#music stuff

[nonegenderleftpain]

To all the new, young MCR fans out there who are just finding them during this tour - you will never know what it was like to be a fan back before and during the hiatus.

And that's a good thing.

I have been following My Chemical Romance since I was ten years old. MCR was the band that the freaks liked. The band that young queer kids were called fags and dykes for liking. Someone once called them the "poster child for suicidal depression," and they aren't wrong. We watched the band struggle with drugs and drinking and idolized how much they were able to do while blackout on tour, because if they could do something so powerful at such a disadvantage, then maybe we could, too. We watched the popularization of "guyliner," because having a term for men wearing makeup could make it an ironic fashion statement instead of a deliberate choice that would get you left bloody and unconscious on the floor of a gas station bathroom. We watched these guys destroy themselves, and we saw ourselves in them because we were destroyed, too. We wanted to believe that we could be just as important, no matter how broken we were, and we found shared experiences at concerts and cafeterias and skate parks and libraries, with other fucked up kids that wanted to listen to the guys that didn't care if people called them gay. The guys that made out on stage to the jeers of thousands of people and got bottles of piss thrown at them but kept doing it anyway. The guys that played with gender and sexuality and everything on the fringes of acceptability, in their lyrics and their performance and the way they treated each other.

This was important. It was life-saving. It provided a comparatively safe space in an unsafe cultural environment for the freaks to find comfort in. It was also hugely and dangerously unhealthy.

I've talked at length to my friends about how healing and lifechanging this tour has been for me, and I want to illuminate that for these young fans that are falling in love with MCR like I did when I was their age. When we were kids, most of our heroes were already dead. They died young, had tragic lives, and we saw ourselves in them. I fully believed MCR would end up the same way. It would have been so easy to be martyrs - to die young and beautiful. Gerard said it himself, back in the day, that MCR was destined to die young in a car crash and stay beautiful forever, and I think he truly believed that.

So they broke up. And, like a miracle, things started to change. They got clean. Got married. Had kids. Not just Gee, but the lot of them. They aged out of the 27 club, and then out of their 30s, and they only seemed to continue to thrive. Today, in 2022, Gerard Way is 45 years old. He has wrinkles. He has a daughter who is older now than I was when she was born. And they are touring again.

The cultural change from when I was a teenager to now, when you guys are, is monumental. It's insane. It's fantastic. Back in the day, Gerard made some occasional comments about playing with gender presentation (that all us trans people, including those of us that didn't even know yet, hunted down and cherished and kept in our chests for safekeeping), but the idea of doing something so flagrant as headlining Riot Fest in a dress was ludicrous. It would have gotten him booed (still did, even now). It could have gotten him killed. The fact that Gerard Way has stepped on stage three separate times this tour in a dress (so far! it's not over!) is such an incredible, monumental change from when I was a kid and I am so, so happy for you to be experiencing it as kids.

I had a cry about this at a P!ATD concert in 2018, after seeing preteens running down the halls in pride flags, and I feel even more strongly about it now than I did then. That you're able to talk openly about Gerard's gender performance without fear, that you're able to hear them go by he/they pronouns, that you're able to interact with other young fans in the wake of MCR's revival in a safe environment and take in the messages that are at the core of what they stand for? These are beautiful fucking things.

You can't know what it was like, growing up with MCR back in the day. But you get to know what it's like to grow up with them now. Cherish that. In Detroit, Gerard told us to take our meds, and reminded us that we made it. They made it. They fought through the hard parts, fought the demons, and came out the other side better for it. As you watch them put those demons to rest from concert to concert, know that there are older fans cheering you on, so fucking happy to see you sharing this experience with us, and so excited to see what way this changes you. We know it changed us.

#my chemical romance #mcr #mcr 2022 #my chem #gerard way #gender stuff #music stuff #mcr are my heroes and i dont use that word lightly #this tour has only further cemented my deep respect for them as performers and as people #seeing them so full of joy and life is so novel and i dont think it will ever feel like anything short of a miracle

[freakbleeds]

People who think Taylor Swift writes good breakup music need to listen to Joan Baez. You haven't seen shade thrown until you hear the most sarcastic covers in the world of a Bob Dylan song that makes you want to eat his heart in the marketplace etc.

#joan baez #fuck you bob dylan #music stuff #anti taylor swift

[oranglesswrld]

well good luck babe!

marker, pencil, digital collage

#chappel roan is so fun to draw i love her #chappel roan #the rise and fall of a midwest princess #good luck babe #marker drawing #illustration #my art #music stuff

[candidltd]

instagram.com/candid.ltd

#music stuff #audiophile #music #audio #audio equipment #speakers #mood #00s aesthetic #musician #vinyl #vinyl records #vinyllover

[yurigalactica]

honestly my favorite thing about los campesinos as a whole is how each song feels so similar and familiar, and yet, each song is so distinct from the others and invokes such a hyper-specific emotion. like to tundra? the melancholy acceptance of our own mortality. coda: a burn scar in the shape of the sooner state? how you feel when you're crying on the floor of your shower at 1am with the lights turned off. the time before the last time? sobbing as you drive home in the pouring rain, but make it cinematic. hung empty? the feeling of exploring a brand new place, a new chapter of life, and the excitement coupled with creeping unease that comes with it. she crows (documented minor emotional breakdown #4)? sitting in a dimly lit diner far later at night than anyone should be out, reflecting on your life and everything that brought you to this moment, looking back on all of your successes and failures and everyone who's loved you and hated you and everything in between—and accepting them all and being proud of how much you've grown and how far you've come. we are beautiful, we are doomed? the feeling of being a teenager, of being rebellious, of doing all the things you're told you shouldn't do just because it's finally hit you just how fleeting life is and how badly you want to live when it feels like you're on the brink of dying. this is a flag. there is no wind? the very essence of apathy, of feeling trapped in your own life, of wanting to break free and be undeniably yourself but feeling like that's downright impossible. glue me? the feeling of being held in the arms of your dearest love, the feeling of being surrounded by something safe, something familiar, something that feels like home.

holy fuck i love this band

#los campesinos #los campesinos! #music stuff #my los campesinos brainrot has come back someone send help #thunder talks

[booperbeanv3]

mashup of karkalicious + strider be mine + wannabe thx to the ppl who voted such

pls enjoy. first time doin something like this so i'm too embarrassed to play it back

#music stuff #(?) #new tag i guess #art stuff #(cuz technically) #homestuck #karkat vantas #karkalicious #dave strider #davekat #cuz of strider be mine^

[raindrop-underscore]

the way Madeleine Hyland and Joey Batey subtly switch who's singing harmony and who's singing the melody at the end of Wild Blue Yonder is like???? amazing???

#the amazing devil #joey batey #madeleine hyland #music #wild blue yonder #music stuff

[neon-glowing-rainbow-stims]

🐐 ~ Kiss the Go-Goat ~ 🐐 (Ghost)

(Credit if you use please!) (ko-fi)

#kiss the goat #mummy dust #the band ghost #ghost the band #neon #green #neon green #green stim #irl people #gas mask #toxiccore #toxic core #green smoke #guitar stim #music stim #music stuff #flashing #flickering lights #tw flickering #flashing lights #slight flashing #ravecore #guitar #mask #gas mask stim #greencore #stim #gifs #hands #bright colors

[cyb3r-g0thic]

"my synonym girl" or whatever peter steele said

#goth #metal music #heavy metal #gothic metal #gothic rock #goth music #doom metal #type o negative #peter steele #sascha's rambles #music stuff

[my-castles-crumbling]

Happy TTPD week! Here's a cover of Blank Space!

I bought myself decent recording software...

#music #music stuff #taylorswift #taylor swift #singing #sometimes I sing

[clouds-of-wings]

#sabaton #power metal #music stuff

[rubydubydoo122]

What's a song that reminds you of Jason, Bruce, Dick and Damian?

For Damian, definitely "Love Like You" From Steven Universe, especially the line "I always thought I might be bad now I'm sure that it's true, cus, I think you're so good, and I'm nothing like you"

for Dick, I would say "Look After You" By the Fray, specifically to his siblings and specifically the line "What's mine is yours to leave or take, what's mine is yours to make your own" also, "Seven" by Taylor Swift, Idk, I just feel like that song would remind him of his time in the circus.

For Bruce "Fine Line" by Harry Styles. I have a whole Band AU planned out Just so that for the final song, Bruce sings this to all the kids.

and for Jason.... Wooo doggie, I hAve A LOt. I'll just give you the main ones

"Would've Could've Should've" by Taylor Swift. I could copy paste the entire song in here and It would be like pulling a page out of Jason's Diary. Same with "Right Where You Left Me" "My Tear Ricochet" "THE GREAT WAR" and I could go on and on and on "Haunted" "Back to December" "Nothing New" "Mr. Perfectly Fine" Is Taylor Swift Jason Todd?

Then there's "The Grudge" by Olivia Rodrigo "I have nightmares each week about that friday in may" "Trust that you betrayed confusion that still lingers, took everything I loved and crushed it in betweeen your fingers" and "and I know in my heart, hurt people, hurt people, and We both drew blood but man those cuts were never equal"

SO MANY CONAN GRAY SONGS. "Winner" ("my heart that once was beating, bleeding the palm of your hand. yet you have the nerve to miss me how do I somehow feel guilty, WHEN YOU'RE THE ONE WHO LET IT GET THIS BAD; you don't really wanna hear the truth, do you? it's obvious to anyone who ever knew you. That all you ever wanted was to fight. I was only trying to survive your chaos") "Astronomy" "FAMILY LINE" "Memories" "jigsaw" "THE EXIT" ("Feels like, we had matching wounds but mine's still black and bruised and yours is perfectly fine. Feel like WE BURRIED ALIVE something that NEVER DIED so god it HURT when I FOUND OUT. You love her, it's over, do you even doubt it on your lips. You love her. It's over. You already found someone to miss while I'm still standing at the exit." Maturing is realizing it's the second half of the chorus that's more important to Jason Todd's character than the first)

Afraid by the Neighborhood, but this could really go for any of the Batboys

I KNOW THE END by Phoebe Bridgers. I just feel like if there was ever a show depicting Jason's run as Robin, and that song played as he was getting beat up by the joker and the Bridge hit as the timer was counting down, I would ABSOLUTELY LOSE IT. IF THAT HAPPENS I WOULD HAVE TO BE SENT TO ARKHAM HOLY SHIT EVERY TIME I HEAR THAT SONG I THINK OF JASON"S DEATH

anywho, thanks for coming to my ted talk

#jason todd #batman #batfam #dc comics #red hood #dick grayson #bruce wayne #damian wayne #music stuff #character music #I don't think they would listen to those songs #but those songs remind me of them #ask me anything #ask me questions #asks #ask

[magz]

Humble Bundle have deal for legal FL Studio Basic version, plugins, n samples.

(Read humble bundle details carefully in link. Loops, samples, plugins, 20% off FL Studio coupon.)

$35usd n get everything in bundle. Deal end December 28, 2023.

FreeCodeCamp also make tutorials for " music production with FL Studio" :

#check reblog addition. n humble bundle page more info. #text post #o post #music stuff #save #Youtube

[oranglesswrld]

what does everyone think of my new playlist

#lyrics wise it’s actually a griddlehark song at least TO ME. but i thought this was funny #ianthe tridentarius #harrow the ninth #the locked tomb #music stuff #cybil speaks

[cyberr-v0id]

I should practice flute

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*opens pinterest*

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#cyberr speaks #fluatist #flutist #musical stuff #music stuff #music kid

[yurigalactica]

maybe the reason trying not to think about it has latched on to my heart and burrowed into my brain like a tiny little parasite is because it’s essentially la jolla after she grew up <3

#thunder talks #wilbur soot #mammalian sighing reflex #trying not to think about it #la jolla #music stuff