#mine: diwk

[alexturner]

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#arctic monkeys #arcticmonkeysedit #amedit #amgif #alex turner #alexturneredit #musicedit #do i wanna know #do i wanna know? #the car era #mine #mine: gifs #mine: arctic monkeys #mine: do i wanna know #mine: diwk #mine: the car #gifs2023 #edits2023 #iconic song for a reason!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[daddy-long-legssss]

One of my greatest achievement is getting my sister into the Arctic Monkeys. I hear her singing along to ‘505’ in the kitchen and I’m like:

#in the beginning she only like ‘R U Mine’ and ‘WYOCMWYH’ and ‘DIWK’ #but slowly I’ve got her into WPSIATWIN and FWN #and she loves ‘That’s Where You’re Wrong’ (how can you not) #right now she’s hooked on ‘Stop The World Cause I Wanna Get Off’ #if I can get her into TBHC and Humbug and the Car I will have completed my mission #but still it’s nice to know she’s into them and we can enjoy the music together #arctic monkeys #personal

[mrschwartz]

please give me your thoughts on the submarine ep

one of the best things alex has ever done!

i love how he had most of the thing already written which just happened to work with the film. proves how his approach has always been cinematic, i feel like. like with b-sides and tlsp, bc he was hiding away from the mainstream arctic monkeys and this time also with the excuse that it was in favor of the story, i also feel like it was one of the instances he felt safe releasing some really personal stuff. i do believe his priority was servicing the story and that he did fine tune a lot of things to work with it, but the whole thing is just too genuine not to come from a real place. the songs are devastating, come on.

anyway 10/10! i love the lyrics, love the feel, all the fingerpicking, his voice is Unbelievable in its confident softness. the only alex turner vinyl that is left for me to purchase, actually, and the next on the wishlist

#fun fact: submarine's version of piledriver waltz was actually one of the first things i heard by him actually #like i knew them from diwk and then followed a pretty conventional path of 505 and then snap etc #and; in that bunch; months before i listened to any albums in full i heard submarine's piledriver waltz #instantly obsessed! it's one of my favorites to this day #and hiding tonight of course is particularly a darling of mine i love that song so so so much #ask #anonymous #alex turner #submarine

[kendallspussy]

AM 👀

1. r u mine?

2. knee socks

3. no.1 party anthem

4. arabella

5. do i wanna know?

6. fireside

7. why'd you only call me when you're high?

8. snap out of it

9. i wanna be yours

10. one for the road

11. i want it all

12. mad sounds

#is this controversial? #im not sure. mad sounds shouldn't even be here this song is atrocious #i never liked one for the road too much. i want it all could be higher but i never cared for it hence the placement #i loooved snap out of it for so long but it's overplayed for me now 😑that's why i reinforced the new rule aka not listening to AM too much #i wanna be yours never did that much for me tbh. i know some ppl really love this song but yeah. i didn't even know the proper lyrics for #a very long time and there's a funny anecdote do it even 😶🤭 #i hated arabella for a while . now i like it again. diwk isa great song maybe slightly overplayed #knee socks obviously 🔝 #(should have been a single lol isn't it also alex fav song?) #why'd you only(...) tremendously overplayed for me :/ #fireside could be top 5 if i wasn't so committed to defending diwk? lol #and obviously r u mine? number one. i know u can't go any more basic than this idc tho 🤭😍 i cant overplay it (trust me i tried) #thanks for reading this essay lol . #answered

[thurnerstorms]

AM

let's see

no. 1 party anthem (can they please add it to the setlist for good?)

fireside

r u mine?

arabella

knee socks

i wanna be yours

why'd you only call me when you're high?

do i wanna know?

i want it all

one for the road

snap out of it (and take this one out?)

mad sounds

#despite both r u mine and diwk being so overplayed #r u mine has always remained one of my favs from the album #it's that late sias feel that new tattoo fresh quiff black tee black jeans era #thank you!! #ask #anonymous

[babymetaldoll]

A little sneak peek of DIWK 3 "Are you mine?"

- “Come on, ma cherie.”- Spencer had held my hand through the whole process, and though he had delivered a baby himself, for the first time ever, he didn’t give directions or correct anyone. I guessed he was scared to mess up and trusted the medical staff. 

- “I’m sorry hon, I can’t do this.”- I mumbled and felt our baby punching her way out of my body. I had a strong contraction and instead of talking, all I could do was scream in pain.  

- “Yes, you can do this, (Y/N). Come on! Just push! our baby is almost here, just push, ok?”- Spencer begged as I did as told and gave my biggest effort. 

- “Almost!! Just one more!!!”- the doctor said. Spencer held my hand tighter and nodded. I don’t know how I did it, but somehow, managed to push one more time and suddenly, I heard a baby cry. 

- “Oh my god”- Spencer gasped and stayed still, staring at the baby with tears in his eyes. The doctor stood up and placed a red, crying baby on my chest, and suddenly, Spencer was right. I felt no pain whatsoever. Nothing. All I could do was stare in awe and, of course, cry, how that little baby on my chest was in fact, my little baby. 

- “Hi Raven.”- I whispered and touched her back carefully, with shaky hands. - “Hi, I’m your mom, and me and your dad love you much.”- I chuckled and sniffed as Spencer moved closer to me and kissed my forehead. 

- “She is perfect.”- he whispered and stared at her in admiration and pure love. The nurse gave him a scissor and instructed him how to cut the umbilical cord. I tried to stop crying, but it was nearly impossible. I was a mom. My husband was a dad. We were parents. 

Spencer and I had made a baby.

#spencer reid #criminal minds #mgg #babymetaldoll writes #spencer reid x reader #spencer reid fanfic #spencer reid fanfiction #new series coming soon

[yellowloid]

#this has been on my mind for like. all day so i need to know #i'm biased and think there's only one (1) obvious winner here but i won't tell you which one #(hint: it'd also be the right answer if i asked you which are the gayest fucking songs alex has ever written) #WHAT I DIDNT SAY ANYTHING #anyway. REBLOG IF YOU VOTE this is for science!!!!!!! #arctic monkeys #alex turner #matt helders #jamie cook #nick o'malley #polls #also yeah i know there's a b-side in there just pretend it's part of the actual album those songs are sisters anyway

[alexturne]

3, 5, 23, 36, for your diwk ask!

Thanks for your qs, I don't know why I do this to myself, I'm the worst at choosing stuff! But I'll try!! 😘 (I already know I won't be able to go with one for any of these.. sorry in advance)

3. Favourite music video?

So difficult, they've done so many good ones!!!

Teddy Picker, R U Mine?, TBHC, You and I with Richard Hawley, Cornerstone.

Honorable mention to Crying Lightning

5. Favourite Alex Turner hair era?

Immediate response is the ethereal creature of Humbug baby. Also the luscious locks of EYTCE. And of course my soft spot, the early days of WPSIA 💖

23. Favourite TLSP song?

Absolutely impossible to pick one!!

The Element of Surprise, Used To Be My Girl, Hang The Cyst, Pattern, Gas Dance, Aviation, Standing Next To Me, Sequels, The Age Of The Understatement

36. Favourite song from each album?

Most difficult question of all time!! I'm giving myself two... Or more...

WPSIA - From The Ritz To The Rubble, Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured, A Certain Romance

FWN - Teddy Picker, Fluorescent Adolescent, Do Me A Favour

Humbug - Secret Door, Jeweller's Hands, Fire And The Thud, Dance Little Liar

SIAS - Don't Sit Down Cause I've Moved Your Chair, All My Own Stunts, Piledriver Waltz

AM - Fireside, I Want It All, R U Mine?

TBHC - American Sports, TBHC, Golden Trunks, Science Fiction

The Car - Perfect Sense, Mr Schwartz, The Car, Sculptures

Thank you 💕✨

#answered #music ask

[theageoftheunderstatement]

hii!! can i ask you questions? did alex turner worte a song about alexa ?

As far as I can recall, the only time when he directly responded whether a song was about Alexa or not was in an interview with Q magazine during SIAS era:

Q Magazine: Is Love Is A Laserquest about Alexa Chung? Alex: I hope not cause in the song it's over.

His answer here and the fact that they split up at early SIAS era make it rather likely that Love Is A Laserquest is about her.

There are also some interviews where the interviewer tried to ask him whether certain songs were about Alexa but he didn't answer very directly:

Interview with Guardian, 2011: Fire and the Thud is also supposed to be about Turner's decision to move to New York with Chung when she was working for MTV. Does he think their relationship magnifies the attention they get? "I suppose it does, yeah." Following your girlfriend to New York for her work is quite "new man" for a Sheffield lad, I say. "I was glad she asked me to go with her." But moving to America for someone is pretty special – really rather lovely. "I didn't think of it like that. I thought, the pleasure's all mine."

Here the interviewer made a conjecture about Fire and the Thud but he didn't directly respond to it. But since he mentioned in another interview that Fire and the Thud was "quite a personal song", it can be about his own relationship with Alexa.

Interview with The Age, 2013: The lyrics on AM are streaked with suspicion. The songs seem to turn on questions of who to trust and how much. Do they have anything to do with his own life - including his four-year relationship with television presenter Alexa Chung, which ended after the previous album? "Maybe that's more than we should look at it," Turner laughs. "There's some truth in that, in certain moments of the record."

Here he sort of admitted that lyrics on AM had some connections with his relationship with Alexa, so maybe songs like DIWK and Knee Socks were inspired by her.

Above are the interviews that I can remember at this point, actually I myself am not that interested in the topic of which songs belong to which girlfriend. Alex himself once mentioned that he hoped his songs could help people catch the occasional gateway to a deepened perception of experience along the way rather than just acquiring knowledge of his personal life, so I think that we can already enjoy his music without overly linking them to his girlfriends.

#ask #alexloverwgh

[infected-paul]

1, 7, 23 for the AM asks

1 First Arctic Monkeys song you heard?

r u mine! or wyocmwyh

7. Most played Arctic Monkeys song in your iTunes?

505 or diwk

23. Favourite TLSP song?

oughhh um used to be my girl.

#ask ali #noor tag #omg hi noor #arctic monkeys

[alexturner]

once again wrote some stuff down from when i went to see AM last night:

i started queueing around 3 pm and i got a pretty good view honestly, but the people who were first in the queue had started queueing at 6 am (😱) in case anyone is interested

there was a lot of pushing around on our side which was tough because we were already so squeezed in, and also because it was so. warm. in the venue. it was a lot. everyone was sweating and wiping themselves down and fanning themselves, including the bands

the start of the show is always pretty much the same; sculptures, brianstorm, snap, crying lightning (BUT: the new solo sounds AWESOME). then they played teddy picker, the view (they played it so fast???), 4/5 (with the new arrangement), big ideas (gorgeous!!!!!!!! and funny because alex was playing piano for the outro and from our side all you could see was his hair bouncing up and down from behind it lmao) and... cornerstone - which they swapped for star treatment (i love more humbug rep but... big 😔 @ star treatment being out). after that it was AM hours with diwk? arabella and high, but with pretty visitors somewhere inbetween.

the real highlight was the back end of the set. the band seemed in such good spirits, there was a lot of smiling, back and forths between all the boys, and alex was blowing kisses to the audience throughout the set and interacting with everyone who was dancing up in the stands (also he kept calling us "rockers" and said "oberhausen" every chance he got)

suck it and see made me cry, it was fantastic (my filming skills weren't because of all the pushing and sweating, but anyway):

fluorescent adolescent was SO FUN. i'm so happy that's back!!!! mirrorball was a really wonderful moment in the set. alex played some acoustic guitar and when the song was over the mirrorball dropped down from the ceiling!!!!!! which was also scary because it dropped in such a way that it looked like it was about to come down from its cables.......... 😅

it made 505 look gorgeous 🥺

they ended with body paint which... goes SO much harder than i thought???? the outro lasted a solid 3 minutes and it was clearly everyone just kinda freestyling and doing what fit the song and it was AMAZING. gorgeous gorgeous.

encore was i wanna be yours (it was so nice to hear it, and everyone was singing SO loud, but i do really miss the 2014 extended outro 😔), dancefloor and then r u mine? after which they lingered for a long time and i thought they miiiiiight do the extended outro, but they didn't. regardless it was of course so good and energetic, after all those years it's still the best way to be sent home after their set tbh.

my legs were numb afterwards lmao, it was a chore to walk out. i went to see the merch, a lot of t-shirts were already sold out; they had 300 copies of the limited edition poster, i got number 260/300 after the set had been over for a good 30 minutes!!! also in case anyone's interested, haha

i had such a good time!!!! this was the first time i saw AM in a venue after seeing them at a festival twice; both have their charm and it really helps that the band just... always sounds fantastic. they're so, so good live 😩 super excited to continue my mini AM tour in amsterdam tomorrow!!!

#oberhausen 2023 #personal posts #concert memories

[bandomgay]

Ppl saying they should remove diwk and r u mine from the setlist r insane I would kill myself

#ur crazy im sorry i will be making them play 60 years of both those songs without An inch of sadness❤️❤️❤️ #arctic monkeys

[shit-talk-turner]

what do you guys think the last song of the tour will be? I think it will be either thered better be a mirror all or something off their first album. ( possibly dancefloor since im pretty sure what was the first one written, but its also possible it might not be that since they, or al, doesnt like that one )

i do also think it might be jet skis since they havent played that song yet and the last lyrics of that are very fitting,

"Jet skis on the moat

They shot it all in CinemaScope

As though it's the last time you're gonna ride"

It could be r u mine or diwk since r u mine was the last song they played the first date and diwk was the first one of theirs they played this tour.

maybe theyll use their first setlist of the tour for this last date? not too sure about this one but I think it would be fun!

I do think that for the last show though they might do songs off every one of their albums, I think that would make it a lot more special for us and them, very nostalgic.

im not sure why but i also feel like it might be adolescent last. Since that song sort of like represents how things change as you get older, maybe they are gonna use that song to represent that/remind people they cant or wont do stuff like they used to because they are getting older.

just my opinions.

last song of the entire tour? like, you mean the encore of the final show? hmmmmm....

#the car tour

[hellfire--cult]

bestie can we talk about your page aesthetic for a second??!? it’s literally so cute ! i love it sm and the animated headers??!!!! literally how???

ALSO PART SEVEN OF DIWK??? LET ME CATCH UP FIRST

OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR NOTICING

I really tried my best with my headers and stuff and I am glad I know a little bit of editing and photoshop to make them, so thank you for seeing that effort of mine 😭

YES, PART 7 MIGHT BE UPLOADED TOMORROW OR ON MONDAY BBY

#THANK YOU FOR NOTICING MY PAGE #AND HOW I EDITED IT #I really went full on it and put so much sweat #thank you

[arcticpuppeteer]

WHAT A SETLIST SHAKE UP.

1 Sculptures

2 Brian

3 Snap

4 Crying

5 Teddy

6 View

7 4out5

8 Big Ideas

9 R U Mine?

10 Dancefloor

11 Pretty Visitors

12 Arabella

13 High

14 SIAS

15 Fluo Ado

16 Mirrorball

17 Star Treatment

18 505 abrupt end

19 I Wanna Be Yours

20 Body Paint

21 DIWK

Some spam here incoming tonight and probably tomorrow from train to Amsterdam.

#AM Berlin #The Car tour

[no-1-partyanthem]

happy birthday AM album here are some thoughts i've had about it over the years

 For me, AM tells a story of learning to be vulnerable, and it does it so flawlessly. You get all these sneaky question songs (DIWK, RUM, WYOCMWYH) which are all steeped in many layers of indirection--- DIWK isn’t asking “how do you feel?” it’s “I’m so hung up on you i’m losing my mind but I can’t bring myself to ask you the question because I’m scared of what you’ll say either way”; RUM isn’t the narrator asking the object of his affection “Are you mine?” the lyric is “All I want to hear her say is, ‘Are you mine?’” as in, “I want to play the game just right so that she has to ask me how I feel rather than the other way around so I don’t have to be the one to start that conversation.”

Then you’ve got “One For The Road” in which the central question is: “I’ve been wondering whether later when you tell everybody to go will you pour me one for the road?” which is just the narrator trying to manifest her asking him to stay after everyone else leaves.

“Arabella” and “I Want It All” are less question centered, but IWIA is important to contrast with IWBY — the former is saying he wants “blind faith, heartache, mind games, mistakes” and her “sweet rigamarole,” he wants this cat and mouse game they’re playing, while IWBY is saying he wants every single mundane moment of hers; he wants to be at her mercy; he’s learned to be completely vulnerable with her.

“No. 1 Party Anthem” is an infinitely interesting song to me, from the title (their first hit was a literal number one party anthem... idk what it means but i think about it a lot) to the imagery (leather jacket collar popped like antennae...sunglasses indoors...lights in the floor and sweat on the walls... and so on and so on) to the vocal delivery (especially on the bridge) it’s just so rich. In terms of the vulnerability theme, for me it’s an inverse and opposite reaction to the complicated feelings he has with the main object of his affections — he’s going out to find a one night stand to take his mind off the whole thing; he’s retreating into this cool guy persona to avoid being emotionally vulnerable.

The back half of the album represents more growth than the first half, with “Mad Sounds” as a little intermission between the two. “Fireside” is honestly the one I have the hardest time with but the general gist is pretty straight forward: I still love you deeply, deeply. In a lot of ways it’s calling back to DIWK — “All these secrets I can’t keep” is a progression from “How many secrets can you keep?” and then there’s “I just cannot manage to make it through the day without thinking of you lately” which is basically the whole plot of DIWK. Except this song comes across as a lot more tender, a lot less slick and cool. 

WYOCMWYH is a clear progression of more directness, more open communication, as the story goes on, if only on her end. “Snap Out of It” is even more direct, but there are still levels of obfuscation. I think of it as saying, “Hey that guy’s all wrong for you but like i’m not going to do anything about it.” Which is getting a lot closer to a real romantic confession but not quite there yet. 

And then you’ve got “Knee Socks” which is mostly just very slinky memories of what this relationship used to be, but there is one moment of vulnerability: “You and me could have been a team.” Wanting to be a team is a lot more sincere than wanting mind games and mistakes.

And then, of course, all the sexy, slinky, tough guy imagery melts away in IWBY in possibly the least sexy opening line possible: “I wanna be your vacuum cleaner.” This song puts the narrator completely at the mercy of his love and puts all the power in her hands; he says he wants to be hers because he’s giving up control. He doesn’t want “4 in some velvet morning” or a “helter skelter ‘round her little finger” or any of the alcohol-soaked antics of the rest of the album; he wants the utterly unsexy, completely mundane moments of a life together. Her vacuum cleaner, her car, her coffee pot, her heater. Secrets come back again on the closing track, and he’s giving them up completely: “Secrets I have held in my heart are harder to hide than I thought. Maybe I just wanna be yours.”

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One day in the middle of summer 2019, I got a song stuck in my head. Well, it was less of a song and more of a fragment, a shard, half a line. It was, “crawling back to you.” That’s it. Over and over and over, my last two brain cells screamed those four words at each other. 

I had no idea why it was stuck in my head, what song it was from, who sang it, or even what decade the song was released. For some reason I briefly thought it was maybe a Black Keys song. Sifting through their discography was a dead end, and I resigned myself to never knowing what song had burrowed itself into my poor little brain.

That is, until a Hozier video popped up in my YouTube recommended. He’d changed the key of the song he was covering, so I didn’t recognize it right away, but then he got to the chorus. “Crawling back to you,” he sang, and it was like lightning zinging down my spine. 

He was covering “Do I Wanna Know?” by some band called Arctic Monkeys. I knew nothing about them, and I still had no idea how that song had gotten stuck in my head, but at least I knew what it was now. 

That moment ended up changing my life.

Looking up “Do I Wanna Know?” on Spotify slowly snowballed into me listening to the AM album every single day for months, and then diving into all their other albums, and then branching out into other rock and rock-adjacent music, and then picking up the guitar to learn the “Do I Wanna Know?” riff.

I’ve watched and enjoyed other artists playing guitar for my whole life, but it was the Arctic Monkeys and rock music that made me need to pick up a guitar, that gave me the motivation to go from guitar admirer to guitar player. 

That switch happened in 2020, which was also one of the darkest years of my life. It had been a downward spiral of a year since February, but things took a sharp turn for the worse when I lost my job in September. After that, I mostly just slept all day. There were many, many days where I did not want to shower or eat or get dressed or get out of bed. 

But I always wanted to play guitar.

With the weight of my beat-up old Yamaha in my lap, things seemed a little less bleak. It was a way of communing with the music that meant so much to me — it was no longer enough to just listen to it. Earbuds were not close enough. Until they figure out a way for me to drink music or to inject it directly into my veins, the only way to get the music into my body was to learn to play it. So that’s what I did.

After around ten months of practicing that old acoustic for an hour every day, my 24th birthday rolled around. That night, my parents presented me with my very own Squire Stratocaster, and I cried. To me, an electric guitar is power. An electric guitar is joy. And staring power and joy in the face after feeling helpless and hopeless for a whole year moved me to tears. 

Keep in mind, though, that none of this is to say I’m any good at guitar. I struggle with my barre chords, and every riff I know is clunky and stuttering in my tiny hands. But I am so looking forward to sticking around long enough to improve. 

That’s not something I would have said in September 2020, and you can trace that seismic shift in mindset all the way back to a song getting randomly stuck in my head almost two years ago. I still have no idea what sparked it, and at this point I have no choice but to believe it was some kind of divine intervention. 

I’m forever grateful.