#I like the albums??? I think they're good????

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Sssspace Ssstory 2

JK Rowling: i don't need you lot! Rowling: i don't need any of you! Rowling: i'm gonna go over to sspace coven to tell my new sstory! Barker: yeah have fun with that Rowling: I will!! Barker: they're all a bunch of nerds over there! Poe: now clive that's not very fair Barker: she's gonna find it out soon enough

[meanwhile, at space coven] JK Rowling: hello children Jules Verne: welcome, JK Rowling! I've been informed that you're the first woman ever to write science fiction Verne: so we're proud to make you a member of our very select group Verne: welcome to super friends!!!

Verne: i am called Ham because I enjoy ham radio Verne: [pointing to HG Wells] this is email Verne: [pointing to Isaac Asimov] cosine Verne: [pointing to Robert Heinlein] report card Verne: [pointing to Frank Herbert] mescaline Verne: [pointing to Mary Shelley] and Mary

HG Wells: [arriving in a steam-powered dirigible] excelsior, fellow space-ka-teers! HG Wells: it is I, HG Wells, chrononaut extradinaire! Wells: i am simply a-quiver to hear some new story and- Wells: oh crap, the gears fell off my top hat Jules Verne: don't worry, my good man, you can borrow some of mine!

Rowling: ok sso here'ss my futurisstic sstory Verne: whoa you can't start a story like that! Rowling: oh? oh right, ssorry Rowling: i meant 'ssubmitted for the approval of sspace coven, i call-' Verne: no i mean you're not wearing any goggles Wells: every super friend must wear at least 3 pairs of goggles at all times Verne: it's the law!

Verne: won't you enjoy some of our "mind control cookies" ho ho ho Rowling: what Verne: oh i'm sorry are you not familiar with the music of dr steel??? Verne: he's ONLY our favorite musician Rowling: Verne: OMG you've GOT to listen to People of Earth Verne: it's SO funny Verne: we're all members of the army of toy soldiers Rowling:

Verne: [playing Dr Steel album] haha ok so this is my favorite part coming up HG Wells: are you playing dr steel? turn that hack off! Rowling: oh thank god Wells: you should be playing Aurelio Voltaire!

Verne: Dr steel! Wells: Voltaire! Verne: Dr steel! Wells: Voltaire! Rowling: I've been insspired Rowling: my next book is going to be a manifessto against the FuMP

Rowling: today i have an exciting new story for you! Rowling: those plebss over at midnight society couldn't appreciate this Rowling: FUTURISTIC story! Rowling: i think you sci fi people will really get this Wells: huzzah! Verne: huzzah!

Rowling: okay so Rowling: just imagine Rowling: a future world where a totalitarian government made up of blue-haired spoonies and their antifa goon squad Rowling: have made it illegal to be cis Rowling: one lone heroic terf is fighting for her right to be a gold star lesbian

Rowling: sssee, in the future, an evil coalition of trans autistic fat people Rowling: force innocent lesbians to put pronouns in their bios Rowling: or get sent to the woke gulag! Rowling: where they're forced to apologize for their privilege! HG Wells: i didn't understand any of that

Wells: i don't understand any of that Verne: me neither Robert Heinlein: me neither Heinlein: except that one bit about a lesbian being involved Heinlein: i did understand that word Heinlein: and frankly i think i would like to hear more about lesbians

[4trackcassette]

end of year listposting. Sometimes when ppl r like... This album is amazing and groundbreaking...to me it just sounds like a good alt rock band making a good and well-balanced album and doesn't strike me at all as brilliant or like. really super notable. like I guess I'd put em on the list if it's a long list but. not top 10?

[soosoosoup]

Funk branch au

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[johnslittlespoon]

i know it came out a few years too late for tough and sweet, but i'm currently thinking about john and gale fucking in gale's truck with sex on fire playing on the radio 👍🏻 some quiet country road, windows rolled down because it's too hot to deal with them fogging up, muggy summer air, clothes half–off, hands sliding on sweat–slick skin, etc

[oh-hush-its-perfect]

something you guys gotta understand is that swifties are always going to praise taylor swift's albums regardless of quality due to the sunk cost fallacy. even independently of all of her previous work and all of the love and dedication that they have poured into that, the hype around the release is very poignant. one thing for which I will credit taylor swift and her team is being excellent at marketing.

for the tortured poets' department, there was an amazing roll-out that included qr codes put up in murals around north america that led to unlisted youtube shorts and spelled something out when put all together. every day during release week, one of her teams, taylornation, posted clues on their stories that led to songs on apple music, and if you looked at the lyrics and picked out the ones that were improperly capitalized and unscrambled the word, you would find a word, and all the words in order put together became a lyric on the album: "hereby conduct this post-mortem." this was alongside other easter eggs that contributed to this atmosphere of puzzle-solving— which is a very typical trend in her marketing leading up to the release of an album. it's clever and a good business strategy.

when fans devote so much time to solving these puzzles, discovering these clues, they will inevitably become emotionally attached to the album before they even hear it. if they listen to it and it sucks, they will often convince themselves that they actually like it and anyone who says otherwise is just a hater or misogynistic or whatever. and they will defend it. they will defend it even if it's awful.

[transgothicgenre]

shoutout to karen galvin and matt douglas for the strings on this album actually. they're absolutely breathtaking and every time i hear them i lose my mind a little bit

[cemetery-circus]

While I believe that anybody can change their opinion, it's so funny watching music reviewers suddenly switch up on AJR because of The Maybe Man. "This is good?!" "They made a good one?!" Man shut up, you just don't wanna get called out for making fun of an album about three guys dying dad.

[sysig]

Party (group) party (celebratory)! (Patreon)

[7nsomnia]

literally haven't felt this excited abt a dcc decision in years, it feels so wild that they're doing something right <3

[rawrsewage]

so i have had the immense displeasure of seeing roland radke's new music video. it is so so so fucking terrible and genuinely embarrassing both sonically and visually im in complete and utter disbelief that there are people who could possibly think he ate. genuine tears formed in my eyes because i was so desperate for the song to finish i felt like i was being tortured by its cringe. what is this chud marvelcore me against the world go woke go broke monster energy freethinker redpilled mess. his brain dead dick riders who support him no matter what because they have no morals, values, ethics or taste argue he gets views and sells shows so therefore he must be good ........... superhanspeoplelikecoldplayandvotedforthenazis.gif

i know his concerts must REEK

[pendraegon]

why is pete wentz important to me?? like him, i was a non white kid who grew up in a very white neighborhood in the chicagoland area and it was exhausting and isolating and so so so lonely it could make your teeth hurt. like him, i’m bipolar and no one has ever quite gotten close to describing what my highs and lows are like, but he’s the only one who has gotten close. (do you know what it's like being so so so manic and you know you're not okay and everything rushes around you and you feel like you're on top of the world but you know it's all a lie? an illusion? do you know what it feels like to plummet down so so so so deep and dark and there's nothing but you and that gaping ache inside of you, reminding you just how hollow and fake you are?) like him, i grew up enthralled and obsessed with rock, punk, the hardcore scene of chicago, and there was nothing and no one there for people like me and people who looked like me in a place and sound that i loved more than anything on earth. i saw him reflected in me and in the most non creepy parasocial way possible, he has been one of the most incredible influences of my life. maybe even one of the possible sunshines of my lifetime for all he is still a stranger to me, and i to him.

[sergle]

okay but what's your opinion on the album covers for Lent and Punch

Personally they aren't my favorite but god they're at least better than the new ones

OOH okay, so I think Lent and Punch are definitely more weird, but I'm into it bc they very much feel like that intentional Funky Indie Art style that you find w some album art. It feels like you're supposed to go "oh that's weird" Punch was my first album from Autoheart that I heard, and I think that weird lil purple guy art really got my attention, and then I stuck around for the beautiful music!! Lent is less interesting to look at, but they're both very distinctive.

[mmansonisart]

if you don't like the high end of low or born villain literally get OUT of my face dude.

[galavant-song-tournament]

Bonus poll!

People have mentioned in tags and propaganda about various things from the recordings but I only listen to the songs as Youtube to mp3 so know the show versions and not the recordings and I assume a bunch of people don't listen to the songs except when watching the show, so wondering how people are most familiar with the songs.

[notasapleasure]

WHAT is it this reminds me so much of?? It's like...just pre-Britpop, mid-'90s, maybe even American indie of some kind? All the elements are familiar and I can't work out if they're familiar to one particular other song or band or what....

[crmsndragonwngss]

Settled With theatrical sequences I hope the bleeding persists