#vocal layers

[musiccatsandtrees]

Loosen, loosen baby

You don’t have to carry

The weight of the world in your muscles and bones

Let go, let go, let go

Holy breath, and holy name

Will you ease, will you ease this pain

“Loosen” by Aly Halpert

#loosen #acapella #vocal #vocal layers #mindfulness #embodiment

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 1: Dread on Arrival

(Part 2)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan wangji #jiang fengmian #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #Yungmeng Jiang Training Arc AU #MDZS AU #The AU name for this idea is something I am 100% willing to change if someone has a better one. #There will be at least 2-3 more comics so *please*. Ideas and feedback welcome. #The core idea behind this AU is that LWJ goes to study with the Yunmeng Jiang sect instead of JC and WWX going to Cloud Recess #But why? Well I imagine Lan Xichen set it up to give LWJ a challenge (more social than skill based) and LWJ rose to it (begrudgingly) #Sort of a 'You've mastered so many Lan techniques but Other Sects have styles that are worth learning.' set up. #Lan Qiren agrees mostly on the basis that...well it's LWJ. Yunmeng Jiang is unruly but LWJ is beyond that riff-raff. He'll rise above it. #This is the story of a boy who thrives on routine and rules spending time in a place that is his apparent antithesis. #Also it is so warm there. He is used to it being cold and what do you MEAN just take off some of my layers? #I just want to see him struggle and flail in many situations. And get him in Jiang Purple. Is that so wrong of me? #(Soaking wet JC is part of my 'JC was born to swim; forced to hold a sword' agenda. Do not remove him from the water) #((Politeness notes: JFM would *not* call LWJ 'lan wangji' nor would LWJ be vocally impolite to a sect leader.))

[josephtrohman]

all the hiatus mentions lately have me thinking and theorizing about the next 8ball...what is like THEE song that's About the hiatus? twin skeletons (hotel in nyc). where are they playing their next show? msg. where they played their last show before the hiatus. it's all lining up...twin skeletons live debut on friday.

#the mentions about the hiatus being like. they’re gearing us up for it lol #i feel nauseous just thinking of the layers of it all too #i know other people are thinkign similar things i just had to be the one to vocalize it here ;3 lol

[jaskefer]

Obsessed with the idea of Extraordinary Things being a back and forth between Jaskier and Radovid, with Jaskier trying to draw him out in the first verse, and Radovid finally answering him in the second.

Cause like, with Radovid, Jaskier meets someone who he can't fully read properly. He knows there's something under the front of a drunken, bumbling prince, but he doesn't know him well enough yet to be certain as to what.

So, he tests the waters a bit. throws out a line to see if Radovid will take it—and he does. A little bit. But it's so interesting to me, because it doesn't just feel like Jaskier is trying to nail down Radovid's truth in this verse; it feels like he's injecting elements of his own mask into it, as well.

"Keep your words on ice, your gaze lights the fire. They say 'keep on playing nice,' but I have no desire. Why waste our words when lips were made for extraordinary things? It's not a want, it's a need, it is paying no heed to what others say to sing."

This is Jaskier's read of Radovid as he knows him so far: a man hiding more complex wants beneath the veneer of a drunken party boy. But it's also Jaskier admitting that he knows this about Radovid because he wears the exact same mask himself.

Much like how Jaskier and Ciri speak through Geralt and Yennefer in order to process their own feelings about them later in the season, Jaskier sings through himself in order to comprehend who Radovid is. Jaskier is using the performative persona he's crafted for himself in an attempt to coax Radovid out of his.

All of it leads into the main intention of this song: "The greatest songs are made up of unspoken words of love. Of them, I've had enough. with you, I am enough." I am tired of having to put up a front. I want to be understood. I think you understand me. Prove me right.

And Radovid sees what Jaskier is doing. He comments on Jaskier's ability to see people for who they are and not who they pretend to be. But there's still more he wants to understand. This still feels like a game, in a way.

It's only after Radovid sees the brutality of Dijkstra and Philippa up close, watches them orchestrate the assassination of the queen and threaten to incriminate him if he doesn't fall in line, that he then grasps the vulnerability in Jaskier's lyrics. Jaskier is also caught between multiple conflicting desires, that of his loyalty to Geralt/Yen/Ciri, and that of his work as the Sandpiper & how said work is backed by his continued commitment to Redanian Intelligence. That internal conflict and the desire to escape it is also highlighted in the song's first verse ("they say keep on playing nice, but i have no desire"). Only after all of this, when true fear begins to take over and the game stops being fun, does Radovid truly begin to truly understand Jaskier.

And so, he seeks him out. And he responds.

“Drop the sweet disguise, your heart’s beating too loud. The fairytales and little lies can’t drown out all the sound.” You were right. I do understand you. I know what you really want, because we're the same. You can’t hide it behind a façade of a song and a story and a persona.

“Take this heart and break this heart for extraordinary things.” I don't know what will become of this, or us. I still don't fully know if we can trust each other. But no one has ever seen me in the way that you have.

It's not a want, it's a need. With you, I am enough.

#angel.txt #the witcher #jaskier #radovid #radskier #meta & theories #angel.doc #twn spoilers #i never wrote my wpb meta so have some extraordinary things meta instead shdfdfddfd #i truly think that first verse is so complex and multi-layered and can be read in multiple ways (both in-universe and externally) #like this is what i meant by 4d chess like how the FUCK can i explain what jaskier's doing in that first verse #its also little things. the background vocals that pick up in the second verse. #the way the second verse is omitted from the diegetic performance of the song which could imply jaskier hadn’t written it at the time #the way that we hear this song over the credits only after they get together in ep 4 and it's an extended version BUT #the extended version is entirely instrumental after the first half ends which also imply that the second half hasn't yet been written #as a whole i think that a lot of twn songs can be read through both internal and external lenses to enhance their existence in the narrativ #the fact that some of them have different names in-universe as opposed to on the ost. the choices they make in diegetic song placement. #im not very inclined in musical terminology but my brain is going insane over what this show does with its songs and how joey himself write #(and tbh i like to think of the sountrack/ost versions of songs as smth separate or alternate from the ones seen directly In the episodes) #idk. just very much intrigued with the idea of this song as a conversation #the entire song being an illustration of the masks they both wear #the truth that lies beneath them‚ and the way they both try to chip at each other until one of them drops it first. #obsessed with certain choices and going a little too insane about them <3

[how-the-feathers-have-fallen]

Me, fighting tooth and nail against my irl friends who are sw*fties: yeah well, maybe I want my sad girl music to have a 3 minute guitar solo and distorted audio after the second verse of vaguely gay lyrics have you considered that ?!

#admit it if pete wentz's lyrics were sung by some white woman to plain ass slow piano music with max 3 cords yall would eat that shit up #but heaven forbid it be layered and/or vocally/musically compelling with a decibel count over 65.2 #or not sung by a climate criminal trying to sound emotional or weepy but actually sounds constipated 💀 #icarus' random screaming #icarus' burning life stories #anti taylor swift #im probably slicing my palm open for a demonic ritual in shark infested waters by doing this but oh well #pete wentz #fall out boy #icarus falls out #not even just fall out boy. I'll put on the tamest led zepplin or rage against song i can find and they look at me like 😶😣😖😨😰😱😵 #i put on eat your young they ASK then i try explain the critique of war profiteering/capitalism and theyre like silly ***** readin too deep #LIKE YOU ASKED. I KEPT IT SO SIMPLE. YOUR FELLOW SWIFTIES LOVE THIS SHIT WTF #im scared to try and bring up mitski (esp. working for the knife/best american girl) lest i kill my own friends #like they're not insane conspiracy swifities and i love them dearly but they're fundamentally tiktok youth gen z and im... not :/ #and im fine with it we joke and laugh about it and poke fun at each other for it but sometimes i feel so alienated #not on purpose. not by them. but i look at em and they look like test tube babies (not mean). #they look to me like what ginny & georgia looks like to them. too polished too stylised too... Just So #sometimes they look like the same lifeless tiktok copy and pasted and it scares me #im trying to remember that post about how tiktok thirst traps and general posts are so set up and stilted they look sexless #and robotic #anyway #the generational gap between me and my fellow teens/young adults 💀💀💀

[putonmyfavoriteshow]

Disney releasing "We Don't Care" and "This Is Where The Party's At" but NOT "Somewhere In Between" or "Loud Like Me"??

Criminal

#i mean it's definitely because they don't have full versions #even the ones they released are super short #but the hartmy ballad and amy's rock song are easily the best #also why does the production on the released stuff be like THAT #idk maybe i'm expecting hannah montana level quality with this music when it's not a musical show but ugh #like the layering of the vocals is excessive #both girls have such naturally amazing voices like the potential they are WASTING #the villains of valley view #vovv #*this has been a rant*

[yuraslefttoe]

what's being sung in the background of the instrumental bit between the intro and first verse in red hour? i can make out the words "my catastrophe" so its probably a kerosene ref, but i can't tell what the rest of the line is

i already answered this anon but anri is saying "oh fall harder for me my catastrophe"

#asks #red hour #also the acapella is always linked in the desc if you ever want to breakdown the vocals yourself #i put a billion layers into each song and it all gets covered up so #you know what GO LISTEN TO THE ACAPELLA NOW AND ENJOY IT!!! #the adlibs especially. i literally gave the adlibs like lyrics and you cant even hear them

[exsqueezememacaroni]

the composer

X

#mike patton #crank: high voltage #he's so chill and adorable #and this video/movie is so bonkers #also - it's true what he says about himself over-composing and hearing things densely #you know mike had more influence on a record/song when there's like 5 sample sounds and 3 vocal tracks all layered on top of each other #i saw a version of the 2nd gif on a pinterest board and figured i could update/upgrade it to a set #goodnight!

[delicatepointofview]

harry is such a talented singer like damn

#im listening to the hsh stems #every vocal layer yumyumyum #this is what i love mossssst in songs

[highspeedinterconnect]

#her layered vocals in the choruses are borderline angelic #Laura stevenson

[linoguy]

-.-

#i shouldn't make a post on this but as someone who's into a group that is also compared to nct i feel a sort of interesting defensiveness #after hearing shinee's latest single and knowing that its being compared to nct becase of mutuals n all #like ana wantbytaemin said like.. if you think that sounds like nct you just legit don't listen to anything except kpop #the part that they're probably comparing to nct is this trend of a somewhat isolation of vocals in the chorus where the chorus is more #spoken than it is sung + with like one layer of instrumentals in the back #i've noticed this among other hit kpop songs so it seems like it's really just a thing right now. im not a fan of it either but what's #happening in shinee's hard song is /not/ the same as that #what's happening in hard is legit just a hip hop thing. if you're finding an out right repulsion to it you should probably question #your prejudices. anyways KJSDH #again i dont really have much jurisdiction to be making this post but its kinda baffling to me that people would make that connection

[hella1975]

NOW AND THEN I THINK OF ALL THE TIMES YOU SCREWED ME OVER BUT HAD ME BELIEVING IT WAS ALWAYS SOMETHING THAT ID DONE BUT I DONT WANNA LIVE THAT WAY READING IN TO EVERY WORD YOU SAY YOU SAID THAT YOU COULD LET IT GO AND I WOULDNT CATCH YOU HUNG UP ON SOMEBODY THAT YOU USED TO KNOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

#BEST PART OF THE SONG ARGUE WITH THE WALL #THE POV CHANGE THE DRAMA THE MANIPULATION THE VOCALS THE LAYERS #girl take me back to 2011 when id watch hit single somebody i used to know by gotye on the charts and hadn't failed academically yet

[vhstown]

a lot of the time while im doing something (like writing) i have my headphones on and no music is playing and i don't even realise cause im imagining the music

#i imagine music so much so that i have playlists playing in my head in order #instrumentals layered vocals adlibs left right ear everything 😭 #vee chats

[colorsinautumn]

im gonna have to take og this love over this one tbh

#the vocal layer here is simply not the same and that's what made #this love so great

[nicollekidman]

i’m tough on lover but i just relistened to the whole thing on the plane and wow it is such a nice little album in retrospect. not super cohesive sonically for sure but it’s so nice to listen to an album that 100% knows what it is and what it’s purpose is…. it’s confident and harmonious… nothing on here is fighting with itself (besides maybe the order of the songs 😭). her vocals are clear and at the forefront, the cheekiness is intentional and joyous, the emotional beats hit…. yes there are many issues and several full skips but it’s such a good little product.

#i think my biggest lingering complaint with midnights right now is that her vocals feel like they have a layer of vaseline smeared over #like some songs i feel like i have to excavate her voice out #which is partially her post folklore whisper sing thing and partially the production strangling her #taylor swift

[lesbians4scully]

i think snot by alex g is the best song ever made. ever. actually.

#like the layers of guitar…. the little riffy bits….. #its the perfect balance of like. somber mood but not so much it Makes You Worse #craaazy alex g layered vocals as per usual #screamable to. maybe this ones just me but. I LOOVED HIM AND 666 I WANT UUUU TO MAKE ME SICK #god its just so fucking beautiful it makes me feel shrimp feelings #and the OUTRO….. GOD #alex g