#i am not kidding i have so many albums i don't skip on

[violaceum-vitellina-viridis]

Top 9 No-Skip Albums, as tagged by @concertconfetti. this was,,, so fucking hard oh my god, I have so fucking many no-skip albums, narrowing it down to a top 9 was,,, hhhhhh. I made several decisions in the direction of "accurate representation of my music taste" and “formative to me as a person” because if I tried to pick favorites I was literally never going to narrow this bitch down at all.

tagging @storm-and-starlight and uhhhhhh anyone else who wants to do this you can say I tagged you :D

personal lore explanations under the cut!

these are not in any particular order, to be clear, because as stated narrowing this down was a bitch and a half so I'm definitely not trying to rank shit

▶ Folie à Deux by Fall Out Boy

to be entirely honest, the entirety of Fall Out Boy's discography is no-skips the whole way down, but Folie was the very first full album of theirs I heard so obviously it has pride of place. this album is so fucking good, okay, and I'm so glad that people are coming around to how much of a banger it is but like Vinn said in theirs, I AM going to be on the "I loved this album before it was cool" train for eternity.

favorite song: Disloyal Order Of Water Buffaloes

▶ Endgame by Rise Against

almost all of Rise Against's discography is also no-skips for me, but this one came out when I was in middle / high school and obsessed with dystopian fiction so it made An Impression. it's also the album that has Make It Stop on it, a song written about the rash of queer suicides that made national and international news in September 2010; as a queer kid and Rise Against fan who was heavily affected by those suicides and everything surrounding the media about them, it was incredibly formative for me.

favorite song: Make It Stop (September's Children)

▶ DIVISIONS by Starset

Starset is another band whose entire discography is no-skips the whole way down. they are in fact my absolute favorite band -- I have shaved their logo into my hair before, I have four tattoos on my fingers that correspond to 4 of their songs, and I've done VIP for every one of their Utah shows since 2018. this album is the winner out of all of theirs because it contains several of my most favorite songs by them and also every song on this album is an absolute banger live.

favorite song: Other Worlds Than These

▶ Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones by Black Veil Brides

look, I was an emo/scene kid. what do you want from me. this album of theirs wins over We Stitch These Wounds entirely because this one is an Album™, meant to be listened to in order as it tells a story. it was also formative to me as a person because it came out when I was in high school. recently I relistened to this album through again and experienced the full spectrum of human emotions. 

favorite song: tie between Resurrect the Sun and Overture, possibly just those two as a pair

▶ Ceremonials by Florence + the Machine

the first time I listened to this album all the way through was shortly after a good friend died in high school, and the opening song Only If For A Night straight up gutted me alive (positive). the rest of the album proceeded to fundamentally rewire me as a person. 

favorite song: Heartlines

▶ Excommunication by Tyler Glenn

as an ex-mormon I am contractually obligated to love this album, and tbh even if I wasn’t, I would still love it. it’s an incredibly fantastic look at the up-down-sidways of a faith crisis – something that’s both a crisis, a terrible thing to experience, and also a kind of rebirth into freedom. I have,,, a lot of feelings about this album and Tyler Glenn okay.

favorite song: Black Light or Devil

▶ Pressure Machine by The Killers

The Killers said, “hey, Utah fans, do you want to know what it feels like to be flayed alive?” and then did not wait for an answer. oh my god, this album is,,, so much. it’s an ode to small town mormon Utah and it’s brutal in the best goddamn way. I genuinely tear up every time I listen through it, and some days I cannot listen to it at all for fear of dissolving into a puddle of sobs. I almost never hear one song without just going and listening to the whole album through, too.

favorite song: Sleepwalker

▶ Pins and Needles by The Birthday Massacre

I don’t even know what to say about this album, I just adore it so much. the poetry and word play and cool music, it’s just. so goddamn good. honorable mention to Walking With Strangers by them as well, but this one won entirely because it’s the one I listen to through/on repeat the most.

favorite song: Two Hearts

▶ Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place by Anberlin

once again with a band whose entirety discography is straight bangers the whole way down, but again: this was formative to who I am as a person. it was one of the first albums I ever owned (alongside Cities by them as well), and I have seriously considered getting the album title tattooed. I probably will at some point if I can figure out a design and place for it.

favorite song: Pray Tell

additional honorable mentions because FUCK it was so motherfucking hard to narrow this down:

▶ The Horror and The Wild and Ruin by The Amazing Devil

▶ Let The Ocean Take Me by The Amity Affliction

▶ A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out by Panic! At the Disco

▶ Atlas I and Atlas II by Sleeping At Last

▶ Post Traumatic by Mike Shinoda

▶ For Your Entertainment by Adam Lambert

▶ BADLANDS by Halsey

#about me #music #tag game #fob #starset #see how the honorable mentions is the same length as the list? #IT COULD BE SIGNIFICANTLY LONGER. #i am not kidding i have so many albums i don't skip on #i love music so much okay

[atticcreationz]

1,2,7 and 10 !

Thanks for the ask! <3 We are quickly going to learn that I have trouble picking favourites ahahah

1) Favourite song is either High School is Killing Me or Cool As I Think I Am! I could gush for a long time about how gorgeous they both are. NPMD actually takes the cake for my favourite music in the Hatchetfield trilogy - least skips, most bops! (Hatchetfield, compared to other Starkid musicals, doesn't always have music I like to listen to outside of watching the musical itself)

2) Jesus don't make me choose between my children...! Starkid are really so damn good at having a tight group of main characters. Hmmmmm the many years of starkid nostalgia means I always love a Joey protagonist so damn much, but you know what, I thought Richie was so great, I think he wins by a hairs breadth. He opened the musical beautifully, I was a little weeb at his age and hung out with a lot of kids like him so his dialogue was fuckin hilarious and hit me where I live, I had a lot of FeelingsTM, and he ended act 1 beautifully too.

7) Dirty Girl! Loved it in the musical (Angela's performance is just amazing, as was Will's) but used to skip it on the album coz it just wasn't really my genre of music. I think it's coz the opening verse doesn't really hit for me. But everything from that Grace verse onwards got me in the end.

10) I'm such a basic bitch and l tend to love the canon ships (Lautski are so damn cute, and Holy Ghost are insane for each other /pos), so I'm reading this question as what NON canon ships do I like! I love Trevor and Rudolph, but also I wanna see Ruth (my sweet baby bisexual) have a happy flirty moment. Is anyone shipping Ruth with Brooke?? I don't think they'd be together long, but I think they'd have some adventures (or y'know, Brooke setting fire to shit and Ruth too flustered to stop her) before they went their separate ways. Or maybe Ruth and Caitlyn would be cute, a short theatre kid romance while they work on a show together!

Link to the NPMD ask game post for anyone who wants to see the list of Qs or who wants to join the fun! https://www.tumblr.com/atticcreationz/736158319964733440

#ask game #nerdy prudes must die #npmd #npmd ask game #starkid #starkid npmd #hatchetfield

[musicthatyoucandanceto]

robin’s opinions about sparks albums 1971-1979

because I wanted to review them like I’ve seen a lot of people do, but I am simply not strong enough to rank them by how much I like them (I love them all dearly). these are all my opinions so please don’t come at me 😇

Self-Titled (1971) (I often wonder how they came up with such genius stuff as their first album, but then again, it’s the Maels and of course they did) Bops: SLOWBOAT!!! 💞💖💗, Saccharin and the War, High C (and many more…)

Flops: Biology 2 :| it's fun sometimes but I usually skip it (as many people do). Sorry not sorry Earle Mankey 🫢

A Woofer in Tweeter’s Clothing (1972)

Bops: Girl 👏 from 👏 Germany 👏 (far beyond the rest of the album imo), Whippings and Apologies

Flops: The Louvre (it’s actually ok but I never feel like I need to listen to it), Batteries Not Included 👎

KIMONO MY HOUSE (1974)!!!!! MY BESTIE!!!!

Bops: Amateur Hour (this is everyone’s favorite but it’s the best song I have ever heard in my life), Barbecutie, Talent is an Asset, and more!

Flops: literally none this is a no skip album. Sometimes Here in Heaven can be a little grating but I never let myself skip it (out of loyalty) 💪

Propaganda (1974)

Bops: B.C. (I am a HUGE B.C. enjoyer), Something for the Girl with Everything, Marry Me, and bonus points to Propaganda because it's cool

Flops: ummm Who Don't Like Kids I guess? or Achoo? but both of those are actually really good, they just have annoying endings so I don't think they count

Indiscreet (1975) << LOVE her

Bops: Looks, Looks, Looks!!! (SLAYS SO HARD), Hospitality on Parade, How Are You Getting Home/Happy Hunting Ground/The Wedding of Jacqueline Kennedy to Russell Mael/Get In The Swing/Under The Table With Her

damn I didn't know I liked Indiscreet this much

Flops: Indiscreet is OOPS ALL BANGERS!!! No flops here :)

Big Beat (1976) ok if I thought I loved Indiscreet I REALLY love Big Beat. It was the first Sparks album I liked and it gets a lot of hate but it's my good time boy

Bops: Confusion!!! Screwed Up!!! I Like Girls!!! (The amount of exclamation points in this post is getting appalling‼️)

Flops: White Women I guess?? It's my least favorite but it's still very well produced in terms of music, I just get squeamish about the lyrics (which is funny bc I'm fine with Throw Her Away And Get A New One). I know the song is ironic but still........

Introducing Sparks (1977) (also my good time boy)

Bops: I looooove Occupation, Forever Young, and Over the Summer and those are just the ones I would rank 10 out of 10!!! There are a lot of other ones that are also fabulous

Flops: Those Mysteries .... I know a lot of people like it but it just does not hit for me. I'm not a huge fan of I'm Not either but it's still a solid 7 out of 10

NUMBER ONE IN HEAVEN (1979)! aka number one in my heart!! ok maybe number three but no one's forcing me to rank them

Bops: La Dolce Vita, Beat the Clock, The Number One Song in Heaven...... but I hate picking favorites.....

Flops: my other voice 😶 it's good but the rest of the album is incredible, show stopping, fantastic, amazing, and other adjectives that describe how my mind was blown when I first listened to it. I think My Other Voice is nice as a lead up to The Number One Song in Heaven but it is my least favorite on the album

#sparks #my 'sparks opinions' tag #this is part one of… five maybe? #(update it's 4) #too many exclamation points

[mrsfezziwig]

KQ - The Reason Ateez Don't Win Awards: (Pt 1)

n.b.(Good God I am actually scared of what reaction this may get from other Atiny but I feel like it is something I really need to address!)

Ateez are incredible;

as humans, as a group, as vocalists and as rappers, but their stand out ability comes in the way they perform and dance. I have never seen a group like these eight men when it comes to their star power; all of them could probably be in The Demon Line now they have matured, especially Yunho, who feels more relaxed on stage, more intense and he is most definitely not holding himself back anymore (That YunGi clothes grab in the Wonderland tour version, anyone? This Mrs Fezziwig was fanning herself like a Georgian Regency lady with a hand fan and blaming it on her age - hot flushes, you know... Oof! ). But anyone with a braincell can look at the lack of acknowledgement of their talents in terms of end of year award show nominations and wonder what the hell is going on?! It is incredibly irritating when people who deserve to have their hard work and talents celebrated are passed over again and again.

Now, this is where I just know I am going to be side-eyed, possibly bombastically, because I need to make comparisons in order to make my points as this is only about my opinion, and things I see other Atiny discussing on socials. In addition everyone knows how close the members of these two groups are as friends, hence why I am risking my sanity to say it:

The Comparison - Stray Kids

What makes Stray Kids so well awarded isn't just their agency, which has absolutely helped, with their money, organisation and longevity in the idol industry, but there's also the fact that they have practically carte blanche when it comes to the music they make. No body on this good, green Earth can ignore the sheer genius that is 3RACHA and their most common producer, Versachoi, when it comes to their abilities to write, compose and produce their songs.

Every emotion in the human pantheon of feeling is out there in a song available for fans to discover from their catalogue. Their forte is the musical freedom all the members contribute to the group.

SKZ hits harder because they are performing their own emotion out in song and dance, having three geniuses in one group is fated, no one can ever tell me otherwise... However, Ateez doesn't have that extra layer of connection even though the boys are still insanely versatile and make it work.

That's not the fault of the members, BBTrippin or even on some level the collective Edenary, they're all being told the same thing by the agency. It lies in the fact that those at the top want it to be this way.

I don't say this as a diss against Edenary, and I have yet to find a skip song on their albums. It is all impactful, musically, there is nothing but hit after hit on those but the lyrics just aren't up to par. Guerilla was about a fictional revolution, Halazia was about a fictional revolution from the outsider perspective, Bouncy was about an, um... fictional revolution and Crazy For-... Yeah, I am going to stop here.

KQ CEO-nim, I respectfully say:

Holy Fuck... Drop the fucking storyline into the b-side! Yep, you heard me right - Drop. The. Fucking. Storyline. From. The. Title. Tracks! Plllleeeeaaaaasssseee?

I am pretty sure all the inhabitants of Dimensions A and Z, and how ever many other of these buggers are hiding in the mind of the planners, shall collectively gasp dramatically 'Blasphemy!'

What a cardinal sin to suggest such a thing!!! Pre-debut Atiny are clutching their pearls and Diary Version albums as I speak such foul utterances, wondering how I could possibly have the very cheek of it to say such a thing! Do you think the boys will be proud of the dramatic delivery here? 😂

Yes, there are some moving and heart-wrenching b-sides on Ateez albums that are ignored for the scale of interdimensional time Pirates, which makes it increasingly, painfully obvious that those emotions are rare in their title tracks. So, I will make the point I've been moving up to with the comparison:

KQ need to let loose the reins

I first encountered Ateez in my initial journey with kpop in 2021 and I was in my 'BTS got me hooked, Stray Kids toppled them with Hellevator from my focus, and Ateez seems interesting...' era

Being 38 I felt kinda like some sort of sicko for finding guys I could have birthed attractive and I still have twinges of this feeling occasionally. Thankfully, none of the 5th Gen children are anything other than cute little babies to me, ones that I want to tut at, throwing appropriate clothing their way and ground them for going out in such tiny skirts and dresses. As you can imagine, finding Deja Vu as my first Ateez song sent me screeching dramatically away from the group, hands flapping and looking for a man my age to hide behind [thank you, Rain; you were extremely helpful during my mid-life-ish crisis].

So I continued on my way along up the endurance hike that is the Stray Kids path, again feeling slightly creeped out at myself for buying Oddinary, but also in absolute awe at the music these eight guys made. I still don't have a fucking clue what their storyline is, although it is coming more into focus thanks to the most recent SKZFLIX but that's kinda positive as it allows for their flexibility in terms of what they say and how it's performed and perceived.

At the core, I like their lyrical content better than Ateez, purely due to the fact it's visceral in its emotional impact. With a leader like Bang Chan, I haven't been surprised to find so many amazing fans out there too. Older STAYs I chat with on Discord have been my rock and support as I admitted my feelings of discomfort at the age thing and we figured out it was my STBX husband and his reaction to my new found hobby and likes that left me feeling so icky.

With their help, I finally got the courage up to accept that we were done after 20 years and I haven't missed him except for one occasion [I was facing a general anaesthetic to have a massive abscess on my jaw drained, all alone in a hospital about an hour from home with nobody at all to hold my hand] since he left in March. Every time I faced a backwards step emotionally because of my Ehler-Danlos Syndrome and my limitations, they were there to check on me.

This community is what makes Kpop the best rabbit hole I ever plunged into - stay away from Twitter (No, Elon, it isn't called 'X', it's called Twitter!) and the fans are such magnificently, genuine hearted people who just get me! For the first time in my life my sense of humour wasn't misinterpreted and rather slotted into place like this was where I was meant to be all along. When I found this tribe I was so lonely it was frightful, and it's only by being who I am today with their love and support I can look back at that version of myself and cry for her desperation and black-fog draped soul.

99% of the people in that chat are actually StayTiny, and they were discussing Halazia, insisting I really need to watch the MV. So I did, and as thankful I am for BTS getting me into Kpop and Stray Kids for finding me at my lowest then giving me my coping song in Voices, Ateez overtook them all in one MV. There is something about these guys that I connected with. That began my twisted path in April 2023 in learning names, songs and personality types that lead me to December and the drop of Crazy Form. Yet they may now be my Ult group, Stray Kids are my foundation in the world of idols. And no, I still can't handle Deja Vu no matter how many times I have tried to make it happen. So far I can get to the end of Yunho's opening but I can't take San with that haircut and eyebrows without cringing and backing out, which means I've progressed beyond the sexual feel of the song and am now firmly entrenched in 'Second-hand Embarrassment Station'.

Ateez could be much bigger if...

Despite the connection I found with these seven crackheads plus Jongho, instantly was thrown off by the incessant focus on the story of Ateez and dimension hopping, wondering where they were, as in where were the personal stories; the freedom of expression and grounding focus of reliving your experience in music?

If the story came in the form of a novel, I would be pre-ordering that shit off Amazon faster than I pre-order SKZ and Ateez albums. And I am not alone in this sentiment. After five years in the industry, these guys aren't newbies, they have the experience to handle the responsibilities of writing their own songs with guidance from Edenary and creating their own choreo alongside BBTrippin.

Hearing how the agency weaves the lore into every single MV and title track, I felt angry. I still am and am likely to always be, because if they let up and allowed the boys to display their joy, sorrow, happiness and agony in their songs and choreo, Ateez would be even greater, they'd be a force to be reckoned with particularly in the international market where they just work already. This is where BTS and Stray Kids have Ateez beat.

international fans have come to expect that the music is written and produced by the members of a group. Sure this could be argued as being a side effect of BTS getting so big, it's also a factor no one should discount.

Now, I shall move onto the part I love most: 'saying shit 'people who don't have a genetic pain disorder and who still have two flying fucks to give' won't...

The agency is responsible for the lack of mainstream recognition in terms of awards and fans because that oomph 3RACHA pour into their music is where the disparity lies.

With performers like the eight men in Ateez imagine them being up there on the VMAs stage getting all the praise... And the viral Taylor Swift reaction to match... Her reaction to Chan was just so relatable after all (be still my Swiftie/STAY/Atiny manic heart). I can't lie, the thought of them never being recognised in the mainstream before it's too late and they disband to focus on solo careers makes me tear up. Oh, that's so dramatic of me is what people who don't know Ateez will think,

'Ewwww... it's not that deep 🙄! Go touch some fucking grass and stop being so saesang coded' { Bitch, if I could go outside without dislocating my hip, I'd still be an Archaeologist! Is that enough grass and mud for you all?}

With a massive 'Wooyoung-thicc, baby-girl-twerking' ass BUT(t):

The thing is, it actually is that deep.

I am sick of spending comeback day piecing together the story point instead of looking at the video and lyrics and it's meaning. Which invariably is about the destruction of the dystopian universe. Don't Stop did the story telling in a way that made sense for what the video portrays and it works real fucking well (plus Mingi? Oooh, damn boyyy!). We understood it because it was all there to be found!

Imagine having that every comeback day, the 'falling out of bed at 5am to match KST' would be so much more enjoyable because there isn't any depth to plunder, it would be a {most definitely not} straight shooting banger or bopper or tear-mopper of a track, ALMOST ENTIRELY written and produced by the members for us to enjoy on repeat. Then a few days later the Edenary b-side/s with all the storyline desired would drop and we would be mentally prepared to disect every second of it because our thirst would have diminished to the 'reasonably manageable when those eight beautiful men plus San's chocolate bar abs are in the world' level.

Whilst I intended to make all my points in one post, I will split it up because of the length it's going to be... To be continued...

#ateez #hongjoong #seonghwa #yunho #yeosang #choi san #mingi #wooyoung #jongho #kq entertainment #crazy form #comeback #edenary #don't stop #music #AtoZ #dystopia #music video #opinion #Atiny #8 makes 1 team #kpop #Spotify

[plaintoast]

lots of ramblings about gratitude, grief, my mom, etc below. consider this a friendlocked lj entry that i'm letting anyone read

been thinking since my mom died a lot about gratitude - how grateful i am to have had that weekend with her in july, that the last days i had with her were the best days we ever had; how grateful i am that she didn't suffer for very long; for the outpouring of love and support from friends and strangers alike. it's opened up my heart to being grateful for so much more than that, too - grateful for the sunshine even as the days are short; grateful for safe travels; grateful when a good song comes up in a playlist. outrageously grateful for the album angel in realtime. by gang of youths.

i feel at this point like i skipped the grief entirely. there haven't been a lot of moments in the last three months that i've felt especially... sad? i think about my mom a lot, i think about the fact that i'll never talk to her again, but for the most part i feel at peace with it. i'm sure there will be moments in the future that ARE sad, and there have been moments already that way, but not many. instead i'm filled with this endless capacity for light.

for the past few years at least i've always looked for the bright side and it feels easier than ever now, like if there is some hole in me from loss it can only be filled with good.

i do expect that to shift with time, but when i think about it, i grieved her a long time while she was still alive and well. i did not really get along with my mom in life. as i've been saying in polite company, i challenged her. as i've learned in her death, despite having 3 kids before me, i was the first kid she ever really raised.

we fought a lot. we didn't know how to talk to each other. when i was 12, aware of my own not-straightness, my best friend's sister married a woman, and my mom said she wouldn't go to her kids wedding if it was a same-sex wedding. when i came out to my mom as bi at 19, drunk on apple martinis in a bar with her, she got up and left. when i was 28 and happier than i'd ever been in my life and she found out i was trans (on accident) she wrote me a long email about how i couldn't let the sadness in me make me believe something like that.

i loved my mom a lot, and i was so desperate to have a mom who was also my friend, who treated me like a human being and not her owned property, who respected me. i know she loved me, and i always knew she loved me, but especially after she wrote me that email when she found out i was trans... i spent a lot of time talking to my best friend and my therapist about if i would ever have a relationship with her that felt good. we talked about how much i could forgive, how much i needed her to reciprocate.

sometime in may or june i was on the phone with her while going for a walk (this is something i know i'll miss) and i don't remember how it came up but i told her that i'd been using he/him pronouns pretty exclusively for the past few years, and i remember her taking it... well. she took it well. i remember thinking that maybe there was hope for our relationship.

after she died, my step dad told me that the two of them had in the past couple of days before it happened had a serious conversation about how my mom could accept me as her son, how she'd been working through it and was ready. i believe him. i'm sad i'll never have her in my life as someone who'd finally worked out how to love me right, how to care for me well, but mostly i'm grateful she reached that point at all.

i wish my mom was still alive. i do. but i am filled with all the light she didn't get to shine yet.

[f0linasahl0]

you know i have too many thoughts but i can't seem to place them well enough to make a single post.

like i'm just thinking about (multi fandom thoughts god save me):

-dustin and steve's friendship and how genuine it is. same with robin and steve. idk i think steve is just a good guy when around good people.

-thinking about how dustin was wearing rings in a stranger things teaser im literally going to break down

-thinking about how tyler's singing voice changes through each album. like idk how to explain it other than that. it's just good

-thinking about how draco malfoy deserved more than what he got. he deserved a better family. a chance at being an actual kid rather than caring about his family's image

-thinking about spencer reid. just spencer reid. loml

-there's so many songs i'd be so excited to hear on the clancy world tour. so many songs i'd break down to. so many songs that if they skip it i'd actually be heartbroken.

-thinking about how penelope garcia held that fucking team together shut up. she was the glue that held the bau together argue with the wall.

-still thinking about how fucking broken tyler looked through the livestream experience. how clancy was a puppet for the bishops through SAI. imagine how horrifyingly humiliating that would be. a man who tried so hard to fight something like that just to be the poster boy for it.

-still wondering what jenna and debby's roles are. like sure that's not a big thing but i care about it i wanna know where they are in the lore. like even if it's not meant to be something big id like to know

-i think i ended up liking draco malfoy as much as i do is because looking past the little boy who's a bully, look at his family bro. he had no choice in what he could be. his character is more complex than initially thought

-harry potter, as much as he deserved to be, was so whiny some times 💀. ron is just whiny in the later books. like come on you think this kid who's gone through hell wants to keep going through hell for some money?? ronald come on calm your tits and talk to him. just that whole fight in goblet of fire could've been avoided if he just talked to his friend. like you fucking think he wanted that ronald?? calm down.

-there's a few characters that if they die in s5 of stranger things im literally going to break down. specifically dustin, steve, and robin. if they die--dude like absolutely not

-peter parker you deserve the entire world you deserve everything. all the peter parker's in the marvel cinematic universe and marvel comic universe. literally i--UGH

-there's a few twenty one pilots songs that while i listen to them i specifically remember the music video and i think that's really funny. to note, some of them are stressed out, lane boy, somewhat fairly local, house of gold, guns for hands, i just remember the livestream ones for shy away and choker, there's so many but like--there's parts that remind me of the mv

-i don't think i ever hated SAI i just distanced from twenty one pilots in 2021 (which honestly was the worst time for me to do so but here we are) and thinking i disliked SAI was better than turning away from the band that probably saved my life from further depression and instead turning to dumbass minecraft youtubers that ended up just being awful awful people. i hate that. i hate that i was so awestruck by these mcyts that i didn't think about how bad they could've been. SAI is a good album i just never got into it like i am now and that makes me feel so sad. i don't want to be one of those "oh you just came back because the lore said this album was...blah blah blah" like okay thanks for the words and shit i don't really care let me LIVE

.....

anyway those are some various thoughts. idk what else to put anymore so enjoy this thought dump i guess 🤷

this is what i mean by multifandom i like too many things 💀

#twenty one pilots #tyler joseph #josh dun #clancy #blurryface #scaled and icy #trench #spotify #steve harrington #dustin henderson #stranger things #robin buckley #spiderman #peter parker #draco malfoy #harry potter #ron weasley #when i say multi fandom #i mean multifandom #spencer reid #penelope garcia #criminal minds #and so much more #multi fandom

[junemermaid]

sunday meme

I was tagged by the always excellent @michellemisfit, and whoever sees this may consider themselves tagged!

Name: June

Age: Definitely so old that all the cool kids I agree, I should be home ironing my taxes and not in the thick of fandom. Joke's on them, I'm never leaving.

Favourite Colour: I have many! Strong, earthy/muted blues and reds are lovely. I'm more partial to color combinations, perhaps. Anything that makes a good contrast.

Beverage of Choice: Black tea, mineral water, hot chocolate, cloudy apple cider.

Do you have push notifications turned on for tumblr? God, no.

Opinion on Fireworks? They're beautiful when done professionally, but I don't think the general public should necessarily have access to them (due to risk to humans, pets, and the environment).

Favourite Childhood Toy? Oh, like a proper toy and not, say, a book. ^^; I had a big stuffed lynx that lived on my bed many years into adulthood, too. I don't remember what happened to her, though—my parents might still have her in storage.

The store you shop at the most: … My local supermarket?

Do you swear a lot? In my natural state I swear fairly often. I clean it up for work and other polite company but in casual settings I do.

Favourite Trope: Slow burn! Hurt/comfort! Mutual pining! Battle couple! Most of all, however, I adore crunchy emotional complexity and anything a fic does to surprise me. Not in the weird edgy prestige TV sense of "if the audience guessed a logical plot point WE MUST CHANGE IT", but in the sense of having an interesting take on literally any aspect of character or lore.

An album with no skips: CMX — Vainajala

If you could play any instrument, what would you choose? A lute.

Your biggest pet peeve: In fandom or otherwise? At work, when people won't stop talking but just bubble on while I'm trying to help them. I don't need your whole life story, I just need to know what you want to ask. In fandom, top/bottom discourse.

Favourite time of day: Late evening, but also early morning (if I happen to be awake). I like being up when the world is quiet.

And finally, did you drink water today? I did, and am about to do so again.

#meme #meme me up #june does a meme

[son-fuori-di-me]

Rush! tier-list

I waited a week to do that, to listen more closely to each song, which are my favs and which are definitely not. So here it is :

S-tier

If Not For You My favourite song from Rush!. I'm a sucker for sad ballad, and this is one is particularly well written. Top 5 of my fav Må songs overall.

The Loneliest Kinda for the same reasons as If Not For You. Brings me to tears almost every time.

In Dono Della Vita The most 'Teatro d'Ira' song from Rush!. Reminds of La Paura Del Buio, which is top 2 of my favourite Må songs overall.

A-tier

Timezone Underated song in my opinion. Cute emo vibes at first, but still poignant lyrics. Really feels like being inside Damiano's head when they're abroad and it's sad. Sorry, I like sad. La Fine Also lots of 'Teatro d'Ira' vibes. Amazing guitar rifs and bass lines. Will be a banger on stage, like Lividi Sui Gomiti or In Nome Del Padre.

Mark Chapman I stand my ground as a lover of their italian songs. Another crazy guitar rifs, feels like Thomas keeps upgrading his game, and I love it. Another banger.

Mamma Mia Bottom A-tiers because we've known this one for a while and it feels weird to have it in the album. Still love it as much as as the first time I heard it.

B-tier

Read Your Diary This is the beginning of trouble, as I think Rush! as a lot of "pretty okey" songs. Read You Diary is still a great one, love the bass line and the energy from the chorus. Own My Mind Pretty catchy, but maybe a bit more simple than Read Your Diary. Really gets stuck in my head from time to time. A cool kick to launch the album.

Baby Said Same logic, pretty catchy, but feels like it's a bit more pop than Own My Mind. Pop songs are okey, bands need them to be on mainstream radio. Not always the vibes I'm looking for in Må, that's all.

C-tier

Supermodel Again with pop songs. Never been a huge fan of Supermodel, never will be. Still reminds me of my trip to Rome last summer, so I don't hate on it.

Gossip First hot take for Rush!, but I really am not a fan of Gossip. Despite the collaboration with Tom Morello, I think it's a not a good song, very repetitive and kinda boring. Has some real poor lyrics in my opinion.

Gasoline I think I prefer to listen to Gasoline over Gossip. Still put that one on bottom c-tier because it doesn't feel like a Må song, and most of all because I think it doesn't belong in this album. They wrote that one in support of Ukraine, and this real strong political stance feels weird next to Baby Said and Feel. Overall, I think the order of the songs in Rush! doesn't make any sense.

D-tier

Feel Some of the poorest instrumental of the album to my taste. Still, I guess it will be fun to dance to in a gig.

Don't Wanna Sleep Very conflicted on that one because I want to like it, but I don't. Too similar to many other songs of Rush!, which I think is the main problem with this album : too many songs. I could listen to Rush! with skipping Don't Wanna Sleep, and seriously don't think I'm missing anything on what they meant with this album.

E-tier

Blablabla Here we go. I hate Blablabla. I get the message, it's punk, it's supposed to sound like this. I still think it's terrible. Utterly terrible.

F-tier

Cool Kids Again, I get what they meant. But Damiano was wasted recording this and it shows. It's bad, like really bad. It doesn't even feel like the song is finished. I actually can't listen to that one to the end. Their worst song to my opinion. I'd listen everyday to Are You Ready, but not this. Pass.

#maneskin #damiano david #victoria de angelis #ethan torchio #thomas raggi #rush #gossip #the loneliest #cool kids #timezone #mamma mia

[cosmojjong]

Top 5 kpop artists (group or solists) (of course whitout ptg and shinee lol)

oh i see what you did there with the 'of course without ptg and shinee' because you knew i was gonna mention them :,)

not sure if i am supposed to do five top groups and five top soloists together so i'll do them divided! also, making this list is hard because i feel like i'm gonna regret it (i may remember someone else later since i casually listen to a lot of music) but:

groups

bvndit - i think they're such a solid group, but unfortunately aren't very known and the company doesn't promote them as much as they should. also hui composed 'dramatic' for them so the connection to ptg is there lmao

a.c.e - admittedly i don't vibe with every song of theirs, but i just think they're really good performance, vocal, rap and dance wise. it may also be because i discovered them when they were busking so it's been nice seeing their growth. taemin also mentored two of them on the unit <3

onf - i listened to many of their songs and i like how bright they are as people. again, i got to know them through ptg on rtk, they look like such nice kids. a couple of their songs got me through some dark days. if you need a pick me up, beautiful beautiful and popping will do wonders!

p1harmony - i have a soft spot on this group, i don't know them super well but i loved their last mini ep, not a skip! also they seem so cute. i kinda adopted them by osmosis because a lot of friends love them. so i'm always down to discover new music.

a tie between girls' generation and wjsn - i love their discographies. i used to really find strength through their songs, especially in 2020. wjsn are right up my alley sound wise. i don't recall disliking a cb of theirs ever. there's something always magical abt them, their latest cb was exquisite.

soloists

woodz - his music is so good, i'm not sure if i know his entire discography but i literally love every song of his that i know. and, he is bestfriends with pentagon's kino, lmao.

leehi - love her, her voice, her songs, everything. she's such a sweetheart and i still listen to her latest album so much.

iu - i don't think i can stop if i start talking about her. i admire her so much, especially her strength and her lyricism. everytime i listen to her, i feel like i've just walked into another world.

suho - i don't keep up with/like exo as much as i did as a baby k-pop stan but i do surely keep an eye on his solo projects. self-portrait legit was one of the best things that happened to me.

ten - he has like three/four songs out? and i love all of them, he's got so much potential, i think sm should invest into him as a soloist more.

#apologies if this list is a mess #i don't know all of these people very personally but i love their music so yeah i went through my spotify and checked who i listened to mos #besides ptg and shinee lol which is really hard because almost my entire spotify scrobbling history is just them #was gonna say something else and forgot #anon #ask

[audio-luddite]

Stop thinking and listen.

I spun up several of my new LPs including "Kind of Blue" and "Truly". Really good sound in both. The KoB is a Jazz Wax Records DMM from Europe and has a quiet clean surface. It is a milestone Jazz album due to its art first and foremost. It is admittedly old, I mean 1958 is over 60 years. You cannot call it new anymore, but influential certainly. It is rather like Beethoven's 3rd Symphony, it changed things. New pressings are nice to have.

I have several DMM albums and I think it makes for a generally better pressing, if done with proper care. I have seen wholesale slagging of the method in several places, and just wonder why. If you don't like it don't buy it. You basically skip the step where you have to spray conductive paint over a lacquer to let the plating work. Spray paint!

To damage my Audiophile credibility further I also played several CDs. The sound was fine with many nice details and textures. So many high end CD players stick a tube in the line to "improve" the sound. I have 12 tubes between the CD and the speakers. Personally I think the mix and basic recording has more to do with the ultimate playback quality than if bits are involved or not.

The CDs were a couple of Santana works, "Supernatural, and Shaman". They were good sounding. There is no perfect system. I was just enjoying the tunes. That is as it should be.

I have a lot of CDs from back when it was the future. Several are TELARCs which was a good label. Pure digital of course and now gone like the dinosaurs. One I have is the "Grand Canyon Suite" with digitally recorded thunder on one track. They have warnings on the disk about overloading speakers. More a marketing thing than a threat to equipment. There also is an 1812 Overture with real canons, but I cannot find that one. I am sure I bought it back in the day.

Our Grandkids visited and of course asked for the usual pop tunes off of Apple Music. They got it, though I did try subliminal programming by playing some classical music during meals. Some of those POP tunes have really boosted Bass. No surprise for kids stereos and headphones or ear buds, but in a real system it is kinda heavy.

Hey I will play anything.

#audiophile #high end audio #cheap audiophile #CDs #Jazz wax records

[ragemyfeelings]

Hey,

It's been a little while since I posted something on here, so I thought I re-introduce myself because... why not?

My name is John, I am 22 years-old, I'm Brazilian and I write songs since 2016. I publish them online and share it with my friends and random people on the internet secretly hoping that one day someone (a music producer or a record label manager) sees me and say: ''Hey, I really like your stuff. Would you be interested in making a collab?''

But... I know that my dreams ain't rare. And yes, I am quoting ''You're on Your Own, Kid'' by @taylorswift! She's the reason why I started writing in the first place. And I mean that from the bottom of my heart, I wouldn't have kept going throughout so many years even though nobody's ever paid attention to me if it wasn't for her. She inspires my every move as an artist and a person, and I'm sorry if I sound cocky by referring to myself as an artist but that's my way of manifesting.

Anyway... I only ever publish lyrics of my songs since there are no vocal recording of them. I consider myself to be a nice vocalist but unfortunately I've never had the opportunity to take vocal lessons or record any of my stuff in a professional studio. But someday I hope that changes.

My former artistic name was ''Johnée'' but I was forced to change last year when the Genius website deleted my account (and all my 23 lyrical albums) for no reason. Now I am a part of a one-man band called ''Slaves of the Feeling'' named after one of my favorite songs I've written.

Last year I published my (their) first album called ''HEARTCORE'' and I'm excited to share more soon...like...really, really soon.

Here's some of my favorite lyrics of mine:

''Crush someone's heart in my hands Play the piano with bloody fingers Stab them with my pen, one for every song I've written I was a teenage serial killer Filled with rage and bones to pick with I might've poisoned some of the things they said to make me a victim Maybe I'm not a saint but I'm more sinned against than sinning And it was just corn syrup''

— What Do I Know About Love

''Funny boy, I see all your true colors I could never paint you wrong in my songs Hard-luck stories no one's ever bought it You've got skeletons in your closet and I'm sorry I became one I hope you find someone who makes you feel like you don't have to be so strong all the time And you make them laugh but then life happens and it makes you cry You know the punchline''

— funny boy

''Stepped on the scale and realized I've failed to lose the weight of you I wanna be less like myself and more like the guys you're into Just a mullet wouldn't do it, I hate the way my body looks And I'm afraid to ask the mirror 'cause he might tell me the truth I skip dinners to get thinner but he's prettier on the inside, too

Everyone else left it, how did we come to this? You're not Joseph Gordon-Levitt and I don't listen to The Smiths Sad was just an aesthetic, now it's my reality All the voices in my head are laughing at me''

— Someone's Girlfriend

''I know it's controversial but I want it all to be over There's only so much one can put up with It's been twenty-one years, six months and fourteen days of being me I'm wholeheartedly not playing the tortured artist I thought this was what every other person feels I can hardly put it into words Do I really deserve this pain? The things I've done for love, I know that no one understands''

— To The Women Who Raised Me

''Thought I could start over with a clean slate But it turns there's still so much on my plate I could shed the layers but I can't replace the original shape When you try to escape your past, you re-do the steps That's the path to take When you least expect, you're back at this place The more you make your way back, the further it gets All the emotions you avoided All the things that were left unspoken ''I know you're scared to be open 'cause you've already been broken'', they say But they don't understand, do they? I'm easily discouraged, a simple ''but'' is all it takes For me to walk away I don't wanna give my hopes up But I'm just not cut out The fear of missing love really gives you something to think about And I'm sorry to the ones I've hurt trying to figure out''

— clèrambault

''There isn't a lot of perks in being a wallflower I sing in the shower but people can't come to my shows Sometimes I wanna throw in the towel But I believe in the power of ''what you water grows'' Maybe I'm a loser, but I'm not a coward I choose to fight even though I'll always get a bloody nose When the cupid aims, I just follow the arrow I stay awake past the witching hour waiting for love''

— Grenade

I'll see you soon. 💌🏹

#taylor swift #writing #songwriter #singer songwrtier #swifties #poetry #poem #lyrics #lyric quotes #lyric posting

[atomicpsyche]

Guts Album Ramble

note: whenever i say 'this song reminds me of x song', i do not mean to accuse olivia of plagiarism. i can tell when a song takes inspiration from another song, versus a ripoff of the original. if you feel like my opinions will trigger you, feel free to not proceed with reading this post.

Favorite songs: lacy, ballad of a homeschool girl, making the bed, logical, pretty isn't pretty, teenage dream

all-american bitch: all about the pressures of american women to live up to cultural standards. i really like the rock elements of this song, and how versatile her voice is allowed to be.

bad idea right? i really like the way she sings the refrain, and the way the instrumental stops when she says so. i personally don't like chants in music, so the chorus was a miss for me. so was the repetition in the pre-chorus. i do find the lyrics good fanfic material, so there's that. the lyrics are straightforward, depicting two people who have broken up who have started to 'rekindle' their relationship, something that she hides from her friends. repeated listening makes me like it more.

vampire: this is going to sound contradictory, but the beginning was rather slow for me, and everything else was too fast. i don't like the instrumental for this one, but i do love the lyrics. my favorite parts of the song is the introduction and the first chorus and the bridge. the lyrics depict a relationship with a man that took advantage of and lied to her, just like a vampire.

lacy: for some reason, it gives me the vibes of a melanie martinez song. the soft airy quality of her voice is something that suits the song. the lyrics are the definition of jealousy to the point where the singer's obsession with 'lacy' borders on attraction. honestly, this song is right up my alley. the instrumentation is simple, and that's not a bad thing. i like this bit around 2:09.

ballad of a homeschool girl: the beginning is a banger. i love how the song detailing the social anxiety of a teen is a rock song; even though being socially stunted is a common trope associated with homeschooled kids. i really loved the speed at which the song picked up at the end of the last chorus.

making the bed: it's a song that's soft and slow and reflective, and i really like it. we can't forget it's rather melancholic and self-deprecating tone either. i find this line contradictory with all-american bitch: "another day pretendin' i'm older than i am" vs "i know my age and i act like it." theory/ making the bed is a song about her success in the music world, and the music world isn't very kind to young women who make it (it isn't kind to many in general, but i digress) so you want to seem mature and that you deserve to be where you are, and not a fluke based on novelty. all-american bitch is about the expectations placed on american women, so acting your age is better. act too young, and you're immature, but act too 'grown' and people will judge you.

logical: i think it was a mistake to have this back to back with making the bed; both of this songs blur together. her voice is lovely and i enjoy the soft piano. this song is about a manipulative lover who destroys her self confidence with his lies and put downs, but she still loves him despite all logic. the softness in her voice as she sings the outro is one of my favorite parts of this whole song. this song reminds me of willow by taylor swift. age is another thing brought up in this song, probably another way to discredit anything olivia had to say.

get him back: i don't like this song, and i skip it every time.

love is embarrassing: it's pleasant to listen to, but rather generic. i like the instrumental right at the start of the second verse. the song isn't too fast or too slow, it's just right. i find the lyrics to be generally relatable.

the grudge: the song is rather gloomy, moody and rationalizing. it's sad girl hours up in here. it's the perfect 'broke up with an asshole and trying to cope' song. i love how the title shows her exes hold on her, like a grudge, he cannot leave even when he has.

pretty isn't pretty: the introduction of pretty isn't pretty sounds like last friday night. i like olivia's deeper voice as a contrast to the 'warm' beat. the lyrics are something that anyone can relate to, i especially love the lyrics for the chorus, because when everyone scrambles to be pretty, the definition of pretty begins to change and you could always look prettier in comparison to the girl next to you.

teenage dream: ooo age is really a running theme here, isn't it? the lyrics of this song haunts me as someone who is anxious about growing up. the bridge of the song is my favorite. 'when will it stop being cool to be quietly misunderstood?' me @ every edgy or nlog protagonist ever. the instrumental really hits home her melancholic fears for the future.

#guts album #guts album review #olivia rodrigo #someone please send me the bonus tracks

[4ggravation]

liveblogging my first time listening to midnights

(warning: long ass post)

lavender haze

this instrumental is fun, i like this

oh this is good! i wasnt expecting it to sound so peppy

very 80s-esque ig? idk how to refer to it

i was expecting a slower, more gentle sorta song, not this

ok i love this

maroon

oh this is different from lavender haze, much less lively

this feels so sadly romantic

that chorus was so good minus the reference to red shades. maroon scarlet and burgundy are not the same color girl

"that's a real fucking legacy" i love how she says that

her voice is so much more faint and mature, it really adds to things

anti-hero

before we begin uh. i have not heard good things about this song. not getting my hopes up

"i have this things where i get older, but just never wiser" she just like me frfr

oh this chorus is not...

"sometimes i feel like everybody is a sexy baby / and i'm a monster on the hill" be so fucking fr rn

the chorus is fucking back. goddamnit.

love the way she says "everybody agrees"

snow on the beach

this instrumental sounds like something in an animated film, if that makes sense

"life is emotionally abusive" real

these lyrics, oh this is so nice

very nostalgic and calm, i'm enjoying this

is that lana's voice? i can't tell

y'all were right. where tf is lana i don't see her

you're on your own, kid

oh my god, this is so

"i waited ages to see you there" woagh

"i search the party of better bodies / just to learn that my dreams aren't rare"

these lyrics bro. i can't explain it but they're making me feel some kinda way

like lavender haze, i was expecting something slower

but i still liked it!

i've already listened to midnight rain, so we shall skip it!

question...?

"fuckin situations, circumstances" me when i have to do things

no taylor, i have never been kissed

"politics and gender roles / and you're not sure and i don't know"

i could see this playing at like. a wine tasting. for some reason

vigilante shit

i'm going into this expecting girlboss taylor, but we shall see

oh my. i like

okay i really like this one. this instrumental fucks

that bridge tho. this song is so

lately i've been dressing for revenge!!!!

bejeweled

immediately the beat is running away from her...

okay, it's getting better i think

why did she say "and we're dancing all night" like that

her flow is weird asf but the instrumental is kinda fun ngl

like anti-hero, it's... alright. not amazing

labyrinth

ooh? this is an interesting intro

these vocals are so nice oh my

"lost in the labyrinth of my mind" i love that line. maybe it's because i'm a maladaptive daydreamer idk

this song is kinda what i expected you're on your own, kid to be. it's lovely and gentle and melancholic, like you could cry and sway to it at the same time

that was so nice omg!!

i've also already listened to karma, so we shall skip it too.

sweet nothing

is this gonna be a sad song. i feel it

aww, these lyrics are nice. not really sad but more wholesome ig? like finally coming home after a long, tiring day

this song is so sweet omg??

ough. why am i feeling so many emotions

the piano was really nice! very pretty song <3

mastermind

the intro... hmm

oh wow. this reminds me of blorbo from my head hold on

this is such a pretty sound. reminds me of the nighttime, ironically

"i'm only cryptic and machiavellian because i care" inch resting...

hmm... as the end to the album, it's really good. definitely one of my favorites!

#hope you enjoyed reading all that #overall the album was good! #minus a couple duds #(cough cough anti-hero) #my favorite songs were definitely lavender haze mastermind and vigilante shit #thanks for reading! #taylor swift #midnights

[captureburgundy]

if there's one thing that i'd like to share with you guys is that i love taylor swift. it's so silly that i edited my photo onto the the album cover of midnights but whatever.

i've been listening to midnights over the past couple of weeks and i have to say that it's one of my favourites besides red, reputation and evermore.

for this entry i'd like to share with you about my personal opinions on each song in the album. i'm not going to rank my favourites because that's way too difficult. please don't come for me though if you disagree with it because i do feel that each song is great.

lavender haze: i have nothing much to say about this song just that i love the beat of it and it's a song that i will dance to each time it's being played.

maroon: you have no idea how blown away i was with the lyrics of this song. her use of colours but what amazes me is that she never use the word red in here but other shades of it such as burgundy, maroon and scarlet. this to me is a masterpiece.

anti-hero: i'm not gonna lie that this was an instant favourite upon the first listen. abit too overplayed but it is a good song!

4. snow on the beach: many said that they don't quite like this one but i personally love it and yes i am mad that i barely got to hear lana in here but i still love the song.

5. you're on your own, kid: this one i another one that i really love. it grew on me after awhile and it took me awhile to really realise that the song is more about being there for yourself although the bridge of it suits so well on a reel showcasing friendships.

6. midnight rain: i don't have much opinions about this just that this song only reminds me on how taytay is such a lyrical genius.

7. question...?: just like midnight rain, i don't have much opinions on this and to me i'll bop to this song if it plays but this wouldn't be my first choice.

8. vigilante shit: now this....this song have a way of making me feel like i can rule the world for some reason. love love love it! it was on replay throughout my train ride home from work during one particular night.

9. bejeweled: it's a cute one! i'm a sucker for this one because i'll do that tiktok choreo whenever it starts to play :D

10. labyrinth: this is not my favourite but the vibe of this song keeps me calm.

11. karma: i really love this one! "karma is my boyfriend" is my favourite line and this one will be one i will definitely dance to.

12. sweet nothing: if there's gonna be a ranking, this will actually be at the bottom or maybe i haven't listen to it enough to fully appreciate it. although...i don't skip it.

13. mastermind: i feel like i will need to listen to it more only because i have to check what song is playing when the intro starts but other than that, i feel like this can be in my top 5 one day.

#taylor swift #midnights

[anonforlackofabettername]

Aight, here we go:

♤ honorable mention

♤ pretty in punk

♤ grand theft autumn

♤ homesick at space camp

♤ a little less sixteen candles

♤ the music or the misery

♤ golden

♤ don't you know who i think i am?

♤ disloyal order

♤ what a catch

♤ light em up

♤ save rock and roll

♤ the kids aren't alright

♤ twin skeleton's

♤ church

♤ heaven's gate

~ Lauren

FOB Asks

honorable mention: what would you title a movie of your life?

It would probably be a pun on my last name. I’m not sharing my last here name so I’m keeping this to myself

pretty in punk: punk, emo, scene or goth?

Punk for the values, emo for the mid-00s music, goth for the aesthetic (attraction). My personal style is unfortunately none of these. I’m very soft femme or sports gay. I’ve moved away from nerd girl chic thank god.

grand theft autumn/where is your boy: which was the first fall out boy song you heard and liked?

It’s either Dance Dance or Thnks fr th Mmrs way back when IOH first came out and FOB was a band my sister liked instead of anyone I listened to on my own. I know those were the only two songs I had on itunes before I got obsessed. My Songs was also getting a ton of radio play my senior year of high school that I liked but didn’t link that to the band. I think the first “Yes!” song when I was getting obsessed with them on my own was Phoenix. I’m still a lot obsessed with Phoenix.

homesick at space camp: what do you blast when you’re angry?

It really depends on what my mood is. I’m rarely ever just angry. If I’m angry and want to stew, usually I’m Not Okay (I Promise) is the right mood. If I’m angry and sad I’ve got a handful of playlists that help me deal with it. Most of the time I just put shuffle on and hit skip until the vibes are right.

little less sixteen candles, a little more “touch me”: favourite fall out boy mv?

Does the entirety of the Youngblood chronicles count? Does it? Am I going to have to pick a single song from that? You’re going to send me on a FOB MV YouTube binge after this aren’t you? (side-eyes you) (I’m finishing this and then I’ll go on the YouTube binge).

the music or the misery: favourite fall out boy bonus track?

I don’t know what counts as a bonus track. Are they the remixes? The live recordings? The random singles that aren’t one one of the main studio albums? All of the above? I’m going pick Dear Future Self (Hands Up) and Alpha Dog from the greatest hits albums (Believers Never Die Volume One and Two)(tho I’ve got them listed backwards DFS is on 2 and Alpha Dog is on 1).

golden: do you prefer fall out boy’s upbeat songs or the more emotional ones?

It depends on the mood I’m in tbh. Also what does this mean by upbeat? Some of their most emotional songs have the fastest tempos. The only ones I can think of that are emotional and slow are What A Catch Donnie and The Kids Aren’t Alright. The band is very good at being loud while hurting. So I guess upbeat.

don’t you know who i think i am?: which high school stereotype would you describe yourself with?

I was absolutely the only girl in the group of nerds. The wears science puns on her shirt and can’t get a date unless it’s a popular boy baiting her (jokes on them I’m queer and ace I don’t want a popular boy to date me and never did). Nowadays? Well I’m still a girl in stem so I guess that hasn’t changed even though my fashion sense has.

disloyal order of water buffaloes: which is your favourite fall out boy lyric?

So many. Fuck you for making me choose.

“I’m gonna change you like a remix/then I’ll raise you like a phoenix”

All of Miss Missing You but especially “Sometimes before it gets better/the darkness gets bigger/the person that you’d take a bullet for is behind the trigger”

Cold open no music “Where is your boy tonight I hope he is a gentleman”

“The ribbon on my wrist says do not open before Christmas”

“I wonder if your therapist knows everything about me”

“Anything you say can and will be held against you/so only say my name”

My sister’s favorite opening to any song ever (it’s not relevant here but it came to mind when I was trying to choose): “Are you ready for another bad poem”

what a catch, donnie: favourite artist that features in a fob song?

Elton John (2008 Panic! is a close second - not whatever Brendon Urie is doing now as a solo act under the name P!atD, Panic! circa Folie a Deux and Pretty Odd). Everyone who featured on What A Catch Donnie gets a shout tho, they all rock

my songs know what you did in the dark (light em up): favourite single?

Lol of the songs I listened to as singles I’m gonna have to pick American Beauty/American Psycho with honorable mentions going to both My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark and Centuries.

save rock and roll: thoughts on elton john?

Yes. Absolutely yes. I don’t love all of his music and I never really listened to his discography in depth before the Rocket Man biopic a couple years ago but since then I’m yes. At this point he’s a flamboyant elder queer and I’m like rock on you funky little rocket man.

the kids aren’t alright: if you could send a message to yourself five years ago, what would it say?

God five years ago I was going into my senior year of college. I’d probably tell her that she has time to figure it all out. Shits going to be bad and good and everything in between but stressing ourselves out trying to fix it doesn’t actually change much. There is no way to make the one right decision that will make everything perfect from now until eternity and she shouldn’t try but for G-d’s sake do something nothing is not an acceptable choice. Also work harder on your senior project, talk to your counselor about ADHD, and be kinder to yourself but not too kind that you do nothing.

twin skeleton’s (hotel in nyc): describe your exact opposite.

A neurotypical cishet Christian who is already married with kids and thinks coding and modern technology is for heathens.

church: what do you associate with fall out boy?

I associate this specific song (Church) with oral sex lol. Now that that’s out of this way, idk I associate it a lot with my college years cause that was like the start and peak of my hyperfixation but also sitting in my living room while my sister had the music video channel on on the tv (not mtv lol a different channel) when I was like 12. I associate them with 1am youtube binges. I associate them with saying these motherfuckers (affectionate)(derogatory). I associate them with with rock and pop punk and a song for every mood. With broadening my horizons and also one of the things that helped me grow into liking shit whether or not it’s mainstream, niche, nerd, cringe, and anything or everything in between.

heaven’s gate: give one way fall out boy have helped you.

We’re friends because of FOB. I wanna be clear that we’d probably still be friendly without the shared special interest in FOB but we would be different friends. We were kind of tentative on the friendship/roommate front until we saw we had the same Fall Out Boy poster and from there we built the foundations of our friendship on that and ace shit.

Fall Out Boy Asks

#asks answered #anonymous #well sorta #but you sent it anonymously so I’m not gonna tag your blog #i hope to god this doesn’t show up in the main tags #fob

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2014 tumblr was the peak of the century

every day, i will always think about how life was so much more simple. and not just because i was 14 years old and had no idea how the world worked. i was completely infatuated with the culture and aesthetic of tumblr in 2014 and i would do anything in the world to bring the aesthetic back.

arctic monkeys self titled album. boxed and blk water. THAT american apparel white tennis skirt. american apparel before it went into liquidation. 'ppolishprincess'.

there is not one sentence i can use to describe this image, but this image in particular. it took me a good 10 minutes of google searching keywords such as, 'sad 2014 indie tumblr kids' before i finally clicked enough and found this again. i could write an entire dissertation on how bad i wanted to be every person in this photo in 2014. they were the pinnacle of cool to me. i know too well that with every minor inconvenience that ever happened to them, they would simply put their earphones in and stream 'ribs', and every trouble they had would go away.

perhaps it is brash and irrational to even try to say that nothing in my life could ever compare to the type of media that i consumed day in day out in 2014, but i have not felt the same happiness as i have since the days i was exposed to this aesthetic. it makes me feel nostalgic. i'm not sure if i feel this way because i'm 21 and am already going through regression and nostalgic stages,,, perhaps this is the impact from all of the covid-19 lockdowns. i am convinced i will never feel the same way about life again. i never even got to live the life i idolised online. but the whole time period shaped me into the person i am today. i think 14 year old me would think 21 year old me is the coolest person ever.

all i am saying is not only did 2014 tumblr exist, but it also had such a huge impact on pop culture. there was once a time that i thought kylie jenner was an icon. i still think kylie jenner in 2014 when she was bleaching the ends of her hair every colour under the sun and wearing ripped black skinny jeans is pretty cool. if she was british, i just know alex turner would have written a song about her. alexa chung's 'it' was such a talking point with this aesthetic, and until the day i finally purchase the book and read it, i can never say i've successfully lived through the 2014 era. last year, i ended up purchasing the primark knock off of the american appearel tennis skirt. they came back into fashion for a hot minute. again, i think this had a lot to do with many people feeling nostalgic as they were going in and out of lockdowns.

they way that 2014 tumblr romanticised smoking, listening to ultraviolence as if lana del rey was a god and using filters on vsco will forever be unmatched. i think this era is the reason why i will sit down and have a heated debate with any person that ultraviolence is actually the best album in her discography, with no real reason as to why other than i didn't let myself listen to any of her albums released post ultraviolence. i still can't skip 'why'd you only call me when you're high' every time it comes on shuffle because of the nostalgia it brings me. i wasn't living the aesthetic life the way everyone else was, i was simply behind the computer screen, scrolling endlessly on tumblr all night, reblogging all of these photos and using my tumblr as a mood board for what i wanted to be. i would be in bed listening to the neighbourhood, lana, the xx, sometimes even SOPHIE's very early stuff, i'm talking the lemonade and hard era (thanks instagram user ppolishprincess).

the music of the era is just as iconic. i dipped into this era of tumblr just as i was coming out of my 'i'm not like other girls, i don't listen to chart music' phase. truthfully, i was still listening to bastille and probably imagine dragons to some extent. and as i have gotten older, i have discovered that there was even more music from 2014 that i completely dismissed because i'm pretty certain i only listened to the same five albums over and over again. i think that's okay because i still listen to those same 5 albums over and over now.

i was going to include a screenshot that included actual things that i had posted on my blog in 2014 but i think i'll simply not post it considering i came across the blk bottles of water next to gifs of luke hemmings from 5sos. if i'm completely honest, i don't even recall being a huge 5 seconds of summer stan. in fact, the blog i ran in 2014 contains an actual SCM music player, a super savvy choice then. it made me feel like i was running a myspace in 2007, to be that annoying person that when you click on their profile, some loud music starts blasting from their page and it makes you jump out of their skin. this music player on my blog features half of marina & the diamond's discography (before she lost the & the diamonds part).

in conclusion, i miss it and i still want to be that person who was posting all of the 'soft grunge' items on tumblr rather than the person sat behind the screen reblogging it all.

#2014 tumblr #nostalgia #writing #thoughts #indie #ppolishprincess #the 1975 #the neighbourhood #arctic monkeys #misc #first post #american apparel #joanna kuchta #lana del rey #marina #marina & the diamonds #blk #alexa chung