[id: three gifs of kpop group onlyoneof performing 'dopamine' on stage. the stage is lit in blue and white lights. the members are wearing variations of black blazers silver and white detailing and distressed dark grey jeans. the colored caption reads: onlyoneof — 'dopamine' for 230112 music bank /end id]
Well, I'm glad that I got to the music bank stream as on time as I did. OnlyOneOf went like second?? Unless I missed some performances. I have mixed feelings, they got bad sound engineering again, and I'm baffled by today's styling (they still looked amazing because it's them, but it almost looked like they were in street clothes), and they seemed tired. Rie sounded amazing though, and we got Junji and Mill ending fairies.
Music of the Heart [J.YH] - thirteen | youtube recommendations
You had three projects open on your computer, bouncing back and forth between them as your brain went wild with ideas. You were a little annoyed that no one seemed to mash WayV with anything else, and had seen several comments saying it was because it’s in Chinese; as if Korean music doesn’t have English in it all the time. You had also wanted to mash an OnlyOneOf song with something else, and you had a couple songs by ‘nugu’ groups that you wanted to mash with songs by bigger groups, because you felt they deserved the exposure; maybe… Trigger by Craxy with Paint the Town by Loona? You were still deciding. Or maybe even a ‘nugu’ mega mashup at some point, to show all the people who only listen to groups from the big four that other groups actually exist, and just because something comes from a popular company, doesn’t mean it’s good. Then you could do a girl group one and a boy group one, and that’d be two videos and twice the amount of groups you could turn people on to. You leaned over to the open notepad on your desk and jotted down the idea, before putting your headphones back on and getting back to work.
Hours later, your ears ached from listening to so much, and each of the three projects were at various percentages of ‘almost done’. You saved them all, just to be safe, even though you were still technically working on them.
Technically because you remembered that a bassist whose videos you liked was supposed to have a video premier today where he reviewed some new basses he got. Since you were going to have more money soon it certainly couldn’t hurt to watch and start deciding what you’d be interested in buying. It definitely couldn’t hurt. Well, your bank account might hurt a little bit… but your ears wouldn’t, as you pulled the headphone plug out of the jack and took them off.
You looked down at your phone and navigated to the delivery app for the fried chicken place near you and ordered. If you were going to take a break you might as well eat as well, you had worked through lunch and were starving.
Chicken ordered, you opened Youtube and before you could click on the ‘Subscriptions’ button, you noticed a video titled ‘Creepypastas in Among Us??’ which had the little Among Us bean-looking guys-- which you only knew because there were all over your recommended page a few years back. People still played that? One had a black suit with… long arms? And another had a weird, totally white face with big eyes? You didn’t understand what any of it meant, but one was circled and another had a red arrow pointing at it for reasons you couldn’t discern. There was nothing that seemed out of the ordinary to you… unless it was just because you didn’t understand what you were looking at. Your knowledge of Among Us was almost nil, knowing as much as you could from seeing thumbnails of it all over the home page, back when everyone was playing it. At least it was better than seeing screaming faces of streamers next to weird animatronics when everyone was playing that… teddy bear pizza game? Whatever it was called.
But the buzz had died down a while ago. And you didn’t even watch Let’s Plays, why was this being recommended to you? You hovered the cursor over the vertical three dots, and clicked on the ‘Not Interested’ button.
You scrolled for a couple seconds, to see one titled ‘Jay Why Pee cracks??’ where the thumbnail was a still from his ‘wae geureonji molla’ performance, but photoshopped with laughing emojis around his head. Another was titled ‘The Lost Art of RPG Maker Games’, you weren’t even sure what that was. Yet another was titled ‘Cat being ashamed of things she says for 5 minutes and 48 seconds’, with a thumbnail of who looked like Keeho from JUPiTER laughing, and the word ‘SCREEP’ in red font, as if he was laughing at it. You were pretty sure you had heard that he was also a streamer, but you had no idea what ‘SCREEP’ was…
You opened the three dots menu for the video and told Youtube not to recommend such things.
You didn’t care to know. You’d never understand the gaming community.
Your phone vibrated and you were startled by it. You open it to see what the notification was, and saw it was an email. A bandcamp artist notification. You squinted at the tiny font in the notification bar to see who it was.
HALA.
They’ve dropped a new album.
You clicked on the notification and it took literally two million years to open, and then when the email opened your eyes perceived it for as long as it took to discern where you needed to press the screen to make the page open, and you were looking at it.
Their new album.
Canto #23: New Bravery
You had been listening to them for forever, and no matter how long you did, each album drop was a surprise. Only HALA could get away with such shit. You checked the track listing, real quick:
Foundation
Electric Sheep
Cyborg
Hyperion
Aeacus, Minos, and Rhadamanthys
Bluebird
You didn’t know how to pronounce the names in the group of three and you didn’t care. You also couldn’t believe they were up to twenty-three albums already. You wished you could be that productive. To think that this person - who no one knew who they were - could be about the same age as you. It was wild.
But whatever. You didn’t care how exhausted your ears felt, you had to listen to it.
You grabbed your headphones with the longest cord and plugged it into your computer, pressed play on the first track, and laid down on your bed, eyes closed, so you could devote all your attention to it.
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