#also PLEASE listen to circle the drain by soccer mommy

[rabdoidal]

tim drake is the best because he was made in the 90s so DC gave him the ability to skateboard - i think itd be very fun if he was in thrasher talking about being a millionaire CEO that also inexplicably skateboards 

✨ kofi link in bio if you’re feeling generous ✨

#my art #doodles #dc comics #tim drake #batman #red robin #robin #thrasher #fake magazine cover #also PLEASE listen to circle the drain by soccer mommy #its my tim song #trans swag friendship bracelets made by bart #batfam

[wednesdayoceans]

ty to @amarimeta for the tag!

Top 5 songs i've been listening to:

EXID- Lady: very late to the EXID party but this song is a bop and a half

TWICE- First Time: this song does something to me that feels illegal and dangerous. when the falsettos start on the chorus i want to start chewing drywall. in a good way

GASHI- Creep on Me: sorry for listening to whiteboy rap :( the hook is very catchy. what can i say

RRR- Naatu Naatu: not enough modern movies have dance-offs as pivotal scenes anymore. this is why western cinema is going downhill

Perfume Genius- Your Body Changes Everything: love love love this entire album. PG one of the few male musicians who at heart is truly a weird little girl

Songs you actually listen to:

Legally Blonde the Musical- So Much Better: i won't apologize for being a theater kid.

Into the Spiderverse- Sunflower: still fucks hard four years years later!!

Beach Bunny- Ms. California: i know literally nothing about this artist or her music besides this song

La Meme Gang- Reveal (Fly You Out): don't know what the lyrics mean and i almost certainly will not be looking them up. what else matters besides good vibes

The Kid Laroi- STAY: this little twerp might be a misogynist but i will defend that this song is good

Six current albums:

Allie X- Cape God: she's so real for making an entire album about Massachusetts Gothic. also please come out of hibernation girl i miss you

Soccer Mommy- Color Theory: i bought this album entirely because of Circle the Drain and it was worth it

Perfume Genius- Set My Heart On Fire Immediately: see previous note about perfume genius

TWICE- Between 1&2: without exaggeration i have been listening to this mini album almost every single day since it came out last august.

Hades Original Soundtrack: music to kill your dad to. darren korb how do you fucking do it

Rina Sawayama- Hold The Girl: i lost my voice seeing her perform Frankenstein live in concert and openly cried in a room full of strangers during Send my Love to John

tagging anyone who wants to do it! use me an excuse to write about your fave songs!! i like seeing it

#copying ace's disclaimer and saying that loona would all over these normally but we're still boycotting

[biscemi]

@msculper tagged me to answer some music questions! 😊✨

1. favorite song of the moment: I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore by Lucy Dacus

2. a song i associate with my favorite ship: the God of Loss by Darlingside is my #1 tallster song 

3. a song that could be about me: When by dodie. she released a new version of this song with her new album and i just. somebody please come talk to me about Build a Problem i have Emotions

4. a song i find overrated: hoo I don’t usually consider things to be overrated but the answer is probably a Beatles song... lmao maybe Blackbird or Imagine by John Lennon

5. a song that reminds me of a good memory: Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes, played live outside, with the crowd singing it like a choir. 

6. last song i listened to: circle the drain by Soccer Mommy

7. a song that makes me laugh: You’re Gonna Outlive Mitch McConnell by Skyler Foley. a fuckin great song. Skyler is super talented and you if go listen to this one should also listen to her song Landline!!! also her song Chaser comes out today 🤗

8. a song i want my mutuals to listen to: there has to be a Tallest Man answer so go listen to Sagres by The Tallest Man on Earth

tagging @gellavonhamster @mifunebooty @officialglenntilbrook (hi mia!!) @daniellesdarrieux and @townhulls (as always, if you like)

#tagged

[tired-smol-ray]

music asks: 15, 16,17? thanks and i hope ur doing great x

OwO thank you lots for the ask and please excuse my late answer heh!

And likewise, thank you very much!💫💕💕💓 :D

15: A song that is a cover by another artist

Okay basically everything from Chloe Moriondo but I have 4 I really like from her: Take me to church, wish you were gay, la vie en rose and death of a bachelor

Andddd I listen to to the cover by Cavetown from the song circle in the drain (by Soccer Mommy) almost every day too uwu

(Cavetown is so amazing dkfkd)

16: One of your favorite classical songs

Hmmm, if this question means actual classical music from like Mozart etc. I reallly don't have preferences, I listen to everything that my youtube playlist offers me but I like listening to this mashup here while doing Homework(it has three parts owo)

Anddd if it means songs that are classics it's probably some of these:

Put your head on my shoulder

Can't take my eyes off of you

Can't help falling in love orrrr La vie en rose

Heheh may be weird for some? But yeeeeeehawwww I love it alllll

(Amd everything from Cole Porter kfjfkf)

17: A song that would sing a duet with on karaoke

Haha, probably songs from Musicals (like:Hamilton, dear evan hansen, Be More Chill, Heathers, 21 Chump Street etc.)

(Okay but also I would love to sing one of the covers from Cloe Moriondo I just mentioned with someone thooo XD)

#rays ramble #rayrambles #rays answer #thank uuu

[thesinglesjukebox]

SOCCER MOMMY - CIRCLE THE DRAIN

[7.73]

Did not Usher in a top score; did yield a lot of writing...

Ian Mathers: There's a mandolin part (or something) peeking through the mix here in places that, combined with the dreamy listlessness of Sophie Allison's lyrics and delivery, is giving me significant pangs of that ol' devil nostalgia for both my past and the music of my past. Sometimes though, you just gotta go with it. [9]

Vikram Joseph: Nostalgia is a hallucinogen; it blurs the distinction between times you miss and times you simply happen to remember more vividly than others, and, more disconcertingly, between places you have been and places that have only ever existed in your internal world. There's something about "Circle The Drain" - with its soft golden hour hues, its fuzzy edges - that drives deep into whichever ganglion or cortex is responsible for nostalgia, and sends uncoordinated sparks and signals across its synapses, triggering a slideshow of fragmented memories that may or may not be memories at all. It reminds me of so many tangible things - the late 90s / early 00s guitar-pop of Natalie Imbruglia and Avril Lavigne, the Smashing Pumpkins' "Today", and (strangest of all) second-tier Brit indie band Feeder's tender teenage stoner anthem "High" - but also of so much that is unreachable and unnameable - walks home from nowhere, composite daydreams from a hundred train windows, summers disintegrating into the building blocks of memory. As if getting older isn't frightening enough, if I have this much capacity for nostalgia at just past 30 won't I be slowly crushed under its weight by 70? But for now, while I can still think of myself as young, I'm grateful for this song - a gorgeous, dreamy downer - and for the synthesis of new memories from the glowing rubble of ones that came before. [9]

Leah Isobel: On my first day of work in the new decade, a customer yelled at me. It wasn't the first time this had happened, and he wasn't actually mad at me; he was hurt by something my boss had done, and I was just in the crosshairs. But what he said - the justified core of his anger - has stuck with me, like an ink I can't wash off my hands. It's followed me all month, keeping me from being present with my friends or honest with my parents or productive at my job. I haven't been able to write about it, either; the helplessness, the horror, the rot I feel in my body. It feels a lot like the sick-sweet guitar decay in this song. [9]

Julian Axelrod: Calling a song "passive" is rarely a complement, but everything about "Circle the Drain" feels detached in the best way. The sample-of-a-sample guitars fade in and out of focus, Sophie Allison's numb sigh is couched in a week's worth of reverb, and her verses frame summer love and self-immolation as equidistant unattainable ideals. It's a song about depression, but it doubles as an interrogation of the "slacker rock" tag bands like Soccer Mommy so often fall under: Is this person stuck on the couch because they're unambitious, or has the mold in their brain turned them to a bedridden husk of their usual chipper self? Everything around Allison is pristinely produced, which makes its passivity all the more pointed. As a great artist once said, "Do you think a depressed person could make this?" [7]

Nortey Dowuona: A nice, twee song about being sad. That's it. that's the tweet. [9]

Katherine St Asaph: I cannot pinpoint, and it's bugging me, what specific maybe-obvious riff this is biting. (My ears hear something like Kay Hanley's Cherry Marmalade, and the duh answer is probably like Nirvana, but I think part of it is, of all things, Incubus's "Drive"?) But I've listened to enough '90s college-rock filler to recognize a clear improvement on it. [7]

Alfred Soto: Nailing the early nineties college rock churn 'n' jangle as surely as "Lucy" did last year, "Circle the Drain" flirts more closely -- more ominously -- with the churn 'n' jangle that crossed over several years later: think Shawn Colvin, not Belly. Listeners may dig this direction. I say Soccer Mommy gets blanded out. [6]

Thomas Inskeep: Is that a banjo? Well, that's unexpected. The guitar-plugged-into-a-sole-amp and ramshackle '90s-Beck-ish drums, those are expected. But you can definitely hear the increased production budget on this, and I'm not 100% it's for the better. [6]

Brad Shoup: The dream of Adult Alternative is alive and well and uncanny. The idea of daubing one's emotional grayness into the short shadows of a deceptively summery pop rocker... I wasn't sure that was a move anymore. [7]

Joshua Copperman: This doesn't sound like a 90s radio hit, this sounds like 90s album filler. Okay, that's a bit much. It sounds like it was there, but then someone at Loma Vista said 'it's 2020, music has been functional background noise for like four years now, take out everything interesting except for the delay spin in the second verse and the nifty tape flutter effect around four minutes in, don't distract anyone'. There's a synth pad at 1:15 that disappears by 1:20. The actual song is pretty great - I especially love the imagery of walking on a cable, depression being so debilitating that doing anything has the stakes of conducting the electric city. The top comment on eight-minute advance single "Yellow is the Color of Her Eyes" currently reads "If she went far enough, I think she would meet Chris Martin at the beach." For "Circle The Drain," I wish she did. [6]

Michael Hong: Bubbly and burbly, "Circle the Drain" sounds exactly like that, a spinning whirlpool. Where Clean was blurred by the surrounding ennui of being a teenager with a crush, "Circle the Drain" marks a clear progression in Soccer Mommy's sound, sounding more expansive and vibrant. You feel it in the twang of the looping guitar melody and in the shuffle of the backing beat. The background noise of Clean is washed away, reduced to a low fuzzy din and Soccer Mommy's voice comes with reassuring elegance that suggests while you can fall apart in the spiral, there's comfort to come when it does eventually end. [9]

Joshua Minsoo Kim: I hate the game my mind plays with regards to my depression being "legitimate" enough. If things are OK and I don't feel depressed: Great, but was I just dumb and emotional this whole time and my depression not actually real? When things are OK and I feel depressed: Not great, but at least I know my depression is... real? I don't know. That I have such thoughts is an upsetting thing in and of itself, and the plainness with which Soccer Mommy talks about not wanting to remain strong for family and friends is a reminder of how debilitating life can be. That others feel that way makes me feel less alone. "Circle the Drain" is a song about being stuck, of being "chained" to your bed (please help me if I'm "napping" all the time). There's a quiet appeal--a slacker glamour--that this song exudes, that captures the allure and sickness and banality of depression in the everyday. [8]

Will Adams: The chorus is curious; the bridge sets up a clear launch, but at the cathartic moment the production falls away, to the point it feels like we're getting a second verse. It's not until the titular thinking appears ("round and around") that the arrangement comes back into focus. It's a neat trick. One that wears thin by the third time, but who am I to argue with a song that wraps me in the nostalgic comfort of Orange County radio and Daria commercial bumpers like this. [8]

Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: Soccer Mommy's best songs capture the clarity of feeling like shit like no other artist's do. It's a hard feeling, the way that being lost and beaten-down create not any kind of moral righteousness but a shocking awareness. It's everywhere on "Circle the Drain," from the crunch of the intro guitars and the tinniness of the drum machine on the bridge to Allison's vocal performance, which sounds at once both immediate and far away. But it's there most in her songwriting, which Gabe Wax's production only intensifies. The way that the second verse breaks from the figurative language of the first into stark, morbidly funny descriptions of mental illness and decay is arresting, and the way the song pushes through it, almost making the final choruses sound triumphant, is even more so. [8]

Alex Clifton: "Circle the Drain" is a story of depression set to the warmest guitars I've heard this side of the nineties. It's a beautifully neat trick to pull and Soccer Mommy here does so with aplomb--both aspects kept reeling me back in for second and third listens. Although the lyrics are sad, the feeling is ultimately uplifting. It's okay if you are falling to pieces. A song like this will catch you. [8]

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