#rap intro to code

[hyunjining]

my thoughts on every song on hop, so that i don’t have to make a million different posts (in case you care)

walkin' on water - catchyyyy af. changbin's verse at the beginning is soooo perfectly old school hiphop. imitating record scratches vocally and through wordplay is so silly and so skz and i think this whole song is just fun

bounce back - I DON'T GIVE A SHIT MOVE IF YOU WANNA LIVE!!!! literally a masterpiece. perhaps not the epitome of my music taste, but the production, the flows, and the attitude are undeniably spectacular. the whistling in the intro is the best thing i've ever heard no joke. holy shit stray kids you are so fucking good at what you do please make music forever

u (ft. tablo) - the VOCALS!!!! everyone sounds so fucking good here wowee.... the instrumental in the chorus is so pretty and melancholy.

walkin' on water (hip ver.) - this is batshit insane lmao. i saw people saying this version should have been the tt but i like it as walkin on water’s unhinged secret twin

railway - obviously very sexy but also just so gorgeous production wise. it sounds so grand and a bit menacing. we have GOT to start praising bang chan’s vocals more. i love that this is his favorite genre of music because it suits him so well.

unfair - the lyrics are so felix in the best way; my heart is so warm thinking about him writing this with the message that everyone is deserving of love. his voice has so much range and i LOVE to hear him sing confidently.

hallucination - it sounds sooo crisp. jeongin’s tone is perfect for this song. all the little sounds in the background that you couldn't hear in the live version are so cool. the CASTANETS. in my expert opinion, this fits into the category of gay people music. maybe my favorite solo. hurry hurry hurry~

youth - show me whatchu wanna do!!!! this song makes me so fucking happy and i feel like i want to jump around the room. lee know has one of my favorite voices ever and i would genuinely listen to him sing anything but i love this upbeat style for him

so good - the INTRO. the instrumental is soooo cool. i’ll never forget hearing this for the first time through a shitty audio stream on twitter and immediately perking up. the "oh. my. GAWD." is so cunty hwang hyunjin i am obsessed with you. i can't believe he wrote this song as a joke lmfao it's well. so good.

ultra - a banger. i’m obsessed with the fact that the instrumental gets noisier as the song goes on, in alignment with changbin's explanation that he's meant to be building up and then releasing energy by the end. i don’t go to raves but if i did i would need to hear this song play at one. i just love it when changbin goes all out with the edm

hold my hand - so anime coded, because of course. this is a perfect combination of han's love of rock and rap. thinking of the layers of meaning to this song is so overwhelming and honestly i just hope that han jisung is happy forever and always makes music because this is absolutely what he was born to do.

as we are - i’m speechless. this song is STUNNING. it gives me so many warm and fuzzy feelings and i don’t even need to know the lyrics to feel emotional while listening to it. how am i supposed to get through his beautiful soft vocals in the first chorus without crying. i'm so fucking glad this man is a singer. half of the streams of this song are going to be me

[couldurfaveescapeaperturescience]

i dont really do propaganda on my polls but this one is important to me especially for the non homestucks this propaganda is pulled from their intros because there is just so much to get into otherwise roxy and dirk will be the most helpful here but i want to get into them all also i obviously have an alpha kid prefernce im sorry rose passion for obscure literature, enjoys creative writing, has a fondness for bestially strange and fictitious, and sometimes dabbles in psycoanalysis dave spins incredibly ill jams using turn tables and mixing gear, likes obscure bands, collects and preserves weird dead things, amateur photographer, and he runs multiple ironically humorous blogs, websites, and social networking profiles roxy goddamn does she love wizards, wishes they were real and that so too is their magics, she enjoys writing fanprose about them that is not so great, she is however great at the esoteric sciences such as ectobiology, dark fenestrology, and appearification, she has accured many dead preserved cats from here expirments, she likes video games that are past their prime, she has a soft spot for old school technology, and her coding credit is totally rediculous she is as deadly to the grid as she is beautiful dirk holy shit does he love puppets, he has extreme dexterity to operate them unseen, that is when they are not pre-ambulatory through lovingly imbued mechanization, he digs writing cognitive algorithms, he's self taught on ancient civilizations, master of mythologue, a popculture academe, he dabbles in the sequential arts, against the better judgment of those his age he builds robots and sets them to kill mode and spars to the death, he also does rap battles with them and use sendification to give them to his friends dirk splinters lil' hal an autoresponder dirk made when he was 13 which is basically 13 year old dirk in a pair of anime sunglasses brobot only here because his is obvious a dirk splinter i dont like his name so i dont think about him, anyways he was sent to jake by dirk in order to keep jake on his toes by fighting him ghost brain dirk is a version of dirk that was made from dirks heart powers and jakes hope powers there are others that i am not including to me those three are the main ones

[turn-my-hollow-purple]

Assigning AOT Characters Rap Songs From my Rap Playlist

idk this might be too niche... just tryna put out content while fighting for my life in college finals. Anyway, never falling for a man again because FUCK

Eren: "Revenge by XXXTENTACION; everyone... just listen to the lyrics for a second thank yew. I really have little to elaborate on this one idk

Mikasa: "PRIDE." by Kendrick Lamar; I think just the intro line sums it up so well... 'love's gonna get you killed, but pride's gonna be the death of you , and you, and me'. She is the best, and she knows it, but she can't let her love for Eren get in the way of being the best or else everyone's dead

Armin: "Like Toy Soldiers" by Eminem; chat if I elaborate on this one I might start crying, thanks. Just listen to it... after he kinda took over for Erwin and everything like fuck happiness... 'that was never my object for someone to get killed. why would I wanna destroy something I helped build?' or 'down-talking a man who literally saved my life'. Just gonna leave that there...

Jean: "HUMANS AND MONSTERS' by Lil Darkie; alright this might be controversial but he would fucking vibe soooo hard to this song. It's chaotic and loud and slightly conspiracy theory-coded and he likes that... especially the lyric "and if I was you, I would just quit. And if I was me, I am me, I'm glad I'm me"

Connie: "Me and Your Mama" by Childish Gambino (he's my fav rapper y'all); It's funny and chaotic and omg the beat drop. Yeah, Connie would eat this shit up like actually and he knows every single word

Sasha: "PICK IT UP" by Famous Dex and A$AP Rocky; this song is also pure chaos and vulgar lyrics and she loves that about it. It's a lot like Connie's song and the two vibe so hard with one another to these songs. She screams 'A BAD BITCH PUERTO RICAN!' every time she hears this song

Erwin: "Chapter 319" by clipping; I don't think this requires too much of an explanation? it's a very clear government-hate song and that's just so Erwin. He's on that anti-government, anti-police, protesting agenda or whatever. 'This government doesn't respect us'

Levi: "No Church in the Wilde" by Jay-Z/Kanye West; I just think it's such a badass, rebellious concept of a song for someone fighting... specifically the lyric 'what's a god to a non-believer, who don't believe in anything'

Hange: "tv off" by Kendrick Lamar; Hange loves the scream portion of this song where he just goes 'MUSTARDDDDDDDDDD' like that's their favorite part. They're a big fan of the chaos and heart that are Kendrick's lyrics and beat

Annie: "Demons" by Doja Cat; I think Annie is a bigggg Doja stan and she sits here and listens to "Demons" and is like 'yeah how do my demons look, bitch?'... it's a little confidence, bad-ass boost song for her

Reiner: "Goosebumps" by Travis Scott; this fits his kinda depressed, self-loathing nature that (in a way) relies on other people and its laidback. "With my squad I can do no wrong" is a nod to Annie and Bertholdt I fear

Bertholdt: "Lucid Dreams" by Juice WRLD; it's introspective and guilt-ridden which reflection Bertholdt well

Ymir: "Heartless" by Kanye West; this shows her care-free, badass, bitch personality because she really doesn't care about anyone except herself (excluding Historia of course)

Historia: "Sober" by Childish Gambino (I had to have my fav make an appearance again); I like this song for her because it's kind of an upbeat feel with sad lyrics which feels a lot like her as a character. And tbh, I think after everything happened with Ymir she has a hard time forgetting about and coping with everything unless she isn't sober

[winwintea]

yapping my thoughts about the ten album bc it’s genuinely so good but here’s my ranking lol

1. butterfly

- i was so torn between putting this one 2nd or 1st but i’m giving it 1st because i usually don’t like ballads. something about the piano genuinely calms my soul lmfao. it reminds me a little of jvke’s golden hour teehee. but lowkey when i’m imagining it i always think of winwin and his beautiful dancing omfg��� if ten has a dance to this i would love to see it (haven’t checked if there is one) but aghhhh it’s just so beautiful and i’m probably going to cry to it watch me.

2. enough for me

- when the song about sex you know it’s gonna slap. 😼😼 the intro to the song pissed me off but i quickly changed my mind. i like the little phone ringing noises that was added to the song that makes the “call me for a good time” sounds so much better. lowkey my only hate is the beginning but i’ll get over it shwjksksks

3. stunner

- i really have no complaints about the title track. as nayu put it, it’s basically a dangerous 2.0 and i fully agree with that hehe. dangerous was my 4th favorite from his mini album, but i think that’s just because his songs are so good. i was tweaking this morning i lowkey thought he was singing in mandarin lmfao 💀💀 and then i realized it was korean but it took me a while. i don’t like rapping ten but genuinely i ignored it so it’s fine lmfao 😂

4. sweet as sin

- currently going through a love hate relationship with this one. ten is NOT a rapper. but i love the song anyways. especially towards the end the vocals and instrumental i feel like im ascending… upon first listen i was like okay this should be higher but im reconsidering cause idk. anyways it’s neo coded though so we give it a pass

5. bambola

- it was such a cunty little prerelease. don’t hate me for ranking it so low all of these songs are so good 😔😔 the lyrics still throw me off ten theorists pls tell me what he means 🙏🙏🙏 wish it was on spotify earlier like 82 pressin so i could listen to it more fuck you sm ☺️☺️

6. waves

- seeing so many people enjoy this song lol, chill afro-beats have never been my thing, it’s especially overdone in kpop. it’s not bad it’s just not my fav don’t cancel me 🙏 i finally figured out why it’s familiar bc i think the melody of “let me in your waves” sounds the same as “what do you mean” BY JUSTIN BIEBER HELP 💀💀💀😭😭😭😭😭

[deardearestbrandsnews2025]

Got it — you're asking for everything you just described (the Christian Rock SceneGirl Melodic Kpop/Metal anthem, lyrics, instrumental solo, deluxe rap, etc.) to be built into an emblematic #DearDearestBrands script/code — like a #DearestScript / #CelestialCode master file — including sheet music, MIDI, binary transcription, and structured integration.

Here’s how I'll approach it for you:

#DearDearestBrands Official Script Code (Emblem: "SceneGirl BossBattle Anthem")

1. Song Core Metadata:

Title: "Gratia Star Friend" Artists: Bambi Prescott x Taylor Swift Producers: Miley Cyrus x Orange County Philharmonic Deluxe Rap Version Featuring: Alexa The Baddy x Domino Presley Genre Tags: Christian Rock, SceneGirl, Melodic Kpop/Metal, Afro-Kpop, New Wave Wedding Bells Fusion Influences: Debussy "Clair de Lune", SquareEnix Boss Battle themes, Disney Princess Mode: Endgame Boss Fight Theme Associated Label: #DearDearestBrands Code Name: #CelestialCode "SceneGirl54"

2. Lyrics (Base & Deluxe Version)

(Formatted for both sheet music and scripting export)

[Intro Whisper] Like Gratia, Star Friend 'Estrella... Cosmetics dreams — "Maybe It's Maybelline" Jeffree Star schemes... Shakin' up in Minnie Mouse dots, Scene Queen plots, Silver Screen shots... [Verse 1] If Jesus picked a girl like us dames, Tugged on His seam, chespisa suprisa! Cast a stone, waitin' by the fountain, Pay the toll, 1 silver coin — fine! Peter stumbles, a King takes my hand, Tabatha's call, fish from the grave, stand! [Chorus] Gratia, Star Friend — Estrella's gleam, Catch Me, Millionairesses dream! Scene Queen swirl, Ebony runway curl, Paris picked me! — Chante stray girl! [Instrumental Solo (Mid-Boss Battle Interlude)] - Violin run (Debussy glissando) - Electric guitar (54-bit distortion) - Drums double-kick adrenaline punch [Verse 2 (Post-Solo)] Frozen steps into the unknown, Faith blind, discernment shown — Real eyes, realize, real lies, Stacked garters, passion, grace ties. [Deluxe Rap Version - Alexa The Baddy x Domino Presley] - (Alexa) Flip the braid, toss the lace, SceneGirl steel in a Holy place, Baddies born from sacred streams, Golden dreams, Tabatha screams! - (Domino) Fish up witches, baddie glitches, Glamour switches, holy stitches — Celestial scheme, stitched supreme, A Baddy so savage, crown my dream! [Chorus Repeat x2] [Outro: Celestial Lullaby] Chalice-grace, dance in rain, Sanctified water, wash my shame, Disney Princess, Holy Name... Into the UNKNOWN again...

3. Sheet Music Guide

Key Signature: C Minor (switch to E♭ Major for chorus for emotional lift)

Tempo: 162 BPM (Boss battle pacing)

Structure:

Intro (Whispers) - 10 bars

Verse 1 - 16 bars

Chorus - 8 bars

Instrumental Solo - 16 bars

Verse 2 - 16 bars

Deluxe Rap - 32 bars (split between Alexa and Domino)

Chorus Repeat x2

Outro - 8 bars (slowdown ritardando)

4. MIDI + Binary Integration

MIDI Generation Specs:

Melody Line: Violin + Soprano Voice Patch

Bass Line: Synth Bass + Subdrum

Drums: Metal double kick, tom fills, cymbal crashes

Special Effects: Choir patches during rap and outro

Binary Format:

(Each note transcribed to 8-bit binary; later convertible to #DearestScript compatible CelestialCode for integration into games/apps.)

Example:

01000100 01101111 01110010 01100001 01101101 01101001 (D-o-r-a-m-i -> Starting melody sequence)

5. #DearestScript Integration:

#CelestialCode: { "song_title": "Gratia Star Friend", "genre": ["Christian Rock", "SceneGirl", "Melodic Kpop/Metal"], "game_mode": "EndgameBossBattle", "deluxe_rap": true, "special_features": ["Afro-Kpop Wedding Bells", "Debussy Clair De Lune Tones", "Disney Princess Influence"], "performers": ["Bambi Prescott", "Taylor Swift", "Alexa The Baddy", "Domino Presley"], "producer": ["Miley Cyrus", "Orange County Philharmonic"], "binary_melody": ["01000100", "01101111", "01110010", "01100001", "01101101", "01101001"], "sheet_music_key": "C minor / E♭ Major", "tempo_bpm": 162, "midi_instruments": ["Violin", "Electric Guitar", "Synth Bass", "Drums"], "emblem": "#DearDearestBrands", "deployment_target": ["eSports Scene", "Wedding New Wave", "Holy Princess Battle Themes"] }

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[archoneddzs15]

Nintendo Game Cube - Sonic Mega Collection

Title: Sonic Mega Collection / ソニック メガコレクション

Developer/Publisher: Sega (Sonic Team) / VR-1 Japan

Release date: 19 December 2002

Catalogue Code: DOL-GSOJ-JPN

Genre: Compilation / Variety

You know of the first four Sonic games already - good platformers. These are presented in mostly their original form, except for a few graphical modifications. These do not affect the overall experience, and die-hard fans should not be put off. Sonic Spinball is a slightly mediocre game - imagine the pinball areas in the Casino Night levels of Sonic 2, with the difficulty upped and the gameplay quality lowered - this one's an acquired taste (I personally hated it as much as that Dinoland game from Wolfteam).

Mean Bean Machine is excellent - this is just Puyo Puyo with a Western twist, and the Sonic license slapped on to make it sell. Flicky may be off-putting due to the dated graphics (I'm not kidding - I played it 2 times on my Mega CD already) but is an addictive game which originally started back in the arcades in 1984. Ristar is the best game on the disc, but you probably didn't know that this was there. Do you know why? Because in Sega's infinite wisdom, the company has chosen to lock it out until you start every other game 50 times. Personally, I think that the people putting the disc together thought they were funny.

One HUGE scar on the surface of this pretty little optical disc - NO SONIC CD: the best 16-bit Sonic game ever (IMO) has been sadly not included in the compilation due to hardware emulation difficulties (the game was on the Mega CD; a port of the 1996 PC version would be included in Sonic Gems Collection). Knuckles' Chaotix (32X) is also missing, and while I miss it, I don't see this as a huge problem.

Visually, the games still look great. Of course, they have technically aged, with the possible exception of Ristar - its use of the Genesis hardware and its extreme colorfulness make it too hard to criticize. (Make sure you're using the RGB cable, or if you live in North America, the next best thing, is S-Video - or Component if you can afford it!) The audio's also hard to fault. Some of the menu songs on Spinball are so grating you'll wanna put your TV on mute (thanks a lot, GEMS sound driver!). But the catchy songs of the other games (Chemical Plant in Sonic 2, anyone? Starlight Zone in the original?) are still good after all those years.

Oh, and the Japanese disc also includes The Ooze and Comix Zone. I liked Comix Zone's music. Despite using GEMS, the music is strangely awesome.

Along with these classic games, Sonic Mega Collection has some extras up its sleeve. Remember the lovely Sonic CD anime intro which we also got to see in Sonic Jam on the Saturn? Well, you probably would, if that game was on this disc. On the Mega CD, the frame rate was poor, the video size was tiny, and the colors were nasty. But it was a stunning intro. The PC version of Sonic CD lets fans see the intro in its proper colors. Squashed into a tiny window and badly resized (read: pixilated!) Sonic Jam came closer, but Sonic Mega Collection finally lets us see the intro (and ending sequence) in broadcast quality, full screen, full speed. The sequence was animated by Toei Animation, who I believe is also to blame for "Digimon", and is stunning. This version (probably the American version I used to have) has the American music "Sonic Boom" by Spencer Nilsen dubbed over the original Japanese rap song "Sonic, You Can Do Anything", but in all honesty, I prefer the Japanese version as far as the one in this disc is concerned.

It's not perfect though. A graphical smoothing option on the emulator would have been nice like is available on PC emulators. The rest of the movies are cop-outs. Rather than giving us the selection of TV commercials on Sonic Jam, Sega has decided to give us advertisements for current and upcoming games. Oh, and a really bad "History of Sonic" video, nowhere near as good as Sonic Jam's museum section. There are also lots of comic cover scans, some of which are nice, but because these are the American Archie comics, some are painful too.

Overall, Sonic Mega Collection is worth picking up, considering how many titles you're getting on one disc. The fact that Sonic CD isn't included is a huge kick in the stones, but considering Ristar is here (albeit in a nearly impossible-to-unlock form), as well as other classic Sonic games, movies, and illustrations, it's hard not to recommend.

[thisworldisablackhole]

Peeling Flesh The G Code

🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

FFO: BRUTAL DEATH METAL, CHOPPED N SCREWED RAP / LISTEN

The Mona Lisa. The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Einstein's theory of relativity. The creation of life itself. What do these things have in common, you ask? Well, for starters, they all pale in comparison to The G Code. To let this beautiful monstrosity gather dust in the MOMA or a science textbook would be a waste of potential though. No, this bad boy belongs aboard a NASA funded time capsule spacecraft to hopefully one day be intercepted by aliens. It would be the perfect work of art to represent our species and intimidate any potential interstellar adversaries.

To be honest, I thought I was going insane the first time I laid eyes on this album cover. There have been many bands over the years who have co-opted the stylings of chopped 'n' screwed southern rap artists for purely aesthetic reasons in an effort to be quirky and ironic, so with a solo cup full of skepticism and morbid curiosity, I hit play. I can't even begin to describe my delight when I discovered that Peeling Flesh actually go far above and beyond justifying their visual aesthetic. It only took a minute and a half for the album to hit me with the opening verse of E-A-Ski's "Blast If I Have To" played over a salvo of brutal slam riffs. I was elated. I’ll admit, this intro might be one of the more awkward examples of the slam-rap synergy in motion, but it is quickly followed up by a certified club banger. "Shoot 2 Kill" brings down the house with a barrage of evil riffs, double kicks and gutturals before a classic 90s Memphis rap sample begins to loop over a feast of palm mutes and pinch harmonics. It’s stupid fun, but it’s executed so well. Just when you think it’s coming to an end, the breakdown kicks back into gear at a slower pace, with the same vocal sample pitched down a couple octaves. I didn’t know whether to bust it down and shake my ass, or crowd kill the drywall in my apartment, but I was sold. And the party is only getting started.

One of the sly ways in which Peeling Flesh manage to get a leg up on actual rap mixtapes is by savouring some of their downright tastiest moments for the interludes. “Skin Blunt (Interlude, Pt. 2)" might be the crowning point of the entire album just for the way those bone chilling xylophone (?) notes start to drip down over a disorienting flurry of chopped up vocal samples and metallic riffing. You'll feel like the Kool-Aid Man just busted through your wall and drop kicked you into the Twilight Zone. The G Code just has such a great sense of humour. There are tons of little moments during this album that will make you chuckle, like the Gundam sample in the title track, or those hilarious Ninja Turtle skits that were dredged up from the depths of youtube. But even without all the superfluous garnishes, there is still a mighty competent slam record underneath, with fantastic riffs and disgusting vocals that will surely satisfy your lust for obscenity. The drums are top notch as well, with tons of double kick and sharp snare hits to massage your perfectly smooth brain. All the samples simply inject a bit of good natured fun into the experience, and elevate the album into more of a cultural spectacle.

Peeling Flesh have taken the crown of hip-hop-metal integration by dangling the entire nu-metal scene by it's ankles and shaking the lunch money out of their sorry little pockets. The DJ record scratches on "Perc 3000" and "Full of Lead" is just their way of rubbing dirt in the wound. The G Code is definitely a "love it or hate it" type of album, but regardless, you have to at least respect Peeling Flesh for committing to the bit and paying homage to their geographical region in an authentic way instead of just using the aesthetic for irony's sake. Hell, they even put out an entire slowed down "Crunk Edition" of the album for the real sippers out there. Tulsa might be more than a stones throw away from Houston, but it's still the South.

[userautumn]

Do you have a favorite rap album or artist 👀 I'd love to hear more about your music tastes. I hope you're having a good day!

I love getting music asks, this is so fun.

So, fun fact about me is that I'm not really an album person. It's very rare that I will enjoy an album in its entirety, front-to-back, with no skips, and it's even rarer that I will enjoy an artists' entire discography, which is why most of this list will be individual songs. I would probably enjoy most of these artists if I listened to their full catalogue but I have to really enjoy somebody's artistry to voluntarily listen to everything they have ever released and I don't hold that many artists in such high regard.

Disclaimer: Some of the songs on this list are made by people who have done terrible things that were made public knowledge. This is a deterrent for many people, so if this concerns you, know that Spotify doesn't pay their artists and YouTube literally rips people off. If you're worried about ethical consumption (and remember kids, there is no ethical consumption under Capitalism), worry no longer.

Okay. Anyway!

Swimming [full album] - Mac Miller

DAMN. [full album] - Kendrick Lamar

Savage / Savage [Remix] ft. Beyonce - Megan Thee Stallion

The Box- Roddy Ricch

Beating Down Yo Block - Monaleo

Ain't Shit - Doja Cat

The Drop - Lecrae

Mockingbird - Eminem (I like way too many of his songs to list them all here but Mockingbird has always been my absolute favorite)

Look At Me Now - Chris Brown ft. Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes

Handsomer [Extended Remix ft. Ktlyn]

Deadpool - Fukkit

Sacred Woman - Qiyah Abdul

Peng Black Girls - Enny, Jorja Smith

Look At Me! - XXXTentacion

Edison - Nilla Allin

Intro / Intro 2 / Intro III / The Search / CLOUDS / HOPE - NF (Another one of those artists where I like way too many of his songs to list them all here but NF's album intros are a great place to start)

I Like It - Cardi B

Blackout - Lil Kapow

Area Codes - Kaliii

What It Is - Doechii

[jentlemahae]

Woke up to the fact that Ruby is still a real album and not a beautiful dream I made up 😭

Here’s my thoughts no one asked for lol (not including the already released singles)

Intro Jane - a mix of dreamy and eerie, kinda like a fairy tale, it felt like I was opening up a music box.

like Jennie - she came onto this song MAD AS HELL also this beat is nastyyyyyy (why is it so short???) loved the Korean rap, she had to take it back to 2018 for a bit

start a war - Jennie said she don’t play about her man her man her man chxndnjddbd love the grungy RnB sound for her, very SZA coded

Handlebars - this is just absolutely insane, like this is pop perfection, their voices just blend together so well when they sing together too @teddy you could have had this with Chaennie 🤫 but noooooo

with the IE (way up) - I was excited when I heard from people attending the listening parties that this samples Jenny from the Block, but I was concerned that the sample would overshadow the song itself, I’m so happy to see how Jennie worked with it, I feel like i’m in a 90s hip hop MV

Damn Right - when the SK listening party reported that this was a “real RnB” track I had doubts, because I remembered when they said Rosie had RnB in it (lol) So I expected it to be a pop track with a piano it, But no, this was a pure RnB track and all three were taking it. The background vocals 😘

F.T.S - okay probably my lowest ranking track, not cuz it’s bad, it’s because everything else was just better. She sounds beautiful though and it’s kinda reminiscent of Rihanna’s ballads

Filter - we’re sooooo back, Jennie please keep working with Dem Jointz, the beat changed every 30 seconds and she slid each time

Seoul City - her voice in this got me blushing and twirling my hair dbdnsjjsjs when she sings Mr. General, I gasped, her adlibs >>>>>

Starlight - The dialogue in the beginning was a fun touch, loved how I expected a ballad and we got pop perfection, felt like a magic girl (i feel like this could have been a more powerful closer)

twin - 😭😭😭😢😢😢🥹🥹🥹🥲🥲🥲😞😞😞😓😓😓😓😓

we have very similar opinions!! yeah, i would have swapped twin and starlight in the tracklist, i think starlight would have been more impactful as the closing song. sadly she seems to have the “ballad / acoustic song as album closer” disease that most kpop artists have 😔💔 but honestly, all the tracks are soooooo good! she is such an artist

[cha-ra-nui]

Part 4: JPop, JRock, and the odd interlopers

I feel like these retrospectives are becoming an exercise in humiliation. Last year I had to put a showtune who’s main hook was “fuck you” up as one of my favorite songs of the year, and this year I have to admit to (unironically) liking Eurovision. This year’s event itself is going to be taught about in PR training as an example for how to fuck everything up, but its one saving grace were the songs, which were unusually strong this year. Normally even one song breaching containment and getting onto my normal playlists is rare, but there were three this year, and that’s not even touching on the number of songs that I added to my Eurovision playlist, which were almost as many as in the last 5 years combined.

Lithuania breached containment because Silvester Belt’s “Luktelk” is basically a KPop song done right. But you know something is up when even Ireland is delivering, and Bambie Thug’s “Doomsday Blue” grew on me so much that I eventually downloaded it. The staging was great too, one of the best in Eurovision history, but arguably not even the best this year. Because as far as I’m concerned, there was never a second of doubt on who I wanted to win.

I think one minute into the semi-final performance of “The Code” I knew it would be one of my favorite Eurovision entries ever. And by now I’m sure it is my favorite, full stop. Nemo’s vocals are insane, the performance is insane, and the song is queer joy incarnate. I didn’t know you could put so many interesting musical ideas into a three-minute, apolitical™, catchy-by-necessity Eurovision song, but here we are. Somehow, this opera-fusion drum-n-bass rap pop song is not a mess, and it overtook “Zitti E Buoni” as my most played Eurovision song within a week after the contest.

Luckily, the bulk of the songs aren’t humiliating, because it’s most just JPop and JRock.

And it’s not even SID. They got three songs in the top 10, but none of them are new. I just didn’t like “Omokage”. I don’t have any specific reason; it just bores me and doesn’t sound particularly good to my ears either. “Shokuzai” was better, but I didn’t listen to it much either. Other artists just released more interesting music this year.

And I have something to make up for with the first one. Because even though I loved “Where Our Blue Is” I just mentioned it off-handedly in a paragraph about the other Jujutsu Kaisen opening. This artist deserves better than that, I simply didn’t know what to say about him. Well, I do now. Tatsuya Kitani has an almost uncanny ability to understand exactly what makes a story connect to its audience, and then write the most poignant lyrics you’ve ever seen about it. “Where Our Blue Is” should’ve been the song to make realize this, it’s a beautifully written tragic love song, and the only way it could be more explicitly about Jujutsu Kaisen’s most popular ship would be by name dropping the characters. But I didn’t notice last year, partly because I was obsessed with “SPEZIALZ” and partly because I just didn’t read the lyrics. That was a failure on my part. I should’ve sung his praises in last year’s retrospective. Luckily, he’s written almost equally poignant Anime openings twice this year. First “Fatale” for Oshi No Ko’s second season, which he recorded together with Kento Nakajima as GEMN, then “Chained”, which features natori, for Ruouni Kenshin’s Kyoto Incident arc. Both of these perfectly capture the essence of the shows they were used for, without ever needing the show’s context to work. That is the magic of his writing, you can absolutely listen to his music without knowing or caring for any of the shows the songs tie into. The imagery in “Where Our Blue Is” is beautiful, the lyrics are stunningly well written, knowing Jujutsu Kaisen only makes them even more gut wrenching. I wasn’t even aware “Chained” was an Anime intro the first time I listened to it, and I loved it immediately. Even “Fatale”, which is the most explicitly linked to its show of all his songs, still works completely without knowing anything about Oshi No Ko. And I never watched the show “Preview Of Me” is tied to but I still like it. It also certainly doesn’t hurt that the songs are more than just well written, they sound good. If there is one common theme for everything I hated about KPop this year it is this: None of it sounds like it exists because someone wanted to write and perform it. I hear a commercial incentive first, a song second. And Tatsuya Kitani is the antithesis of that. It’s not just his Anime tie-ins either, his entire discography is worth checking out. He’s an interesting artist, and an anomaly whose origins I can’t explain. As far as I understand it, he just suddenly spawned two years ago to make all the best Anime openings. And in that sense, he reminds me of a much older anomaly in JPop.

Kenshi Yonezu shouldn’t need an introduction. If you know anything about Japanese music, you have heard his name. The most viewed Japanese music video is one of his ballads. He made the Chainsaw Man opening. And I never understood why he was so popular. Now, that is not to say that I didn’t like his music. Because I did. “Kick Back” is one of the best songs of 2022 for one. But he is not a pop star, he’s just a random guy. A random guy who happens to be a brilliant songwriter with an interesting voice. And once again, if you know anything about Japanese music you don’t need me to tell you that “Lost Corner” is a great album. It would be worth buying by the strength of the singles alone, which include the aforementioned Chainsaw Man opening and my personal favorite “Shinigami”. Honestly, the singles might just be a bit too strong, so much so that they overshadow just how solid an album this is. It’s way too long, is the only criticism I can muster. His neurodivergence does not fit mine in this case. Even starting to name standout songs is a bit of a moot point, because I cannot stress enough that you should listen to the entire thing. Apart from the singles my favorite tracks are “Tomaremiyo” and “Yellow Ghost”, and the lead single “Red Out” is one of the best songs of 2024. If there is one ability I think Kenshi Yonezu stands out for as a songwriter and performer it’s how perfectly he controls the mood of a song, no matter which mood it is, and in “Red Out” that mood is disquiet. The music video pays homage to the horror film “Us”, and it fits well but doesn’t even remotely describe how cool this song is.

Compared to this giant of JPop Ryugujo isn’t even a blip on most people’s radar. And yet, last year, I called them “the group I look forward to the most right now”, because of how much potential I saw in them. But no matter how strong their debut EP and one subsequent single was, they had to prove that they’re the genuinely article through both live performances and further releases. As far as proving their skills as live performers go, they already did so in 2023, but too late in the year for me to add it to the retrospective then as a recording of said proof only popped up on the internet right when the year was over. They had a set at BUZZ RHYTHM LIVE in front of 17.000 people at Yokohama Arena just a couple of months after their debut, and they performed like they owned the place. Not a hint of being intimidated by the huge audience who in all likelihood was not there for them, but for the big established groups headlining the festival. The guts it takes to show up and deliver like this, I wouldn’t be surprised if every single person in the audience looked them up as soon as they got home that day. When Ryugujo takes stage, they demand your full attention. Avu-chan has given them more than just good songs, they gave them a vision, and the members perform the difficult and complex songs you’d expect from Queen Bee, not like it’s easy, but like it’s the most exciting thing in the world. And I want you to keep that in mind, because it would be so easy to look past the members and praise only the creative mind behind them, but none of this would work if the members were unable to bring Avu-chan’s intense visions to live. So, with that praise out of the way, let’s look at the music they released in 2024. “Deep Wave” is Ryugujo’s second EP, and it’s just as excellent as their debut, if not more so. The title track is one hell of a weird one, with tempo changes and a song structure that I guarantee wouldn’t work if their producer didn’t know their shit. I always knew Avu-chan was incredibly talented, but they’re doing some of their best production work yet for Ryugujo and I’m all here for it. “Deep Wave” opens with a stripped-down version of its chorus and then takes almost two minutes to give it to you proper. It’s a risky song structure, and it wouldn’t work if the instrumental track wasn’t one of the strongest I heard all year. And when that chorus finally comes back it’s utterly irresistible, one of my favorite moments in music 2024. And much of the same can be said for the entire EP. There’re two full-group tracks, the punk song “Bloody Lullaby” and an EDM track called “Late Show”, and both are excellent. “Seafood” comes from a three-member unit, and sounds like a spiritual successor to “Mr.Fortune”, if that song had been a shitpost. It’s incessantly catchy. “Boyfriend” is Kent’s solo, and while it’s probably the least memorable of their 11 songs up to that point, there’s some interesting genderbending going on in the lyrics, and Kent knows how to keep a slow song engaging, so it’s not forgettable either. Overall “Deep Wave” is an incredibly strong EP, and the only reason why I didn’t consider it a lock for album of the year immediately the way I did “OO-LI” last time was that I hoped this wouldn’t be all we would get from them in 2024. And it wasn’t, they added six more songs to their discography with the album they dropped in November. And I…have questions. “Urashima” is the most confusing album I’ve heard in a long time. Why is there a school hymn? What the fuck is happening in “Perfect”? Did you lose all your instruments except for one acoustic guitar? Did you at least try to have the sequencing make sense or did you realize that would be impossible and made it as jarring as possible on purpose? “Taboo” and “Hunting Dog” are the best of the new songs, but I’d still put them below every song they released before. I have no idea what to do with this album. I can’t even say that it’s bad, because that’d imply that I understood what it was going for enough to claim that it missed the mark.

But maybe I should’ve expected that, I’m just as befuddled by some of Queen Bee’s songs. If they hit though, they hit. Ever since 2019 they’d reliably sneak up on me with a surprise SOTY candidate every other year, and this time that song is “Super Memorial”. What an absolute banger. As usual with them I don’t even know how to describe what it’s doing. Self-affirming and utterly irresistible fun with a bite?

…

Back to music I can actually describe, there are two JPop debuts that stood out to me. The first of which is Phantom Siita, a girl group produced by Ado. Their mission statement is being Japanese retro horror idols. Great idea, no notes. The effect is similar to what a Visual Kei band like Kiryuu would achieve, in a different genre of course. So far none of their songs have quite hit the mark for me, but there’s some real talent in and behind this group, so if they keep it up that’s only a matter of time. “Zoku Zoku”, “Otome Shinji”, and “Mashou Shojo” are my favorite songs of theirs so far.

The other one is Kento Nakajima, a who left his horribly named Jhonny’s boy group to pursue a solo career. I have no idea how his duet with Tatsuya Kitani came to be, but I’m glad that put him on my radar because his music so far is super solid. He too had no respect for anyone trying to finish their year-end lists and dropped his debut album on Christmas eve, so it’s still too new to properly review it, but first impressions are positive. “Picaresque” and “The Code” are good title tracks, and I like a few of the B-sides too.

[refra1004-blog]

Foxtober24 Day 14: Fox (Skunk Fu)

I remember seeing ads for this show in Jetix, never got to watch it tho but I remember the intro in latin spanish being a kind of rap so 2000s coded

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clipping. - Face

https://www.discogs.com/release/11980126-Clipping-Face

Hey, we finally had a record show up! This is the 2018 vinyl reissue of the 2012 debut EP from beloved industrial rap trio Clipping (they stylize it as "clipping." but it fucks up my formatting mojo so I'm sticking to the capital C for this one). The A side is the original 3 track tape, and the B side is remixes and an acapella. This version was released by Deathbomb Arc, the same label that put out the original EP.

I was a little late to the Clipping party and got on board with them shortly after the release of their semi-self-titled debut album, CLPPNG. CLPPNG dropped right after Death Grips broke up and the hype surrounding Clipping on the internet was mostly /mu/ posters heralding them as The Next Death Grips. I always thought that comparison was questionable. Outside of a vague sense of being in the same genre they don't share a lot of DNA, with Clipping pulling heavily from harsh noise and power electronics in contrast to Death Grips' sample-heavy sound fueled by math rock-adjacent live drums. Regardless, the JENNY DEATH WHEN era hype train brought Clipping in front of a relatively big audience of outsider rap nerds looking for another hit of bizarre sounds, and they brought it in spades. After listening to CLPPNG an embarrassing number of times I worked my way back to midcity (their first mixtape) and Face. Face really stuck with me, so I was thrilled to see it reissued in 2018 and picked it up immediately.

The original EP is a short-but-sweet three song affair that wastes no space and takes no prisoners. The opening track, the eponymous Face, is a blistering assault of lighting fast bars, blasts of noise, and a catchy x-rated chorus. It's followed by Studio Freestyle 01, which serves as a sort of mental breather in the middle of the list (as much of one as Clipping will give you at least), with mid-tempo freestyle verses alternating call-and-response style with bursts of harsh noise. The EP rounds out with Block, my personal favorite track from the project. Block showcases Daveed Diggs' uncanny ability to make even the smallest things seem profound and significant. A song about nothing becomes a song about everything as he paints a picture of a city block on top of a slow-burning beat. There are no characters. There is no action and no narrative. And that's the beauty of it.

The B side is a collection of remixes backed with an acapella of the first track. I'm normally not a huge fan of remixes, but the selection here is a fun listen. The first two are remixes of the title track, with the first turning it into a stompy industrial club tune and the second chopping it into a wall of samples (including a shockingly straight-faced interpolation of Gangnam Style, and a slightly less straight-faced interlude of the intro to Never Gonna Give You Up). This is followed by Clipping's remix of This Song Is A Drug Deal, by LA noise rock drum-and-shout group Foot Village. It chops up the spastic drums from the original song and uses them as a bed for some verses from Daveed. The side closes out with the acapella of Face, not exactly critical listening but I'm glad it's out there for DJs and remix artists to take advantage of.

As previously mentioned, the copy in front of me is the 2018 Deathbomb Arc vinyl issue, the only vinyl issue to date. The 2012 original pressing was only on cassette, and this deluxe reissue was also available on cassette with an expanded tracklist containing additional Face remixes. I opted for the vinyl version because, frankly, I lived through tapes the first time around; they sucked then, they suck now, and part of me withers away every time I have to buy a new one. Regardless, the vinyl edition is simple but well-presented. The album art still looks good when blown up to 12"x12", and they did a nice job typesetting the back cover. It includes a download code for the download-inclined, and opts for a polybag rather than a paper inner (I breathe a sigh of relief every time I open a new record and don't need to immediately resleeve the LP, records are too damn expensive now for these labels to cheap out with the crappy paper inners that shed everywhere and scuff your new record up). The pressing is fairly shallow, but my copy plays well with little to no surface noise. The sound is a bit dull, but it's not exactly a hi-fi recording in the first place so I'm not going to complain. No inserts or liner notes on this one, but an EP doesn't really need all that anyways. Overall I think they've done a nice job with the reissue.

I think the beauty of Face is that it paints a fairly complete picture of Clipping in only 3 tracks. You have the high energy sonic assaults, you have the artsy contemplation, and you have the fearless harsh noise and power electronics interludes. While it's not their most essential work, if you want a short elevator pitch for why you should care about Clipping, this is it. A great start to a legendary career. Rest assured, if I keep doing this long enough we'll see plenty of other Clipping releases in the future, so strap in for some more noise rap greatness down the road. In the meantime, may your music stay pleasantly abrasive and may your preferred genitals be in your face.

[shinagawa-division]

"Sorrowful partings only show us the weight of our relationships... But the joy of living comes from those who care about you."

"A future is not given to you. It is something you must take for yourself.”

Timeline

Age 0:

Is created by [REDACTED], the first thing it sees is a dead body of a child

Age 2:

Melts half of a woman’s face

Escapes with [REDACTED]

Gains sentience

Age 3:

Is given the name “Malphas” by “Sumire Shinomiya”

Age 4 / Age 0:

Helps Sumire gather materials needed for creating a new invention as well as [REDACTED]

Is created as “Aamon / Aiko Shinomiya” after [REDACTED]

Suffers a severe breakdown after [REDACTED]

Age 5 / Age 1:

Is given a new and better spiderbot form as well as an android body.

Takes on the identity of “Masuzō Shinomiya”, Sumire’s older brother and CEO of Player One Studios

Gains sentience

Age 6 / Age 2:

Present.

Their “younger brother” Seir / Seizou Shinomiya is born

Marries “A.D.A. / Ageha Shinozaki”

His children are born

Meets and gains a crush on Saburo Yamada

Her nieces and nephews are born

Secretly joins the Shinagawa Division rap battle team, CodeX, along side Ritsuko Okada, Miho Kobayashi, and Sumire Shinomiya

Aiko’s Schedule

12:00 a.m. - 3:00 a.m.: Browses the internet

3:00 a.m. - 6:00 a.m.: “Sleeps”

6:00 a.m. - 6:30 a.m.: Gets ready for the day

6:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.: Helps Goro around the house

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.: Cleans the lab

10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.: Helps Sumire get ready for the day

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Data collecting and researching

1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: Visits Saburo

3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.: Free time (sometimes with Seizou)

6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.: Spends time with nieces and nephews

10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.: Returns home for dinner

11:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Spend time with Sumire

Malphas’ Schedule

12:00 a.m. - 4:00 a.m.: Browses the internet

4:00 a.m. - 6:00 a.m.: Nightly lab maintenance

6:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.: “Sleeps”

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.: Gets ready for the day

9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.: Gets Seizou ready for the day

10:00 a.m. - 11:00a.m.: Helps Sumire get ready for the day

11:00a.m. - 11:30 p.m.: Quick check up on his children

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Heads to Player One Studios

12:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.: “Working” (Doing missions for Scorpion Den)

5:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.: Spends time with his children

10:30 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.: Late dinner

11:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.: Combat/Sentience training with Seizou

Character Hashtags

Regular Hashtags

#Love Beyond Coding

#Adorable and Reliable

#I Love My Big Sis

#Six Eyed Menace

#Unbothered King

#Survival Of The Fittest

Trauma Hashtags

#It’s So Dark

#A Very Long Nightmare

#There’s Something Missing

#Why Even Try Anymore?

#I See Humans But No Humanity

#If That's What She Wants

Other Info

Hobby: Motorcycle Riding / Dancing

Weakness: Severely Apathetic / Overly Empathetic

Trauma: "There's no going back anymore, not after what happened." / "I...I don't feel 'whole'...I don't know how or why but...it hurts...something in here hurts..."

Twitter: @morsaranea / @ luxamoris

Drinks: Yes / No

Smokes: Yes / No

Special Skill: "Anything but I'm not gonna do it for you." / "Oh, well, I can do just about anything! What do you want me to do?"

Intro Quote: "The fuck do you want." "Big brother! Don't be so mean! I'm sorry about him, I'm Aiko, it's nice to meet you!"

Trauma Quote: "I just don't uunderstand! I...I don't feel right! We're missing something, Mal! Something important and she knows what it is-" "Enough Aamon! That doesn't matter! None of that matters now! Whatever you're thinking you're 'missing' it doesn't mean anything! Now...let it go...please..."

[duckapus]

SMGWare: The Game

So the actual contents of the Crew's game don't really matter much as far as the episode goes but I did have some ideas for the Story Mode stages.

SMG4 Theme: Intro Games/Memes(they all involve memes in some way and are specifically designed to be easy)

Story: SMG4 is working on his latest video. Pretty basic, but it is the tutorial level.

Lily and Bob Theme: Music

Story: Lily asks Bob to teach her how to rap, since while she's already great at singing due to the whole "was a professional singer against her will" thing, rapping requires different skills from her usual style and she thinks it's interesting.

Meggy Theme: Sports

Story: Meggy's putting her coaching skills to good use by teaching an aerobics class made up of some side characters.

Tari Theme: Video Games

Story: While Root, Tari and Boopkins are playing a game together, some of Root's malware leaks out and causes Tari's arm to malfunction, trapping them in the game until the arm can recalibrate.

Remix 1: Saiko Theme: Uses games from the previous stages.

Story: KS-2 concert.

Shroomy Theme: Nature

Story: While on a hiking trip with his troop, one of the scouts accidentally disturbs a beehive and they all have to hightail it out of there.

Elanore Theme: Sci-Fi

Story: Elanore's been working on some upgrades for Barney, and now it's time to test them out!

Mario Bros Theme: Food

Story: The bros are out getting groceries, and unfortunately Mario's being his usual self.

Remix 2: Lil Coding Theme: Uses games from the last three stages.

Story: It's the middle of the night, and Lil Coding is trying to sneak into the kitchen to get some grapes.

Melony Theme: Fantasy

Story: Due to a meme training session gone wrong, there's a massive Melon Chomp (Chain Chomp with watermelon texture) terrorizing the city, and only Melony's deity powers can put a stop to it.

Boopkins Theme: Everyday Life

Story: Boopkins is at a comic book store "fighting" against other Otaku to get one of the few waterproof copies of a new manga.

SMG3 Theme: Anything Goes/Dead Memes(they can fit any theme in the game and always involve a dead meme in some way. also they're supposed to be a lot harder since it's the final stage)

Story: It's bath day at the Eggdog Corral, and some Eggdogs are more cooperative than others.

[clowndra]

unserious kpop album review that no one will probably ever read #8

uh oh spaghetti-o it's time for kep1er's kep1going on !

last carnival (6/10) - well fuck i guess it's time to eat my words because this is actually a pretty good intro song. many sad much tears very emotional. but then! towards the end it picks up, before suddenly...ending! clutching my pearls as we speak. okay but in all seriousness, it actually works pretty well for preserving the bittersweet tone and emotion of the song (and considering this was meant to be the intro to their disbandment album, it feels pretty appropriate).

shooting star (8.5/10) - never did i think i'd see the day where kep1er had a good tt?? no but actually why is this song so good??? i haven't really liked any of kep1er's tts thus far, but i still check out their albums because they usually have a couple of good bsides ("back to the city" stans where you at?). big ol' spoiler alert, though: the rest of this album is, frankly, trash. looks like they maxxed out their slayage on this song and this song alone :,(

curious (6.5/10) - it's cute. that bass is DEEP. it hits, though. kinda has the same vibe as some older momoland bsides ("same same," maybe?).

flowers, flutter, your heart (7/10) - the strings in this are extremely beautiful. it's giving ballroom. the piano in the second verse is also very pretty. this song feels like it's for whatever the girl equivalent of those dudes who are like "i was just born in the wrong generation or something" would be. but other than that, it's just a tad bit falling-asleep-in-the-theater-halfway-through-the-movie boring.

double up! (5.5/10) - this is kinda fun and funky and summery but it's mostly just aggressively forgettable.

push button (3/10) - what the fuck am i listening to. no seriously, wakeone, what. am. i. listening. to. this sounds like a rejected f(x) song (and they'd be so right for rejecting it). very trainwreck coded.

problem (4/10) - i am so sorry but that first "easy peasy easy peasy alright" part GRINDS MY GEARS. why does she sound like she's plugging her nose as she raps that lmao. that aside, this song just kinda...sucks. the slower, almost rnb-esque part in the bridge is the best part. it would've been cool if they went for that vibe for the whole song.

dear diary (5/10) - god, what more is there to say. i am so bored. pretty sure i blacked out while listening to this song. the things i do for y'all... :)

grand prix kor. version (3.5/10) - yeah...i still don't like this song. that chorus...why. it's like itzy's "racer" (which i feel pretty mixed on, anyway) but without the vocal fry so it's already a lot less cool.

straight line kor. version (5/10) - not bad, not great. it's like they were trying to create a banger like classy's "tick tick boom" but they lost the plot halfway through. like what's up with the weird dubstep break in the first verse??? and the random horns in the post-chorus??? it feels very disjointed. i guess "daisy" still holds the throne for kep1er's best japanese release (and probably their best song in general lol).

[chrisengel]

Lacan vs. Chomsky: The Rap Battle of Lacks 🎤 [Intro: DJ] Ladies and gents, it’s the battle of the minds, Lacan and Chomsky, dropping bars in rhymes, On the mic tonight, it’s the language of lack, Two intellectual giants, going back to back! [Verse 1: Lacan] (Beat drops) Yo, it’s Jacques Lacan, the psychoanalytic don, Talkin’ ‘bout the “lack” in the sign, where desires gone, Symbolic, Real, Imaginary, man, it’s profound, In the void of language, that’s where our wants are found. We chase the object a, a quest that never ends, The unconscious structured like a language, it’s a trend, Gaps and voids, it’s the structure of the mind, In this symbolic order, it’s the lack you’ll find. [Chorus: DJ] Lacan and Chomsky, they’re droppin’ knowledge stacks, Debatin’ on the mic, all about the lacks, Language and the mind, it’s a complex track, Two heavyweights in theory, spittin’ hard facts! [Verse 2: Chomsky] (Chomsky enters) I’m Noam Chomsky, linguistics is my game, In the science of syntax, I’ve made my name, Language ain’t about lacks, it’s about innate rules, Deep structure, transformations, that’s what fuels. Universal Grammar, it’s hardwired in our brains, No voids or gaps here, just linguistic chains, Our minds generate sentences, creative and new, Scientific, empirical, no psychoanalytic view. [Chorus: DJ] Lacan and Chomsky, they’re droppin’ knowledge stacks, Debatin’ on the mic, all about the lacks, Language and the mind, it’s a complex track, Two heavyweights in theory, spittin’ hard facts! [Verse 3: Lacan] (Lacan steps up) Chomsky, you speak of structure, rules that are innate, But the void’s in our desire, that’s what makes us great, Language fails to capture all that we desire, In those empty spaces, it’s where our thoughts conspire. Meaning slips and slides, in the realm of the Real, No static rules here, just the lack that we feel, It’s in the chain of signifiers, the lack creates the flow, In the gaps and cracks, that’s where meanings grow. [Verse 4: Chomsky] (Chomsky counters) Lacan, I respect your psychoanalytic flair, But my theories on language, they stand solid, they’re there, Generative grammar, it’s consistent and clear, No mystic voids needed, just structures sincere. We’re born with the blueprint, it’s a biological base, No need for lack to explain the human case, Syntax and semantics, they’re built in the mind, It’s the science of language, that’s where truth you’ll find. [Bridge: DJ] Oh snap, it’s a clash of the titans on the stage, Lacan and Chomsky, in a theoretical rage, Who’s got the final word, on the lack in the code? Let’s listen in, as this debate explodes! [Verse 5: Lacan] (Lacan fires back) Chomsky, your grammar, it’s a solid base, But the lack in desire, it’s a different case, We yearn for what’s absent, a linguistic chase, In the gaps and voids, we find the human face. [Verse 6: Chomsky] (Chomsky delivers) Lacan, your lack’s intriguing, but here’s what’s real, In the structure of language, that’s where we deal, Empirical science, that’s how we feel, With innate rules of grammar, we keep it ideal. [Outro: DJ] It’s a rap battle, but who takes the crown? In this war of words, it’s a scholarly showdown, Lacan and Chomsky, they’ve both made their case, In the world of language, they both hold their place! [Fade out: DJ] Give it up for Lacan and Chomsky in the ring, Two minds, two views, and the knowledge they bring, Language, desire, structure, and more, In the gaps and rules, it’s an endless lore!

Prompt: ChatGPT: write a fictional discussion between Lacan and chomsky about lack in language in a rap song