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laneveovunque · 2 years
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A volte sembra un'eternità Che balza a uno schiocco di dita Il pianeta brucia 
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gerogerigaogaigar · 8 months
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Ok so I did my selection of albums and that post blew up as much as any of my posts do so now everyone I live with wants me to review their favorite albums. Since I'm a benevolent overlord I have acquiesced and so here are ten albums that my husband Felix wants you all to listen to as reviewed by me.
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Fire On Fire - The Orchard
I was polite with my choices, but my dear husband decided to open his list with a one off side project by members of Cerberus Shoal. If you don't know the sorta post rock-y sorta folk band Cerberus Shoal then understand that this album is obscure even by the standards of that band's fans. Gone are the post rock tendencies of the parent band and instead the focus is solely on new weird Americana. New weird america is a musical movement that takes American primitivist and psychedelic folk music and mashes it up into something that is inevitably either pretentious garbage or revelatory beauty. This album is the latter. The music plods along with the grace of a broken machine. The music sounds like it is rusting as it moves and the nasally vocals grind along with the hulking monstrosities that are the songs of The Orchard. The music I'm describing may not sound pleasant, but the cacophony comes together in a harmonic cohesion that does for folk music what Charles Ives did for the symphony. There are many more artists that have a similar sound to Fire On Fire, but this album has a uniquely lumbering quality that is not recreated nearly as well by most other artists in the scene.
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Sweet Trip - You Will Never Know Why
You Will Never Know Why is a major departure from Sweet Trips usual sound. The glitch elements have been dialed back, although electronic sounds still populate the album, and it is basically a straightforward shoegaze album. It pulls ahead of competitors partly for the incorporation of electronic music but also for excellent vocals that capture a sterile whispiness. Plus the bass which is so bubbly and tends to rise to the top of mixes to add counterpoint melody on top of the dual vocals. As usual for the genre layering is the key to the beautiful sound. The songs will lily along as bright shimmering sounds plink into the mix and fade out only to be replaced by some other noise.
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Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
While I'm still a fan of the first two Iron & Wine albums Shepherds Dog is clearly where he comes into his own as a performer. The instrumentation is punched up a bit with the occasional touch of horn or honky tonk piano to give the album a more dynamic feel. And the style has incorporated a little bit more rock edge as well. Songs like White Tooth Man help balance the album so that slower number like Resurrection Fern can really shine. Lyrically I can't tell you exactly what is going on in any given song. Sam Beam writes in little snapshots of ideas and paint an impression of a feeling rather than tell a story. I get the idea that he is rather scared of Americana though. And there is something about dog metaphors that really makes this man's brain go brrrrr. Overall I think The Shepherd's Dog is the most balanced of all the Iron & Wine albums I've heard. Successfully towing the line between folk rock and art rock.
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Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
A legend among pretentious sadboys but always skirting the mainstream is Sufjan Stevens. Although he started out making indie folk his style quickly evolved and on Illinois (or Sufjan Stevens Invites You To: Come On Feel The Illinoise as the album cover says) he hit the first major stride of his career. Illinois features insanely elaborate arrangements that show a wide range of influences from minimalist composers to 70s singer songriters to show tunes. The songs all seem to be exercises in elaborate time signature and rhyme scheme or clever wordplay and in depth metaphor.
Now to address the obvious. This album is ostensibly about the state of Illinois. This is true in the same way that I said Beat The Champ was about wrestling. Some songs reflect heavily on things about the state. John Wayne Gacy Jr. Is a biography of the Illinois born serial killer, They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh! is about the abundance of ghost town in the state. Other songs make reference to the state but are a little more vague. Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!, Casimir Pulaski Day, and The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us! are really just personal stories that Sufjan Stevens has decided to set in Illinois. And the stories vary from very grand high concept things to very intimate and personal. Sometimes so personal that I am dubious of how much he stretches the truth to make these songs. But whether I buy it or not the arrangements are equally grand and intimate so the mood is always well designed.
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Röyksopp - Melody A.M.
Some downtempo music is meant to get you up and dancing, some downtempo is trying to evoke complex feeling in the listener. Melody A.M. is aiming for something in between. It lays down tight grooves with bubbly bass lines and drops a variety of melodic sounds overtop with elements of downtempo, trip-hop, house, disco, and ambient music all present. It hits all the points for being a driving at night all contemplative style album, but it pulls back on the moodyness and leaves you with a gentle friendly sound instead. Lullabye melodies floating over house beats. The result is just an immensely pleasant listen. Melody A.M. is effective because it does more than just play on the current trends from when it was released, it pulls bit of electronic music from decades past from Tangerine Dream to Giorgio Moroder to Vangelis there is a lot of the past buried in this record. And the resulting love of slightly corny music makes the album feel so sincere without having to be deeply intellectual.
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The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas
During the recording of The Coroner's Gambit John Darnielle's trusty Panasonic RX-FT500 boombox shit the bed and he started working with newer technology. All Hail West Texas is the album he recorded after that busted Panasonic miraculously came back to life one day.
To listeners who got into The Mountain Goats through Tallahassee and later the lo fi production might be a little hard to take, but you will learn to love the tape hiss that is a staple of early Mountain Goats recordings. Truly it becomes it's own instrument being the only sound on the album outside of Darnielle's voice and guitar.
But this is Mountain Goats you are here for lyricism. John Darnielle has said that he writes songs of love and redemption for people that would never listen to his music. All Hail West Texas starts right off with one of the best examples of this. The Best Ever Death Metal Band Out Of Denton is so simple and so beautiful, and maybe the most emotionally affecting songs to feature the refrain of "hail Satan!" The album is about outcasts, toxic couples, traumatized kids. According to the cover it is "fourteen songs about seven people, two houses, a motorcycle, and a locked treatment facility for adolescent boys." The cryptic interconnectedness will drive you insane if you try to hard to figure it out so I'm sorry Felix I will not be analyzing the characters and storylines that are supposedly here. That's your job.
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DJ Yoda - How To Cut And Paste Country Western Edition
You press play this album. The first thing you hear is backing beat from Fix Up, Look Sharp and then Thank God I'm A Country Boy by John Denver starts playing and then Dolly Parton's Nine To Five and then it transitions into a country version of Rapper's Delight. You are in the unhinged world of DJ Yoda who is trying to prove a point here. The point is that you can make a DJ mix out of anything if you are creative enough.
DJ Yoda is known for his use of humor and this mix is one of the more obvious instances considering that the whole concept is a bit of a joke. He puts a beat over I'll Fly Away and that is funny. He uses a sample of Johnny Cash on sesame Street. He uses a country cover of Gin And Juice. It's weird, but because Yoda is a master DJ he manages to never lose the flow, often transitioning songs by losing the beat and just playing the country music straight before dropping a beat in. He also frequently transitions between different versions of a song like Johnny Cash's Ring Of Fire seamlessly turning into a reggae cover by This Kid Named Miles.
The beauty of DJ mixes is already the way they can recontextualize songs in a way that is interesting. I think it goes without saying that you will have a lot of songs recontextualized for you if you listen to this mix.
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Mariya Takeuchi - Variety
There was a time when the internet became really obsessed with the song Plastic Love. This was based partially in the fact that the song is a banger but also that people were sharing the picture sleeve for her Sweetest Music single as a lesbian thirst trap. So the Tumblr City Pop era was short lived but I never forgot.
The first thing you might notice about Variety is that it's very retro. The production is a mix of Phil Spector and Motown Styles. And musically it often follows suit. But the old school rock ballad style is also met with bits of 70s adult contemporary and disco. The result is songs that sound like Ronettes tracks with a Donna Summer bass line as the backbone. Songs that sound like James Taylor started using synths. Takeuchi has a voice that perfectly melds these styles into something cohesive so that the dance music style of Plastic Love can flow into the 60s girl group sound of Honki De Only You (Let's Get Married) without missing a beat.
City Pop may have been a niche phase for westerners with an internet addiction but it was one of the most dominant musical styles of the 70s and 80 in Japan. I had strongly considered this album as a 'should have been on the list' pick. If you listen to this album because of my review and like it do seek out more city pop, the genre is a goldmine that the West has barely scraped the surface of. Hell if you like this album DM me and I will rec you more Japanese pop from the 70s and 80s.
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Murder By Death - Who Will Survive, And What Will Be Left Of Them?
With a name like Who Will Survive And What Will Be Left Of Them? by Murder By Death you would probably expect this to be death metal, but nope it's a gothic country rock album. Who Will Survive tells the story of a small Mexican border town that is cursed by the devil. The meat of the album is made up of songs that describe the ways that the townsfolk respond to the curse and their inevitable demise. The theme that runs through the album is mainly how people respond to mortality. Some people try to escape the town like in Pillar Of Salt which tells a sorta Orpheus and Eurydice adjacent tale. Some people think their tough like the narrator of The Desert Is One Fire who scoffs at the people sleeping in the shelters. Others give in to despair like the suicidal narrator of Three Men Hanging.
Along with the individual stories the narrative trickles out details about the nature of the curse. We quickly learn that the dead are rising from their graves as zombies, crops start to fail, the earth becomes unworkable, at least one person either physically or mentally decays as they approach the town border. The horror themed lyricism is backed by country rock music that creates the ominous atmosphere needed with the help of an ever present cello that takes a lot of melodic duty. It's a solidly spooky album that demands multiple listens just to parse out more of the story.
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Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome
Danger Mouse is an interesting figure. Producer and musician interchangeably he can be found both as a featured performer, solo artist or as a producer credit nearly anywhere you look and he runs the gamut from extremely mainstream projects to the highly personal and artsy. Rome is most certainly the latter. On it Danger Mouse works with Italian composer Daniele Luppi to create a pop album inspired by the soundtracks to spaghetti westerns. In addition to Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi additional vocals and songwriting are added by Jack White and Norah Jones. White and Jones are natural fits for the slightly polished slightly lo fi sound of the album which is accomplished by recording on vintage equipment and working with musicians who had actually recorded on spaghetti westerns, notably The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.
While it has a lot of musicians and equipment used to record these classic soundtrack the music itself is a little more in the vein of traditional pop veering in the direction of spaghetti western on the instrumental tracks. This keeps the album from feeling strictly like an imitation and let's it be it's own thing.
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Friday, 28 April 2023
Liam's still spending time in a studio in Los Angelas with some producers like Dan Bryer and Jamie Scott, as well as with Conor and Riley McDonough. The latter posts about it on his Instagram Stories
Connor McDonough also post about their time together in the studio, which gets reposted by Jamie Scott
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Dan Bryer is an English songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist, wil has written and produced songs for One Direction (Home and What a Feeling), Niall Horan (This Time) Westlife, Alan Walker and Rag'n'Bone Man
Riley McDonough is an American singer/songwriter and musician, who's the lead vocalist and bass guitarist of the pop rock band Before You Exit
Connor McDonough, the older brother of Riley, is an American songwriter and producer, wil already worked with Jason Derulo, Khalid, Jonas Brothers and Ava Max
Jamie Scott is an English singer/songwriter and producer. He was one of the primary songriters of One Direction (Best Song Ever, You & I, No Control, and many more).
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dreamboat4000 · 11 months
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went to the jai + fabi show at the beginning of this month and boy oh boy how proud i am to call fabi one of my mentors. I will never ever forget when I first saw Laura and fabi play live at the paul institute residency while I was recording hurricane belle and I remember feeling for the first time this is the standard I'm trying to ascend to as a singer/songriter/musician level. I often feel quite lonely in the quest that I am on but grateful that I have these powerful women to look to when I feel lost or strange.
Fabiana was as graceful as she was sturdy in her delivery and gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous !
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residentraccoon · 1 year
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Back in July last year I did some blind predictions of this year's eurovision so I'll just list all of them here lmao, enjoy
• Host city will be Glasgow or Manchester.
• Albania: Ethno ballad a la Theje (FiK 2022)
It was Liverpool lawl
It was indeed an ethnic ballad, but it wasn't exactly like Theje. Just typical Albanian in Eurovision song
• Armenia: A pop song with a bit of ethnic influences, probably won't qualify.
Sike, Brunette qualified, and the song does have a bit of ethnic elements in it. Pretty spot on.
• Australia: Something pop like We got love.
Nah, electro rock instead.
• Austria: Tired of NQ-ing so they send a great ballad with power vocals trying to imitate rise like a phoneix but in the end they qualify and score on the right half of the scoreboard.
They qualified, and they did have a right-scoreboard result. Another good prediction.
• Azerbaijan: Sends a girl with a weak pop song (a la Falling Stars, Moldova 2016) with half-swedish half-azerbaijani songriting that either borderline qualifies or nq's for the first time since 2019.
It did NQ, but it wasn't a girlie pop by swedes, this time it was completely made by the artists themselves.
• Belgium: Will probably send a dark ballad that changes tempo at the bridge. Really no idea for them.
Nope, no dark ballad this time, but a funky disco gay anthem lmao.
• Bulgaria: After years of doing so well BG will probably get their downfall. Will probably send a balkan ballad in english that won't qualify
Bulgaria withdrew.
• Croatia: Steps up their game and chooses Mia Negovetic (internally or wins the nf with changes rules and revamped) and scores in the top 15. Not sure on the genre, probably will be similar to her 2020 entry.
Croatia this year was extremely different 💀 but they indeed got top 15 in the end.
• Cyprus: sends a hot guy with an uptempo song written by one or two swedes trying to imitate Sweden's success. Doesn't qualify.
Partly true, it did qualify.
• Czech Republic: Will originally state they won't participate in esc 2023 but their decision will be changed in the last minute and will compete. They'll go with an uptempo song again and most likely place top 15. Before the contest the odds will say they won't q but will be a surprise Q.
It's pretty uptempo, placed top 10 even but the whole time the odds said they're a definite Q sooo this was again pretty spot on.
• Denmark: NF will remain the same, nothing will change despite the weak recent results. Their song will be fully in english and it will be a mid tempo song. They'll place around 20th.
Breaking my heart was pretty uptempo actually, and no, they didn't qualify.
• Estonia: They will send a female singer with a calming slow song, in the style of Med haekanddi sol or Calm after the storm.
It's a slow song sung by a girl, but it wasn't the same genre as the 2 stated above, just a power ballad.
• Finland: Gets again a top 10 result with a rock, meme-y song.
UMMM this one is VERY close. It was a metal meme-y song that got in the top 3. I was close with this one.
• France: Selects Pauline Chagne or LMK internally, or another female singer. Will place in the top 15.
Female singer, yes. But it was just outside of the top 15.
• Georgia: Will have a pop feel good song with a few georgian lines. Will qualify
Nope, not at all oof
• Germany: Sends a pop rock song and will place around 16ish.
They got last again 💀 but yeah, pretty close with the genre
• Greece: Sends a girl for the 7th time in a row and doesn't qualify. Song will be in english.
Song was in english but was sung by a boy. And it didn't qualify.
• Iceland: Remains strong, sends something in the style of Turn this around and places Top 5.
Iceland NQ'ed.
• Ireland: Sends something strong and emotional, with empowering lyrics. Will qualify.
Empowering lyrics yes, but it didn't qualify lol.
• Israel: Fuego style song lol. Top 15.
WOAH VERY CLOSE. It was similar to Fuego with it being a girl bop with lots of choreography, and got a top 3 result.
• Italy: Sends a weak entry but won't be in bottom 5. Will place 18ish.
Sike again, Top 5 with a ballad.
• Latvia: Either sends Justs or someone with an indie pop. Qualifies.
OMGGG another close one!! Justs was in the national final, and Sudden lights were an indie (rock) pop band. And they were pretty close to qualify but in the end...yeah.
• Lithuania: No idea for them. But I see them qualifying.
Yup, they were in.
• Malta: Continues the streak of cheap pop songs. NQs.
It was a pop song (not cheap though) that didn't qualify.
• Moldova: Same as Malta, will choose something extremely basic (such as Stay, Moldova 2019) and NQs.
Completely different lol. But I did guess the title of the Lithuanian entry so yay!
• Montenegro: Borderline Qs with an ethno bop.
Montenegro withdrew.
• Netherlands: First NQ since 2015. Will send something in the style of Montenegro 2016.
I guessed the NQ, but not the genre, it was a polar opposite one (aka ballad)
• North Macedonia: Qualifies and gets top 10. No idea for the song but will probably be something opera pop or just simply opera.
North Macedonia withdrew.
• Norway: Sends a girl with an emotional ballad sung in cursive. Qualifies.
It was a girl, and she qualified but no cursive sung ballad. They had one in the national final though (Elsie Bay with Love you in a dream)
• Poland: Sends something in the style of Paranoia from their NF.
Nope, they are both pop but come on, Paranoia is light years ahead of Solo 💀
• Portugal: Sends fado but people won't like it and will place bottom 5 in the odds. At the actual contest it either does very well or doesn't qualify.
They did send something ethnic Portuguese a bit, and it got bottom 5 in the final.
• Romania: Will choose Olivia Addams via internal selection with a song in the style of Sugar by Natalia Gordienko.
Nah, not even close.
• San Marino: No idea. They're so unpredictable.
I laughed 😂😂 they got a dated dad rock with cheesy lyrics in a broken english.
• Serbia: Balkan ballad probably.
We got epic boss battle with an electro beat instead lmfao
• Slovenia: Sends something with a lgbtq message since they just legalised this year the same sex marriages.
WELL- the music video had included a bit of that and it does have a bit of vibes, this was eerily close lol??
• Spain: Contines Benidorm Fest and gets another good result. Will send something catchy like Rayden
17th is more of a decent result but no Rayden style song.
• Sweden: Goes back to basic hot guy pop song. Top 10
Nope, we got Loreen lol
• Switzerland: Sends something very memey with yodelling and people will compare it to Yodel It. NQ
Completely different entry, emotional ballad about war
• Ukraine: Either places bottom 5 aka "host country" curse or wins the 2nd year in a row. Might be wrong and biased af but I can see them having a win streak like Ireland had in the 90s
Yeah, not the case. They did beat the host country curse.
• UK: Places high once again thanks to TaP music. Or at least I hope so.
Bottom 5 💀
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umeinthemindpalace · 1 year
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10/04/2023 n.3
again, at this unholy hour, I'm writing down my day
today was fun but still a bit underwhelming. I woke up late and did nothing for a few hours, then I went to a friend's place (let's call her Lara).
Lara and I delighted ourselves with god awful renditions of some 80s classics and some pretty amazing Black Veil Brides songs, I stayed there until 10-ish and we talked shit for a looooooooooooooooooong while. I love her, she's one of my closest friends and probably the only one who truly understands me, but sometimes I feel like I have so much fun with her that I'm sort of looking at the things I want without being able to touch them. I want to be a singer-songwriter but I can't sing or play an instrument and I have so much fun singing just anything I can learn that just anything can make me jealous on the matter.
I'm not a very optimistic person but sometimes I just allow myself to dream, you know? I just wish I had what it takes to be who I want to be.
About the singer-songwriter thing, I've written about 70 songs in the past 7 months and one of those has an arrangement (made by Mark, the one mentioned in yesterday's entry). I love writing even though lately it's been hard, I write about heartbreak and things I haven't felt yet but there's always a piece of me in it and I find that beautiful, sometimes I'm idk just walking or showering or talking or texting and I'll get a potential lyric in my head and I have to write it down, it's a lovely feeling and that's the whole problem. I have no idea if what I write is any good and if it is, why can't it be heard?
One person who doesn't get me is my own mother, she doesn't like the songriting thing: she doesn't understand that it's not like math, I can't just solve it and do something else, it needs time and I like giving its time. My mother thinks I'm happy about the song I co-wrote with Mark because I like him (a lot) and not because it's mine (ours), I mean, I WROTE THE LYRICS TO A SONG THAT NOW HAS AN ARRANGEMENT, THAT'S MY MOTHERFUCKING DREAM, but the most relevant part is that he's involved, yeah.
I was willing to survive the summer with just a fan in the house so I could get a guitar for my birthday but now I have to wait until, like, september, and I wanted to start playing asap. I know I'm not the only one living in this house but I wish I could do what I dream of doing without all these obstacles.
Bye for now :)
ps. I love Fleetwood Mac
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cissypc · 2 years
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The master of life has been good to me. He has given me strength to survive diseases and he has given me victory in the face of defeats. He has given me a new meaning to live for, to serve and to heal old wounds.
Johnny Cash (1932-2003, american singer-songriter)
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Kim Jaejoong
“owns Cafe J-Holic, Coffee Cojjee (Samsung-dong), Japanese restaurant chain Bum’s Story owned together with Park Yoochun, Holic-J Bar (Gangnam), he’s the CEO and designer of the luxury clothing shop MOLDIR (Cheongdam-dong), he’s the Ceo of KAVE mall (Shibuya)”  (credit to Kprofiles)
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songritart · 3 years
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Thank you very much teacher for taking me to see the Art Collector's House. #songriter Q USA 2014🇺🇸 #art #artist #artistsoninstagram #artoftheday #artcurator #songritart #followforfollow #followforfollowback #follow #likeforlikes #like4likes #likes #likeforfollow #photography #photo #photooftheday #photoshoot #photographer #photoart #travel #traveltheworld #travelling #losangeles #california #america #usa #painting #sculpture #paint (ที่ Los angeles California USA.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMpNYSSDbzM/?igshid=19ijvqf2cy7sa
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daspibeats-blog · 5 years
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ZULU BOY 2.0 🦅 #daspionthebeat #daspiofficiel #daspibeats #zuluattitude #eaglent #songriter #rappeurfrancais (à Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0t27OFI8V_/?igshid=1078lbtbsuni8
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officialfender · 7 years
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Best song to play on a 12-string? #FenderClassicDesign 
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theprologues · 3 years
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Homeboy doesn't even have a public Spotify playlist---but he's a supposedly has galaxy brain when it comes to music and genres-- the next up and coming singer-songriter of 2021 working to snag his first Grammy with the A++superstar girlfriend.
Wow.
It's so easy for white men to do the bare minimum and is put on the highest pedestal.
Feminism? Where is she Taylor? Who are you?
😏
She broke you this bad. I'm so sorry.
Who broke this bad? Kaylor didn’t break me and doesn’t. It’s other stuff going on outside of all this and then adding onto this.
Can I just say how sick it makes me trying to break into the entertainment industry and some people just breeze on through? It’s infuriating whatever I know life isn’t fair blah blah. Toe sympathizers I can’t-
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x-exo · 4 years
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How do you know the titles of the songs? Also when are they coming out?? Aaahhh I'm só excited!
we don't know when they're being released BUT a songwriter/producer named Kole posted this on his ig stories:
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this is apparently from a "writing camp" at SM and some other songriters and producers have been writing for various SM artists and amongst them there are songs for apparently 🅱️olo 2.0 and Kolo 1.0 and the titles of the songs are...yeah s*xy (but they'll probably change fkdkfksk)
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cemrelovestaylor · 5 years
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taylor can we do a songriters discussion session please
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bhartdelasilva · 5 years
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AGNEZ MO - LONG AS I GET PAID MALAM PUNCAK HUT SCTV /FILIPINO REACTION ...
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kubbzmuzik · 6 years
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⚡Making Beat Everyday ! . #kubbzmuzik #theteamproducer #makingbeat #beat #beatoftheday #singer #songriter #chanteur #mc #rappeur #rapper #hardbeat #dopebeat (à Bordeaux, France)
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