#i was gonna do the albums in chronological order but i really wanted to do this one so 🐤

[mystical-one]

Another side of Woodstock (1964)

#HELLO bobstock is finally back 🫡🫡 #i was gonna do the albums in chronological order but i really wanted to do this one so 🐤 #emi's meandering doodles #bobstock

[all-at-once-you-are-the-one]

Idk if this is a hot take or not, but IMO loml is one of the most straightforward songs on the album and it actually tells a story in chronological order. Let’s examine:

Who's gonna stop us from waltzing

Back into rekindled flames?

If we know the steps anyway

We embroidered the memories

Of the time I was away

Stitching, "We were just kids, babe"

Yes, I know this very much sounds like it’s about a certain someone but I actually think here she is referring to the breaks between her and Joe that she’s previously alluded to in Hits Different & That’s When TV. She also often describes this relationship as making her feel like a kid in other songs like CIWYW, INTHAF etc.

I said, "I don't mind, it takes time"

I thought I was better safe than starry-eyed

This was the line that really sparked my curiosity. What does she not mind? It seems like she’s changing her mind on something and resigning herself to being stable and settled rather than leaving to find something better. This is the period when we got songs like Lavender Haze. He said he needed more time before marriage and she was like you know what yeah, why do women have to get married anyway?? Can’t we just be together?? Both of them were denying that it was what she truly wanted and he just didn’t.

You and I go from one kiss to gettin married

Still alive, killing time at the cemetery

Never quite buried

In your suit and tie, in the nick of time

You lowdown boy, you stand up guy

Holy Ghost, you told me I'm

The love of your life

You said I'm the love of your life

About a million times

She’s waiting and waiting and waiting for the marriage thing to happen and he just keeps placating her by saying she’s the love of his life. (I can totally just picture him saying “but you’re the love of my life and we’re happy, isn’t that enough?”). She has faith in him because he’s such a good guy with integrity, surely he wouldn’t just lie to her and lead her on. Surely he’ll show up in the nick of time to marry her like he said he would.

Who's gonna tell me the truth

When you blew in with the winds of fate

And told me I reformed you

Here’s what’s his name making his grand entrance!

And all at once, the ink bleeds

He promised her all the same things and then took it away so quickly which released the stopper on all her pent up feelings about being let down in this way. The rest of this verse is pretty clear cut

You talked me under the table

Talking rings and talking cradles

I wish I could un-recall

How we almost had it all

Now it’s about them both! She’s going into detail about the way in which they let her down

Dancing phantoms on the terrace

Are they second-hand embarrassed

That I can't get out of bed?

Cause something counterfeit's dead

It was legendary

It was momentary

It was unnecessary

Should've let it stay buried

This is the saddest part!!! This is also about both of them! What’s his name is obvious, but it’s also about her and Joe. She knew they had issues! She knew he didn’t want what she wanted! That’s why they had their break! Now she feels that when they resumed their relationship it wasn’t real, he just started lying to her and she was also lying to herself, and they should have just broken up for good the first time.

Oh, what a valiant roar

What a bland goodbye

The coward claimed he was a lion

I'm combing through the braids of lies

Again, what’s his name is very obvious here. She’s also upset about her breakup with Joe: she broke up with him remotely! And maybe he just let her! She thought he was brave, that he had integrity, but he lied to her over and over and over again, every time he promised they would have the things she wanted for her future. He was just delaying the inevitable and wasting her time.

If you can get past the Matty of it all and accept the story she’s telling here at face value there is SO MUCH she’s sharing with us here.

#loml #ttpd #ttpd analysis

[likeadevils]

i’m halfway through listening to 1989 in writing order and it’s so good! i always liked the original tracklisting, but i think i like this order better??? do you enjoy all the albums more in writing order or are there any you prefer the original tracklist of?

oooh good question. 1989 in chronological order is definitely the one that transforms the original album the most to me— it was my favorite album even before doing the timeline, but that stretch from wildest dreams to clean is just. god you can see her devolve into cynicism in every aspect of her life— in romance, in friendship, and in herself— and then choose hope anyway. it’s just. it’s so good. if i were her i would’ve had such a hard time not releasing it in order, it paints such a clear picture

i would say red is another one that really changed for me. it might be because i quite literally watched, listened to, or read every single interview she gave in 2011, so i really got in her head that year, but the 2011 songs— all to well through eyes open— are just. it’s another moment where you can see her become Herself. it’s a heartbreak in remission, as maisie would say. my biggest revelation was starlight— in order, it becomes a really important moment of growth for her, the first new interest after she had to burn her life down around her, and it’s like, yeah, that’s why vintage fashion became so synonymous with the red era, and why she started to lean so heavily on constant transformation in the face of pain. that being said, red’s track listing idea of ping-ponging you between opposite emotions is just genius, and going from treacherous -> ikywt is a stroke of genius

on the flip side, i think the original tracklist for fearless is near perfect— the way you slowly watch her self respect grow throughout the album is genius. breathe -> tell me why -> you’re not sorry is just. god what a trinity. in chronological order you do get an interesting back in forth from should’ve said no-> come in with the rain -> white horse -> the other side of the door -> you’re not sorry that i adore, but the rest of the album in order doesn’t do much for me.

none of the other albums are particularly noteworthy but brief thoughts—

rep’s two halves of the same story tracklist is another genius idea, but i also adore how king of my heart is the second song she wrote for that album, and it kinda connects i don’t want to live forever to the story of that relationship in an interesting way.

speak now has always been hard to tracklist for me? i get why taylor was kinda losing her mind about it in spring 2010, there’s a lot of good songs but it’s hard to connect them. that run from innocent -> haunted -> last kiss -> long live is just genius though.

there’s just way to many songs, and she was learning so much about the principals of songwriting, for me to evaluate debut in a similar way as the other ones (if i were taylor i would also procrastinate on picking vault tracks).

and then lover-midnights i haven’t done that big of a deep dive on, and also most of those albums were written in like, a 4 month period, so the things that make red and 1989 sing to me are gonna be a bit harder to pull out

#asks* #timeline*

[foxgloveinspace]

Nobody wants this but here we go!

Fox’s Mega Analysis Of Sleep Token Lore:

Edit: I like what I have here, but this is no longer my theory, lmao. I have very differnt thoughts, and while this is long and thought out and feels like what I would do with a novel like what Vessel is giving us, I do not think this is like... the big one anymore lol. New Theory over here (x)

Under a read more cause this is gonna get Long, I can feel it.

I'm not gonna go through every single song here, over all albums and singles only, if anyone finds my insight intriguing hit me up in my ask box and I’ll go into detail about some things I guess. (I'm more likely to answer if it's anon btw, I will answer if it's not but it's more,,,, comfy for me if you go on anon). Also, please keep in mind I have been here for only a couple weeks (legit I only got into them on the 3rd of April 2023), so If I've Missed Something, don't be a jerk about it, ok?

This whole thing is going off of a few assumptions others have made, and I've come to on my own really, namely that there is no woman who broke Vessel’s heart, all the songs are about Sleep, or ‘from’ Sleep’s pov; I think it’s more that Vessel is compelled to make songs from Sleep’s pov more then Sleep takes over, and the entire discography is a back and forth conversation of Vessel trying to get more from Sleep, and Sleep Taking More from Vessel instead. And then the other assumption is the opposite of the one I read, that all the albums are already in chronological order, and were not released out of order.

Now going off of ‘no woman that broke Vessel’* assumption, makes one wonder, what does Sleep offer Vessel in this relationship? Why would Vessel stay with sleep, when there’s really nothing for him to gain? The answer is simple. As long as we look past some assumptions already considered ‘canon’.

Sleep did Not give Vessel his powers. He already had them.

And what Sleep offers Vessel is control.

In the songs, Love = Control.

Sleep offers to control Vessels powers, and Vessel uses them in the name of sleep, and becomes a weapon (something he calls himself multiple times through out the whole discography).

Except that we can garner from a few (ie, most of them) of the songs that Vessel doesn’t like what sleep uses him for, and even tries, begs and pleads for Sleep to not use him for this. To ‘love’ him differently, because Vessel still doesn’t actually have control, sleep just uses the powers.

One is very beginning of things, where Vessel is not looking at the fact that Sleep isn’t doing what he says he will, he’s aware of the fact that Sleep isn’t offering him control ‘when the bough breaks’ (his powers over flowing and hurting/killing people), but he’s trying to reason still.

Two is awareness and denial, but still going along with what is happening, more aware of how this is not going the way he wishes it to. Jericho is the first song from Sleep's POV, and the idea of him Calling Vessel more worthy than a gods hands speaks to Vessel's powers. (which goes into a bit of the meta I put for twtyw) *the only song in the dicography that I think mentions SOMEONE else as Her is Nazareth, I think this song is about Sleep and Vessel 'sacrificing' a woman, now be that just as sex, or you know, actually killing someone, up to you.

Jaws is from sleep's pov, and it's him giving a bit to Vessel, but it's asking Vessel to show him control, more than sleep Giving all of it. I think its a bit of him testing Vessel's control he already has and what it takes to break it, more then anything else.

Hey-Ya this is a Vessel song. I think it's him trying to go back into a state of denial while not exactly seceding.

The Way That You Were I think this is also a Sleep song, I think sleep genuinely thinks he is helping Vessel. but I think sleeps version of trying to help Vessel is trying to get him to lose control, not gain it.

Sundowning is Vessel realizing that Sleep is probably not gonna do what he says he will do, and is begging and pleading with him to Do What He Says He’ll Do. Blood Sport is Vessel giving up, and trying to commit suicide, the ending where he is sobbing, "I made ‘loving you’ a blood sport I can’t win" is him saying ‘you won’t help me, I can’t win’.

from the room bellow these are pure Vessel songs, there's nothing in here that is for Sleep, it is just him, and finding meaning in other's words to maybe get around part of sleep and vessel's deal, Vessel not being to write a song that is not in some way a worship of Sleep.

This Place Will Become Your Tomb is the intimidate after math, it's Sleep Not Letting Vessel Die, and Vessel giving in. Becoming the weapon Sleep wants him to be. It's Vessel asking Why Sleep wants him to be this way, and not getting an answer, but being under Sleep's influence is better than dealing with his powers on his own. It's also a very sleep pov heavy album, with it being almost completely altering pov.

Is It Really You? I am still up in the air about this one. I think something happened and sleep either shared something with Vessel, or Vessel saw something he wasn't supposed to.

Take Me Back To Eden. Now, this album. At the time of writing this we have almost half of the album, and none of them have been from Sleep's pov (and going from the title of the single that's release tomorrow [4/20] I doubt it's from Sleep's pov edit- it just dropped on youtube uhoh edit edit: yes its a vessel song.) All of them have been from Vessel's, and everything has an air for; not exactly rebellion, but something more like defiance. So far it's felt like the realization that Vessel Is More Powerful then maybe even Sleep, but at least more powerful then anyone has realized, and why should Vessel be Sleep's weapon when he can Be His Own. A lot of people have assumed that the album is going to end in Vessel's death, and while I won't rule it out, I think the album is going to end in Vessel's ascension into at least demi-godhood. probably full 'godhood'. Mostly I can't say it's going to end in Vessel's death, cause so far Sleep has done everything he can to keep Vessel alive.

Some Closing bits: I think that theres another overall theme, and that is Vessel longing for human companionship. Either because of his powers, or something else, I think that Vessel has been very isolated (and also maybe that could be another reason for falling into Sleep, even though he knows Sleep is not holding up his end of the deal), and I think that that is why the other Vessel's come into play, ii iii and iv are fellow vessel's cause they too have powers, and Vessel recruited them. Also on a light note, I think that one of Sleep's 'offerings' is sex, and sexual relations in his name, hence why they are so fuckin horny on stage.

And that my Sleep Token lore analysis, and thoughts and theorie.

If I think of anything else I'll link back to here or something, but yeah. just. thoughts. you can ignore me of course, but if you made this far thanks for reading!!

(x) (x)

#sleep token #uhhh i guess i can tag this as #worship #eh? #theories #sleep token theories

[zero-ek]

A couple of live concerts and some thoughts on them

Howdy!

So there’s been a whole bunch of concerts i wanted to watch very close to one another these past 4 months or so, and originally i was just gonna post my reports as they went. But, due to my computer breaking down after the first one, and also not to spam the feeds of the handful of people who for some reason follow this blog, i figured I’d just wait it out and make it a very big post instead.

I wrote each of these a couple days after they aired, so it’s been very interesting to re-read these and look back stuff i wrote myself that isn't college assignments lol. I mention this often but I’ve got a very poor memory, so i tend to feel disconnected from stuff i did in the past when i see it, like, i have to tell myself “this was me, i wrote/made this” because i don’t remember doing it myself.

I don’t know why i haven’t thought of it after all this time but re-reading through these inspired me to start keeping a diary, if i can’t keep my memories in my brain, then paper will do it for me!

Anyhow, that’s enough about me for the time being. This first half be about the Vsinger side of things, while part two will be the utaite concerts, i will number in order if you wanna follow this chronologically though. Starting with:

1. RIM – NEUROMANCE II

It’s Mechi time!

I’m sorry but i absolutely love how RIM’s nickname (d)evolved into just “Mechi”, it’s so silly sounding i love it.

I really don’t talk about this enough but RIM is my favourite Kamitsubaki artist, like, i don’t know how to explain it, but after i think 2 years of listening to her the “i-found-a-new-artist-i like” euphoria still hasn’t worn off. New Romance is probably the closest thing to a perfect album that I’ve ever heard, none of the songs have gotten old to me even after so long.

That being said, i really haven’t been keeping up with what Kamitsubaki’s been doing ever since i think BudouKAF really, and by extension what RIM has been doing outside of her music releases. So although i was really excited for my first ever RIM solo live, I’m gonna be honest not knowing what the whole Sinka series was about did kinda threw me off a bit.

Also, something else that cut my hype short and that i will preemptively apologize for is that my computer decided it didn’t want to live anymore a couple days after the concert, so i had to make the draft of this post on my phone and by the time i got this thing back not only had most of my post-live excitement worn off already, but the whole situation made me very grumpy. So I’m really sorry if i don’t sound as excited as i should be but i guarantee you that i really did enjoy this live.

Anyways:

Fanfare!

I really didn’t expect it, since I’m much more a fan of her heavier, rock songs, but ever since this track came out on the Singularity Live album it’s been one of my most listened songs of hers for like the whole year. Something that i noticed a lot about New Romancer II is how blends Sasagawa Mao’s quintessential writing and melody phrases with the addictive pop beats, structures and overall structure of more modern J-Pop/Vocaloid music.

It’s like, New Romancer is the album you rock out to, and New Romancer II the album you’ll catch yourself humming to without realizing.

Also also, Cosmic Puppets! I’m so glad it still got one last stage appearance, it’s my favourite of RIM’s designs by far and i don’t think I’ll ever get over it. I’m sure the new one will grow on me but i don’t know, it just doesn’t scream RIM to me as much as this one does. (Future Zero here, the new one still hasn’t grown on me. Team Cosmic Puppets forever!)

Crybaby is my alarm clock, so i actually got a little jumpscared when it came up, lol, especially so early into the concert.

Also, massive appreciation for Kamitsubaki’s in-house engineer, i love how the live sound is massive, but each instrument is so cleanly separated from each other. I can only imagine how much it shakes you in person, which is to say Neuromance III better be a venue concert PIEDPIPER do you hear me she deserves it!!!!

Now for my single grievance with this concert, is that the simplified-for-live arrangements do take away a bit from the songs a bit. Now don’t get me wrong, i completely get why they do it, this is a 2 hour concert, the musicians need to conserve as much energy as possible. But at the same time, Sasagawa Mao has one of the best senses for rhythm sections that I’ve ever heard, and it’s hard not to feel kinda sad when you don’t get to hear it.

That is to say i really missed that drum groove on the second verse of “The Moon does not...” and I’m a bit salty about it.

First, i gotta say my compliments to Kamitsubaki’s 3d environment team, i do try to keep up with concert live reports when they come out, so i was aware that they were doing some really impressive stuff, but it’s even more impressive to see it for myself.

Also, i feel like the tracking is much better too, her movements look so much more fluid and her face much more expressive compared to like the Singularity live. It does not enter my mind how the heck they’re rendering this live.

I love when they do these little intros for songs it always gives me goosebumps when you catch on the rhythm and key and realize “oh it’s this song” right before the it hits.

Also i just complained about the whole live-ification thing but I’m already taking it back my jaw is on the floor at how much Pillow Talk and Neuromance sounded just like they where on the record, actually even better that i could pick each instrument apart. I’m sorry live band i should’ve never doubted you.

Honestly thought there wasn’t gonna be any MCs at all in this live lol girl breathe.

Also look it’s her original hairstyle!

Ok so this is the part where i gotta ask what the heck is going on, currently regretting not doing my homework on the Sinka series I’m so lost.

I love the idea of the discotheque, like just 10 minutes of her running around and vibing, honestly every concert should have something like that. Although i was kinda hoping I’d get to hear Mateki in full in this live but alas you can’t have everything in life.

It’s original outfit RIM!

Guiano!

I gotta be honest, they picked the songs from “Imagine” i listen to the least, but it still always tickles my brain when i hear their voices in unison. Guiano’s lower tones are so clear, it’s almost uncanny how well his voice blends with RIM’s. I would love to hear them together in more harmonically diverse contexts, i bet it’d sound insane.

One of the highlights of the live for me, Eloim was already one of my favourites from NRII, but i think it goes even harder with the live band, like it sounds so much more aggressive with the drum hits, the huge bass and the guitars, it actually got my heart jumping. I am soooooo thankful they put this one on Youtube.

Also also tell me i'm not the only one who thinks that the Counter Clockwise design looks very Gallifreyan.

It’s another Mechi!

Guiano’s “花鳥風月” (i don’t know how the Romaji for this one goes) is probably my favourite work of his ever, and it feels weirdly fulfilling to hear it with both RIM and RIME together, and with a full live band to boot, like, it feels like a natural conclusion to both of their versions of the song, i don’t know how to explain it well.

Also, i don’t know if this is the newer Voicepeak RIME, but i feel like she's tuned much better this time around compared to the Singularity Live.

The second highlight of the live for me, I’m not even sure why, but the visuals here were incredibly captivating, i adore how Kamitsubaki really uses their 3d environments to their fullest potential.

Also, again, how the heck are they rendering this live?

Now to probably the thing that stuck with me the most on this concert.... the talking bit!

So during her last MC she spoke about a lot of stuff from the past 2 years since the first Neuromance, she mainly focused on the topic of plurality, elaborating about people’s perception of her as a Vsinger and how that led her to encounter people very opinionated on it in either direction, and that eventually she came to accept that people are entitled to their own likes and dislikes, and free to be vocal about it, it’s simply a part of life and the human experience.

But something that she spoke that hit me the most was about how much the world had not only changed in these past couple of years since COVID, but it started to move a lot faster than you can sometimes keep up with, this is something that i do struggle with quite a bit. I mention this a lot but i don’t have a really good memory ever since i was like 17 or so, not that it’s deteriorating or anything (i don’t have any diagnoses, really) it’s just that i have a harder time recalling specific things than the average person does.

How this relates to what RIM talked about is that 2020 and early 2021 are particularly blank for me, like, they're particularly hard to recall. A lot of things that i know happened to me in that time period comes from me inferring that it must’ve happened sometime there from like dates and stuff instead of actually recalling how it played out, i imagine because of lockdown and being stuck in one place doing the same things over and over for a whole year. I try to be unbothered by it but it can be very hard to ignore the fact that a sizable chunk of my life is just missing.

It goes without saying but that really messes with how you situate yourself in the world, especially considering said world hasn’t been in its best shape since then. I manage, honestly pretty well all things considered, but it’s kinda what i imagine being held back a year in school feels like, not only you’re not up to date with what you should’ve, but you’re also struggling to catch up with your own life and just growing up, i know that it’s a common sentiment, especially for us zoomers, to still feel like a teenager while only your body matures, but i feel like for me it’s a little more literal than I’d like.

Speaking of this generation, i think that’s exactly why I’ve been thinking about it so much, RIM is i think only one or two years older than me, and... i don’t know, something about this girl i admire on the other side of the world, in a country totally culturally different than mine, standing in this million-dollar studio, looking directly at me and bringing up something that hits so close to home gave me a sort of weird reality check, like it’s a sign of some sort that i really ought to think about it more.

God dang it i can’t seem to escape the existential dread not even in Vsinger concerts, anyways, for the ending

She then proceeds to sing Eons Whispered after all that talk, i don’t even know what to say because i feel like my mind was somewhere else entirely during this last bit.

Honestly I’m actually kinda glad this was my first live RIM experience, i looked at the setlist for the first Neuromance after this and as much as i liked the album that came with it, i feel like i got a lot more out of this live than i would’ve from the first one, with having the back and forth between songs from both albums, which as i mentioned, are very sonically distinct.

Although i will say, as much as i love the Kamicity 3D visuals, RIM is definitely one of those singers whose energy gets wasted on virtual concerts. I see some people call her a “gyaru” and i tend to agree, her stage presence just demands a crowd to keep up with her. I know she’ll be at the Yoyogi wars (which i unfortunately won’t be able to watch) but i really feel like she could absolutely own a One Man live by herself. Here’s hoping that comes true sooner than later.

2. SorAZ – First Gravity

I’m really not sure how to start this...

I really feel like i need to preface this but AZKi is probably my single favourite person on this entire planet, like i sincerely and wholeheartedly love her to death, her songs and just her voice in general are irreplaceable to me and even just as a person overall i really look up to her. She hasn’t had a one-man live in i think three years, and it’s been even more time since she’s done one in an actual venue, with a real crowd to cheer her on, so i really need you to understand that i was counting the days until this concert ever since it was announced.

Unfortunately though, i just wasn’t in the headspace to enjoy this concert proper.

Everything for the past few weeks has been absolutely awful for me, my computer decided to break down and it needed a factory reset to get fixed, so i lost a lot of things that i couldn’t backup in time, then i got really sick for like a couple days to just sour my mood even more. But I’d actually gotten over that pretty quickly, i was feeling quite okay until i got served probably the single biggest punch in the gut in years that was Mel’s termination.

I made a post on my initial thoughts on it the day it happened, and i do know there’s been some developments since then, but overall my feelings haven’t changed all that much, that is to say, I’m still a huge mess. And as much as i adore AZKi i just haven’t been in the mood to look at Vstuff in general lately.

I had the ticket already though, so i thought maybe it’d help lift my spirits a lil bit.

(Oh yeah also I’m not sure why but the site says screenshots weren’t allowed, i know people were sharing them on Twitter anyways but i try to be a good girl around these parts. So I’ll use some assorted SorAZ pics instead)

I won’t go song for song, mainly because i feel very exhausted and i don’t feel like typing too much, but also, pretty much the entire setlist was from their new album, Futurity Step. I like that album, i saw someone say somewhere that they’re like “Hololive’s own ClariS” and a truer statement has never been said, it really feels just like a ClariS album. I grew up with ClariS, being a Madoka ChildTM, they were some of the first concerts i went out of my way to find and watch, i can’t really explain it in any way other than their songs take you into a world of fairy tales when you listen to them, it’s like a unique sort of bubbly, twinkly feeling, like I’m a Precure character or something, i don’t know if there’s a word for it. But the thing is, these aren’t usually the sort of songs that i prefer listening to when I’m feeling down, though, at least not as down as i am right now. I really did want to feel better and excited, but i physically couldn’t bring myself to.

Here’s some highlights i picked out after a couple rewatches.

I’d say Futari Destiny is my favourite song on the album, the melody lines feel the most satisfying to me, and i overall just love a song where the bass goes crazy. I could be just me but i feel like the live setting really helped pick their voices apart, plus, i feel like Sora’s voice sounds a lot sharper, and with a lot more lower harmonics when she sings live live, and that gap with AZKi’s lighter and breathier tone helped make their unison bits sound more interesting in texture.

Which by the way, is one of my few gripes with the album, a lot of their parts are mostly unison, and there isn’t a lot of more interesting vocal harmonies. Which is too bad because like listen to these girls, AZKi has the most beautiful falsetto on the face of the Earth, and Sora has as super cool low but piercing quality to her voice, like, songwriters, this is peak harmony material just waiting to be explored! Capitalize on it!

Sora cringing at their scripted MC lines was a mood, also i gotta say you wouldn’t believe that she’s entering her 7th year doing this, she was like a kid introducing themselves at a talent show. It was kinda endearing.

I think what everyone was looking forward to the most was seeing them in their concert dresses together, they made the most out of it but it’s really a shame that the venue’s stage couldn’t do it justice, i feel like songs like Kimi to Boku... weren’t as hype as they could’ve been with visuals that could match them. I gotta say, the harmonies in MAG-NET were pretty good though, again, i feel like you can appreciate it much more with the less polished nature of live vocals and all.

Probably the biggest highlight for me was “Gamen no Naka...” on AZKi’s solo part, which is a song that really grew on me hard, one because the drums are really awesome (god bless our lord and saviour Wataru Sena), and two, because even though the lyrics are very simplistic and straightforward, i don’t think they’ve ever been truer to me before. I don’t feel like going into detail, but i don’t think there’s any other song in the world that could more accurately describe how I’m feeling right now, towards AZKi, of course, but mainly towards Mel.

I sincerely hope, from the bottom of my heart, that everything goes well for her.

I think i said this before but i think AZKi in her 4th design matches the Bright idol outfit the best out of everyone, but why is her angry face so weird lol.

Skipping to the end, this is probably what got me the most excited, AZKi’s has a one-man and album 3 in the works, which i have been hoping for literal years now, and now that the fanbase is bigger than ever before it does genuinely make me excited to see how far she can go. I know it’s probably daydreaming but i really think, with how much notoriety she’s gotten, that she could perform at like Tokyo Zepp or hell, even Toyosu Pit.

Although, being more realistic, i looked up the venue for Sora’s anni party they announced and it holds only like a couple hundred people, which is surprising, considering she’s, well, the Tokino Sora, but also, i was under the impression that having a label would allow her to go for something much bigger. It could be due to availability or even preference, maybe (i don’t really watch her so i don’t know), but as much as i want to dream big, I’ll try to keep my hopes in moderation for what AZKi has coming up.

All in all, i really wished i could’ve watched this in a better place mentally, like, even with the scuffs and the simple stage, i could tell that they poured all of their heart into their performances. I wholeheartedly wanted to be happier for AZKi, she really is at home on the stage, with an actual audience to interact with, it makes me feel terrible that i couldn’t cheer her on something that she’s probably been waiting so long to do, something that I’ve always wanted to see (minus the Hololive festivals, this is actually my first time seeing her live on a venue).

It’s probably just me drowning in melancholy at the moment, but right now all I’m really hoping for is that nothing goes wrong by the time her solo live comes up, for all i know she could get axed then and there and i don’t want to regret not cheering her own while i still had the chance.

5. Hololive 5th Fes – Capture the Moment

(No keyvis cause i reached the image limit...)

Man, in hindsight, it's pretty cringe, but i've been so negative for pretty much no reason for like the whole month leading up to this concert, yeah absolutely because of Mel, again.

I know that everything’s settled down already and to be fair i had mostly gotten over it myself. But like y’know, she was half the reason i was looking forward to watching this concert to begin with, so i feel that my grumpiness is valid, it’d be surprising if i didn’t get at least a little sulky over her not being there anymore.

I had tickets for the HoloHoney and Stage 3, since Mel is a massive Honeyworks fan, and AZKi was going to show up on both. But since I’ve gotten the HoloHoney ticket mainly for Mel, i decided to just skip the HoloHoney one entirely, it just wasn’t worth it for me anymore.

Oh, yeah, I’ll mainly only talk about AZKi (and Suisei) here because they’re the ones i actively follow. I mean no disrespect to the other girls, i just don’t really follow Holo as a whole.

I genuinely cannot shake the impression that AZKi wears the Bright design the absolute best out of everyone I’ve seen, the design just fits her silhouette so perfectly, and the pink highlights match her inner coloured hair beautifully.

I still don’t like "ωNeko" all that much, but i can’t be upset that it’s as popular as it is.

Honorable mention to Mumei’s “Mumei”, i have heard the song before, since it went around quite a bit, and i really liked it, so it was very nice to hear it live.

Another honorable mention to Roboco’s cover of “Boku ga Shinou...”, she’s one of the couple members that i check in on from time to time, she has this unique raspy quality about her singing voice that really tugs at the heartstrings.

Ok, so uh, let’s talk about it, the moment.

(can i just say i'm very proud of this shot they look divine here)

Something that i haven’t seen a lot of people mention is that for quite a while the idea of AZKi and Suisei reuniting seemed like something very unlikely, like, it’s a big part of the reason why it was such of a big deal when AZKi showed up on Suisei’s 500k milestone live (i mean, i remember it, that's really something). By then, it had been a pretty long time since Suisei left INNK (looking it up, it was apparently almost a whole year later), which is pretty universally understood to have been a very rough time for her, so it didn’t seem by that point that they’d ever get together again, i think gen 0 wasn’t a thing yet back then, and AZKi was still pretty much music only as opposed to the more streamer Suisei.

“The Last Frontier” was also extremely heavy hitting when it came out, since just a couple months prior we had learned that AZKi would’ve originally graduated, and as Suisei herself pointed out, it was very much a Swan Song for her. It would’ve pretty much marked the end of their story, and as much of a banger that this song is, it wouldn’t have been a satisfying one at all. Even after they reconnected, they didn’t really get together much at all, AZKi still being separated from everyone else in INNK, it would’ve been not only the last, but one of the only things these two did together.

(Also also can i just say that it goes extremely underappreciated that AZKi wrote pretty much the whole song? Like, she does lyrics pretty often, but it’s rarer that she actually does the arrangement too, and then she cooks some of the hardest songs to ever grace this planet how frickin awesome is that????)

They sang this song live twice before, and have gotten together a whole lot more since AZKi joined Hololive proper. But it was this moment, right here, that i think was the proper resolution for their whole saga. For AZKi, the song she wrote to someone she thought she couldn’t reach, performed as the grand finale of the festival, on the stage it deserves, that she deserves. And for Suisei, i feel like this was the moment to reach out to AZKi, even more so than their first reunion, to show that none of what they went through was in vain, and that she sees her, that she’s finally properly by her side now.

I could be and probably am wrong about this, but i personally have never seen or don't remember seeing AZKi openly cry before, in fact something that i simultaneously admired and worried about is that for as long as I’ve watched her, she doesn’t ever ”let her guard down”, like she takes breaks extremely rarely, and is always super smiley and in high spirits even things aren’t going super great.

So like, when i saw her actually break down like that, i couldn’t keep it together, i cried so. damn. hard, like genuinely ugly crying, bawling my eyes out and then some, to the point that i felt like a raisin that was left in the sun to dry some more for the whole day, i genuinely believe that i have 床’d the hardest out of any Pioneer alive (fight me Iroha). It was very cathartic tho i do recommend it especially if you’ve been bottling up feelings tangentially related to it and have been grumpy about it for the week.

AZKi is probably the best thing that’s happened to me in these past 5 years, like, i think at this point i can say that she’s a major part of my life and who i am now. There hasn’t been anyone else whose music touched me, comforted me whenever i needed, and inspired me to get on my feet and face life like her music did. There’s no one else who sings like she does, and nothing makes me happier to see her come as far as she did, somewhere that as recently as a year ago I’d never thought it’d be possible. It was just so extremely rewarding to see it, as clear and concrete as it can be, that she made it, that to keep going was the right decision, that she’s achieved something incredible, and that Suisei, the Pioneers, everyone, looks at her with pride.

I’m just so incredibly happy, i can’t put it into words, i couldn’t have asked for anything more.

Watching back the MV after this live, i cannot even begin to tell you how much more complete and fulfilling it feels now. The two of them, looking for each other, but never meeting until the very end. Now, i think more than ever, the last part truly became real, the two of them holding hands, looking at the same sky.

Tonight, Canopus was the brightest star in the sky.

Continues in the next one

#kamitsubaki #RIM #hololive #AZKi #tokino sora #hoshimachi suisei

[sineala]

Tagged by @kiyaar several days ago! Thank you!

RULES: go to spotify, go to your On Repeat playlist (it’s curated for you), put it on shuffle, write down the first 10 songs.

Okay, here we go!

They Might Be Giants - She's an Angel. I have been listening to every TMBG album in chronological order (I just got up to The Else) and anyone who has seen one of my recent fanfic titles already presumably has figured out how much I like this song; it’s not my absolute favorite TMBG song ever but it’s up there and it would definitely make the hypothetical playlist I would make to explain what TMBG is like, because this is peak TMBG. It’s a song about the possibility that one’s girlfriend is an angel. No, an actual angel. It’s a problem for the narrator, yes.

The Gaslight Anthem - Biloxi Parish. Garrideb made a really good Starsky/Hutch vid to this. I love watching S&H vids because I can watch one and think “okay, surely I have now seen all the clips this show has of one man tenderly cuddling his injured partner” and then I open the next vid and there will be EVEN MORE. I love this show.

The Horrible Crowes - Behold the Hurricane. I think this is mostly the same band as the previous song; it has been on my “if I figure out how to vid comics I should vid this” list for a while, long before I saw Garrideb’s S&H vid. Then I found out they were the same band. My brain likes what it likes, I guess.

The Why Store - Lack of Water. Sometimes Spotify brings me playlists that are like “here are some great songs you loved from the 90s” and I’m like “I have never heard this song in my life but I really wish I had heard it in the 90s, thanks.”

They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng. The best song on the album Lincoln. Fight me. I have in fact seen a bridge that had “I don’t want the world, I just want your half” painted on the side of it -- sadly, it has since faded and been replaced by more graffiti because this was about twenty years ago -- and every time I saw it, which was twice a day, I wondered if the song had inspired the bridge graffiti or if this was in fact the bridge from the song.

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Haven't We Lost Enough? Yes, I am making a Steve/Tony 616 Civil War fanmix. Yes, this is the first track.

Phlotilla - Going Down Fighting. Thank you, The Old Guard, for introducing this song to me. That movie had a really good soundtrack.

Green Day - When I Come Around. I’m gonna party like it’s 1994. It has been 29 years and I still have no idea what most of the words are to this song. I keep telling myself I’m going to look them up and then I don’t.

Brandi Carlisle - Wherever is Your Heart. This is actually also on my 616 Civil War fanmix; it’s for the uplifting Avengers Prime ending.

The Cure - Friday I'm in Love. I have a favorite shirt. It is so much my favorite shirt that I own it as a t-shirt and as a hoodie. It is the words of Friday I’m In Love depicted as a series of pictures. It’s the best shirt.

Tagging @lysimache because I’m deeply curious how much of this playlist for her is Taylor Swift. Also tagging anyone else who wants to do it! You can say I tagged you.

#posts i actually wrote

[ragamuffin-ponies]

i started writing a sequel fanfic for Sleep Less. Yeah, before it's actually done. Honestly though you can consume them in any order, although it probably is best chronologically. It mostly exists as a path from the more abstract album to… yk… an actual fanfic. The album isn't gonna beat around the bush when it comes to telling you what's going on, but you'll have to do some digging a little bit. The fic is going to be very explicit. Explaining things as they are.

This is very obvious but like— total self insert. Well ok maybe not 1:1 duh but I took all the things that I go through and said Scootaloo goes through them too. So she's handling them differently, they affect her differently, but at the end of the day they are the same problems. I hope that makes sense.

So why Scootaloo at all? Why not an oc? Well because OCs are cringe and no one cares about them LOL. If I told you here's Cherry Fiz and he has psychosis and anxiety and has sh problems. Fucking ok? But if I say hey here's the pony you love grown up and SHE has all these problems. You're gonna care more. I think that's such a strong power of derivative fiction. Making you care about stories you otherwise wouldn't. It does a lotta the leg work for ya.

My favorite fanfiction is called Applejack's Tempest. It's about Applejack always wanted to be an actress but gave up on the dream bc family comes first. Anyway Rarity convinces her to be in a play (The Tempest classic lel) and it's really sweet and emotional despite not being all that well written tbh.

If you saw her feeling bad you'd feel bad too.

#mlp g4 #mlp #fanfic #my little pony #brony #///

[fawnnbinary]

Haha, sorry!! I won’t look so hard next time, and then you can keep your secrets :)

I wanted to ask, how many albums do you think Minor Inconvenience have released? Are they all studio albums? Names of them? And, do you think all of the boys have their own favorite album?

That’s a lot of questions, but fun to answer still, I hope!! — Band Boys Anon

This took a while for me to answer bc M! is only half mine!! I had to get Mars' (the bestie @holocrypticdreamer if you're new around here :P) opinion too, gave us an EXCELLENT reason to talk about albums kdjhgkfjgh This might get long so I'm gonna put it under the cut, but before I do: thank you SO much for asking about them, band boys make my brain go brrrrr kxjhfgkfdjgh have a little kissaroo from me to you:

all of their albums and the type of albums they are in chronological order are as follows:

You Should Have Seen the Caution Signs - EP

This is their fist EP, probably unpolished but clearly showing potential! Blake and Fallon are the main songwriters when we start and will remain that way for the next few albums

Minor Inconvenience - debut studio album

Their first album! Mars describes it as "likely the most juvenile sounding, leaning into more pop punk/pop rock" and I have to agree. They're leaning to be a "real" band, you know? Not a garage band or one played out of a friend's basement, a band with gigs and shows and fans :)

Lethal Injection - second studio album

Leans more punk rock than the first did, maturing a bit, getting closer to the sound that will ultimately be seen as theirs

Fatal Flaw - third studio album

This album puts them on the MAP babey, top of their game, peak form M! here. Songwriting shifts heavily to being spearheaded by Icarus and Blake. You know how every band has an iconic album everyone knows? This is M!'s

Call of the Void - live album

Recorded during an international tour, this album captures the very last of Icarus' performances as a member of M! and he leaves the band the night it is recorded. You too can relive the last night Icarus Nikolau was the lead guitarist!

Majorly Convenient - compilation album

This album is released during what is known to fans as The Drought - a long hiatus in the wake of Icarus' departure as the band recuperates, finds a new lead guitarist, and settles into existing without the man who named them.

Angel Wings and Broken Things - fourth studio album

A comeback album! This one is written during The Drought and captures a similar feel to Lethal, but with a much more mature sound - and it's Kip's first album! Though the grief and anger expressed in this album, the songs actually written for it, feel more like something written for everyone in the band BUT Kip

Making a Name - fifth studio album

Finally, everyone has a bit of creative control here, Fallon has let go of it almost completely, and it results in a blooming of their creativity. This album really, truly belongs to all of M! and everyone gets at least one solo, at least one time to shine.

You and Me, Makes Us, Makes We ft. Flightless - sixth studio album

Affectionately called the reunion album. This is the end of the rift between M! and Icarus, he works with them on this album, performs with them, and it feels like they are whole

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤

WHEW, that was a lot huh!! we talked a lot about the music that inspires what we think of when we imagine M!'s music (old p!atd, fob, mcr, paramore, set it off) and I'll be the first to say Mars has such good music opinions, imo, he is so correct so often skjdfhskjg

as for their favorites, I think my boys' opinions would look like this:

Kip: Making a Name (he finally felt in the band, like a real part of it, this was finally his band too, like he belonged there with them, like he wasn't just the guy standing in for Icarus. It wasn't just their band anymore, it was his too.)

Yasha: You and Me, Makes Us, Makes We (finally finally FINALLY, all of his friends, together and making their art, their whole family in one piece again, Yasha is thriving and nothing will bring them down ever fucking again)

Sterling: Fatal Flaw (he will always hold it so close to his heart, they found the sound they were looking for here and it felt like the greatest achievement in the world for them all. Yes, they've gotten even better since then in his opinion, but nothing will make him change his mind that that album truly is their core essence)

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Icarus: You Should Have Seen the Caution Signs (Icarus will never shy from telling you all the other albums are better than their very first, that he was so sloppy in Caution and he can tell you everything wrong with it, give you an itemized fucking list, but his favorite is that damn EP. It brought them all together in the first place after all)

#miles.ask #long post #oc talk #band boys anon #minor inconvenience #oc: Kip #oc: Sterling #oc: Yasha #oc: Icarus #I've put a bit of thought into Icarus' music as Flightless too #buuuuuuut you did not ask about flightless so I will save that rant :P #SO pissed there's no silver/grey heart emoji btw????

[intrasport]

Meu does the King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard discography

What the hell.

It is pretty straight forward. I am going to listen to some music. And then I am going to write some words about it. That is all.

This is all for my self. It is very personalized, unorthodox, and biased. That’s kind of how music Is.

Obviously, I have already very much listened to this band A Lot. Though there are still some corners that have gone unexplored. This is also to refresh my mind on a lot of these noises, as well as write some semi-formal reviews along the way. There is a lot to be said.

I’m going to offer some more information in this post. For convenience and accessibility. (Mostly so I can remember what I’m supposed to be doing). Cos this is Fucked Up.

I will be listening to the entire discography in chronological order.

I think I am going to skip some content for now, such as live albums and demos. These will be separate reviews.

I’m not listening to all 250+ whatever songs at once. Probably like an album or two a day. I’ll do it whenever.

I’ll give each song an individual review as much as I can.

Expect tangents. I’m literally going to talk about everything.

I imagine these reviews to be difficult for people to understand so don’t worry about it too much because I am going to speak either way. But I’m going to try my best to be at least a little cohesive.

I don’t even think I’m going to be able to say every single thought I have about the music within each review because this is forever an ongoing discussion. New revelations are always made. So this won’t be an end all be all or whatever.

I can’t really do numerical/alphabetical scores. Measuring “how much I like something” is impossible to put into simple terms. Maybe I will use such common measurements as means of an example in some cases but for the most part, these reviews are going to consist of descriptions of my feelings. Again, they’re very personally influenced.

With that, please refer to my brief dictionary of vocabulary that I have created for myself, specifically about music things and other general explanations. I am probably going to refer to this sometimes.

By the way I am massively unprofessional about the way in which I talk about this band. Except for right now I think. Meaning that, usually I am very overzealous and nonsensical. Or crazy or whatever. This demeanor may show up throughout this series. I am inclined to state that an informal style of expression might throw people off and isn’t very helpful, but I don’t want to deny that it can be representative of my feelings. Therefore, sometimes things that I say are neither serious, nor a joke, but some secret third thing.

Honestly I’m probably just gonna wing it anyways so don’t think too hard about it. It’s just music.

This is my vehicle and you are just a passenger.

I can do whatever I want forever.

OK, well it’s not like the concept of media reviews are some wildly uncommon thing so I think anyone can eventually catch on to my incredibly warped perception anyways. I’m probably forgetting things to say in this post, but i don’t care. Follow me down this evil path there is still more I have to say.

I would be this elaborate even if I was doing this entirely privately because it just feels necessary. Haha. No this is supposed to be fun I’m so excited to listen to king gizzard music.

idont even like this band. yes i do. ok i need to go listento music.

#gizzbox #gizzcography review

[strangeswift]

okay so don't kill me but I must admit that the extent of my Taylor Swift song listening was when we did Shake It Off in choir in like 6th grade, so I guess this is my way of asking, what are your favourite songs of hers/which ones should I listen to first? I figured you were probably the expert (your url is a bit of a giveaway)

I will not kill you, I love converting people! Of course if you take a listen and she's still not your vibe I understand, though I will be sad :(

So here's the thing about Taylor's music, she's a pop artist, but all of her albums have wildly different sounds. So where you should start really depends on what type of music you like. Here is my playlist with my personal top 3 favorite songs on each album:

(More rambling below)

I'm also gonna break down the vibes of each album so you can just listen to whatever your vibe is if you want. These are in chronological order.

Taylor Swift (Debut) - Country

Fearless - Still country vibes but with HEAVY pop influence

Speak Now - Pop with notes of country

Red - Poppy pop very pop with a hint of country.

1989 - The Pop Album Ever. If you like upbeat pop music I'd start here.

Reputation - Pop but make it DRAMA. This is a very fun and dramatic album.

Lover - Do not start here. This is widely considered her worst album. I do like it but I never recommend people start here. That said, I love a lot of songs on the album. It's pop, mostly love songs.

Folklore - If you're into indie pop type sound and sad songs, START HERE!! This is my favorite album

Evermore - sister album to folklore. Vibes are the same

Midnights - Has a little of everything but very very Pop.

ALSO! Taylor has re-recorded and released both Fearless and Red, and is going to be doing the same with her other older albums (probably speak now next) because – long story short – she doesn't technically own the masters to her music and she got screwed over, so she's re-releasing versions that she owns. So when listening to Fearless or Red, make sure to listen to Taylor's Version, those are the versions she owns. They were recently re-recorded so her vocals are better, production is better, and there are a lot of "from the vault" previously unreleased tracks on the albums too.

Have fun!! <3

#music #asks

[killbots-stuff]

Listening to TMBG in chronological order album reactions.

Starting with They Might Be Giants (Self Titled). I've listened to this one an unhealthy amount already though lol. But actually I usually just play the highlights. It's a really weird album compared to the rest of their stuff, there's a ton of Flood in there and the high points are still some of their absolute best songs imo.

She's an Angel, Don't Lets Start, She was a Hotel Detective, and Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head are all time classics obviously.

A lot of the album has a very distinct feel from the rest of tmbgs catalogue. I don't really have the words to describe it but like, Youth Culture Killed My Dog, Number Three, Boat of Car, and Rabid Child are the best examples of it I think. I don't hate it but it's not my favorite either. I'm kinda remembering why I tend to listen to the highlights, because a lot of these are just very skippable.

I think Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes and Absolutely Bills Mood are both really overlooked but they both feel more at home on this album then like, Don't Lets Start and stuff.

Overall I don't think there's anything I hate on here (though Alienation's for the Rich comes close) but it feels just a little off compared to the stuff that came after it. Best Songs: She's an Angel, Don't Lets Start, She was a Hotel Detective, Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head, Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes, Rhythm Section Want Ad Worst Songs: Chess Piece Face, Toddler Hiway, Alienation's for the Rich Most Forgettable Song: The Day (seriously I've been through this album at least 10 times and this is the only one I forgot entirely) Memo to myself: do the dumb things I have to do, touch the puppet head

[calamitydaze]

i fucking love mitski!! which of her songs do u have on the playlist?

HI [cat jumping up and down gif] i’ll put it below a cut cause i already know it’s gonna be long thank u so much for asking omg

ok for some background i am actually not a huge mitski listener… i’ve been trying to be!! i’ve listened to her first two albums in full but haven’t got around to the others yet so these are gonna be mostly popular songs, just bc they’re the ones i hear about through other people. but i pretty thoughtfully curate my character playlists SO if they’re on here they have a reason to be, i don’t just throw popular songs on for the hell of it. ok and these are gonna be in chronological story order

1. me and my husband: STARTING OFF BAD i know this one is overused as hell but i actually have it at the very beginning of the manberg chapter to represent cq’s relationship with schlatt when things already were Not Good but he was still starry-eyed and in love enough to pretend otherwise

2. liquid smooth: at the end of the manberg chapter (though it’s relevant for all of it), in my head around the time he gets with karlnap. representing the way he pins his self worth on his appearance and whether other people find him beautiful

3. abbey: this is the most recent addition so the placement might change but right now i have it just before he builds las nevadas…. to me it speaks to his need to make something of himself but with a more desperate edge than it would have earlier in the story. and the first verse… well you know me i love a good hunger metaphor

4. brand new city: LAS NEVADASSS although he didn’t build it with the intention of what it came to be, ln was always meant to represent his last stand. this is really where he starts breaking down in the playlist and like i said in the other ask you can apply this song equally well to ctubbo, but her gasp at the end will Always be cq to me

5. stay soft: i think i have the least to say about this one but it very much furthers his themes of beauty/insecurity/sexuality and also learning to chip away the soft parts of his heart as they will only ever weaken him

6. i don’t smoke: this is at an odd place in the playlist, timeline-wise it’s set in las nevadas but i think of it as the reflection chapter where he looks back on past relationships around the karlnapity breakup. but yeah this is cpumpkinduo no doubt. just don’t leave me alone wondering where you are i am stronger than you give me credit for

7. remember my name: man i don’t even have to say anything just watch this animatic

8. nobody: he’s very lonely and wants too much (which is really just to feel loved and like he belongs and is in control of his own life) and also nobody wants him. :( SAD! well there’s other ducks

9. love me more: this is in the last section of the playlist which is like… kinda when he becomes self-aware of his own humanity again and that he’s failed in what (and who) he wanted to build. it’s hard to give him a conclusion since he didn’t really have one in the dsmp? like yes he had a finale but imo it felt like his story wasn’t supposed to end there. but i did my best

#i literally did not need to do all this sorry for talking your ear off #but thank you for asking again :33 i love my playlists #and this is by far the one i’ve spent the most time on #bella answers #anon

[the-girl-who-cried-wolf]

5sos song recs please? 💞

5sos song recs!!! my favourite thing to talk abt!! i'll do my best to try and give you a bit of range here, instead of just listing all their albums. i will no doubt ramble far too much so i'll put a cut in here now-

okay so i'll start off by giving you the link to my 5sos spotify playlist, which has pretty much all of their songs, in rough chronological order!! it's just super handy for listening to instead of shuffling their discovery bc they have sooo many songs, and so many double ups and extra versions of songs etc. so this playlist keeps it nice and neat and easy.

basically, i would recommend every single song on that playlist. but. that is a lot to throw at you at once, so i'll break it into the different genres and vibes of their 5 albums, and pick maybe 3-5 songs from each, so you can get a taste test from every era?? (there's so many different ways i could break this up for you but i'll do it this way. it seems simpler. also pls feel free to dm anytime if u want to talk abt music or 5sos i would actually love that sm)

( **SIDENOTE - all the links i put on each of the songs are just links to the spotify tracks/albums/eps, so i hope you use spotify ?? kjndfh sorry if u dont, u can just ignore the links then)

let's start with 5SOS5. i'm pretty sure you already know at least some of the songs (Bad Omens and Older, at least? from what i know anyway) so you've had a taste of the Amazing Vibes that this album offers!! there's a lot of different sounds packed into this long album, but i'll just throw a few songs at you, that maybe encompasses this era? hopefully ??? lets go with COMPLETE MESS, Best Friends, Red Line and Moodswings. also Emotions. and Bloodhound. (choosing only a few songs was the most painful experience of my life, i want to add so many more. i love this whole album SO MUCH. also, my personal favourite is HAZE <33. just adding that as yet another song rec here bc i literally cannot stop myself)

okay, now moving onto CALM!! this album is like, sonically a lot darker than the other albums,, i think? the vibes are very cool tho, i listen to this album so often. (im just going to assume that you have at least already heard Easier and Teeth, sorry if you haven't, but they're the great popular ones from this album <3) (i'm slowly but steadily realising as i type all this that i have no idea how many 5sos songs you actually know. yikes) OKAY SO to choose a few recs from this album, i'm gonna go with No Shame, Best Years, Lover Of Mine, Not In The Same Way, and (my personal fav!!) Kill My Time! this whole album is pretty damn awesome tho, so you really cant go wrong here.

moving on to Youngblood. i love this album so much, i listen to it literally all the fucking time bc the vibes are just so great. (Youngblood and CALM are easily in my top 5 comfort albums tbh. just some fun emma lore for you there <3.) so many songs on this album have probably the best guitar riffs ever, and the bass lines!!! ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!! so amazing !!!! im also going to assume that you've heard the song Youngblood, so excluding that masterpiece, i'll pick some other Must Listen Songs: Want You Back, Lie To Me, Talk Fast, and Ghost Of You. but bc this album is so damn amazing, im also gonna give honourable mentions to Valentine, Why Won't You Love Me, and Babylon! (there are also three target exclusive specials, which aren't on spotify, but When You Walk Away is my fav from those extra three. they are all on youtube, the other two are here and here if u want to listen <3)

now, onto Sounds Good Feels Good!! this album serves some pretty great pop punk vibes, so if that's your kind of genre then you'll totally love it! some songs recs for you: Jet Black Heart, Waste The Night, Castaway, San Francisco, and - what is arguably the best song off this album - Outer Space / Carry On! i love this album to pieces, for the lyrics and the sound of it all, it really is such a special record. i really hope you like it <3 (also quick shout out to The Space Between A Rock And A Hard Place, from the B-Sides EP. long ass title, i know, but i really love this song)

okay, time for their debut album, 5 Seconds Of Summer! i'm sure you've heard of She Looks So Perfect already, so skipping that, here's some songs for you- Never Be, Everything I Didn't Say, Long Way Home, End Up Here, and Close As Strangers. i do love so many songs from this album, (and the B-Sides EP), but tbh there are some songs that i just can't listen to. the lyrics that teenage boys write can be...interesting at best, sometimes. so anyways. those songs aren't on my playlist RIP.

now that we've been through all their studio albums, i think it's time for some other shout outs. starting from the early days and moving forward - there's their first EP that they released, Somewhere New, where you can get an earful of their strong aussie accents LOL. another shoutout goes to Disconnected, one of my all time fav 5sos songs. the biggest shoutout i have goes to the Meet You There Tour Live album, which is from their 2018 tour, and has a great mix of songs from Youngblood and earlier. (i personally love 5sos's live shows, it brings their songs to a whole other level. but it's not everyone's cup of tea so i would try out their studio albums first to get a taste for their music before diving into the live versions). my final shoutout goes to 2011, the song that they made for their 10 year anniversary! im not sure if u know it already, but it's pretty much the perfect blend of all their eras, put into one amazing song. i love it endlessly <3

anddd that just abt concludes this massive essay i wrote abt 5sos!! thank you for asking this and im so sorry it took so long to answer. i hope this unnecessarily detailed response will make up for the wait <3. have fun listening to my favourite band ever, zoya, im sure you will find some songs that you'll love!!

#also my dms are open anytime. especially to talk abt 5sos #there were also some other songs and eps that i didnt mention but yknow. i feel like ive overwhelmed u with enough content already. so #if u like some of the songs here then let me know! i'd love to see which songs/albums you like zoya <33 #also i am living in fear of my 5sos mutuals seeing this and hating my recommendations LMAOJHBDFVBHJ #5sos mutuals dont judge this pls jdfvnkj #ask #zoya <3 #5sos #music #EDIT - idk why some of the links are fucking up UGH but im sure u can still work it out tho #bc i literally cant fix it #it just keeps going back to messed up. SO ANNOYING

[lowpolybread]

hey hi hello! what's your ideal fall out boy concert setlist? 👀

thank you for humoring me <3 i put together something incredibly biased and self indulgent. i only truly got into fall out boy maybe 6–8 years ago and i don’t know a ton of their Deep Lore or anything, but here are songs i would loooove to hear live. i’ve seen them twice so far but really i should be seeing them as many times as i can

order is wishy washy bc i don’t know the science of a good setlist. this is one song too long

Thriller: i agree, this would be a great entrance

Novocaine: what can i say. it’s a banger

Hold Me Like a Grudge: we need more fics titled “part time soulmate (full time problem)” you agree. reblog. for some reason i can’t stop saying “hold me like a drug” instead. uh

This Ain’t A Scene: one time this came on the radio and my uber driver changed the station halfway through

The Mighty Fall: i really want to hear “hell yeah i’m a dick girl i’m addicted to you” live

The Last Of The Real Ones: so many good lines in this one. “i wonder if your therapist knows everything about me” and “that ultra kind of love you never walk away from”??? also there’s some superhero shit going on with “i know this whole damn city thinks it needs you but not as much as i do”

The Phoenix: i chronically have trouble understanding what the hell fob is saying so for a long time i thought the lyrics were “i’m gonna change you like a wenis” or some shit and didn’t bother looking it up. sorry

Just One Yesterday: the impact this song had on ace attorney fic writers

Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On a Bad Bet: i LOVE this song

What A Catch, Donnie: but the whole thing!!! keep it as a piano solo

Golden

The Kids Aren’t Alright: i had the chance to see a concert in which they played this but i foolishly didn’t. go. i have regrets

Where Did The Party Go: i’m not gonna go hard alone!!!

HOLD ME TIGHT OR DON’T: hold me like a grudge vs hold me tight or don’t… fight!!!!

G.I.N.A.S.F.S.: mad that i haven’t seen this live yet. please mr. stump.

Death Valley: why not

I Am My Own Muse: okay i didn’t love this album (inexplicably still listened to it a lot) but whenever i hear this song i imagine someone shredding the guitar and doing that thing that rockstars do where they slide across the stage on their knees. yeah

Dance, Dance: i told my friend to add this to his male manipulator playlist bc of the line “i only want sympathy in the form of you crawling into bed with me.” he put it on and was like “i didn’t realize that was a lyric” and added it

I Don’t Care

(Coffee’s For Closers): james this is for you

Church: i liked mania okay. sue me. i would put “expensive mistakes” on here (“i’ll stop wearing black when they make a darker color”) but i don’t think it’s great concert material

Bang The Doldrums

Sugar, We’re Goin Down

Chicago Is So Two Years Ago: obligatory

My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark: i vividly remember when this came out and i listened to this on loop on youtube

Centuries: this reminds me of after school sports practice bc i listened to it on loop okay. let me have this

Thnks fr th Mmrs: i sang this song at karaoke recently and i was looking up the lyrics beforehand and realized i didn’t know like 70% of the lyrics bc of my aforementioned issue with understanding what the hell fob is saying. anyways my friend had to buy me a shot to get me onstage and we bombed the intro. whoops

Saturday: obligatory

anyways obviously the ideal concert is always “the band plays their entire discography in chronological order” but that is physically impossible. thanks again for sending this ask <3

#groovyaviator #answered #fall out boy #bread blogs #music #noah if you're out there thanks for forcing me to listen to fob. you're a real one. #also shoutout to our friend whose favorite album is folie a deux. i see why now

[ian-ngoh]

Travel Photography Montage - Turkey/Greece 2023

It's my first time doing a project of this nature.

I did not have an Instagram page when I was on this trip, so I was less concerned about taking photos all the time.

Most of the time I put away my phone and enjoy the sights like I usually do, and I only take photos when I feel inspired by the environment around me which is often the case here.

What I'm saying is... I had NO IDEA I was gonna do a photo montage, or at least I didn't know I was gonna be the one doing it.

As such, my photos were... Limited

So not everything you see here was shot by me, but most of it.

Process

As it was my first time with such a project, I really did not know how to make heads or tails of the whole thing.

Do I start each segment with explanation slides? Or more photo captions? especially when there were lots of sites and relics that were significant.

As a musician, I wanted to be very intentional with my choice of music and exactly how it is used in the video.

With my previous experiences with films, especially with that Point-and-shoot project where I had to stitch together multiple disjointed footage to form a cohesive story (that project was a cringe failure but it has now paid off!)

Fast forward 7 Years later! (wow, time really flies!)

I made the conscious choice for the first draft to only have raw visuals, with music and some sound design added.

Since 80% were static images, music was REALLY important, so that was the first thing I had to put in.

Throughout the production, I used a technique I now call, "Visual Association".

Basically deploying visual misdirection by having 2 photos from 2 different locations side by side, tricking your brain into thinking that they are from the same place but soon finding out that it's in another place.

For a split second you'd assume that the 2 photos are the same place, but nope!

This one's a bit more on the nose that you can feel yourself being teleported to the restaurant!

This one's less obvious, I wanted to transport the viewer from Mars Hill to Plaka Market, so I used the image of the Centurion dudes juxtaposed with a chess set that featured a Centurion Pawn Piece

Yes, I do 'cheat' with some "creative freedom", that chess set isn't event from Plaka Market and as a matter of fact, not all of the shots in the video were 100% in chronological order but who cares?

Closing Thoughts (Goodbye 2023)

I'm really proud of how the whole thing turned out, I never liked those kind of influencer vlogs where you are viewing as a third person seeing how much fun these people had.

This "film" approach was so much better for me, where I transport the viewer together on the journey as well.

Show don't tell! No need to over-explain or narrate anything, let the imagination take over!

I sure had fun doing this project, even if I had to buy FOUR albums off iTunes to do this 😅💸

Art really does come from paying attention! I now have come to remember this trip more fondly than I would have otherwise.

#photography #travel #turkey #greece #Youtube

[letstrywritingmaybe]

This is getting too long and wordy so I’m gonna hide my thoughts under the cut but I’m talking about the most recently uploaded CoAi fic on ao3

The most recently uploaded CoAi fic on ao3 is making me feel a type of way and idk if it’s good or bad… like cool that the author is really a canon shipper? And was able to write for a ship that isn’t one they normally ship (in this case it’s almost the opposite considering we still have ship wars even though it’s 2023 people!)

I was very wary when I decided to take the plunge and read it cause I’ve been burned before and it pissed me off, but I did it to myself so I didn’t leave hateful comments cause again we are in charge of our own fandom experiences. No one forced me to read anything.

Anyways, it wasn’t awful? Like I really expected a lot of bashing towards my queen, but there wasn’t really… it was tagged correctly too like yeah definitely felt the ooc, but like it wasn’t terrible… idk I just don’t know what to make of it. Do I comment??? See this is why I like to keep my fangirling and writing separate, cause it was so much easier just being a reader and not have to deal with also being a fellow writer.

Ugh, idk man, I’m just confused. Cause on the one hand I did not like it enough to comment and I don’t force myself to when I didn’t vibe with it, but on the other I am just so fascinated! Like who are you? And why are you low key in my head?

Cause listen, I have debated with myself back and forth over whether or not to write the canon ship break up album fic (aka red cause that is a breakup album to the max which is why I don’t associate it with CoAi), and obviously I would tag the canon ship and make it clear that I am a CoAi shipper and yeah I would also post it anonymously but solely because I don’t want anything to do with the canon ship to show up on my writing profile. I’m not a multishipper and even if I was it certainly would never include the canon ship, the longer it drags on the more annoyed I get with them. So now that I see someone actually doing basically what I would’ve done but flipped, I’m like… idk man.

It feels weird, but I’m pro self indulgent writing and I know sometimes there are stories you want to tell even if it doesn’t fit your normal narrative. Like you guys will not believe how much I’ve had to push away all the scenes in the red album fic cause I can see it so vividly in my mind and I have it all plotted out in chronological order, literally it would be so easy to write for me. But I don’t do it and this is exactly why!

Like is this overstepping a boundary? I mean it’s weird right? But also who am I to stop someone from writing their story that they felt they had to get out? So then is it really okay for me to do so too… but this is one single fic. Mine would be a collection of 29 (31 if I include eyes open and safe and sound but the original plan did not have those, cause I think hunger games when I hear them) song fics. If I’m feeling weird over one fic from a canon shipper, I can only imagine how weirded out they would feel about me posting a 29 (31?) chaptered fic with the big disclaimer that hey, I’m a CoAi shipper who’s just here again and again.

Look I preach basic fandom etiquette, ship and let ship, stay in your lane. The two most important rules, besides the whole not being a dick rule that everyone should just follow as a general guide in life. Would I be staying in my lane if I did write the red album fic the way I envisioned? Is this why I’m feeling conflicted over this anonymous canon shipper posting their fic? Idk, and there really isn’t a right answer. But it does make me want to reach out and pick their brain, like what courage must you have to do this and to care enough about this story that you had to put out. I applaud you for that, and I’m glad you did it. Cause again I’m all about self indulgent writing, but didn’t it feel awful to write this too?

Cause the big difference between this fic and the one I want to write is that this canon shipper gave CoAi a happy ending. I am not so gracious, red is the ultimate breakup album to me so it will not end well for the canon ship, the last song is literally All Too Well ten minutes version, come on. There’s no way this ends well if this is the song for the last chapter.

But it’s not like I can tag it CoAi when it literally would have almost nothing to do with them. It’s a very Ran centric fic and all about her woes with her doomed romance with her childhood sweetheart. I hate when people tag multiple ships, like yeah I get it cause they’re mentioned and it does talk about them, but I’m not a multi shipper and I strictly read fics for my ship. Specifically ones that end well for them, so I really don’t like clicking onto a fic only to find that my ship doesn’t end up together or worse, the canon ship stays canon.

Again though, it’s my own preference and I don’t go around making it the author’s problem cause it’s their fic. I could’ve clicked out at any point, there’s no need to leave nasty comments or talk shit. Clearly it wasn’t written for me, I can’t appreciate it, I’m not the target audience.

Okay yeah I think I’m leaning towards staying put and not writing my fic. I’ve no doubt I could write it just fine, but who is this for? Me? Cause I don’t even want it since I get so triggered by the canon ship now a days. Case in point look at how long this rant got. Really who would even want to read this fic? One person if I’m lucky, so it’s not worth it. Granted I’ve never cared and still don’t care about who reads my fics. I write primarily for myself, and if just the thought of possibly writing it is stressing me out this much then I should just keep it buried. But it’s always in the back of my mind, just pestering me. Ugh.

Phew okay that was so much projecting, and I don’t even feel any better. This was just a lot of rambling and for basically nothing cause I’ve resolved nothing. Anyways, whoever you are canon shipper author, I’m happy for you. It really is dope that you decided to tell this story even though it’s not your ship. Okay time for sleep now

#cynply rambling #it’s late and I’m going through a crisis as per usual. what’s new #I’m still feeling a type of way. but I think it really is the trigger of the canon ship #I just immediately associate it with negative energy when I see it #and yeah I had my problems with the fic too which is why I won’t comment but hey writing is hard #I have trouble for my ship that is always on my mind. I can’t imagine having to write for a notp and make it good #especially making it end well for them. like I could never for the canon ship #I don’t believe in unhappy endings for my ship