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caspian !! what are your favorite albums? or like albums you can listen to straight through?

HI MOUSE i love this question <3 this will take me a little while to collect only because i love music sooooo much and it quickly becomes a Whole Thing but i'm so excited to answer! i'll also provide spotify links & a brief blurb ab why i love each album so much!

temporary highs in the violet skies – snoh aalegra

i discovered this album back in september of this year and it has almost immediately become an all-time favorite. i don't think i've gone a full 24 hours without listening to at least one song off this album since i discovered it. tangerine dream was the first song of hers that i heard thanks to spotify's discover weekly, and it has such a warm, clean sound that i was immediately enthralled by. i also adore her voice! she has such a rich, deep, soothing voice that makes the whole album, even the sad songs, an absolute delight to listen to. she also has a huge variety of rhythms and moods across the album, and my favorite thing in the world is a lyrically devastating song you can shake your ass to.

favorite tracks: tangerine dream, indecisive, in your eyes, in the moment, taste, & everything

renaissance – beyoncé

what can i even say? this album is quite truly Everything. it is so reminiscent of black joy & a particular kind of delight that only comes with a crazy brass section. beyoncé did NOT come to play on this album and the songs are all so musically different while managing to all tie together perfectly under one core emotion, which is rebirth & change. i love it. it's so fun.

favorite tracks: cozy, alien superstar, cuff it, energy, church girl, & pure/honey

han – berhana

i LOVE this album. i had a therapist who mentioned that this was her favorite album in passing, and i was curious enough to look it up. i am SO glad i did. this album is a quick listen (i think it's ab 33 minutes from start to finish), so it's really nice to listen to while taking a brief break or laying down. there's a huge range of sounds on this album too, which i clearly am a huge fan of, and berhana's voice is soooo lovely to listen to.

favorite tracks: golden, i been, lucky strike, & health food

after laughter – paramore

i know a lot of people didn't like this album very much since it was so different from paramore's older stuff, but i LOVED it. this album carried me through a breakup so i'll always love it for that, but it's so FUN to listen to. i love screaming along to hard times while i'm in the car, and if you need a song to lay facedown and groan to, "tell me how" is literally Perfect. i love it here.

favorite tracks: hard times, rose-colored boy, forgiveness, pool, caught in the middle, idle worship & tell me how

montero – lil nas x

this album is genuinely a masterpiece. for the sake of being concise i'll say this is not a sad album, but it does carry a Lot of grief. this album is so beautifully produced and i genuinely feel that it has no skips. my absolute favorite track is either dead right now or scoop, but i love the emotional versatility & rhythmic variety in this one sooooo much.

favorite tracks: dead right now, thats what i want, scoop, one of me, dolla sign slime, void, & dont want it

igor – tyler, the creator

i didn't listen to a ton of tyler's stuff before igor came out, and if i remember correctly, earfquake came up on my discover weekly and it was a wrap after that lmao. i really like his other albums too, but since this was the first one i listened to in full i am particularly fond of it. it's so sad but so healing at the same time and i love love love that juxtaposition !

favorite tracks: earfquake, i think, running out of time, a boy is a gun, gone, gone / thank you, & are we still friends?

#music #this took SO LONG!!!!!!!#but i love asks about music i had so much fun sitting and thinking about which ones i wanted to choose for this :D thank u for asking!!!#ariel tag

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consistenthero · 3 years

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Lil Nas X 🤝 Janelle Monae

Using cyberpunk imagery and themes in their music to reflect their existence as Black queer people

#I AM VERY FOND OF MONTERO #montero #lil nas x #janelle monae #dirty computer

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johannesviii · 2 years

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Top 10 Personal Favorite Hit Songs from 2021

A pretty solid year for pop music, all things considered, even if 2020 was juuuuuust a bit better. Outside of the top 100, however, some absolutely incredible stuff dropped this year, and it forced me to make the longest “unelligible songs” list I’ve ever had to make for these posts.

Also I can’t put Blinding Lights at #1 twice according to my own rules, but yeah. Yeah. Still can’t get enough of it.

Disclaimers:

Keep in mind I’m using both the year-end top 100 lists from the US and from France while making these top 10 things. There’s songs in English that charted in my country way higher than they did in their home countries, or even earlier or later, so that might get surprising at times.

No song that I already put on a previous list is elligible.

Of course there will probably be stuff in French somewhere on this post. We suck. I know. It’s my list. Deal with it.

My musical tastes have always been terrible and I’m not a critic, just a listener and an idiot.

I have sound-to-color synesthesia which justifies nothing but might explain why I have trouble describing some songs in other terms than visual ones.

So. Uh. Again. How was your 2021?

Still managed to work from home a lot. Still managed to not catch anything, miraculously. Had to deal with some heavy family drama, but I managed. Also this was the first year I spent without using my deadname for official stuff and yeah. The joy is real. I still miss concerts, and my friends, but hey, they need to stay safe too, so that’s okay. I drew a lot. A looooooot. And I wrote stuff, too. I can’t believe I’m actually writing stories even though “words” are still such a tricky thing for me as a general rule.

But oh boy, let’s start with the good or interesting albums that came out in 2021 or in late 2020, because um. Holy Shit?

Coldplay released Music of the Spheres. It’s... not great, actually it’s really bad, but I don’t get the hatred around it, and it has some genuinely excellent singles, and I’m sad none of them is elligible ; see you on the Unelligible Songs list!

I was never fond of Halsey, but the simple fact that Nine Inch Nails contributed to If I can’t have love I want power makes it interesting to me, and there’s some good songs on it (have you heard I am not a woman I’m a god? What a banger). I’ll take it.

Lil Nas X finally has an album, and it’s, of course, Montero, and it absolutely kicks ass, and I hope everyone who kept pretending he was a one hit wonder without any real skills is eating their words now. Because it’s everything I ever wanted from this artist. Too bad my fave song from it has to go on the Unelligible list.

Arca dropped not one, not two, not three but four albums and it was so recent my head is still spinning a bit, to be honest. I’ll talk more about her later, but yeah, for now: Kick ii, Kick iiii and Kick v good

Epica released Omega and I’m pretty much still trying to recover from it too, and the fact it’s in the middle of this list of good albums is very telling about the general quality of music this year. Here’s Abyss of time - Countdown to singularity, you’re welcome.

Sinner Get Ready by Lingua Ignota is impeccable and also absolutely terrifying. That’s it. Send tweet

Porter Robinson released Nurture and I beg you to listen to it in full if you haven’t already. It’s such a great album, with lyrics about overcoming depression and living your life, and struggling to make art but still pulling through, and I can get enough of it. So, so wonderful.

And yeah you expected this but uhhhhhhh Arca also made Kick iii and... excuse me? What is this? Who gave you the right to make that insane blend of musical genres and crank it up to eleven to make it sound almost as abrasive as industrial music? What the f█ck was that. Why can’t I stop listening to it. Why is Ripples so addictive. Why is the last track (Joya) so immaculate compared to everything before it. W H Y

For the life of me, I can’t decide which one of the two final albums I want to talk about is my favorite one, so yeah, f█ck it, you get two “best albums of 2021″. It was nearly THREE because uh, Kick iii exists, but it dropped in December and so it didn’t have as much time to sink in. I’m pretty sure it’s actually better than the other two, but uh. yeah.

The first one is Screen Violence by Chvrches. I swear, I tried to like their previous albums, and there’s a lot of songs I love on them - Under the Tide is one of my favorite songs of all time at that point. But yeah, no, the albums themselves never really clicked for me. And then there was Screen Violence, and I have no idea what happened, but that one clicked for me so hard I’m pretty sure I’ve listened to it half a hundred times since it came out this summer. How not to drown would top my list in a heartbeat if it was elligible. There isn’t a single bad song on that disc. What happened? I have no idea, but I’m so, so glad it exists.

The second one actually came out in 2020, but I only listened to it in full once the physical version dropped in early 2021, and it basically ruled my entire year. Because hi, I’m Johannes, and I have terrible taste in music, and Post Human: Survival Horror by Bring Me The Horizon had exactly ZERO RIGHTS to go that hard. Zero. None. Nada. What the f█ck is this. Oh let’s make an EP where like half the songs are about the pandemic, but with videogame references everywhere, make it sound like basically the entirety of the Scene from 2002 to about 2012, bring Babymetal and Amy Lee and Nova Twins and Yungblud because at this point why not, and just. I don’t know. Light it on fire while screaming “cringe is dead”, maybe?? Only two out of the nine tracks left my current playlist and one of them is an interlude. I think I listened to Parasite Eve and Teardrops on a loop for days. What the f█ck

Uh. Anyway.

Unelligible songs. You can see that part as a rec list, maybe? It’s extremely long, sorry. I really loved a lot of things this year, okay?

Let’s go.

I think I should begin this segment with things that were proper hits but didn’t land on the year-end lists, and Diamonds by Sam Smith is a pretty good place to start.

Monsters by All Time Low should have been way bigger than it was.

I was surprised and sad when I realised Drunk (and I don’t wanna go home) by Elle King and Miranda Lambert missed the year-end top 100, and not by much, at that. It’s a lot of fun.

Copied directly from my list of unelligible stuff from 2020: “I still entertain the vague hope that stuff from Machine Gun Kelly will chart higher in 2021 but I doubt it will happen so I might as well tackle it now and say that Bloody Valentine and especially Forget Me Too are both excellent and that it’s a shame radios aren’t playing them more often.” And yeah. I’m very annoyed they weren’t hits in 2021 either.

Coldplay. You all knew this was coming and you already know the songs but ugh, I really wanted to be able to put Higher Power and/or My Universe on the list. I’m a bit sad.

That’s What I Want is my favorite song on Montero by Lil Nas X and I was kind of hoping it would be a bigger hit. Oh well.

If you haven’t clicked on the I am not a woman I’m a god link in the albums list, here’s a second chance to hear an actually good Halsey song. To be honest it’s more like a NIN song featuring Halsey. I know right? What a weird year.

At the opposite end of the spectrum of recs, I Miss 2003 by As It Is pisses me off because I’m the exact type of sucker this was written for, and I know it, and I know I’m basically getting scammed, but I can’t help it. I love it. But yeah, it’s trash. I’m trash.

100 Gecs have a new song called mememe. It’s good. It’s no Money Machine but I’ll take it. Also you have to hear their remix of One Step Closer to believe it. Basically the ultimate culmination of twenty years of Scene culture. We’ve reached the highest point. It’s all downhill from here, folks

Run It by DJ Snake has no right going this hard.

I wanna be your slave by Måneskin has no right going this hard either.

Utopia by The SIDH. I’m not going to say anything else. Just: Utopia by The SIDH. Just click on the link. Please comment if you did, I really want to read some reactions to it.

Hey do you want more cringe. Because uh. I’m not a Vampire (revamped) by Falling In Reverse is great. And I hate the original version. And this one is a serious version, so you already know it’s worse. It still has one of the absolute worst lines in songwriting history according to, uh, me, and that line hasn’t been changed in the new version. But I swear it’s great. I’m not exactly sure why. But I swear it is

Musician by Porter Robinson. Amazing. Fantastic. Immaculate

Look at the Sky, also by Porter Robinson, might be even better? I don’t know. It makes me extremely emotional but also fills me with energy. I cried the first time I heard it. That’s probably a bit humiliating to say. Yeah. I don’t know either.

I don’t live here anymore by The War On Drugs feels like a song that always existed, but no, it’s from last September. What the hell. Who gave you the right to make something so great. Who are you

If there was any justice in the world, Introvert by Little Simz would have been recognised as one of the greatest songs ever made by now. So grand. So beautiful. So intense. Listen to it immediately

Placebo is back, and Placebo is still good, and I’m sorry there’s something in my eye. It’s called Beautiful James. And it starts with “bring me back to life, never let me go”. Yeah. Yeah

Stromae is also back?? And Santé is a song about essential jobs that are badly considered by society. And it’s GREAT. The fact it’s not on the FR year-end list is an outrage.

Prada/Rakata by Arca is beyond hypnotic and I didn’t mention it when I was listing her albums, so I might as well do it now.

Is this the point where I can start to list songs from Chvrches’ Screen Violence? I guess it is. So uh. Good Girls, for a start. Also, Asking for a Friend. And Final Girl which would be the best Cure-like song on the album if the absolutely immaculate How not to Drown featuring Robert Smith didn’t exist. What did we do to deserve this blessing

Okay okay now that I’ve linked some impeccable stuff I HAVE to get one hundred percent cringe on main and list a shit ton of Bring Me The Horizon. There’s Parasite Eve which I inflicted on a friend through our chat’s radio and which, according to said friend who has actual taste, “is... uh... certainly a song”, so you know it has to be great. There’s Teardrops if, like me, a major sucker, you really, really miss Linkin Park. There’s Kingslayer if... if what? If what, exactly? If you wish the second Death Note opening was a duet, maybe? If you want to hear a screamo yelp glitching so hard it makes me laugh every time I listen to the song even if I adore it? I don’t know. I’ll stop here before I recommend the entirety of Post Human: Survival Horror, maybe

Wait no Bring Me The Horizon also released a song that sounds exactly like a deranged version of Justin Bieber singing about dying for you, in increasingly more graphic and horrible metaphors as the song progresses, and I also love it to death. It’s called DiE4u and it sounds NOTHING like the previous ones I’ve listed from them, and yes, the title is written like that. It also has a hyperpop six impala remix called DiE6u. I wish I was making this up. What even is this timeline

It’s time for a round of Honorable Mentions for elligible songs, containing a couple of guilty pleasures, as it's often the case.

Alors la zone (Jul) - So bad. Sooooooooo bad. Extremely bad. Awful. Terrible. But it makes me laugh so hard. I can’t help it.

Cabeza (Oboy) - Basically, same here. But it starts with the line “Ils ont grave le seum quand j’bois mon Capri-Sun” (”They hatin’ on me when I drink my Capri-Sun”). What else is there to say

Rasputin (Boney M remix by Majestic) - This would be on the actual list if it was an actual, proper remix. But it’s nearly identical to the original song, so it feels like cheating.

Bad Habits (Ed Sheeran) - Oddly listenable for an Ed Sheeran song. Has one of the worst music videos I’ve ever seen, but yeah.

Astronaut In The Ocean (Masked Wolf) - I wish the lyrics made any sense. Like, at all. It’s very distracting.

Médusa (Landy) - Again, oddly listenable.

Wasted Love (Ofenbach) - Very good but missing something? I’m not exactly sure what, though.

Butter (BTS) - Dynamite was way better. Still good, though.

Take My Breath (The Weeknd) - Don’t get me wrong, it’s very good. But it was a pretty good year for pop music, ok ?

Happier Than Ever (Billie Eilish) - If I had better taste, it would be on the list.

Leave the Door Open (Silk Sonic) - If I had better taste, it would also be on the list. Alas, I am what I am.

And now, the actual list. At last.

10 - Beggin’ (Måneskin)

US: #66 / FR: #34

Yes, it’s extremely rough around the edges. Yes, listening to it makes my throat hurt. Literally. Yes, it’s not their best song by several miles.

Yes, it’s still above all the honorable mentions. I swear I’ve thought long and hard about it, and I stand by this choice.

9 - Therefore I Am (Billie Eilish)

US: #25 / FR: Not on the list

I’m not your friend.

That’s it. That’s my review.

8 - Industry Baby (Lil Nas X)

US: #24 / FR: #25

A lot of people seem to think that one is Lil Nas X’ best single. I just think it’s very good, and to be honest, that’s enough to land on this list. Bragging about your success has rarely felt more deserved, let’s face it.

7 - Save your tears (The Weeknd)

US: #2 / FR: #3

Nearly killed by the overplay, but not quite. Not as good as Blinding Lights or Heartless by a mile, though.

That mile still puts it above a shit ton of stuff on the year-end lists.

6 - Levitating (Dua Lipa)

US: #1 / FR: #10

And for the least surprising pick of all, we have Levitating.

And moving on.

5 - Starting Over (Chris Stapleton)

US: #53 / FR: Not on the list

I’m frankly baffled that what’s essentially a folk song has made its way so high up the US year-end list. Not that I’m complaining, because it’s absolutely wonderful in every way, and it’s sincere and touching and aaaaaa. It’s perfect.

Now you might say that if I had better taste, this would be number one on the list, and you would be absolutely right! But, uh, may I remind you I just recommended FOUR Bring Me The Horizon songs on my unelligible songs list?

So... yeah.

4 - Stay (Justin Bieber & The Kid Laroi)

US: #12 / FR: #21

This happened. I actually love a Justin Bieber song now. It also has The Kid Laroi on it, which should also make it worse. But no. It’s stupidly addictive instead. What the hell happened. Why.

Just for this, I’m glad I always give a chance to every single song I come across even if I usually hate their artist’s stuff. Sometimes, it pays off.

3 - Montero (Lil Nas X)

US: #9 / FR: #5

I’m under the impression the whole drama around the video half-eclipsed the fact that this is a terrific song. Listen to that beat. It’s insanely catchy even if it sounds like goddamn flamenco. How does that even work. I’ve had it in my head for months and it refuses to go away and I’m actually happy about that. And yeah, you might have noticed it’s even higher on the French Year-end list. So yeah, radios here loved it even more. What an earworm.

Also the lyrics are extremely gay. Which doesn’t hurt. Thank you for this gift, good sir. We don’t deserve you.

2 - My Ex’s Best Friend (Machine Gun Kelly ft Blackbear)

US: #23 / FR: Not on the list

You knew this was coming. I’m pretty sure some rotten tomatoes were saved just for the occasion. Because it’s Machine Gun Kelly AND Blackbear, Unlikable F█ckboys Extraordinaires, talking about girls and doing what’s essentially textbook punk-rock in a not-very-original way.

But consider this: as this post has already made pretty clear again and again, I have exactly zero taste, and I’m a massive sucker.

Also, this was my default number one until the French 2021 year-end chart dropped this morning, because uh-

Um-

1 - Cold Heart (Elton John & Dua Lipa)

US: Not on the list / FR: #49

Yeah. No. No way I could put anything else above that one. Not in a million years. Have you heard it? Why isn’t it charting higher on the other side of the Atlantic? What the hell are you all doing? Are you all okay?

It’s so immaculate I have almost nothing to say about it. I’m not even entirely sure I could have put Blinding Lights above it in good conscience if I didn’t have that no-repeats rule for my lists. They’re in the same ballpark of endless replayability and perfection, really.

Oh wait, I do have something to say about it: hearing Dua Lipa sing the line “I’m not the man they think I am at home” is free serotonin. Every. Single. Time. I want to stay in that joyful, peaceful disco universe forever. What a vibe.

See you next year! If my predictions from 2019 are correct, pop music should get even better somewhere around 2022/2023, so... yeah! I’m hyped.

#Johannes’ bad not good pretty terrible music lists #music #eye contact tw

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kenjacku · 3 years

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Thank you soo much @holyshit and @corneliaswalls was for tagging me!! 🌺🌻💝

this got kinda long especially since im not able to arrange the images side by side idk why :/

✨ screenshots

my lockscreen is: a certain titan I'm particularly fond of from AoT 🙃

the last song i listened to: cmbyn - lil nas x

last photo saved: lhh <3

picrew: its something that i created looong ago when i just used to lurk on tumblr and it kinda looks like me (but not exactly, I don't look that nice lol) soo hey!

🎶 four songs i’ve heard today:

call of silence - hirayuki sawano

fall in line - christina aguilera ft demi lovato

house of memories - panic at the disco

asphyxia - co shu nie

🎬 seven comfort films:

this is gonna be a mix of films, anime and tv shows hehe

attack on titan/aot (my favourite anime💖)

friends

freaky friday

titanic (i’ve literally lost count of the number of times i’ve watched it lmao)

inuyasha (the first anime i watched, when i was 7, so it holds a special place in my heart)

you've got mail

downton abbey

🖐 get to know me:

name/nickname: teresa, i dont have any nicknames, but my mom’s brother occasionally calls me tessa so maybe that counts?

star sign: virgo

favourite bands/groups: OneDee, f+tm, imagine dragons

favourite solo artists: zayn, hirayuki sawano (he’s the composer for the aot soundtrack)

song stuck in my head: montero - cmbyn heh

last movie: i think it was murder on the orient express

last show: schitt’s creek (its amaaaazing), but if we’re talking anime, then death note (it was alright)

when did i create this blog: i have no idea lol

what do i post about: larry, 1d, anime and whatever else catches my fancy

last thing i googled: mexico ( to check which continent it is in 🙈)

other blogs: nope, dont have the energy for it

do i get asks: nah, but im glad since i’ve seen the hate anons going around and they’re not very nice lol

why did i choose this url: well, my first one was 2youngghosts which was a combination of too young (i loveee this song so much) and 2 ghosts, now its gettingdizzyoh which is a lyric from a certain song that harry hasnt released yet and i’ll never forgive him for this atrocity (also i am feeling very confused about my life rn so it reflects my state of mind too )

following: 🙃

followers: 🙃

average hours of sleep: 4-6/7

lucky number: idk? 9? since my birthday is 9/9

instruments: i can play the flute (the bamboo one) somewhat decently, but im out of practice now soo.. buuut i am a HUGE sucker for anyone who plays the piano or violin, thats a sureshot way to my heart lmao, and i want to learn to play them too!

what am i wearing: an oversized yellow t shirt ( i got it at an intersate math quiz i participated in and its probably my most worn and favorite item of clothing and my mom hates it lol) and navy blue boxers

dream job: a job where i’m paid to eat food (especially desserts), and i wont get sick or gain weight

dream trip: JAPANNNN

favourite food: chocolate! (actually anything that’s sweet i have GIGANTIC sweet tooth, i once ate an entire coffee cake by myself lol) buut also biriyani *muah*, aand the mutton kheema which we get at a local restaurant nearby which i LOVE (godd my mouth is already watering its been so long since i last had it) and i will go on and on so im gonna stop hehe

nationality: indian

favorite song: paper houses (niall) or sweater weather(the nbhd) or insomnia (zayn)

three fictional universes you’d like to live in: umm harry potter? thats the only one i can think of rn

Soo this was fun! I'm tagging @trulymadlycrazy, @velouie, @stardust-and-swords, @always28lou and anyone else who wants to do it! also, ignore if you don't wanna, ik it's kinda long

#tag games

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