#that said as a song itself

[arabela25]

Tattoo, Loreen - Melodifestivalen | Sweden, Eurovision Song Contest 2023

#eurovision #eurovision 2023 #sweden #loreen #esc #melodifestivalen #nfs 2023 #I think loreen is a great artist. very engaging; incredible presence #if we're getting another swedish victory; if we're getting a repeat winner; #might as well be her #that said as a song itself #I've listened to the studio version and enjoyed it #and I won't skip it if it comes uo #*up #but I don't think I'll seek it out very often #and I'm not conviced she's winning for sure (definitely a contender and most likely jury winner) #but that's mostly because I think it's really boring to go into the contest with the results predefined #and I think she'll have tough competition in the televote #for as massive as she (and euphoria) is in the eurofan space #she beat the grannies for like 12 points with the public #point is: I don't know what will happen and I think that's very cool!!

[questionablealibi]

Asking for a bit of company <3

Happy 4/27!!!! Just in time after my exams! It's so wonderful seeing this fandom still up and going. I never even thought that i'd have the guts to post about these sillies when the first game came out!

I hoped that i would be able to do a full-fledged art piece with proper colors and shading and all for this day, but i got rather busy this past week ^^;

I hope you all enjoy the rest of the Stanley Day ^^ take care <3

Oh, and see you guys at the sad-ist premiere too ;)

#the stanley parable #tsp #tspud #tsp fanart #tspud fanart #tsp stanley #tsp narrator #tspud stanley #tspud narrator #stanarrator #stanley x narrator #stanley needs a little company sometimes #o'neil hands him their coat 90% of the time he comes down #i said id delve into more serious tones but here i am #i will soon i swear #i have a bunch of songs that i associate with these two and the game itself and i think theyre crunchy #youll see them soon hopefully #Alibi!

[rwrbsource]

@rwrbmovie & @rwrbsource’s rwrbweek: Day 2 | Song ↳ My Favorite Soundtrack Songs [INSP / TEMPLATE]

#rwrbweek #rwrb #rwrbedit #rwrb movie #red white and royal blue #usertiny #here 'favorite' means not necessarily how much i like the song itself #but more how much it added to the scene #that being said #if canciones de amor a ti doesn't end up on my spotify wrapped i will be SHOCKED #and i need alex to sing that song to their future kids #please and thank you #** #re: ours #*mira

[dear-ao3]

#if you say if you dont know isn't obscure cause it was on the tour im here to tell you its not on american iTunes or spotify #i had to buy the dont stop ep from england to get a recording of it #and midnight is only available in japan #try hard and wherever you are are just old #i have a lot of opinions on this #im watching the 5sos rank their music video for the 12 millionth time #not a tag #from saph #5sos #saphs poll of the day #also whoever said disconnected is obscure is incorrect that song has been played at Multiple shows and transcends time itself

[bleaksqueak]

Since I posted some of my old fanart yesterday... if you're not familiar with Slayers, and thus have never heard its amazing music, do check it out. It's largely by the same songwriter, Masami Okui, that did Utena's iconic opening (Rinbu Revolution) and ofc (TRUTH) and sung by a duo of her and Hayashibara Megumi (you know, the GOAT)

The entire OST pretty much slaps. there's only a couple of bad image songs in an absolute expanse of pure gold. GIVE A REASON, the opening to the second season, tends to be the reigning favorite. (I've a hard time pinning down my absolute favorite... of the original openings, it might be Breeze, but all three are so good. Of the entire catalog? Impossible to choose. Midnight Blue, Raging Waves, Within my Unlimited Desires, Gloria, Get Along... Impossible Choice)

#slayers #the slayers #music #anime #90s anime #Gourry's image song So In the World is like the cutest thing too #the series itself is a deep lore D&D parody swords and sorcery action/adventure series #very firmly a dramedy but when it decides to be serious it goes hard #it very rarely decides to be serious so it's always kind of a thrill when it does lol #but this post is about its soundtrack #namely its vocal songs #and as I said they slap a ridiculous amount #so here #Youtube #what if I go back and put Get Along in here too because I love it so much #I love any version that leaves lina's ramble in at the start #and the lyrics of I WANT THIS I WANT THAT... IT'S JUST HOW GIRLS ARE (showing lina blowing up shit lmao) #Hold on the memories of riding with my granddaddy to the big city next to us #so I could go to suncoast and get the new vhs release of NEXT when it was first being published in the US #just hit me like a sack of bricks #that's a good memory...

[thatgoddamngingerundercut]

and I begin to bloom like a lotus flower once again the Agust D trilogy

#agust d #min yoongi #bts #suga #bts suga #bangtan #bangtan sonyeondan #bts gifs #btsedit #my gifs #i've had this concept in my head for a while now #and i've been trying to figure out how i wanted to do it #and i finally figured it out #the font is the pulp fiction font lol #i wanted to use the scarface font but it's paid and all the free versions look weird #and like... i'm not paying $30 for a font i'll only use once #and anyway the color effect wouldn't really work with it #this set right here is the entire reason i decided to learn how to make gifs in photoshop #anyway his eyes man #he has the most beautiful intense eyes i have ever seen #amygdala is very very hard for me to watch actually #and that's part of why this took me so long also #had to keep in mind what he said in the shoot sketch lol #cuz like... y'know really amygdala is faaaaaar from my favorite agust d track #but the sheer emotion in both the song itself and the mv #it's almost suffocating #he's tremendously talented and yeah i'm a lil obsessed tbh lol

[themanwhomadeamonster]

The 1999 combat theme and its foreshadowing because the autism got to me and I spent too long trying to figure out this soundtrack

Jumping off from @brokenjardaantech's WITW music analysis post here - go check it out, it's very insightful and lays the foundations for what I'm about to talk about! And thanks to @theterribletenno for the burst of inspiration by giving me a massive oh shit realisation in the most chilling way possible LOL

Spoilers under the read-more; TL;DR at the end :'^D

To preface, the soundtrack is structured in an ABC structure with bridges between A and B, as well as another between B and C that borrows from A. The key starts in Cm, briefly modulating to Gm in section B then back to Cm during the second bridge, and settling on Em for section C. In-game for WITW you most likely will only hear up to the first bridge since the Technocyte fight only goes for around a minute long

Sections A, the bridges and partially C feature genre similarities to grunge rock with fuzzy guitar chugging, whammy bar, and palm muting, while the drums are notably sharp snares (except for the first bridge, which are clean bass kicks that gradually distort transitioning into section B's style). Musically, it sounds like a typical fighting soundtrack meant to hype you up - the melody is confident and likes to push and pull its rhythm. But in section C it notably become emptier in its layering while keeping the distorted drums, placing emphasis on the lyrics (which I'll get to below lol). Heavier syncopation and polyrhythms are also introduced.

Section B however is the main outlier. This section is where it most strongly resembles industrial rock: rhythmic synth layers begin to accompany the melody (a pedal point line that plays every semiquaver/sixteenth note), synth drums replace acoustics and the guitars drop the fuzz that is characteristic of grunge and steadily strum every quaver/eighth note. Compared to the push and pull rhythm of section A, this section is steadier, less chaotic than the other sections, it wants you to focus on this section.

Notably, the lead guitar introduces a familiar leitmotif: This is What You Are (which @brokenjardaantech goes more in depth regarding its use in WITW). Here, though, its second chord becomes flattened (Dm -> D♭m) and introduces a diminished, dissonant sound. To me this was the first hint that the song may actually be about Arthur's downfall. This is What You Are is a musical leitmotif that recurs in moments of vulnerability, especially when someone is at risk of losing their sense of self, their identity and what they are. It plays during The Second Dream when we discover the Operator, during the New War when Eidolon!Lotus just lost herself to Ballas and can't recognise the Tenno, and in WITW during the Vessel "fight" when the Tenno is forced out of their Warframe.

I was prompted to actually dig more into the lyrics because I saw @theterribletenno bring up something really interesting

In this specific song, the leitmotif is diminished, it's corrupted. "Surrender to the corruption" - this is what Arthur is afraid of. I brought up earlier that section B had a genre shift. The contrast of the music is important, it's highlighting something, and together with the musicality of the leitmotif, it's making a sense of urgency and danger. The leitmotif is a warning to Arthur.

Section B sings these lyrics:

Break it, break it, Break it open!

Compared to the desperation in the other lines, these two lines are sung mockingly. The Infested are trying to break Arthur, and are succeeding. Their voice is becoming his. But there are actually two vocal lines in this section - you can also hear muted backing vocals in a much less aggressive and lethargic tone warning that "Disillusion". Arthur is trying so hard to keep his own voice and stay clear-minded but it's being drowned out and he's nearing his breaking point, and Albrecht, based on the Codex Fragments you find, is well aware of this.

In section C, while the layering is less intense it's noticeably more heavily syncopated and polyrhythmic, and introduces new (accompanying) echoing and dissonant synth layers reflecting the confusion and disorientation that Arthur begins to feel (these synth layers are actually introduced in the second bridge, but are more easily heard in section C). Section B and C also keep the synth/distorted drums that section A and both bridges lack (at most it's a reverb in those sections); the industrial sound of the song becoming associated with the increasing influence of the Infested over his humanity.

So I tried deciphering more lyrics for each section; I haven't figured all of it out and most of it could very well be wrong because of how heavily clipped the vocal line intentionally is so I don't want to make anymore assumptions than I need to, but I can understand enough of it to realise that the song is foreshadowing Arthur's corruption to the Infested. In green are the lyrics I'm confident are correct:

A:

Sting it, sting it, sting it! Sting it, sting it, sting it in the flesh!

Bridge:

I don't understand! It brings more disease!

B:

Break it, break it, Break it open! (Disillusion)

Bridge:

Sting it, sting it! Sting it in the flesh!

C:

Who's dreaming? Who's the [???] It's a vision[?]!

TL;DR: the grunge/industrial genre hybrid represents Arthur's humanity/Infested respectively, and the song becomes increasingly industrial as the song progresses, most noticeably through the increasing distortion of the drum sound. Section A sets the stage, section B serves as a warning to Arthur that he's losing his sense of identity as the Infestation drowns out his "voice" while a dissonant version of This is What You Are plays, and section C is him experiencing confusion and disorientation as the Infestation continues to corrupt him.

#i'm assuming the last section might be about the tenno transferring to arthur since the singer brings up dreaming specifically? #please correct me if i misheard any lyrics the auditory processing do be processing badly #wf said we took the themes of grief compassion and identity and are throwing it back at you tenfold #warframe #warframe spoilers #warframe 1999 #wf arthur #audio #music #i haven't done musical analysis in a long time so i've forgotten some terminology especially with audio mixing rip... #but yeah idk i enjoyed this soundtrack it's musically simple compared to wf's other stuff but a lot of thought went into it thematically #i love when music tells a story in itself through its sound rather than lyrics #bc even without the lyrics the intention behind this song's composition is still very clear

[briviting]

antwerp real

#looney tunes #marvin the martian #art attag #you know sometimes I wonder like #if people who follow this blog but not my main blog have any idea what to expect here anymore #anyway I loveee little titbits and trivia about long-running characters and how they developed over the years #especially when there are noticeable differences between early instalments and their later more well-known versions #e.g. m.oominmamma didn't get her apron until the newspaper comics! #so learning that marvin's original internal name was antwerp is cool!! #which is such a fun name in itself!! bc not only is that said to derive from the myth of roman solider #it can also be read as a portmanteau of ant and twerp! marvin's cute for the alliteration and satisfying similarity to martian #but man that's a good bunch of wordplay #I also love consuming any sort of supplementary/promotional/concept material of things and finding out mel blanc once recorded a song #called ''antwerp is my name'' for like a stage show or something which is Likely lost media by now is #Such a shame #bc that was probably the only time it was officially used outside of chuck jones' personal notes before his current name was chosen #lost media my beloathed :( #not searching for it that's fascinating but just that it like. occurs at all #anyway hi I didn't post any art for over month thank you for reading my infodumping here #oh & also I know he's been shown without the helmet & he really is just a little bowling ball. but I want to believe

[catt-crossing]

marianas trench new song and it's seven minutes long like HELLO?

#listening right now and its.....very different than their other stuff #i think i like the lyrics a little more than the sound itself #but it isn't bad....im wondering if it's a part of a new album as i think josh said something about working on the next one a while ago #josh's voice though sounds amazing as per usual #marianas trench #i think ill need to listen to it a few times and if so listen to it with the other album songs (assuming it's from a new album) cus they #usually have a theme #so im wondering if like ill like it more that way

[peaceowatermeln]

you wanna know what my thing is about the jury? well too bad, i’m gonna tell you anyway.

two words: elitism and subjectivity

so, the point of the jury is that they (supposedly) have more music knowledge and therefore are better and more impartial judges of music, right? (i mean… we know that’s bullshit but that’s the design)

well here’s the thing. like most art forms, music is subjective, meaning what someone thinks about a song is influenced by their own taste, opinions, and feelings. this doesn’t magically disappear once you learn… i dunno, how time signatures work, for example. someone with music knowledge would be able to hear a song with something musically neat in it and go “hey, that’s neat” but ultimately that doesn’t change if the sound of the song lines up with their own taste.

(and as someone with a music degree, lemme tell you, having music knowledge doesn’t make a listening experience any more helpful or enjoyable.)

so, in our eurovision setting, where the entire point of the contest is to rank songs and crown a winner based on what is the most universally liked, and everybody voting (including our beloved juries) has their own opinions and biases about music and what is appealing to them, why are juries held as these objective elites with The Facts of what good music is? why are the opinions of 5 people who can maybe acknowledge a cool drum pattern worth the same as the opinions of the rest of a country’s over-18 population?

because they’re more impartial? sure jan.

#tip your waitresses i’m here all week #with my eurovision thoughts and opinions #but also thoughts about like.. the music industry and being an artist and all that fun stuff #you have probably all come to this conclusion yourselves #and someone has probably said this better #but yeah #there’s also something to be said for staging being a more important factor than the song itself just in the voting stages #i also have a lot of thoughts about sweden as a pop songwriting factory and curating the pop standard which is its own kettle of fish #not to mention that they average the 5 juror rankings so it kind of discourages individual thought anyway #shout out to maqwell’s 2023 song ranking video for helping me solidify these thoughts #eurovision

[bath0ryacid]

i dont think something has to be art to be good or to have merit and vice versa. this applies also and especially to video games

#with a lot of video games imo its more often the case that youre looking at several artistic components comprising a final product #but said final product isnt necessarily a piece of art. and it doesnt have to be and thats fine #i feel like the anti video games era of a couple decades ago has made people very defensive of them #to the point where they place the right of vgs to exist as a medium ENTIRELY on the fact that they are invariably a form of art #and i just dont think thats necessarily true. just as a song or picture isnt necessarily a piece of art either #like. adding to the list of mediums that can sustain artwork doesnt break the paradigm that the medium itself is the artwork #which is what should be reconsidered in the first place #yeab

[randomwriteronline]

What's an identity but a lie?

(points at Velika) I've had enough of this dude

#bionicle #velika #humanized bionicle #random draws #gif warning #finished reading the completed version of The Powers That Be on mythsandlegacy.com! it was interesting! i will be ignoring all of the plot #especially in regards to lesovikk i Do Not See It. i am Looking Away. he is Contented and Taking A Break as we speak. #im sorry but when the character who hasnt had a shred of joy in ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS ends like That i say no thanks and turn around #but yes! velika was very interesting. disgusting little bastard. i want to squeeze his head in my hand #congrats to whiteheartlight for correctly interpreting artakhas characterization towards the nuva! #i will still forever read him as a distant estranged absentee father bc its funnier n feels more 'right' to me but congrats nevertheless #the red star itself was certainly A Thing. unfortunately my own idea of its zombies had nothing to do with what ended up being so... yea... #as i said! i am ignoring All Of The Plot #my city now #also fun fact i constantly forget Velika is not female bc his name aligns perfectly with common girl name patterns where im from. anyways #AT LAST I HAVE SHED MY CHAINS (used a b*tim song in a non-b*tim context)

[milquetoastasoiaf]

I saw a lot of discussion last night on whether or not ASOIAF ends with the death of Daenerys. And I can see that happening, maybe not the way it does in the show because that was a very rushed and poorly written scenario, but if it happens it happens and I won’t be mad about it.

HOWEVER

I can also see the evidence building up to see the series ending with Daenerys on the throne.

I think it was GrayArea on YT who said something once about how GRRM holds to the adage from Mark Twain that says “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” And everything we see throughout the Targaryen dynasty, male heirs are always being put before female heirs. Everything we see that happens in the Dance.

Even in the show quote from Princess Rhaenys: “Men would rather put the realm to the torch than to see a woman ascend the Iron Throne.” (Which carries more weight and impact if this ultimately ends with a Targaryen Queen ruling.)

And while we do know that she isn’t the only Targaryen left in the world, Daenerys is the Prince that was Promised, Daenerys is their legacy.

#asoiaf #milquetoast asoiaf #asoiaf/got/hotd #a song of ice and fire #ANYWAY #I can see her sacrificing herself to put an end to the threat of the Others #which would lend itself to the bittersweet tone grrm has said he’s going for #but I don’t think Dany turning mad accomplishes anything satisfying from a storytelling perspective

[w1lmutt]

So Loreen won huh

#y'all don't get it the situation is dire here in Sweden #this year's melodifestivalen gave us barely a handful of good entries to vote for #Loreen was def the best of them but the song itself is so generic it hurts #im in fear of what entries Sweden will force upon us just year now that they host esc and don't even have to try to win #we're in the darkest timeline #that's all of my thoughts for Eurovision ty and bye #also 'statements' is the better Loreen song have i said that enough? #eurovision #w1l says some stuff

[hawkeyedflame]

new ink. first of two pieces honoring myself, my past and my journey forward. being finally free from 15 years of physical and mental illness, being able to see for the first time in my life that there is a future for me that's worth having, worth fighting and struggling and striving towards... it's too big a feeling to put into words. this line is just a placeholder for the song from which it came.

florence + the machine carried me through my lowest lows, and now keeps me company in my highest highs. the second piece will also be a reflection of their influence on my heart and creative spirit.

#tattoo #florence + the machine #fatm #florence welch #i can't wait to get the second piece done #but i don't know where on my body to put it!!!! #i want to say the front of my right hip but my artist said that place reallyyyyy hurts so idk!!! #also kinda planning a daffodil with the stem coming from my wrist and the flower itself covering my self harm scars #largely bc of the Florence song but also bc my mom grew beautiful daffodils when i was a kid and they're the first sign of spring #and they always look so cheerful.. i wanna be like that. the first sign of spring #ok to rb btw!

[chikaoofka]

7 (If your OC had to cosplay as a fictional character, who would they choose) for Magnetophone!

No idea how 'fictional' this question is meaning (i.e. fictional character in GENERAL or fictional character to them....?!) but I guess I'll go with fictional (to them) characters cos theres a couple.

The first one, and he's probably done this before to be honest, is Fortune 500, who looks like this (designed by @/dr9com9ge-ix):

He's this pretty universally-known tailmic "show host" of a show also called Fortune 500 which is mainly a comedy show but to the tune of that one "its illegal to say" skit you know? anyway it's popular with people like Maggie so of course Maggie would cosplay it. Maybe I'll come back and like draw it or something if I can figure out what the REST OF THE OUTFIT WOULD LOOK LIKE... beyond a mask

there's the second one, the half made-up "Sun God" (half in the way that, in the source material, there IS a sun god called the sun god, but the one that people talk about is this one they made up to make fun of the religious fanatic... fans. Of this other god-related TV show. I could explain more but it's like... off-topic? for this? I think?). not that I've got any cool PROPER images or anything I just wanted to say that

#also for clarity F500 is named after the EE song . #i hope you know i was trying to like #think about the show itself bc i hadnt givne it any thoght #and glue said 'make it a comedy kinda show' and then i remembered that skit and it all fell into place #i dont remember . any . like . fictional. characters . anyway so like... fictional fictional characters is GOOD FOR ME !!! #the sun god has got like... t shirt designs #in terms of how designed the guy is. he doesnt actually exist and is a joke so i guess that's fitting? cosplaying the sun god i think #would make the other guys look at you really funny but i know maggie wouldn't really care #magnetophone mode #ikea customer service