#so does Shania Twain and The Chicks….

[polikszena]

Top Gun: Maverick - The Karaoke Masterpost

UPDATED: 29-08-2022

So, about a week ago I asked around about the go-to karaoke songs of the characters of Top Gun: Maverick, but since that thread started to become very long, I’ve decided to make a masterpost for the whole thing.

Below you can find the list of the songs the young and the old guns would sing on a karaoke night at The Hard Deck.

Many thanks to @allkinds-oftrash and @animezinglife for the collaboration, and also to @opalinedaydreams because this and this post of hers also influenced the list!

And make sure to check out @buckyr00s’s karaoke list as well! It has some very cool tunes and inspired some new additions to this one. So did this post by @highwaytothedangerzone502.

Also, this list is by no means complete, so further suggestions are welcome! :)

And lastly, here is a playlist with all the songs added.

Rooster: 

Great Balls of Fire by Jerry Lee Lewis

Runaway Baby by Bruno Mars

Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr. (+ the rest of the boys)

Rock and Roll Madonna by Elton John

I Got Life from Hair (dancing on the table, of course. Penny wouldn’t approve it, of course)

Hangman: 

Holding out for a Hero by Bonnie Tyler, 

Save The World by The Swedish House Mafia

A Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler (if he’s in the mood for it)

Hot Blooded by Foreigner

Simply The Best by Tina Turner

Phoenix: 

Material Girl and/or Like a Prayer by Madonna, 

It’s All Coming Back to Me Now by Celine Dion, 

Born This Way and/or Hold My Hand by Lady Gaga, 

Long Live by Taylor Swift

Trouble and/or Just Like a Pill by P!nk

Can’t Fight the Moonlight by LeAnn Rimes

Landslide by Fleetwood Mac

Oops!... I Did It Again by Britney Spears

Coyote: 

Low by Flo Rida, 

Dynamite by Taio Cruz

Halo by Beyoncé

Hero by Mariah Carey

Payback: 

Hello by Lionel Richie

Something by James Brown

Africa by TOTO

Fanboy: 

Larger Than Life and/or I Want It That Way by Backstreet Boys

Boy With Love by BTS

Bob: 

Killer Queen, ‘39 and/or Hammer to Fall by Queen, 

Teenagers by My Chemical Romance

The Power of Love by Huey Lewis and The News

Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry

Sister Christian by Night Ranger

Penny:

Mamma Mia by ABBA

Cowboy Take Me Away and/or Long Time Gone by The Chicks

Something by Dolly Parton

That Don’t Impress Me Much by Shania Twain

Hit Me With Your Best Shot by Pat Benatar

Maverick:

You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling by The Righteous Brothers

Can’t Fight This Feeling by REO Speedwagon

Footloose by Kenny Loggins

Cyclone:

Greased Lightning from Grease

Rock You Like a Hurricane by Scorpions

Duets:

Burnin’ for You by Blue Öyster Cult (Fanboy and Payback)

It’s My Life and/or Livin’ on a Prayer by Bon Jovi (Coyote and Hangman)

The Winner Takes It All by ABBA (Phoenix and Hangman)

Take a Chance on Me by ABBA (Hangman and Bob)

Does Your Mother Know by ABBA (Bob and Phoenix)

Group Songs:

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen

Counting Stars by OneRepublic

Anything by ABBA

Lucky by Britney Spears

Man! I Feel Like a Woman! by Shania Twain

Everybody by Backstreet Boys (special performance by the boyband Backseat Boys)

Wannabe by Spice Girls

Songs that could be sung by anyone of the group:

Hotel California by The Eagles

Don’t Stop Believing by Journey

You’re the One that I Want from Grease (Could be sung by any couple)

Songs that I don’t know who would sing but would appear on a karaoke night:

Livin’ La Vida Loca by Ricky Martin

Anything by Britney Spears

Hell’s Bells by AC/DC

Tiny Dancer by Elton John

Uptown Girl by Billy Joel

Dancing Queen by ABBA

#top gun #top gun maverick #bradley rooster bradshaw #jake hangman seresin #natasha phoenix trace #robert bob floyd #reuben payback fitch #javy coyote machado #mickey fanboy garcia #penny benjamin #pete maverick mitchell #beau cyclone simpson #headcanons #tgm karaoke thingy

[silverskye13]

you are the reason I like cowboys, I now listen to country music on the daily and it has taken over my life so I thank you for this. I grew up in a household that literally fucking hated country music(like it wasn't allowed in the house hate) so this is kind of like a awakening for me so ye :]

Welcome to the cowboy fields! Please receive your standard issue six-shooter, hunting knife and cowboy hat. Make sure all horses are picketed with access to their necessities.

You hit like, a major nerve about country music. Probably because it's 1am. And I just ran down the longest rabbit trail of nostalgia. So even though you didn't ask: here's a LOT of country music recs under the cut.

As someone who was raised on super patriotic post 9/11 pop-country music and then spent most of their adult life running away from it, I'm really envious you get access to it now that it's diversifying itself again! If you want some older (90s) recs, Shania Twain, LeeAnn Rimes and Keith Urban used to be favorites of mine. Rascal Flatts was the only "boy band" I ever obsessed over, and their cover of "Life is a Highway" is always a banger.

Keith Urban's "Somebody Like You" and "Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me" still make me think of sunny days gunning it down the highway on the way to visit family in North Carolina. "Would You Go With Me" by Josh Turner is a love song I'm still hoping I find a love worthy of. It's also really hard to go wrong with Carrie Underwood. "Before He Cheats," is terrifying, amazing, powerful. "Blowing Smoke" by Kacey Musgrave is A Vibe. Miranda Lambert makes me think of my sister. She captures the same powerful-woman-murders-her-husband vibes as early Carrie Underwood, and "Mama's Broken Heart" was a favorite Im-having-a-mental-breakdown song for a lot of the girls in our high school. Reba McEntire's "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" is epic and unforgettable. "Suds in the Bucket" by Sara Evans is also very very good.

I'd also like to honorable mention: "Rain is a Good Thing" by Luke Bryan because I'm from semi-rural Indiana where we grow... A lot of corn. You understand a song about corn and whiskey would make every Indiana resident unironically turnt as hell. "I Loved Her First" by Heartland was played at every country wedding for a solid 5 years after it was released. "Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows You're There)" by Rodney Atkins was very inspirational the first 50 times I heard it on the radio. "Alright" by Darius Rucker blew me out of the water, because when I heard it first we used to watch the country music videos channel every day before school, and it was the first time I'd ever seen a black man singing country music and I cannot tell you how cool I thought he was.

I don't listen to much modern country music [does "Call Me By Your Name" count??]. After the early 2000s super-patriot-party-womanizer flavor of country took over, a lot of what I listen to instead is what's currently called "Folk", "Folk Rock" and "New Age Rock". Kinda captures what that sound and atmosphere of music used to be like before it got pop-ified. The Crane Wives, The Wailin' Jennies, Lord Huron, Colter Wall, and Barns Courtney are the closest I get to "Country music" these days.

If social justice is a thing you admire I Highly Highly recommend The Chicks. They pioneered the idea of disassociating country music from its southern pride/racist roots [and demonstrated it by dropping their very popular brand name, The Dixie Chicks]. They also pushed back against the uber-patriotism movement in the country music genre after 9/11, for which they were dropped from many, many venues and brand deals. They basically disappeared from the media overnight, because they took a stand against what they deemed to be an unjust upcoming war, and continue to work for social justice currently [you might've heard their song March March making rounds during the 2020 BLM movement. If you haven't, go listen to it, it's a bop.]

I hope you have fun exploring the genre! There's so much nostalgia for me there, and while there's definitely some controversy in it, there's also so many good people working to turn the genre back to something admirable again [imo]. :3

#Answering asks #Knitingtoday #Country music #Music recs #Wow sorry I blacked out and suddenly this was here #My bad

[goxinsane]

➹ kadee strickland

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{ @mythunderlegion }

Annette Kinsey, 47-50, heterosexual, pronouns: she/her. Currently resides in Braselton Georgia, USA. Song association: Landslide cover by the Dixie Chicks, and Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under by Shania Twain!

Right before studying at the local University to become the neurosurgeon she is now, Annette was forced to have a shotgun wedding. The only way her parents approved of the relationship between her much older boyfriend and having this baby, was to commit to one another. Dedicated to her dream, Malcolm and Annette decided to let his sister-in-law and own mother babysit their daughter Wynonna when both weren’t available (like during long-periods of time, like around exam time). Somehow, they made it work although they rarely saw one another. Three years later, they were still together, and Wynonna had a younger sister, Loretta. And another three years after that, Annette and Malcolm had their last child together, Reba. And yes, they’re all named after ‘country’ artists. 

Malcolm dropped out of school and took over his father’s horse ranch and farm, in which Wynonna enjoyed from the ripe age of six. A lot of the time, Annette missed out on the fun as she registered at the hospital in Braselton and continued her practice. The three sisters never got along, and eventually Wynonna moved away to pursue her 'dream' of becoming a real-estate agent, with an attempt to cut off contact. She felt the most pressured from the other side of the family, and ignored by Annette. Reba has since taken over the ranch with her father and Loretta has become a local, country artist. For years, Annette has considered her marriage to be over, so, behind his back, she often will steal ‘your husband’ for one night, just for the thrill. Little does she know, he’s doing the same with other wives.

Muse association? Yes, mother to Wynonna Kinsey, currently on request.

#wynonna [headcanon] #mythunderlegion #thank you!! <33 #can you tell I LOVE this meme? #[asked and answered]

[vixey-chakraborty]

On the Farm -- a playlist for farm chores

listen here!

Vixey’s Farm Life Playlist: 10 Songs Vixey Listens to While Doing Farm Chores, make an aesthetic and write 50 words about why each song is included

9 to 5 by Dolly Parton – A classic. I couldn’t not start this playlist with this song. It’s the perfect chore song, no matter what your job is. Working on the farm, it definitely is a jam though. Except that working on a farm is more like 5 to 9, lol. Ask my dad, he never stops talking about how he woke up at like 4am every morning.

Any Man of Mine by Shania Twain – I know that realistically Vixey probably doesn’t know a lot of country music but that’s not gonna stop me from pretending and putting it on all of her playlists. It is just her vibe. And this song is just fun and will keep you awake when you’re up super early and just trying to stay on your feet.

Cowboy Take Me Away by The Chicks – Another classic, I feel like this song is just good for doing chores and daydreaming. Putting up your laundry while singing about a handsome cowboy coming and sweeping you off your feet. It’s about the vibes. It’s about keeping yourself entertained during long hours. This song definitely does that, it’s one of my faves.

Born to Fly by Sara Evans – This is my fave. It’s also great for chores because the music video is so fun (look it up). It’s basically Dorothy from the beginning of the Wizard of Oz when she is—you guessed it—doing farm chores! So, this song in my head has always been associated with farm chores. I used to love this music video as a kid.

Texas Man by The Chicks – I told Vicky that I barked laughing putting this song on this playlist because I realized that DRAKKEN is a Texas man. Hilarious. I love it. Amazing. 10/10. It’s also funny because the song is about someone who feels a little used up, already passed her prime, which is how Vixey does  feel sometimes, since she’s already done the whole marriage thing and grief thing. Anyway, this is a new addition to the playlist but so good.

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) by ABBA – Why are all these songs about men? Honestly, that tracks for Vixey. She’s not boy obsessed by any means, but she’s always been one of my more romantic characters. And all these songs are just kind of fun. Kind of ribbing yourself when it comes to longing. So, I’m not mad about it. This song is so fun and upbeat.

Are You Gonna Be My Girl by Jet – Just a good groovy song, could see someone dancing around in a dairy parlor to this song. Doing air guitar with the milk machine. Yeah. It’s a vibe. Plus, a fun song to sing out loud to yourself when you’re just vibing and doing these really repetitive sorts of chores that farms need to run.

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough by Marvin Gaye – One of my all time favorite songs. I feel like Vixey would really like this song too. Super upbeat. Great song to sing along to. If you couldn’t tell, Vixey is definitely a sing-a-long kind of person. She’s not a great singer, really, but she has fun and that is what matters. Plus, the animals don’t usually care. So non-judgmental.

My Girl by the Temptations – Vixey likes to sing this song to the animals. After all, farms are run by girl power! You gotta milk the cows. You gotta get eggs from the female chickens! And Vixey likes to think if you sing nice songs to the animals and make sure they are happy, they will produce better products, so she will sing this song to them and love up on them. Which is very cute of her.

Sunday Morning by Maroon 5 – This is a specific song from her rainy-day playlist, because Vixey definitely has multiple chore playlists. That’s the kind of person that she is. This song is so soothing, and it is also on my rainy day playlist because it just gives off grey skies and chill vibes. Even though farms don’t stop running in the rain!

#swynlabors #music #inspiration

[slowlobotomy]

1.) Being Mistress Ava’s Slave (1 Day Example)

Being Mistress Ava’s “house bitch” is no easy task. But I imagine myself long, long ago losing my ability to choose this fate…

Part 1. Waking Up

My mornings begin when the noise in my headphones stops…The silence triggers an internal pang, a shock, like a bolt of lightening runs through my body…it starts to writhe and (yet again) tears form in my eyes…

And like a cocaine addict suddenly needing a hit, my eyes break open…bloodshot and heavy…

This is my alarm clock…

You see, one of Mistress’ training methods she has been employing more and more recently on me is CONSTANT AUDIO FUCKING…So with the exception of receiving live orders from her or BF…I am to have my headphones strapped and locked around my face…AT ALL TIMES.

No thinking…just listening…brainwashing…and obeying…

The area between my ears…becomes her playground…

Mistress creates playlists to bombard my skull…Sometimes it is a mixture of recordings from her NF site. Many other times, she will record customs for me to focus on throughout the day.

Depending on her mood and training goal, sometimes she will just select 1 file, and put it on loop…

And when she is displeased…she doesn’t hold back…

I get scared, and start to tremble…and I can’t stop but start crying like a little girl whom just had her birthday cake crushed before her eyes…tears flood down my cheeks…

I have stated to Mistress Ava multiple times that I can’t take what’s about to occur…I HATE IT…I told her I HATE IT.

I.

HATE.

IT.

But unfazed, she stands above me, as I lie on my knees, and gives me a mocking “Boo Hoo, you shouldn’t have pissed me off, fucktoy.”

I tell her that I am sorry, but please not this…anything but this…She wasn’t supposed to use this info as a weapon like this is…But she took the power of decision making away from me long ago…(But it is a lesson I continue to struggle with…)

“You just don’t learn your lesson, do you?” she replies, “Boo hoo, fucktoy.”A wicked smile creeping across her lips, “Never. Tell. Me. A. Secret.”

And with that she places the headphones over my ears, and snaps that locking strap around my jag snug, locking it on the last possible clip…

Now, even if I want to, I can’t take them off…

Tears keep coming out as I realize that it’s now… “Shania Twain Time.”

As she presses the play button, I know that for the next week, I will be forced to listen to Shania Twain, 24/7.

Awake. Asleep. It doesn’t matter.

I once told Mistress I hate female vocalist country music artists (like Shania Twain, Kelly Underwood, Reba McEntire, Dixie Chicks, Mindy McCready, Sara Evans, etc.).

And sure enough, she immediately added Shania Twain into her punishment repertoire for me.

What’s scary is that there are times when Mistress will call me over, and switch the audio to Shania Twain EVEN if I have been well behaved… And I am getting more worried, because these “random” incidences are occurring more and more often. Whenever they do occur, she always laughs so hard…she points her immaculate fingers directly in my face….and I can see her mouth moving…I wonder what she is saying…but I can’t hear her…only Shania Twain fills my ears until the headphones are unstrapped.

Protocol for some slaves with some mistresses is…mandatory restraints…hands, legs, mouth…mouth…(Mistress Ava specializes in fucking up a slave via this orifice…)

But not me…I don’t “need” regular physical restraints…Don’t get me wrong, they are still regularly used…but not really needed…

The reason…?

She already has me permanently restrained…Except, it is restraint from the inside out…

Mistress currently keeps me on a strong does of meds, which shutdown my sexuality and keep me zombified and lethargic. PERMANENTLY.

Among other things, they ensures my brain is smothered in serotonin constantly…my testosterone BLOCKED…

In a constant state of moderate bewilderment and confusion…my energy…my freewill is forever zapped…depleted…

The meds do allow me to still operate and function…but just barely…and every moment…

IS.

A.

STRUGGLE.

If I am lucky, I can function at bare minimum levels…but most importantly, it has become IMPOSSIBLE for me to act without her direction…

Like a door socket that must stand by idly, until Mistress inserts her key…and opens up her own set of directions for me for the day…

She knows this is one of her key control methods over me…

Making me be dependent…on her…like an addict to a drug…always wanting another hit…

She has told me…multiple times…that she will force me to take these meds forever…

Unfortunately, I don’t doubt her at all…

The combination of meds+audio training+clips, customs, pics., etc…they all point to the same path…the same future…my slow…fucking… lobotomy…

To be continued.

[at-thestillpoint]

for the writing asks: dealer's choice on which chapter(s) of you could be the one that I keep - 🎢 🎥

🎢- Were there any scenes you were nervous about? For audience reception or otherwise?

I was incredibly nervous to post the second chapter of you could be the one that i keep. I was trying to write a Natasha-gets-jealous-and-Hangman-finds-that-hot moment, but it pulled a 180 into an examination of ambition and sexism and what it means to be a woman in a male-dominated space. Which is all very valid, very worthy of examination, and something I’m comfortable discussing in offline contexts, but this was Top! Gun! fanfiction! It was supposed to be light and fluffy! So I threw it into the ether not really knowing what kind of response to expect, and everyone’s reactions ended up being so, so heartening. It was really lovely to know that Natasha's trepidation resonated with people, even in this silly little internet corner of mine. Reflecting on it now, I think those responses really opened the floodgates for texas man/california sand, which are fluffy and fun and smutty, but also start to (I hope) deal with what it actually means to put two lives together.

🎥- Were there any tv shows, books, or movies that influenced this verse, if any?

Does pre-aughts pop-country music count? The entire series is fueled by The Chicks, Shania Twain, and George Strait. Other than that—and I fully realize this sounds like a faux deep first-year English major cop out answer—I don’t know that any specific media property influenced the series so much as the sum of my media consumption influenced this series: I think about this as slice of life, and so what I’m putting into it is mostly just…my life, my friends’ lives, the lives I’ve read about, watched on TV, lived vicariously through movies. 

All that said, there is a direct callout to Pride and Prejudice in california sand, and I definitely had Donald Sutherland’s incredulity in mind when writing (spoilers?) The Scene between Hangman and Nat’s dad.

[ask me about my writing!]

#dispatches from my google docs

[tidalrace]

Music asks: seven through fourteen? :)

7: A song to drive to: Traveling Alone ~ Jason Isbell

Mountain's rough this time of year/Close the highway down/They don't warn the town/I've been fighting second gear for fifteen miles or so/Trying to beat the angry snow/And I know every town worth passing through/But what good does knowing do with no one to show it to

8: A song about drugs or alcohol: You & Tequila ~ Kenny Chesney feat. Grace Potter

'Cause you and Tequila make me crazy/Run like poison in my blood/One more night could kill me, baby/One is one too many/One more is never enough

9: A song that makes you happy: Any Man Of Mine ~ Shania Twain

*This song is really just about the VIBE and the beat.

10: A song that makes you sad: Almost Lover ~ A Fine Frenzy

Goodbye, my almost lover/Goodbye, my hopeless dream/I'm trying not to think about you/Can't you just let me be/So long, my luckless romance/My back is turned on you/I should've known you'd bring me heartache/Almost lovers always do

11: A song that you never get tired of: Dreams ~ Fleetwood Mac

Now here you go again/You say you want your freedom/Well, who am I to keep you down/It's only right that you should/Play the way you feel it/But listen carefully to the sound/Of your loneliness

12: A song from your preteen years: Am I The Only One ~ The Chicks

Now my sense of humor needs a break/I see a shadow in the mirror/And she's laughing through her tears/One more smile's all I can fake

*I just listened to this whole CD a lot when we got it, because it was a good album. I played every CD we had that I vaguely liked a million times...but also I probably should not have been able to relate to this album as much as I did at that age... like tween to early teen...

13: One of your favorite 80s songs: Forever and Ever, Amen ~ Randy Travis

If you wonder how long I'll be faithful/I'll be happy to tell you again/I'm gonna love you forever and ever, forever and ever, amen

14: A song that you would love played at your wedding: I Won't Give Up ~ Jason Mraz

Well, I won't give up on us/Even if the skies get rough/I'm giving you all my love/I'm still looking up

#Digging through literal years of asks #I swear I answered some of these #although I bet I meant to do this one and forgot #I'm sure vesperass-anuna doesn't even remember #but I've got spotify open #so... #songs #vesperass-anuna

[quentineliot]

Country music. Everybody's favorite. Right? ;P

I grew up in the Southern US. "The South" people from the area would more affectionately call it. I've moved, and done a lot to separate myself from not only the so called culture there, but also it's music.

And I LOVE music. Sang in the car to every song that came on the radio from the age I could make sound, to 21. My mom always tells this story about how I would cry as a baby unless Vince Gill was playing on cassette.

It's been around 7 years since I've turned on a country radio station. But because I grew up on the music (and classic rock like zztop) occasionally a country ear worm will stop by. And being a fully realized transman, it makes sense looking back at the lyrics of many of these songs, why I didn't notice sooner. And why telling my parents was incredibly terrifying.

Not EVERY song uses the "sweet girl with an overprotective dad that just a good ol boy wants to marry and raise a family with" formula. But it's a Lot of them. And if it's not a song about a guy just wanted to settle down with a pretty girl who can cook a good meal, it's about jealousy. And how (typically) women act in these songs is sung at the top of your lungs, about how she'll fuck up his car, steal his dog, or murder him and his mistress.

Miranda Lambert has a song about burning everything down and lighting it on fire. Which, is honestly a mood. But having been In The South, people don't think it's hyperbolic. There are a LOT of people that, if they were willing to bring Dixie Chicks back into their hearts, would be doing some Goodbye Earl's of their own. (Though, this song is a better example of justice taken, and of all the references so far, I think I'm most comfortable with this one.)

Take a look at these lyrics from Shania Twain's "Any Man of Mine"

"Any man of mine better be proud of me

Even when I'm ugly, he still better love me

And I can be late for a date that's fine

But he better be on time"

Okay so I'm with you on the first two lines. Great start. But you're saying you don't want your man to be late but You* can be late. Double standard and not okay. This was music I absorbed as like, idk, a 6 years old? I'd need math and Google and I don't feel like it. Moving on.

"Any man of mine'll say it fits just right

When last year's dress is just a little too tight

And anything I do or say better be okay

When I have a bad hair day"

First two lines, personal preference I suppose. I'd rather be told if I don't look good and change my clothes. Not everyone is me, a lot of people would much rather get "yes baby you look amazing!" always. Top two lines, good.

But ANYTHING YOU DO OR SAY BETTER BE OKAY WHEN YOU HAVE A BAD HAIR DAY?!!! Excuse me???!!! Absolutely not.

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I mentioned Carrie Underwood's Before He Cheats earlier. All you really need is the chorus. I don't need Google for this one.

And I dug my key in to the side of his pretty little suped up four wheel drive

Carved my name into his leather seats

I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights

Slashed a hole in all four tires

Maybe next time he'll think before he cheats

TLDR: he cheated on me so I destroyed his car. And while this song was a fucking Anthem when it came out, any woman who exhibited even slightly agressive behavior was Shut the fuck Down. Make it make sense. The song is about criminal activity so, clearly, anyone who does this should be charged. So why wouldn't people let women and girls show anger in a productive way?

Trisha Yearwoods "She's in Love with the Boy"

Is literally just romanticizing getting married at 16 or 18 or to your first love.

Faith Hill's "This Kiss" gets a pass but only because of "Cinderella said to Snow White, how does love get so off course?" And I thought they were in love with each other 😂

I can't even begin to unpack Fancy by Reba McEntire. And Reba is legendary, she's been making music since before I was born and I love her. It's just, that song.. Eugh. Yikes.

I've been trying to find other songs that absolutely put "go find a nice boy and have babies" into my brain at an early age, and I stumbled on George Strait and I know a few of his songs by heart. Oceanfront Property. All my exes live in Texas. Check yes or no. Amarillo by morning. I can't find anything wrong with any of his music. So it CAN be done.

I'm just salty about the amount of redneck inspiration porn I was made to sing as a child. (my mother made me sing at parties. I preferred singing alone) No other genre of music does this. Rock music isn't over here all "look pretty, shut up, and find a good husband" 🤨

I feel I should mention that there have been recent songs that defy this formula. ",This ain't my momma's broken heart" by Miranda Lambert. Taylor Swift has a unique writing style so I'm sure she's written SOMEthing that's not just trucks beer women muddin or whatever else today country is about? There's a couple about whiskey I think. It's always whiskey or beer..

Country music is like all about family, or something sad and mourning that loss. Heaven, angels, wings, gods watching over you, memaw is watching over you, you're not alone I'm there with you even tho I'm on a truck 100 miles away, think of me when you hear the wind blow kiddo🙃

Finally, to be clear, I don't hate any of the songs Ive referenced or pulled lyrics from. They were my entire childhood. Lonestar was my shit, I choreographed a dance to Shania Twain's "Man I feel like a woman" and did it in front of an auditorium of people, I still know every word of Suds in the bucket by Sara Evans and anything Martina McBride I've sung hundreds of times. It's beautiful music. But dang does country music and the south know how to brainwash people. It's scary.

#idk what im actually typing #there's a point jn here somewhere #country music #thoughts

[paths-of-my-childhood-candid]

OH, TAYLOR! Taylor Swift On Side-Stepping Into Acting, Owning What You Make & Loving The “Weirdness” Of Cats

On a grey London afternoon in late September, Taylor Swift slips quietly through the doors of a north London recording studio. It is an auspicious moment: the queen of confessional pop has come to meet Andrew Lloyd Webber, the king of musical theatre. Together, Swift, who turns 30 this month, and Lloyd Webber, 71, have written “Beautiful Ghosts”, a new song for the soon-to-be-released film adaptation of Cats – Webber’s 1981 extravaganza, which ran in the West End and on Broadway for a combined total of almost 40 years. In it, Swift plays Bombalurina, and like her co-stars – Idris Elba, Judi Dench, Francesca Hayward, Ian McKellen, Jennifer Hudson, Rebel Wilson – appears in full, furry CGI glory. Track finished, these two titans of the music industry sit down to talk… 

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Well, the first thing we have to clear up is that we both love cats. Taylor Swift: [Laughs] We do! One of the first things you said to me when we met was that you’re president of the Turkish Van Cat Club.  ALW: Professionally, there is nowhere I can go to top this, as you can completely understand. TS: I have three cats. How many do you have now?  ALW: I have three, too – they are all Turkish Vans. And you’ve got a Scottish Fold I believe. TS: I have two Scottish Folds, we think the third is a Ragdoll mix. ALW: You’re probably never going to talk to me again, but you know I’ve got a puppy? He’s called Mojito.  TS: I heard about this! How does he get along in the hierarchy?  ALW: Well, he believes he’s a little bear actually. He’s a Havanese dog, which I got because Glenn Close has one. TS: I’ve met that dog, he’s really good. ALW: You come from Pennsylvania. TS: I do. People seem to think I was raised in the south, but I’m from the north – grew up on a Christmas tree farm, then moved to Nashville when I was 14. ALW: And you wanted to move to Nashville for the songwriting or the singing? Or both? TS: Both – I was just obsessed with Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Dixie Chicks, and the thing they had in common was that they had gotten discovered in Nashville. So I had it in my head that this is a magical place where discoveries are made and people are able to do music as a living. ALW: Was it the storytelling side of country songs that you liked? Absolutely. It reminded me of the ’90s, when you had these amazing female singer-songwriters like Alanis Morissette and Sarah McLachlan; incredible female writers like Melissa Etheridge, Shawn Colvin; and these types of Lilith Fair women. Then you started to hit the 2000s and the only place I could find real confessional storytelling was country music. ALW: Did you know anybody when you got to Nashville? TS: No, we didn’t really. I’d been going there on vacation with my family, and my mom, my little brother and I would stay in a hotel and try to meet people. Eventually, after several trips, I got a development deal – it’s a non-committal record deal, like, “We’ll watch you develop for a year and then we’ll decide if we sign you.” That was grounds enough to move the family. ALW: Presumably you were in school in Nashville as well? TS: Yes, I was going to high school during the day and doing my songwriting sessions at night. It was a double life. I’d be writing notes in class, and my teachers never knew if they were notes for my class or if I’d gotten an idea for a song. ALW: How many songs would you write in a day? TS: Usually, never more than one. I had these sessions every day, and if I didn’t come in with a good idea, I’d get stared at. You’re not inspired every day, as you know, but you have to show up and treat it like a job. That’s where I learned the craft of songwriting. ALW: I’ve never worked like that, because I’m so story driven. What interests me, though, is how Nashville works. How did you get your foot on the performing ladder? TS: It was really writing first. At the same time, I was singing the national anthem every time I could – at festivals and fairs and bars, anywhere I could get up on stage. I was trying to hone both sides of what I was doing, but I’m very well aware that I would not have a career if I hadn’t been a writer. I wouldn’t have just been a singer, it wouldn’t have worked. ALW: I guess that, today, very few people have a major career unless they write. TS: Yeah, I agree. I think it’s really important – also from the side of ownership over what you do and make. Even if you aren’t a natural writer, you should try to involve yourself in the messages you’re sending. ALW: How does a young country artist get their first break? TS: I worked as hard as I could, reached out to as many people as I could to make sure I got meetings with publishing companies and labels. They didn’t come about very easily, but once I got in the room I’d just get out my guitar and play for them. ALW: Do you have to sing in a certain club to get to the next stage? TS: Everyone does it a different way, but the Bluebird Cafe is a place where everyone was discovered – from Garth Brooks to Faith Hill to, arguably, me. I remember being at your house after we’d written a song, and you telling me you’d bought it when you were 24 or something, that’s when I realised just how young you were when you had a vision to be doing this at such a high level. ALW: I was writing for the theatre when I was eight-years-old. I had a little toy theatre and did dreadful musicals on terrible subjects. Then, when I was about 13, I met a boy who wanted to write lyrics, and we did a couple of musicals at school. TS: So from the beginning you would pair up with a lyricist? ALW: One of the things I worked out very early was Lloyd Webber and lyrics are not a good idea. TS: Wow. It is a good alliteration, though. ALW: You were 19, weren’t you, when you had your first big hit? TS: I was about 18 when “Love Story”, a song I’d written alone, was a worldwide hit. I was lucky enough to work my way up in country music, for new artists nowadays, it feels like the trajectory of their career is like being shot out of a canon into a stratosphere they could in no way be prepared for. I got to sort of acclimate to every step of the path I was on, and by the time I had a massive hit I’d been working since I was 14. Moving from country music to pop was a crazy adjustment for me. ALW: And now we’ve written “Beautiful Ghosts” together for Cats. TS: I remember the moment. I went over to your apartment to rehearse “Macavity” and you sat down at the piano and started to play this haunting, beautiful melody, and I think I just started singing to it right away. ALW: You wrote the lyrics more or less then and there – it was fantastic. TS: It’s a different perspective on the song “Memory”, too, and the character of Grizabella [played by Jennifer Hudson], who used to have majestic, glamorous times and doesn’t anymore. On the other side of it, you have this little white cat [Victoria, played by Francesca Hayward] who’s been abandoned – she’s afraid she’ll never have a chance to have beautiful memories. So that’s where she’s singing “Beautiful Ghosts” from, to counter Grizabella’s idea of tragedy. ALW: I’d like to come back to something I thought when I heard your album, Lover – which is really absolutely brilliant. Am I right in thinking you approached its recording just as though you were giving live performances? TS: I did. I was really singing a lot at that point – I’d just come from a stadium tour, and then did Cats, which was all based on live performances – so a lot of that album is nearly whole takes. When you perform live, you’re narrating and you’re getting into the story and you’re making faces that are ugly and you’re putting a different meaning on a song every time you perform it. ALW: That’s the point isn’t it. TS: Yeah. ALW: Does that ever make you feel you want to be an actress? TS: I have no idea. When I was younger, I used to get questions like, “Where do you see yourself in 10 years?” I’d try to answer. As I get older, I’m learning that wisdom is learning how dumb you are compared to how much you are going to know. I really had an amazing time with Cats. I think I loved the weirdness of it. I loved how I felt I’d never get another opportunity to be like this in my life. ALW: It’s weird, what I’ve seen of the movie. TS: It’s decidedly weird [they laugh]. ALW: I think Tom [Hooper, the film’s director] has really tried to make something original. And I agree, I think as you get older you do become less sure of yourself and start to question what you can do. Would you consider doing a musical? TS: A musical? Absolutely, absolutely. ALW: Or writing your own? TS: That is way up there on my list of dreams. ALW: You should. TS: Was it really wonderful for you when you got the news that Judi Dench had accepted the role of Old Deuteronomy? ALW: Judi was in the original version in 1981 but she snapped her Achilles tendon and had to withdraw. Then I had this idea, which I ran past Tom, that we could make Old Deuteronomy a woman. Seeing her perform this time was quite an emotional thing for me, because it was a very, very sad day when she had to leave the original show. TS: She’s lovely. I remember being on set, and there is one scene that Idris [Elba, who plays Macavity] and I do with Judi, and someone walked up to me with this kind of gummy candy and I was like, “Oh, I’ve never had this before, this must be British candy, this is amazing.” I was raving about this candy so much, and Judi must have overheard me, because the next day I got to my dressing room and there was a signed photo from Judi and, like, six bags of it [they laugh]. Andrew, we both started young. What do we have in common from our experiences? What do you think was hard about it? And what was great? ALW: I suppose what was hard for me was that I was a fish out of the mainstream water. In the 1960s, to love musicals was as uncool as you could possibly be, and kids in my class at school would laugh at me. TS: I was the same. I loved country music and, where I was in school, the kids were just completely perplexed by that. It’s gotten more mainstream, but when I was a 13-year-old in Pennsylvania, I got similar reactions. Do you feel like you’re glad you were really young when you started? ALW: Yeah, are you? TS: I’m really glad, even though there are challenges to it – like you’re not allowed to make the same mistakes as everyone else because your mistakes are a commodity. ALW: And your mistakes are made in public. But we share something in common, in which we are extremely lucky. We both knew at an early age what we wanted to do, and most people in life don’t have a clue. TS: That’s very true. I think, also, a lot of the time when people see a career that they want it can be results-based. Rather than wanting to write musicals, they want to be a person who has written musicals. But when I see you work, I see you consistently creating and being curious about the next idea. You relish in the process even more than the rewards, which is the advice I would give anyone who wanted to do anything remotely close to this job. It cannot be about the results. ALW: It’s the process isn’t it? TS: It has to be. It’s supposed to be fun!

MEET & GREET: Introducing the faces behind this month’s issue

When it came to interviewing Taylor Swift about her musical-movie debut in Cats, there was only one man for the job: Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer of the original West End and Broadway mega hit. The two colossi of songwriting had plenty to discuss at a recording studio in north London – art, ambition and authenticity, plus what we can expect from the soon-to-be-released film.

Vogue: What was it like to work with Taylor? Andrew Lloyd Webber: She’s supremely professional and very charming with it. In my view, she could go far. Vogue: What was your first impression of her? ALW: She’s a lot taller than me, and a lot more attractive. Vogue: What’s your favourite Swift hit? ALW: “Blank Space” from the album 1989. It’s a great pop song with great lyrics.

[exfoliateher]

YO!

I just realized i’m an African-american bisexual girl who loves marvel. kpop, noodles, hot Cheetos puffs, uses metal straws, recycles, says shit like “YEET” would date outside my race(but i want to marry a Nigerian prince), makes smoothie bowls for breakfast, am in love with timothee chalamet, and would let chris evans rip me in half, i cry when i get yelled at (please never yell at me), drinks gallon and gallon and gallons of la croix, the only person who remembers freakazoid apparently, loves mom jeans, glossier, and vegan food, would only eat fries if it was all i needed to live fuck any other food. puts lime on EVERYTHING, DRINKS BOBA TEA RELIGIOUSLY shops @ PINK/VICTORIA SECRET, would live in a target or an american eagle, says “cant gain weight if i don’t eat”, says “by the grace of god” or “father,son, and the holy spirit” while doing cross symbol to my chest BUT I DON’T REALLY BELIEVE IN GOD!, did i mention i love kpop?, I’ve said “i’d run a cat farm in the middle of nowhere”, I WATCH MUSICALS ON REPEAT!, listen to indie folk, indie rock, indie pop, indie electronic, dark indie music, AND SOMETIMES IN COUNTRY MUSIC( well only kacey musgraves and the dixie chicks and shania Twain) I LOVE HAIM AND HOZIER!

anyway i’m listing these things because I’ve been called “white” for liking/loving these things. these things do not make me any less black, i know my culture, I am aware of what goes on in my community I love my skin i love my blackness, i love the way the sun makes my skin glow golden brown,I know that i am art, black people are literally art WE ARE ART! we are smart, strong, and beautiful no matter what we desire. dating a white, Asian, Hispanic etc, person does not make you a “traitor” I've been called a traitor so many times i even have siblings who look at me funny for liking outside my race which makes me so upset but i’m going to love who i love. 

so if you are a black girl or any person of color who is somewhat like me? let me know your experiences and let me know some of the things you love that are considered “white” i would love to hear them! 

#black women #Bisexual #black kpop fans #Timothee Chalamet #chris evans #kpop #got7 #blackpink #nct #monsta x #sunmi #bts #twice #stray kids #ateez #exo #team wang #jackson wang #marvel #black girl

[williamsockner]

I saw your comments about country music on the Chicks thread and I’m curious about your opinion. I grew up on country music and feel like “9/11 killed country” is pretty valid. But I’d love to hear your take because I miss it [country music].

Hi! So, my major issue with the “9/11 killed country music” post, as someone who listens to a ton of musical genres but has both a history of and soft spot for country, is that it’s a reductive, cherrypicking way to define an entire massive genre based on a handful of individual songs and high-profile artists that had their heyday at this point nearly two decades ago (Toby Keith, Big & Rich, etc.). It’s a very slanted read on pop radio country, and it’s not even remotely accurate to quantifying the broader genre.

It’s just bizarre that people allow their idea of the whole genre to be molded by a spate of reactionary right-wing songs that found traction immediately after 9/11 and then largely lost dominance in the genre. Most country songs on the radio are not about jingoism - they’re still about a lover done you wrong, or drinking after a hard day’s work, or finding happiness without much money, or teenagers in love, or about the tragedies of alcoholism and domestic abuse, or appreciating your small town, as so much of this genre has always been. If you look at the top 10 right now, there isn’t a patriot song in the whole thing (although two of the songs have overtly Christian references, but that’s always been part of country music too). The militaristic patriotism songs tend to just be one or two songs a year that end up in heavy rotation around the fourth of July and in September, but they get outsized attention comparatively because they’re so offensively grating.

And even after 9/11, for the last two decades most country songs on the radio still haven’t been “nationalist pop with twang”. Yes, in the 2000’s we had “Courtesy of the Red White and Blue” and “Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning” and “American Soldier”, but this was also LGBT+ supporter Shania Twain’s* and avowed Democrat Tim McGraw’s imperial phases, the era of “Before He Cheats” and “Concrete Angel” and “Red Ragtop”, the years that made a Blake Shelton song about breaking out of prison his calling card and gave Miranda Lambert a massive hit with a song about burning her abuser’s house down.

This isn’t to say that country is progressive. Country music has a major problem with being dominated by straight white men, and even straight white women spent several of the last years underrepresented** (to say nothing of LGBT+ artists and artists of color). But that issue predates 9/11, as does the whitewashing of country’s history; the aforementioned Ken Burns documentary does go into how white country musicians forced black musicians out of the scene and erased their accomplishments going back decades before 2001. “Proud to Be an American” and “God Bless the USA”, for the record, were recorded in 1980’s.

Country, as a genre, does lean more conservative than many other genres, but it still holds a wide array of political viewpoints, even on the pop charts. I’m not just talking about indie alt-country darlings, although I’ll get to those in a minute - even pop country megastars are a varied bunch. Eric Church, who currently has a hit on the top 10, just dropped a scathing track called “Stick That in Your Country Song” that cusses out underfunding schools and mass incarceration; Luke Bryan got a #1 hit in 2017 with a chorus that included “I believe you love who you love and ain’t nothing you should ever be ashamed of”; Carrie Underwood pinned an entire album and tour cycle around a single about escaping domestic abuse and recently released a song criticizing gun proliferation; Kacey Musgraves won a CMA for her hit single where she criticizes slut-shaming and encourages women to “kiss lots of boys or kiss lots of girls if that’s something you’re into”, then she won a Grammy for an album where she sings about smoking weed and dedicates an empowerment anthem to the LGBT+ community; Miley Cyrus had an explicitly bisexual song on her most recent “back to her roots” country album; Tim McGraw discussed running for governor of Tennessee as a Democrat and threw his support behind Obama way back during Obama’s 2008 campaign. I’ve been relatively unplugged from country radio for the last few years, but this is all stuff relatively off the top of my head.

And that moves us to alt-country. I die a little inside whenever someone says that they “just mean radio country” when they say they “hate country music”, because alt-country is just the tits. It just is. It’s the best. If someone says they listen to rock music, we don’t assume they only mean Nickelback and Shinedown - and yet somehow we’ve shut country out so much that we don’t even consider that there’s an entire world of the genre beyond what charts - and that world is rich and powerful and thoughtful and as valid a form of music as any other genre. Some favorites contemporary alt-country artists of mine (including some songs about immigration, opiate addiction, protesting war, sexism, agricultural exploitation, homophobia, one bashing Trump directly and even one about female cunnilingus): Courtney Marie Andrews, Ruston Kelly, Tyler Childers, Margo Price, Jason Isbell, Colter Wall, Ian Noe, Kathleen Edwards, Lydia Loveless, Lori McKenna, Amanda Shires, Ashley Monroe, Lucinda Williams, Over the Rhine, Samantha Crain, Shooter Jennings, Cam, John Moreland, Chris Stapleton, Lindi Ortega, Lavender Country, Cody Belew, Honey Harper, Lera Lynn, Nina Nastasia, Patty Griffin, Holly Williams.

The problem with the “9/11 killed country” attitude, to me, is that it’s a stance that requires limited knowledge of country that happened after 9/11 and a selective memory for the country that existed before 9/11. Jingoist country songs existed and found massive success before 9/11; more progressive country songs existed and found success after 9/11. Contrary to what people on tumblr seem to believe, the genre of country music was not just outlaw country, “Jolene” and Woodie Guthrie folk songs until Toby Keith came along; it was already highly Christian/gospel-influenced and highly patriarchal. And it was already full of goofy songs about getting drunk and partying and driving tractors, the predecessors to “bro country”.

I think, personally, we lose so much by centering “Courtesy of the Red White and Blue” and Florida Georgia Line as the first things we think of when we think about country music, because those songs and acts aren’t representative of the genre, or even of the pop country charts. We lose a lot because we lose sight of all the fantastic progressive or apolitical music in the genre, and we lose a lot because we ignore the sins of pre-9/11 country and the opportunity to critique its history of whitewashing, heteronormativity and cultural Christianity by likening it to some sort of good ol’ days.

Thank you for letting me ramble!

*I’m aware of Shania’s ignorant-ass Trump comments, but those reflect more recent political developments for her and came with a hasty retraction.

**Although lol the pop, rock and rap charts have all been brutal to women for the last several years.

#music #country music #i have a lot of feelings about country music #this got long #not-quite-wild

[wafflesetc]

25 aaand 41 ❤️

25. first song you remember hearing?

Something by Shania Twain, The Dixie Chicks or Faith Hill! (old school country for the win!) 

41. last person you texted?

@missclairebelle​ and I said, and I quote, “ALSO my BORIS IS SO HANDSOME.” She didn’t respond so I am inlined to assume she does not agree.

#Ask Waffs #a-storytoldby

[meganiumgender]

Do u have any country song recs for a gay like me?

sjdkbgjkdsgjkgds im probably not the one to ask bc i love….all kinds of country songs but! dixie chicks are gay icons so theyre a good starting place (goodbye earl FUCKS) 

Dwight Yoakam is my absolute favorite (if you go through my music tag i got most his discography there i think sdkjgbkdskj)

johnny cash is a known lesbian icon (thats not a joke, theres essays and shit on it and ill go to my grave fighting about his right to be considered one)

george strait is the undisputed KING of course so i cant forget him (the chair and check yes or no are classics, as well as carrying your love with me)

strawberry wine by deanna carter takes me back to my childhood and i love it so much, something like that by tim mcgraw, dust on the bottle by david lee murphy, and meet in the middle by diamond rio

i know that morally i cant rly fuck w her anymore but shania twain was my gay awakening and she’s still considered to be a gay icon and anything from the The Woman In Me, Come On Over, and Up! is fantastic

if you’re into more mainstream pop sounding stuff danielle bradbery and thomas rhett are good intros into the genre since theyre pretty mainstream pop country artists rn

chris stapleton has a nice older sound and he’s gotten pretty popular in the mainstream as well! same with midland

also if we’re throwing morals out the window. Toby Keith’s shit bangs im very sorry but it does. if i hear beer for my horses or should’ve been a cowboy in public i lose my mind.

here’s a playlist that’s currently 32 and a half hours of country music that i like lmao

hdsbgkgsjkdg if u need any other songs just. ask me. god i love country music.

if you have a specific genre you prefer i can also probably find things better suited to your tastes (pop country, southern rock, etc.)!

#Anonymous

[imjusthereforqueenso]

Shuffle your iTunes (or whatever you keep your music on) and choose ten songs. For each song explain a memory/aesthetic/feeling you have associated with it!

I was tagged by @honkycats, thank you! I was finally able to sit down and do t

I’m tagging @im-inlovewithmycar @excusememecouldyoupleaseleave @im-in-love-with-my-cat @70srogertaylor @somekindofroger @teathymewithben and anyone who wants to do this can say that I tagged them.  

01. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama

Honestly, this song is such a big part of my childhood. My oldest brother Will is 10 years older than me but I was always really close to him, everyone said it was because we’re the oldest and the baby. But he took me everywhere and would blast this song! As soon as it would come on we would yell “TURN IT UP!” and he would put his volume on full blast and speed up. He would even put me in his lap and let me steer. When he left for the marines, I was quite lonely and sad, but when ever this song came on it would always bring back those rides and make me happy. 

02. Raspberry Beret - Prince

If my mom wasn’t listening to Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, the Dixie Chicks, Reba, Kenny Rogers, Trisha Yearwood, Shania Twain or any other country music of the sorts, she was listening to Prince. While she loved When Doves Cry, I always begged to listen to Raspberry Beret. I always had to listen to it at least 5 times while we were in the car. It’s still one of my all time favorite songs today, and even as an adult my mom will still turn it on when we drive together. 

03. Journey - When You Love a Woman

I always think of love when I listen to this song. I want it played at my wedding for the first dance. It sometimes makes me feel a little lonely, especially after my breakup, but I could never stop listening to this song. I’ve cried singing it, I’ve smiled singing it. Overall there’s just such a warm tone in the song and it just does something to me. There’s just something about Steve Perry’s voice. 

04. Steam Powered Giraffe - Honeybee

Oh boy, this song brings back a lot of memories. During my “emo phase”, between My Chemical Romance (once you go MCR there is no turning back) and Blood on the Dance Floor (Yikes) there was Steam Powered Giraffe. My best friend and I were obsessed with Steampunk and this group was our go to. I designed a lot of characters while listening to this song and even tried creating my own steampunk manga. This song was always the one that meant the most to me, something about it could just calm me. I really struggled with a lot of anger issues, I’m a lot better now, but I have my moments, but playing this song could just really bring me down to a calmer state.

05. Masquerade - Phantom of the Opera Movie Soundtrack

I remember when I first watched this movie, my sister rented it from the library and I fell in love. While I love all the music, masquerade always stuck out to me the most. The first time it comes on loud and exciting and then the reprise when the Phantom is singing it quietly. I go from dancing to crying. My mom bought the movie for me after months of me going back to the library and renting it over and over and over again. I actually had this mask growing up and would put it on and strut around with my cheap dollar store fan. Now as an adult, I’m waiting till I own a mansion so I can throw a masquerade party, crank this song up and then have my future husband/wife come in out of nowhere, dramatically, wearing a red suit during the Why so Silent part. I kid you not I have thought about this for years.  

06. Noah And The Whale - Life Is Life

Oh so many high school memories with this song. Whenever I got in a fight with my dad, I always had to just drive. My automatic reaction would always be to play my more aggressive music so I could be angry. But this song would help me stay level headed because you shouldn’t drive angry or sad. But it always made me feel more in control of my life and just reminded me that sooner or later I would be able to live my life the way I want to. Not to mention Noah and the Whale is just a great group to listen to when driving 

07. Bombay Bicycle Club - How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep

Ah yes, the song I turn on at night to mock my insomnia. This song has been through a lot of rough nights with me. But oh my god the music video is just art. The song and video I feel is such a perfect representation of my mind at night because that’s when my mind is running on pure imagination and story ideas. Also the song reminds me of the nights I would wake my sister up to keep me company and we would just talk about nothing and yet it meant everything to me and I clung onto every word said. Now I spend my nights alone with my thoughts.  

08. Dreaming- Coraline Soundtrack

Coraline was and still is my favorite animated movie. I would watch it all the time. I didn't really appreciate the soundtrack until I was in 7th grade. It’s a masterpiece, especially this song. It helps me write, so I’ve been through a lot of drafts and stressful times with this soundtrack.  

09. Trisha Yearwood - Walkaway Joe ft. Don Henley

This one actually hurts me a lot. In high school I met this guy, he was a year above me but we were really close.  I fell in love with him, which was the biggest mistake I ever made. He took me to all the school dances, we messaged each other every day. The next year, we didn’t have the same digital media class but we still talked and hung out in the hallways, even hung out on weekends. He was my first kiss, and then he started ignoring me for another girl. I remember being so heartbroken and then I found out the girl had the same name as me and that just oh boy. But I always remember how my mom cuddled with me all night as I cried. 

10. We Are the Champions - Queen

Honestly, I surprised that there was only one Queen song that came on! So We are Champions always makes me think of 5th grade choir competition! We were at Hawaiian falls and it was a clear sky but then during our performance it started to pour. We all thought we would lose because everyone else didn’t have a delay in their performance and we felt like it threw our performance off. Than we won, and Connor, our choir’s most out outgoing guy I hated him because he knocked my block tower down in pre-k, never forget, and his friends got up on one of the tables as soon as we were away from all the groups and started singing we are the champions and then the next thing you know there’s a bunch of 5th graders singing We are The Champions at the top of their lungs. 

#tag #music #lynyrd skynyrd #prince #journey #steam powered giraffe #phantom of the opera #Gerard Butler is my favorite phantom and no one can change my mind #noah and the whale #bombay bicycle club #Coraline #trisha yearwood #Queen #sorry for any typos and my horrible grammar my computer is being a dick

[francissinatra]

omglitters replied to your post: “i’ve been wanting to go on a long rant about the country music...”:

do it

Lmao okay I grew up listening to country music, right? And I loved it for a really long time, but I think it’s so sad that a woman like Kacey Musgraves, who is out here writing her own shit and doing her own thing and doing it well, can’t get any playtime on the radio because Nashville execs are so hellbent on shilling out the same garbage sound by the same garbage conventionally attractive dude to get bros hype and girls to swoon. The formula is working, too. People just eat up these songs about ??? I don’t even know what they’re about, because it’s not about telling a story anymore. Whatever rap/talk vocal sounds good over a basic snap/clap beat I guess. And they claim “oh we can’t play her because she’s too progressive and not traditional” when there’s nothing traditionally country about the music they’re selling out for. You shun her for innocently telling people to live their own lives in a song 6 years ago? Heaven forbid she hint that it’s okay to be gay in the chorus of her song, of all places! Or because she’s open about drinking and recreational drug use? Big freakin’ whoop. Drinking/bars is a large part of the country culture and you can’t idolize Willie Nelson or The Beatles and then lambast Kacey for writing a song on LSD. And you can’t say “oh, it’s too pop” when country is DYING to be pop. It wants to be pop so bad. It doesn’t want to be seen as kitschy or lowbrow, it wants to be COOL. But it’s doing a terrible job at promoting what actually makes country cool. Instead it’s bastardizing itself to try and fit in when it clearly just needs to be itself. What makes country so cool and so special to listen to is the honesty and the simplicity and, ya know what else, THE KITSCHINESS. Embrace it, you idiots! It’s a genre where you can be honest about everyday happenings that most people can relate to, but also silly, which is cool! TOBY KEITH SHOULD’VE BEEN A COWBOY, FOR CHRIST’S SAKE! If I’m in the mood to listen to country I’m obviously not in the mood to listen to more pop. Also, women in country have been doing pop/country way better than all of you bros since the early 2000s. Your fav could NEVER crossover like Shania Twain, LeAnn Rimes, Faith Hill, etc. And as far as Kacey goes, Golden Hour is honestly one of my favorite albums in a long time. Does it have a pop sound? Sure. But it’s intrinsically country and tells beautiful stories which is, ya know, the thing that makes the genre cool. Also, High Horse is a great example of kitsch done WELL. It’s so FUN. and SILLY. and COOL! She does that so well. And stop shunning women for speaking their minds. Country music has offered a great platform for women to unashamedly record wonderful songs about difficult issues, but the moment they say something even slightly left-of-center you claim NOT MY VALUES and banish them from the radio. I legitimately cried when I saw The Dixie Chicks in concert a couple of years ago because I thought I was never going to get the opportunity to see them live because of this sentiment, and seeing this still happening within the industry is just stupid. Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, etc. didn’t pave the way for nothing. And I like male country artists too, obviously, and I’d listen to the genre far more often than I do presently if they actually sang country music. It’s okay for it to evolve. We wouldn’t have drums in country music if it didn’t evolve, but forgoing the roots of what makes country music a separate genre with its own name and its own history to sell me on more pop music is just getting kind of tiresome. 

#also if there are typos it's late i'm so sorry lmao

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People Allowed To Diss Eminem, Apparently.

Due to contractual obligations, I’m currently getting through the new Eminem album. At one point, he says that no one can criticize him unless they’ve gone diamond. I could argue endlessly that artistic skill does not necessarily correlate to commercial performance, but it’s more fun to list the rappers who can, by this metric, criticize Eminem.

Notorious B.I.G.

Outkast

Beastie Boys

2pac

Nelly

MC Hammer 

Kid Rock

There we have it, folks. Only these rappers can criticize Eminem.

Or is it only them?

Eminem only specified that one must have gone diamond-not a rapper who’s gone diamond. We now expand the list to:

AC/DC

Adele

Aerosmith

Backstreet Boys

Beatles 

Bon Jovi

Boston

Boyz II Men

Garth Brooks

Mariah Carey

Eric Clapton

Patsy Cline

Phil Collins

Creed

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Def Leppard

Celine Dion

Dixie Chicks

Doobie Brothers

Doors

Eagles

Fleetwood Mac

Kenny G

Green Day

Guns & Roses

Hootie & The Blowfish

Whitney Houston

Michael Jackson

Jewel

Billy Joel

Elton John

Norah Jones

Journey

Carole King

Led Zeppelin

Linkin Park

Madonna

Bob Marley

Matchbox 20

Meat Loaf

Metallica

George Michael

Steve Miller Band

Alanis Morissette

N Sync

Nickelback

Nirvana

No Doubt

Pearl Jam

Tom Petty

Pink Floyd

Elvis

Prince

REO Speedwagon

Lionel Richie

Kenny Rogers

Rolling Stones

Santana

Bob Seger

Smashing Pumpkins

Britney Spears

Bruce Springsteen

Taylor Swift

James Taylor

TLC

Shania Twain

U2

Usher 

Van Halen

Stevie Wonder

ZZ Top

So there you have it, guys, gals, and nonbinary pals! Every artist allowed to criticize Eminem! Ta da.

#eminem #diamond #mc hammer