#it's music though it's subjective

[invierno-inferno]

rating Lovejoy songs based on how aspec they are

(disclamer: a lot (most) of these are a stretch. but nothing is more powerful than an aroace who wants representation.)

Are You Alright?

Taunt: off to a bad start- the only remotely-aspec-if-you-squint line is 'did anybody ever say no to you?' which implies that the singer is rejecting the subject of the song. why? aromanticism or asexuality, maybe. along with the general theme of running away in this song, although that's also a reach. 1.5/10.

One Day: again, not much. the song is about the singer's romantic partner not being good for him, which is a pretty common topic for a song. the idea of wanting to be in a relationship despite it not being good can apply to aspec people, but overall this song doesn't give much. 1/10

Sex Sells: now we're getting somewhere! I see this song as a story that 'call me what you like' and 'it's all futile! it's all pointless!' are also about: an asexual alloromantic and allosexual aromantic trying to make a relationship work. in this song, it's obvious that the singer and the subject want different things from the relationship- the more relevant of this song is that the subject prioritizes sex, which the narrator does not want. pretty aspec! 7/10

Cause for Concern: honestly, this song's got nothing. a banger, but not aspec. 0/10

Pebble Brain

Oh Yeah, You Gonna Cry?: definitely less to go on, but I hear this song as the singer helping his friend to break up with her boyfriend by implying they have the beginning of a relationship. maybe a sort of prequel to the 'sex sells' story. 4/10

Model Buses: the lines 'you're just scared/you're just scared of the future' is often something paraphrased by aphobes, invalidating their orientation by saying things like 'you're afraid of growing up' and 'you're afraid of commitment'. pretty aspec, but it is only a couple of lines that probably weren't intended to be read this way. 3/10

Concrete: not much of anything. 0/10

Perfume: that's what I'm fucking talking about. 'seems like all her friends/abruptly fell in love/and she was in the dust/darling, life was streaming past/so she learned to lie/she learned how to pretend/a drama in the futile/a means to an end'. it's aro! it's aro. to quote the writer of the song, 'you aromantics need to read my lyrics! listen to it's all futile! it's all pointless! and figure out what it's about. and perfume.' super aro, however it's only half a verse. 8/10!

You'll Understand When You're Older: same deal as 'model buses'. a lot of aspec people, particularly teens, are invalidated by being told that they are late bloomers. 3/10

The Fall: love this song, there's nothing aspec though. 0/10

It's All Futile! It's All Pointless!: aro. it's SO aro. see the quote above about perfume and iafiap. also, an entire verse explicitly about not being in love! subject is almost definitely alloaro. and general themes of doing what society tells you, despite you being unhappy with it. 11/10, aro anthem.

Wake Up & It's Over

Portrait of a Blank Slate: not super aspec. however, 'how do you all make it look so easy?/open your hearts up so quickly, it scares me' sounds arospec to me! 4/10

Call Me What You Like: this is the last song of the story that starts with 'sex sells'. some especially aspec lines include 'you could kiss the skin from my lips if it makes you feel good/not sure if you want it, not sure if you need me, too'. the first line implies that the narrator is indifferent towards sex and/or romance, and engages in it only if his partner wants to. in the second line, he wonders if his partner values him in the relationship. 'I'm not made for you/but what else is new?/oh lord, she tells me that it's nothing/I really hope it's nothing' to me references the narrator and the subject experimenting to figure themselves out- 'what else' could be new is romantic feelings. the narrator hopes there aren't any. 6/10

Consequences: One of my favorites, but there's not much here. Maybe 'I wish I tried more/wish I tried more/wish I tried' in reference to a romantic relationship, which some aro people can relate to by thinking that if they had 'tried harder' to be in love, the relationship would have worked. Kind of a stretch, though. 1.5/10

Warsaw: at first glance, there's not much but if we look closer... the subject is unhappy in her current relationship, (a common theme in Lovejoy's songs) and is sleeping with strangers, which is the same situation as 'call me what you like' and by extent iafiap, in which the subject is likely alloaro. 'the place that she got her first kiss is now a vaccination clinic' also supports that the subject of this song is the same as the one in iafiap, cmwyl, and sex sells- same meaning as 'what was your thought when you realized you'd never feel naïve love again?'. (I know I said cmwyl was the last in the story- I feel like this isn't solid enough to definitely be a part of it). my argument's a bit weak. 5/10

Scum: 'no matter how much you think you love him/you'll still flinch when his blood pool touches you.' can't figure out how to explain this one, but you get it. 'maybe he'll be jesus/maybe he'll be jesus this time.' 'jesus' in these lines might mean The One- maybe this person will be the one, maybe this relationship will be the one. I'd group this song in with model buses and you'll understand when you're older, just a couple one-off lines. 3/10

It's Golden Hour Somewhere: 'they'll tell you this is normal/they'll tell you this is love/I'm not sure if the stuff I want is even worth the price it comes'. again, can't describe it, just seems aspec. 2/10

#lemme know what you think #if yall see them any other way #of course most of the lines i pointed out were meant another way #it's music though it's subjective #aromantic #asexual #lovejoy #lvjy #are you alright? #pebblebrain #wake up & it's over

[icewindandboringhorror]

I know this is just a silly bad quality random screencap of a screencap that I found on facebook lol, BUT it's a succinct enough image to easily describe the concept in a quick/accessible way hopefully :

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(and of course, feel free to elaborate in tags, etc.! (especially elaborating about other senses as well.. can you "hear" in your mind just as well as you can "see"? taste? etc.) It's an interesting topic to me, as someone who's like a 4.5 at MOST lol. I'm curious what option will be the most common :0c )

#tumblr polls #hrmm... a little poll perhaps.. about a subject I find interesting.. since this image came across my facebook today #still really not feeling that well. no longer shaking violently and such but I still feel weird and weak much more than usual #They did say my markers for like infection or inflammation were elevated but that they werent sure of the cause so hopefully #it's nothing too serious. they did also say a lot of different things can cause that thing to be higher than normal but didn't go into spec #fics of what. maybe some of them are relatively benign or something. I still havent felt much back to normal since #I got really sick that one time though. I feel fine on and off but then little bouts of feeling weird and sick happen. hrmmm #ANYWAY.. looking for small ways to be productive. such as little doodles on evil ipad or editing game videos #or posting polls or cat pictures or some other like not very labor intensive things #I WISH I COULD FOCUS on writing HHRGGhh... I need to finish my game.. it would be so freeing.. a project that's been looming #over my head for like 5 years even though througouht that 5yrs I've probably spent a total of 3 months working on it lo.. ANYWAY #I still partially really cannot beleive that people CAN see stuff in their heads. There's always part of me that's thinking like. well mayb #e everyone DOES see the same exact thing but we just describe/conceptualize it so differently that we think we're talking about #different things when we're really not. But I have been assured by people I've talked to about it that they can GENUINELY really see #stuff in their heads like as vivid as an actual picture in real life or something. And the other senses are neat too. Like for exmaple I #can hear in my head much better than I can see imagery. I still CANNOT hear vividly like as if I were listening to actual music out loud.. #but I think it's developed more than my sight. AND interesting how this varies the creative process. a friend I was talking to on the phone #said they write by literally just watching stuff play before them like a movie. where my process is COMPLETELY different. AND that affects #the content/what details we focus on as well as our individual styles of writing have differences that can be traced back to that.. hrmm

[tariah23]

Oh... this is not….

#IT AT ALL #what the fuck……… #when has quiet about everything that might be a ‘touchy subject’ (usually fascism racism genocide etc etc etc) Taylor swift has ever used #her platform to talk about anything ever #she’s the epitome of a ‘blank white women who fans can easily mold into whatever they want her to be in their heads’ because shes #never shown who she really was to them #she never says anything about anything she has no opinion on anything at least openly her music is bland and safe and never challenging on #purpose for easy consumption in order to not isolate them despite their views and ideologies #such an ugly thing to post at the beginning of black history month lmfao #don’t her fans still think that she’s gay even though all she ever dates are openly racist white men #rambling #who made this book omg #I know the op of the original tweet was just joking and they’re black so they were like ??? too but jsjsjsjs

[irregularbillcipher]

watched the musical demon show (don't wanna name it so this post isn't in the tags) at the behest of an IRL friend and i can already tell this is going to be a piece of media where i absolutely cannot stop thinking about it, not because i really love the show as-is, but because it has so many individual components i really like and find incredibly fun or compelling, and i'm so frustrated that it doesn't come together for me

i think the main thing i can say about it as a show, setting aside some of the insensitive choices that were made that i really don't feel qualified to tackle or talk about, is that the entire thing sort of gives off this vibe of someone really excited to show you every single oc they made in high school and college and i very genuinely mean that in both the best and worst ways possible

there are some good hooks for season two though so i will absolutely give them that

#the vibe is just like... they are just soooo excited to get all their ideas out that it becomes... messy and badly paced #like there are so many moments that are cool or fun or emotional in a vaccuum but they don't connect fully y'know #because this arc or character was JUST introduced so there isn't proper build up. everything moves too quick #and it's frustrating because you can TELL that the people making this show love their ideas and characters #and i more than get thta! i am also someone with a lotta ocs i love to blab about #but i think they have been working with them so long that they #a. assume we are already just as attached to them as they are without always doing that work #b. assume we've seen all the supplemental material which. i have not #and i don't think that a professional show is the type of thing where there should be a barrier of entry that involves like #podcasts and comics and twitter threads and IC instagram posts about characters to do that emotional/lore legwork y'know #i love lore and supplemental stuff obviously but this should still be like #a satisfying experience for me a person who saw the pilot however many years ago and then has not interacted with the show or fandom since #idk man stuff felt rushed and messy and i wish i liked it more #it needed more slow moments i think. the two scenes where the group all drinks together (minus one awful joke in the bar scene) are like #the best in the show to me becase i actually believe these guys are FRIENDS. i wanna see them hang out more! #i wanna see them actually really grow to like each other organically!!! i wanna see them build connections and grow better slowly!!! #songs absolutely slap though. soundtrack is probably gonna be in my spotify unwrapped 2024 #i love me a musical and that inspiration is on its sleeve which i love #also imo the humor isn't great usually. it's very juvenile imo and sometime that works but it often doesn't #(for me at least humor is obviously SUPER subjective) #also tonally they have this 'have your cake and eat it too' issue which bugs me. it's exemplified by the v's (one in particular) #actually i could go on a whole rant about the v's if anyone is interested because god i have some Thoughts #and i think my issues with the v's (namely one v) encapsulates many issues i have with the show #despite all this rambling i actually did enjoy a lot of my time with it. i just don't think it was well-written if that makes sense

[mishalikessoundsandcolours]

He doesn't let me do my work (this is my second cat, Ilya, I've shown you guys Lion once already)

#I don't wanna go to school on mondayyyyy #I hadn't been there for four weeks actually #I've had a music camp instead of regular classes for a week then a week of holidays and an internship for two weeks #it was nice but now I'll have to get used to being in school again #I'm glad I'll have regular band rehearsals and choir again though #and we'll have music and art classes this term!! These are some of the subjects which we only have for half of each school year sadly

[mumintroll]

im going to start a study group discord at some point and see if people on here join. i have summer studying to do but idk if many other people do so maybe it will be kind of dead until september but idk

#have to wait until i get my laptop back though #and if anyone whos more discord savvy than me would like to help organise it and stuff that wld be cool..... #i just want it to be a kind of informal thing where people from on here can go on voice chat and like listen to studying music together so #that it can feel like youre in a group setti g even if youre just working in your room. and we can discuss work and subjects and stuff and #help each other in text channels i think it would be nice and it wld defo help me concentrate more

[always-a-joyful-note]

I have to give it to the Revue Starlight girls for actually singing out their onstage conversations and having them sound good. Like they do NOT pull punches with the music here

#fandom spamdom #note's notes #revue starlight #i will say it now and im so sorry to my beloved enstars but revue starlight has superior music #i say superior cause 'better' is subjective in the sense that one is better #i mean superior in the other subjective sense that it has the general aura of something that wants to slap you in the face #its probably the valkyrie music lover in me lets be real though #ill stop revstarlight posting but i still have so much to say about these ladies.... #the story makes me INSANE and once again i am hounded by the fact that these are literal minors in a slice of life battling to the death #and in this show? almost literally #editing the tags to add that this comment was definitely brought about thinking about the enstar guys' tendency to just... #...talk on stage #while singing and dancing #kudos to revue starlight for having them do the talking through singing and dancing

[oh-cramity-its-amity]

What song are you obsessed with atm?

Easy.

Like A Kennedy by Heart Attack Man

(bc of the version that came out featuring Awsten Knight lmao. I LOVE Heart Attack Man, tho so that collab was mind-blowing to have came out. Found them a year ago because some girl was talking about their Fake Blood album in a vinyl haul. Decent Pop-Punk if your into it.)

We Need More Bricks by Neck Deep too. (That album has been in rotation since January. Oh my god bro FINALLY a good fucking Neck Deep album. Past two projects really were mid in comparison to Life's Not Out To Get You. The Peace and The Panic being better than All Distortions imo bc of many of its tracks, but I remember hearing Heartbreak Of The Century when it dropped and being as flabbergasted as I was when FOB dropped Love From The Otherside-only difference is that the album didn't come out as being v mid to me when it dropped. S/T is literally how you make a bomb ass pop punk album.

There's more I'm listening to but I'm not gonna insert a long list of songs here. Might make a playlist later.

#idk but ye #thanks for the ask!! #i can talk an ear off abt pop punk bc like its my bread and butter i will always love it #i HATE the tiktok mainstream of it though dont even get me started bc i hate mgk so much he is SO trash #mf trying to resurrect the pop punk genre w travis barker when literally the only reason you sound good is bc u ripped off blink #ur sound is literally stolen lol. “pop punk isnt deadddd” no its not but u literally are putting a giant shit stain on the genre by creating #music bruh #fake ass wannabe #sorry but like he irks me so bad #he opened for fob back in the maina tour for me in 2018 and he was just SO bad live #anyway. music is subjective i just wish there was more innovation in the industry bc now days everything sounds the same #AAAAA #sorry ill shut up

[silent-partner-412]

i got through the first full moon battle in persona 3 reload and i hate to say it but this game is really good lol

honestly if this were literally just persona 3 but with the fluidity of persona 5’s combat that would’ve already been a huge upgrade but there’s honestly a lot more added to this than i was expecting. both daily life and dungeon crawling feel so much less tedious too, it’s super nice

#persona 3 #persona 3 reload #i have two major complaints so far #first off the redone music is not very good #this is subjective obviously but i’ve seen remakes and remasters redo the music well #and in this case i vastly prefer the og #also even though tartarus was definitely improved #i do wish they would’ve handcrafted the different segments a la persona 5 #i get why they didn’t but it’s still really disappointing imo #the dungeons in p5 are such a massive step up from p4 and og p3 and i was really hoping this remake would follow suit #but other than that? idk man i’m having a great time #it’s nice to get to revisit this game’s story and characters after so long

[beananium]

i'm so glad a3 songs are easily accessible on youtube unlike SOME OTHER FRANCHISES [STARES VIOLENTLY AT UTAPRI]

#Bean Text #been trying to get back into my old favorite franchises by at least listening to their music #a3 in particular was a bit of a sour subject for a while for me because both me and my ex friend were into it #but she's nothing to me now so. i could probably be more open to the idea of getting back into it #but it would be kinda hard to considering a3eng is long dead and probably not coming back #i heard that someone uploaded all the english server's content to youtube though so :D yayyyyy #maybe i'll check that out one day

[tragedykery]

I love taituk they’re so funny. they’re simultaneously really cool and capable and. kind of a loser. wet cat of a woman (not actually a woman). a dykefag AND a fagdyke. they can’t tell when people are flirting with them and suaveness is Not in their vocabulary. everyone wants them and they’re involved with quite literally every crew member their age. their reaction to there being “men’s work” and “women’s work” is “I will simply do everything. all of the work.” they’re fine with the concept & reality of death but thinking about killing somebody with their own hands makes them physically ill. they will quite literally heal their enemies so they don’t die. they’re eldestsiblingcore but only see their siblings like. twice a year. they could be stabbed and bleeding out and their only reaction would be “ugh now my favourite jacket will be stained :/”. they don’t know what’s going on at any given moment. they’ve been permanently banned from the ship’s kitchen even though they’re the captain. by god they’re even transgender. they’ve even got long hair

#oc tag #elli rambles #oc rambles #the thing about killing might be subject to change but this is the vibe for now #taituk #the birates #the sibling thing is just. they had to leave their family behind both because of circumstances (drought. sickness. the only way to provide #for their family was to turn to crime and piracy was the best/safest option) and bc of their thirst for adventure. and though they know #they couldn’t (wouldn’t) have done anything differently their biggest regret in life if not being there to watch their siblings grow up #bc as lovely as being able to exchange letters and visit a few times a year is it just isn’t the same y’know :( #me choosing to give them siblings: how shall I hurt them this time #ok truth is that I chose to give them siblings bc I like them and so they couldn’t be an only child #esp bc there already are so many only children on the ship #which now I’m thinking about it oh god are there even any other eldest siblings in the crew #tetsuo maybe? sumiyati is an older sibling I think but not the Eldest probably. maybe tao? that would be Ouch #considering he can never visit or contact them as a fugitive from the ek #wait. I’ve always seen xuan as an only child considering his. Everything. but him being a stereotypical eldest brother like you see in films #(annoying. constantly blasting music at the loudest volume. vaguely alt. etc) would also fit actually #and would hurt considering his backstory (his family dies of an illness and he’s the only one who survives) #the way he’d feel sososo guilty… #anyway. this post was about taituk #conclusion: I LOVE THEM #my babygirl made of dualities <3

[musicrunsthroughmysoul]

For the four songs ask: this is kind of basic but "Change of Heart" from the Long After Dark album!

AHH what an excellent song choice!!! (It is one of my very favorite TPATH songs after all!) Thank you so much! :'D

Please bear with me if this mini playlist seems a bit strange - that's kind of my specialty, after all. LOL 😅

"Ironclad" by Sleater-Kinney

"Help!" by The Beatles

"Unsung Psalm" by Tracy Chapman

"The Chain" by Fleetwood Mac

I also made it as a Spotify playlist, heehee.

Send me a song and I'll pick four other songs that I think match the vibe!

#music asks #(if you listen to it as a playlist) just like the song there is no resolution...the subject remains stuck in the cycle #even though in the bridge Tom songs 'Looks like we finally reached the turning point' but that's a lie. LOL the chorus proves it #because the subject/narrator says nothing about what THEY will do about the situation (in the final chorus). no resolution! #or: all talk (complaining) and no action. :) that's my brief and incredibly oversimplified analysis of it :D #or as Sleater-Kinney (Corin Tucker) sing: OHHHH WHEN YOU CALL YOU WILL CALL THE LOUDEST/OHHHH WHEN YOU FALL YOU WILL FALL THE HARDEST

[kkoct-ik]

Anon from ask 11,

At this point I’m collecting Scarian playlists and tbh? Not complaining bc they slap, but also gonna give AlicebanD a listen out of curiosity :]

heheheehe . tell me if you like it lmao for some reason she makes me crazy stupid like nothing else. i think her best song is catharsis but my favourites are fight for me and true blood

edit: AND ever wondered and best of the bad and turn around and

#ask #if theres any song you particularly like tell me i feel like im the only megafan on earth #though if its not your taste no biggie i know music is subjective #her range is similar to mine and some of the lyrics scratch my brain Hard so shes just. my specialest ever lmao #aliceband

[caroloftheshells]

long post re theory pedagogy again

the other thing about that vid (and another thing! lol) being that hierarchically a lot of the people doing the more interesting or out-there research and diversifying the field from a content perspective (and, tbh, demographically) are like grad students or early-career people who don’t even necessarily have any pedagogical flexibility & tend to be slotted in to teach lower-level theory courses-- whose outcomes are predetermined not only by general screwy nasm strictures but by whatever the professor down the line in the curriculum is teaching / expects people to know when they get there. and we get paid (much) less also than tenured professors. which is really a generic “thing about all academia” that doesn’t necessarily become a nefarious personal flaw on the part of said scholars and instead ought to be addressed at a structural level bc the scale of the issue exceeds individual instructors’ spheres of influence.

BUT music occupies such a fucked “totally separate from society” space in many ppl’s imaginations that it’s like oh man how dare it have the same issues as every other field of scholarship bc it shouldn’t “really” be a matter of scholarship in the first place. ie music is culturally rendered a “nothing matters just feel it” / “everything is ephemeral and there is only Innate Talent and nothing can be taught” sort of field such that any intellectualizing thereof &/or suggestion of learnabilty / non-innateness is deemed, like, boring & regressive by some people & i’d say especially people raised with a certain awareness of the “composer-genius” culture of wam education. like i’m completely on the “fuck partwriting parallel fifths are awesome” train as a matter of taste (for example) but that does not mean that learning what parallel fifths are-- and why some old european guys didn’t like them *bc they preferred it to sound like there was more than one voice and it’s easier to create that perceptually w/o an overtone effect* (eg)-- is going to like destroy your artistic Essence and make you a worse musician bc now you’re no longer an empty vessel put on this earth to channel brahms or whoever. & plus i think perpetuating the synonymizing of theory-as-field with wam harmonic rules not only is like factually misrepresentative of current research but also is sort of a self fulfilling prophesy such that ppl who would otherwise have completely fascinating things to say & questions to ask are discouraged from non-platitudinous & open-ended (theoretical) inquiry re the content and aims of their own rep & listening, and tacitly learn that composers’ ~~genius~~ descended from the heavens & you either get it or you don’t, you either “have talent” as a composer or you don’t, et cetera

#Which I Maintain is dangerous not bc i think there is a set method of learning all music(s) obviously but bc that's how you get like #weird essentialism & i'm thinking especially abt anecdotes i've heard re: vocal pedagogy where ppl have been subjected to (...) #racial discrimination; gender discrimination; fatphobia / discrimination based on having or not having a certain 'look' to go w your voice #& told they are 'naturally' inclined to sing or study certain genres of music & shouldn't try anything else (not even ranges! whole genres) #which is maybe sort of tangential but i think stems from this same deal of 'you just have to Feel it' & such #the idea of music as ephemeral and quasi-spiritually channeled such that you lose something if you approach it w scrutiny #or if you have to break it down in a way that; in its detail & precision; reads as divorced from immediate aesthetic judgment #the idea that there's some magic there not to be explained; that composition thus is a special ineffable pursuit for special people. bleh #& the... in depth research and nuance and hesitancy to have a snappy take that like ime culturally describes many theorists. is good #& is; again ime; something valued by several music scholars who sought it out as a Way Out Of a certain brand of meritocratic bullshit #toward a different brand of weird pedantry of course but i think it has its place despite being hooked academically 2 a toxic music culture #in the sense that; for sure; there are egregious issues; but the repertoire bias is unilaterally present in wam circles #& it's like well. your problem is 'with' the textbooks but since when has a so called 'voice degree' #at your average som / public institution without enormous fucking tons of money #unlike idk berklee lol #actually regarded choral singing; musical theatre; art song; rock vocals; et cetera with the same seriousness as a wagnerian opera career #and made a variety of music available from a performance perspective as well. i mean my undergrad was vaguely ok here but On The Whole... #bigger fish re funding in notated-music industry and degrees as job prep for shrinking market etc #anyway though...... i value myself too much to be a youtuber lol #imagine me appending that 'just saying things recreationally' post to this post #carol overreacts to life #theorycomp tag

[hellothepixel]

God Of War PS4 better be a good game if it won against Celeste for GOTY

#Celeste #god of war #like im sorry but this is a game that is excellent in every sense #even if you ignore the story. the gameplay. the sound design. the MUSIC. THE LEVEL DESIGN. #if you ignore everything else and only focus on GRAPHICS #Then Celeste still beats what little ive seen of GOW out of the fucking park #this game uses pixelart in a way that i have never seen before. It's beautiful #it has a million effects and little details. The lighting is very intricate. The water effects! And it always look beautiful #ive never seen a pixelart game do something like this. It's amazing #i need to play GOW in order to find out how that game managed to beat this one #even though art is subjective at the end of the day so