#relevant music

[patchhampter]

SMØR and his stand Big Win hopefully this is my first and last SMØR post but i need to get this out somewhere

[peacel0vemusic]

[captainpirateface]

How can a song feom 2009 make so much damn sense now?

Lyrics below

They’ll paint their vulvas beige, bleed a cola keg

While I plan to ruin GOP motorcades

For these senseless zines turned censored scenes I earn a soldier’s wage

So I broke your leg, throw you roller blades

Cuz you claimed that the OG was overpaid

For pointing M-16’s at grenadine coursing through the Pollster aids

I need my water brush, in the economic crunch

The financers are seeped in embalming slush

And the sexist mean express the means to re-appeal Roe vs. Wade

So I got to démodé the dark matter on the spring loaded park plaza

Who is in charge? I don’t know, they all eat their business cards

I’m a hack at deer shooting , know Vladimir Putin

While I wear this cashmere pants-suit thing

I can knight the spokesman so Ibprophen become your golden egg

Automated voter ready-tellers are the subsequent heavy seller in the pool of undecided registry

Cuz they don’t give a fuck about the findings on the troop surge it’s a moot point. What have you heard?

Bumbling idiots for news correspondents see the desperate need for a new foreign policy

Yet they give the credence to the pro-war pandering as we all squabble over Saturn wings

Regimented double-talk undercuts the pertinence of the corporate heads trying to run away with tax cuts

In their vestibules the evangelicals are tent poles begging the

Head of state, “deregulate the gross”

Happy ever-after benefactors all settle matters the senate gathers to celebrate the fat fucks

Inability to give a single solitary hoot about the

Proletariat their merriment is gross

Your niggas looking G’d up, rolling in a Prius

But I got to give my money management a C+

With my foreclosed homes and pork bowl loans I re-visit the need to grind

I’m dating Russian fem-bots, sipping on some hemlock

Cuz I’ve got overdue billing on my desktop

When I’ve been overthought and undercooked that’s when I need

me-time

Me-timeMe-timeMe-timeMe-timeMe-timeMe---time,Metime,MetimesMe

I need some me-time with the pulmonary palimpsest…

Watch the bank merge liberal thinker

Because now the middle finger’s

The California state bird, if you ain’t heard

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

love that, in the Odyssey, there's one suitor (Leodes) who very specifically didn’t do anything wrong. he didn’t eat too much food, he didn’t harass the staff, he didn’t plot to kill Telemachus. and when Odysseus starts killing suitors, he begs for mercy because he was always respectful and kind and even tried to stop the other suitors from being like that

and I love that Odysseus was like “you were trying to marry my wife tho” and immediately kills him

[secretmellowblog]

i think it's extremely unfair for you to say the actors are spineless. the producers and directors, yes. but the actors were literally having their livelihoods and future career prospects threatened if they spoke out or refused to perform.

grennell, the president of the kennedy center said, “Any performer who isn’t professional enough to perform for patrons of all backgrounds, regardless of political affiliation, won’t be welcomed. In fact, we think it would be important to out those vapid and intolerant artists to ensure producers know who they shouldn’t hire - and that the public knows which shows have political litmus tests to sit in the audience. The Kennedy Center wants to be a place where people of all political stripes sit next to each other and never ask who someone voted for but instead enjoys a performance together.”

and, i want to point out, that acting in Les Miserables is a job, not a life commitment or a political statement.

I stand by what I said: every single person involved in putting on the Les Miserables Kennedy center performance was either a spineless coward or a Trump supporter, and they should ALL be utterly ashamed of themselves. They're an insult to the novel's legacy. I'm shocked people are defending it. I used to sometimes wonder whether Victor Hugo's actions-- speaking up against Napoleon III's attacks on democracy-- were genuinely that important. After all, it's not like Hugo literally shot Napoleon III in battle or raised barricades against him with his own two hands-- he just used his platform to publicly criticize Napoleon III's attacks on democracy, knowing that he was doing it at a great personal risk. And he was right about the risks-- publicly speaking against Napoleon III did radically change Hugo's life, it did radically alter the course of his career, he did lose a lot of the power he used to have, and he was forced into exile away from everything he knew.

And Les Miserables was the product of that sacrifice. it is the novel he wrote from exile, and it is thematically about his exile. It is a novel that was written as a defense of the principles of a democratic republic, and as an encouragement for people to speak truth to power and stand against tyrants even when it came at great personal risk. But like... I'm honestly starting to respect Hugo's sacrifice a lot more now that multiple people have reached out to me claiming that it's ridiculous to ask that people starring in a musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel accept any level of personal discomfort to stand up to a modern dictator. I'm obsessed with the idea that Les Miserables shouldn't have to mean anything-- that these performers can cosplay as revolutionaries Risking it All to stand Up to Powerful People, while also being spineless cowards claiming they can't accept any personal discomfort/risk whatsoever to stand up to an actual modern dictator. Even when- again!-- they are starring in a story that is literally the product of Hugo's personal sacrifice standing up against Napoleon III! No, I wouldn't care as much if it were some piece of hollow corporate trash like "Back to the Future the musical" or some other garbage. I wouldn't' even care as much if it were another hollow "stick it to the man musical" like Wicked, where all the revolution theming is just hollow window dressing. I do care when it's Les Miserables, because the original novel was written by a man who WAS willing to make that personal sacrifice, and wrote the novel ABOUT that sacrifice. I care that now these people are making their living off of Victor Hugo's legacy-- but start crying about how "they're just poor smol beans who can't do anything uwu" when asked to make even a fraction of the sacrifice that he did, the sacrifice that Les Miserables is about, the sacrifice it exists to encourage. Thousands of people were out on the street demonstrating this weekend to send a message to Donald Trump-- and when this group of artists had a direct line to make a statement to him, the thing thousands of people are out on the streets trying to get, they cowered in fear and refused. Instead they sang to make him feel good, like he was the Hero of the musical--something he already believes-- all while playing pretend as brave revolutionaries making big risks. A democratic lawmaker was shot to death this weekend, but asking a performer to care about the meaning of the art they're profiting off of is "too big of a sacrifice." give me a break. Despite everything, I do think art means something. I think art is more than "a job," I think art is more than a hollow corporate product and vehicle for profit. Les Miserables means something, and it's important that it means something.

But that means it's also important to call out the shocking hypocrisy of what the story has been warped into. The novel does have meaning and even the musical does have meaning-- and that's why I am so outraged that people are dismissing that meaning as irrelevant. It's like Orwell's description of art in dystopia as being a simply "a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces."

Honestly, if the actors wanted to sing songs about how it's ridiculous to ask them to take any personal risks or sacrifices to speak truth to power.... they shouldn't be in Les Miserables. Instead they should just get onstage and sing this song from The Sound of Music about compromising with Nazis for three hours:

[redwaterruin]

Red Water Dreams - Aviators

[frozen-planet]

part 1 of IDK where I draw DJ in the silly outfits I put them in on roblox.....

[mothcpu]

If you stare directly at reality, you'll end up going blind!

[sporesgalaxy]

TWO THANGS

when I say "love" with no descriptors, I don't mean romantic by default

when I say "art" with no descriptors, I don't mean visual by default

[s0naverse]

Grabbing you by the shoulders. No no you don't get it Polities gave Odysseus genuine advice to let his guard down and starts trusting others after years of being nothing but a war general. Advice to just be him, a man, after a decade of violence.

And what does Odysseus get in reward for trying? Mislead twice by the lotus eaters, several men killed by a cyclops, and the god of the ocean on his ass for another ten years.

No wonder Polities haunts Odysseus through the rest of the sagas, he was the first man to die under Ody’s command and it was because he dared be something other than ruthless.

[gravedigg]

The Magician - Dorian Pavus

[yaolmao]

WHERE’S THEIR HAPPY ENDING??

[numbuh424]

Happy Birthday L Lawliet! 🍰♟️🍭

[idontmindifuforgetme]

megan thee stallion is the perfect example of unbothered energy. nicki has repeatedly vagueposted about her, gone on unhinged rants about her, gone so far as to mention her dead mother (such a classless low blow), threatened her on live, and has now released the tackiest diss track in history. and what has megan done? literally nothing. she straight up ignored her, aside from that one ig story where she posted herself laughing (which was perfect btw). she is the epitome of “i will not dignify that w a response.” i love it.

[grepevine]

WILL I EVER BE FOUND?????????

[mtvscreengrabs]

Where's the Revolution - Depeche Mode (2017)