#red desert 5so

[yeonjnz]

what’s the number one song that literally makes you balls to the wall insane. like it scratches some part of your brain that no other song can

#mine has gotta be runaway by txt #OR red desert by 5sos #OR THE ENTIRETY OF OKNGO BOINGOS DISCOGRAPHY #literally makes me want to run around like i’m a dog that has the zoomies

[nakedlilac]

lovin' you

⛓🌩🏜❤️‍🔥

#5 seconds of summer #5sos #5sos5 #red desert #ashton irwin #calum hood #luke hemmings #michael clifford #ashton 5sos #calum 5sos #luke 5sos #michael 5sos #ashton 5 seconds of summer #calum 5 seconds of summer #luke 5 seconds of summer #michael 5 seconds of summer #ashton fletcher irwin #luke robert hemmings #calum thomas hood #michael gordon clifford #complete mess #haze #5sos lyrics #aesthetic #calm

[hemmohaze]

i genuinely don’t understand how anyone could hate this masterpiece of work that 5SOS blessed us with 4 years ago.

#red desert is amazing #CALM is their best album #lyrically this song is too good #ashton irwin the man you are on the drums #5sos #THE FUCKING BRIDGE.

[castawaycurls]

//Tell me would you pack up all your bags, stay true to north? You’re the only one I’d do this for.//

#mood board #aesthetic #aes board #aesthetic board #moodboard #aestethic #aestheitcs #aesthetix #aes blog #red #red desert #desert #song aesthetic #5sos

[edge-oftheworld]

no but 2023 was wild now i think about it. i actually did manage to muddle a newborn baby girl whose name means moon with a big red dog full respect to both of them i just sometimes the way my brain works

#clifford the big red dog #somehow i thought that came out in 2023 #and then i checked and it was actually 2021 #but like. i saw memes in 2023. and would go 'oh yeah' before my brain processes that baby clifford. is a dog in its context #literally why. i hope i'm the only one who does this actually #because yes lua should watch that movie in a couple years it's got a great message!! like legit. i hope she does and internalises it #i'm hoping i can stop associating these things together. bc they don't need to be associated. they really don't #like at this point i'm gonna go from ctbrd->red dog (aussie movie)->red desert and that brings me back to 5sos #idk i hope this post is sensitive enough to lua though. tell me if not

[redrattlers]

some cashton in nyc for @lukemichaelcalumashton, happy birthday monse ❤️

video source : [ x ] [ x ]

#happy birthday monse ❤️❤️ #you are such a bright light in our corner of the internet #i hope today is the absolute best 🥰 #calum hood #ashton irwin #5sosedit #cashton #5sos #5 seconds of summer #tmh tour #tmht nyc #tmht new york city #stagesos #* #so many organisational tags holyyyy #i just want everyone to know that finding usable footage of ashton drumming to gif is gonna be my villain origin story #i have spent the last 24 hours scavenging the internet and this was the best i could find #i cannot tell you the joy i experienced when i found this red desert video #he’s still in very low quality but he’s there and he’s drumming and finding him made me happy #i just wanted some ashton content to post for monse is that too much to ask 🥺 #also this is all n1 except top left calum which is n2 #enough complaining hi monse i hope you like this <3

[wildflowerlovesmusic2009]

Red Dessert

#5sos #Red desert #Zaradraws #5 seconds of summer #CALM #Art

[visceral--feeling]

Pink Cloud Over Mountain - Charles Courtney Curran // Red Desert - 5 Seconds of Summer

#red desert #red desert lyrics #red desert 5 seconds of summer #red desert 5sos #5 seconds of summer #5sos #5sos lyrics #luke hemmings #ashton irwin #calum hood #michael clifford #luke 5sos #ashton 5sos #calum 5sos #michael 5sos #fine art #charles courtney curran #5sos edit #my edit #calm

[honeyedlashton]

CALMs 3rd birthday ⛓️✨🖤🪩

#the gothness she reached #the angelic heights #bringing us beloved tracks like kill my time #thin white lies #high #no shame #teeth #easier #RED DESERT #Fuck that album is so good #(the lows are even good tbh) #she deserved so much better #she deserved a full era #ashton irwin #afi #luke hemmings #lrh #5sos #lashton #calum hood #cth #michael clifford #mgc

[faithfromanewperspective]

red desert arrangement brainstorm i guess

Heal and replace. Heal and replace. It doesn’t take too long to heal and replace; the demons we’re running from, they’re begging to stay. How do you capture that musically, when I’ve already got the parts all going on, the four-part harmony, the chords and the percussionbass rhythm going on underneath? What do I do when it sounds almost exactly like the first verse? The demons we’re running from, they’re begging to stay. I think I see the problem.

Pop music is notoriously repetitive; orchestral music is not. When you don’t have lyrics that change between lines and verses, when you have 40 or 50 people playing instruments who don’t want to play the exact same thing, on a 4-bar repeat that changes up a couple times depending on the section of the song, you’ve gotta get creative. And can I just say, of all the songs I’ve played covers for or even attempted, I chose this album because from a musical standpoint it’s not boring. It’s no cookie cutter I V vi IV or whatever chord combination with a simple drum beat and repeated melodies. The bridges, at least, of each song, are something else. They were clearly written to be fun to play, rather than easy. I wouldn’t recommend them to a beginner busker. Few people I know will cover 5 seconds of summer, for good reason too. It’s difficult. The chords are unpredictable, for example red desert, focusing on vocal harmonies and using simple melodies to bring them out, has a sneaky E major chord in a B minor piece, G sharps littered around the place that aren’t in the key signature, aren’t always there. It means you’ve gotta look twice before improvising, figure out what bar you’re in, what notes to play. E is the subdominant in a B minor piece, in making it major instead of minor, it’s harder to tell that the piece is in a minor key. It shakes things up a bit. It should make it easier to fill in with something interesting, a countermelody over the verse: should I give it to the flutes maybe, or should I switch some of the parts that people played in the first verse around? I can figure that out later.

In the meantime, note that the other commonly occurring chords in the song are B minor and A minor. This is clever: B melodic minor scale ascending adds a G sharp; and A minor has a G sharp in both its harmonic and ascending melodic versions. As a result, the song works smoothly and feels calming and resolved.

So imagine the creatures in the desert. You’ve got the hot wind blowing red sand over cacti and scraggly brown shrubs, the occasional bunch of desert trees, eucalyptus or acacia or mulga I’m not sure, I haven’t brushed up on my ecology quite that much. For the purpose of this exercise, it doesn’t matter. Imagine a bird flitting above the desert. A little spiky lizard or maybe a spinifex mouse flitting around. Can I write all of their parts, weaving in and out of the melody, so each instrument doesn’t get bored? Can I write the migratory birds that fly overhead in search of water, seeing the same landscape every year, never landing on it? how about the red kangaroo, and the western grey? Is there a brown snake sneaking around the bushes: ominous, how about a minor chord for it. I’ll fit it in the transition from A minor to E major, because the harmonic tone-and-a-half jump between F natural and G sharp, both accidentals in this piece (meaning F is meant to be a sharp and G a natural) gives just the sound I’m after. No one wants to be bitten by a brown snake when you’re miles away from the nearest road, let alone hospital. But the red desert is here to heal our blues. We’re safe. Snakes are scarier than they sound: they don’t actually want to bite you. Their venom is meant for the little prey they can actually swallow—they can’t eat a human. They’re not likely to bite unless they think you’re going to hurt them first.

In the recording, the bugle sounds I gave to the bassoons and brass in the first verse could be these animals peeking out. I can see a scorpion when I listen to it. They’re great for looking at from a middle distance, gorgeous, angry, spiky things. But the spiky grasses and desert leaves you can pluck and take apart for your liking. They’re not overgrazed: ecologically there is no problem with that. Some of them you can even eat, bush tucker, you should try it sometime. Connect with the land. Red, red desert, heal our blues.

These plants are the ‘ooh’s in the second verse in the recording. Lovely and ominous. Yet despite being first in the album, red desert is the last of eleven songs in my arrangement. It’s an album theme: every song has ‘ooh’s in the second verse. Well, at least three of them. I think they can be edited a little to wrap around our desert creatures. And our muse! Who is our muse? I’ll dive deeper for you. Who did we call to leave all their fears at the end of the world with us? Let’s make the little melodies dance around them, using the notes that we discussed. You’re the only one I do this for.

So now I have it. Ideas. Concepts, theories, imaginings, that I can build out of notes that somehow go with what I’ve already done. Do the same with the chorus. I don’t know when I’ll get to it all. But here is the framework. I hope we all learned something today. Had ideas. I know I did. I know this orchestral part is going to be better for it. One day. When I make the ideas a reality.

#red desert #music recs #musician #5sos #5 seconds of summer #silver arranges 5sos #silver arranges CALM

[lashton-is-my-drug]

Video of Ash playing his solo during Red Desert posted to his Instagram.

December 3, 2022

Ashton Irwin: soloing in Brisbane with the band. What an incredible night of soul fire! 💭 👹

#5sos #5 seconds of summer #ashton irwin #ashton 5sos #ashton fletcher irwin #drumming #ashton irwin drumming #red desert #drum solo #drummers #video #ashton irwin instagram #december 3 #december 3rd #2022 #austrailia #tmht brisbane #take my hand brisbane #brisbane australia #brisbane #tmh 2022 #soul #stage 5sos #drums #playing drums #drumset

[andtherestishistory13]

I love all of 5sos albums but Calm is probably one of my top favorites. Mainly because of Red Desert

#red red desert #it’s my favorite #5sos #5 seconds of summer #ashton irwin #luke hemmings #calum hood #michael clifford #personal

[wiiildflowerrr]

5 Seconds Of Summer perform a new song, Red Desert, at the G'Day USA Gala

25 January 2020

#this day in 5sos history #5sos #calum hood #ashton irwin #luke hemmings #michael clifford #5 seconds of summer #g'day usa #g'day usa gala 2020 #2020 #25 january #red carpet #live performance #live video #video #red desert

[edge-oftheworld]

Hi! I like so much your blog and i was reading the ttpd playlist with 5sos song and i was wondering, why do you choose Red Desert for the depression part?

I kinda see the reasons but i want know your reasons, please <3

hey anon!! Thank you so much, it means a lot to know people like my blog!

The decision to put red desert on the depression playlist was an interesting one!! And one that’s always up for refute too, I’m not the expert on which song goes where I’ve just got my best guess to give. Basically, to me it’s a typical 5sos song: looks all fun and cathartic but the more you listen to it you see the way it hints to darker things. And with the premise being ‘red red desert heal our blues’ it has me thinking of a time where you know something is wrong, and you’re now doing something to try feel better but the feeling better hasn’t actually happened yet. ‘Demons we’re running from theyre begging to stay’ embodies ‘old habits die screaming’ perfectly and ‘won’t you leave all your fears at the edge of the world’ implies being in the thick of it but also the very beginnings of regaining autonomy amidst the chaos. There’s desperation but also hope in ‘tell me won’t you pack up all your bags, stay true to north’ which kinda reminds me of os/co but ‘I’ve been asleep so long, wasting away’ is very much a depression thing to me when you’re tired of feeling and you go numb instead. Then the premise of the desert setting as a destination is like, I’m not gonna be overwhelmed by life there, I have a chance to feel things and have them catch up to me somewhere safe where I feel small against the expanse of nothingness and my problems do too—the acceptance hasn’t quite come but it’s on its way.

#honestly this whole exercise has been me seeing emotions in songs and trying to pin them down to a label #take my hand also gives red desert vibes and now I’m thinking of swapping it with red line and redefining bargaining a bit #possibly also moving mm&I diamonds and wayf and blender idk #red desert #5sos #5 seconds of summer #swiftsos parallels

[bandsanitizer]

calm is sandwiched between superior albums but also it (primarily non-single tracks) did not get enough love especially in live shows

#was red desert the only calm song in the tfofu set? i can’t recall #lonely heart drums walked so 5sos5 could run #alison speaks? #5sos #calm #5sos5

[ghostlypawn]

literally need this song to play at the beginning of a sapphic cowboy movie/show where someone is running through a desert and then during the climax we find out theyre not running to something but running from something and the final i dive deeper for you is them being captured and its like the end of movie/show at the beginning for suspense and questions and the rest of the show is how they get there and by the end of the show we understand the meaning of the red desert has changed from a vague desert to a specific meaning of what the desert entailed and meant to them

#everyone go listen to this somg and imagine this story. #i literally need it so bad #i cant believe 5sos wrote this masterpiece of a show and just. no one knows about it. it belongs in every movie. #red desert u will always be famous to me #Spotify #5sos