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Florence acknowledging 5 years since the Big god video but not making a peep about the ceremonials 10th anniversary is kind of funny

#where was our 10 year delixe album with deep cuts? #do u not want my money or something #like a finished landscape would have sufficed #Florence and the machine #fatm #fatmclassic #floreence welch #florence + the machine

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Got my bracelet. Saved 62 euro on it as everything on her site is still massively reduced. Shame all the cool posters and clothes are gone

#Not seventy euro worth but its weighty #looks pretty nice #Florence and the machine #Florence Welch #fatmclassic

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Love your blog! Do you have any recommendations for the best Florence + the machine fan accounts to follow, I’m new to tumblr? :) x

hi love!! @florencememes @florencewelchislife @uselessmagic @welched @fatmclassic and @fatmdaily are the folks i reblog from regularly, but i also find a lot by following the tags. and thank you!! 💘

#p #replies #anon

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Florence from Florence And The Machine on why she loves making music and performing semi-naked on stage

From an interview in The Mirror (2009)....Nothing has changed....

#Florence and the Machine #Florence Welch #this headline made me laugh so hard #omg #fatmclassic

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Got polls so

#ill give youse a week #we all know it won't be hah but if lungs doesn't get enough love I'll be mad #Florence and the machine #Florence Welch #florence + the machine #fatm #fatmclassic

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One of the first songs I wrote is about the mistakes you make and then that you have to carry them. They’re two animals — the stupid mistakes you make are a donkey, and the malicious mistakes that you make are the jackal. They get bigger and bigger, but they’re your children and you love them. So you’re just carrying these two animals around. I was like, What can you even have done that bad when you’re a teenager? I just was always an overthinker and anxious, and I had to create worlds and characters to help me understand my feelings. “Cassandra” was wrestling with the loss of live music and potentially not having a job for a while or wondering whether it would come back. I was trying to create a mythology with gods and prophets, and it feels Lungs–ian to me.

Florence talking about ‘little donkey’ in a recent interview

#florence and the machine #love that song #such a cool video as well #Florence Welch #fatmclassic

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Best cover by Fatm (only listing ones she actually released or have high quality audio but you can add anything)

#Florence and the machine #florence + the machine #fatmclassic #Florence welch #going mad with the polls

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Ok first mermaids listen, the first 30 seconds are unintelligible to me, been awhile since we had her sing that high pitched.

But then those trumpets or whatever start and the pace picks up and I'm into it

It's yet another song about her drinking mixed with both real world references and mythology. And it's pretty good, though I'll need more time to digest.

#so it's attached to a 'complete ' album release #ok whatever i guess it explains the heavy promo #I'm always happy to get new material #but one song and a few poems of songs we already have ? #eh.... #Florence and the machine #fatm #floreence welch #fatmclassic #Florence + the machine

[fatmclassic]

In that Guardian interview florence says more men seem into her music these days (as opposed to just hearing their daughters listen) and that’s an interesting topic, because while it’s definitely a female/LGBT heavy fanbase, I’ve always been surprised by how many guys seem to love her.

Like when Lungs was out, the only person I knew who also enjoyed her music was my friends older metal head brother. And another friend who was mostly into male guitar bands was keen to see her at a festival. And there’s always more lads then  I'm expecting her comment sections. The reddit forum she has is fairly small, but it skews more male according to their demographic breakdown. And her crowds in the shows I’ve been to, are mor efemale heavy, and no doubt some men are dads and bfs dragged along, but there are a lot of men who are there to see her.

And she’s had famous male bands inviting her on stage or asking her to open for them, U2 and The rolling stones. Liam Gallagher was a cunt who said she couldn’t sing but he’s always a cunt so.

I can’t think of many other female fronted acts in recent years that have had her level of success to the point they are festival headliners. Not including solo pop/songwriter/rap artists. Critics seem unfairly harsh on her though, ‘Too loud, too much shouting, too pretentious’. Laura Snapes had an interview with her where she particularly nasty towards Florence for no good reason early in her career. Even the guardian commenters, who were usually happy to tear into Flo, found the whole article too mean spirited. She’s not had anything that nasty directed towards her since from what I’ve seen.

She’s dealt with some bullshit, constant shit about her looks and age (this came as much if not more from women), the tired ‘foghorn florence/owl in a windchime shop’ jokes, that she’s too posh/pretentious, people complaining she’s just trying to be Kate Bush or *insert ‘kooky’ female artist of your choice* and people still giving out about fucking you got the love over a decade later. She has also had to emphasise that she controls her sound, writes her songs, decides the visuals.

But overall she’s done so well in a pretty male dominated world and seems to have a fairly diverse audience.

#just what I've noticed #and the critics were VERY harsh on her back in the day #which was odd #becuase she was being hyped before her album #then they turned on her it was very odd #florence and the machine #fatmclassic #Florence Welch

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At 3000 of these views are mine

16 year old me was desperate for new Florence material and this had to do.

#it hurts man #i have this on like 3 old ipods #Florence and the machine #Florence welch #fatmclassic #Youtube

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I feel a little controversial: which of these is the worst song?

#my personal compilation of her weakest song on each album #you're only getting a day for this #Florence and the machine #floreence welch #florence +the machine #fatm #fatmclassic

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Playlist of Florence favourite artists and influences.

I added songs she's stated directly, and chose at random if she just mentioned the artist. I also included artists she has worked closely with,like kid harpoon and blood orange.

It's interesting because when people compare her to other artists, it's usually other women, but her main influences are male artists.

#Florence and the machine #Florence Welch #fatmclassic #fatm #playlist #Spotify

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Ceremonials playlist.

Looked for that 'catherdral in the sky' sound. This is the album where Florence cemented her own sound. So very big, dramatic and loud. Songs about demons, ghosts, breakups and water. More drum heavy songs with big choruses and gospel choirs, stadium fillers in other words. European marching bands were a big inspiration for this album.

This was a long era and other artists started emerging that Florence herself inspired. Some were derided as 'heavily diluted Florence cast offs' but I'll let you be the judge. More established artists as well cited her as an influence.

Also as usual, included artists she was influenced by. And some movie soundtracks to make it more 'epic'.

#Florence Welch #Florence and the machine #fatmclassic #ceremonials #playlist #Spotify

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The part on choreomania about resurrection and evangelicals going 'oh yes' is one of the best things she's done in any song tbh.

#that entire section just works so well #up there with the horn section in hbhbhb title track #and the harp finish in cosmic love #Florence and the machine #Florence Welch #dance fever #fatmclassic

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I saw someone say Florence's audience hasn't really grown over the years, they put it down to her reluctance to use social media and nor really promoting singles

So I'm wondering, how many people discovered Florence recently, especially after the release of how big how blue how beautiful? And where?

#Florence and the machine #Florence Welch #fatmclassic #fatm

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Florence Welch has clocked up an impressive career, one that spans the key moments in pop’s digital age. In 2009, she was described as the boho art-school alternative to pop urchins Kate Nash and Lily Allen, which really takes you back. Her apparent class privilege initially provoked some sneering reviews, and her jump to fame was questioned when she won the Brits critics’ choice award after just two singles. When she heard she’d won, she had a panic attack in a branch of Caffè Nero, as she later told the journalist Pete Paphides: “Why? Because I had done nothing and I was getting an award for it.” Welch emerged in an era, at the start of the digital landgrab, when new artists would arrive to great fanfare before they knew how to sing live, or even had an album to promote (often, by the time the album emerged, no one was interested any more)

Guardian interview, her beginnings.

#She kept getting digs about being posh #which is odd because she never pretended to not to be #unlike others who downplayed their middle class roots #florence and the machine #Florence Welch #fatmclassic