#sometimes its cursed...unfortunately i did have a hetalia phase when i was in elementary school and never had a proper history class before

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do you have any popular songs you like that you know because of reasons that are totally out of left field? like instead of hearing it for the first time through an obvious venue like the radio or maybe a movie it was licensed in, you hear it only because of like one random amv you saw 11 years ago?

I’ve got a lot of those, the only reason I know about the song Ghosts by Ladytron is NOT because of the many video games it was licensed into, not even Sims (before the ultimate collection of sims 2 was given out for free my only experience with sims was playing sims 2 on console once at a sleepover at a friends house when we were like 8 and giggling about the woohooing) but ACTUALLY because when i was like 11 i heard the toxic avenger remix of it once in a fanmade AMV for of all things, someone’s oc in an original character tournament (battle royale game where people draw or write their ocs fighting to death with their own oc winning, usually in illustrations, comics or short fictions (although this specific OC in the OCT i’m talking about was notable because the entries were usually full flash animations with voice acting even) and whoever does the best wins to the next round, also i say fight to the death but its not always to the death, sometimes its just to defeat, but death is popular because it heightens the stakes and stuff like that lol) and then got really obsessed with the song because it was catchy but also the line about a prince with a thousand enemies reminded me of watership down

theres this one song thats not popular but it was called honest mistake by the bravery and it plays in my head every time i make a silly and harmless but stupid mistake because i think its funny but the only reason i ever heard that song was because someone used it in a warrior cats speedpaint. i think they were drawing tigerstar

i will never know anything about homestuck because i have a unique ability to not absorb anything about that series whatsoever (i have the same problem with the avengers movies too lol) but theres lots of songs i like that were used in popular homestuck amvs and i never have and never will watch a homestuck amv but i did watch a lot of animation memes, warrior cat fan animations, and various anime amvs, and i guess along the way these popular homestuck associated songs got to me via non-homestuck sources hjfdskjflsmfdn, stuff like nilili mambo and satin in a coffin for example

i was really into jack white’s music when i was like 15 and just starting highschool and an upperclassman once complimented my music taste because i was talking about it and i felt very cool but the only reason i ever got into that music was because a very very VERY small internet reviewer i watched used i cut like a buffalo by the dead weather as a short intro song in one of his videos

#i think its fun to look at the origins of music u like #sometimes its neat or cool or just funny #sometimes its cursed...unfortunately i did have a hetalia phase when i was in elementary school and never had a proper history class before #a few songs i like are from various amvs hhhhh luckily most of the hetali association is scrubbed from my mind at least #but man. im sorry ms the cranberries that i first heard zombie in a russia amv. im so sorry #im an adult now and i know the meaning and history behind that song now!!! i promise!!!!!!! im sorry maam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #it is no longer associated with anime boy countries!!!!!!!!!!! it is a very meaningful and intense song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! maam!!!!!!!!!!!!! #its been over 10 years and im grown up and smart now!! i still never did actually have a good history class until i was like in university.. #my regions public school history curriculum is very weird and segmented and glosses over a lot of Very Important details #so many things i had to learn via wikipedia binges and later in post secondary school...