#the audience is part of the performance

[kuijoon]

haha wow art that totally didn’t take 6 hours hahahaha

#was so close to giving up #sampo koski #sparkle hsr #hanabi hsr #hsr #masked fools #giovanni hsr #anyways gonna ramble about what I was thinking #this is supposed to be the tavern and they have screens where they broadcast others performances (Sampo’s monologue made it seem like #the person behind the screen saw his performance #also he doesn’t have his mask (entry ticket to the tavern) so he isn’t physically present #but rather showing the events of Belobog #sparkle is in the front because she seems to like being the focus #(for example the bp where she wants the audience to keep their eyes on her while sampo wants the audience to be part of the show) #Giovanni is just there because I like him #I would’ve drawn zhongshan too but I didn’t know where to place her sorry #my art

[aquanutart]

Nyaha~! Caught in my electroweb! ♡

#pokemon #iono #nanjamo #bellibolt #pokemon sv #aquanutart #iono gives me this vibe of 'i've sold my soul to chasing love and attention from thousands of strangers who will never know me' #but with an edge of self-awareness and i like that #i love hyper over-the-top performer personalities! i think she genuinely enjoys performing in her cutesy persona #and i definitely think it's a huge part of herself that she enjoys expressing but she has another side too #that worries about numbers and holding people's interest and getting the attention and validation she wants #she's an in-universe internet content creator! she's got a gig and she is WORKING it!! #i swear she makes me hear death by glamour #ALSO SHE HAS A FROG!!! i have no choice but to stan #btw you get a bilingual bonus if you can read this (and i get a weeb award for using romaji and katakana in the same picture) #how else though can i convey to english audiences that she uses boku (i love it) #her catchphrase 'your eyeballs are mine' does kinda creep me out though #i find it less creepy in japanese which is just 'your eyeballs (are acted on by) electric net' but that may be because i understand it less #i don't know japanese well enough to guess exactly what it's implying rofl

[marieanneline]

tddk music artist au where their love language is singing each others songs at their own concert

#they attend each others concerts btw i make the rules #their fans have to memorize the lyrics and fanchants to the other's songs now. you stan one of them you stan BOTH OF THEM #i just love musician aus #i'm unoriginal actually i just watched the whole 17 minute phone call between wonpil and young k at yonk's letters with notes concert #and this happened. so. #stan day6 #younghyun making the audience sing wonpil's ''A Journey'' at his own concert??? bro..................... #YOUNG K COVERED WONPIL'S ''A JOURNEY'' AT A LIVE PERFORMANCE....... #young k's ''natural'' gives me heart palpitations like that song is SO ROMANTIC imagine shoto singing the ''ily ily ily ily'' part to izuku #tddk #tododeku #tdiz #todoizu

[steinwayandhissons]

lately ive been obsessed with the fact that when alex sings on stage, he can never keep his eyes open for more than a few seconds at a time, and even then they’re half-lidded

#alex turner #arctic monkeys #it’s like even after all these years and all the performances they’ve done and done again he still can’t bear to look at the crowd #how he always said he hated being the centre of attention and here he is at the pinnacle of his career at the height of scrutiny #it’s like there’s still a part of him that’s questioning his own fame and overwhelming superstardom #pretending like they’re still playing in intimate sheffield pubs and not to sold out stadium tours and festivals with tens of thousands #of fans #it feels like there’s a sort of celestial veil between him and his audience that also comes across in his stage antics #why seeing him perform live whether in person or on the screen feels sort of surreal and mystical #like the music comes first and he just follows wherever it goes #anyways im rambling ill stop now

[homostacis]

if there’s one thing succession is gonna do is serve up an absolutely insane set of performances the sheer amount of talent on that cast is incomprehensible to me

#like jesus #finding out that most of them are theatre performers really changed my perception of the show its fascinating in general #like how it feels like a play in show format? the camera really makes you feel part of the room sure #but id say more like a concrete audience idk its really intersting #succession

[unproduciblesmackdown]

immediately obsessed with this pic posted by summer stock ensemble member hannah balagot, "Sunday grills with Will"

#will roland #summer stock #every last little detail here & the [greater than the sum of its parts] overall effect....instant hall of fame portrait #that it's night. the about 3/4 view from behind documentarian angle. that the grilling is in this tiny strip of grass by a parking lot. #the one partly visible adjacent audience member. the tiny only just not legsless grill and will with the pro squat crouch to tackle that. #the apron over hoodie over shorts. the headlamp & its spotlighting the grilling but also making his glasses aglow. the 9 items grilling wit #view of lit charcoals & smoke; the supplies sides & accessories off to the sides. both tongs & spatula in hand & a burger mid flip. #the motion blur. this is iconic #& if you go back in the summer stogging you'll find that pre opening [will is again grilling. tall grill in the daytime though] fun pic #how much grilling did he do? sunday grills huh sounds good; end of the performance week too #sure the hell On It as he is in this picture.

[insane-weasel]

I know content creator is a term usually used for like YouTubers, but it kind of feels like Fan writers/Fan artists put themselves in the same mindset. Not in a "they're grinding for money", and not just in the "they're constantly seeking engagement and the numbers game" but in a "I have an audience I must appease."

Sometimes I really miss the days fanfic was more hated and the culture less open, because it felt there was less worry about sensibility and being 'accepted.' It didn't matter what you wrote, they'd treat it just as bad. You risked a website banning you for what you wrote, but you didn't fear Twitter. Sometimes forum drama happened, but...it's not the same.

I wish I could say I was immune. I can create content without fear of the audience. I do fear it. It loses the face of a few people behind screens joining you for a brief moment and becomes the all consuming force.

#Mostly just a ramble because I feel like everyone is performing in wake of another drama #You must appease your audience #Do I? #I myself haven't done anything wrong #Why must I always appease the audience and reassure them I am approachable and friendly and good and align with them #But anyway it is also a part of a larger discussion too

[dykefever]

okay in fleabag the fourth wall breaks are a metaphor for dissociation yes i will agree with that but i don’t see people talk about how it’s also her performing for an audience - she is using this imagined audience in order to feel seen and heard in a way she isn’t in her real life, a way for her to validate herself through the lens of others and when hot priest calls her out on it it’s because he is actually!!! seeing her!! and when they’re having sex it’s the first time she pushes that audience away and refuses to perform she is present in that real life moment and being seen etc by hot priest. i’d argue that the dissociation goes hand in hand with that performance like she dissociates in order to perform for an imagined audience and also i think that other interpretation of the fourth wall breaks are valid i don’t think there’s one complete and total explanation/answer as to what they mean. much like in real life our coping mechanisms are often used in response to a multitude of situations/traumas and can represent multiple things about our psyche !! anyway just wanted to share my thoughts

#obviously having lots of fleabag thoughts i had to get them out #i just think fleabag’s audience is a very very important part of her story and character #and how she is always performing for this imagine audience and for everyone in her life she is rarely being honest with the people she loves #because that is vulnerable terrifying too much etc !! She is Too much so she acts extroverted and funny and performs for everyone always #until the hot priest who cuts through it and sees her even when she’s still performing for him and she is forced to be honest #even when she is thinking only in terms of wanting to fuck him #and that is how she finds herself loving him abs also how their love/his love changes her for the better!!!! #anyway :-) #fleabag #fleabag meta #laura says some things

[blorbocedes]

new money, and it's all cash

explicit, 2.6k, nico/lewis, lewis/ofc.

voyeurism, exhibitionism, 2013 brocedes being rancid, comphet, internalized homophobia

The only time Lewis fucks women is when Nico is watching.

#my fics #f1 rpf #brocedes #the misogyny is part of the secret sauce #this has an audience of 3 people but i need those 3 people to read it #the performance of the closet babyyyy

[gurorori]

givin me afycso nostalgia can b so dangerous i once cried 4 an hour straight with time 2 dance live in denver video on loop cuz i cudn deal w the fact ill never b able 2 see the beauty of their burlesque/clown/cabaret dancer lives AN it was all so theatrical too like they don make concerts like dat anymore.

#im jus a sucker for all things dat scream effort n profound aesthetic like ya look at a stage n see the care dat went into it #the dancers wer such an enjoyable part of da afycso performances i think they wer silly n fun n the way they interacted w the audience too? #idk it was a whole complete aesthetic #like we do nawt get 2 see this much thought put into a band performin on stage nowadays....

[pochapal]

two things: genji issuing commands with ominous undertones to kanon yet again. more curiously though is the way that kanon speaks the line - there's a kind of desperate over the top panicked quality to it which is like. off considering that kanon's whole thing is being more emotionally muted.

#umineko liveblog #i think they're performing for their audience here (the surviving ushiromiyas) #interesting that even given Everything kanon is still playing his part without fault

[bloomfish]

I definitely will not get back into kpop ever but occasionally I'll go through a youtube binge of my old faves. I only ever liked female artists but the thing was you'd get attached to a girl group or a female vocalist and like a year later it would be like "no she's too old now. time to abandon her and introduce a new group of 15 year olds" . they continually wasted so much incredible talent by viewing the artists as well as talent itself as a replaceable commodity imo (i'm not saying this doesnt happen in western pop too but perhaps not so brazenly)

anyway a lot of it is bad lol but these are some of the things that I've revisited that still actually go so hard:

4minute crazy- excuse me?? this was such a slay. also hate. the tonal plot twist in this track: unparalleled. hyuna was iconic but also jiyoon !!! i agree w the comments of this yt video this would absolutely be a massive hit if it was released today

ladies code. this is just legitimately good pop music. a very sad story behind them as well and they were very undervalued as I recall. but this. galaxy was spectacular. both of the last two EPs tbh. that vocalist's voice does things to me

f(x) 4walls. should have been an international dance hit tbh

wonder girls obviously. even as far back as irony which is so charming in a retro way but I love that they eventually were playing their own instruments/having more of a hand in their own music. specifically i want to point out that park ye-eun from wonder girls was legitimately SUCH a talented musician imo (as a singer and a composer) and so much of her solo stuff as ha:tfelt was incredible. I was very glad to hear that she (and the others i think) left their agency bc they were so mistreated rip

yezi cider.... god she was so talented and i was so in love with her. my underrated fave... at one point i watched a whole reality show about korean female rappers for her lol (which was. a lot. but she should have won)

suzy yes no maybe again this was just really good pop.

dalshabet someone like u this is the corniest thing i'll put on this list but mostly it's just a super interesting case to me. iirc it was fairly popular with international audiences but kind of a flop in korea. which is fascinating to think about in terms of the cultural differences in what music appeals to us. like as a cheesy pop song it is just so catchy to me lol and I can't understand how it could not be but there u go

in capable/caring hands so many of these women could have done INCREDIBLE things imo. like it's undeniable that there is very real talent in kpop, I think the aggressively commercial aspect just limits the artists criminally and it's a shame. which ig is true to some extent about any pop music.

anyway i've put two of my kpop playlists that were popular on 8tracks on spotify: here and here

#im speaking in the past tense but im sure a lot of them are still doing stuff that is perhaps good i have no idea tho #4minute were ahead of their time and their stuffs aged SO well too like i was watching live performances of crazy and they're iconic #there were some soloists/k-indie artists that were good too. like neon bunny #4minute #ladies code #this isnt even touching the other suspect aspects of kpop. like idk what to tell u about the feeling of watching a girl group performance #and the audience is just men bellowing incoherently.... ugh #ha:tfelt #ha:tfelt was my fave and truth is incredible song any way u look at it #another thing i think is that their insistence on following a specific formula was limiting. like not EVERY song needs a rap part lol #unless ur 4minute in which case thats the main thing it needs #but it ws so funny how youd get an incredibly twee little girlish pop track with a random rap part in the middle of it #i didn't mention red velvet here but i also loved them

[no1raulesparzafan]

just watched raúl in the great performances show (twice) and um. i literally screamed into my pillow i'm not even joking

#the first time he did that song was already like my fav performance of his i think #and now. now i am Worse #the part where he literally shakes his ass. um. #also when he sits practically on that audience member's lap. why couldnt that be me #raúl esparza #great performances