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How is it that Joey has like the best chemistry with literally EVERYONE???

#joey batey #the witcher #the witcher netflix #jaskier #geraskier #the amazing devil

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Cute Joey overload - Part 24

Here some more sunshine to bright your day. Plenty of smiles and laughs ❤️

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Something that makes me love the amazing devil so much is the,, closeness? rawness? intimacy? of the songs. Yes, in terms of lyrics, but also in terms of performace. You can hear them breathe, in, out,, the way you can hear their tongues touch the roofs of their mouths, the way you can hear their lips moving etc. Makes it feel like they're whispering in my ears.

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Hey Dear Hearts

I was just thinking..

How about we hold an event to collect money for Palestinian refugees?

We have so many creative hearts in our community, I'm sure we could create something like an auction of different art works or another charity drive like @dearheartsdrive

What do you think?

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I've been listening to The Amazing Devil for 4-5 years now. And still NOTHING prepares me for how beautiful and hauntingly high MADELIENE HYLAND CAN MAKE HER VOICE GO.

I'm fucking impressed.

#joey batey #madeleine hyland #TAD

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THIS😂👌

So, I don't even really go here, so I have a question about the netflix show. Is it canon, that jaskier is in love with geralt? Because just listening to the songs it really seems that way?

I mean it's never really said, but personality-based on the songs and subtext in the show. I do believe that Jaskier has always just been a little bit in love with Geralt.

#joey batey #jaskier #the witcher netflix #dandelion #geraskier

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I'm kinda feeling jealous of whoever finds out one of the lead singers in The Amazing Devil band is, in fact, Jaskier from the Witcher Netflix. It's kinda like a hobby for me now, to imagine their faces through the posts they write about when they realize both Jaskier and the male voice in TAD is our beloved Joey Batey himself.

#joey batey #jaskier #the amazing devil #the witcher netflix #dandelion #tad

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I mean... Burn Butcher Burn and Her Sweet Kiss say enough about his feelings, but OK....

So, I don't even really go here, so I have a question about the netflix show. Is it canon, that jaskier is in love with geralt? Because just listening to the songs it really seems that way?

I mean it's never really said, but personality-based on the songs and subtext in the show. I do believe that Jaskier has always just been a little bit in love with Geralt.

#joey batey #geraskier #the witcher netflix #jaskier the witcher #the witcher jaskier #geralt of rivia #the witcher #geralt x jaskier

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This animatic is currently being fuelled by the sheer frustration I'm feeling towards my university group project rn... But it does mean that I'm getting a lot of frames done on it!

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THIS

Every once in a while I think about the story that Joey Batey spoke about where the Witcher cast was at some event or whatever and he went off alone to play a piano and when he looked up from his piano piece, Henry Cavill was watching his performance. It just makes me feel really soft inside. That was their moment. Their little slice of life. It will always be their memory

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Jackie is so special to me, like as a ND person with depression and anxiety and PTSD, so many characters just come and go according to what my mental health and hyperfixations demand at that time in my life and yeah I appreciate those characters that meant the world to me for like 2 weeks but I get over it, and then there's Jaskier, whom I have loved since the second I saw him in a tavern three years ago and have loved him that much since, l he is my crazy little alcoholic pansexual slut bard and he always will be, other fandoms and characters come and go but he will always have a place in my heart and that will never change and I just love him for that so much

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He surely did!

Do you think when Joey Batey wrote the lyric “gonna go home and show my cat some memes cause he’s awesome like me” he knew he just wrote the most relatable lyric of all time?

#joey batey #the amazing devil #drinking song for the socially anxious

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The Amazing Devil are underrated storytellers

Like I'm sure many people did, I discovered alt-folk band The Amazing Devil through Joey Batey as a fan of The Witcher. Someone on TikTok was talking about the song Fair and how the actor who plays Jaskier (or Dandelion, depending on preference of material) from The Witcher sang it.

Instantly, I knew I had to listen to this song and I sat with it on repeat for an hour, picking through references and laughing at how pure and simple the love conveyed in those words was. It's the kind of love you dream of, where your partner completes you and life without them seems impossible. A love that goes beyond you both, as if there was no choice but to fall for one another. It's not pretentious or impossible to understand. It's universal and I fell in love with it.

Months later, I found Battle Cries, a song of overlapping whimsies. It tells the tale of two lovers ending their relationship and trying to find pieces of calmness in the uproar of their breakup, comparing it to a war not just between each other but within themselves. There a metaphors deeply woven within the lyrics and each line is magic as Joey and Madeleine sing over each other, words occasionally syncing up, representing the way they struggle to feel in tune with each other at the end of their relationship.

Battle Cries lead me to Marbles, the story of a couple where one of them is suffering from memory loss, the trials and tribulations of watching the person you love forget who they are and who you are too. It is a beautifully told story that feels so genuine, making me wonder how close to home the inspiration was. This song is an absolute guarantee at tears while also making you laugh.

Ruin came to me next, as wells as Drinking Song for the Socially Anxious and The Horrors and The Wild, three songs with such incredibly different vibes that don't just need to be listened to but thoroughly devoured.

Finally, a song I can never praise enough, Inkpot Gods. This song brings together so many ideas and images I love. Again, it is heavy on its use of metaphors but contains one of my favourite references they have ever used. The song discusses the love you can hold for another person and the lengths you will go to so you can protect them. It talks of breaking generational expectations and being there for someone when they can't defend themselves.

The best part of Inkpot Gods, however, is the Lord of the Rings reference where Madeleine sings "you might not fear a man//but to a woman by the end you'll kneel and plead". This is popularly theorised to be about Eowyn in The Return of the King and the line "I am no man" she speaks as she ends her foe's life, a show of her strength not despite of her gender. Easily the best line of the trilogy to me, and hearing it in song form cements this, following it with "I'm more than what my mum told me", breaking this tradition what what a woman can or should be.

While Joey Batey was the draw to The Amazing Devil's music for me, Madeleine has kept me there, she has such a beautiful voice and her and Joey together have made some stunning music that I will always love. They tell these fantastic stories within a few minutes, creating characters worthy of epic tales and narratives so deep and complex it leaves you thinking for long after.

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so I've had this little not too serious theory in my head that the couple from Wild Blue Yonder and That Unwanted Animal are the same couple just in two separate time lines.

So to me it seems like the wby couple has realised they should break up (Seen that wild blue yonder and said, "Let's end this, too"), that if they don't their relationship will only grow toxic and hold them back. They're both scared of moving on (let's hide under the covers, we don't know what's out there) and being alone in the world again but they know its for the better (Don't you ever wonder what could have been? All those wonders sit in wait for us, we tried ) and plan to use everything they've learnt in this relationship on their next (Every brick you hurled, I'll use to build this world) I like to think they mutually break up in this time line and manage to move on happily.

However in tua it seems like it's telling the story of if the couple didn't break up at that point and allowed their relationship to rot and grew bitter with each other, they let their fear of moving on and the unknown keep them chained down and together so they never got that freedom they do in the wby time line. (You try so loud to love me, I cannot seem to hear.) They're trying to force themselves to continue on as a couple and not communicate how its not really what either of them want (And on the creature scratches, it doesn't know how to get out (let me out!)). To the point they're both stuck in an unhealthy relationship, resenting and possibly hating each other. (Be good to me, I beg of him, Be good, be good, be good, be good, be good, be good, be good. And he replies (oh), "No, no, not I") It's also possibly hinted at that they have a child / children in this time line that otherwise they wouldn't have, and now that they see their relationship is crumbling, regret having (And I make sure the bairns are fed // Hold the hand of the god-child, they said, as he falls from the sky)

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They both also reference sex in two completely different ways. Wby seems to reference some kind of last goodbye, break up sex for fun like a celebration of their relationship. (So one last time, love, come and rip my clothes off // Come and rip off my socks like you're blasting the locks off of a bank vault (halt) This time we're done for.) Whereas tua's reference to sex is so much more forced and kind of unsettling because it doesn't seem much fun for either party and almost like they're just performing as a happy couple. ('Cause you, you touch, my skin peels off like paint, but beneath all of our panting, there's this noise I cannot shake // And we fall into each other, the scratching grows so loud // And our screaming joins in unison, I cry out to the Lord.) It's two completely different perspectives of the same thing.

There's also a few parallels in the lyrics such as:

Hide under the covers, We don't know what's out there // There's a second wind coming as we lie here in our bed

Try, please, try for me (Tried my best to get thinner) // And as the belt from your buckle is tightening

And the candle we lit. Well, we'll use it to burn this whole place to the ground // And you, you, you light a candle. And I make sure the bairns are fed

I've got something in my eye (I surrender what was) // "And can't you hear that scratching?" I ask your eyes

We don't know what's out there. Can't you hear that scratching? // Well, can't you hear that scratching? There's something at the door

That last one being the most obvious and telling because it's the same exact wording with probably a similar meaning but completely different presentation. In wby they're wondering what's out there whereas in tua the 'creature' is already at the door and they know it. The 'creature' could be a couple things, it could be a personification of their toxic relationship itself, the fact its seemingly not arrived in wby because they break up before it turns toxic whereas its right at their door in tua because they're living the toxic relationship. It could be yearning for freedom from the relationship, both versions of the couple are hearing it and want it but the wby couple break up and let the 'creature' in before it turns against them compared to the tua couple who leave it locked out until 'the door below, it splinters, and the creature creeps inside.' The creature could be them as a couple trying to escape the relationship (And on the creature scratches, it doesn't know how to get out (let me out!)) because being in the relationship has turned them into each other 'unwanted animals' and the scratching they hear in wby is just a warning of what could come.

Other than that the whole energy of the songs are almost opposites, wby is so full of life and hopeful and light hearted whereas tua is unsettling and concerning and makes a point to add a joke in the lyrics that flies over the other partner's head because all fun and ease has abandoned that version of the relationship. ("Well, hello, my hollow Holofernes" I wink, but you don't get the joke)

I know there's a few different parallels between a couple of their songs so this is probably just one of them and might even be able to be expanded on using more songs but either way I think it's pretty interesting and very cleverly done

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I am sure it has been shared a lot already, but I really like this extract of live performance form TAD. Except one thing : the ending ! How frustrating is that ?!!! 🤣

It will never happen but I wish I could see them live 💙

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The roaring thing Joey Batey and Madeleine Hyland do with their voices reblog if you agree