t know what the interrogation room looks like before and after the bell tolls, but there seems to be an implication that the room changes and that the prisoners are belted into the chair. I’m not so sure if the chair is real but the first trial voice dramas have me an implication of the prisoners being restrained in some way.

If I had to guess, I would say that the round, bird cage like room we saw in Undercover and Deep Cover is the interrogation room. That would explain what the circular room on the map is (not the one with the numbered cells, the one opposite of that). Undercover implies that the song extraction device opens up to work, but we’re not told or shown how it pulls memories or how it depicts the music video. Es and the prisoner may very well be “asleep” while this process plays out mentally. Or it is projected somewhere within the interrogation room while the prisoner is “asleep” since none of them seem to remember what happens after the bell rings.

I have a thousand questions on how this device works. The only important one is how are the songs shown to Es, because if Kotoko knew exactly what some of the first trial Innocent prisoners had shown in their videos (namely, Haruka strangling his younger self and clearly bludgeoning something to death with a bloody rock, and Muu stabbing Rei), she most likely would have judged Es’s verdicts as faulty and attacked the prisoners based on how she views the crimes rather than relying on Es's verdict. I say this with confidence, because Kotoko has made it clear that her vigilante actives, both in Milgram and before, are a way for her to inflict punishment that others (namely the justice system) won’t dole out to the guilty. She has no problem with skirting the system to do that.

But, if the songs are only shown to Es and Es alone through some kind of mental link, then Kotoko is forced to take Es’s word on what they (and we, the audience) saw. Deep Cover made it clear that Es's refusal to condemn more prisoners is what ticked Kotoko off, since she sees mercy and compassion as weaknesses to be eliminated. Kotoko actually showed a remarkable amount of restraint when trying to sway Es back to her side. It wasn't until Es stood up to Kotoko that she lost her composure.

It also would partially explain why some say that Deep Cover is Kotoko’s musical version of a resume for the warden position. If there is stuff that Es knows that she isn’t privy to because of their warden position, then she needs to obtain either the warden status or an official deputy position to get that information to further influence how Es votes. If she is proving her worth to Es and Milgram, why wouldn’t her subconscious show her desire to be in control the way Es is?

#milgram predictions #milgram #milgram es #kotoko yuzuriha #yuzuriha kotoko #this was supposed to brief #then I fixed kotoko's diss track #homie if you gonna insult people #go for the throat #seriously #how does milgram's song device work #kotoko would have changed her hit list if she saw the music videos #i'm just saying #it is totally in-character of her #to dig just deep enough to assign blame and dole out punishment #but not question what she's been told #she's so messy #i love it #if I'm right #I'm gonna cackle so hard

[findmeabowlofundertale]

Thinking abt how human Asteri would be so pissed that human Gaster can hit all the notes in Take On Me but she only ever caught him singing ONCE (and that was the song) and he keeps pretending it didn’t happen no matter what she does.

#the only time gaster’s ever gaslit someone #seeker talks #double dingsaster au #or just any #human dingsaster au #⁂ #asteri #dingsaster #I mean I guess technically either Gaster could hit the notes but human Gaster is the only one who knows the song #Asteri’s voice is too deep she doesn’t have the range #it’s not DEEP deep or anything just not that high #she can sing marina and the diamonds songs almost perfectly. probably. not quite

[qulizalfos]

yall remember when girl in red

#me(aromantic) listening to hornylovesickmess: ougfghdfhfdisofghoihgfshugoshsdfhsohfghisdfghg #thats just the song im listening to rn tho. she doesnt have a bad track she doesn't even have a note or lyric out of place #unwell over her CONSTANTLY #her songs r so deep and i love them dearly #anyway #serotonin helped me through some SERIOUS shit and continues to help me through serious shit #so if i could make it go quiet is extremely important to me. #okay done and hit post

[six-of-cringe]

you know what i'll say it. the we didn't start the fire cover is dumb and silly, maybe even mid. It is still not some moral detriment that they didn't include every important historical event or that pop culture was referenced. have you listened to the original song

#yeah it's a little surface level a little trite. it's silly and it still sounds fun! #fob has never gone super in-depth politically and sometimes i wish they would #but also that's never been their particular aim so i don't expect hard-hitting political rhetoric from them #one could argue then that's against the point of the original song but tbh the original was also just a list of big stuff #its also not that deep it is a song guys chill out with the moral condemnations #fall out boy #not soc #we didnt start the fire

[skybrightpixie]

you have so much of it

#tóm #audio #music #my tunes #my art #i made this song in january of last year #just never touched it since #fun fact: the main synth i used in this can no longer hit notes this low #i opened up the file to maybe tweak it but the synth was automatically shifted up an octave #so i cant touch it or else it wont be as deep askjfdjs

[aropride]

i am literally the bravest little guy in the world no contest. i have been so brave about it so many times. i will continue to do this forever

#text #remembered the time when [thing happened] and instead of engaging in [bad coping mechanisms] #i finished crying took some deep breaths and went to mcdonalds and got myself a caramel sundae #and it was so fucking cold out but the sundae was good #and definitely made me feel betterthan bad copingmechanisms would have #and before that i even made a playlist of songs that make me happy instead of Stewing In Misery #well i did stew in misery listening to my misery playlist when i walked back #all you wanna do came on my playlist while i was walking back and i started crying so hard i had to sit down on the ground and calm down #luckily i was on campus at that point so i didnt like. get hit by a car LOL #sry aywd came on shuffle just now so im. reminiscing.

[everysongineverykey]

love being extremely autistic about an extremely mainstream artist. yes everyone and their dog has heard of them yes none of them get them like i do. keep up

#gatekeepers do NOT interact‼️‼️ this post is not for you #this post is about me getting nervous whenever someone asks me my favorite queen song #because i feel like if i say one of their big hits i'll seem fake but if i say a deep cut i'll seem like a pretentious tryhard. #anyone can consider themselves a fan of anything for any reason!! this is just me being anxious

[fairly-tragic]

I know the pain that you hide behind the smile on your face, and not a day goes by where I don’t think I feel the same

#music #bad omens #just pretend #the death of peace of mind #this song hits me deep #it’s the song I listen to when I’m in my feels #Spotify

[bmpmp3]

i do think its kinda funny when i see someone in the year of our lord 2024 talk about vocal synth music like its all gone downhill since like 2010 because like dont get me wrong i love a good niconicodouga-ass 2008 ass vocaloid joint BUT also like. the past couple years have had the most fascinatingly creative and expressive uses of vocal synthesizers ive ever heard in my life DJFSKHJDFS dont write it all off just yet!!

#usually i only see that from people who havent actually listened to any vsynth music from the past 15 years so i understand why they got to #that conclusion. and also usually theyre people who didnt listen to much vsynth music in the first place LOL they just dont know #but it is still a little funny. brother there are things beyond your wildest dreams if u just look #like some personal highlights: the stuff by rinri - particularly their use of the meika girlies #dont carry our memories away is LIFECHANGING the whispers. the spoken parts. the BELTS #plus the haunting and unrelenting instrumentation. fantastic song #and naisho no pierced's propose + birthday + gift sort of trilogy of songs. gift especially has been unreal #again the dynamics of soft intimate whispers to belts but also those fuller high notes with edges of growlyness. #plus the songs just generally rock. and those LYRICS. absolutely intense like physically painful and frightening like #yearning and codependency and possession. and the tuning and production just amps it up more #OH and slave.v.v.r has been doing crazy things for even longer but i only started getting into his stuff recently and holy shit #love eater is like. the scariest vocaloid song ive ever heard not because of the lyrics. but because of the tuning #im like. scared. i cant stop listening to it. the heavy synthesized breathy main vocals and whispered harmonies plus the VOCAL FRY #i didnt realized vocaloid5? i think? has a vocal fry option built in i heard? thats crazy #but specifically in love eater the fry and growl is amped up so deep and loud and clear compared to everything else it like #emphasizes the artificiality of the voice while also amping up the expressiveness #its awesome. and on the older slave.v.v.r songs i heard i will hit you 8759632145 times with this piano. also so fucking cool #addicted to that song. 1) its a great jazzy rocky piano tune with this piano flourish at the end of each phrase that sounds fantastic #but also 2) the lyrics are insane. using kanji to write english?????? #people are doing wild ass things with vocal synths rn you guys #this isnt even getting into some of the really unique synths themselves too. adachi rei is awesome i love that shes just like #the perfect inbetween of sample based and reconstruction based vocals. shes a sample based synth #but her samples were drawn by hand LOL shes like dectalks granddaughter to me..... #a really good use of adachi rei is iyowa's heat abnormal/heat anomaly/whatever its called ITS AWESOME thats what it is hjrkfdgfd #i think the fact that vocal synths can be so realistic and clean and noiseless out the gate now has made people really stop worrying #about like. realism all together and looking more into expressiveness. omg vocal synth modernist movement