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copperbadge · 7 years

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lightwit replied to your post “So what music do you like to listen to if you don't like most music?”

Do your parents/family listen to music? I'm asking because my music taste is similar to yours and I come from a family where no one really listens to music (from grandparents down to cousins). So I always thought it's an inherited thing (either through genes or by exposure) that I don't listen to music much. Just interested to know if it's similar for you.

My father played the piano and my mother is very musical -- she plays a couple of instruments (well, not really anymore, but she knows how, is my point) and sings. They had me in music education from a very young age and I think it was probably pretty upsetting to them that I just couldn’t give two shits about any classical composer except Tchaikovsky, and him really only at first because I had a cassette tape that was the story of his life interspersed with his music and I think he had a really interesting life.

I think it was probably a relief to all involved when I quit the piano. I’m actually truly surprised Mum gave me any kind of musical instrument this past Christmas, even a learner ukulele, because I remember how frustrated she was with my total disinterest in music as a child and her HORROR at my musical tastes as a teen (ran strongly to Alternative, which is like Pop Designed To Annoy Your Parents).

tagathax replied to your post “So what music do you like to listen to if you don't like most music?”

Can I ask you what you mean by that music's very mathy? I'm terrible with maths but I love music and I've always thought they're very opposite of each other. Although I remember reading somewhere that Bach's music has some math elements in it but I don't see it myself (or maybe I just don't understand it as maths).

All of music is basically counting and number values. Like, if you’ve ever listened to someone try to explain musical theory it’s literally all “music is twelve notes in seven tones in eight octaves and everything’s a ratio”.

I can’t actually explain this to you because I don’t understand math or musical theory, but yeah, music and math are heavily interrelated. (I googled quickly and there appears to be a great overview from the American Mathematical Society here.)

What this means is not that if you don’t understand math you can’t enjoy music. What it means is that people who make and teach music are predominantly extremely comfortable with mathematical theory and tend to apply it in their work -- and something that is mathematically beautiful is not always audibly so to someone who doesn’t understand the underlying theory.

I believe there are also studies that link the musical and mathematical centers in the brain but I’m not interested enough in this topic to google. :D

hystericblue replied to your post “So what music do you like to listen to if you don't like most music?”

"music's very mathy" ??? *all the question marks* so what I'm getting is, you like musicals and probably early Disney stuff where they sang parts of the story.

Not really. Early musicals in particular were zero about using the music to tell a story and 100% about showing off the vocal ability of the performers. This also influenced early film, including animated but also live-action musicals. Look at any given musical made before about 1970 and you’ll see that most of the songs aren’t about forwarding the action but are about either describing a situation or expressing a feeling. Most songs in a musical don’t tell a story so much as set a scene. Andrew Lloyd Weber, you don’t have to like him, but he changed the way stage musicals exist -- he brought the pop sensibility into the musical theatre world and made the narrative the focus. Which on the one hand is why you get ALW movies where the leads aren’t operatic diva quality, but I can’t emphasize this enough, I don’t give a fuck and can’t tell anyway.

I love Les Mis (not an ALW joint, I know, but a part of the pop-musical movement) and I love the narrative quality of its music and I went to see the movie and thoroughly enjoyed it and couldn’t tell for a second who could and couldn’t sing. I listen to people say the singing ruined it for them and like...I didn’t notice. And it’s okay that people did, and I understand how that might have been an issue for them. But what I’m saying is that vocal quality, beyond a basic competence, is a non-factor for me, and it’s not the biggest factor in pop-musical tradition. The story rules. Hence not caring much for early musicals. (There are some old showtune songs I like. Summertime, Blow Gabriel Blow, a few others, but those are songs plucked from musicals where I may not enjoy any other song in the show.)

There are a couple of Disney films whose music I really enjoy, but they tend to be later, from my childhood, which has a nostalgia element -- but also my childhood was a really great time for Disney movies, and a lot of the songs were written by pop stars. And pop stars DO know how to tell a story in a song and are aware that most people listening give zero shits about the vocal quality of the performer beyond “can they hit the right note at the right spot”. Elton John is a great vocalist, but he’s also aware his voice is not why people love his music.

Uh, that got long, sorry. But yeah, I often have to defend my near-total disinterest in musicals, as a former theatre kid, because I have no ear for good singing and thus don’t care about vocalists.

secondalto replied to your post “What are the podcasts you like listening to then? (in reference to the...”

Have you ever given Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me a try?

I’ve actually been to see it live! I never remember when it’s on, though, and sometimes their guests are real duds or they’re not that interesting but Peter is SUPER NERDY about whatever it is they do so they end up talking forever. (Nobody else cares as deeply about Portlandia as you do, Peter.) So it’s something I enjoy when I happen to catch it but it’s not on my feed or anything.

#lightwit #hystericblue #secondalto #tagathax

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sherlocks-bitch-moriarty · 7 years

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I, 3, 4, 22, 28 identity asks?

1. if someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch and listen to?uh.. shit. Listening to every song I've liked on soundcloud or own would be a start but thats a royal mess of like.. four years.. and my phone is maybe 8 years of music.. um.. Joseph And The Technicolor DreamCoat by Andrew Lloyd Weber is like my childhood. Next to Veggietales, especially that one like musical dvd they did wher they all just sang and the asparagus sings Modern Major General! Thats good shit. Read? Uh.. I mean.. Maybe like.. Fuck i dont read much anymore. I make a bunch of shitty Sweeney Todd references and Les Mis ones.. but Les mis is long as shit. I could just spurt out musicals but thats not productive so TL;DRThe Beatles Joseph And The Technicolor Dream CoatVeggie tale Pop Culture Rip-OffsSweeney Todd Musicals. 3. List your fandoms and one character from each that you identify with F u c k Black Butler- Alois Trancy?Danganronpa- Mikan Or Touko--Mystic Messenger- V or 707Ib- uh ummmm Ib?Misao- that one kid who got hit by a car or some shitMad Father- AYAYAYAYAKiznaiver- Honoka Maki (aka best girl)Death Parade- Black Haired WomaNDeath Note- Misa AmaneHamilton- l...... Huh. Angelica? Musical Theatre- Judas fromJesus Christ Superstar Batman- Harley QuinOuran High School Host Club- Kyoya OhtoriMob Psycho 100- MobVocaloid- Why did i list this .. Len since he dies a lot and sings about his --- Im sorry Attack On Titan- Hanji ZoeOzmafia- scarlet (hesnoT A GIRL)Diabolik Lovers- Kanato Yuri On Ice- Both Yuri'sYour Lie In April- Kousei.Undertale- CharaSherlock- Molly HooperDoctor Who- Donna NobleHomestuck- dave StriderSonic- Shadow Full Metal Alchemist- edward i dont knowMirai Nikki- hahahah HAHA HA AA Aru akiseHigurashi- Shion? The one who hit this kid with a desk over a boy Killing Stalking- Yoonbum i guessWatamote- who else but Tomoko4. Do you like your name? Is there another name you think would fit you better? Rachel can burn. David can live forever.22. List the top five things you spend the most time doing in order.... how.. do i... pu tin words.. 1. Pacing around a room Ranting about something from mystic messenger, usually v, rika, saeran or 707 with a musical playlist playing in the background and then switching to lips syncing it which leads to me on the floor with a ballon that says 'Jvmin' on it. 2. Staring at ciel phantomhive wondering what the meaning of I've is 3. Obsessing over fictional charater's trauma and how it affects them and maybE ADDIN G MORE BEVAUSE FUCK IT 4. Jihyun Kim. 5. Trying to complete Project Diva X completely and do the same for mystic messenger but eventually going back to doing number 1.28. on a scale from 1 to 10 how hard is it for someone to get under your skin?My block list on every social Media i have access to is blank. So.... You gotta have to try really hard and know me way too well in order to do that. Or... you know. BeACertainExLoverOfMine

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missdouwes · 6 years

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11 Questions Tag Game

I was tagged by @espresso--martini AND @therealweirdfangirl

I have decided to answer both sets of questions and not tag anybody because im lazy.

thank you both you’re amazing <3

Bobbi’s Questions

1. What do you believe happens after death?

I literally have no idea. The religion I subscribe to doesn’t really care about the afterlife much, and I’m *shrug* abt it too. Curious though.

2. Would you rather live forever and never find love or live a normal life and find love?

I don’t want to live forever.

3. What would you say to your past self?

Hun, please study. Please keep your wits about you. Steel yourself it’s gonna be a bumpy ride.

4. Do you want to leave a mark on the world? Why or why not?

I definitely want to make a name for myself. I want to make things better for people, and I want to get confident so I can be a loud advocate, for my own communities and others.

5. Who will you stand by no matter what?

My sister.

6. Favorite musical?

Poto. Definitely poto.

7. What was the best thing that you’ve done?

idk if this is the best but seeing Neil Gaiman read live was cool

joining the poto server

every trip with my sister

8. Where do you want to be right now?

Asleep

Seeing poto live

9. If you could bring someone back from the dead who would you bring back?

My grandmother.

10. Do you own any animals?

Yes. Several. My puppy is v cute.

11. Dream job?

movie director, pipe dream.

Asya’s Questions

1. if you could legally own any exotic animal, what would it be and why?

Do foxes count as exotic?

2. are you all for the fall/autumn aesthetic, or are you more for the winter aesthetic?

SUMMER (autumn, of those two)

3. how do you feel about fish? love it? hate it? have one specific type you like, but hate all the rest?

Does this mean eating fish or fish in general? Both are good.

g e f i l t e

4. tea or coffee? you can’t say both. sorry.

tea

5. would you rather be fluent in every language by simply reading a sentence in that language, or would you rather own and read every [good] book ever written?

fluent

6. do you prefer modern theatre or old theatre?

u fool, you didn’t say I couldn’t say both on this one. I’m going through a musicals phase, but I was an opera singer’s kid, so. *shrug*

7. seduce me with your history knowledge. are you interested in history? tell me something about a period that you are most interested in!

I love history! Uhhhh let me tell you about the Marquis de Lafayette

so after the revolution he basically tried to help france but fucked it all up and couldn’t properly pick a side so he was reviled by everyone, he ended up in an austrian prison and was in solitary confinement for several years. His AMAZING better than he deserved wife joined him in prison voluntarily, and some years after they were let go died of a disease she caught while imprisoned.

And he was never quite right in the head after that.

It’s v v sad.

Also remember General Lamarque? The guy whose death was mentioned in Les Mis? He gave a eulogy at his funeral and was like “pls don’t try to do the revolution thing I funded a failed student rebellion and they all died. Don’t become a sad wreck like me.” but they did it anyway.

Also the Titanic sank because of a mix of incompetence and a cold water mirage. Case closed.

8. would you prefer to watch movies and tv shows on your tv or your computer?

don’t have a tv

9. refer back to question four. do you take your tea/coffee with milk? how about sugar?

milk and a TON of sugar

10. list off ten of your favourite non-musical movies in order from best to good-but-not-the-best.

here’s a list of eleven movies i like, can’t say about order, sorry.

Baby Driver

Howl’s Moving Castle

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Big Hero Six

Summer Wars

The Hidden (1987)

O Brother Where Art Thou

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Kubo and the Two Strings

Wonder Woman

Who Shot Liberty Valance

#thanks #sorry I half assed it im tire #tag game

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