#evanescence was on the radio period!

[champagnemoon]

My favorite look right now is the rockstar baddie of 2008…Blue black Brazilian blowouts, Smokey eye with thin arched eyebrows, and a band tshirt cut into a halter top

#basically my older cousin #the fragrance was always Paris Hilton Can Can #the car was either a Honda or VW Beetle #evanescence was on the radio period! #I remember she used to bar tend on the weekend and work at the MAC counter during the week #wanted to be her soooooo bad like what a icon

[hit-song-showdown]

Year-End Poll #53: 2002

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We're starting to see post-grunge start to take the place of alternative rock in the pop charts, with the rising popularity of Nickelback, The Calling, Puddle of Mudd, Creed, 3 Doors Down, and other similar acts. Despite the immense popularity (or perhaps because of it), post-grunge continues to be a controversial label among rock listeners for the genre's tendency to favor pop-friendly melodies and "simpler" subject matters.

Speaking of controversial rock subgenres, this year also contains a single from one of the best-selling debut records at the time (going 12 times Platinum), Linkin Park's In the End off the album Hybrid Theory. And with that (or parallel to that) came the rise of nu metal and rap metal in the mainstream. It's notable because, at least not since glam metal in the 80's, there hadn't been a subgenre of metal that really blew up with mainstream non-metal audiences to the point where it came to define that moment in time for many. (I know Metallica was able to spread past the confines of genre listeners, but that didn't really lead to a thrash or heavy metal craze among people who wouldn't have already been predispositioned to listen to it).

Nu metal is also incredibly fascinating to me personally because it really shows how "genre" can differ whether you're approaching it from a music-listening perspective or a marketing one. If I had to boil "nu metal" down to a simple set of characteristics, it would be "a subgenre of metal that favors shorter runtimes, takes heavy influences from hip-hop sound and culture, and is often associated with the early 2000s". But if you asked marketing teams at the time, "nu metal" would probably be defined as, "the popular rock music we can't market to the alternative rock crowd". That could be why, to this day, you often see bands like Linkin Park, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Staind, System of a Down, and even Evanescence lumped together under the descriptor, even though I think they don't all have much in common other than the time period, song length, and popularity. If you're marketing on the radio, it makes more sense to squish them together instead of trying to split hairs over subgenres. Only a few (and by "few" I mean "one") of these artists I've listed will be featured in future polls, but I wanted to ramble about this anyway.

Anyway, despite the immense amount of money brought in by albums like Hybrid Theory, the record industry was still scrambling to find ways to get people to pay for music again. In 2002, Nokia released the first polyphonic ringtone, which allowed the phone to play several notes at once. With cellphones growing in popularity, this may be the solution the record industry was looking for.

#billboard poll #billboard music #tumblr poll #2000s #2000s music #2002 #nickelback #ashanti #nelly #kelly rowland #the calling #vanessa carlton #linkin park #fat joe #usher #puddle of mudd

[groovesnjams]

13 / 50

"Red Wine Supernova" by Chappell Roan

MG:

There’s so much Shania Twain (I suppose, though if I’m being precise, I think there’s so much LeAnn Rimes on the Coyote Ugly soundtrack) in “Red Wine Supernova.” We’re in a boom period of re-examining, re-contextualizing, and re-appreciating late-90’s radio rock. It’s something Grooves N Jams never stopped doing; I remember where I was when I first listened to Third Eye Blind’s self-titled debut like it’s my own personal national tragedy. So it’s a bit surreal and, honestly, kind of deadening to bob on these waves a second time. I can feel us all, in this moment, careening toward Evanescence, Linkin Park, eventually Puddle of Mudd and Staind, and then the total death of radio for a second time. I think there’s a wont to put all of that on streaming and pirating, as though the medium itself was flawed and the music can be salvaged. The medium was flawed, but also, this sound was extremely easy to replicate and the imitators were often nothing more than fridge magnet poetry cloaked under a couple production tricks.

Anyway, I feel like Shania caught some short shrift during this period, so, unlike the general 90’s ennui I’m starting to feel, the resurrection of “You’re Still the One” via boygenius and “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” via Chappell Roan is still fresh and delightful. Shania could be playful and camp in a way that our often serious, humorless pop culture really, really misses. Perhaps I’m missing the point and part of the joy of her quasi-drag and over-performed yelps is to bop along and not overthink it, but I’m here to overthink it. There are plenty of artists who could fit themselves inside of “Red Wine Supernova” (Rina Sawayama tried it with “This Hell,” for example) but Chappell is comfortable with performing in way that feels slightly waylaid by our current era of always on branding and universal blandness. She’s using her voice, flexing it and manipulating it, a commanding tour de force woman and a goofy, confessional girl by turns. It’s a stage show, for sure, but after years and years of single facet performers (professional mope boys like Drake and The Weeknd or Ariana Grande’s mumbled “yuh” or Charli XCX’s irony pop) it’s a delight to see someone prowl around like she does, fully owning her character, imperfections and all. In that way, she’s taken what Shania did – her kick your feet up and laugh friendliness – and added a layer of vulnerability on top by not trying to strangle every last drop of productivity from her margins. It’s possible to dislike Chappell Roan and that’s what makes her so loveable.

DV:

If I was a teen in 2023 I would be basing my entire personality around Chappell Roan right now, to the annoyance of everyone around me. Like others on this list, she has a way of encapsulating an entire world and attitude inside a single song and making you a part of it whenever you listen; unlike those others, at its most inviting Chappell's world is centered around getting drunk and naked in the most ostentatious way possible. MG and I didn't catch Chappell's tour this year due to "fuck LiveNation" reasons, but you don't need to see it live to realize that "Red Wine Supernova" is made for crowdwork, full of call-and-response moments and subtle punchlines. I say subtle; I mean, "Want me to fuck you" is tucked halfway through a verse rather than in a more obvious spot like the chorus. But in Chappell Roan's hands, everything seems obvious, belying the skill it takes to take a lyric this packed with obnoxious theater kid energy and make it irresistibly charming. "Red Wine Supernova" wears itself on its sleeve and demands you do the same. It's a dialogue between Chappell and the listener as much as between her and the girl biting her neck.

#gnjsoty2k23 #chappell roan #red wine supernova #music

[summercreolefanfictioner]

songs the Sakamaki bros would have sex or make-out session to

WARNING: NSFW (if you’re below 18, just don’t freakin’ read things like this, okay?)

DISCLAIMER: I just got this idea ‘cause an acquaintance told me she turns up the volume of her radio when she does it with her gf (that’s all the story ‘cause I ain’t curious about her sex life)

SHUU SAKAMAKI

No brainer. Classical music. PERIOD.

Sometimes it would be the violin covers or orchestra pieces he always listens to since he’s lazy to change the music

Other times, it would be songs that came out from a sensual mixtape

Most of them probably from Two Feet or Cigarettes After Sex

Or even from LANY or The 1975

A rare one from the playlist would be Ariana Grande’s off the table

Shuu likes it slow, teasing you during foreplay

But he ain’t a lazy lover

Likes it when he makes you feel every sensation

Also a sucker for comfort sex so get ready for sad songs

Probs from Mitski’s “I Want You” or Lily Allen’s “Littlest Things”

No BDSM

But if you want to, he can notch a few things 😉

REIJI SAKAMAKI

Another classical music fan

But this one likes the haunting pieces, ya know the ones used when you’re escaping a dark castle or running from a monster at the forest

Idk why he sees it romantic but for him it sets the mood

Thinks of sex as a means to be a sadist

What the actual fvck

Would also play Kiss of Fire by Hugh Laurie or Bei Mir Bist du Schon by The Andrew Sisters

Light BDSM

Would also test out his poison on you

He’s gonna make you cum either from pleasure or from fear

You like it either way so no complaining

AYATO SAKAMAKI

Welcome to the wild side

The music taste of this Ore-sama is undoubtedly rock

Heavy metal, pop, punk, goth, emo—the sound of the electric guitar in the background fires him up

I picture him turning up the volume so high he’s gonna hear complaints from the other brothers later on

Most of the time, he’d play songs from All Time Low, ACDC, Pierce The Veil, Fall Out Boy, Nirvana, etc.

He likes having wild and rough sex

Would probably leave hickeys

I also think he’s someone who would invite you out on a sex in public

Poor boy can’t keep his pants on

Would also pull up a prank where he would turn off the volume, insert the microphone, and turn the speaker back on so his S/O’s moans would be heard around the mansion

Also keeps a record of the moans as a form of blackmail

This jerk

Would get in a fight with Subaru for being so noisy

You’d probably not show up in the mansion for a few days because of that

But Ayato has his ways to convince you otherwise so fvck everything

“What a bad girl.”

“You’re the bad one, Ayato-kun.”

“Che! You love this Ore-sama so suck it.”

Suck what???

KANATO SAKAMAKI

The playlist of this one is as vast as the ocean

His music taste is a mix of all his brothers

So there are times he would play scary classicals or punk rock or sensual and playful based on his mood

I imagine him having comfort sex while My Immortal by Evanescence is playing in the background

But most of the time he’d play songs from Lana del Rey, Yohio, Panic! At The Disco, Blink-182, and Melanie Martinez

He actually turns the song “Tonight You Belong To Me” by The Lennon Sisters into a creepy one because of how possessive he is

For a sensual person, he prefers taking everything slow

Even your pain as he chokes you into oblivion

That’s some heavy BDSM sht

Would also play songs from My Chemical Romance like the ones from Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge or I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love

If he’s feeling romantic (which is rare), he would play Doja Cat’s Kiss Me More or The Cardigans’ Lovefool

Tho tbh it’s rare for him to turn on music because he would rather listen to his S/O’s moans and screams of pain as her heart beats faster in fear and anticipation

Would only turn them on if his S/O starts being noisy

LAITO SAKAMAKI

Alexa, play Sexy Naughty Bitchy Me

Did someone say whore?

This slut has the horniest playlist ever out of all the brothers

You'd probably mistake him as a stripper

Most of the songs would be from Rihanna, Doja Cat, Ariana Grande, Charlie Puth, Lana del Rey, etc.

Basically, mostly sex songs that are popular with teenagers

Would also have the same sensual sex playlist like Shuu has

He plays them all even if he’s being a bitch to his flings

Would most likely mess you up and make you begging for more

This slut

He is a mix of a wild ride with sadism and BDSM

His music and moans are so noisy Reiji banned him from having sex in the mansion

Even noisier than Ayato

Never stops being a perv even when he’s alone

Stay away from him at all costs

SUBARU SAKAMAKI

He’s emo. Period.

Whether it’s a slow or rough sex, there’s always an emo song playing in the background

Sometimes you ask him if he’s sad or what

“I am not sad. Why are you asking me that?!”

Poor baby car

He probs share the same music as Ayato’s but more on the self-loathing part

Mostly Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, Pierce The Veil, Nirvana, and the likes

Is actually noisy he just doesn’t know it

He is even louder than the music he’s playing so the brothers would hear his moans than his S/O

This gives them the nightmares

They tease him later on about this, especially Shuu and Ayato

“You even said ‘scream my name, louder’ the fvck”

“I did not say that.”

“Oh yeah sure while she’s giving you the head.”

“I DID NOT!”

The living room will be in chaos again much to Reiji’s dismay

#Diabolik Lovers #diabolik lovers headcanons #dialovers #dialovers headcanons #sakamaki brothers #sakamaki brothers headcanons #Sakamaki triplets #ayato sakamaki headcanon #kanato sakamaki headcanon #laito sakamaki headcanon #shuu sakamaki headcanons #reiji sakamaki headcanons #subaru sakamaki headcanons #Subaru Sakamaki #ayato sakamaki #Kanato Sakamaki #reiji sakamaki #Shuu Sakamaki #laito sakamaki

[nevermeyers]

Hi! 🌸I hope you're having a nice weekend (and you're taking care of yourself!)

For the ask questions, 2, 25 and 46.

PS: I hope your hands got better! 🤍

Hi! 💜 I hope you're having a nice weekend too! My hands got worse but I'm taking care of them as much as I can :')

2. What music did you grow up on? Describe your parent’s music taste using four songs.

I grew up with the music that my parents always played in the car <3 They didn't put on the radio, but rock records. When I listen to Bon Jovi, for example, I'm automatically transported to when I was a child. I'm very fond of him and his songs. They also played ACDC, Guns N' Roses and Evanescence along others. I adore them.

Time later I formed my musical taste from musicians like Kurt Cobain. I think he was the one who marked me the most :')

About the four songs, I would say... Bed of Roses by Bon Jovi, Knockin' on Heavens Door by Guns N'Roses, You Shook Me All Night Long by ACDC and Beat it by Michael Jackson 💕 My mom loves Michael Jackson and ballads, my dad loves rock and metal <3

25. What were you obsessed with when you were younger?

Warrior cats lmao 😭 ngl I loved that books. I still love them. They marked a great period of my life and led me to meet my first Internet friends! I had no one who knew the saga so I had no one to talk to. I used to rol play in forums and later I downloaded Amino to join a community :') I still have the IGs of the people I met there.

46. A simple pleasure from this week.

Do most of my exams, definitely. It makes me feel so relieved, it's great haha. Also rest after spending hours making diagrams of my notes.

This week it has been raining every day, so I would add writing at night with the sound of rain <3

#take care<3 #@meyers #—asks🌸

[splendentgoddess]

What songs from 90s or early 2000s that makes you instantly reminded of InuKag?

me personally like Westlife's "I Lay My Love on You", SWV's "Weak", and Jordin Sparks' & Chris Brown's "No Air" because, well, the lyrics are just sooo them 😂

Hi @chit-a-to and thanks for the ask! And oh man, what a question!

Well I suppose first and foremost I’m gonna HAVE to include the songs from the specified time period that I’ve actually made song-fics for. This includes Animal I Have Become by Three Days Grace (although yeah, that’s really more just Inuyasha rather than Inu/Kag specifically), and Eclipsed by Evans Blue. I hadn’t even heard of Evans Blue at the time when somebody hit me up one day actually asking for me to write a song-fic to that song; I told them I’d have to hear it first before making any promises and oh MAN, does that song just scream Inu/Kag. Once upon a time I also did a song-fic of Kagome actually singing I’m the Only One by Melissa Etheridge, and another old one that’s more just Inuyasha’s POV is a song-fic called What I really meant to say that features lyrics to Cold by Crossfade.

Besides all those, other songs that scream Inu/Kag to me, and have had me tempted to write song-fics over the years, include both Right Here and Believe by Staind (I would switch back and forth from each of their POVs, Inu/Kag on each side of the well and thinking about the other person), and Far Away by Nickelback taking place during the separation and concluding with Kagome’s return even though yes yes I know I know, okay I admit it, I like Nickelback, LOL. Then there’s another Three Days Grace song called Time of Dying, which is SO Inu’s POV as he lies there severely injured and thinking about Kagome (spoiler alert, he wouldn’t die). Does 2012 count as “early 2000s”? Because if I had the talent (and spare time) I would so make an AMV to Demons by Imagine Dragons. I would also do an AMV to The Red by Chevelle even though that’s in the same vein as Animal I Have Become and not an Inu/Kag love song.

If it takes place during the three-year separation and Kagome doesn’t yet know that she’ll eventually get her happy ending, or in a canon divergence after a bad fight regarding Kikyou, I Would’ve Loved You Anyway by Trisha Yearwood just screams Kagome. I suppose in that same vein, My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion is also a good post-separation song for Kagome, especially in an alt-ending where she never returns, and prior to him finding her again 500 years later she thinks he’s dead. I also once upon a time had an idea for a (now very off-canon) song-fic to Incomplete by Backstreet Boys that would’ve been like Kagome giving Inuyasha the jewel at the end of the mission and going back through the well but he can’t just let her go and doesn’t wish on the jewel and goes back to get Kagome in the end.

I’m trying to think of more songs, LOL, but I mean the truth is just about ANY song can work for Inu/Kag, especially if you open up the possibility of AUs. Like if I’m driving and listening to the radio, my mind can conjure up imagery for an Inu/Kag music video to just about any song that plays. Who Wants to Live Forever by Queen is perfect if we assume he will greatly outlive her, but that sort of thought is too bittersweet, LOL, oh and that’s also the ‘80s anyway so never mind. But take Taking Over Me by Evanescence, for example. That’s a Kagome trapped in the future, having discovered concealed youkai are still around and so she’s bound and determined to find Inuyasha again.

Oh wait okay, I’ve got it! See this is why I took a couple of days to think about it and compose this reply slowly as I rolled it around in my head. The PERFECT canon Inu/Kag love song, because it’s a tender love song and as a bonus totally has canine imagery, is Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol! Okay yes, I’ll end on that note, because that really is a perfect song for them. That whole "would you lie with me and just forget the world" part brings to mind the different frames of them just lying back on a grassy hill, enjoying the peaceful atmosphere of just being in each other’s presence. Inuyasha also doesn’t quite know how to say how he feels, and he needs Kagome’s grace to remind him to find his own. Yes, Chasing Cars. Plus in a modern AU where he would get the car pun, I could actually see a version of Inuyasha singing that song to her.

Thanks again for the ask!

#inuyasha #kagome #inu/kag #love songs #songfic #splendentgoddess

[morbidly-malicious-muffins]

What Kind of Music Slashers Would Vibe to Headcanons♪

This little thing popped into my head. Fyi, the canon timelines are thrown out the window for this so... Yeah.

Bring forth the bop~

RZ Michael Myers

"Let my weapons be your children, let my armies be your damned. Try to suffer on in silence, try to stop me if you can." --- This Cold Black by Slipknot

I think he'd really enjoy metal in general. I can totally see him unknowingly stomping to some Marilyn Manson and Meshuggah, though the lyrics and message probably will just fly over his head.

He listens to some heavy shit, but probably all the more mainstream bands/artists.

The loudness and organized chaos of the genre fills the void in his soul and reflects the state of his mind, despite his stoic and non-verbal outer demeanor.

Someone please do everyone a favor and introduce Michael to some death metal. Admit it, it really fits his aesthetic.

This is just based on speculation, but I suspect a 70% possibility of RZ Michael resonating with Cannibal Corpse. Fight me.

He hates classical music with a burning passion. Back in Smith's Grove, they played Bach's Air Sul G on tap. (its canon in the first movie lmao) He hates it. Mikey no likey.

Freddy Krueger

"No stop signs, speed limit, nobody's gonna slow me down. Like a wheel, gonna spin it, nobody's gonna mess me around." --- Highway to Hell, by AC/DC

Freddy listens to classic rock, period.

This guy is ngl a supporter of music taste discrimination. You listen to pop? Disgusting. You listen to Jazz? Disgusting. Classic rock is the epitome of all music.

He'll call you music-related slurs you never knew existed.

As stubborn adamant as Freddy is, he does harbor some guilty pleasures, including 70's hair metal and glam rock. Pshh. What a heckin hypocrite.

Some of his all time favorites are Guns N' Roses, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, and AC/DC.

(Basic bitch)

*Hip thrust movements to go with his 'The Sprinkler' dance moves, Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N' Roses blasting in the background*

OG Michael Myers

He doesn't listen to music, but if he did, he would probably enjoy Jazz.

Michael only listens to Miles Davis because he enjoys his music and can't be bothered to discover more artists.

Oml Michael I know Miles Davis is amazing but don't neglect other iconic artists plzzz. Someone please make him listen to some Teddy Wilson and/or Dave Brubeck.

I imagine him sitting stiff-straight on a rocking chair (he just likes how it moves), knife in his lap, rocking and zoning-out relaxing to 'Blue in Green'. (I love that piece)

#AfterHeFinallyKillsLaurie

#RetirementGoals

He also hates classical music because of the same reason as RZ Myers. Seriously, if either of them so much as hears the opening chord of Air Sul G, expect the speaker to be stomped to a pulp in a split second.

Bubba Sawyer

Alright let's all be honest with ourselves... 70's pop and country is Bubba's shit.

Look me in the face and tell me he wouldn't adore ABBA, The Jackson 5, and Dolly Parton. Thats right you can't

Everytime 'Dancing Queen' starts playing on the radio, Bubba will drop everything and start busting down.

Ain't nothing and nobody stoppin him. Drayton is powerless against the supreme sovereignty that is ABBA.

But let's also appreciate the fact that our Bubster can motherfuckin get down. *wipes sweat from forehead + heart eyes*

He would also do passionate lip sync with his heart and soul, to Dolly Parton's 'I Will Always Love You'.

50% chance of him starting to cry right after he finishes his earnest performance.

*Holding Bubba in your arms, rubbing comforting circles on his back as he bawls hysterically, incoherently babbling on about how much he loves you*

I also feel for some reason he'd really like Joan Jett & The Blackhearts.

Thomas Hewitt

"For one moment, I wish you'd hold your stage, with no feelings at all. Open minded, I'm sure I used to be so free." --- Citizen Erased by Muse

Y'know what I have a hard time imagining the type of music Tommy listens to. Kutos, Mr. Hewitt, you have defeated me.

siKE

(This is where I yeet the timeline out of the window y'all)

Thomas enjoys Muse, Evanescence, and Radiohead. (Fight me)

He just loves how emotional their songs are. He'd have one earbud in as he works away at his projects for hours. The music helps him concentrate, it is also a source of emotional support to him.

Hearing the heart-wretching lyrical content of 'Lost in Paradise' performed so beautifully by Amy Lee's angellic voice is really comforting to him. It's like hearing about another person's experiences. It makes him feel less alone in dealing with his emotional and mental turmoils and burdens.

The first time Thomas heard 'Creep' by Radiohead, he almost cried.

He also listens to My Chemical Romance sometimes. He only knows the Black Parade album, but he loves it. If 'Creep' didn't make him cry, listening to that entire album from top to bottom sure did. He started sobbing half-way through 'Famous Last Words'.

Tommy is emotional boi 🥺

Brahms Heelshire

C l a s s i c a l

No matter how stinky Brahms is, you can't tell me that he's not classy.

Schubert is his bitch. Schubert's style tends to be quite majestic and/or dreamy, (generally) and can change color/sound very abruptly yet appropriately. (This is just my opinion based on experience with Schubert's pieces, but then I only know his piano pieces soo) (let's still cue that maestoso to scherzando transition)

But of course, Schubert isn't the only thing he listens to. He prefers the romantic period, so Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Shostakovich, Brahms, Schumann, you get the gist, all the staples. Oh yeah Elgar too. To be a proud English lad.

*Brahms swaying in the living room with the grace of a baby giraffe, engrossed in the beautiful melodies in Schumann's Kinderszenen.*

(Oml please check out 'Von fremden Landern und Manschen' and 'Kind im Einschlummern') (For those who play piano, they aren't that difficult too totally recommend) (Ok sorry I'm done now)

Brahms would totally waltz around alone to Chopin's waltzes and nocturnes.

Oh yeah apart from that classy shit, he likes to jam to meme songs.

"Hey now, you're an all star, get your game on, go play---"

*cut to Brahms passionately fortnite dancing*

Listens to The Strange Man Who Sings About Dead Animals for a good laugh. (Please, all of his songs are gold)

Vincent Sinclair

He'll have 'emo' and 'classical' with a side of metal, thanks.

I headcanon that Vinny McWaxy is an INFJ, so the boy is likely prone to crippling existentialism. It would make sense for some aspects of his music taste to reflect that.

*cut to Vincent sitting rock-still on his workbench/stool, hands hover in mid-air, staring straight ahead, some John Cage piece playing*

You'll never hear this from Vincent but he enjoys sexy-time music. He has this whole erotic playlist he listens to while working. (Boy likes to feel sexy on the job, I respect that.)

I think its pretty much canon that Vinny loves MCR. (Hello fellow emo piece of shit 👋) His favorites are everything by them really. A hardcore fan. He used to have MCR, P!ATD, and 30 Seconds to Mars posters plastered everywhere in his workshop until he had to remove them all to add to the intimidation factor of his waxy hell for passer-bys. For the record, he is very gay for Frank Iero.

On the metal part of his spectrum is mostly classic metal, groove metal, and thrash/heavy metal.

Rammstein, Pantera, Vildhjarta, new and old Metallica, Dream Theatre, Coheed and Cambria. His bitches.

He also uses music to scare victims when bringing them down to his workshop. *cue horror movie soundtracks*

*KI KI KI MA MA MA*

Is a whore for the dramatics when in a good mood.

*Lacrimosa by Mozart plays as he makes a point to bring the wax painfully slowly down toward a drowsy and petrified victim*

A lament for your upcoming death, pitiful human.

Bo Sinclair

"The day has come for all us sinners, if you're not a servant you'll be struck to the ground." -- Beast and The Harlot by Avenged Sevenfold

Bastard boy is into dad-music™. (same)

Dad rock, classic rock, pop punk, punk rock, old school pop, his shit.

He listens to a lot of the same bands as Freddy, but Bo (generally) doesn't discriminate and explores a more diverse variety of music.

Its a fandom canon that Bo loves Avenged Sevenfold. I totally agree.

A7x is the perfect amount of cynical, political, and shred for Beauregard, (I hc that ge hates his full name so plz don't ever call him Beauregard)

He listens to the radio whenever he's at work. Whatever that might be.

Will NEVER admit it, but he thinks Vinny's music taste is dope as hell.

He'll turn off the radio just to strain his ears to listen to Vincent's music downstairs. No one will ever know that though. You don't.

Actually likes classical music too. Its not one of his main genres but there's one piece he really likes, Second Movement of Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major.

He never thought he'd enjoy this type of music. Its so.... Calm. He discovered that piece from Vinny's playlist. When he first heard it on his brother's speaker, he fell in love. It was one of the extremely rare cases in which he'd be committed enough to ask Vinny the name of the music.

Tiny shuffle for man-kind, huge fuckin step for Bo. Good job Bo, we're proud of you.

Also pleeeeeaaase message me or request stuff, I'm bored and have little inspiration 🦊

I might do a pt2 of this, since I didn't write many of the boys and gals🤷‍♀️

Also sorry if I've neglected some genres/artists (Like i've neglected non-piano classical pieces.... Bc ya girl is just a pianist), a person can't know everything😗

---Zali 🖤

#i dont fucking know how to tumblr y'all #there ya go #slasher #slashers #slasher fluff #slasher headcanons #rz michael myers #michael myers #freddy krüger #freddy krueger #bubba sawyer #the texas chainsaw massacre #tcm #thomas hewitt #leatherface #tcm 2006 #tcm 2003 #tcm 1974 #brahms heelshire #brahms the boy #the boy #Halloween #vincent sinclair #bo sinclair #house of wax #house of wax 2005

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EVANESCENCE's AMY LEE: Why It Has Taken Nine Years To Record Follow-Up To Self-Titled Album

EVANESCENCE singer Amy Lee spoke to Meltdown of Detroit's WRIF radio station about why it has taken so long for the band to begin work on the follow-up to 2011's self-titled album. "Lots of reasons," she said (see video below). "I like to have an open mind about what I can be and what I can do in life.

"I love the music I've made with this band, and there are times that I have been more excited about it and passionate about it and in love with and wanting to pour into it than others. Sometimes you have to get away from it. It's such a full saturation.

"The way that our cycles have always gone, really — it started to change now; we found a way to really break it up — that is all you can do for that however many years period of your life with each cycle. Between writing the music and everything that goes along with that, to then going on tour and all the amazing stuff that goes along with that, and releasing the album, and promoting the album, and then at the end of it, I'm always, like, 'I quit' — almost every time. I'm, like, 'I don't know if I'm ever gonna do this again. That was amazing. I love it so much.' I don't feel like I'm gonna have that kind of a struggle anymore. A lot has changed on the inside. Our representation on every level has grown and changed, and we are fully supported by an awesome team that believes in us and supports us. And it doesn't feel so much like going to war to create an album anymore either, like it used to.

"But besides all of that stuff, the space between the third album and this one, a lot of it was I wanted to go down some different creative roads," she continued. "I had my first and only child, Jack. And I did some film-score stuff.

"I kind of thought that becoming a mom would make me not wanna work — like I'd just wanna focus only on being a mom, but it actually just gave me so much — I don't know — perspective. Like, you get a different perspective, and suddenly, as a creative person, you just think of different things that you wanna do, because your mind's working in a different way. I made a kids album with my family, worked on a couple of different movie things and some little solo things. And I just found other ways to be creative. And then by the time the band got back together, we got Jen [Majura, guitar], who's a beautiful, amazing addition to our band… We got Jen in 2015, and we started just touring again and really enjoying playing again. That was the first step back — just play shows and get into it and remember who you are and everything that this is and can be, with our fan community and just the whole world of what it is. And then we did the 'Synthesis' [2017] thing together, with a full orchestra and a lot of the electronic stuff, and just took our music into a different place with a different focus, which was challenging and fun and different. And then it was, like, 'Okay, we're ready.' So we just started doing writing sessions. So it's just been a long but natural road, just following what feels good.

"I can't tell you how much fire we all have, but I — I can speak for myself — really had about making this music right now with my band," Amy added. "It's coming at a time when I need it very much, and a lot of the feelings that I pour into the music for the band are about a struggle — about going through something that's difficult, and I'm processing it, or raging against. And this is a time where I feel those feelings, and I know a lot of people in the world do too. So I feel like I'm right where I'm supposed to be."

Last month, EVANESCENCE released a new single, "Use My Voice", which was written to celebrate the power of speaking out in order to promote more justice in the world. The track, featuring contributions from THE PRETTY RECKLESS's Taylor Momsen and HALESTORM's Lzzy Hale, was chosen by HeadCount in the USA to encourage voters to register, check their registration, or find out about their remote voting options amid the COVID-19 pandemic at UseMyVoice.org.

EVANESCENCE's long-awaited new album, "The Bitter Truth", will arrive later this year.

The band's new music is being produced by Nick Raskulinecz, who also worked on 2011's self-titled LP.

#Amy Lee #Evanescence #2020 interviews

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HERE’S WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEK (1.8-1.14.20):

NEW MUSIC:

·         Record Store Day went on social media to unveil its 2020 date, which is set for April 18th. Last year, a special edition turntable manufactured by Crosley Radio was available at select record stores.

·         Green Day took to social media to share a GIF announcing their new track “Oh, Yeah” will be released later this month. Additionally, they also confirmed a rumored tracklist that was anonymously sent to a fan earlier this month.

·         Spanish Love Songs announced the release date of their third studio album, Brave Faces Everyone, on February 7th via Pure Noise Records. The band also released a new single “Kick” with an accompanying music video.

·         New Found Glory announced that they are looking to include fans in filming a new music video. Recently, guitarist Chad Gilbert took to Instagram to tease that the band have been working on a new album, which will follow up their 2017 release, Makes Me Sick.

·         Silverstein announced a release date for their next studio album, A Beautiful Place to Drown. They also dropped their latest single off the LP, “Infinite,” featuring Underoath and The Almost musician Aaron Gillespie.

·         In a very recent interview, Senses Fail vocalist Buddy Nielsen revealed what he thinks will be the title of the band’s eighth album, calling it Hell is in Your Head. The frontman also talked about the relationships between this new album and their 2006 record, Still Searching.

·         Evanescence dropped a music video for their cover of Fleetwood Mac’s song “The Chain,” which was featured on the soundtrack for the video game Gears of War 5. Singer Amy Lee also lent her vocals to the game’s launch trailer just prior.

·         The 1975 announced the debut of a new song titled “Me & You Together Song,” set to drop this Thursday. Their fourth studio album, Notes on a Conditional Form, was then pushed back from its original release date on February 21st to sometime in April.

·         Halsey took inspiration from country music in her latest single “You Should Be Sad” off her upcoming album Manic, dropping this Friday. She revealed on Twitter that the track was inspired by some of her favorite female artists of the genre, namely Carrie Underwood.

·         Creeper announced the release date for their upcoming album, Sex, Death and the Infinite Void, along with a brief tour in the UK. The band teased fans on Twitter prior to the announcement by posting a series of periods and short videos.

·         PVRIS dropped a haunting acoustic version of their song “Hallucinations,” originally the title track of the band’s latest EP. Singer Lynn Gunn also shared it on her own Twitter feed, saying “It’s chill.”

·         The upcoming film Birds of Prey is getting its own soundtrack, appropriately titled Birds of Prey: The Album. The soundtrack features Halsey, K. Flay, a collab by Megan Thee Stallion and Normani, and more internationally-acclaimed female artists.

·         Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams teased what could potentially be a lyric from her upcoming solo project debut, Petals for Armor, releasing January 22nd. Clues of the new project surfaced on Instagram and city streets with a release date for some time this month.

·         A recent video shows Halsey in the studio with Bring Me the Horizon’s Oli Sykes and Jordan Fish. It appears that the video is referencing her new song for the Birds of Prey soundtrack titled “Experiment on Me.”

·         Alexisonfire dropped a new single titled “Season of the Flood,” which marks their third new song in 10 years and premiered on BBC1’s Rock Show. Last year, the band dropped two singles, “Complicit” and “Familiar Drugs.”

·         Point North’s new song, titled “Into the Dark,” just dropped, featuring current tour mate and Sleeping with Sirens‘ singer, Kellin Quinn. The bands are currently on tour with Set It Off and Belmont.

TOUR ANNOUNCEMENTS:

·         Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival announced the lineup for the festival’s 2020 dates. This year’s headliners include Tool, Lizzo, Tame Impala, Miley Cyrus, Bassnectar, Flume, Oysterhead, Lana Del Rey and Vampire Weekend.

·         The Almost frontman Aaron Gillespie recruited his Underoath bandmate Tim McTague to join him on stage during a show at the Orpheum in Tampa. Gillespie shared photos of the evening, touching on the “unnecessary friction” at The Almost’s formation in 2005.

·         In anticipation of their upcoming release Father of All… next month, Green Day announced that they want to host a wild party at a fan’s house. In a video posted to Instagram, Billie Joe Armstrong talked about wanting to play in one very lucky fan’s backyard in California.

·         Halsey announced the dates for the North American installment of her Manic World Tour. It was also announced that CHVRCHES, Omar Apollo, blackbear and PVRIS will all join her on select dates of this tour.

·         Circa Survive announced that Polyphia and Gouge Away will join them on their Blue Sky Noise 10-year anniversary tour. The band took to social media to announce the supporting cast for the tour.

·         Billie Eilish, Gwen Stefani with Blake Shelton, Aerosmith and Lizzo will all take the stage at this year’s Grammy Awards on January 26th. R&B songstress Alicia Keys will again host the ceremony.

·         Post Malone was announced to headline the “Bootsy on the Water” pop-up event at one of this year’s Super Bowl kick-off parties in Florida. Fans have the opportunity to see the rapper live, but tickets range from a hefty $1,000 to $150,000.

·         The Maine announced their second edition of 8123 Day to celebrate their 13th anniversary as a band. The event will offer fans fun opportunities such as an online scavenger hunt, contests, new merchandise and more.

·         My Chemical Romance’s return show grossed nearly $1,500,000, making history as the highest-grossing show at the venue ever. A Paradigm agent, Matt Galle, spoke with Variety last December about how everything came together.

·         Joe Rogan, Jim Jefferies and Whitney Cummings are joining forces to appear at Stand Up for Australian Fires, the Australia wildfires benefit show taking place on January 26th. Proceeds from the show, co-produced by Kevin Lyman and Joe Sib, will go to Wildlife Warriors.

·         After announcing their first full U.S. headlining run last month, Sleep On It finally announced the opening acts for the “Pride and Disastour.” The band’s upcoming tour, which kicks off at the end of February, will be supported by Bearings, Between You and Me and Neverkept.

·         Sleeping with Sirens revealed a stacked co-headlining run with the Amity Affliction kicking off in April. The tour will begin April 15th in Reno, Nevada, and conclude May 23rd in Milwaukee with support from Stray from the Path and UnityTX.

OTHER NEWS:

·         The Maine drummer Pat Kirch married his longtime partner Shacara Nemetz, with his bandmates, family and friends in attendance at the ceremony. Last September, the couple also announced they were expecting their first child together.

·         One talented drummer took on the challenge of combining 50 My Chemical Romance songs in 10 minutes. The fan in question, Sage Duvall, is a member of Florida-based indie band Raggy Monster and impressively recorded it all in one take without the use of a click track.

·         Bad Religion announced the release of their new book, “DO WHAT YOU WANT: The Story of Bad Religion,” which is set to drop on August 20th by Hachette Books. The autobiography is a deep examination of the band’s four decades in rock music.

·         Music IP investment company Hipgnosis Songs acquired 157 songs from alternative icon Tom DeLonge‘s catalog. “All the Small Things” and more Blink-182 hits were reportedly acquired.

·         Ice Nine Kills joined numerous musicians in fundraising to help put an end to the Australian wildfires plaguing the country. The band is selling a T-shirt featuring a kangaroo dressed as horror icon Freddy Krueger, with all proceeds going towards Australia’s relief efforts.

·         The upcoming film Birds of Prey revealed its second official trailer, which may reveal what happens to Jared Leto‘s Joker character. Recently, lead actress Margot Robbie, who plays Harley Quinn, confirmed that Leto would not be in the film.

·         Featuring a red, black and white color palette, Vans’ latest “I Heart” shoe collection recently hit their online store. The line showcases the phrase “I heart boys, I heart girls” in a continuous pattern.

·         Neil Peart, iconic drummer and lyrical voice of legendary Canadian prog-rock act Rush, has passed away. Rolling Stone reported that Peart had succumbed to aggressive brain cancer at age 67 after a brave three-and-a-half-year-long battle.

·         The Umbrella Academy fans were surprised last week when the comic series appeared as a question on the game show Jeopardy!. The show is currently hosting its “The Greatest of All Time” tournament, which has three record-breaking former contestants playing.

·         Blink-182 joined the relief effort toward stopping the Australian bushfires by releasing a new merch collection. Proceeds from the shirts will go towards Australia Zoo, which is giving medical help and rehabilitating to sick, injured and displaced wildlife in the country.

·         Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker is partnering with Barrett-Jackson to sell a few of his vehicles to the highest bidder. There will be three cars up for sale – a 1941 Cadillac 62 Series convertible, a 1960 Cadillac Coupe Deville and a 1972 Chevrolet K5 Blazer.

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Check in next Tuesday for more “Posi Talk with Sage Haley,” only at @sagehaleyofficial!

#sage haley #posi talk #green day #evanescence #halsey #the 1975 #creeper #birds of prey #paramore #post malone #bring me the horizon #sleeping with sirens #my chemical romance #blink-182 #neil peart #the umbrella academy #ice nine kills #record store day #spanish love songs #new found glory #silverstein #the almost #underoath #senses fail #pvris #alexisonfire #point north #bonnaroo #circa survive #grammy awards

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Korn Biografi

Suara katarsis band Korn memposisikan kelompok itu sebagai salah satu tindakan withering populer dan provokatif yang muncul selama 1990-an. Di garis depan gerakan nu-metal/rap-rock saat itu, mereka dengan cepat berevolusi, mengembangkan gaya merek dagang yang menggabungkan gitar downtuned, bagian ritme yang berat, produksi atmosfer angker, dan lirik gelap milik vokalis Jonathan Davis, yang bergulat dengan tema umum seperti injury masa kecil, perilaku destruktif, dan setan batin. (Mereka bahkan berhasil membuat bagpipe - instrumen khas Davis - mengancam). Introduction pertama mereka di tahun 1994, Korn membangun audiensi bawah tanah untuk tindak lanjutnya, Life's Peachy, 1996, yang meluncurkan band dari jangkauan yang lebih rendah dari tangga lagu ke Tiga Besar.

Empat Tahun Setelah Kemunculan Band

Hanya empat tahun setelah muncul, mereka memiliki rilis nomor satu: blockbuster Follow the Leader, rumah bagi "Freak on a Leash" dan "Got the Life." Menutup dekade di atas tangga lagu dengan Masalah, Korn tetap menjadi salah satu aksi rock AS terbesar ke tahun 2000-a, mengeluarkan serangkaian collection bersertifikat platinum: Untouchables (2002), Take a Look in the Mirror (2003), dan See You on Sisi Lain (2005). Setelah beberapa jalan memutar arah pada penutupan tahun 2000-a, mereka berbelok ke dunia elektronik, mempekerjakan aksi tari termasuk Skrillex untuk membantu menghasilkan The Path of Totality pada tahun 2011. Ketika tahun 2010 berakhir, Korn menunjukkan tidak ada tanda-tanda menetap di zona nyaman; Pergeseran Paradigma, Serenity of Penderitaan, dan The Nothing semuanya melanjutkan perkembangan sonik mereka ketika mereka mencapai status sesepuh-negarawan.

Kelompok ini memulai keberadaan mereka sebagai band metal LAPD yang berbasis di California, termasuk gitaris James "Munky" Shaffer dan Brian "Head" Welch, bassis Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, dan drummer David Silveria. Setelah mengeluarkan LP pada tahun 1993, para anggota LAPD berpapasan dengan Jonathan Davis, seorang siswa ilmu pengetahuan kamar mayat yang sedang melamun sebagai vokalis utama untuk kelompok lokal Sexart. Mereka segera meminta Davis untuk bergabung dengan band, dan setelah kedatangannya, kwintet mengisi ulang dirinya sendiri Korn. Mereka merekam demo mereka, Neidermayer's Mind, pada tahun 1993 dengan produser Ross Robinson (Deftones, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot), yang kemudian menjadi salah satu produsen batu withering dicari di akhir tahun 90-a dan aughts awal.

Setelah menandatangani untuk Epic's Immortal engraving, mereka mengeluarkan debut collection self-titled mereka pada akhir tahun 1994. Dengan jadwal tur tanpa henti yang termasuk pembukaan tugas untuk Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth, Marilyn Manson, dan 311, catatan perlahan tapi terus naik di tangga lagu, akhirnya akan emas di belakang hit single "Dazzle." Menggabungkan konten liris gelap tentang pelecehan anak, pelecehan seksual, diskriminasi, dan kecanduan narkoba dengan pengaruh hip-jump dan lumpur gitar downtuned, Korn tidak sengaja di garis depan gerakan yang akan dijuluki nu-metal. Band tindak lanjut nominasi Grammy tahun 1996, Life Is Peachy, adalah pukulan yang lebih cepat, mencapai tempat nomor tiga di tangga collection pop. Collection ini menampilkan "A.D.I.D.A.S." dan sampul Ice Wicked "Fiendish" dengan vokalis Deftones Chino Moreno.

Memenangkan Penghargaan

Pada tahun 1998, Korn merilis Follow the Leader, rilis terbesar mereka hingga saat ini. Collection debut di atas Billboard 200, menelurkan single hit "Got the Life" dan "Monstrosity on a Leash." Mereka memenangkan Grammy untuk video "Oddity on a Leash" dan, di antara kid band dan bintang muda pop, menaklukkan Total Request Live MTV. Pada tahun yang sama, band ini memulai tugas perdananya untuk tur Nilai Keluarga mereka, menampilkan jajaran yang terdiri dari teman-teman dan orang-orang sezamannya Limp Bizkit, rapper Ice Cube, band metal industri Jerman Rammstein, dan orang-orang yang mendaftar pertama untuk Elementree Records milik Davis, Sukaria. Follow the Leader akhirnya naik lima kali lipat platinum dan terjual lebih dari sepuluh juta kopi di seluruh dunia.

Setelah mengakhiri musim panas mereka dengan sebuah opening di panggung utama Woodstock '99, mereka mulai promosi untuk upaya keempat mereka, Issues. Menampilkan single "Falling Away from Me," "Make Me Bad," dan "Someone," Isu melanjutkan dominasi Korn di MTV, radio stone, dan tangga lagu Billboard, debut di nomor satu. Band melakukan tur di belakang collection di Sick and Twisted Tour dengan Staind, POD, Papa Roach, dan Powerman 5000. Bahkan ketika Silveria absen karena cedera punggung, band ini terus maju dengan mantan drummer Faith No More Mike Bordin (Silveria kemudian kembali di tengah desas-desus meninggalkan band untuk berkarir di dunia fesyen, tetapi ini berasal dari beberapa pekerjaan pemodelan yang telah dilakukannya sebelum cedera.) Tur stadion Amerika yang dijuluki Summer Sanitarium diikuti kemudian tahun itu dengan Metallica, Kid Rock, Powerman 5000, dan System of a Turun juga pada tagihan. Sebelum merilis collection berikutnya, Fieldy merilis collection rap gangsta dan Davis mencetak film Queen of the Damned. Pada akhir tahun 2001, band ini bersatu kembali sebagai satu unit dan memasuki studio.

Tepat ketika popularitas band mencapai puncak yang memusingkan, mereka meluncurkan suara baru yang menampilkan eksperimen yang lebih instrumental dan lebih banyak bernyanyi di pihak Davis. Distant pemenang Grammy tiba pada musim panas 2002, memulai debutnya di nomor dua di belakang Eminem, dan menampilkan singel "Setting down deep roots" dan "Neglectful." Korn menjalankan kencan Ozzfest untuk mendukung, dan collection ini sukses besar, menjual lebih dari lima juta kopi di seluruh dunia.

Tak lama setelah itu, band ini merilis Take a Look in the Mirror yang diproduksi sendiri pada tahun 2003. Dipuji oleh Korn sebagai pertimbangan ulang suara (mereka bahkan memasukkan pengerjaan ulang lagu demo Neidermayer "Alive"), collection ini disertai oleh Back untuk tur Dasar, yang melihat band bermain di tempat yang lebih kecil dengan teman lama Limp Bizkit. Meskipun collection ini akan multi-platinum, time ini akan menandai dimulainya penurunan popularitas standard band, periode yang lebih buruk dengan kepergian pendiri gitaris Welch, yang meninggalkan band pada tahun 2005 setelah pindah ke Kristen.

Korn Rekaman Akustik Live

Korn maju, bermain menunjukkan bahwa musim panas sebagai kuartet dan menandatangani kontrak rekaman dan pengembangan dengan Virgin. Bulan Desember berikutnya mereka merilis See You on the Other Side, hit nomor tiga yang menampilkan sejumlah lagu siap pakai yang ditulis bersama dengan tim produksi pop hitmaking, Matrix (Avril Lavigne, Britney Spears). Opposite Side akan menjadi karya terakhir band dengan drummer pendiri mereka Silveria, yang meninggalkan band pada tahun 2006. Live and Rare dirilis pada tahun yang sama, dengan rekaman akustik live MTV Unplugged - menampilkan Robert Smith of the Cure dan Amy Lee dari Evanescence - mengikuti pada Maret 2007.

Belakangan tahun itu, band ini muncul kembali dengan collection disappointing yang sengaja dibiarkan tanpa judul (kadang-kadang disebut sebagai Korn II). Tanpa Silveria, band meminta drumer tamu untuk berkontribusi di studio, termasuk Terry Bozzio (Frank Zappa), Brooks Wackerman (Bad Religion), dan bahkan Jonathan Davis sendiri. Band ini akhirnya menemukan pengganti permanen melalui Army of Anyone's Ray Luzier. Pada 2010, Korn menandatangani kontrak dengan Roadrunner Records dan membawa Ross Robinson kembali ke flip. Collection kesembilan mereka, Korn III: Remember Who You Are, keduanya kembali ke bentuk dan vulkanisir aman, menandakan revitalisasi band.

Mencari untuk memperluas ke arah baru yang berisiko, Korn mencari produser elektronik seperti Skrillex dan Noisia, yang membantu mereka memasukkan suara mereka yang sudah berat dengan menumbuk dubstep pada collection kesepuluh elektronik mereka, The Path of Totality 2011. Upaya ini memulai debutnya di atas tangga lagu Billboard Dance/Electronic dan LP ke-11 mereka tiba di Top Ten of the Billboard 200. Suara baru mereka direkam secara langsung tahun berikutnya di Live di Hollywood Palladium.

Kembalinya Sang Gitaris

Pada Mei 2012, Welch gitaris hilang menjadi bintang tamu dengan band pada versi "Dazzle" di sebuah pertunjukan di North Carolina. Tepat setahun kemudian, ia mengumumkan bahwa ia telah secara resmi bergabung kembali dengan band. Dengan (hampir) lineup asli kembali bersama, Korn mulai bekerja di collection ke-11 mereka. Change in perspective, collection pertama Welch dengan Korn dalam satu dekade, muncul pada Oktober 2013. Terinspirasi oleh kebrutalan melodi dari Issues dan Untouchable, Paradigm Shift memulai debutnya di Sepuluh Besar di tangga lagu Amerika, Jerman, Austria, dan Australia. Untuk peringatan 20 tahun debut mereka di original, Korn memulai tur dengan bermain Korn secara keseluruhan.

Pada 2015, band ini kembali ke studio untuk merekam LP ke-12 mereka. Peacefulness of Suffering dirilis pada akhir 2016. Ini menampilkan singel utama "Decaying in Vain" dan penampilan tamu oleh vokalis Slipknot Corey Taylor pada "A Different World." Set memuncak di nomor empat di Billboard 200, penampilan tertinggi mereka sejak 2010. Di tengah-tengah tur worldwide, mereka mulai merekam collection ke-13 mereka, The Nothing, dengan produser yang kembali Nick Raskulinecz. Sangat dipengaruhi oleh kematian istri Davis pada tahun 2018, set yang kuat secara emosional termasuk single "You're Never Find Me" dan "Cold."

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Music survey because I’m bored

1. What are you listening to right now? Hozier - Talk

2. What song makes you sad? Taylor Swift - Soon You'll Get Better.  This is the only song that has ever made me cry in my entire life because it hits extremely close to home

3. What is the most annoying song in the world?

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4. Your all-time favorite band? Nightwish. Or Kamelot. I can't choose.

5. Your newly discovered band? Thy Art is Murder

6. Best female voice? Floor Jansen

7. Best male voice? Tommy Karevik, Roy Khan, Mikael Åkerfeldt, Adam Lambert

8. Music type you find yourself listening to the most? Metal.  I also listen to a decent amount of pop, but I think metal edges it out

9. What do you listen to, to hype you up? Powerwolf, Sabaton

10. What do you listen to, to calm down? Doom metal is great for this.  Especially Doom:VS and My Dying Bride

11. Last gig/concert you went to? Korpiklaani & Eluveitie

12. Band you find yourself listening to the most right now? Not a band, but Taylor Swift

13. Most hated band? I really hate Green Day and have for a very long time so I think they win the award.  Like, you probably could not even pay me to go to a Green Day concert, I'd just be  like "no thanks".  In contrast, you can probably pay me to do most anything else

14. Song that makes you think? How dare you think I think

15. Band that you think the world should love as much as you do? Amaranthe. They're so much fun. I consider them "pop metal" which is an absolute compliment because those are the top tier music genres.

16. Coolest music video? I don't really watch music videos so idk. Maybe Lithium by Evanescence 

17. Music video with the most babe watch? Any Taylor Swift video.  Look What You Made Me Do and Blank Space  hngggggggggh

18. What "do you play/would you play" in the bedroom to spice things up? This question is irrelevant to me.

19. Can you play a musical instrument? No

20. Ever been in a mosh pit? No

21. Are you in a band? No

23. Ever dated a musician? No

28. Do you wish yourself that you were a musician? Yeah, I'd love to be able to play the piano or guitar or violin

29. Best chick band you know of? Man, it's sad that I can't even think of one

31. Last song that you heard on the radio/cd...etc...? Probably Ed Sheeran (sp?) on the radio. Once he was on multiple stations at once I was losing my mind. Please stop.

32. What do you think of Classical music? I want to like it, but it usually bores me. I don't like instrumental music, period.

33. What do you think of Country music? It's alright. Love Tanya Tucker.

34. What do you think of Death Metal? I don't listen to much straight up death metal, it's always preceded by shit like "technical symphonic" (Fleshgod Apocalypse) but. That's still death metal.  In which case, I very much appreciate death metal

36. Are you a groupie? No

37. Do you listen to music in foreign languages? I used to, but not anymore really

38. What famous musician do you find sexy? Taylor Swift

42. Best local act you can think of? Idk. Bon Jovi? lmao. idk idk. I never go anywhere to listen to local indie bands so I wouldn't know

43. If you were a musical instrument, what would you be? Violin.  They're elegant, and I want to be like that.

44. Do you listen to the radio? Sometimes when I can't be bothered to pick a CD  up off the floor of my car, yes. Then I get assaulted by Ed Sheeran.   

45. Do you watch music TV? No

46. Do you follow the music charts, like the top 40? No

47. Have you met any famous musicians? I've met Nightwish, Kamelot, and Adam Lambert

48. Are any of your friends/family etc. musicians? My mom used to play guitar and sing country music for people in the nursing home etc. And she was also on the local TV station playing her original songs.

49. Song that best describes your feelings right now? Stop making me think so hard this is too hard

51. Do you know the names of all the band members that you listen to? fasklfasd no.  Cue that time I went to see Carach Angren and one of the musicians that was not the singer came to the merch table and I just looked at him and then panicked and ran away because I had absolutely no idea which one he was.  It doesn't help that two of them are brothers and they were all wearing corpse paint so I couldn't tell them apart. And even if I could, I have absolutely no idea what anyone's name is besides Seregor.

52. Does a musician’s physical attractiveness play a role in the music, that you listen to? No

53. What famous musician do you want to marry? I will only get married if my husband is Tom Hiddleston so that answer is - nobody

54. Any musician pet hates?

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55. What do your parents listen to? My mom used to listen to country and modern Christian music.  My dad was like...obsessed with Joan Jett

56. What are you listening to right NOW? Hozier - Wasteland, Baby!

57. What song is stuck in your head right now? Graveyard by Halsey

58. Do you sing in the shower? No

59. How important is your partner's taste in music to you? Ain't go no partner, buddy

60. Sex, Drugs and Rock'n'Roll, you dig? Not...not really, no

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[teefa85]

Well, I’m usually not serious.  You know that...I’m a nerdy gamer who geeks out about everything I obsess over.  But today, I really have to send out a proper tribute.  Today, a piece of my childhood is going to be fading into history and I should thank it for its years of services.

While I don’t give my location because of safety concerns, I am willing to say I’ve lived in the Tri-State Area all my life.  And thus...NYC Radio Stations!  I’ve seen my fair share of stations come and go in my life.  However, it was normally due to unpopularity of the genre (Country Music is one of my go-to genres and it wasn’t really popular when I was growing up so any station we got was gone very quickly).  But tonight, at 7, we will be saying goodbye to PLJ, a station I grew up with!  The company that owned it ran into financial trouble and sold off some of their assets.  And while the Country station they owned was sold to another multi-genre radio company and has been kept as-is (considering they own other Pop stations in the area, it would make more sense for them to NOT oversaturate their own market), PLJ was sold off to a religious radio company.  So...keeping it as its normal Rock/Pop/Contemporary was never in the cards.

Growing up, my father listened to a station that I can barely remember as it went off the air when I was pretty young, and my mother listened to a Country station that became a Spanish station, then another Country station that became a Rap/Hip-Hop/Pop station.  But when Dad needed another go-to after his first station went away and Mom was going between periods in which we actually had Country stations...we defaulted to PLJ!  It had just the right mix of eras and didn’t stray far into some of the less savory genres, so it was a station that everyone in the family enjoyed.

It’s from Saturday Night 80s and the 80s at 8 Weekday shows that I learned to love the music of that decade, despite the parts of it I did live through being too young for me to remember.  There were many happy times of me listening to the radio in my room (which I still have...although it’s broken and collecting dust) and singing along with Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Pat Benetar, and basically any Rock or Pop artist from that era that you can think of!  Of buying recording tapes and recording the songs to play on my Walkman.  I discovered Evanescance through them in the early 2000s, and through that and Pandora I learned of my real love of Goth and Symphonic Metal.  And they were normally what I defaulted to in the car going home if I had my choice of stations that weren’t on commercials.

In recent years, I’ve listened to more Country, but that’s because I was just happy to have a station again and wanted to keep it.  That and commercial breaks weren’t agreeing with my drive (I’d be more likely to get Lite FM or Fresh FM to be playing actual music when others had commercials).  And my MP3 Player for those longer trips/mornings when music isn’t on.  However, I’ve always gone back there when the stars aligned and I wasn’t being hounded with commercials.  And being able to hear one of my old favorites that were still being given occasional air time since they were well loved by the demographic.  So it is quite sad to see them go all the same.

Yes, there are other options.  Both the Oldies and Classic Rock stations are more about the 80s and 90s nowadays than the 60s and 70s they were playing when I was a teenager.  And both Lite FM and Fresh FM DO have a similar play field to PLJ.  However...this is still a piece of my childhood with so many memories attached that will be going away forever.  After 48 years of being on the radio...I didn’t realize the station was THAT much older than me! 

So, in this last minute...thank you, PLJ!  Thank you for making my childhood.  Thank you for introducing me to some wonderful genres of music and eras I didn’t really get to experience.  And thank you for helping to pave the way to some truly wonderful bands I’d never have learned about otherwise, even if indirectly.  You will always be my childhood...even after you’ve gone...

#personal #plj #95.5

[mineofilms]

Call It Heavy Metal Noise

I just listened to the new EVANESCENCE last week. The album is called “The Bitter Truth.” It’s not bad. It’s more than I expected from them and/or her. She is a great singer, but I am not sure if her vocals work for “really, heavy” music over the alternative pop metal she has been doing. I really had not listened to the band since they broke out in 2004.

“Part of Me” is a great song and in tone the album is a little bit heavier than the band’s previous works. Like, if you take what she was doing back in the day and compare it to now, it is much more heavier a record. So, I would say less pop and more rock, but it’s still very tamed down by today’s “Heavy” Metal Standards. It’s not Jinjer. No one is Jinjer…

However, this got me to thinking about music, metal and classifications. We call these Genres and Subgenres. If you all have not seen “A Headbanger’s Journey.” I recommend you all see it. It’s great. A little dated by today’s standards as metal had grown so much and changed in the past 10-15 years that it is hard to have conversations about what has/is happening to metal since the turn of the century…

It’s a tough thing to label what is really Heavy Metal and what is Pop/Rock. I am stickler for labeling bands in the correct subgenre of Heavy Metal. It’s all “Heavy Metal” and Pop/Rock is a subgenre of the main genre of Heavy Metal. This perspective is if you are the Metalhead and are creating an outline and/or timeline of bands in Heavy Metal and what Subgenre of Heavy Metal you believe they belong in.

This is completely objective. It’s all opinion based, but there are some rules for saying a band is this style or another style. Criteria is really the only way someone can say this is that and that is this, within Heavy Metal labeling.

Take Nu Metal as an example. What is Nu Metal? The easy answer is Nü Metal is Rap Metal… Well, that is a very incomplete definition, but to someone that doesn’t know metal all that well or at all that would be an “alright” answer; I’ll except it... A better definition of Nu Metal is, taken from Wiki: (sometimes stylized as nü-metal) is a subgenre of alternative metal that combines elements of heavy metal music with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, alternative rock, funk, industrial, and grunge.

This definition actually works for me, accept it is missing one very important part of the conversation about criteria. That is time period. Nü Metal isn’t just all those things in the Wiki take, it is also talking about a specific time period from 1993-2003. Now this doesn’t mean that some bands weren’t doing Nü Metal’ish / Fusion Rock based material before 1993. Red Hot Chili Peppers and Faith No More had all sorts of stuff in their music that could include them in the Nü Metal subgenre, also what about Stuck Mojo? Hip/Hop and Hardcore, yeah, they were doing it too.

However, for the most part, most would say 1993 is a fair estimate for a start date as to when you started seeing bands that would be later labeled as Nü Metal started to show up. However, by 2003 the style was in decline and you had a lot of bands from the subgenre either flat out change their sound or packed it in as a band and went onto do other things. Like father all those babies they made on the road, backstage and on the bus…

Now, Nü Metal was still doing things after 2003, but was actually anyone listening to these bands anymore? All the bands that had one or two LPs come out, had a few singles on the radio and were/are still actively touring bands… Yeah, those bands… Did anyone even notice them still around or gone for that matter? I think not.

Flaw, 12 Stones, hell, even Finger Eleven? Anyone screaming for new records from these bands? If so, then Nü Metal is still around, its not, and hasn’t been for a long while now. Post-Nü Metal for me started around 2005…

This is sort of important as some of the bands we listen to today were not even out yet and there has been a resurgence in the style. However, I cannot call it Nü Metal as Nü Metal also has the time period as part of the criteria. I am calling this Nü Wave Metal, but it’s all objective. Call it whatever you want to, but if you get into a conversation about this topic with someone that is very passionate about Heavy Metal Culture, they might embarrass you and take your girl or guy. Now, that’s metal hahhahahah….

Some examples of subgenres:

Metallica… From Genre.Fandom.com; Metallica is considered: Thrash Metal, Progressive Metal, Hard Rock, Alternative Metal. They can be put into other categories, but for the sake of not giving anyone a headache we will just stick with this. It should be noted that a lot of Metallica’s labeling changes from album to album. It is widely argued that Metallica’s 1st 4 LPs were straight up Thrash while everything after “…And Justice For All” is not Thrash Metal. I tend to agree… To me, though, Metallica is still a Heavy Metal band.

Another Example is Lamb of God. Taken from Google; Lamb of God is considered: New Wave of American Heavy Metal, Groove Metal, Death Metal, Thrash Metal, Metalcore, Black Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Grindcore, Alternative Metal, Speed Metal…

For me, Google can be hit or miss. They got 2 right out of gates. I agree that Lamb of God is “New Wave of American Heavy Metal” and “Groove Metal.” Personally, the others are a stretch. I guess they fit there, but if I have to look up bands of a specific subgenre and I am left scratching my head then I do not include said band in the labeling.

Like I said, this is completely up to you, but use some logic and critical thinking when you do it. These are my rules… What are yours??? Sometimes it is easy. Limp Bizkit is easy to call Nü Metal like Anthrax is to Thrash Metal.

One of my favorite bands as of late is Winds Of Plague, formed in 2002. They use a lot of different elements, but came out in 2002. Do we call them Nü Metal? I am sure people did, especially back in those days. In those days the band sounded more like a Hardcore band over a Nü Metal band, but that was what was happening then.

If you were heavy, metal, and came out during that latter Nü Metal years, you were called Nü Metal. I absolutely do not agree with that, but I understand the logistics of it. I was dying a little bit inside when I was reading music people calling “Shinedown” a Nü Metal band? Wait, what???

Winds Of Plague is considered Metalcore, Hardcore, Deathcore, Death Metal, Symphonic Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Avant-garde Metal, Symphonic Black Metal.

Some other bands I love… All labeling from Google… I agree with some, but not all. I do not know how they handle this, but I am not really feeling some of these secondary, third and fourth choices.

As I Lay Dying - Metalcore, Thrash Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Christian Metal, Melodic Metalcore, Christian Hardcore, Swedecore…

Dream Theater - Rock, Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal, Hard Rock …

Machine Head - New Wave of American Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal, Death Metal, Nü Metal, Groove Metal, Metalcore, Progressive Metal, Alternative Metal, Speed Metal …

Pantera - Rock, Thrash Metal, Power Metal, Hard Rock, Glam Metal, Groove Metal, Traditional Heavy Metal, Speed Metal, Sludge Metal, Southern Rock, New Wave of American Heavy Metal…

Scar Symmerty - Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Power Metal, Death Metal, Black Metal…

Sevendust - Hard Rock, Nü Metal, Alternative Rock, Alternative Metal, Post-Grunge, Industrial Metal…

Twelve Foot Ninja - Experimental Metal, Djent, Alternative Metal, Jazz Fusion, Acoustic Music, Experimental Rock, Avant-garde Metal, Funk Metal, Dub…

I get most people do not want to label their music like that. However, Heavy Metal is a family of music genres that is in a class all by itself. The numbers differ, but you can have as many as 75 different Subgenres of Heavy Metal.

While writing this I could only find 54. Again this is all objective. People make them up every few years. There is a subgenre called Nintendocore and all it is people creating music which sounds like the music on the old NES gaming console. Why this is a thing I couldn’t tell you. Some people want to feel important I guess. We live in a very confused INTERNET fueled culture these days.

This isn’t a blog about human behavior in relation to Heavy Metal and 8-bit soundtracks. Now, if someone told me August Burns Red’s cover of the Legend of Zelda theme was Nintendocore and I didn’t already know what Nintendocore was then I could agree that this song is Nintendocore. It isn’t, but again how are you or I associate Heavy Metal music to other Heavy Metal music is opinion based. Most agree that a subgenre has its own rules, but bands flip flop and/or are interchangeable more than the Politicians of this country do.

It’s all just objective perspective… Some will say Pop/Rock is whatever Rock song/album/band is popular. I only agree with that a little bit.

I say POP/ROCK has 3 main criteria that work together, but are also mutually exclusive;

1) As a form of music that one cannot put a label on, specifically.

2) Has different elements from other musical genres.

3) Happens to be a popular song/songs.

So POP/ROCK is more like a label given to bands/artists that do not fit in a “specific” subgenre. I actually call this “Fusion.” Now, more or less this is talking about how Metalheads may think of it. This by no means is a judgement and/or based on any fact. There are no facts in music. It’s all objective. I do not deny. I am a snob when it comes to this, I am…

I was into Trance back in the day, Paul Oakenfold. I like Dubstep style music too. Dubstep is literally Heavy Metal with electronical instrumentation. There are a lot of similarities. Plus, you are seeing a lot of dubstep style sampling used in more extreme metal these days. The subgenre of Metalcore has a lot of these elements; Asking Alexandria, Attila, Skip The Foreplay, I See Stars, Capture the Crown, Make Me Famous. It was big in the latter 2000s and early 2010s… I still see this trying to push through to the front of Heavy Metal, but bands like Asking Alexandria and Attila no longer sound like what they were when they first started getting big. Asking Alexandria is basically a Pop band now and Attila would rather do Porn videos and be a marketing machine on Twitter than writing great Metalcore music. Things have changed… Not just with those bands, but bands in general.

The whole industry has shifted since the Pandemic started, but there was a lot of evidence that the typical Garage Band Journey of starting from nothing and becoming a house hold name was in decline.

When I took over logistics for the band I manage now after the first 3 or 4 months I was open to a lot. Once we started pulling local band grind of driving across the state for no money, no fans, which means no merch sales, means no money.

Now, locally we are good with that. We’ll play shows like that, here, but not 2 to 3 hours away in 3 beat up vehicles, cramming 10 people into a shitty hotel room, gas, booze, food, child care, scheduling conflicts. Before we know it we are pulling monies out of the band fund just to play a show.

We do not pay to play, especially in front of no people accept the other bands and their girlfriends. Jammin’ in 7-8 bands in a small ass bar with little to NO PAY, but the bar made their money that night. That isn’t a show that is band practice… There is one exception and that is when opening for a national.

Bands are on YouTube now, doing streams, covers, different takes of songs. Content is being streamed now more than ever and if bands are not willing to change with that dynamic then they are behind the times.

Being a garage band and playing shitty bars for no money and expecting record executives to be there to sign the band, well, that doesn’t exist anymore. It hasn’t in a long time actually.

The music is changing too… It’s all about tuning down, low tones and 8-string guitars, sometimes 2 of them.  Now, older school guitar players will fight this and call it cookie cutter and/or basic, but the metal community has accepted this is the direction styles are moving metal forward.

Vocally you have people like; Tatiana Shmayluk of JINJER. Probably the hottest vocalist on the market next to Alex Terrible of Slaughter to Prevail. Tatiana is the best of both worlds with a soft voice and a scream that will make any metalhead smile wider than the Joker…

She can scream like a man, clean, but yet also pull off Gwen Stefani harmonics without all the synth bull crap. She does this with little to no effects and absolutely no Autotune. A lot of metal singers cannot go from scream to melody on a dime, but she can and it’s amazing. Also this is a great example of what 8-string tuned down guitars sound like with someone that can actually sing along with screaming. That is why Jinjer is doing so well right now. Rumor has it they are playing Janus Live in December in Saint Petersburg, Florida…

What Alex Terrible is doing/using is called “false vocal gutturals” and many of metal singers have damaged their vocal cords, seriously and permanently, trying to sing like this incorrectly. It took him 12 years of being coached and practicing for him to be able to do this the way he does and not damage his vocal cords. What is amazing about this is he does this with no added digital effects. Maybe some eq’n and your standard clean up filters, but nothing is added here to make him sound like this. It’s all him. He also sells these crazy demon masks that are always sold out and he will do hip/hop covers using only his false vocal cord gutturals. (Very entertaining)…

Closing…

All I am doing with this BLOG, and a really long one, is to show the difference between some of the labeling styles between popular Heavy Metal Subgenres. Just imagine if Lady Gaga did a real Heavy Metal record? Using her dance/pop style with an 8-string tuned down guitars, inverse bass drops, keyboards, LP turntable scratches, false vocal cord singing over just making a rock version of a pop artist.

That would be a very interesting sound I would love to hear. Now if Lady Gaga just did her normal sound with just some “rock” guitars that is exactly what someone would do if they said they wanted to go Metal, but truly do not know what metal is. Like the IG model that wears an Iron Maiden shirt but cannot name one single song of the band.

That isn’t new or pushing the elements. I get it, but whenever I hear a pop/rap artist take a stab at Heavy Metal they tend to show they do not know what Heavy Metal is. The only artist I have heard consistently over the years that can do it is Ice Tea’s “Body Count.” All black rap people making real, Heavy Metal records. And they are good… That’s what I am talking about… That’s love… That’s coming together…

I can just see some hotshot Producer saying “let’s do a metal song,” but it’s not metal, it’s barely rock, but Producer dude doesn’t know what real metal is nowadays. Metallica BLACK wouldn’t be called Thrash Metal nowadays, even Disturbed to me really isn’t “Heavy” Metal. So if you are not sure how heavy you have to be to be called “Heavy” Metal… Well, tune it down…

The Heavy Metal community is a huge group of people that come from all sort of backgrounds, places, colors, sexes, creeds, tastes, but we all tend to LOVE HEAVY METAL and that brings us all together. Man. I can really go and find wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy more examples of Metalheads being people with huge caring hearts than the latter.

Call It Heavy Metal Noise by David-Angelo Mineo 5/11/2021 2,806 Words

[beyondthetemples-ooc]

Just headcanoning Ryou’s music.

I’ve spent like 3 days solid thinking about this. And I think I finally nailed down what his music library (and collection of old CDs, because let’s face it, Ryou definitely regularly raids thrift stores and record exchanges for New Old Stuff to add to his collection of oddities).

So, my overall impression of Ryou is that he’s quiet, but not in that he’s quiet internally-- he’s quiet because there’s SO MUCH going on internally.

As such, I don’t think he only listens to cute, soft stuff like Coldplay and Plain White Tees. In fact, he seems very momentary-experience based, and his “favorite things” list canonically goes from “Cream Puffs” (definitely a sweet decadent dessert food) to “Plot-Twist in Card Form” to “creepy things like ghosts and the history of ancient cursed items that can destroy the world as we know it”. These are all pretty defined, potent experiences.

So, I think his music tastes definitely follow suit. He probably just likes music in general, for the experience of listening to it. (This is the guy who found out his favorite ancient artifact was basically killing people, and still held onto it. I don’t think he’d shy away from metal, or opera, or R&B, or supposedly-cursed albums... Hell, he’d probably SEEK OUT that last one.)

His “favorite” music to listen to, intentionally, is probably any music that inspires tabletop campaigns.

Say, Elvenpath, by Nightwish:

He definitely ran a campaign inspired by “Seven Devils”, by Florence and the Machine:

He uses Sabaton to imagine epic battle scenes, think about historical events, and get in the mind of soldiers for period piece campaigns:

And, of course, stuff like Nox Arcana with its creepy bend.

He definitely appreciates an epic or poetic storytelling in a song: ”Wherever I May Roam”, by Metallica. Or “Valley of the Damned”, by Dragonforce.

Or just a pretty song he relates to. Like ”The World’s Forgotten, The Words Forbidden” by Sonata Arctica. I imagine he relates to this one on some deep, intrinsic level. I can’t help feeling he feels some kind of hiraeth, given the whole canonical reincarnation thing; it’s a very real world phenomenon, that people who’ve reincarnated are deeply comforted by things from their past lives, and I think he finds a lot of comfort in studying history for this reason?

Okay, so on another note, look Ryou’s cute doe-eyed creepy-things-loving self in the face, and tell me he doesn’t like Tim Burton movies. He probably loves Sweenie Todd. So, Danny Elfman compositions have their place, too.

He almost certainly doesn’t mind classical music as background stuff, and enjoys the expressive drama. His favorite is probably The Fifth Element, or something really obscure that barely exists anymore.

He probably listens to a lot of different tribal music, because it has a lot of history, and he fully supports the effort to keep those traditional musics alive. He’ll listen to everything from John Twohawks to Tibetan Throat Singing to museum-archive recordings of ritual recreations.

And I bet he listens to Gregorian’s covers of popular radio songs more than the original versions.

Same for Broadway musicals; though he doesn’t go to see them very often, he enjoys the music. (I’m thinking anything from Rent to Phantom of the Opera to Beauty and the Beast on Braodway. He probably loves dark fairy tales in general, which musicals somehow mesh really well with.)

I can see him liking EDM, especially if it’s a remix of a song he likes already.

But not dubstep, for some reason? Not intentionally, anyways. I dunno, man. I can’t see him listening to Skrillex or Deadmou5; he seems to be pretty, ah, “classically inclined” when it comes to spare time. Classical hobbies, like cooking and crafting and history. He never seemed super techy. (Though I can still see him appreciating the effort a dubstep producer puts into their songs.)

And sometimes he just likes a song because it’s catchy and fun and it makes him want to dance* a little, like Shut Up and Dance With Me. So he’ll still listen to the occasional jumpstep, or glitch-step, if it’s not too heavy on the sudden screeches and blips that may or may not trigger something unpleasant.

Ryou’s also in touch with his more sensitive side. So, not to stereotype here. But I feel like he’d also listen to the occasional “““emo”““ band. Like Evanescence, unironically. He thinks about Amane (his deceased sister) every time he hears “Hello” or “The Other Side”.

He probably has a few rock songs he likes, along the vein of Gacht and Red and Three Days Grace.

(I also feel like he’d be introduced to a few rap songs by his friends, and initially not be too sure about them, but wind up appreciating them once he figures out the lyrics aren’t just stereotypical rap stuff?)

And I also headcanon that he dissociates pretty hard sometimes. So sometimes atmospheric music makes being out of touch for awhile a little more bearable. So he’ll listen to very pretty, very mellow atmospheric things, like Aesma Daeva or Midnight Syndicate. This is probably when the movie soundtracks and classical music tend to come out. (He has playlists pre-picked out for these moments, because when he’s dissociating he struggles to make decisions, even little ones like what song to play, especially for 12 of them in a row. And he only has to use one spoon to open it and click “Play”.)

#* he's definitely dancing with joey in my head. just saying #ryou bakura #rhs yugioh #music #ygo headcanons list #i've been thinking about this for like 3 days straight. And while I wish I could figure out what Other Artists he listens to #besides the ones I know: I think I've nailed down a pretty good idea of what his music library and collection of old CDs looks like.

[tinymute]

Have You Seen My Record Collection? ( a playlist describing Juliette )

PERSONAL ANTHEM:  prom dress -- mxmtoon FAVOURITE TIME PERIOD / GENRE: Juliette favors music from the early 00′s, late 90′s, and some classical music (usually Irish music, though.)  GUILTY PLEASURES: 8 -- Billie Eilish  Orange Juice -- Melanie Martinez Call Me When You’re Sober -- Evanescence I Love You Will Still Sound the Same -- Oh Honey Ophelia -- The Lumineers SINGS WHILE DRUNK: An entire Taylor Swift album (or two,) Avril Lavigne, and whatever musical she has been listening to at the time.  FAVOURITE LOVE SONGS:  Can’t Help Falling in Love the words -- Christina Perri  The Only Exception -- Paramore Goodnight Moon -- Go Radio I Do -- Hedley

WHAT SHE SINGS TO LOVED ONES:  You Are My Sunshine SONGS SHE’D FIGHT TO: bold of you to assume she’s not baby FAVOURITE LULLABY:  Amhrán Na Farraige A SONG THAT’S ALWAYS STUCK IN HER HEAD: Butterflies -- Gabbie Hanna SONGS SHE SINGS IN THE SHOWER:  Break My Stride -- Matthew Wilder Tonight You Belong to Me -- Patience and Prudence High Hopes -- Panic! At the Disco SONGS SHE SINGS TO ANNOY PEOPLE:  Hello Kitty -- Avril Lavigne SONGS THAT MAKE HER EMO: Break the Silence -- Francois Mulder See You Again -- Elle King This Isn’t Everything You Are -- Snow Patrol Lost Without You -- Freya Ridings Kristi Are You Doing Okay -- The Offspring I Don’t Love You -- My Chemical Romance All That I’ve Got -- The Used Brick by Boring Brick -- Paramore A SONG THAT REMINDS PEOPLE OF HER: heck if she knows.

#headcanon

[yuli-ban]

I miss the early 2000s...

I mean, not every aspect of the early 2000s. We could do without the political nonsense and geopolitical drama, and everyone knows a particular day we could all go without. Never forget September 11th, 2001, the day of the awful terrorist attacks carried about by 4 Canadians against the Billboard charts...

I’m talking about culture and entertainment. I’m definitely in the throes of my quarter-life crisis!

Remember all those classic games released between 2000 and 2004?

Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2, Max Payne 1 and 2, Grand Theft Auto 3/Vice City/San Andreas, Perfect Dark, Halo and Halo 2, Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, Silent Hill 2, Final Fantasy X, Sonic Adventure 2, Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3, Deus Ex, The Sims, Jet Set Radio Future, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2/3/4 and Tony Hawk Underground 1 and 2, Dragon Ball Z Budokai 1/2/3 and the Legacy of Goku/Buu’s Fury series, Beyond Good and Evil, Super Mario Sunshine, Metroid Prime, Super Smash Brothers Melee, Conker’s Bad Fur Day, Luigi’s Mansion, the original Call of Duty, Medal of Honor: Frontline, Command and Conquer: Generals, Freedom Fighters, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, World of Warcraft, Splinter Cell, Counter Strike, Ratchet and Clank, just holy shit.

Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and Disney hit the ground running. It was the heyday of Toonami, for one. 

This was the period where we had several major film franchises going on at the same time as well: Harry Potter was the big motherfucker, but there was also Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Shrek, and the Matrix.

The music, too, was awesome. At the time, we thought it was awful. In retrospect, we all want it back. Because, if you bar the majority of nü metal, just about everything on the radio was a winner. We heard Eminem, Gorillaz, Rage Against The Machine (’s last hurrah), Radiohead, Santana, Avenged Sevenfold, The White Stripes, Jimmy Eat World, DMX, Outkast, Missy Elliot, Audioslave, Coldplay, the tail end of Smash Mouth, Tool, System of a Down, Sum 41, Linkin Park, Evanescence, Electric Wizard, A Perfect Circle, Deltron, Basement Jaxx, Meshuggah, oh lord!

Like I said, avoid most of nü metal and you’ll be fine!

Ah, to be a kid in elementary school again...

#early 2000s #Millennial #2000s Kid #nostalgia #memberberries