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strangledeggs · 4 months

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Has Remix Culture Run Out Of Steam?

The short answer is "no". The long answer is...

A couple days ago, I was talking with @philippesaner about the failures of postmodern critical theory to come up with a viable alternative to liberal-democratic politics given all its critiques of the latter (this subject seems to inevitably come up at least once every time we meet in real life). The famous article he brought up that the title of my current essay here is referencing is of course Bruno Latour's "Has Critique Run Out Of Steam?" which if you haven't read and are at all mystified by why we would be discussing something like this in the first place, I'd recommend reading.

Anyway, around the same time (maybe it was even the same day?), my sister happened to show me Youtube music critic Toddintheshadows' 10 worst songs of the year list for 2023. A notable entry on the list that I hadn't heard prior to seeing the video was a song that was essentially a cover of Haddaway's "What Is Love?", kind of like that previous Bebe Rexha basically-a-cover "remix" of Eiffel 65's "I'm Blue".

That struck me as interesting, given that both songs seem exemplary of a current trend that takes the very simple approach of reviving an old song that was already a "proven" high-charting hit by doing the bare minimum work on it to get it considered a "new" song, then re-releasing it and watching it climb the charts again on the power of nostalgia alone. If it seems like I'm making this out to be a more deliberate process than you'd think it might be (instead of just a coincidence born of nostalgia for the 90s/2000s), that's because I have good reason to believe it is. This Pitchfork article from a few years ago pretty much predicted this exact phenomenon, as it details how venture capitalists started buying up the song catalogues of major songwriters with specifically the intention of marketing new songs based on the licensing of older, already well-known songs.

What does this have to do with Bruno Latour? Well, many of you may not remember this, but pop music (pop culture in general, I would argue, as we'll see through some other examples) went through its own moment of "postmodern theory" not long after the political theory took off mid-20th century. There were many different ideas tossed around for a while, some of them conflicting, but most of them centered on the deconstruction of the individual artist as a singular creative originator of things, much like certified post-structuralist Barthes' "death of the author" (actually, you could argue that Barthes' original essay was the first shot in this assault on the cult of the pop-star-as-creative-genius). This culminated in a fierce debate over what started happening with the birth of hip-hop in the late 70s, but especially the 80s and 90s. Early hip-hop was often heavily dependent on the DJ's use of "samples" of already-recorded music. This sparked accusations from more traditionalist musicians (nowadays we tend to call these "rockists", which isn't entirely fair because there are many rock musicians that appreciate the nuances of this debate and many outside the genre that don't) that hip-hop was a fundamentally unoriginal genre because it relied on playing "other people's music".

At the same time that early sample-based hip-hop was emerging, a new form of recording started to be sold, first in conjunction with hip-hop DJ culture but quickly expanding beyond these bounds. This was the format of the "remixed" song, which I won't bother to explain here because I'm pretty sure everyone is familiar with it at this point. Between the growing popularity of remixes and hip-hop, many of the traditionalists seemed to feel that we were heading towards a future in music where no one would bother to create new music again because we'd just plunder the same songs from the past forever, leading us into a creative dead end that would constitute the much-threatened, long-dreaded "death of music".

This is where the postmodern streak in pop music comes in. Speaking in response to these accusations of creative bankruptcy, the postmodernists pointed out that actually, all of music had been nothing but "remixes" from the start, since no one has a truly "original" idea and all new music can be traced back through the music that influenced it in a chain that only ends at our recorded history of music. This is obvious enough from genres like rock (which used the basic structures of the blues as its jumping-off point) and jazz (which often featured artists "quoting" other songs by playing their melodies mid-solo, a kind of proto-sampling when you think about it), but it could even be observed in how classical composers would take musical themes from popular folk songs and imitate each others' compositional structures.

The point of music, the postmodernists went on to argue, isn't to create something totally "original" anyway, since that's basically impossible. It's instead to simply create something "new", and "new doesn't have to mean that it isn't built on the back of some older work; "newness", in fact, comes from the new combination of older elements, which, placed in a new context, will now seem unfamiliar as a whole even if the individual parts are familiar. As Buck 65 says, and then re-constructs through a sample of someone saying the same thing at the end of his song "Leftfielder", "And you never heard it like this before".

The postmodernists were, I think, indisputably right, and for a while it looked like they had won this particular culture war. Hip-hop went on to experience a golden age of creativity through sampling and remixes (something reflected in reference-heavy lyrics too, as any hip-hop listener will notice). Pop music in general got a lot more explicitly self-conscious and self-referential. It was (and continues to be - we're not out of this era yet, despite what I might be implicitly foreshadowing here!) an interesting time for people like me who enjoy nerding out over "spot-the-reference" games, as well as debates over the relationship between form, content and historical placement of music.

But there is a dark side to the arguments the postmodernists made. If there is truly, as an ancient source claims, "nothing new under the sun", then maybe the answer to this is not to try and create new things (since this would be a waste of time) but to stick as close as possible to those things from past times that we know have already worked. This is an argument for aesthetic conservativism, which claims on some level that there are actually a finite number of "good" art pieces (songs, stories, poems, etc.) that we can create, and if we try and deviate from these, we will either end up accidentally reproducing a worse version of one of those "originary" pieces anyway, or produce utter nonsense that will be of interest to no one.

How deep this theory goes depends on who you ask. I would argue that the originator of this argument is as far back as Plato, who claimed that there were metaphysical "forms" constituting the "real" existences of all things in the world that were, in themselves, just defective imitations of those forms. This kind of thinking is reflected in psychoanalyst Jung's idea of "archetypes", different kinds of narratives that exist eternally in all human minds which can be seen as the blueprints for all other stories we tell each other. And this idea would be highly influential on comparative mythology scholars like Joseph Campbell, whose own book "Hero With A Thousand Face", which argued that there is only one real story humanity has ever told known as the "monomyth", in turn influenced George Lucas in the writing of Star Wars.

But it doesn't have to get that deep. To many who espouse some version of this view, aesthetic conservativism is simply a shorthand for commitment to "formula" in the arts. Many of these people wouldn't even go so far as to completely deny the possibility of entirely original art - they just think it's usually a waste of time, and that 99% of what's worth making is made by the use of a "proven formula" that works because we have evidence of it already working in the past. It's a kind of bastardized "scientific" approach to creating art, where you claim to create through "evidence-based" methods, but you only ever draw your evidence from historical data and ignore the possibility of current tastes changing. It's the approach of any screenwriter who's told you about how "Save The Cat" changed their life. What's kind of funny with these types is how many of them worship George Lucas; after all, they tend to value what's successful on the market over all else, and Star Wars is nothing if not that. So the ghost of Plato (and Jung, and Campbell) lives on in these "formulaic conservatives" even if most of them never get around to thinking that much about it.

Anyway, for the record, I think this philosophy of aesthetic conservativism is completely full of shit. I'll keep my own beef with Plato for the separate essay it deserves, but I will make my case for the pop postmodernists on this issue here: just because you can retroactively identify patterns of things that "work", doesn't mean those will be the only things that will ever function as art. For one thing, canonical tastes change over time, and what we considered to be a masterpiece 100 years ago isn't always the same as what we consider to be a masterpiece today. Further, I would accuse some of these aesthetic conservatives of a kind of reverse "forest-for-the-trees" view: they can't see the uniqueness of individual trees because they're too focused on the forest as a whole! While you can point out the similarities among different works across time, you can also point out their differences, which frequently lie in their specific details - combinations of which, I might add, come from the distinct circumstances of a sum of past influences that result in an ever-new "remixed" cultural product over time. You can, in fact, just produce minor variations on the same thing and end up with wildly different results as long as you know what to focus on. Case in point: though "Cool Hand Luke" might feature a similar story to that of Jesus in the Bible, no one would ever mistake it for the Gospels, and we certainly don't view those two things as equivalent.

This might seem like I'm nitpicking here, but taking the aesthetic conservative stance has real consequences for the kind of art that gets produced. Consider the movie industry, where this kind of thinking seems to have dominated for a long time; it feels like only now, we're coming out of a long winter of cookie-cutter superhero movies which, while certainly driven economically by IP licensing deals, were justified critically to many by the idea that they're constructed according to a certain "proven formula". It was a fundamentally backward-looking paradigm of culture, one that suggested that lazily regurgitating the same thing over and over again was not only all that was possible, it was desirable because it had already worked in the past! This is the same logic expressed in those interviews with the venture capitalists buying up song catalogues in the hopes that they can prey on people's nostalgia for already "proven" hits. And you might say they're transparently only in this for the money, so what does their logic matter anyway? But I'd argue that the financial victors of culture wars like this have a significant stake in people buying the logic of what they're doing on some level, because if everyone recognized what they were doing to be obviously bad, they'd stop consuming it and move on to something else.

I would contrast this aesthetic conservativism with a more "forward-looking" approach, one that uses the postmodernist cultural theory to look towards creating new combinations of things out of old things in ways that feel genuinely surprising. Think something like DJ Shadow's "Endtroducing.....", the first album constructed entirely out of samples, or more recently, 100 gecs bizarre genre-pastiches that leap from one sound to another with little warning. You'll note that neither of these artists sound like each other, or much else that came before them, despite taking obvious influences from the decades of music that immediately preceded them.

The change doesn't have to be that drastic, either. You could be a country-rock band playing in a 70s style, like the Drive-By Truckers, but you're experimenting with songform and subject matter for a change, or a rapper incorporating a slam-poetry influence into your flow like Noname or R.A.P. Ferreira. The point is that you can, in fact, make new music with a forward-looking approach, and there is something truly disturbing to the thought that the future of the industry might be several more years of covers of the already successful hits of yesteryear, like those of "I'm Blue" and "What Is Love?" If that's the case, then we might start to see a backlash against the postmodernist cultural theory, since those growing up in the current generation would only know it by means of this aesthetic conservativism which takes the conclusion that "everything is a remix" as a license to do the barest minimum of remixing possible for the safest return on investments. And what we might see then is a return to pre-20th century ideas of the sanctity of the individual artist's creation and "originality", which will simply throw more fuel on an already raging fire of support for devastatingly overreaching IP laws, which will ironically only make it easier for this phenomenon of re-animated Hits From The Dead to continue. Because you know who can afford to buy up that IP so that their own remixes are the only "legal" ones...

As a final note here, I wanted to bring up the original "Everything Is A Remix" guy, Kirby Ferguson, whose video essay series released under that title is still available in its original form here (it's just past the "updated 2023 edition", which I haven't watched yet). I first watched this series almost 15 years ago and I felt like the guy was basically summarizing everything I had been saying about the postmodernist theory of art at that point - nothing is truly "original", remixing isn't the same as "stealing", intellectual property law is a plague, etc. Anyway, I haven't kept up with what he's been doing these days, and taking a quick glance at the site, it looks kind of grim: he's got a dubious-looking course on using AI in art as well as several self-help-y looking ones on "unlocking your creative potential". I guess he had to make some money on his idea somehow (ironic, for a guy whose thesis kind of necessitated a destruction of the laws that allow people to profit off their ideas), but this is a bit of depressing direction to see him take. Anyway, check out the original videos if you haven't seen them, they make a compelling argument even if I think I would find it kind of oversimplified now (disclaimer: I haven't rewatched them at the time of writing this and am relying on my memory from almost 15 years ago, so I take no responsibility here if they turn out to actually kind of suck).

#Music #Music analysis #Remix culture #Aesthetics

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manticorium · 4 months

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GOT TAGGED WAHH fanks @andlookwheremyhandwas + @weregore :^3

last song: my consolle by eiffel 65 on repeat for like 40 minutes. if you dont like it you can get the hell off my webpage

currently watching: grimm and i are rewatching saw and if i'm lucky i'll get saw v this weekend. put that stupid pudding cup in the hydraulic press NOW

three ships: ohhh jesus i cant do this without cheating off somebody elses paper. hoffstrahm, cfoface, and what grimm said about wesker + gascoigne

favorite color: my least favorite question because i love so many all the time. blue-leaning purple is my Favorite favorite but dandelion yellow is very universally appealing to me!! everybody says black doesnt count but if it did. its black. and bright red. and hot pink. and snot green. and purple. definitely purple.

currently consuming: matcha with so much milk and sugar. because im special and i love treats

first ship: when i was like 8 i wanted yotsubas dad to hook up w jumbo

relationship status: puts @weregore in my mouth like the jerma eating the bird in the birdhouse bit ❤️💕❤️💕❤️💕

last movie: i am watching saw as we speak :^) most fun i’ve had without lubricant ! currently working on: rescaping my aquarium (when i wasnt looking my dickhead pet snails ate literally all my pearlweed i had just gotten to carpet) + drawing saw stuff (HOFFSTRAHM NATION!!!!!!) + fulfilling some reqs for my other blog :^)

IIIIIII dont know anybody to tag. everyone who sees this has already done it. um. if youre reading this you can do it too i tag You :^)

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groovesnjams · 5 months

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"Sick To My Stomach" by Rebecca Black

DV:

Totally by chance both Rebecca Black and I happened to be in London when her debut album dropped, after a series of EPs and one-off singles with interesting collaborators on her part and a few years of MG and me talking about how she’s quietly built a catalog of bops. I’m still not sure exactly what to make of her career, but I watched as a packed crowd at Heaven sang along with album cuts that were less than a day old and absolutely lost their shit when she launched into the 2021 remix of “Friday.” Maybe that’s camp, maybe it’s just the equivalent of Eiffel 65 dropping “Blue (Da Ba Dee)” into a crowd of drunk millennials; Rebecca Black was able to follow up with the fantastic “Girlfriend”, which is more than most one-hit wonders can do. It felt like Black was a hometown hero returning after she’d made it, except she wasn’t actually home and her self-released album apparently never even charted.

It seems too early to say what any of this might mean: “Sick to my Stomach” is no “Anyway” (a modern classic), but it’s a catchy slice of the classic synthpop sound where Black’s found her sweet spot. “Sick to my Stomach” also isn’t a synecdoche for the State of Pop Music Today - it’s way too much of a slow build for both radio and playlists - nor is it emblematic of hyperpop - a genre that was over the hill even before Rupaul dropped a cash-in EP more than a year ago. Black's written a carefully observed, emotionally intense bop about self-examination and projection, a twist on the "I Want You Back" concept from the perspective of someone who isn't sure she does. The obvious reference point for a song like "Sick To My Stomach" is Carly Rae Jepsen. But that's less because of the lyric - Carly writes as if she’s conducting a dissection, while Black uses words like they’re blunt instruments - and more because of the visceral imagery, the detailed production, the diaristic approach. “Sick to my Stomach” even makes space for a striking middle eight, something Jepsen (like most pop singers in the streaming era) has slowly phased out in favor of an extra chorus. “Sick to my Stomach” might not be Black's strongest single, but it’s a sign that her personal bar is getting higher. Maybe at some point the rest of the world will catch up to that crowd in London.

MG:

Rebcca Black is the first, but certainly not, by far, the last of what I will call “The Billionaire’s Daughters” on our list this year. With most of them I feel pretty straightforward: why am I being forced to engage with this? But with Black it’s much more complicated. While it’s obvious that the only reason we’re aware of her new work at all is because of the viral success of her daddy-funded teen hit “Friday,” I genuinely do not think she’s daddy-funded any longer. She’s the child of two veterinarians, and while that’s certainly a soft and luxurious start to life, it’s not the leg up you get from being born to the “former executive editor and current publisher of the Wall Street Journal” or from attending a fancy school in England, which a preponderance of this list managed to do. And while “Sick to my Stomach” is fine and pleasant and nothing more, the way Pitchfork used the unremarkableness of Let Her Burn as permission to tear into her appearance and branding instead of the work itself makes me really angry. She’s about as much of an underdog story as anyone in her position could be but as an artist she’s amassed a mediocre catalog on average where “Sick to my Stomach” rests somewhere above the middle.

#gnjsoty2k23 #rebecca black #sick to my stomach #carly rae jepsen #eiffel 65 lol

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theinsanecrayonbox · 11 months

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People think it's funny that I do this full art set for my chars, but it honestly does get me in the right headspace to vibe with the char. I put on the char playlist, work on the assets, and the char just comes together. Because, first night playing this gal I was excited to play her yes, but I wasn't really feeling her. Start working on art, throw a random song that I haven't listened to in years but randomly thought "hey maybe this'll suit her" into the playlist and BAM! It all suddenly clicked. The process works for me lol.

So Suicide Squad kinda had a TPK (no Jass isn't dead, she ran off into the jungle to go savage; I didn't wanna be the only player not to use tehir backup, plus turns out this made eth story more streamline, because full new party easier to write than "all new but the one guy with the old story") so new party was suddenly poofed onto the mysterious island through various divine interventions. So, we're not a god squad and not a suicide squad...still calling it that.

Thus, this is Theta Blu a Samsaran Magus, originally augmented during the Azlanti Empire to be a living war machine. A solider that when they fall in battle will respawn where you want them to, uh yeah that's a great idea. Thus the name is actually more the designation of which life she's on; turns out she's on her 8th life (and that I don't know my Greek alphabet, I thought theta was 5th ^^; but 8th is better). There were several centuries between her last lives, since she respawned in what are now Azlanti ruins, and no one's really around those to upkeep these days; some adventures let her out the last time, and that didn't go too well for them...her bangs keep lightening as she respawns because reasons.

Anywhos, she's blue, that's the main joke with her. She uses whip swords to channel negative energy and life sucking spells through. Should be fun!

Oh right, playlist!

Riot by Three Days Grace

Cry Little Sister by G Tom Mac

Vampire by People in Planes

O Death Remix by Jen Titus

Blue by Eiffel 65

The Hammer's Coming Down by Nickleback

Come With Me Now by Kongos

Wheel in the Sky cover by Sara Loera

Here also have barbie meme;

#my art #digital art #pathfinderstuff #dnd stuff #my ocs #was sabretooth now omega red; table has bets on who's next lol #i also think i failed to vibe at first cause i just reused gamma red's art for her and didn't do anything new #her name was lithia azurnez

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assistantcommanderalisha · 1 year

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Heya guys! I’m back with another post! But this one is about the Groucho Boi, Grrrrroucho Perry! If you guys wanna ask Perry and his siblings questions, I’m deciding to make posts about Perry and Sibs so you could get to know them before asking them questions! Next we have the funny one, the Groucho Boi, Groucho Perry the Groucho Marx Platypus aka Agent GP!

Name: Groucho Perry

Gender: Male He/him/his

Age: 17(currently in 2023)

Physical Appearance: Groucho Perry is a greenish teal male platypus with yellow tinged tangerine webbing only on his back feet(odd traits that platypuses outside of Danville don’t have) He also has three black hairs on his head, a low long salmon orange beaver tail, deep dark brown eyes in an unnatural walleyed position making him look mindlessly stupid and derpy as a pet, and a duck bill that matches his webbing color. Under his fur, he has a siren pendant, wears a 1940’s fedora on his head, and he mainly wear his Groucho Glasses as Agent GP. Around his thumb finger he wears a dark blue thumb ring which is his miraculous in camouflage mode.

Height: 2 feet (60.96 cm)

Nemesis/Enemies: Dr Doofenshimirtz(formerly) Rodney, L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N., Dennis the Bunny, and Professor Parenthesis

Friends/Allies: Doof, Phineas, Ferb, Candace, Major Monogram, Carl, Monty Monogram, Lyla Lolliberry, Stacey Hirano, Milo Murphy, Diogee, Balthazar Cavendish, Vinnie Dakota, Melissa Chase, Zack Underwood, Ortan Mahlson, Pinky the Chihuahua, the other agents, Perry, Fedora Perry, Female Perry, Bunka da Bunkaquan, Parable the Dragon-pus, Master Perry, Fez Perry, Rebel Perry the Rebel-pus, Perry the Platyborg, Sweary the Swan, Perry 2(cousin), Peggy the platypus, Ricardo the platypus, Agent Kelly, Penny/Phyllian, Whitney, Mishti, Dairry, Emily, Rose, Amy, Nelson(evil cousin), Pansy(mom), Percy(dad) and Orikko(kwami)

Family: Perry(brother), Fedora Perry(sister), Female Perry(sister), Agent Kelly(sister), Bunka da Bunkaquan(brother), Parable the Dragon-pus(brother), Master Perry(brother), Fez Perry(brother), Rebel Perry the Rebel-pus(brother), Perry the Platyborg(brother), Sweary the Swan(brother), Perry 2(cousin), Peggy(cousin), Ricardo(cousin), Penny/Phyllian(sister), Whitney(sister), Mishti(sister), Dairry(sister), Emily(sister), Rose(sister), Amy(sister), Nelson(evil cousin), Pansy(mom), and Percy(dad)

Nationality/Species: Australian(native to) American(domesticated in) , Male Platypus, half dream demon, and half siren

Born: January 30th 2006

Occupation: Top Secret agent of The OWCA, Household pet, Top watchdog spy of the Hater Empire, Leader of the Watchdog Spies with Perry, Lieutenant Colonel of the Hater Empire, Secret agent secretary of the Hater Empire and holder of the rooster miraculous

Affiliations: The O.W.C.A.(Organization Without A Cool Acronym), Flynn Fletcher Family, and the Hater Empire

Hometown: Danville

Boss: Major Monogram

Owners: Phineas and Ferb

First Appearance: Flop Starz

Alinement: Good(in PaF) and Evil(In WOY)

Likes: Raising my eyebrows at the camera, hanging out with my brothers and sisters, breaking the 4th wall, Groucho Marx, seeing people other than himself doing his thing, and Favorite Song: I’m Blue by Eiffel 65

Dislikes: Someone finding out my secret which is raising my eyebrows and breaking the 4th wall

Miraculous: Rooster Miraculous

Kwami: Orikko

Hero Persona: GrouchoRoosterBold

Villain Persona: GrouchoReverserPerry

Powers /Abilities: Sublimation(as GrouchoRoosterBold), Apportion, Clairvoyance, Cross-Dimension Awareness, Illusion manipulation, Intangibility, Innate Capability, Nigh Omnipotence, Laser Manipulation, Levitation, Molecular Manipulation, Nightmare/Dream Manipulation, Nightmare/Dream Inducement, Possession, Pyrokinesis, Size Shifting, Telekinesis, Telepathy, and Mind Reading(as a half dream demon for good) enchanted singing voice which allows to manipulate or control others’ actions with its compelling tones. The more of the positive energy he consumes, the stronger his voices becomes and the farther he could spread his good magic for everyone to enjoy(as half siren but uses it for good)

What his speaking voice sounds like: Cool, calm, collected, and he has an snooty accent to sound Groucho like Groucho Marx

Status: Active and immortal

Voiced by/Speaking and Chattering Voice: Dee Bradley Baker

Singing Voice: Swiblet

Personality: Groucho Perry is best defined as "The Funny Groucho Marx" brother of Perry. He is sometimes serious on missions, but most of the time he is very silly and derp during them. In the episode Flop Starz(his first appearance) he breaks the 4th wall when he looked straight at the camera and raises his eyebrows showing that he is very funny. Not only does he don his Groucho glasses to avoid being seen, revealing himself as "The Groucho Marx" brother of Perry and when he is invited in by Dr. D, he breaks fourth wall and raises his eyebrows while looking at the audience, in the same manner as Groucho Marx cuz he is Groucho Perry. He loves raising his eyebrows at the camera and breaking the 4th wall. He does have a hard relationship with Perry but he gets along with him and his siblings very well. He and his younger sister Fedora Perry always decide what sound does Swiper(from Dora the Explorer) makes. He believes its a whisk while FP believes it’s a spray bottle. Whenever he and his siblings watch DTE together and he sees Swiper raising his eyebrows at the camera just like him, he gets extremely excited by shrieking that he did his thing. He believes that Swiper must’ve learned raising his eyebrows at the camera from him. As Agent GP, he is proud of his abilities as a fourth wall breaker and wants to prove himself to Perry that he can be a good secret agent for the O.W.C.A. As a dream demon, Groucho Perry gets excited about it and curious to find out how he can help. Whenever he’s making a deal with someone, his greenish teal hand starts burning with blue flames. As a siren, he’s always ready to show his singing voice and feeds on the positivity around him.

#phineas and ferb flop starz #Groucho Perry #Flop Starz #rooster miraculous

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orchidyoonkook · 1 year

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For the flower asks, let's go with Orchid because duh! It's definitely your fav flower to be in your handle and to make it reader's fav flower in TWWWBAATTA

Also Iris, since I love 90's jams.

Katy my darling. I adore you so.

SO!

Orchid - Fave Fruit!

Nary got it first but I will say my second favourite fruit is probably orange, in general. Like I love orange juice and vitamin C tablets and orange flavoured things. 😋😋

Iris - favourite 90s song

I really really really can’t choose.

My dad was a DJ in the 90s and early 2000s so my house was constantly filled with music from then. My first immediate thought was I’m Blue by Eiffel 65 (1999) because A) my birth year and B) it was in iron man plus it’s iconic. But then I think of all the rock and metal and grunge bands from the 90s that I love and now I’m conflicted.

So here’s a list because music is my life.

Semi charmed kind of life - third eye blind

Ever long - foo fighters

Black hole sun - sound garden

Loosing my religion - REM

Iris - GooGoo Dolls ;)

Lightning crashes - Live

Glycerine - Bush

Say it ain’t so - weezer

Scar tissue - RHCP

Bullet with butterfly wings - smashing pumpkins

Naveed - Our Lady Peace

Nautical Disaster - Tragically Hip

Alive // Black - Pearl Jam

Hello Time Bomb - Matthew Good Band

Self Esteem - Offspring

Smells like teen spirit // in bloom - Nirvana

Everybody - Backstreet boys

And so so much more. My formative musical years are the 90s.

#music is always so hard for me to pick sorry.#katykatmeow #asks #ask game #ms.mailbox📬

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particularj · 1 year

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Got tagged by @froggierboy for a double ask game!

Sign: Aquarius ♒️

Height: 5’7” (167 cm)

Time: Uh, it’s 6:16 pm as I start filling this out

Birthday: (skipping for privacy)

Favorite Band: Band - will probably always be Linkin Park, but I’m really like Joywave these days. If we’re doing solo musician, Tori Amos.

Last movie: I don’t watch movies much these days. New movie? Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. Actual most recently watched? Muppet Christmas Carol.

Last show: New show? RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 15 or Abbott Elementary. Most recently watched: Bob’s Burgers.

When I created this blog: 2008?

What I post: Whatever I like…lots of crafts, politics & news, video game and nerd things, architecture & design things, animals, and queer stuff.

Do I get asks: LOL, never. This is the first time I think I’ve even been tagged to do an ask game.

Other blogs: nope, just this.

Followers: About 250? I block spambots like it’s my job.

Average hours of sleep: Hahaha…my sleep is all outliers. Mostly 8-10 hours but sometimes that is heavily interrupted or split up.

Instruments: I wish. Had a keyboard as a kid for a short while and would love to play piano.

What I’m wearing: It’s the weekend so hoodie shirt and jeans. Otherwise it’s usually a cardigan. I love cardigans.

Dream job: none? But seriously I like my current job as a child advocate.

Dream trip: I’d love to revisit Japan, but I also want to see New Zealand, Lebanon, Argentina, Thailand, Ireland, Kenya, and Switzerland.

Favorite songs: Ugh, too many to list and it varies based on my mood. Who doesn’t love Blue (Da Ba Dee) by Eiffel 65!

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3 ships: So, I’m not really a shipper? Or maybe I just don’t watch enough tv or movies nowadays. In my youth queer representation was not common, so…I guess I’ll just say Garnet (Steven Universe).

First ship ever: See above.

Last film: See above.

Last song: Yes, Anastasia by Tori Amos

Currently reading: The Happiness Trap by Dr. Russ Harris

Currently watching: Also see above.

Currently consuming:

—Video games: Just put down Animal Crossing after playing over 1,000 days straight. Playing Two Point Campus and excited to get into Kirby and the Forgotten Land

—Foods: Aldi’s Sparkling Frost Black Raspberry waters, Mush coffee & coconut overnight oats, and Chobani Complete Mixed Berry Vanilla yogurt drinks are daily consumptions right now.

—Textiles: trying to get into crochet…hasn’t been easy.

—Other: Enjoying Maggie’s Organics Ragg socks and Yogibo weighted blanket. I want to play Betrayal Legacy so baaaad.

Currently craving: I’m always craving coffee.

I’m tagging @the-cobalt-coast (my right hand arm man), @van-eazy (my confidant), @stormesandshowers (my silly rabbit), and @kipplekipple (I guess Barbara Walters in this case?)

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deancrowleycas · 1 year

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Somehow my first experience of gender euphoria is strongly tied to the song Blue by Eiffel 65

#I am sorry I just had a realization moment and I don't know what to do with it

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jemstarearrings · 2 years

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I was tagged by @happyheidi! I have to shuffle my playlist, list the first 10 songs, then tag 10 people. c:

La Da Dee - Cody Simpson

Build Our Machine - DAGames

Bad Habits - Ed Sheeran

Dear Future Husband - Meghan Trainor

Little Swing - AronChupa & Little Sis Nora

Blue - Eiffel 65

Runaway - AURORA

Who Put The Bomp? - Barry Mann

Numb Little Bug - Em Beihold

Stronger - Mandisa

I’m never good at tagging people in these things ‘cause I just don’t know who to tag! So whoever wants to steal this and post their own music, go for it!!

#mod post #and no there's no jem but I do have all the jem songs on my computer #my playlist just happens to be on YT Music and it doesn't let you add kids music to playlists

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sugirandom · 1 month

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Just me ranting about playing the piano/keyboard it's only under a read more because it's long and I make a mild mention of disability i guess which i don't think is triggering but hard to know for sure.

So yeah, for a little while off and on I've been trying to play the piano. We bought an Electronic keyboard last December and I still can't really read notes very well or do anything too formal yet my nerdy self is still trying to learn video game music. (To be fair I'm also trying to learn Ode To Joy, what seems to be a typical beginner lesson song lols and some Abba music)

So I've been using some tutorials on Youtube. Before doing any kind of formal learning I used to be able to play the first few notes (basically the ocarina part) of Song of Healing so that's where I started and I'm able to play most of the main melody of the full version, literally can't figure out the last 10 notes or so? And no accompaniment or left-hand parts yet... I have some trouble with that because of my hand-eye coordination issues, it's good for me to do things like this though... (basically different hemispheres of my brain interpret things at a slightly different speed)

I get bored easily doing the same thing so that's why I've tried a bunch of different things. Yesterday I started trying to play Stickerbush Symphony from Donkey Kong Country 2. The original version, not the Brawl version which honestly shouldn't have the same title because it's a new song pretty much (and much harder than the original because it's got a fancy part at the beginning!)

I can play some of the beginning and it seems like the accompaniment for it is a bit easier than it is for Song of Healing or at the very least makes more sense to me I guess so I played a little bit of that but still have to get the timing right.

IDK, I just felt like sharing this, maybe once I get all of it or at least most of it I could record me playing Song of Healing. I probably didn't talk about it before but i've wanted to play the piano since...childhood really but so yeah, even getting a few notes of something makes me so happy.

P.S. Eiffel 65 has more songs that just Blue(Da Ba Dee) and Move your Body so please upload videos or at least sheet music of those other songs...cause I'm not an advanced player who can figure out the notes by myself thanks!

#Sugi rambles #keyboard playing #ha ha

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longeyelashedtragedy · 3 months

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26, 29, 30 pls

26. three favourite non-English songs

AHHHH that's like...a lot of what i listen to? so--for each song imagine that there are like 50 i could have chosen to put there instead lol

-kangë e shahirav - mc kresha/lyrical son

-les étoiles vagabondes - nekfeu (the album of the same name is amazing, but the title track is my favorite--however it's nowhere to be found on youtube?)

-this one is actually the song i consider to be my favorite song ever: bonden og elverpigen by sorten muld (if someone wants to listen to this, you need to use headphones and if you have multiple pairs like i do then use your best ones...trust me)

runner up: mayn rue platz -- a yiddish/american song about the triangle shirtwaist factory victims

29. three songs that influenced you most (some songs change or save lives)

-am i demon - danzig

-transition - underground resistance

-fixing a hole - the beatles (this song hit hard when i was like 8 years old lol...i found a lot of comfort in "and it really doesn't matter if i'm wrong or right/where i belong, i'm right/where i belong")

30. three songs you really want your followers to know

this is tough--i think i have perfect taste in music, but i also know it's not all to people's taste. also music recommendations make me STRESSED

how 'bout

this 80s style remix of "new rules" -- dua lipa's voice is anachronistic somehow; people didn't sound like that in the 80s? but other than that it's SO good like...the people who did this truly understand what 80s music sounded like lol. but be warned that i'm an 80s fiend lol

TEA FOR ONE by LED ZEPPELIN i swear i am the only person who's ever heard this song...it sure feels that way (but you have to get past the first 20 seconds of doofy led zeppelin intro -- i love led zeppelin so i say this affectionately --first)

gnidjougouya - amadou & mariam (it's so Good)

bonus: if you'd like to get a better picture of me, when i was in 6th grade my favorite songs were like... blue eiffel 65, livin la vida loca, the hardest thing by 98 degrees, genie in a bottle, and mahler's kindertotenlieder number 3 (wenn dein mütterlein tritt zur tür herein)

#anonymous #answered #bateman blogging #german songs about a dead kid to spice it up

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viridianstarlight · 1 year

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Your turn 4 12 16 30

4: A song that reminds you of someone you would rather forget about If My Heart Was A House by Owl City Not necessarily someone I want to forget, but it's as close as it gets. This was my high school crush's favourite Owl City song, and since it's a gorgeously poetic love song, of course I related it a ton to her. I haven't talked to her in years (not because of anything serious, just friends drifting apart), and although I've mostly moved on, there are still days where I yearn for that relationship that never happened, mostly thanks to dreaming of her and that the crush lasted for like five years.

12: A song from your preteen years I DJ With The Fire by Eiffel 65 I remember being like 10 years old and obsessed with Eiffel 65, and this song in particular. I remember some days sitting in the front seat of Mum's car going to visit my grandmother, and we were just getting into town and I was listening to it on my iPod Shuffle. I also remember in high school, we were building Lego robots in our IT class, and I really wanted to make the one my partner and I were building play the song, but we never got it to work.

16: One of your favorite classical songs I'm not really interested in classical music, so how about something soundtrack-ish instead? How The West Was Won by Greg Dombrowski Dombrowski is currently my favourite composer. There's a few other composers that have come close (like Gisli Gunnarrson), but Dombrowski's still the favourite. This particular song is from his most recent album, and it's epic while still feeling classical-inspired.

30: A song that reminds you of yourself Ascent by Red It's so odd for my favourite song from a hard rock band to be one of the few compositional songs they've done, but gosh I love how it feels like a mix of sorrow and victory, and since I first listened to it like 6 years ago maybe (after checking out the album again, remembering that there was some stuff I didn't like when first listening to it), it's been something I've related to a ton.

Thanks for the questions blue! You can find the rest of the questions here

#to speak of kings and stars #littlebluebarista #an inquiry of starlight #ask meme

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rogeliodavid · 1 year

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Music, Theory, and Production

My interest in music has been pretty life-long although I can remember the first time I was impacted by a song on a personal level. I was a tween messing with the radio as my mom drove me home from school, when all of a sudden the station coalesced the song I’m Blue by Eiffel 65.

What a Bop! Kids Bop! The melody was so melancholically catchy and the chorus was enthralling!

Anyways, that moment foretold my future foray into music exploration.

The next notable chapter of this journey took place in High School. After some friends tipped me off to the home-grown discovery of House Music, I wanted more. I took to the inter-webs to trawl the main source of new music those days: music blogs and music aggregators: aka Hype Machine.

I would spend hours down the rabbit hole of searching for the latest banger. It’s how I spent my free time after school. And as an aspiring DJ it made perfect sense.

Which leads me to my next chapter of my Musical Journey: Acquiring DJ equipment and learning to do the ting. All the tracks I acquired could finally be put to use! DJ’ing became the next way I spent all of my free time. It’s what transformed me from a two-left feet type of a dancer to a rhythm-keeping, foot-bouncing natural. This DJ chapter lasted a while, but eventually it would have to shift.

Slowly but surely, I started making a beeline to the source: Music Production itself. After some false starts and fits and go’s, I finally make a whole complete track in one sitting in major part thanks to my Music Mentor/Teacher: Enoch.

The song started by learning how to download sound packs on reddit and we progressed to choosing one. Inspired, I selected a sample right away and thankfully the boys in the session with me, Enoch and Tadashi bopped along with it. So we started layering drum bits, FX, and finally, a baseline. That moment was also my introduction to harnessing a live instrument to write down a music element in a DAW.

Sometime in the session, our boy Tadashi was feeling out of it so he decided to go on a walk. As Enoch and I were finishing the track, lo and behold, I noticed that the song we made happened to sound like the perfect soundtrack to somebody feeling some type of way and going on a walk. It was decided: The track would be called: Tadashi went on a Walk.

It was a bop! I uploaded it on my music platforms and legit had it playing on repeat. The magic of this track was that it was catchy and didn’t feel like it ever played itself out. I was brimming with joy as I uploaded it on socials to share and realized that I finally had my first foray into music production, what had seemed like a long-held dream.

I was buzzing from social hyper-interaction off of sharing my very first track. People liked it! My friend Jason said that it reminded him of Japanese City Pop. Personally, I labeled it #lofi and called it a day. However, it felt satisfying finally meeting my peer’s social expectations of my musical ability. My DJ days planted that seed in their minds, and this fateful day finally brought that seed to fruition in the form of a song.

Looking forward, my latest chapter in my Music Saga intends to build myself up right: focusing on learning a handful of instruments while teaching myself music theory, as continue trying my hand at music production with DAW’s. The challenges I foresee include: being consistent, being consistent, being consistent, and learning to learn DAW’s without the benefit of a personal one-on-one tutor. I told myself that during my coding bootcamp busy-ness I would hold off on learning the DAW until I could hire another personal 1-on-1 tutor, however now I feel as though it would be better if I could teach myself intermediary skills that will make those future apprenticeship sessions much more productive and focused.

The aforementioned skills might include music theory and rudimentary instrument playing, as well as making the basic templates of my go-to music genres inside of the DAW…

#my music journey #music production #origin story

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