#music ask meme

[idiopathicsmile]

music emoji ask meme

📚 A song or album you could write a term paper on

📣 A lyric that feels like it is specifically calling you out

📅 A song that calls up a very specific time and place for you

🩹 A song you want to hear when you're feeling low

🏠 A song you could live inside

💖 A guilty pleasure song

🧼 What you sing in the shower

🔎 A song you can't stop analyzing

🥲 A song that makes you cry

➡️ A song that makes you want to move around

🎥 A song that gives you a really specific mental image

🧑‍🎨 A musical artist where you drop everything to hear their latest work

🌃 A song for night time

🌅 A song for sunrise

🥳 An album you'd put on for a party

👶 The first song you remember enjoying

⏳ A song you love that was released before you were born

#apologies if this has already been done #ask meme #ask game #music ask meme #assorted memery

[commander-krios]

🎧 You've been posting bands I love so clearly you have good taste

Awww thank you! ❤️ I’m honored that you think so! Here is another older song that I love

#goddesstiera #music ask meme #music

[sleepanonymous]

🖤On Repeat Music Tag🖤

Rules: shuffle your 'on repeat' playlist & post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people

I got tagged by @murderofcrow (thank you for including me🖤🥹) for this music tag.

To be perfectly honest the entire Pain Remains album is on my "On Repeat" playlist on Spotify, so I am very lucky only 3 of the 10 songs showed up here 😅

I honestly have no clue who to tag on this account (esp since I'm doing this a day late and i think all my mutuals have done this already)... so if anyone sees this and wants to do this but hasn't been tagged then I am tagging you🖤

#sleep token #but also #currents #mothica #lorna shore #greyhaven #bad omens #wait thats only five bands help #music ask meme #music tag

[doddsmountain]

What about 6 for the music meme? (:

6: A song that makes you want to dance

This guy! Very fun and bouncy

#ask #ginkovskij #music ask meme

[dalishious]

🎵 x Miriam from Absolution

New Divide by J2 feat. Avery

(I literally made an AMV with this song lol)

#music ask meme

[meepmee]

Send me a ♬ and a ship we have and I"ll make a mini playlist for our ship

#music ask meme #ship ask meme #rp meme

[jamiebuckleys]

Music ask: 🎶

I cheated and just used my all taylor playlist on spotify:

Better Man is the song that came up so here's a 5 song playlist

Wendy//Maisie Peters

Motion Sickness//Phoebe Bridgers

Love of My Life//Harry Styles

You Should Be Sad//Halsey

Vampire//Olivia Rodrigo

#music ask meme #answered

[countthelions]

🎧!

NOW HERE WE GO !!!! A BANGER !!!!! I have a pmv planned to this as (yet another) ode to probably my top favorite fic ever [or at the very least the one that has lived rent free since I read it ohhh a year ago now] - I just need to level up a bit first animation wise to give this the proper tasty thing <3 LOVE the hell out of this song, it's sort of become my voice hc for Grillby in Hell-Raising too oops

#please excuse the excitement #i love this song more than i can contain in a single ! #it's at LEAST FOUR !!!! #music ask meme

[eliasdrid]

RUNRUNRUN by Dutch Melrose!

couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library

RUNRUNRUN - Dutch Melrose

i like the vibes, yeah

#ninjanuary #ask #reply #music ask meme #saving this one bc i think it could go in one of my playlists

[sylladextrous]

Music ask: 23 :)

23: a song that you think everyone should listen to

honestly my answer is actually that Driveways as a whole is a band that everyone should listen to tbh

#driveways is honestly probably my favorite band next to senses fail #music ask meme

[idiopathicsmile]

🔎 A song you can't stop analyzing :)

from a music ask meme, here.

i already mentioned Dessa, but hell, i'll do it again.

every time i listen to mineshaft 2, i love the song, but i get this slightly unsettled feeling because i'm not a hundred percent sure what she wants the listener to get from it.

like, on the face of it, this is a story about a woman trying to get past a romantic relationship that has ended and that hurt her a lot, and ultimately deciding the thing she has to do is forgive her ex and quit carrying around her anger at him. which, like, fine, that's a perfectly good moment to build a song around.

but the song itself—man, i don't know.

first of all, in gesturing in the beginning at the ways her ex hurt her, she (inadvertently? purposely?) makes a really good case for cutting this fucker out of her life once and for all, forgiveness be damned. like, the whole first verse:

Fifteen years from tonight you have to make a decision The greatest love of your life Is gonna call during dinner From the home of the girl that he's living with now And the guilt he'll say is killing him He's wilted in the middle and he knows how bad he acted Knows he can't have you back But the fact is he can't be happy when you're angry And you're so angry, he says you stayed so mad And he heard it on the street that You moved back in with your dad That you were drinking something awful And that makes him sad Then he says it's good to hear your voice again And that it's hard to ask it, but he's calling with a question He's been working real hard, he's trying to make a new start An honest to God fresh beginning So maybe you could try to finally find it in your heart to forgive him

Like, a guy who reacts to knowing he's done you wrong by super playing up how ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE he feels, oh, he's so guilty, he's in such emotional pain about it, almost like he's trying to make you feel bad for him. About his guilt. That he has because he (admittedly!) treated you badly.

and something about the line "he says you stayed so mad" makes me very uneasy, like he's manipulating the whole situation so that really he's the victim here. oh and he's criticizing your living situation purely out of Concern. and then gosh hey, here comes his actual ask, after telling you that you're so mad at him, he just wants a little absolution.

just. everything about this feels to me like a very chaotic and messy person you'd know in your early to mid twenties who maybe(???) doesn't mean any harm but also is going to pursue exactly what they want in all circumstances, any other consideration be damned, even if it means occasionally diving into your life and throwing lit matches and gasoline around.

then we get the refrain, which is an obvious reference to the first mineshaft song, ("i've been here before and i know where it goes / it goes down") which i think in that context refers mostly to her depression. in mineshaft the first, she refers to the end of a relationship as "and when i lost you, i lost some good love and a hand to bite."

but now it's

You've already been here before You already know where it goes You chose this, you know it's supposed to be over

but what is "it"? the song is largely about a relationship that has fallen apart, so is she saying she needs to separate herself from her feelings—both good and bad—about her ex? is she saying she needs to stop falling for his shit and getting hurt again?

we continue:

He hung up the phone, you listened to the dial tone And you stared at the stove until the beeping started You read some love letters some threats and some you couldn't tell apart That you keep under the bed at the apartment

her ex wrote her threatening notes? maybe that's a metaphor. but not being able to distinguish a threat from a love letter, that feels like a giant red flag about the kind of person she's dealing with.

now the speaker starts to turn the blame on herself:

And then you did what he asked you to do you opened your heart up Right there on a napkin on the carpet and part of it was frostbit But you've always been a smart kid Could still distinguish, the blood black as pitch Valves had gone stiff, veins and scar tissue Four chambers just a standard issue But none had room, forgiveness is huge And you had two full of ice water One full of salt, one packed with coal Eager and ready and willing to find fault

and maybe that's supposed to be the thrust of the song, right, that she's saying, 'see, i painted him in this terrible light because i'm bitter and judgmental, that first part was me being an unreliable narrator, listen to this part instead.'

but i'm not sure i buy that? i found her earlier description hard to get past. it felt convincing. maybe she is holding a grudge against her ex, but honestly some amount of grudge seems deserved in this case. also, we've gotten a taste of how manipulative her ex can be, tearing her down right before invoking good times ("Then he says it's good to hear your voice again") and asking for that favor. i mean, he tells her she "stayed so mad" and then she seems to kind of go, "well, he's right."

the speaker's solution is to find her younger, ten-year-old self (the "you" she addresses at the beginning when she says "Fifteen years from tonight you have to make a decision"), and "borrow" that child's heart so she can "call an old friend and I can tell him that we're finally even".

but again, i don't know:

You chose this, you know it's supposed to be over I've been here before And I already know where it goes You chose this, you know it's supposed to be over

that refrain feels so ominous to me. the imagery of finding her best self and trading hearts feels ominous. the concept of approaching this person who we know has manipulated (and threatened?) her, armed only with the heart of the child version of herself—it makes me nervous.

i will admit i am carrying my own baggage into this, and in my case, my early twenties dating relationship that really damaged me was one where when it was over, i made the conscious choice to cut the person from my life. maybe every five years, i google this individual so i can be sure we aren't living in the same city. that's it.

but i also have a tendency to hold a grudge, especially against people who hurt others on purpose. maybe the speaker is on a different path from me. maybe she is doing better to invoke her younger self? maybe "it" in "it's supposed to be over" is her anger, specifically?

maybe the ambiguity is the point? esteemed Dessa scholars of tumblr, if anyone wants to weigh in here, you are more than welcome.

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[commander-krios]

🎧

Thank you! ❤️ rediscovered this band recently and I’m obsessed with this song

#music #music ask meme

[dangerouscommiesubversive]

19 for the Music Asks, or 26 if you would prefer

I will do both! I love talking about music.

19: A song that makes you think about life

"To Noise-Making (Sing)," by Hozier. This song makes me fizzy and happy and reminds me enjoyably of things that make life worth living.

26: A song that makes you want to fall in love

This one is slightly tricky, because a. I'm married and b. I am by nature a sort of enthusiastic person--in many ways I find myself in the condition of falling in love all the time, every day. However, that's not within the scope of the question, so. "Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing," by Stevie Wonder, is a song that always reminds me of that sort of bubbly sensation of meeting someone and thinking, "oh, shit, I am really into this person and if I can make them smile right now it'll make my day."

(For a song about the condition of falling in love constantly, I will refer you to "The Disaster of Passion," performed by AISHA for the Guilty Gear Strive soundtrack, which is a fucking banger also so listen to it anyway.)

#anonamouse #music ask meme

[doddsmountain]

11 & 13?

11: A song that you never get tired of.

When my husband and I were still planning on having a more typical wedding this was going to be our wedding song lol

13: One of your favourite 80's songs

This one is harder as I never really think of having a favourite of anything, but rather a bunch of favourites that rotate frequently. But for this I'm gonna go with anything Supertramp

#ask #switchyfox #music ask meme

[dalishious]

🎵 Sera

Minority by Green Day

#music ask meme

[wegtable]

14 :)

were running thru the entirety of selena - live at the astrodome first thing like first thing after starting the reception

#or at least the live como la flor #music ask meme