willtoledoicedchai

[willtoledoicedchai]

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#AWESOME POST

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this is my hop along thesis.

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wallsocket thought of the day: there exists an entire thesis in the first verse of "good luck final girl".

see, the album as a whole is very concerned with material comfort. the opener contains pointed disdain for the way institutions absorb your wealth after death, but it's very sardonic about the character taking advantage of the money for personal gain (when's the last time you saw someone with a ski mask and a gun, get on the inside / you gotta do it, gotta do it, gotta do it like me).

the intro of "locals (girls like us)" stringing together phrases like golden arches and pearly gates and private property and armsbodylegsfleshskinbonesinew kicks off the song on a very cynical note about the state of society. you're owned by the consumerism. doesn't your own body feel like a product being consumed sometimes? good luck!

everyone here is a poor kid right outta high school and the only option being to sell off your body to a greater cause that has already let you down and will stunt the course of your life in "shoot to kill, kill your darlings" and put my stuff on the curb whether or not you sell the estate and the horrific numbness of having to live in a ravaged world, might as well give it all up in "horror movie soundtrack" and positioning privileged people as the enemy while also feeling profound spite for them losing something worth having in the first place in "old money bitch".

all this culminates in a feeling that the people of wallsocket (and middle america more broadly) are doomed. it's morally bankrupt to reclaim the wealth of the few for yourself and it's laughably sad to renounce what wealth you do have and what are you gonna use 'your' money to buy anyway? crystal [meth]? your own body? well, in the first verse of "good luck final girl", our narrator chooses to use her money to buy a stranger breakfast. it's a futile gesture, ultimately - the stranger stops being around to accept the care - but. it does set our narrator off on her journey. whether or not it was worth taking is up for you to decide. no one's gonna do your job for you.

bleak, sure. but the music moved you. didn't it?

#AUUUUUUUGHHHH

[willtoledoicedchai]

i'm iris (he/she, 20) and this is my music sideblog. main is @guppybycharlybliss i never use it though. i made this account because i exist to share love and joy and because my brain is a well oiled machine producing deranged things to say about songs&lyrics. favorite artists are. charly bliss sidney gish the mountain goats tyler the creator. underscores. a lot more but those are my top five guys right now. url is based off a joke i have with my friend about what will toledo would order at the coffee shop i work at. the iced chai would be a large and it would have oat milk and no flavor shots. here's ⬇️ a chart of my favorite albums ever in no particular order. hi :)

(open readmore for a list of shows i've seen ^_^)

computerwife, tv girl (08/whatever/2022): bad. i don't even like tv girl that much but it was the birthday of a friend who did so i got us tickets. the speakers and sound mixing were soooo shitty live and without the buffer of admittedly really pretty ethereal instrumentation the sad guy incel type misogyny of tv girl's lyrics is a LOT harder to ignore. also my friend passed out from dehydration so we had to leave early. that experience made me think i don't like live music but nah. i just don't like tv girl. computerwife was good though. shoutout computerwife

people planet, feeble little horse, sidney gish (12/30/2022): kicked so much ass. people planet was good not super my thing though. feeble little horse RULED best band name ever also. sidney gish was like indescribably amazing. my birthday is on new years eve so seeing her live was the last thing i did as an eighteen year old and im so glad it was. she has crazy stage presence and the crowd's energy was great and i ran into my childhood best friend there. all around awesome show. kumo 99, lustsickpuppy, cowgirl clue (03/11/2023): so so so so good. all the acts were amazing but i think lustsickpuppy was my favorite just cause of how insane and captivating their energy was. there was a part where they instructed the whole audience to bark for them and we all started woofing with UNRESTRAINED energy. my friend who i was with broke his glasses in the mosh pit but said it was worth it. three super talented artists and none of them disappointed. fuck yes.

raffaela, charly bliss (04/25/2023): raffaela ruled so extremely hard live and then me and my friend went home and looked them up on spotify and they were just kinda mid. i do have to respect the stage presence required to make mid songs sound straight up transcendent live. this isn't about them though. charly bliss was (guy with a charly bliss special interest voice) nothing short of incredible. i talked to eva hendricks briefly right before she went on and she was so nice and the music sounded so good and the venue was so cool and i was going so crazy. thank you charly bliss.

john-allison weiss, mal blum (07/13/2023): awesome. mal blum is an artist that meant a lot to me growing up and i was right up front like straight up making eye contact with them throughout the whole show and the venue was pretty small and it all just felt like really welcoming and warm and important. they're a great performer. john-allison weiss is also really great i keep meaning to check out their stuff more. the two have been friends for a while and kept exchanging jokes and anecdotes during the set it was really cute. when mal blum introduced a song as "this is about ocd" i cheered REALLY hard and i think i saw them look at me like ...?. sorry mal.

slothrust, the front bottoms (11/11/2023): charly bliss was supposed to be another opener but ended up not being able to make it. how sad. it's okay though because slothrust ripped. i had only heard like two songs by them before but now i'm thinking i need to check out more they were really excellent. the front bottoms were alright! they had good energy i think i just like them more on recordings than i do live. they did a little costume contest bit and the band played the ghostbusters theme which was cute. a good time all around.

peach fuzz, charly bliss (11/21/2023): UPCOMING >:D