#fluorescents

[thisaintascenereviews]

Fluorescents - Scream It At Me

For as much as pop-punk has been back in the mainstream, there’s one kind that I don’t think has been represented — neon pop-punk. In the late 00s, and early 2010s, bands like Forever The Sickest Kids, All Time Low, Every Avenue, Hit The Lights, and many others, dominated the pop-punk scene, and it was called “neon pop-punk,” named for how a lot of the bands dressed in neon colors, how bright and synth-heavy their music was, and how they placed a lot more emphasis on the “pop” than punk. I, for one, absolutely loved it, and a lot of favorite bands from that era came from the neon scene. In recent years, as pop-punk has been getting bigger in the mainstream again, I’ve noticed that a few bands have been either turning more into a catchy and neon-ish band, or they’re immediately jumping into that sound. State Champs’ last album, 2022’s Kings Of The New Age, is their catchiest album yet, and bands like Stand Atlantic, Broadside, and Honey Revenge are releasing albums that are way more pop than punk.

The latest band I found in this vein is one that I’ve been subtly following for a while on TikTok, and that’s Chicago outfit Fluorescents. They finally dropped a debut album, entitled Scream It At Me, and it’s composed of songs they’ve released within the last couple of years. These guys caught my attention by having a very pop-focused version of pop-punk, and reminding me of a lot of 00s bands, whether it’s the lyrics, vocals, melodies, and their overall sound. They also have a few other subtle influences, like some easycore and hip-hop in spots, but they mainly have a very pop-influenced sound. I didn’t know their debut was coming out until a few days before, but I was ecstatic, and to no surprise, I’m head over heels for this thing. This is one of the best albums I’ve heard all year, and one of the best pop-punk albums I’ve heard in a long while.

These guys take everything I love about the genre, especially back when I really listened to it, and make it so well. They also subtly modernize the sound, too, especially with the lyrics, but it doesn’t sound immediately dated or cringy. The biggest thing that works here, and why I keep returning to this album, are its hooks. This thing has hooks for days, and despite being a 34-minute album, I’ve played this a few times in a row before, just because I can’t get enough. It’s so sugary sweet, you might get a toothache from this record. From front to back, I always have a smile on my face when I listen to this record. Every song really sticks out, and that’s a rare feat on a pop-punk record these days.

It helps that this band has a few other tricks up their sleeve, whether it’s a few different vocalists, and a sound that manages to have the songs flow together quite well without running together. They make each song stand out enough, and it works so well. Lyrically, these guys are nothing that special, but a lot of these lyrics remind me of bands I used to listen to back in the day. One of their vocalists reminds me a ton of the vocalist of Hit The Lights, and it just takes me back almost 16 years ago listening to their sophomore album in my sophomore year of high school. They just have great chemistry, and the multiple vocalists help the album from getting stale.

I just really love this record, but it’s a mixture of nostalgia for this sound that I forgot how much I loved, and just how well done it is. I usually find a few pop-punk albums each year that I love a lot, especially after getting back into the genre around four or five years ago, and this may be the best one, unless something random sneaks up behind it. A couple of other great pop-punk albums have come out, too, like the new Neck Deep record that came out in January, for some reason, but Fluorescents is easily one of the best unsigned bands that you’re not listening to.

#fluorescents #scream it at me #forever the sickest kids #every avenue #all time low #pop punk #punk #emo #fall out boy #neck deep #state champs

[akwardlyuncool]

Class Favorites: Rooting For “Everybody” Black! Year 4

Bringing it back for the 4th year, we got a mini playlist featuring all the Black artists/bands that made it to the full end of the year list. Like always this is just a sampler plate, take what I offer you and use it to go get more. Join the vibe movement, cause there's something for everyone!

Disclaimer: We rooting for Blu Ivy here, cause Yoncé on some quiet ish and she needs to do better with the kind of platform she got and Blu is just a kid. Also yes there are couple repeats from last year because I was going through it in 2023 and was playing the same stuff and honestly anything that just felt safe, over and over again. Sorry not sorry.

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This year includes the songs you'll see in the official 2023 playlist, as well as a new-to-me song by the artist or band that I want to get into in 2024. (Also not in any specific order other than artist next to artist.)

31 - Soul Glo

32 - Soul Glo

Buckle Bunny - Tanner Adell

I Hate Texas - Tanner Adell

Roll The Dice - Fluorescents

Sober Lullabies - Fluorescents

Brown Skin Girl - Blue Ivy, SAINt JHN, Beyoncé & Wizkid

My Power - Nija, Beyoncé, Busiswa, Yemi Alade, Tierra Whack, Moonchild Sanelly and DJ Lag

Stupidfreak (Audiotree Live Version) - Juice

Heartbreak In A Box - Juice

What's The Move ft T-Pain - Watsky

A Change Is Gone Come (Cover) - T-Pain

Snake Eyes - Disperser CA

None Taken - Disperser CA

Anxiety - Meg Thee Stallion

Cobra (Rock Remix) ft. Spiritbox - Meg Thee Stallion

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#Class Favorites 2023 #AKWARD CLASS FAVORITES #Rooting For Everybody Black #Akward Mixes #Playlists #Soul Glo #Tanner Adell #Fluorescents #Juice #T-Pain #Disperser CA #Meg Thee Stallion

[crispy-pupper]

9/12/23

#finnegan fox illustrations #crispy pupper art #comic #small band alert i guess #fluorescents #i spelled their name wrong in the comic dont @ me

[rma0928]

I think I'm having a moment

Another momentary lapse of serotonin

#Fluorescents #in my head

[sunglass-horizons]

so give me one good reason to believe i’m getting better.

#original #lyric art #lyrics #fluorescents #casey #caseytheband #sunglass-horizons #graphic design #music equals life #pixlredit #befunky

[dausy]

So PaulRubens was super cool and sent me a watercolor set to test out for free. I feel obligated to art with it because HOW COOL IS THAT!?!?!? I never expected to get so much free stuff. Bad news is I'll have to do surgery on the opera purple because its a dud and dry in the tube. Its the swatch in the middle second to bottom. Its one of the only NONFLUORESCENT colors and pretty looking. So Id like to salvage it.

The very very very first watercolor brands I discovered when I started doing traditional art was paul rubens. So I'm pretty confident with the quality I'm getting into and thrilled even if I had the one dud.

My only issue is I didn't know what to expect to receive in the mail. It was a surprise and I had an illustration ready to color for testing but I was expecting your normal basic color palette (rgb). I was not ready for fluorescents. I can not do my illustration with fluorescents. So now I have to go back to the drawing bored. Which puts me back just a little bit because I have something else I need to film too and I worry about phone space with these files lmao. I did though buy those schmincke neon colors a while back and never used them either and we may need to do like a collaboration with the two sets to say I've used both.

I'm also running out of time just in general.

and I know I said I was going to have to slow down on spending money but I'm considering buying a mushroom hole punch because I just discovered discbound binding discs for notebooks. I like having journals for my artworks but its hard to find the type of paper I want in journals and I bought this one stack of paper a while back and I want them in notebook form.

Also tempted to try making a customs stamp because I've been sending stuff out in the mail recently. 8I

anywho, today I think I may speed paint the illustration that I was going to do but can't do anymore but I'll never go back to it ever again if I don't paint it. Also I hate skipping a page in my journal because it makes it hard to lay the page flat when its waterlogged and the page underneith it has been painted on. So it may not be a great illustration in the end but itll be a take up space painting instead.

also I bought horizona zero dawn2 last night but havent played it yet 8O

#artsupplyhaul #artsupplies #paulrubens #watercolors #fluorescents #neon #painttubes #artblog

[nascenterror]

Ugh it's so good. I love the vocals.

#pop punk #punk #fluorescents #bands #need some new punk recs #Spotify

[youngmonsterr]

Say your piece and let it linger, let the words dry out your mouth.

#fluorescents #roll the dice #narcissistic parents #put my foot down today #proud of myself #journal

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

there's just... there is no reason to make yet another cop show in this day and age. copaganda is not only bullshit, it is a failure of imagination.

you want to watch brooding characters with dark pasts investigate crimes in an official capacity? just use private detectives (cops have a miserable solve rate anyway). want eccentric geniuses & their sidekicks solving mysteries? i present you with armchair detectives & neighborhood busybodies. oh, you're craving a workplace comedy-drama starring overworked protagonists doing their heartfelt best to resolve community conflicts? social worker office sitcom! bitch this is ACHIEVABLE

#i lied the one reason to make a cop show is you want a mafia show and the cops are currently by far the most powerful u.s. mafia #BUT! i cannot emphasize enough: the police have none of the aesthetics or personality of the actual mafia so why even bother #The Sopranos but in an office setting with buzzing fluorescent lighting? and half your co-workers are weekend neo-nazis? come on #no. just no #from now on i want all tv cops to be villainous side characters #but BORING villainous side characters #i like villains as much as the next queer audience member but i cannot overstate the importance of portraying cops as not just bastards #but BORING bastards #they are so boring. they are boring and hateful and also neither particularly smart nor interesting #i need to emphasize: there is NOTHING to romanticize there #i am so passionate and supportive of anti-romanticizing cops. ANTI-ROMANTICIZE THE POLICE. #the police are BORING and HATEFUL and CRUEL and BASIC AS HELL #and we should be pointing that out publicly every chance we get #the police are BORING BASIC BITCHES and mocking them publically is a patriotic service

[yardsards]

i had some friends vote on what silly phrase to write on my birthday cake...

other top contenders included "GAY DIVORCE" and "AUTISM SWAG"

#eliot posts #cakes #cake decorating #old man yaoi #i don't know how to tag this... #not pictured: me holding a lamp at the cake bc my overhead lights are fluorescent and look weird on camera #im very rusty on cake decorating so this is a bit messy but OH WELL

[briargeese]

New spruce buds under ultraviolet light.

#spring growth #spruce trees #fluorescent light #photographers on tumblr #original photography

[allura-raine]

#photography #flower photography #flowercore #flower aesthetic #fluorescent #purple and blue aesthetic #glow aesthetic #glowcore #naturecore #vivid colors #purple aesthetic #fluorescent flowers #dreamycore #beautiful glow #bloomcore #purplecore #blue aesthetic

[conspectusargosy]

Dendrobium bellatulum is an orchid from low to moderate altitude mountain forests in southern Asia. It is an epiphyte with cane pseudobulbs and the flowers which emerge from leaf nodes on leafless stems are known to be fragrant.

#Dendrobium #bellatulum #fluorescent #uvivf #blue glow #luminosa #flowers #orchidaceae

[sodomy-and-the-boyscouts]

Does anyone else with autism literally not know what sensory things are bothering them unless they somehow find out or make a sustained effort to know what it is?

Like, I see all these posts that will be like “i can’t x because the light is too loud” or “my scalp hurts” or something, and that’s fine because those are the reasons that these feelings are happening, but oftentimes when I’m in a situation I have just mentally unconsciously blocked out whatever it is, like say it’s a repetitive buzzing from a light, i’ll just be PISSED and I won’t know why, and then i’ll realize i’m pissed, and then maybe I’ll step too close and hear the light buzzing and be like “OH”.

Like I feel like I’m never right away conscious of what’s bothering me, or even that something IS bothering me, I just start acting out for what feels like no reason.

Like, it genuinely took me YEARS to realize that why i’m so uncomfortable in certain places is because of how loud fluorescent lights are. (like, I know they light a space well, but I can’t be the only one that is bothered by such loud appliances, I feel like a know many neurotypical people who should also be upset over a buzzing light. why did we, as a society, decide to install vibrating lights everywhere?)

#autism #neurodivergence #neurodivergent #actually autistic #autistic experiences #sensory issues #fluorescent lights #i hate them #asd #autism spectrum disorder #ranting ranting

[cravinganescape]

RARE fluorescent pink transparent desktop phone

#techcore #pinkcore #clear craze #clear technology #curators on tumblr #electronics #retrocomputing #vintage phone #pink phone #barbie movie #barbiecore #fluorescent #retro gadgets #90s #nostalgiacore #clear tech #vintage tech #vintage technology #transparent pink #clear pink #cybercore #digicore #2000s nostalgia #y2k tech #y2kcore #cyber y2k #80s aesthetic #90s tech #alt text

[hazyla]

This is probably not how their conversation went, but it’s how I remember it

#the magnus protocol #tmagp fanart #haz art #gwendolyn bouchard #tmagp ep 11 #tmagp ep 11 spoilers #Is this like the equivalent of growing up and Mickey Mouse is real but super fucked up #Actually more aligned with monster Garfield #I do believe Lena’s office has fluorescent lighting but Mr bonzo mentions always trigger a red background #lena kelley