#this revival was my first introduction to the musical so i have a lot of love for it

[glimeres]

2002, Rosie O'Donnel Show - Laura Benanti, Molly Ephraim, Stephen DeRosa and Adam Wylie perform No One Is Alone from the musical Into The Woods

[franciskirkland]

Do you have any pink genre recs in terms of music? I want to get more into the genre.

-Hypermobile Françoise anon

hello!!! do you have any idea how hard this is for me to answer. i love rambling and being pedantic and going off on tangents. almost as much as i love punk music...

tl;dr i compiled a playlist for you, containing 3 songs from (most of) the bands mentioned below, plus a few extra from miscellanious artists bc 54 is my lucky number. it was hard to choose just 3 from some of my faves but i feel like this is a good introduction. long post to follow <3

instead of simply giving you a list and sending you on your merry way, i am absolutely going to spout off bc thats what i do and ur gonna regret asking. do you think you were gonna get off that easy? you absolute fool. sit ur ass down ur about to get schooled.

disclaimer; this isn't exhaustive. i'm not rattling off every single punk artist that's ever existed. just a few of my favorites.

the clash, the quintessential punk band in my opinion. defined the genre and embodied the political ethos. explored different subgenres througout their expansive discography. they were probably my first introduction to music as a whole since they're my dad's favorite band. i may be biased but i'd definitely say start with the clash. i'd recommend listening to their third album, london calling, first.

the pogues - the folk punk band of all time. NOT folk-punk like some smelly white man with dreadlocks screaming over poorly-tuned guitar. you'll know exactly what i mean when you hear it. they have a unique sound that just can't be replicated. and shane macgowan is actually such a beautiful person. their lyrics are also politically tinged, kinda gritty and edgy (i.e. gratuitous slurs) so not for senstive ears.

(i actually have a playlist of my fave pogues/shane macgowan songs)

the cure, in my opinion, invented goth or at least popularized it. their earlier stuff had more of a punk sound but every one of their albums is a perfect 10 to me. they're one of my favorite bands of all time and i could go on about them for hours so i'll leave it there. joy division, also more goth/post-punk but i love them, i have one of their album covers tattooed on my forearm lmao 19 year old decisions. no regrets (i also love the smiths, but they're not really punk punk.)

before you ask, no sex pistols!!! don't get me started on how much i hate the sex pistols i will throw up! god they suck. to me at least.

a lot of punks also listen to ska - no, not that kind of ska. 70/80s ska that originated from rocksteady/reggae. some of my faves in that arena being madness, the specials, bad manners, and the beat.

and as for across the pond - american punk artists.

johnny cash. no, seriously. man was punk before punk was defined.

my favorite band is probably social distortion. they're pretty different than those mentioned above, owing to their unmistakable americana sound and aesthetic. to me they're the quintessential rockabilly revival band, heavily influenced by country and blues. great guitar licks. think wistful and reckless all at once.

their frontman mike ness is an outrageously gorgeous man. he has two solo albums that absolutely slap. the happiest day of my life was seeing them live a couple years ago and he winked right at me - i promise i'm not delusional i swear he really did. ok i digress.

dead kennedys - hilarious lyrics and sick ass bass lines, very political and generally pretty iconic. one of my dad's faves. the cramps and the misfits. two bands overlapping goth + punk + psychobilly. pioneers of a campy subgenre known as horror-punk. i also really like danzig, the misfits frontman's solo career.

the velvet underground/lou reed - great example of american proto-punk. very NYC vibes. the pixies are a more grungy, later punk band. one of my mommy's favorites <3 i would unironically name my child velouria. definitely iconic but i find them overplayed sometimes, as in you've probably heard them at the grocery store.

this barely scratches the surface btw but i think that about covers it for today. sorry if i bored you to death pls come back and keep me company. peace and love on planet mpregfrance <3

[millenari]

And for you!

🧵✍️🐾, please?

🧵 fav production!

My two biggest of favs are 1998 and the Vienna Revival. I've listened to the Vienna Revival cast recording so many times that there are moments that, when I listen to English productions, I'll get confused for a moment because I'm expecting them to speak in German. And 98 is of course a classic. 😙👌

✍️ changes to my own production!

alonzo shadow dance

boys participate in Macavity backup dance

more swing/kitten characters (also why are all the swings kittens? older female swings would be nice)

taking a page from the bway revival: longer pas de deux (but not necessarily their pas de deux, just a longer one), platoria in tugger's song, & the new macavity fight (tho I'd love if it were longer)

pekes goes to munk in act 1, no growltiger, i think I'd keep the 'hurry, make ready, remember what I told you!' line of munk's from later London Pekes

smaller theater. I think one of the big things with pac cats is the small, intimate stage that they use. obviously i wouldnt use a catwalk, but something smaller where 'audience interaction' isnt limited to only the audience members in the first few rows (and people all the way up on the balcony can barely tell all 20-30 of the characters apart).

speaking of pac cats, canon tuggoff [insert fire elmo meme here]

m/m and f/f pairs in the mating dance

jenny tap battle

restore bway-style tumble with the fighty personality. london-style pounce and tumble always seem to be the same exact character tbh

dare i say it (i shall) (i shant) (i shall) I might cut Naming Of Cats.

Idk how that would work bc I'd want to keep the 'man who's not heard of a jellicle cat' section. maybe I'd just cut the song down a bunch. I feel like that number sets audiences up to be confused bc it just throws a bunch of information that's technically not relevant at them before they even learn the plot of the show. idk, maybe go straight from 'man who's not heard' to the Introduction, but then I'm not sure where Victoria's solo would go. I'd have to think about it. The fact that Cats 2019 kept it still baffles me, as much as it's a fun song that sets the vibes it does little in terms of storytelling.

TSE: Cats call each other secret names that humans don't know. also TSE: "All the guards and all the porters / And the stationmaster's daughters / Would be searching high and low / Saying "Skimble, where is Skimble?"

🐾 how did I discover Cats!

i cant remember the exact timeline of which came first, but i remember around 2019 i started getting recommendations on youtube for cats videos (i listened to a lot of musical theater songs at the time) and i kind of eyeballed them, but never played them. Then I got (of all songs) Pekes put on one of my playlists, and I just remember minding my own business and drawing (or working or whatever), and I hear what sounds like, 'FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!'. I go 'what the hell', change tabs, and discover that I'm listening to british catpeople say 'bark'. I thought it was the ugliest song I'd ever heard (lol and now i love it) and put on something else, but other Cats songs creeped in after that one, and I eventually sat down and watched the whole thing on youtube.

And either briefly before or right after this, the trailers for Cats 2019 dropped; at the time I hadn't thought it was bad enough to earn all the mockery, but my awareness of Cats was small (I imagine actually this was after I'd heard Pekes but before I'd watched the rest of the show, come to think of it)

And for a few months I was mostly 'whatever, fun songs', about Cats, but then I just got randomly back into it and the hyperfixation stayed. I think it mightve been 2021 by then? But yeah, it was mostly the youtube algorithm that got me.

[lyriumsings]

oh damn I was just wondering if I should ask if you took oc questions and I saw a post about you wanting to talk about them. so. this is your sign: free pass tell me whatever you want about whoever you want. I’d like to know stuff about them (please. thank.)

This ask has literally been sitting here for like a year and I can’t stop thinking about my infamous mc so i’m gonna use this as a sort of preview introduction lol so anon if you’re out there im so sorry lmaooo and i absolutely love asks about my brain blorbos or anything really ngl i’ll probably copy and paste all this information to their Official Art ™️

Name: Octavia “Tavvi” Blackwater

Stage name: Tavvi

Pronouns: they/she

Sexuality: Bisexual

Band name: Beneath the Challenger (BTC). Octavia came up with the name and it’s basically a metaphor for them being super depressed lmao. It comes from the Challenger Deep which is the lowest point on earth beneath the Mariana’s trench.

Vocal Insp: donna missal (pinnacle voice bc for them tbh), The pretty reckless, the haunt

Music Insp: The Pretty Reckless, The Haunt, (for all of these bands i have very specific songs that i plug in as BTC’s lyrics lmao i have a playlist for them that i basically hc as their songs), Bad Omens (Just Pretend is SUCH a seven x mc song and i hc it as BTC’s best song), Mothica (VICES tho), and Honey Revenge! Here’s their playlist it grows everyday lmao

Fandom: Aquanauts. I hc that Maya figured out the bands meaning and picked based on that, Octavia genuinely loves it and finds it cute. And somehow the fact that the name makes sense to what the band name is makes them feel very seen and comforted tbh

Ep: Under the Water

Favorite unreleased single: The Slowest Heart (Which i actually took from Gilded Lily bc that song has heavy Octavia x Seven vibes) They have “the slowest heart” tattooed on there left rib age side boob area lol Although I feel like if she wrote it it’d be closer to the sped up version and a bit angrier mixed with hurt but the lyrics are perfect)

Romance: Seven’s ex. Still has his initials and doesn’t bother to cover it. And they are harboring a very blatant crush on Orion that if they’re being honest about started specifically because Orion seems pretty unattainable and they have no actual expectations of that fantasy becoming a reality (at least at first). Some cute stuff about them and seven tho: I hc fans called them Seven8 cuz Octavia means 8 or i guess Setavia works but Seven8 is so cute to me. And that seven had them in his phone as “8” and Octavia had him as “7 Ducky”

Some backstory:

Octavia is biracial her mom is white and her dad is black (specifically has afro indigenous roots but he was a foster kid so very estranged from these cultures) does not have a good relationship with their parents at all. Their parents didn’t really want kids? Sort of had Octavia because that’s what they were “supposed” to do next after getting married. Octavia is very much just an item checked off a list in a lot of ways regarding them. Very much the type of people who probably shouldn’t have had a kid not because they didn’t provide physically but they’re just emotionally nonexistent and incredibly dismissive lol. So yeah, so she had a very lonely childhood.

They did lots of ballet/contemporary dancing and soft ball which she does still actually enjoy as hobbies presently, but for the most part she’s obsessed with music and making music. They have a bat from highschool that they call “Lucky Lucy” where for two separate games in a row she hit nothing but home runs with it. Now, she takes it to every show and makes everybody touch Lucky Lucy before performing.

Octavia is obsessed with old hollywood glamour and old movies/shows from that era— most specifically Audrey Hempburn. They have several references/quotes from her tattooed on them: “never throw out anyone” is a partial quote from “People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw anyone out.” that they have tattooed directly under their S.D. tattoo which is my favorite lol and another is “i was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.” probably on their opposite forearm from S.D. (There’s more but i gotta map them out.) They can do a transatlantic accent, and did so for many months as a teen to annoy their parents.

Lastly, romantic history: before Seven they had a girlfriend, Maria. Who was pretty much their polar opposite—very straight laced, serious, and structured but also incredibly sweet, polite, absolute wifey material—and honestly while she supported Octavia’s dream on a surface level she thought Octavia needed a more concrete plan for the future. They dated for about half of high school and split amicably when it became clear that Octavia wasn’t going to change/Octavia’s underlying feelings for Seven became a bit too obvious to ignore. They’re still in contact and friendly and Maria is married and has two kids.

Post Seven, Octavia had one serious relationship that was on and off for 8 months about a year after their initial split. It was bad. Incredibly toxic content warning type bad. Dean Clayton was the lead singer of another indie band Violet Vapors and was a general misogynistic piece of shit. It was a they just didn’t see the red flags until they were already in it type situation, bc no one advertises themself as a pos partner obvs. She doesn’t like to talk about it and borderline actively ignores it, but if they ever saw him again they’d probably take their bat to him tbh. Octavia is in a muuuuch better place now (comparatively speaking, which i mean the bar is in hell so do with that what ye will) still does drugs and drinks but it’s not nearly as bad as uhhh this era of their life.

[sphoricus]

Introduction to the Sphoricus

Hello! I go mainly by Willow, but have been experimenting with names as of late so I'm fine with Katmai, Nova, Catherine, and Rosie as well! I am a transgender female who uses she/her. I am looking for friends and figured I should make one of these!

Music is my main hobby. I post playlists from time to time and am always looking for music recs! Even though I have a list of 500+ albums I want to listen to. I like to catalogue the music I listen to as well, and do so through RYM. My favorite artists are Vic Chesnutt, Talking Heads, and Brain Eno, but my music taste is expansive and covers most genres. I have heard it described as "uniquely bad."

Hermitcraft has been a recent obsession of mine as well! I watched a lot during late season 5/season 6 but fell off. Until now. I watch... a great deal of the members. Cub and Joe are probably my favorite Hermits to watch but I also enjoy about half of the others as well so consider following me if you watch any of them.

I am a first year studying astrophysics. Wanted to mention that so I don't startle anyone when I randomly post about particle physics.

I also read occasionally (would more if I wasn't burdened by college) and am always willing to discuss literature and take recs there. Also a minor movie buff.

Book Quotes Blog

Albums Blog

The Sounds of David Byrne (looking to revive this soon)

[princeofconjurers]

[[ It is That Time.

Watching a bootleg of Phantom on YouTube because we don't have a DVD player right now and Phantom is only streaming if you pay for it right now.

I first saw this musical 20 years ago (well, it will be 20 years ago in October, didn't quite get to 20 years. I wanted to see it for my birthday this year in October for the 20th anniversary of seeing it on Broadway but unfortunately that won't happen, even though I'm moving close to New York later this month).

I am so glad I got to see it three times on Broadway when in New York last month. I didn't know if I'd be able to see it again and I ended up seeing it three times on that trip. Such a beautiful production.

I heard Laird Mackintosh is the Phantom for the final performance? Is that true? I love him. Ten years ago he was I think Andre when I saw it twice on Broadway. He's put so much into Phantom. I also heard that Ben hasn't performed at all this month. Strange. I hope he's okay.

The first (Oct. 2003), second and third (Nov. 2013) times I saw Phantom on Broadway, Hugh Panaro was the Phantom and he's one of my favorites (as you might guess from the icon), even though the first was ten years before the second and third (that I saw two days in a row).

The fourth, fifth and sixth times (which was last month, March 2023, two days in a row then one day break in between for the third) it was Ben Crawford.

Somewhere between that I saw it twice on tour, once at Pantages with Chris Mann (July 2015) and the other at the Segerstrom with Derrick Davis (July 2019). I'd previously met Chris Mann on his tour for The Voice.

Also Love Never Dies at the Pantages with Gardar Thor Cortes as Mister Y (April 2018).

I still have the DVD of the 2004 movie I got as soon as it came out on DVD when I was like 8 (9? When did the DVD itself come out?) it doesn't work anymore and I have a different one to replace it as well as the 25th anniversary production of course.

I really need to buy a Playbill to replace the one from when I saw it in 2003, which I have seen some on ebay so at some point I will get one. I also really want to replace the Andrew Lloyd Webber 2002 Gold CD which was the first way I listened to any Phantom songs before I saw it live. I fell in love with Music of the Night at 6 years old before I even saw the musical. This musical has meant so much to me and it helped me through a lot when I was 16-18, and the height of my Phantom obsession. I am still very proud of the Phantom collection I have, every English translation of the original novel and a French language one of course, so many DVDs and a few VHS tapes, CDs, cassette tapes, books of and about Phantom and its adaptations. I've written papers on this story for college. I have seen so many adaptations, met my best friend and love because of Phantom and had many wonderful friendships because of this story.

I will miss you, Phantom on Broadway, which was my first introduction to this wonderful, tragic story. I will see you again once you come back for your inevitable revival at some point in the future. 35 years is a long time and you've had a great run. The Majestic won't be the same without you. Break a leg to whatever will be in the Majestic next having to deal with any lingering ghosts in that theatre! The Phantom will always haunt that stage, I'm sure, it's been his home for 35 years. You are a beautiful theatre and it will be so strange to see something else in the Phantom's place.

I love you, I will always love you, I will miss you, and I can't wait for your return. ]]

[zombiepedia]

I’m so curious and I hope you don’t mind me asking but what was your first introduction to zombies? I know next to nothing about them bc they used to freak me out and I avoided anything about them, but finding your blog has made me super interested!! To the point where I was going to sign up for a uni course on them but found out the professor for it was quite shit so I didn’t :,) but yeah when did you first see/hear/learn about them? I’m so curious

:D i don't mind you asking at all i love talking about this!!!

well when i was young zombies also really frightened me (i still get zombie stress nightmares sometimes) but i've been a horror fan since i was a kid, so that never stopped me from getting really into zombie media anyway. there were several contributing factors i'd say? my first memory of REALLY loving something with zombies in it was with my childhood best friend. she had this really shitty Xbox 360 and we used to play COD zombies together for hours and hours. people always think i'm crazy when i say this (because COD zombies sucks) but it's a huge reason why i started loving zombies

in my formative years a lot of huge zombie centric franchises were at their peak as well (TWD and TLOU especially. and PVZ was HUGE) so i was of course very invested in those franchises growing up, and i had a lot of friends who were super into them too, especially TWD :D one of my best childhood memories is going to a huge TWD convention with my best friend and i got to meet Clementine's voice actor!!!

my mom also really loves zombies, and i don't share a lot of interests with her, but we always loved them together and would watch stuff together. my mom bought me a lot of zombie books to read and always encouraged that interest of mine. especially in middle school i was blowing through books she'd buy me like World War Z (novel, not movie), The Enemy series, In The After, and the TWD novels were just a few that i was consumed by when i read them. and then i started writing my OWN zombie stories in middle school, like self insert stuff with my friends, etc

and when i got older i started watching a lot more zombie movies (before i had been mostly invested in books, games, and shows because i find movies hard to sit through) and zombie movies are fascinating they have so much history!!! there are so many of them to enjoy with so many different takes on the genre!!! zombie centric music is really fun too, that's also something i got into when i was older. i love music about zombies (and horror music in general)

to quit rambling on and to answer your question super directly i think i ended up loving zombies because the people i love do too, albeit not as much as me lol, and the time period i grew up in (after the release of 28 Days Later and the revival of zombies in the early 2000s) was an absolute goldmine for really good zombie content

[daniigrimm-blog]

Can we just take a moment to simp about the newest album drop by Black Veil Brides, The Phantom Tomorrow, released October 29, 2021. I know, I know, I maybe should have wrote this post like two years ago but really I had a lot to do in the meantime and wanted to give it the true justice this piece of art really deserves. This release is the second album drop since the band's decision to part ways with former bassist Ashley Purdy, (the first basically being a re-master of their former masterpiece debut album "We Stitch These Wounds", now dubbed cleverly, "Re-Stitch These Wounds") and now this! Can I just say, WOW-wowie-wow-wow-wowzers! omg I am just BLOWN away by what has gone into this piece of art and I feel blessed to be born in a time where I got to truly experience its release. Just wow. Welcome to the band Lonny Eagleton, with a resounding, please please don't ever leave.

Tracklist:

The Phantom Tomorrow (Introduction)

Scarlet Cross

Born Again

Blackbird

Spectres (Interlude)

Torch

The Wicked One

Shadows Rise

Fields of Bone

Crimson Skies

Kill the Hero

Fall Eternal

Oh hey did you know that Black Veil Brides released a COMIC BOOK?! It apparently goes right along with this masterpiece of an album because WHY NOT? Siri, can you add "Buy The Phantom Tomorrow comic" to my to-do list? Hell yes. I bought Andy's Ghost of Ohio when it dropped so ya know ya girl is gonna hop this band wagon. And who wouldn't? With such an awesome story and a crazy ass cover like that? Name two people, I bet you cant. And if you can I don't believe you.

From the mouths of babes, as they say. And man is Andy a MAJOR babe. Anyhoo, I figured I would save ya'll a track-by-track personal breakdown because who can do it better than the guys themselves? Amirite? I will say this though, this album feels WHOLE. It feels full. It feels like a really well-rounded album. I'm not a musician myself, but I LOVE music, and I have been watching a lot of different bands grow and rise and it has been an absolutely AMAZING ride. But this band, what a well-rounded flushed out sound they have come to grow into as each individual has honed their craft or joined. And before any of you ask my personal favorite off this particular album is Torch. It's on my On Repeat on Spotify for a reason--but I digress...that brings me once again to Lonny.

Lonny Eagleton

Who is Lonny Eagleton you ask? Well, he's a sweet boy from Canada who joined the BVB family, and man does he fit RIGHT in. Well, his website Bio boasts he's a professional musician who has worked with multiple recognizable names in the industry, that he's done his fair share of arena/theatre based tours, and a plethora of other hidden talents all backed by a degree. I mean, that's impressive enough but man he is humble and sweet to boot! I don't think I am out of line when I say that the BVB family has scored big with this addition to the band--especially if the "The Phantom Tomorrow", and the latest ep drop (October 21, 2022) "The Mourning" are any proof of what is to come in the future.

Now that brings me to "The Mourning" EP which I am also very late to mentioning (at least here!). It's four tracks of powerful music that speaks from and to the soul directly. Clearly what went into this was some powerful storytelling, some genius mastery, and some amazing skill-work. Dare I say, that the older these boys get--the more they manage to master their craft? But it's true. And being someone from the sidelines watching them grow, has been a most satisfying experience--man am I PROUD to be in this fandom. NOT TO MENTION the totally amazeballs producer they have, Erik Ron who handled this ep and the previous album before this. Way to rock out with that cock out Erik!

Tracklist:

Devil

Saviour II

The Revival

Better Angels

"How the fuck is one so evil left to just proceed? All the luck and how deceitful that idle minds can be." Lyrics from Devil really hit close to home some days, especially if you're currently living in America (and I am). It's clear from the tone set by the melody of the guitars when the track first open-fires on your eardrums for an eargasmic explosion of what can only be described as pure Black Veil Brides energy. Straight from the speakers to your soul, Andy Black truly has a way with words and the boys on strings (Jake, Jinxx, and Lonny) really know how to nail it home and build a mood to a harmonious climactic point before bringing it smoothly back down again. And may I say, that CC has really just been on fire these last few albums? He is really kicking some ass behind that kit and I think it's fair to give him a mention for it.

In softer tones Saviour II was second on the EP and set a more serious and tender vibe. A soul bearing ballad needs to be on every album right? At least that seems to be a theme for BVB that I personally hope never dies. They do amazing with a good somber heartfelt melody and these new lyrics that sort of offer different softer, more human side to the Saviour we as a fanbase were used to. The first being: "So hear my voice, Remind you not to bleed. I'm here." the message being a strong voice offering a shoulder to lean on here. A superhero almost. Whereas, the second, "So I'm trying my hardest to be what you made, Like a court jester, my smile won't fade. Giving it all, rising to fall to my grave. Answer the call, living in thrall-You're the one born to save." Is a tooootally different vibe. Like someone human just trying to make it through each day. So-so so good.

The Revival is the third track on the EP and it unfortunately didn't get a video but is still really cool and definitely worth a mention. It feels like Saviour II worked right up into this song. I'm sure they did that on purpose but I can hear/see a story playing out before my very eyes. Maybe my imagination is running a little high, but they have a habit of writing a whole ass story and following it up with a rock opera--so I am not sure because I looked all over for like a track-by-track breakdown and didn't find one (so if anyone has one and can link one to me that would be sugar and spice!) but nevertheless the instrumentals in this song are fire but from 2:19-2:35 it is just the best musical soup I have ever tasted. There I said it. I can say it. It is hot fire.

That brings me to the final track on the EP, Better Angels. I think instrumentally, and melodically, Better Angels may actually be personally my favorite track. Lyrically it is one of the coolest things I have ever heard. I came from a really strictly and very strangely repressed religious background and when I hear the stories told in these songs tied up in some sort of religious metaphor it really resonates and I know I am not the only one in the fanbase that is dealing with these issues. "Go back to hell with all your demons-leave me alone to find the pieces inside my mind. They came in to control my life. And all the devils devour- Your better angels devour." Whether it comes from a religious place or not, that is a pretty fire chorus, you have to admit. Not to mention the absolute MELTDOWN I have inside my head when the guitars (2:35-2:50) fuckin slap my dudes! I am telling you, if you haven't heard it already, please do--your life will be more complete because of it. It's one of the prettiest things I have ever heard ringing in my ears.

Really can't wait to see what Black Veil Brides has in store for us next! I mean between the comic-book, the album, and the ep, I'm already pretty stoked and I literally have no fuckin clue outside what Andy has mentioned in recent interviews! But I will be keeping my eye out! you bet!

Also before I go please enjoy this acoustic set I found on Youtube.

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[heygutlcssa]

LET DARKS TAKE ABOUT WEST SIDE STORY!

@withinycu​ ASKED:  13,15,21

13. Who is your favorite Shark?

For the 1961 its definitly Rudy Del Campo as Del Campo because this guy had balls. Allegedly he told the studio “ if you’re gonna give me a a stupid name it might as well be mine” and they said “okay” and like. I hope some variation of that story is true because its literally his name and he’s one of four Spanish ( Hispanic or Latinx) actors that was actually in the film and he got to keep his name. For the 2021 version it’s probably Julius Rubio as Quique because he is so vibrant and so much fun to watch. For not being listed on the main Sharks credit Card he’s got the most lines out of the rest of the Sharks. he’s just so much fun to watch and is so vibrant throughout the whole movie.

15. Who is your favorite Jet?

I take it I can’t pick Riff( Listen i know he’s problematic, but he has so much potential for depth) so i would have to pick from the 1957 Broadway show   Hank Brunjes as  Diesel mainly because he’s the reason the character got cut ( or so the story goes. it could have been somone else filling in for the role but *shoulder shrug*) because he was acting “too maternal” towards A-Rab and Baby John. I wish we had video proof of this.

For the 2021 film I’d have to choose Kyle Allen as Balkan. For only having dialogue during Gee, Officer Krupke and the assault scene he did a phenomenal job and does many “legolas faces” throughout the film. You can tell he jsut had so much fun with the role.

21.You can only watch one film version for the rest of you life. So 1961 or 2021?

Uh, probably the 2021 version because it was the first one I saw completely through. I fell asleep on the old one back when I saw it in high school ( mainly out of spite and also cause my brother made us start watching it late at night). also I remember having a migraine so a lot of the music was really grating and we had to watch it with the lights off. But I think its a good thing that I didn’t grow up with it. I couldn’t have appreciated it like I do now.

 WSS wasn’t a staple in my house like it was for a lot of people. My introduction to the American musical was through my grandma on my dad’s side. So we watched shows like Sound of Music, Camelot, An American in Paris, South Pacific, Till the Clouds Roll By, Oklahoma, but West Side Story was not one in her collection of Beta max or VHS tapes. Like, I knew about it. you can’t not know about West Side Story,  I had seen brief scenes or listened to the music in chorus, but I just found out recently that my grandma didn’t let my dad go to the theater back in 61 to see it because it was about gangs and she was worried about the rating. This was also the reason she didn’t let me or my brother watch it growing up. Which is ironic because Till the Clouds Roll by and South Pacific were perfectly okay by her standards despite their themes( much of which is the same as west side story).

I think the new movie is more self aware of its surroundings but that also hurts the film in the sense that i left the theater with more questions about what was going on in the world than actually caring about the story. i didn’t cry until Valentina takes Chino’s hand like I balled when I finally watched the original because it focused so heavily on the story and not the setting. But i think the new version gets it. it defines what a revival should be-- which is the chance to grow and evolve. so the new one, despite its faults, which are just as abundant as the original.

[offbrand-deltatraveler]

So I’ve put off writing my final thoughts on Heartcatch for way too long now

Originally I was just taking a bit of a break from Precure for a day and focusing on what I was trying to finish Heartcatch for to begin with, but then I tried to write this post the next day and it just. Disappeared from both of my Drafts, so I gave up on it not wanting to type all that again

But I’m back and doing it now, because I’ll probably never do it if I don’t get to it soon

First of all if you’ve been following my commentary one thing you’ll know best is that I love this season’s characters. Yuri should’ve been dead so I don’t really care about her aside from how cool she is as Cure Moonlight, but Tsubomi, Erika, and Itsuki are really fun to watch and really unique characters and that makes them one of my newest favorite Precure teams

And I love the recurring side characters but there weren’t really many in this season. The only real noticeable ones were Boss and his sidekicks

I will day though that I noticed how Sasorina was largely the only good general. Compared to her who actually feels like her character is centered around being a Desert Apostle, the other two just feel like afterthoughts and really only get good in the finale. And also I really love the Snackies. Best foot soldiers

Secondly I really love the music. Between the special attack songs (Pink Forte Wave, Gold Forte Burst, and Heartcatch Orchestra songs my beloved), the character themes, So Crazy Uproar being one of the most memorable chaotic songs I’ve heard so far, and a lot of other stuff, it has a really cool OST

And I love it’s world and lore and all the cool concepts regarding the system under which it’s Precure operate

Which I don’t normally point out but I think would be important part of the transition into the fact that I really did not like this season’s story for a multitude of reasons

First of all Cure Moonlight being alive was majorly self-contradictory writing:

-Her being this random kid completely retcons the vibe of that dream about her battle with Dark Precure. Her being a regular person is fine because like yeah what Precure isn’t but us actually knowing that breaks the illusion of her being on a higher level that all the other ancient Cures from the Precure Palace have

-The lore was clearly set up for her to haunt the narrative and for her role in the story to be the influence she had on it’s world while she was still alive. This is clear at multiple points because of the numerous writing issues that exist due to her being alive (Cologne’s revival completely destroys the themes of her arc, she takes the spotlight off of Cure Sunshine only to do the same thing she was doing, and Dark Precure beating Tsubomi & Erika so hard in Episode 15 was because she knew Cure Moonlight was still alive and that whole thing was handled really poorly)

Whacky Powerscaling & Bullshit Powerups:

-I distinctly remember Yuri saying something to Tsubomi & Erika about “true friendship” that was supposed to power them up but ended up doing absolutely nothing

-Forte Waves and Fortissimos doing largely the same thing is no problem near the end of the season where it shows how much more powerful the Precure have become, but prior to Cure Sunshine’s debut, before Itsuki starts training them, it just looks stupid and unearned

-Furthermore, Tsubomi & Erika never get any more powerful until Itsuki starts training them, yet they can always beat more powerful foes with the same attacks. And you can tell that they’re supposed to be getting stronger but they just never do for some reason

-I hate the Dark Bracelets so much. More powerful Desertrians already existed before their introduction but the devs didn’t wanna expand on the concept of multiple Desertrians fusing together to create a stronger one. Ultimately the only purpose the Dark Bracelets served was to delay Sasorina’s purification

-The Precure Palace, while cool, is not foreshadowed or alluded to at any point before it’s introduction. You can’t just suddenly pull powerups out of thin air

-They say the Heartcatch Mirage grants you infinite power with no elaboration on what exactly that means when in reality it has infinite power for you to UNLOCK. It doesn’t just give you all of it’s power, you have to slowly earn more and more of it by bettering yourself as a person and as a Precure

Inability to stick to it’s theme:

-Said this many a time before but the sub-theme of fashion and beauty is way more prominent than the main theme of flowers. “Floral Power” being portrayed by a line of glitter, the fashion club and Erika’s largely fashion-centric family being at the center of most episodes, the transformation perfume, the Heartcatch Mirage being a makeup kit... The list unfortunately goes on

-Dark Precure has nothing to do with the theme of flowers. She’s just regular, plain Light vs Darkness in a season that portrays Light & Darkness as Love & The Lack Thereof. Which is another reason Cure Moonlight shouldn’t have lived because Cure Sunshine, embodiment of light, defeating an enemy that was created by Cure Moonlight’s darkness would’ve worked wonders for her purpose as a Cure

Miscellaneous:

-Heartcatch Orchestra I love you to death but your instruments are extremely unbalanced. There are three takts and one tambourine

-Kumojacky’s attacks, while cool, are imo wasted potential. He should’ve been more like Julio or Kappard where instead of summoning a monster, he gets a new weapon to fight the Precure with. And I feel like that’s what the writers originally wanted to do because his Heart Flower Stealing Animtation really feels like an afterthought

-This person’s presence is never explained

-The Baron’s thought process behind turning Olivier into a Desertrian is never explained. If he didn’t want Tsubomi to be involved, why did he make Olivier air out all their dirty laundry in front of the entire city? Being a Desert Apostle who was sealed away for trying to destroy the world, he can’t be THAT new to how Desertrians work

However, I will say that my negative opinions of some things did change:

-I once complained about “Fortissimo” not being a flower-related word, but I now retrect that statement because it sounds cool and no flower-related word really fits. Like what else could you call it that would sound good when replacing Fortissimo in a sentence

-Marine has more to do with water than I initially anticipated. You could even say the Marine Shoot becomes her main attack in the second half of the season

-The perfume I now realize represents a flower’s scent and has nothing to do with fashion & beauty

-Tbh while I said the reveals all come too early, really the only reveal that came too early was Yuri being Cure Moonlight because she wasn’t supposed to be alive in the first place

Overall, 5/10. Probably the lowest score I’ll ever give any season

Not only was everything but the story good and that’s really not a compliment, but it also had a pretty weak cast of side characters and like. How do you even do that

Having completed this season, I will finally be moving on to Tropical Rogue after a short break

[dilutedrink]

HELLO HERE IS THE FIRST DRAFT OF AN ESSAY ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE DESIGN OF MUSIC PUBLICATIONS

I'm planning on adding a lot more information and detail, alongside bringing in more analysis, reference imagery and theory. I referenced Walter Benjamin and would like to go into his theories and their relevance to my topic in much greater detail. I'd also like to focus more on cultural movements, technology changes in sections other than the beginning, and key figures in design for music. Including primary sources is a big goal for improving this work in the future, and i'd like to talk to creatives involved in the field. Throughout the piece I'd like to have a stronger voice to my own opinion running throughout and really place the history of the industry in the frame of the current climate, contextualising it for the reader, and having a more critical take on the systems that have led to the downfall of one of our formerly great cultural objects. weee genuinely love this topic so much i love print media and design and writing and music.

Introduction

The 21st century presents a complex time for music magazines. Once-dominant publications grapple with declining sales and a rapidly evolving media landscape. One can’t help but wonder if there is still a space for music magazines at all, let alone in print. Amidst this decline, however, there appears to be a resurgence of physical media, fueled by a growing distrust in technology. Is there an opportunity for independent publishers to revive the industry with a focus on aesthetics, quality design, and reader-focused business models? Looking at magazine design through a music specific lens gives a unique view on its history, allowing us to gain a deeper understanding of how it has been shaped through social movements and technological advancements. By examining this progression, we gain nuanced analysis of the music magazine, from its inception to the present day.

The Beginning

The first true music-specific publication is widely considered to be Melody Maker, established in 1926 by Lawrence Wright. Recognising the potential of the magazine publishing market, which had grown largely due to an increase in advertising revenue, and the potential to promote his own songwriting, Wright would go on to found one of the major players in the music magazine market for many decades. However, Melody Maker would soon find a challenger in New Musical Express (NME).

In 1952, facing financial difficulties, the paper known as Musical Express was looking for a buyer. Maurice Kinn, a promoter who had advertised in the paper, saw an opportunity and purchased it, starting a new venture into publishing. The paper relaunched as New Musical Express, a direct challenger to Melody Maker, even poaching staff of the older magazine. Despite initially being seen as a paper that wouldn't last longer than a few months, NME went on to dominate the market for music weeklies, becoming one of the most prominent music magazines in the UK throughout history. NME broke from the existing format by understanding there was a gap in the market for a music paper with richer visual content and a more interactive experience, expanding the paper, utilising an image based cover, and moving reader letters to the front of the issue.

These early magazines looked not dissimilar to newspapers of the time, printed on broadsheet to tabloid size paper. Design was highly influenced by the technology used, that being a relief process of printing, generally hot metal type machines such as the linotype. These machines required a worker to input one line of type at a time, creating a mould in the process, into which the machine would pour liquid metal. This machine greatly sped up typesetting and printing, an incredible improvement from older hot metal machines or using moveable type presses for large bodies of text. Linotype machines were limited to one typeface at a time, the process of switching requiring taking out the entire set of characters and replacing them with another. This led to magazines keeping their body text in the same typeface, which helped define each magazine's look, and despite the wide variety of typefaces available today most magazines continue that tradition, tending to stick to a limited number of fonts throughout. Headlines were still created with moveable type, which allowed for a little more variation in type size and style. These headlines would be locked into a frame alongside the lines of body text, advertisements, photos and all other components of a magazine. This block of components would then be inked and printed, finally forming one page of the publication. Images were included via the relief halftone process, which involved exposing images through a type of screen that would break the image up into dots. Via various mechanical and chemical processes this exposed image could be used to create a metal plate where the dots were raised and able to be inked alongside the text of a magazine. Whilst cheap and quick to make compared to alternative methods of reproducing photos, relief halftones were limited to a certain quality, halftone images not hugely advancing until offset printers became the standard technology.

The quality of visuals of music papers in particular would become increasingly essential with time however, a way of differentiating and standing out from the competition, or offering an exclusive experience. The importance of imagery is perhaps most evident in cover designs throughout the years, going back to NME’s relaunch in 1952. Disc embraced a reliance on cover star photography, while Record Mirror set itself apart from other music weeklies by being one of the first to feature a full colour front page.

The effectiveness of quality visuals is also clear in the near obsoletion of letterpress processes in magazine printing by the 1970s, the market overtaken by offset lithography. This is a planographic process, where a rubber roller picks up ink from a flat surface, then transfers it to the paper. Offset lithography allowed for higher quality photographs as it could replicate halftone images that had finer dots of a much greater count than relief halftones could manage. It also encouraged more experimentation with colour as the rubber material used to print onto the page could create an incredibly even solid colour. This method of printing also didn’t warp the paper like the impression of a letterpress block did, the resulting lack of alignment issues meaning four colour processes could be perfected.

These advances in technology enabled the creation of graphics that could fully reflect music alongside the fashion and cultural movements surrounding it, their decreasing price point leading to a surge in underground publications and fanzines.

The Underground Press

Underground publications that covered music really took off in the 1960s, with many started by contributors to sci-fi zines, which were a more established genre. Crawdaddy, which was launched by Paul Williams as a fanzine in 1966 contained critical writing on rock music. Williams had previously contributed to sci-fi zines such as Within. The zine transformed into one of the more notable rock magazines in America, predating both Rolling Stone and Creem, and often sharing writers with them too, notably Lester Bangs, the defining voice of Creem magazine for many years. Creem itself was an independent magazine, influenced by zine style layouts, “The layout was of the slap-it-down/ move-it-out school” as Kenneth Fitzgerald puts it. The magazine closed down in the 1980s, and while a couple editions were produced in the 1990s with a more sophisticated design initiated by Marvin Jarrett, the attempt didn’t regain the former success of Creem’s earlier days and was once more discontinued, Jarrett moving on to found Ray Gun. Today Creem lives on as a small independent operation, led by JJ Kramer, son of Barry Kramer, the magazine’s original publisher.

Back in the UK, International Times was launched as a counter cultural magazine in the same year as crawdaddy, 1966. The launch of the paper was celebrated by an event at the roundhouse in London, headlined by Pink Floyd. The magazine covered politics and underground music that went unacknowledged by the mainstream music press. After IT had laid the groundwork countless more would follow, 70s punk fanzines taking clear inspiration.

Oz in particular is of note when talking about the underground press, its prolific use of colour, psychedelic visuals and an obscenity trial setting it apart from the rest. Frequent intervention by the authorities such as the trial faced by those that ran Oz magazine, among other issues with the format led to the underground press losing coherence and impact over time. Nevertheless these independent publications had massively changed the industry, inspiring greater coverage of media and culture in the mainstream press and pushing design in music magazines forward.

Popular music

Following the lead of underground publications, larger magazines began to adopt more creative layouts and a more informal tone, but as they relied entirely on advertiser funding and ran an overall more expensive operation, could not afford to be nearly as controversial as certain underground papers. The artistic essence of independent magazines was lost somewhat in the process, in line with Walter Benjamin’s theories of mass production altering perception of media. New independent magazines were still being created that pushed boundaries though, the 90s saw the launch of Ray Gun, a chaotic and challengingly designed magazine that covered alternative rock. The magazine was founded by Marvin Jarret and designed by David Carson, whose distressed type and layout design gave Ray Gun a unique appeal. Still, larger papers offered space for professional writers and developed opinions. With writing critically about pop and rock music no longer a foreign concept, this style of content flourished in the majors for a good number of years. However, a change began brewing with the arrival of the internet.

Rise of the Internet

With the growing prevalence of the internet many music magazines started to diversify their content, opening themselves up to a wider range of advertisers and attempting to draw in more readers with a more mass appeal. As advertisers withdrew from magazines in favour of cheaper, targeted marketing offered by the internet, the money in publishing dwindled, leading to many publications closing down, even the legendary Melody Maker, who rather ironically was merged with longstanding rival NME. The majority of publications launched websites and started to discontinue print editions, however a few magazines on the other end of the spectrum pursued the luxury appeal of well designed, high quality magazines. Accepting new formats and ways of communicating content was essential for magazines to persist at the turn of the century, and this greatly impacted the visuals. Clean, simple and navigable designs generally dominate music magazine website design, based on the most effective way to get the content to the reader efficiently. Magazines also use social media accounts to promote articles, usually with photography of artists or events. Creativity in major publications has been somewhat lost with the adoption of the internet, the types and variety of visuals becoming reduced. Despite this there are a number of smaller and newer magazines doing things differently today, and this is possibly the most interesting area of the industry in the present day.

Physical Media Revival

As we move further into a tech saturated world a growing number of people have a desire for media in a more tangible format. This has led to the success of independent publications in print such as So Young, a magazine and record label with a focus on emerging talent. The layout design of So Young Magazine is relatively simple yet incredibly appealing in its nostalgic look and use of colour. The magazine is usually composed of interviews with artists, paired with an illustration. So Young uses a wide variety of illustrators, resulting in a huge diversity of visual content. Full colour pages with reversed out text are a frequent occurrence, and photography used tends to have a grainy film quality, adding to the nostalgia appeal. One off pieces and interviews with visual artists make occasional appearances too. Outside of the print magazine So Young also sells merchandise, organises events, and runs a label. These other activities highlight a key change within the magazine industry with the adoption of the internet, the fact that with so much content being available online, magazines could no longer rely on exclusive photography or interviews to get sales, and instead have to market themselves as unique brands, able to be applied to multiple ventures. Dork magazine launched their own radio, featuring a variety of shows and interviews with artists. Smaller magazines of a higher quality can also rely on reader purchases more than advertisers, providing a cleaner, more enjoyable experience.

Whilst the internet resulted in a lot of websites being launched to replace discontinuing print issues, it has also provided the opportunity for the opposite process, smaller magazines gathering a supportive audience first, then launching a print edition funded by readers, such as electric sound, a magazine that started as an interactive ipad app. Brands in other areas of music are getting involved in print too, a number of labels having started their own publications. State51, a record label and music company launched greedmag, a magazine with incredibly unique design, that provides sold out editions available in full on their website.It would seem that print is not dead, it just needed to slow down, the breakneck pace of music weeklies no longer a sustainable option. Even NME, which had ceased its print edition in 2018, is back in print as of 2023, as a sleek bi-monthly magazine. Perhaps scaling back is a better approach for music magazines, allowing them to become closer to the fans and artists together.

Conclusion

The cultural movements led by music have greatly impacted magazine design, leading to the creation of underground zines which pushed design in a more expressive direction, or the rise of celebrities and an increasing interest in their lives leading to greater photography coverage throughout magazines. The importance of advertising to music magazines is not to be underestimated either. By initially bringing more money into magazines, Advertisers increased the amount of competition as more people wanted in on the money to be made in publishing, and that competition drove visual innovation and a higher level of music criticism as ways to stand out. The changes in writing style would also influence the design of the pages, Lester Bangs rough and ready takes complementing the scrappy design of Creem magazine perfectly. Technology has also evidently had a great impact on the music press and its design in the past century, and continues to change it as the market pivots to something more indie and reader funded. This change in my eyes is the best turning point in the industry, and something I hope continues. I think the diversification of magazines into brands and multimedia platforms will create more spaces for people working in the industry to grow, the magazine itself no longer being the main product but its surrounding community, ideas and direction.

[haveumetbi]

Hello!

I've been using tumblr for a long time, but only recently I've felt confident enough in my english to actually try to join communities and make friends. 

A little introduction... That is actually kinda really long and I’m not gonna subject y’all to it unless you want to, so here’s the tldr:

I’m an acearo, bi, cis girl (🇺🇸 she/her — 🇧🇷 ela/a).

White latina from Brazil.

I’m disabled and neurodivergent

I love sitcoms, comedy is my fav genre of fiction

and cats

and The Sims

and Turma da Mônica

and hairstyling, braids, make up

and Jane Austen

and Taylor Swift

If you like any of it, follow me!! I’ll definetely follow back. If your curious, read bellow.

I’m a 23 year old college student who is majoring in History. I’m kind of a huge nerd, I love subjects like History (duh), Literature, Politics, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, but also Comedy (i find fascinating to analyze it, even if that kinda defeats the purpose, sue me). I kinda only watch sitcoms, actually, maybe because of how obsessed I am with the genre (more on that later). 

Being Brazilian I may reblog/talk about Brazillian issues/stuff and most definetely will reblog things about Turma da Mônica (brazil’s most beloved comic book series that shaped the childhood’s of at least 3 generations now since the 60s/70s), my longest autistic special interest. Oh, yeah, I’m also neurodivergent, AuDHD and also have persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia gang rise up! or dont, ik its hard and tiresome) and fibromyalgia.

Another special interest I’m unhinged about is The Sims, I use Tumblr mostly bc of it, so I’ll definitely reblog stuff about it, maybe if everythings works out I will even create a side simblr, who knows. I love historic/fantasy gameplay, would be cool to share with people.

Idk if its a SI or just regular cat owner thing, but I’m definitely obsessed with these little guys. Speaking of cat lover, I love Taylor Swift. Like, I’m very casual about most music I consume, but she is the exception, I just... feel SO MUCH with her songs. Idk, idk... She also makes me feel things on a sapphic way, though I’m no g*ylor or hetl*r (rlly dont care about who she dates, just here for the art). But not in a wow I wanna bang this celebrity I have a crush on, cuz I dont wanna bang no one, cuz I’m acearo. Just, dont swing that way (or any way, really /hj cuz i'm actually gray-bi-romantic but its very rare, so i'm usually not swinging at all lmao).

I really like to read, but it has been tough to keep the habit with depression and disabled adult life knocking at my door and kicking my ass... currently I’m finishing reading all Jane Austen’s work (i love her sense of humor and analyses of human psychology) in portuguese, but I plan to eventually read the original stuff in english. I just really love stories and storytelling as an art form, maybe that’s why I love to write. I’m obsessed with fanfictions, actually, been writing since I was 11, never anything in english, but who knows, actually creating and participating in tumblr may be the first step. I mostly write about tv shows I’m obsessed about (though I did write some Turma da Mônica Jovem fanfiction...... thank god I deleted, it was terrible, tho in my defense I was still a preteen) and I mostly watch sitcoms so.... About that...

My favorite sitcom ever is probably How I Met Your Mother (it was literally what i needed when i was going through a really rough patch) and BoJack Horseman (yes, cartoon sitcoms totally count, shut up). I’d say my first sitcom love was The Simpsons, my biodad had a lot of dvds and tapes from the golden seasons and the fondest memories of my childhood were us watching together and laughing like two idiots. My first fandom was iCarly (i was a preteen okay), but I wasnt a big fan of the revival/reboot (yes I was team seddie, no it has nothing to do with it, I gave it a shot, but just didnt vibe with it). I also love The Office, That 70′s Show, Never Have I Ever, Community, Our Flag Means Death, The Sex Lifes of College Girls, One Day at a Time and The Good Place.

I’m pretty sure the only other shows that I got obsessed with that weren’t sitcoms were Once Upon a Time and Lucifer, two shows that were quite humorous with its wacky premises (fairytales in real life???? the devil taking a vacation in LA??? i mean, c’mon!!). I’m loving the Percy Jackson disney adaptation, it was my favorite YA book series and it always bummed me that the movie adaptation was so terrible, I'm glad we finally have a great adaptation and can't wait for more seasons to come!!!

I’m very talkative (you dont say?? 😮 /s) and a total extroverted that really loves to make friends, but my communication difficulties really do shine on long distance conversation... be phone calls, video calls, emails, text messages etc... So, although I’d love if you shoot me a message, bc I love to make friends, I also am not the best texter, so dont expect someone who always immediately answers you right back cuz they are online — please dont take it personal, it has nothing to do with who is messaging me and everything to do with my disability mkay? And yes, I am trying to work this shit out in therapy, but you know... growth aint linear. When shit hits the fan, the first thing that I lose is the ability to answer text messages 😭 idk i just stare at them, they stare at me, i combust and die, the end. 

Dont know how to end this text, so, I’ll just show a pic of my cat, cuz shes everything. Bye!! 

[fyeahundergroundmusic]

#MusicMonday - July 3rd, 2023

I feel like I’m always looking for a new way to do #MusicMonday because I can’t quite get it to go the same across all of the platforms I post on. I do it one way on TikTok, another on WhatsApp, a different on Facebook, and I gotta figure out another way for Instagram because the volume doesn’t work anymore. 

Returning to SoundCloud works for me because it allows me to make a playlist. I’m a bit stuck in my ways, but SoundCloud kind of forces you to try new people and a lot of them tend to not be mainstream. The decision to properly blog #MusicMonday also means that I’m reviving my Tumblr blog, F Yeah Underground Music, so the artist selection on SoundCloud works best for that vision. 

Just about all of the artists featured this week are all new to me and were chosen mostly by sound. I may not always catch the words, but your girl loves a melody.

MiLES. 

I don’t know too much about MiLES., but it looks like he’s from Atlanta and recently graduated high school. He may or may not have been valedictorian, but, from the pictures, he gave a speech at the ceremony. Congrats to the young man. 

As I said earlier, I really pick these things by sound. As long as I can groove to your music, I’m probably going to get into it. It take me about a month’s worth of listens really get into anyone’s lyrics, and I just don’t have the time for that in regards to this measure. 

What I like about MiLES’s “Oxygen” is the groove of it. I could see myself listening to this on a drive, or even playing this during a kickback. It gives me a very chill vibe, and that’s something I like on a normal day. 

I’ve given the rest of MiLES’s current project Everywhere and Nowhere At All a listen, and I think it’s a solid effort. If you think “Oxygen” is something you could get into, I suggest given the rest of it a try to. 

Oblé Reed

There’s probably a lot to know about Oblé Reed, but he doesn’t seem to have an About section on his website. That doesn’t work for me. I’m not bothering to listening to enough to become a fan, and I’m not invested enough to do a deep dive. 

So what do I know about Oblé Reed? He’s from Seattle, WA, he’s biracial, and he looks like he’s younger than me. 

So how did he get on this list? The same way everyone else did: I liked the sound. All things being fair, rap is not my genre, and Oblé Reed only found his way onto this list because I wasn’t paying attention to SoundCloud’s algorithm. It worked though. 

In my head, Seattle, WA had always been a music city because I remember Nirvana and I’m an Allen Stone fan. However, I wouldn’t consider Seattle a rap city, and, in my opinion, that probably helps Oblé Reed, not hinders him. 

Kanii

I feel like Gen Z is all over this list. Kanii is a 17-year-old, TikTok darling living his life on the Jersey Club scene. 

I really need these cats to get someone to write their “About” sections, because I’m way too lazy to do more than casually skim. 

I was put on to Jersey Club about the same time as I was made aware of Baltimore Club, which was about a decade ago. A former friend of mine was from Baltimore, and House music was having a small mainstream resurgence, so he felt like he needed to show me some things. I’ve been a casual fan ever since. 

As a TikTokker myself, I’d be lying if I said that I’d never heard “I Know”, but not enough that it clicked while I was listening to it on SoundCloud. I actually didn’t realize what was going on until I went to make my #MusicMonday posts for TikTok last night. I won’t say that Kanii has gotten big due to the virality of his songs, but he definitely knows how to market himself well. 

Kiana Ledé

I keep running into Kiana Ledé, either because I’m supposed to or because she’s just been around since forever. My first introduction to her was a cover of Drake’s “Hotline Bling” back in 2016, but I’ve heard that she may have been a Kidz Bop girlie back in the day. 

I have no idea what Kiana is about or has been about, but bless her for bothering to have a Facebook page. Bless her for writing anything in the “About”, and being around long enough for a proper Wikipedia page. Maybe it’s because I like her that I’m even bothering to look, but I don’t trust the previous three to have even that right now. Gen Z needs to have a little mystery, and people who can’t bother to write “About” sections are unlikely to have Wikis. What would be there to tell? 

In any case, “Bitter Bitch” is the first song on Kiana’s Grudges album, and I thought it was a great intro. Is it the best song on the album? Hell no, but I’m willing to hold those for another day and an official video. It’s cute though, and that’s really all I cared about. 

Hiroba

The addition of this song might raise some eyebrows, because it’s in Japanesse, but I have to remind everyone that I really be picking these songs off of vibes and sounds. 

“Futatabi” is the end theme for The End of the World With You, and I have been obsessed with it since the first episode. It is exactly what I want to hear while holding someone’s hand as we wait to die during a meteor strike. 

I can’t tell you anything about Hiroba beyond the fact that he’s a Japanese man. He has all of the right music accounts, but nothing that will tell me what I need to know in English. Again, I’m also being lazy about this, but #MusicMonday is really a labor of love for me, and I’m not looking to do work. 

Ai Otsuka is featured on the song, and, to may understanding, she is also a Japanese artist and actually has a Wikipedia page. 

If you’ve made it this far, I really appreciate it. As I’ve said before, #MusicMondays is a labor of love. It’s also a good reason to restart F Yeah Underground Music over on Tumblr. So while I can’t promise that this will be an every Monday thing, I at least can promise that I’ll do my best with it when I do. 

I wanted to upload the SoundCloud playlist in full, but neither WordPress nor Tumblr is embedding it right. However, if you’re interested, it’s the post directly under this one. 

Written for both eurydicehowell.com and F Yeah Underground Music

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‘Paramore - This Is Why Pop-punk has seen quite a resurgence in the last few years, whether you think it’s good or not; MGK, Olivia Rodrigo, Willow, and a few other artists have been making music that stems from the early 00s pop-punk scene, as well as rooted in 00s emo / scene, and people absolutely love it. That wasn’t quite the case in the early 00s, where being part of those subcultures got you made fun of by your peers (as someone that was there, I know firsthand), so a lot of people have been raising their noses in disgust at how Gen Z is “appropriating” emo culture and how it’s “cool” and “nostalgic” now, but back then, it wasn’t cool. Nostalgia is cyclical, and a lot of the kids that are dressing like that and/or listening to music from that era (let alone making it) weren’t old enough to remember it, or they just knew how popular it was, and don’t know how it wasn’t cool to be apart of it. It’s nostalgic now, though, and that’s the most important thing. It’s interesting how a lot of popular bands from that era aren’t necessarily capitalizing on it, minus just performing those songs live (which is something they’ve always done). My Chemical Romance reformed a couple of years ago, and they haven’t released much, especially anything that harkens back to that era. Panic At The Disco broke up quite recently after releasing an album that no one listened to (I didn’t listen to it, and I don’t plan on it), while Fall Out Boy just released a new record (and their best in fifteen years, for better or worse) that doesn’t sound like it’s from 2005, but the most interesting case of the huge bands from that era is Paramore releasing their latest LP, This Is Why. Paramore is one of the most interesting bands of the emo boom of the early to mid-00s, because their sound has changed a lot since their humble beginnings of 2005′s All We Know Is Falling. They went from an emo band on that record to a full-blown pop-rock / pop-punk band with Riot in 2007 (and my first introduction to the band, personally), and they went further and further into pop territory, finally culminating into 2017′s After Laughter. That record wasn’t as divisive as you’d think, because they went full blown into pop with that LP, but it was a record that paid homage to 80s new wave, versus modern pop. That was six years ago, and in that amount of time, a lot has changed, whether it’s in music itself, or in the world at large. During that time, front person Hayley Williams made some solo music, but the band was radio silent, only coming back with the title track for This Is Why late last year. I didn’t listen to anything from the album prior to its release, because i wanted to be surprised. I was surely surprised, because while After Laughter was a new wave / pop record, This Is Why is a post-punk / art-punk record with some new wave and pop-punk thrown in for good measure. It’s interesting that After Laughter wasn’t so divisive, but a couple of months after This Is Why’s release, it’s clear that this record is the one that’s their most divisive. I can understand why, though, but I don’t mean that in an insulting way. Williams talked about being influenced by bands like Talking Heads, Foals, and Bloc Party while writing and recording this record, and she talked about how she wanted to harken back to the 00s post-punk revival, because she grew up with Bloc Party’s debut album, 2005′s Silent Alarm. It’s interesting to me that while there is a full-blown pop-punk revival happening from the early 00s, which Paramore got swept up in, they went for sounding like a scene that was concurrent with their own, yet had nothing to do with one another. These bands never shared spaces or had any interactions, so it’s interesting that Paramore would move into a totally different direction, but it’s a welcome one, as I can say that I love This Is Why. A lot of people either really love it, or they’re indifferent on it, but I personally love it. This record has a couple of small issues that don’t bother me that much, but This Is Why is still an AOTY contender. I will admit, however, that this record was a “grower.” It did take a few listens for me to really get into it, but once I got on board with its sound, I was in heaven. From its post-punk sound that goes into the early 00s post-punk revival, the groove that takes this album over, the lyricism that is both personal to Williams and makes a statement about the world at large (but not being super explicit about what they’re talking about, so there’s some ambiguity to it), or her vocals that are different from what we’ve ever heard (and they’re still great). There’s just a lot to really enjoy about this album, especially for being so different from them. For those fans that want something a bit more familiar, you’ve got a few cuts that pull the gambit on that, such as “Crave,” “Thick Skull,” or “Liar,” among a few others. These songs have more of a pop-rock / pop-punk feel to them, versus having the angular guitarwork and grooves that post-punk is known for. That’s mainly on the first half of the album, such as the title track, “The News,” and “Running Out of Time,” which is a one, two, and three punch that opens the record. These three songs are fantastic, but so are songs like “C’est Comme Ca,” and “Big Man, Little Dignity.” They are urgent, catchy, fun, and Williams’ delivery is very unique to her, but also works quite well. I will admit that I miss her stronger vocals, because she is known for belting and having a good knack for really catchy hooks (that was one of the highlights of After Laughter), but her spoken-word-ish vocals on a few songs, as well as the more low-key vocals that she uses throughout the album, work quite well, too, partially because she sells it and the hooks are still there, just in a different way. “Running Out of Time” has more of a standard hook, and that song should get fans of After Laughter at least curious, but the rest of the album is still great. The album is also only 36 minutes long, which may be among their shortest album. I think All We Know Is Falling is shorter, but not by much, but this one is a very tight and compact album that knows what it’s doing. I don’t know where This Is Why will rank on terms of their overall discography, but I think it will rank highly, at least for me. The beauty of this album is that your mileage with it will depend on how you feel about a few things, such as post-punk, this band overall, or the album itself. There’s no way that no two people will have the same exact feeling on it, because it’s such a different sound for this band. It was a bit of a grower, but at the same time, that’s not a bad thing. Some albums take time to grow, and this one took some time to simmer, but when it clicked for me, it clicked. At the time of writing this, this record is in the frontrunner for being my favorite album of the year, but if you asked me last week what my favorite album of the year was, it would be this one. Another band’s new album came out last week that immediately overtook it, but that shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. I mentioned that band in the beginning of the review, but I don’t want to spoil it, since I’ll be talking about the album in my next review. I don’t write about a lot as much anymore, but I had the idea to write about albums that I feel I have enough to talk about. That doesn’t mean I still don’t consume a lot of music, but I wanted to scale back my reviews into albums that I feel very passionately about, one way or another. Anyway, with all of that said, I would definitely recommend This Is Why. I have been a fan of Paramore for the last sixteen years, and they were one of the first bands I got into during my eighth grade year, along with My Chemical Romance, Panic, and Fall Out Boy, so this album is very important to me, and it’s great.

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Thanks for tagging me because this was super fun to do and I actually love talking about music and sharing music tastes! I'm definitely gonna check out your list because I love music recommendations

(In no particular order!)

1) Put Your Records On by Corinne Bailey Rae

This was my favorite song as a kid and is just such a happy song that centers around little girls just being happy in their own skin (mainly black little girls) and just has the vibe of the color Yellow ✨️

2) Don't Want My Heart by Sarah Cothran

I have had a lot of heartbreak in my life and this song perfectly describes the feeling of being through so much. I showed this to my best friend and my partner to remind them what the state of my heart was when they came into my life

3) Dying Is A Beautiful Thing To Do by EASHA

Dude I LOVE EASHA! This was the first song of hers I have heard and I have it memorized and sing it often! Amazing writing! She is so talented!!!

4) I Knew You When by Bob Seger

Bob Seger is my favorite male artist and this song has my favorite writing but it was difficult to choose just one

5) Have You Ever Seen The Rain by Creedence Clearwater Revival

I am in love with CCR and this song is about depression but hits just right when you are having sad hours. My favorite CCR song easily

I'm actually a huge music person so picking just 5 songs was super hard so for fun I'm also gonna recommend 5 albums too!

1) Creedence Clearwater Revival: Chronicles Vol.1

I have always been really close to my dad since he's my only parent and he would listen to this in the background while he took care of me and my sister on his rare days off when I was just a baby and then like 20 years later he showed this album to me and it was such a wonderful full circle moment. When he and I are just in the car and don't really care what we put on we play this album

2) HOLY FVCK by Demi Lovato

I am currently obsessed with this album because I have always respected Demi's music career immensely and was so happy they decided to take a more rock sounding route because her voice just fits it so well

3) Mania by Fall Out Boy

I LOVE Fall Out Boy and it's one of the few music groups my sister and I both love and I basically am in love with every one of their albums but this one in particular was so unique from their usual sound and it was such a wonderful surprise. It's not often I like every single song from an album but this one is an awesome exception

4) Shake Your Money Maker by The Black Crowes

Another album my dad and I bonded over. I have a thing for old rock bands where the singer has a raspy voice. Where they don't really care about staying on key or whatever what's more important is them just having fun with it. This is also the album with their most popular song "She Talks To Angels" which I will never get tired of

5) Elvis 30 Greatest #1 Hits

Now I HAVE to add an Elvis album because he is my dad's favorite artist. This album came out in 2002 when I was 4 and was my introduction to Elvis from my Dad. Ever since then, he would show me album after album telling me every detail behind every song and the story behind the writing. Was the start of my dad and I bonding over music

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My Style Influence’s

A prominent part of today’s style community is taking inspiration from multiple decades and using different elements to pull today’s style together. These era’s include 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and especially; the 90’s and 2000’s. With the pandemic causing mass hysteria of what the future would look like, many reverted back to fashion influences from their youth (Kate Moss, Princess Diana, Brittney Spears, basically anyone on MTV and more). This caused a revival in aesthetics and styles such as Y2K, grunge, punk and many more. This brought back the love of low waisted jeans, mesh tops and concert t-shirts.

While the Y2K aesthetic seem to make a more popular and stronger comeback, my style influencers come from the grungier side. With my favourite music being Nirvana, Hole, Alice in Chains, Oasis, Blur, etc. from said eras, I am naturally more influenced by that aesthetic. In this post will be outlining my style influences from tv-shows, movies, musicians etc.

Joey Potter - Dawson’s Creek 1998-2003

Even though its hard for me to get through an episode because of the irritating ass characters of Jen and Dawson, I love Joey. Especially her style. She has a simple, relaxed persona and its ‘easy on the eyes’ after listening to the selfish comments of Jen and Dawson. (I cannot stress this enough, I don’t care how hard their life has been, they are so irritating). Anyway Joey’s style reflects her personality with a relaxed silhouette.

My favourite elements of Joey’s style:

Natural, earth-toned colours

Relaxed straight/mom fitting jeans

Baby tees

Flannels

Sweaters

Thrift/second-hand vibe

Alex Nunez - Degrassi: The Next Generation 2001-2015

While I think Alex is one of the most underrated character’s on the show, my favourite styles from her was when she first came onto the show and the rest of her high school time. I didn’t connect to her style later on in the college era of her generation. Maybe because it was around the late 2000’s which was not my favourite time when I look back on the aesthetics. Alex and her friends were the stereotypical ‘bad’ guys. They all had street style influences with dark and simple colours, baggy clothes and classic 2000’s sunglasses.

My favourite elements of Alex’s style:

Big pant, small top look

Simple dark colours

Cargo, denim, carpenter baggy pants

Black and white small tanks

Sneakers

Kat Stratford - 10 things I hate about you 1999

Kat is well-known, well-loved among teenage girls and influences today’s teen-girl’s style, personality and hobbies. I, of course am one of those girls. I love Kat Stratford, not only with fashion but on every side, she influenced my interest in feminist literature, and her philosophy of ‘not doing something just because someone else wants you too’. I also have similar music taste and I also love Heath Ledger.

My favourite elements of Kat’s style:

Thrifted inspired clothes

Tom-Boy but also feminine silhouette

Long skirts

Cargo pants

Her iconic leather coats

Rock/Indie style

Hippie elements - her necklaces and the way she styles her hair

The coven - The Craft 1996

I love The craft, being born in October I feel a connection to witchery. While I don’t really practice or know much about it, I love this movie. It’s once of the coolest 90’s movies, and as I mentioned in the introduction of my love for grunge and the mid-90’s. When I say the coven I mean the main four, Nancy, Sarah, Rochelle and Bonnie. These four girls are so fucking cool I don’t understand how this movie isn’t dominating modern teenage girl iconic movie lists. I know its popular but everyone should love this movie, its so perfect and the slay to end all slays.

My favourite elements of the coven’s styles:

Grunge/punk rock inspiration

Cross jewellery

Layers of silver jewellery

Hippie elements - especially Rochelle and Sarah

Leather trench coats

Lots of eyeliner and lipstick

Lots of accessories

I have a bit of a mixed interest in style with mentions of grunge, hippie/bohemian, street and simple styles. But that’s the way lots of  individual styles work. I hope this was interesting to read and/or take inspiration from!

Honourable mentions

Kurt Cobain

Stevie Nicks

The Mid-90’s movie

Fiona Apple

Miley Cyrus