#source: nme

[tayfabe75]

"I was talking to Paul Buchanan, about this right, the guy from The Blue Nile, because I'm obsessed with him and then he heard that we were obsessed and we met up and we spoke about music, he's a fucking legend. Erm, people just assume that every single line is a… is a deeply perfect… A lot of it is… a lot of those things are just ideas. Like Change of Heart for example, I got a phone call off my ex-girlfriend just going fucking nuts saying like, 'How dare you say those kind of things,' and she just basically joined the dots - she'd just taken that and thought, 'well that means that and that means that,' if you've got loads of subtext of like, a relationship you're going to do that, and I kind of had to be a bit like, 'It's not even really about you, sorry. Sorry! And it wasn't cheating but we haven't been together for you and really about someone else, sorry…'"

December 2, 2016: When asked which song got him into the most trouble, Matty describes an angry phone he received from an ex. (source)

#year: 2016 #december 2016 #quote: matty healy #song: a change of heart #overlap: the blue nile #connection: guilty as sin #source: nme

[chonnysinferno]

me when i follow someone / talk to someone and yhen find out they're a cj shipper :-(

#i wont wttack ppl for being cj shippers! i just fucking hate findinf out that. you knie #its more like. how do i explain thus #it makes nme so sicj to my stomach #and also i am a heart introjevt. somewhat #:-C #its my fault for not looking into their acc more but it sickens me so much #its a personal problem honestly and i wont bother anyone for being one ill just block em #i see them and remember source memories and i m rmemeber them as siblings! and not just people #</3 #rant over sorry #— 🌗

[dinonetwork]

221205 - TWITTER

Be The Sun Japan

#seventeen #svt #era: dream #media: photo #p: press #source: twitter #official #nme #w: svt #ev: be the sun #221205 #2022

[black-is-no-colour]

The Cure, 1984, Covent Garden. (Source: NME)

#The Cure #Robert Smith #music #musicians #band #wave #gothic #1980s #1980s music

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #773

Miss Piggy once agreed to go on a date with Nic Cage as long as he gave her his Oscar.

Source:

"Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog on Stormzy, dating Nicolas Cage and their new London live shows." NME. YouTube. February 23, 2018.

#muppet facts oc #jim henson #the muppets #muppets #muppet facts #fun facts #miss piggy lee #miss piggy #nic cage #nicolas cage

[lonely-soul-02]

Liam Gallagher interview NME August 22nd 2009 - extracts

One of the last interviews Liam gave before Oasis split. Not an easy read.

Thanks to original source provider:

https://x.com/noelasis3/status/1757704360358727911?s=20

I had this issue of NME. Reading the article again for the first time since that year stirred unexpectedly vivid emotions. I recall a sad, almost lonesome feeling that I didn't quite understand at the time. I didn't want Noel to go solo, but I also didn't want him staying where he was so obviously unhappy. Many fans felt the same way. We sensed the end was in sight, but we couldn't have guessed quite how soon. Weeks after this interview, they split.

Today, I can see the bravado Liam was using to mask the pain, but I couldn’t then. Not many could, as we now know. His volatile attitude towards Noel here is representative of how he came across that year, especially on stage, and also explains the growing sympathy for Noel at the time. The way Noel left the band was not ok and I still remember the bewilderment. But why that way? What happened? Fifteen years later, we still don't know the full truth of what happened that night. We probably never will.

Mostly, I’m struck by how plainly in the final paragraphs I can see Liam agonising over the idea of letting Noel go. But I couldn’t see it then. Now I can empathise. Looking back, I can see that as a fan I was subconsciously struggling with the idea of letting Oasis go. You felt the end coming but you didn't want to face it.

For new fans and followers who don't know about Noel's tour diary and the 'man period' comment, some context:

#oasis split #Liam gallagher interview #gallagher relationship #noel gallagher #oasis

[nso-csi]

231103 NME interview

Taemin on ‘Guilty’: “I think it’s more attractive to make the negative look beautiful”

“I like to separate the personas. It’s like actors, who separate the person and the character”

“On that vague border between good and bad / You played the fool for me,” Taemin whispers on his newest single, ‘Guilty’. In the music video, faceless hands grab his neck, rearrange his body, control him in a suffocating atmosphere. But don’t be mistaken – he’s the one playing here. It’s his own hand who snakes underneath his shirt, shutting him up as he proclaims, “You got me G-U-I-L-T-Y.”

Which brings us to Taemin’s definition of love: “There’s different forms. There is love that you receive from your parents, the love from your girlfriend or boyfriend, and the love from fans. But there’s always a sacrifice, and pushing someone to sacrifice is also love.” Admitting to the shadow side of love, the side that no one wants or expects, is a wisdom that he acquired with time. “There are a lot of things I gain from being a singer but, at the same time, there are lots of things I have to give up, and these are the ones I emphasised in this single.”

 “I learned to be careful to trust someone, because it really hurts when someone suddenly disappoints you,” he says. “It’s very important in relationships to be careful about what you talk and what you do.”

“I like to separate the personas. It’s like actors, who separate the person and the character,” he explains. “Off stage, I think I’m more playful and simpler, like a little kid.”

While reminiscing about this dichotomy, he goes as far as to compare his life to the 1998 satirical drama The Truman Show. “In the movie, Jim Carey realises that everyone has been watching him at the end. I came to SM [Entertainment] when I was 12 years old, and the period of time when I was training, my debut, all the moments where I was growing up were shared and seen by a lot of people, so I relate to that,” he explains.

“Like when you’re writing a journal, I find that I’m able to organise what I learned and what I think through the albums that I release”

“It covers a lot of topics about breaking taboos, and I thought about how this can reflect on my music and the perspective I put into it. For example, showing skin is still a taboo, so when a male performer rips their shirt and the crowd goes wild, I wanted to understand and incorporate the concept of breaking that taboo.”

“I have a very different lifestyle than most people, and I realised that, because of my career, I receive a lot of love and support. I knew it in my head, but now I feel it in my skin. Many people my age are still finding their way, so I feel very fortunate to have found out what I love to do,” he adds.

source

#taemin

[angstics]

someone recently (january 7th) changed the mcr wikipedia english main image to a more recent photo (the previous one featured pedicone -- it was that old lmao). i cant believe it hasnt been done yet so good on wikipedia user Miklogfeather. however there are a couple problems with this particular photo: 1. it's centered on gerard, and 2. it's a copyrighted NME photo (source, which goes against wikipedia policy).

there are a BUNCH of skilled photographers on here who got to photograph the band, both as press and audience. you hold the copyright to your own photography. so YOU get to have your photo represent my chemical romance on wikipedia! anyone who 1. has had a wikipedia account for 4+ days and 2. has made 10+ edits can add their photo. i have that capability so i can lend a hand if need be.

#mcr

[spilladabalia]

Sleaford Mods - Big Pharma

Edit Post, 6/10/2023

Orig post had the lyrics copied & pasted but they rubbed someone the wrong way who then rubbed me the wrong way and now I've got a rash. Since the main issue was the song's lyrics meaning, here's what Jason Williamson himself has to say about them:

"Big Pharma was written in the opening chapters of autumn 2022 when Covid kicked in again. It carries a lot of the normal Sleaford Mods absurdism but also looks at the ongoing fascination with trying to find truths in information wholly pushed by very questionable people,” Jason Williamson said. "Now, Big Pharma is more familiar as a term used by right wing and industrial groups trying to mask the financial aims of their arguments with some kind of critical thinking panache-type legitimacy. It just feels wrong. It feeds on hopelessness, widespread fear and generations of unfettered misinformation linked to the limited critical perception we as the masses are burdened with.”

Source the nme online.

#sleaford mods #big pharma #jason williamson #andrew fearn #punk #uk grim #2023 #Youtube

[th3-0bjectivist]

Dear listener, three months ago I began posting music by recently deceased artists and long-dead bands that were, all of them, exceptional in some way. I haven’t stopped since, and with this post I hereby pronounce my quarter-year long rediscovery of dead bands to be officially complete… and lucky you, I’ve got a plump Maraschino cherry to place on top of this layered ice cream cake. Folks, crank the volume, smash play, and be placed in salivating awe at one of the most influential dead bands of all-time. Imagine a musical act that is completely mediocre in every way; just some shitty, generic modern band the likes of which you hear ad infinitum on Top-40’s radio. Now, add to that same non-specific act a lead lady vocalist that has a voice on par with Billie Holiday. Back that superb voice up with instrumentalists hungry to deliver something that sounds new and exciting to the world, subtract the pretentiousness and insincerity of modern music, and cube the equation with infinite collective creativity and genuine inspiration. What you are left with is the almighty and immortal Portishead. As English as roast beef and hailing from Bristol, this group hasn’t made an album in about fifteen years and only technically lives on through ultra-rare live performances. In just under two decades from the mid-90’s to 2008, this group managed to produce not mere music, but genuine lightning-in-a-bottle magic. The members were all very motivated by old timey film soundtrack LP’s, leaving a lot of their tracks sounding like a tune from a film noire. Whether they liked it or not, they had a major hand in popularizing trip-hop, a highly experimental genre (in the 90’s anyway) which relies heavily on hip hop tempos mixed with soul, jazz, funk, or whatever form of electronic music you want to throw into the fusion. This was also a band that just kind of burned out; despite their notoriety and mega-successful presence in the industry, the members of this collective were just fallible people at the end of the day, and apparently suffered from extreme exhaustion by way of constantly recording and touring. If you spent your time in studios cranking out some of the highest quality music available at the time, you’d be exhausted too. This is Biscuit from 1994’s Dummy, and it is merely one of many, many outstanding works from their contemplative, well-executed and downright industry-changing catalog. Truly quality music (just like any quality entertainment; movies, television, art, etc.) should reveal something true and perhaps tragic about the human condition. Portishead excelled in this area. It doesn’t matter if they were only around for a moment in time. Their music is TIMELESS.

I don’t generally post many ultra-famous acts on this page unless given a motivation. Here’s my motivation; Portishead changed music on the planet Earth forever. They’re more goth than the whole of modern goth music. They’re trippy-er than the entirety of trip-hop. And, if anything you do in your life has 1/10th the positive impact on the globe as this here musical act, you, my friend, have earned my respect for merely existing. Image source: https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/the-roots-of-portishead-767977

#portishead #biscuit #dummy #trip hop #music #music on tumblr #audio video #electronica #downtempo #experimental music #experimental rock #beth gibbons #audio #english band

[tayfabe75]

"'She Lays Down' is about my mum. It doesn't get much more personal than that. I'm sure my mum won't mind me saying this, but she told me a story when I was about 17, she was so gripped by post-natal depression that she was coming into my room when I was a couple of months old, lying on the floor and actively trying to love me. How fucking brutal is that? That is brutal – especially considering how close me and my mum are. We are like, insanely close. That resonated with me so much, I think that writing music for me is such a catharsis, and such a personal thing, I think that had to come out."

December 4, 2016: Matty says the song that means the most to him on his album 'I Like It When You Sleep…' (NME's Album of the Year) is the song 'She Lays Down'. (source)

#year: 2016 #december 2016 #quote: matty healy #matty's character #matty's values #denise welch #song: she lays down #topic: family #get to know them #source: nme

[felassan]

So it seems like the "SA" (Systems Alliance?) have intercepted some strange footage, via one of their monitoring stations, which is in known space. This particular monitoring station is operated by a company called Green Dagger Ltd. Text refers to "Property of Deepspace Dhow SAV" and a Ship Captain, one Soa'Rhal Zhillian-Jones, who holds the rank of Sub-Navarch and whose name appears to reflect the influence of humanity (Jones) and at least one other species. The footage is a construction record, specifically of the construction of a Mass Relay, in this case Mass Relay 7 (if "MR7" is anything to go by). It looks different to normal Mass Relays as it isn't built by the Reapers, it's built by people - I also wonder if it could possibly connect the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, given dev tease tweets like these and the NME teaser trailer showing 2 galaxies. "314" brings to mind the Relay 314 Incident, and 11_07_90 appears to be a date (November 7th '90 - 2190? 2290?). There's also a reference to the Satherium System, which until now was not a named system either in the ME lore or irl.

Satherium is the Latin name of an extinct genus of otters that lived in North America during the Pliocene and Pleistocene

A dhow is a type of traditional sailing vessel

Green dagger is a military exercise held annually in the Mojave Desert

The word navarch is an Anglicisation of a Greek word meaning "leader of the ships", which in some states became the title of an office equivalent to that of a modern admiral. In Ancient Sparta, the navarch was the magistrate who commanded the fleet

There's also the filename, "F:\MASS_EFFECT\BOWIE\MARKETING", which implies the rockstar codename at BioWare for the next Mass Effect is after David Bowie (see: Joplin, Morrison, Dylan etc), and this, where someone appears to have decoded the audio in the vid. Liara can be heard speaking, possibly to a Geth:

"Exactly, the Council will be furious. Although, they should know by now not to underestimate [...] how did we miss this [...] Exactly, the Council will be furious. Although, they should know by now not to underestimate human defiance [...] how did we miss this [...]" [original source]

I'm reminded of the background audio from the next Mass Effect teaser trailer.

So we now apparently have the tech to build Mass Relays ourselves, and it sounds like it was being kept secret from the Council or something, as they're big mad about something Liara is involved in.

#bioware #mass effect #next mass effect #video games #mass effect: andromeda #mj meta

[what-is-love-babey-dont-hurt-me]

if you don't mind me asking, what did you mean when you said "star warriors have a supernatural influence hinted"? i've watched the show twice (granted, i skipped a few eps both times) and i've never quite caught anything like that. maybe i'm misunderstanding, but the other stuff you mentioned is (much to my pleasure!) very popular theory/fanon and it really piqued my interest when you mentioned something i didn't quite recognize.

okay so I took so long to answer this because i really didnt feel like rewatching any of the anime. So the compromise is just me going over a few episodes of note, rather than combing through the whole anime. There is a few things that i definitely have not talked about in this post.

And for reference, I'm mainly using the new Operation HNK sub, not the old sub, nor the dub version, as my main point of reference--bar one notable exception!

So! Star Warriors are strongly hinted to be something with supernatural influence rather than warriors with a simple title.

What exactly do I mean by "something with supernatural influence"? There aren't any better words to really describe it with, as the anime itself is incredibly vague. The general idea is that Star Warrior is something inherent to a person, and that there are some things in the anime about them that can't exactly be explained without calling them "supernatural" to an extent.

The explanation that I see for what exactly a Star Warrior is outside of it being a supernatural thing, is that it is some sort of military rank (usually for the GSA) that is earned. With the possibility of Star Warrior being a earned rank in mind, I will occasionally compare some things against it.

I'm beginning with Ep. 1, with a simple observation.

There are several things that cement the fact that Kirby is a star warrior well before his time reaching Popstar. So, it was not Meta Knight who have him the title.

By a glance, both Meta Knight and the NME Salesman were able to recognize that Kirby was a "genuine star warrior", although Kirby has no symbolism or memorabilia with him that would suggest an affiliation with the army.

Additionally, this is just personal, but I genuinely find it difficult to believe that Kirby would have been granted some sort of military rank. If Star Warrior IS a rank, then it would be a high one because NME is so interested in targeting them specifically (to be covered). ESPECIALLY because he wasn't even supposed to be awake for another 200 years, Kirby can barely speak or focus yet, and because he knew no sword technique until Meta Knight taught him in Ep. 3.

Kabu also refers to Kirby as a warrior that exceeds spacetime, though that could possibly be chalked up to the stasis he was in.

Additionally, On two separate occasions when Meta Knight is looking at Kirby (once in the first ep and another in the 3rd) there seems to be some weird… Connection? Sense? Out of body experience? I'm hesitant to call this any definite proof however because the scene is vague and this has literally ZERO explanation. It could be a supernatural connection between star warriors, or simply Meta Knight Being Weird And Explaining Nothing.

In the racing episodes, there are two notable things

Again, this is no definite proof, but it is INTERESTING with the implications. If Star Warrior's have their own cradles, this heavily suggests that being a Star Warrior is something a person is born with, rather than something that happens later in life. And again, i find it genuinely hard to believe that the GSA would rank infants with that high of a title.

ALSO there is one episode where Meta Knight says that he has been waiting for a "new generation of Star Warriors" or something like that but i do NOT want to find that so. source: trust me bro.

In the second half of this special, there is a scene where Meta Knight has Kirby's brakes cut, Kirby's ship is out of control, and he sleeps. His ship is crashing and he is ASLEEP. However. Before he crashes, he wakes up and uh. Just knows how to pilot his spaceship. Literally, just knows how to do it like an instinct.

Kirby seems just as confused as Tokori about how he got the skip to fly, although Meta Knight seems like he knew this would happen. This is a Star Warrior thing, according to him.

And this isn't any copy ability, either. He just woke up knowing how to fly his spaceship. Furthermore, it seems like Star Warriors mastering control of spaceships is something notable enough that 1. NME is not surprised it happened, like it just happens every Tuesday and 2.Important enough for the Salesman to report to Nightmare.

Also, there is the matter of Kabu. Kabu is a multi-planetary being who is undeniably supernatural, being omnipresent to some degree and being able to fix Warp Stars and give people visions, etc... And Kabu is allied with Star Warrior's specifically, and acts like a hospital to them, as well as a protector, but for nobody else.

Do you get what I mean when I say it is heavily implied now?

And uh. there was one thing that I purposefully left out until now.

In the new version of the sub, Kabu says that there were multiple demon beasts who rebelled against Nightmare, and it is assumed that these rebels are Star Warriors.

I am hesitant to use this as the gatcha card, so I checked out the old sub AND the dub to see what is changed in this scene.

DUB: Said only one creation rebelled and it may or may not be Kirby, though kinda dodgy.

OLD SUB: Said only one creation rebelled and its strongly implied to be Meta Knight rather than Kirby

I have a transcript for all three versions of this specific scene, so you can read and decide for yourself.

THE IDEA OF ALL THE STAR WARRIORS BEING MONSTERS IS SO FUN BUT IT IS INCONSISTENT SO DO WITH IT WHAT YOU WILL. There is one thing I want to bring up though in relation to this.

Dakonyo talks like there are demon beasts who looked like Kirby specifically. And there is at least five other orbs in the anime who COULD have once been demon beasts. So. do with this what you will.

Overall, there's just too many instances for me to brush off and i think everything kinda adds up to make the explanation of "star warrior is a ranked title" seem unplausible.

TLDR: HEAVILY IMPLIED Star Warriors are kinda supernatural.

Also fun fact that I found out while searching for screenshots! Garlude (at least in the new sub) is never referred to as a Star Warrior, but rather a Galaxy Soldier!

#sent to snappy #kirby #hoshi no kirby #kirby right back at ya #star warriors #meta knight #NEVER HAVE ME WRITE A POST ABOUT THIS EVER AGAIN THIS TURNED OUT WAY TOO LONF #AND THAT WAS ONLY LIKE SIX OF THE EPISODES #but yeah. its vague but thats why i say heavily implied lmao

[black-is-no-colour]

Robert Smith of The Cure, 1987. (Source: NME)

#The Cure #Robert Smith #music #musician #singer #vocalist #guitarist #band #goth #gothic #1980s #1980s music #1980s style #dark wave

[dreamings-free]

"The irony of making ill-judged, unnecessary and misleading comments...on the day that the launch of their new arena has unfortunately fallen into such difficulties is not lost on anyone in the music industry"

23rd April 2024 | By Max Pilley

The Music Venue Trust has told NME that comments made by Manchester’s Co-Op Live Arena about grassroots venues are “disrespectful and disingenuous”.

Earlier this week, the executive director of the major new 23,500 capacity venue said that some smaller venues in the UK are “poorly run” and dismissed calls for a £1 ticket levy on all gigs arena-sized and above.

please read the full article here at nme.com and support good, well-written and well-sourced music journalism! ✌️

(I'll update this post with the full text at some point)

#another great piece from nme #mvt calling out co op live's b.s. #co op live #music venue trust #uk live music #nme #23.04.24 #music business #article #m

[shineemoon]

230306 ONEW’s Interview (hours prior “Circle” release)

While discussing his latest title track, Onew revealed that he had actually heard the song over a year ago, prior to the release of his last solo mini-album. “This is a song that I’ve already heard before [‘Dice’] came out. I felt that the image of the song was too strong to be released [at the time]. After some discussion, I decided that I would definitely attempt it next time.”

“After 15 years [in the music industry], it’s my first full-length album. Being able to work on it, gathering so many people and their hearts, that was very meaningful in itself. I don’t think there was a single part of the entire process that I didn’t touch.”

Onew ended off by sharing that his approach to the new album had been focused on creating music he personally enjoyed, rather pursuing a sound that he was already confident in. “[My listeners] may feel differently once you hear the music. The idea that we are all on a path to happiness and hope, is one that I hope you will keep in mind.” (Source: NME)

#SHINee #onew #lee jinki #circle #interview #I'm so proud ♥