The third album โthe final chapter in her beauty trilogy seriesโ is heroic and gruff, versatile and accomplished. The mysterious Brooklyn rapper tools are sub-basses, pulsing beats, humor, sharp lyrics and R&B glows, all those elements keep her stunning sound crisp and current.
Let The Story Begin โข World Of Hurt โข Follow The Light โข Last Jungle โข Deep Space โข Rock It โข Move Higher โข Vapourise โข Splash โข Could This Be Real โข Triple X โข Timewarp โข Coming Closer
So was no one going to tell me that Bailey not only has a YouTube channel but documented, from both before and after itโs public release, behind the scenes of IWTV? I just had to find that out via YouTube recommendations like a normal person???
ok im on my skins shit again surprise HOWEVER i think, as someone who watched the series when it was coming out as a teen, and who saw the glorification of Effy Stonem in all itโs heyday, and then the whiplash of everyone hating the character later on, i rly think that like, sheโs a great character but everyone glorified her for the wrong reasons.
effectively, the character of Effy Stonem is a thesis on failure, as I understand her to be. she has this huge legacy to live up to, the callous, cruel, popular, beautiful, manipulative Tony Stonem, the only person in her life who she saw as having total control. And I fully believe that she intended to continue that archetype, that was her goal, not to be Tony, but to be as in control thoroughly as he was; to play all the mind games, to have all the equations, to be pulling so many strings at so many times people were only tangentally aware there was a puppet show going on at best.
and sheโs fucking bad at it. where Tony didnโt really care for people beyond their use to/extension of him (which isnt to say he cared not at all, but thatโs a whole other post), Effy cares in a far more reactive way. she wants to control everyone because sheโs inherently out of control. she tries so hard to act like she doesnt care but her reactivity betrays her.ย
this doesnโt make Effy a good person, or even a redeemable character, thatโs not what Iโm arguing. she manages to do just as much damage as Tony in her own right. both of their approaches to this are inherently selfish and fuck over the people they claim to love, whether intentionally or unintentionally; sometimes both. itโs very...trauma teen behaviour, I know i did both and so did many of my friends growing up. we screwed each other over for some tangential tease at controlling the uncontrollable in our life, which at that age with that trauma, is pretty much everything.
Effy, like all of the characters in the first 2 gens (never watched gen 3), isnโt a good person. sheโs not a bad person either, inherently. theyโre fucked up kids who do fucked up things sometimes to survive and sometimes because they want to. I think looking back as a 27 year old who watched the show when I was like 14/15/16/17, thatโs what I liked about it, and where i found the most genuineness in the story.
Instructions are to shuffle your playlist and then list the next ten songs that come up:
Sleep is for the Weak, The Dreadnoughts
Ten Feet Tall, The Devil Makes Three
Glitter and Gold, Barns Courtney
Blood of Angels, Brown Bird
Death Don't Have No Mercy, Delany Davidson & Marlon Williams
Hallowed Be Thy Name, Edmund Welles
Right Where It Belongs, NIN
Lose Your Soul, Dead Man's Bones
Heat Waves, Glass Animals
Imposter, SharaX
Uhhh, I'll tag @another-corpo-rat, @civilization-illstayrighthere (i've seen some of your song title references, I need to know more :3), and @fly-amanitaa
Torus โข Safe In Sound โข Endorphins โข Out The Blue โข Twilight โข Close โข Turn It Around โข Out Of Reach โข Falling Down โข Turn Back Time โข You Make It Better โข Tidal Wave โข Until The End
Honestly sucks that I went a good while with my social skills unimpacted by my agoraphobia but its genuinely hitting me NOW. Like it sucks having been someone who, despite preferring my own company most of the time, still found a lot of enjoyment in getting to talk to people every now and then with ease and comfort and this skill acknowledged as a nice part of my personality. Now I'm like genuinely stressed by the idea of anyone talking to me outside my house, talking to strangers on the rare occasion I do leave my house now feels like pulling teeth. Like if you'd told me 5 years back that I'd be here now, terrified of even going to grocery stores to pick up like even one thing I would've never fucking believed you...