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do you have any particular rap recommendations? i'm open to the genre but i haven't really vibed musically with any of the more popular rap artists. i'd really like to listen to more of it but i just don't know where to really start looking

god do I ever. I have no idea who you haven't previously vibed with so if I say someone you don't like then cope, I'm telling you about my personal favorites.

first and foremost remember that love of my life Janelle Monáe raps like hell

Little Simz is simply electric and her album Sometimes I Might Be Introvert is one of the most breathtaking audio experiences I've ever had

Dua Saleh makes me insaaaaane xyr music is so good and also frequently NASTY gay shit (as linked)

I looove Doechii she hits you going like 4000 miles per hour brain go BRRRRRRRR

I just got into Flyana Boss when they opened up for Janelle on tour last year, they're so cute and funny and their energy is incredible

Tierra Whack does a lot of kooky silly shit I adore her

I never really got into BROCKHAMPTON but Kevin Abstract is my #1 sad gay man, this whole album is everything to me

I don't know, like, anything about Aminé outside of his music but that's fine because his music fucks like hell

and I'd be remiss if I didn't include Megan Thee Stallion and a song that reduces me to emotional shambles

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A more fun ask hopefully? Who are some musicians more people should listen to?

god I'm so bad at gauging which artists aren't that well known - I tried to show a song I thought no one else knew to my housemate the other day and they informed me that it's a tiktok meme - so nobody get on my ass if they've already heard of some of these that's not my problem. I'm reccing artists with less than a million listeners monthly on spotify, some of them WAY less than a million, so go check 'em out.

in no particular order here are some babes I've been listening to lately

biitchseat

Hope Tala

Isaac Dunbar

Willow Avalon

Amythyst Kiah

Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers

MICHELLE

Miya Folick

also this is breaking my million listeners rule but Rachel Chinouriri's debut album just came out a few days ago and it's SO GOOD stream now!!!

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3, 5, and 6 for the music ask post!

A SONG THAT REMINDS YOU OF SUMMERTIME

bestie I spent the summer that Melodrama came out listening to it on a LOOP I was deeply unwell

A SONG THAT NEEDS TO BE PLAYED LOUD

once again the answer is really the whole album but god this songggg

A SONG THAT MAKES YOU WANT TO DANCE

Chappell Roan has started to feel like a basic bitch's artist almost overnight but I don't care. for the love of god I'm hot to go!

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5, 11, and 29 for the music asks please?

A SONG THAT NEEDS TO BE PLAYED LOUD

lately for me it has been Breaking Down. do not read into it, it's fine.

A SONG YOU NEVER GET TIRED OF

if I ever say I'm "not in the mood" for this song. I am dead in a ditch.

A SONG YOU REMEMBER FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD.

this is the same one as the one that asks for a song from your preteen years! that's the same thing! this isn't sneaky! anyway. I wrote Percy Jackson amvs to this song in my head.

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3 23 28 for music asks :3

SONG THAT REMINDS YOU OF SUMMERTIME

this is cheating but when the vibe is there the vibe is there

SONG THAT YOU THINK EVERYBODY SHOULD LISTEN TO

hmm that's a lot of pressure but fortunately such a song does exist

SONG BY AN ARTIST WTH A VOICE THAT YOU LOVE

god this one is such a free space to me and that's so fun. I love what Tierra Whack's doing on this song she gets so goofy with it. big theater kid energy (compliment!!!!)

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12 & 30 for song asks!

A SONG FROM YOUR PRETEEN YEARS

truly in hell with these ones oh my god. it's like you guys want me to post Naked Brothers Band. but anyway do you guys remember when this song was on the radio and your little dirtbag friends would go "that song is about SEX. also I heard Lady Gaga has a penis." and you were like... oh 👀? that's an option?

A SONG THAT REMINDS YOU OF YOURSELF

;)

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For the music questions: 3, 12, 13, 28

SONG THAT REMINDS YOU OF SUMMERTIME

genuinely I think every time I do an ask like this I end up picking a Grouplove song for a summer bop but like... they are what they are...

A SONG FROM YOUR PRETEEN YEARS

this one is so difficult because I was like barely cognizant of music as a thing that existed before my teen years so I don't have a lot of songs that I really strongly affiliate with my childhood except for the ones that were on disney channel. but oh my god that reminds me. do y'all remember this song from Minutemen. god I was obsessed.

ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE 80S SONGS

I played this way way way way way too many times on just dance because it was about my angsty teen werewolf oc and his boyfriend. I don't want to discuss it further.

A SONG BY AN ARTIST WITH A VOICE YOU LOVE

this is so funny because presumably I am at least fond of most of the voices of these songs I am recommending, difficult to imagine enjoying a song but thinking the singer songs like hot dogshit, but goddddd I am so in love with how pretty Willow's voice sounds on this new single...

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top 10 albums of 2021 [revised]

I published my first top 10 list too hastily, without nearly enough pedantic overanalyzing of my deepest, darkest feelings about music that came out this year. in order to crack this top 10 I need a pretty uniformly excellent album, one that maintains consistent vibes from top to bottom - not just a handful of songs that I really liked. this ranking more properly takes the full-body experience into account.

unlike my top 10 songs of 2021 and favorite books of 2021, which were friendly and imperfectly alphabetized free for alls, these are ABOSLUTELY ranked in order of favoritism and I want you to know that I have STRESSED over this order.

10. Live At Electric Lady - Bleachers

I'm actually surprising myself by including this; I was actually considering just cutting this list to nine albums when I remembered Jack Antonoff casually dropped this little darling in November. listen, I like Jack Antonoff, but I'm also very tired of him producing samey sounding songs for himself and every pop woman in the industry over and over. the actual new Bleachers album that dropped this year, Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night, was perfectly competent but utterly forgettable; I listened to it once and then never again because I've heard other Bleachers albums and that's basically the same as hearing Take the Sadness Out. HOWEVER. I am a sucker for a good live album, and this a good live album that makes for real easy listening. thanks, Jack.

9. Stand For Myself - Yola

truly every day I thank god and the sweet baby jesus that I got over the "no rap no country" part of my life, the musical equivalent of finding out that vegetables are good, actually, and your parents just didn't know how to cook. Yola's packing a gorgeously rich and expressive voice that I jut want to put on loop for hours so I can Feel Things.

8. DEACON - serpentwithfeet

DEACON has slipped in JUST IN TIME to make this list, and the only thing I regret is not loving it sooner. the vibes are immaculate all the way through, a soulful celebration of serpentwithfeet's love of men and love and loving men. you'd have to be heartless not to groove with this.

7. lately I feel EVERYTHING - WILLOW

as soon as Willow dropped the first single for this album I knew we were in for an EXPERIENCE. a punky and eclectic departure from Willow's previous psychedelic earth mommy music - and packed with some truly surprising and well-played guests - lately I feel EVERYTHING somehow got more rewarding with every listen. Willow has made some extremely promising moves with her music in the past couple years, and I for one am delighted to see what comes next.

6. Hot Winter - Jo Rodriguez

my most unexpected love of the year, a bandcamp darling from an artist with a whopping 27 monthly listeners on spotify. it was one of many albums recommended to me by a dear friend who listens almost exclusively to unlistenable bands who only play gigs in grocery store parking lots at 3 in the morning while dressed as pirates, and I was shocked by how much I actually dug it.

5. A Southern Gothic - Adia Victoria

this album is absolutely everything the name implies and then some, folksy and yearning and a little bit witchy and deeply, deeply in love with the South. from the very first note I knew it was going to be good, and I wasn't ever disappointed. my favorite album of the year for gray skies and cozy days.

4. star-crossed - Kacey Musgraves

Miss Musgraves I'm deeply sorry for whatever happened that led to you getting divorced - or I'm happy for you? I don't know anything about your personal life and I'm not going to learn, because I don't want to and it's none of my business. but I do really appreciate you spinning the experience into this flawless country pop album, which I like more and more each time I listen.

3. Ruin - The Amazing Devil

an unexpected release that won my heart at once. I've loved everything The Amazing Devil have ever put out, probably because their music sounds like the soundtrack to a version of my life where I find a portal and run away to fight monsters with a sword. and now they also have a song to perfectly capture the feeling of sitting at home in quarantine for a year trying to figure out the fuck you're meant to be doing with your life - thanks, Drinking Song for the Socially Anxious!

2. Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz

if you want a full album experience (which I do, always) you're not going to be able to get much better than Little Simz. her album GREY Area topped my 2019 list, and reader? Sometimes I Might Be Introvert is MILES better than GREY Area. listening to this album feels like taking a stroll through an impeccably curated gallery, every second of the experience calibrated for maximum artistry without ever feeling overbearing or contrived. Little Simz was also in Venom 2, if that sweetens the pot for anybody.

1. MONTERO - Lil Nas X.

yeah, Montero wasn't going to budge an inch when I redid this list. it managed to live up to an impossible amount of hype and then some, cementing Lil Nas X as more than just a style icon or a top tier shitposter. he's also an extremely gifted, driven, and ambitious musician who serves as his own muse, crafting his image and experience to tremendous effect. he's a genius he's the moment he's the future etc etc. long may he reign.

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I was tagged by @dykerory to post a song for every letter in the excessively long url that I foolishly saddled myself with as a child and have refused to relinquish for the better part of a decade. let’s do this.

Born Again Teen (Lucius)

Animal Skin (Bryan Dunn)

Teen Idle (MARINA)

Make Me Feel (Janelle Monáe)

Ashamed (Omar Apollo)

Narcissus (Sons of an Illustrious Father)

I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend (Ezra Furman)

Sacrilege (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)

August (San Fermin)

God Is a Woman (Rett Madison)

Alone in the Light (Kim Tillman)

Thingamajig (Miya Folick)

ECHO (Kevin Abstract)

What Do You Like In Me (Nasty Cherry)

All Die Young (Smith Westerns 

You and I Undercover (Steel Train)

Devil Is A Lie (Adia Victoria)

Romance (WILLOW)

Used To Be Friends (Big Joanie)

Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy (Queen)

this took so long and I’m not tagging anyone but if you want to do it feel free !

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10 Songs You’ve Been Listening to A Lot

I was tagged by @ghost-of-apollo; thank you for knowing how much I like doing music memes lmao.

I decided to go the extra mile in dragging myself and just used statsforspotify to tell me the ten songs I’ve been listening to most, and the results are:

Any Kind of Dead Person (Ghost Quartet)

Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats (Cats 1983 Broadway cast recording)

The Cormorant (San Fermin)

I Want You to Love Me (Fiona Apple)

Pretty Girls Don’t Cry (Anna Akana)

The Invitation to the Jellicle Ball (Cats 1983 Broadway cast recording)

Champagne Ladies (And The Kids)

It’s Gonna Be Okay, Baby (MUNA)

Full Moon in Gemini (Vagabon)

Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat (Cats 1983 Broadway cast recording)

I’m tagging @beansprouts, @starklinqs, @zariadriannatomaz, @deadgodjess, @trans-zatanna, @dykerory, and anybody else who wants to hop on this party wagon because I’m nosy and I like knowing what y’all listen to.

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1 & 3 for the music asks!

1)   a song you can listen to on repeat

Boss Bitch by Doja Cat... I’m obsessed 

3)   a song you loved when you were a teenager or kid

middle school obsession and possibly the first song that I liked independently: Dark Blue by Jack’s Mannequin 

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Top five sad songs/songs to listen to when you're sad. Or top five songs that make you happy/reinforce a happy mood, if you don't want to think about being sad right now.

spoiler alert: the sad songs and the happy songs are the same songs.

5. Dancing On My Own (Robyn)

4. Water Me (Lizzo)

3. Yoga (Janelle Monáe)

2. I Wanna Get Better (Bleachers)

1. I Like That (Janelle Monáe)

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Top 5 songs currently on your playlist?

uuuh I don’t so much have “a playlist” as a vast and entirely unorganized spotify library but top five songs I’ve discovered and enjoyed in like the last couple days are:

Winds Change (Orville Peck)

Maker (Anjimile) 

Bathroom (Biitchseat) 

Queen of Hearts (Ezra Furman) 

Pet Body (Miya Folick) 

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2, 20 and 25 for the music box asks!

2)   a song from one of your favorite albums 

I Like That, from Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer, my favorite album of 2018 

20)  a song for car rides 

I’m Good, by the Mowgli’s 

25)  a song from before you were born

Just a Girl by No Doubt, released a year before I was born!

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23)  a song for making out 28)  a song you want to see live

23)  a song for making out

bold of you to assume I know what people make out to when I am but a humble hag living in a bog unkissed for many moons, but be steadwell’s Love Song for a Dom Stripper has to be a contender, right? 

28)  a song you want to see live

pretty much all of the album Wasteland, Baby! but if I had to pick just one Hozier song it would have to be In A Week. nothing says romance like mutual decomposition!

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3 and 28 for the music asks?

3)   a song you loved when you were a teenager or kid

I spent pretty much all of the year I was 18 listening to Shake It Off by Taylor Swift. as one does.

28)  a song you want to see live

Writer in the Dark, by Lorde. just wreck me. 

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