SUMMER HIIII !! for your ask game, 21, 34 & 43 ^3^ (i love you)
HELLO LEILANI SWEETHEART!!! >>:3 ILYMMM!! 😽💛
21. something you’ve kept since childhood?
I still have lots of my littlest pet shop toys :33 I lost a bunch over the years but there’s a good chunk of them + the little houses n stuff they would come with in my closet HFJDJ I wanna give them away though eventually 😼
34. is there a song you know every word to by heart?
THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE!! I love that song ehehe
43. what’s your take on spicy foods?
I LOVEEEE SPICY FOOD ITS SO TASTY I WANNA FEEL THE BURN!!! Years ago my dads current gf had made these super super spicy hot wings drenched in sauce that made my eyes water and I could only eat 1-2 of them but god damn I want them again….
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Finland have definitely become one to watch in recent years, so going into Eurovision season they were one of the countries I was most excited for! With UMK happening this weekend, here's my ranking of the competing songs:
Mikael Gabriel & Nublu – Vox populi
Sini Sabotage – Kuori mua
Jesse Markin – Glow
Cyan Kicks – Dancing With Demons
Sexmane – Mania
Sara Siipola – Paskana
Windows95man – No Rules!
Despite being just seven songs, this was a super hard selection to rank – honestly you could ask me tomorrow and I’d probably switch them around again. This is a very even competition in my eyes - every song is good in its own way and I enjoy them all, but there's no standout. I was in a weird position after my first listen through all these songs when they were released where I felt really positive about this selection, but then struggled to recall any individual song. A couple of weeks to get familiar with them all has definitely helped.
Right now, I think my favourite is Vox populi. It’s a super fun track, their style of Eurodance with the slightly rockier guitars and drums creates this fantastic energy – it’s great pump up music. It’s also pretty cool that it’s bilingual, with a rap verse each in Finnish and Estonian. In fact, we’ve got a fair amount of rap and hip-hop here which I love to see, since I feel they're genres that go underrepresented in Eurovision and national finals in general. Even better, they’re all very distinct from each other. Kuori mua is another rap track, but it couldn’t be any different, with the attitude it exudes and its super slick beat. I love the sharpness of it all, and how it mixes in the piano in the second half to create a more positive sound, lifting some of the tension but keeping all the energy.
The overall production level in all these songs is great – this whole selection is high quality and just sounds good to my ears. The one slight exception is No Rules, which I feel goes a bit too heavy on the fake eagle screeches, although it very much fits the overall tone of the song. This one slight annoyance, and the fact that I preferred Vox populi when it comes to Eurodance, was what made it end up at the bottom of my list, but I honestly feel bad about it – it’s still a very fun song and does what it’s doing well. I didn’t want to rank any of these songs last!
Because the songs are so even, I couldn't even suggest what deserves to win this Saturday. It's going to all depend on performance for me. Finland are never going to do better than last year's Eurovision result, but UMK has honestly become one of the best national finals over the past few years, and I hope this is enough to keep up the qualification streak they're on.
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🎤🖤🩵Lyrical🩵🖤🎧
I've been wanting to make a prompt list pulling lyrics from my favorite songs for a while. If any lyrics I have don't inspire you, please check out the playlist. There may be a different lyric that you vibe with.
All lyrics are written out under the cut. I just wanted to make fun graphics
1. Last Time I Saw You - Nicki Minaj “Maybe I pushed you away because I thought that I bore you”
2. Make It Look Easy - Chloe “I just want to feel hope and fill up the hole completely”
3. In Pieces - Chloe “And I don’t want nobody else to hold me when I’m in pieces”
4. SandCastles - Beyoncé “I scratched out your name and your face, What is it about you that I can’t erase”
5. Be Careful - Cardi B “Be careful with me, do you know what you doin’? Whose feelings that you’re hurtin’ and bruins’?”
6. Buy A Heart - Nicki Minaj, Meek Mill “But when you’re away, I can’t get you out of my mind”
7. We Belong Together - Mariah Carey “Who else am I gon’ lean on when times get rough?”
8. Told Ya - Chloe “Swallow your pride, how it tastin’ now”
9. Angel - Halle “Do you ever make it out of your head?”
10. Be Alive - Beyoncé “Do you know how much we cried? How hard we had to fight?”
11. Self Love - Metro Boomin, Coi Leray “You don’t know love, you just show love”
12. Desperado - Rihanna “There ain’t nothing here for me anymore, But I don’t want to be alone”
13. All The Stars - Kendrick Lamar “Love, Let's talk about love, Is it anything and everything that you hoped for? Or do the feeling haunt you, I know the feeling haunt you”
14. I Could Fall in Love - Selena “Tomorrow, will you want me still?”
15. Forward - Beyoncé “Go back to your sleep in your favorite spot just next to me”
16. California King Bed - Rihanna “Just when I felt like giving up on us, You turned around and gave me one last touch”
17. Refill - Elle Varner “He approached me and asked for a minute, Which turned into five, then turned into ten”
18. Cuz I love You - Lizzo “I thought that I didn’t care, I thought I was love impaired”
19. If I Ain’t Got You - Alicia Keys “Some people need three dozen roses, And that’s the only way to prove you love them”
20. Only Wanna Give It To You - Elle Varner, J. Cole “Your kisses hold me hostage and I don't wanna stop it”
21. Fallin - Coco Jones “Locked in your spell when you come around”
22. Weak - SWV “Your love is so sweet, It knocks me right off of my feet, Can’t explain why your love, it makes me weak”
23. I Hate You - SZA “What I would do to make you feel just like this”
24. I Miss You - Beyoncé “It hurts my pride to tell you how I feel”
25. Broken Clocks - SZA “Think I forgot, You love me”
26. Can’t Remember to Forget You - Shakira, Rihanna “The way he makes me feel, I never seemed to act so stupid”
27. Hazy - Chloe x Halle “You have permission, To shake my world ‘til it falls down”
28. Don’t Make It Harder On Me - Chole x Halle “I need you to stop lookin’ at me like that”
29. Fallin’ - Alicia Keys “How do you give me so much pleasure, And cause me so much pain?
30. We Need A Resolution - Aaliyah, Timbaland “You got issues, I got issues, But I know I miss you”
31. Ordinary People - John Legend “I know I misbehaved, And you made your mistakes, And we both still got room left to grow”
32. Switch! - Jasmine Sullivan “Know what I want and I want your best friend”
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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
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