#mercury girls

[manysmallhands]

FearOfMu21c #25

Mercury Girls - Ariana

Released - May 20 2016

Did Not Chart

Spotify streams to date - 48,925

My favourite genre thru the mid 10s was this kinda-sorta-indiepop and Mercury Girls were amongst the very best of those groups. They were a power pop band of sorts but without the slickness that the term usually suggests to me; instead, they were full of the sweet-toothed charm that the DiY scene had in spades during that era. I come and go with this stuff a bit these days - my reduced tolerance for it has been in conflict with nostalgia throughout the selection process and as a result the cutting room floor has ended up covered with an awful lot of DiY indie singles. However, this is one that I really can’t let go: there is very little that sounds as wonderful as Ariana.

In essence it’s a breezy guitar pop tune, where the force of its hooks and Sarah Schimeneck’s gentle but spirited vocal do the main heavy lifting. But the dynamics play a huge role here too: there’s something particularly wonderful in the way that its vibe can turn in a second, like the moment where Sarah sings “this is the scene where I’m gonna leave you” and there’s a sudden wistfulness as her voice drops out, or the extraordinary drama of the chorus that follows that's somehow heightened by its lyrics being nothing more than “Oooooh, woah woah!”. There’s a constant sense throughout of something ever more glorious just around the corner and it’s a payoff that the song never fails to deliver on. 

With all of its bustling excitement and FX laden wig-outs, Ariana rocks surprisingly hard, but it never forgets the importance of a tune you can whistle and neither does it skimp on the combination of joy and melancholy that indiepop has always thrived on. Aside from this single, Mercury Girls released just two more songs and a demo tape, but the few that they left behind remain in heavy rotation to this day. Ariana is one of their very best.

[sailorsenshigifs]

[ryuki-draws]

When I saw the coffin-shaped shell unit on Calibarn's head, I knew what I had to do. Utena inspired prints I had at TFNation 2024!

[animeglitch]

[thegorgonist]

My beloved Witch from Mercury girls! I have posters for Sakuracon <3

[paradiseyuri]

Created by : ☆MiRolar☆ Respective credits to the creator ⓟⒶⓇⒶⒹⒾⓈⒺ♡ⓎⓊⓇⒾ

[espeonkin]

in light of recent events

[burnertracfone]

untitled by MILFCOOKIESIMP

[cherryinthesun]

SuleMio omNom ^^

[theknucklehead]

Here are some gifs I made of funny moments from classic Sailor Moon.

[vmpyrgal]

Sailor moon spreads ~ <3

[mikoriin]

someone had asked for mercury in my style so here she is uvu

[sailorsenshigifs]

[bloodraven55]

in honour of lesbian visibility day please pay your respects to them

[ranranico]

All the girls together 🌈

Print available here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/ranranico

[revolutionary-thoy]

Redraw of one of my favorite scenes with my Croatian AU designs! This episode always makes me cry, I was just going to skip to the scene to get the screencap, but ended up rewatching the whole thing and sobbing. This is also the Croatian AU Princess Serenity dress I guess? I pretty much made up the design on the spot, based on a dress I saw.