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caecillia · 4 years ago

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Ah, okay, that’s fine lol thank you for indulging me and redirecting me anyway! Aquarius rising? Well shit, at least it’s air like I thought. I went to look at the analysis and I saw he has house cusps(gains a double set of signs and loses two others in the houses) and how he actually has a Gemini IC versus the typical Taurus IC so maybe that’s where I was seeing the Gemini energy. He is also Gemini Declan so thank god for that, my observations are somewhat accurate. In true Aquarius fashion, he’s different from your typical Aqua rising because of it so the dynamics of his whole chart change and probably can’t relate to what is said about them. I thought it was Gemini because of his ADHD, and people tend not to associate astrology with shit like that but I have known people with Gemini affecting their face and they always have ADHD. It’s funny tho because Aqua’s are known to have god complexes and I saw recently that Dream made himself god of his SMP so I formally support all of his Aqua endeavors.

As for George, I trust Libra so thank you for narrowing it down! My reasoning for Leo ASC is they usually have Scorpio 4th which indicates a need for privacy. They’ll let people think there’s nothing more than meets the eye and only show they’re true personality/hardships/deep emotions to people they deem close enough. Since he’s Scorpio sun and Mercury, it would’ve/could’ve placed in 4th and determined an even bigger desire to have no one in his business. 4th house has to do with family and privacy and comfort so literally, get out of their business. This can all be contributed to just Scorpio in general, but I know sloppy ass Scorpio people so.. it’s not always that way. BUT, and people hate me for it because they think it’s an outdated view, but ASC does affect your appearance, there are just a lot of varying factors that go into it, therefore it’s quite crazy and hard to figure out. So George very well may be a Libra ASC. He reminds me of a couple and strangely the one that comes to mind is that Jungkook guy who is confirmed Libra.. I think. At first I thought Sag rising which are capable of having Libra in their houses and the angular houses effect appearance so maybe that’s what I’m seeing. Libra can have Sag as well so maybe I’ll fuck around a bit. But maybe I’m a simp for Leo and am just seeing traits that I usually associate with them. Leo risings include, Johnny Depp, Tyson Ritter, Jake Gyllenhaal, Al Pacino, Robert Downy Jr., etc.

I’m so sorry if this is a barrage of info that’s probably confusing, I just wanted your opinion on if I’ve analyzed them properly or if I’m completely off. I don’t like to get people charts and go “Oh so they MUST be like this,” I much prefer to speculate and see how they ACT/ARE and then fit the chart to them so even if you don’t know, I’d love your opinion anyway. I may copy and paste this to nickelodeonhottub so thanks again! I was just surprised people were able to get proper compatibility charts which I usually tend to disregard. I enjoy analyzing personality over all, but good for them lol even astrology thinks they act suspicious with each other. My very first impression of them was that they were strangely flirty with one another because of how their voices would get soft when talking. And for Sapnap my sister literally called it with his Mercury being Aquarius because of his blunt and just overall ‘dude’ way of talking. Sorry if this got long! I usually like to stay on anon just because I’m bad at keeping up with convos but I may come off it if it’s easier to ask questions and really start astrology conversations.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, and as much as I'd like to contribute, I'm basically a beginner in astrology so I'll refrain, but hearing your thought process alone means a lot. I'm glad you now have a go-to place, though ^^ and don't worry about talking in details to anyone on here, everyone LOVES walls of text on dnfblr, you’ll be RIGHT at home here.

#dreamnotfound #dnf

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msgrumpygills · 3 years ago

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I have to admit that I am a huge Jared FAN, not STAN. I say this because I know that sometimes his behavior can be less than desirable. However, I have my own personal reasons for why I feel how I feel toward him. That said, I follow both “Stan” accounts and “anti” accounts because I do appreciate a wide variety of perspectives. And I admit to my powerlessness when he is around (I further admit to having met him tons of times at cons etc.), but I also understand why some people are turned off by him. It saddens me to see the direct hate he receives on his timelines because really, no one much deserves that. It also saddens me to see some of his behavior at times too. I can’t and don’t defend it. It would take a hell of a lot for me to not love him (again, personal stuff). His wife, however - I tried to like her. I really did. But when she first started her blog and was really sketchy around O’s birth, being pretentious, the clickbait, and monetizing every little thing, that really turned me off. And still does. I still do try to like her, but I just can’t. I’ve never met her so don’t really know what she’s actually like in person. But I am friendly with a friend of hers, someone who is absolutely lovely, but the subject of J&G has never, ever come up, nor will I ever bring it up because I really do genuinely like her friend and don’t want anything to ruin that. I have no idea why I’m writing this! I guess I just needed to vent. Thank you for allowing me to do so. Have a nice day. 😊

You are welcome to vent anytime!

You are more than in your right to be a fan of Jared! Heck, if you wanna be a stan, do it. Just be aware that he’s not perfect and have the ability to call out the BS behavior. I’m a total Sebastian Stan stan, but if he were to do something dumb, I’d be able to acknowledge that.

I’ve met Jared a few times and if I ran into him on the street, I’d probably have a fangirl moment too. I don’t hate the man, and I still have a little bit of teeny hope that he will do better, but I’m not a fan of him right now. I used to be a super big All-American Rejects fan, not so much anymore, but if I ran into Tyson Ritter tomorrow? I’d lose my cool for sure. Nothing wrong with that!

You can be a big fan or a stan of someone and still not put them on a pedestal. You can be disappointed in someone’s actions but still support them in their good deeds. It doesn’t have to be so black or white, and I apologize if I’ve given that impression here.

I never want to come off like I’m telling people it’s all or nothing, or that they can’t be acknowledge shitty behavior while enjoying a show. But I totally get what you mean!

#grumpy answers

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thanatophobia-thoughts · 4 years ago

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At the time of my writing this, we have lost DMX, Prince Phillip, Helen McCrory, Joseph Siravo, Barbara Shelley, Paul Ritter, Richard Gililand, Jessical Walter, George Segal, Reggie Warren, Jahmil French, Christopher Plummer, Dustin Diamond, Sophie Xeon, Cicely Tyson, Cloris Leachman, Hal Holbrook, Larry King, Song Yoo Jung, Hank Aaron, Mira Furlan, Randy Parton, Baby CEO, Harry Brant, Phil Spector, Joanne Rogers, Sylvain Sylvain, Siegfried Fischbacher, John Reilly, Michael Apted, Marion Ramsey, Deezer D, Tanya Roberts, Gregory Sierra, and Kerry Vincent – among numerous others, known and unknown around the world.

I knew none of them personally. The vast majority, I do not know their works, but there were a few who’s passing hit me. Regardless of how we know them, if we cared about their work, we become aware of their deaths, often through social media, TV, radio, or other medias – maybe through friends directly.

Like any other death, it’s usually unexpected. It can trigger our fears.

Unlike any other death, it’s hard to block out.

I don’t mean to compare this to something like the death of a parent, a child, or a loved one. I have not experienced that, but I can imagine the way the absence would come to fill each day to overflowing just by how close I am to my own mother. Losing someone you communicate and see almost daily, is a different sort of thing.

What I mean by this, is that the celebrity death permeates everything in a different way. It may play on televisions, be all over social media, it comes up in looking at the works of the deceased, and leaves a mark there.

Perhaps the most notable one for me was Carrie Fisher.

I watch a lot of Star Wars and am invested in the fandom, so of course, it felt like her death was everywhere. It was inescapable. There were tributes to her, she was in all my favorite films, and perhaps I made it worse by starting to read her book Postcards from the Edge as I found out about it through her death. Then followed her mother, and it made me think of my own ties to my mother.

It’s still something that pops up, though of course, it isn’t so severe now.

Chadwick Boseman was another, partially because what he died of, was something I was getting tested for, but also because I was just finding out about him beyond Black Panther, and enjoying him as an actor. Then, he was gone, by something I feared I might be facing myself – thankfully, I wasn’t, but he was still gone, a reminder that even those with access and money can’t escape death. Mortality set in further.

Why do I bring this up?

It’s something those of us with a great fear of death have to deal with, and it’s something that comes up often, likely more than the actual losses we’ll face in our lives, are the impersonal deaths of people we don’t know, and the deaths of people we’ve admired from afar?

We can block this out somewhat, by staying off or limiting our media exposures, but all that does is make sure we don’t know when things happen. It may be better to limit exposure after these things have happened, to let us come to terms with it privately and in a manner that helps us, but I can’t advocate for just turning away from all of these things, to rarely find out about the world we’re in and what goes on.

I don’t feel that these deaths in any way prepare us for death, either of ourselves, or our loved ones.

I do feel that they help us to accept the reality of death – one of those “if his person can die, then so can I” sort of situations. I think that reality check is useful, although it can get overwhelming. I’ve heard from some people in the UK that the death of Prince Philip is everywhere, and so there’s almost no way to get away from it – it that can keep the anxiety high, and the fear present for a long, long time. Longer than it should be around for – longer than a few minutes, but into hours, and days.

I know that I’ve often found solace in escaping to book stores or libraries in these times. Usually, I’ll end up finding a book or something associated with the person who passed, if they were dear. A Funko Figure, a novel, a biography, a movie…something. But those places are quiet, and even if they are showing media related to the deceased more prominently, it usually isn’t loud, and you can usually quickly put it out of sight.

There is also the alternative – to get lost in the movement, if you can. To take in the tributes, to go to a tribute, or to even make a tribute, to the deceased. That may be a bit harder at first, since acknowledging the death, even if someone far from your social circle, can be a triggering and cause issues.

However, it is a way to approach death that may not hurt as much as in the case of someone you love, and it may not be as triggering as those situations. It may also be just as hard, we all have different relationships with creators and celebrities, different hopes, and the fact that someone with access to so much more than the rest of us dies, is triggering for a whole different set of reasons than the death of a loved one.

Dealing with these deaths can be hard, but it can also be a useful way to examine how death hits you, why it hits you, and through your connection with them, it may help you determine more of what you’d like to do before you, yourself, pass on. It’s a death that is real, but it is a death that is at a distance for most of us, and so it is one that we can examine in a state of mind that is less emotional.

Yes, DMX is never going to make anymore music.

Carrie Fisher will never fix anymore scripts.

Through their lives, and their deaths, we can still see what it was about them that caused it to impact our lives, and use that for progress. I think Carrie Fisher, at least, would be okay with that.

Space Mom always wants us to be okay.

#death #death anxiety #death anxiety help #celebrity death #existentialism #existentialism help #thanatophobia

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arttheweapon · 7 years ago

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5 songs that made 10 year old me FEEL things

Our story begins in the year of our lord 2006. It was a different time, a simpler time. I still had a bright yellow CD-playing Walkman, which I mostly used to listen to The Indigo Girls’ album Rites of a Passage while I rollerbladed around my backyard (I wasn’t allowed to go outside of it yet). All my cred came from my pink Razr phone, which could only be used to call my parents in emergencies. That is to say, I had no cred.

Picture, if you will, this girl: 10 years-old. Bad hair, worse teeth, a purple and orange Moosejaw t-shirt. Summer in rural Michigan. That kid is walking up the gravel road from her grandma’s house on the lake to go feed the horse that lives a half mile away some wrinkly apples. She’s stolen her older brother’s iPod, and is JAMMING to all the songs her mom doesn’t want her to hear. Songs like Ben Folds’ cover of Bitches Ain’t Shit, and pretty much all of Green Day’s discography. Just picture it. Fat red cheeks, crooked center part, and temporary butterfly tattoos.

Nostalgia is cool again, so here is the list of songs that made that kid up there feel things, things she had no context for, no name for, but felt nonetheless.

Honorable Mention: Monster by Meg and Dia, Here’s to the Night by Eve6, Miserable at Best by Mayday Parade

5. White Houses by Vanessa Carlton

Let me preface this by saying I first heard this song through a Teen Titans amv on Youtube. If I didn’t mention that this whole segment would be dishonest, because to this day I still think of Raven when I hear this song.

That being said, 1000 Miles ain’t shit compared to this song. I remember watching the actual music video and wondering if she had a twin, because I didn’t know that video editing existed (I was similarly confused upon watching Lindsay Lohan’s best work, The Parent Trap). Is this song about losing your virginity at ballet camp? Yes. Did I know that? No. I had never had a crush on a boy in my life. Perhaps that’s the fault of excessive Indigo Girls listening, but I digress. When I listened to the quiet, wounded “maybe you were all faster than me”, I was touched. Yes, Vanessa, in my heart it is the five of us. Did I even have five friends? Debatable. But in my heart they were there, in white houses.

4. Iris by GooGoo Dolls

Admittedly, this song is not from the emo days, but you can’t deny that it has that spirit. I have no doubt it was an influence. I mean, seriously, “everything is made to be broken”? That is some emo shit right there! I eat it up every damn time! At ten years old, I didn’t know this applied to hearts or souls, I thought it was a very sad song about dishware. But god, that broken plate got me. I was ready to get the super glue. Also, “I don’t want the world to see me, because I don’t think that they’d understand”? HOO BOY. I relate to you, sad ghost with broken dishes. I relate.

Every time this song plays in the vicinity of my parents now, they fondly recall how four year old Claire thought the lyrics were “everything hates to be broken”. Honestly? That works too, but is a little more Paramore-esque than the real lyrics. See Let the Flames Begin from Riot! (2007).

3. Dark Blue by Jack’s Mannequin

I had never been to a school dance, because elementary schools don’t have those last I checked, but this song is how I imagined it would be. Alone in a crowded room. It would flood. An ambulance would be there, picking me off the floor. This, right here, is a prime example of pop-punk boy voice. The pounding piano, nasal tones, and declaration of isolation marks it clearly as a product of its time. If I’m being honest, it still goes hard as hell.

2. It Ends Tonight by All American Rejects

It Ends Tonight made me feel some sort of deep existential sadness. I had no idea what was ending, but I was mourning it with my whole little heart. The long trick is over, people, it ends tonight. Tyson Ritter asked for a little insight, and as a literal child, I had none, but I sure felt that maybe it was best you leave me alone. Leave me alone to feed these apples to this horse. I mean, this song made me feel at least as sad as when in the first grade I drew a picture of my family under a rainbow and another kid ripped it up. At least. The music video for this song is like a modern version of Nocturne in Black and Gold, shooting off fireworks into an inky black sky and watching the lights sparkle and die. I’m sure that’s what they were going for, I’m sure they’re huge fans of Whistler.

1.Famous Last Words by My Chemical Romance, and actually just all of The Black Parade

Where it all began. The Black Parade is a lot of angst to be contained inside of one little body, but there I was. Famous Last Words was my favorite, filling me with some sort of manic zeal for life. Living just to spite the enemies inside your own head didn’t register at all, because at the point my head was all friends. All I knew is that it made me feel powerful, and ready. The download always skipped just a tiny bit at the opening of the guitar solo in Welcome to the Black Parade, which persisted no matter how many times I played it. Probably because my brother downloaded all his music off of Limewire. I remember sitting on the bus on our class trip to the zoo and mouthing “misery and hate will kill us all”. I showed my friend Meghan the music video for Ghost of You (yes I know that’s from Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, I’m not an amateur) and definitely cried over Mikey Way tragically dying on the beaches of Normandy. I was slightly scared by Gerard Way but that was probably just because I was attracted to him and didn’t know what to do about it. In any case, he was a masterful storyteller, and I hung onto every word. If you can make a midwestern child raised on puppies and glitter with no mental health struggles (yet) feel all that emotion, you are something super special.

Also, I run an MCR blog now so we all know how this story turns out.

#mine #long post #sorry I don't really wanna post this under a readmore #because then no one would be interested enough lol #anyway I wrote this for fun a while ago while procrastinating #here it is for you

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junker-town · 5 years ago

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Never forget who ‘broke’ the Kevin Garnett-era Celtics

Adam Hunger-USA TODAY Sports

That’s right. By Garnett’s twisted LeBron logic, Carmelo Anthony and the New York Knicks broke the Celtics. I have spoken.

Bill Simmons got Kevin Garnett for his podcast and naturally ended up talking about LeBron and those six-time NBA champion Garnett-era Boston Cel ... what’s that, the Celtics only won one championship during the Garnett era? They only made the Finals twice?! Oh weird, based on how those Celtics and their fans talk about themselves I was under the impression this was some sort of dynasty, not the early 2000s Detroit Pistons with a better publicist. Huh.

The pull-out quote from Garnett’s classic Garnettian boasting is a declaration that the Celtics “broke LeBron James” in 2010, forcing him to realize he couldn’t win a championship without legit stars beside him and sending him to the Miami Heat, where (with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh) he beat the Celtics like a drum until eventually Boston divested from its aging core and rebuilt. What Garnett is trying to say is that he and the Celtics were so deep into LeBron’s soul that they ruined Cleveland’s title aspirations. What he’s actually saying when you hold the statements up to 10 seconds of logical scrutiny is that Boston proved to LeBron and the league that stars should forgo team loyalty and team up to succeed.

But I find it important to take Garnett’s rubric at his word and apply it more broadly. The Celtics with Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen did knock LeBron’s Cavaliers out of the playoffs twice in three years prior to The Decision. Garnett says that broke LeBron. So what led to the dissolution of the Garnett-era Celtics in 2013?

That’s right: Carmelo Anthony and the New York Futher-Mucking Knicks broke Kevin Garnett, leading him to waive his no-trade clause to join Pierce, Joe Johnson, and Deron Williams on the Brooklyn Nets. Those famed 2008-13 Celtics got broken by Melo, J.R. Smith, Ray Felton, Tyson Chandler, Iman Shumpert, Pablo Prigioni, Kenyon Martin, Jason Kidd, and Chris Copeland. Let’s get those guys on some podcasts.

Scores

Hornets 98, Cavaliers 100 Raptors 112, Pistons 99 Bulls 110, Wizards 109 (OT) Heat 108, Sixers 104 Pelicans 107, Wolves 99 Grizzlies 122, Thunder 126 Magic 104, Nuggets 113 Celtics 109, Mavericks 103 Warriors 112, Blazers 122

Schedule

All times Eastern. Games on League Pass unless otherwise noted.

Jazz at Hawks, 7:30 Lakers at Bucks, 8, TNT -- Game of the Year potential Nets at Spurs, 8:30 Rockets at Clippers, 10:30, TNT

2010s Rap Talk With Tom Ziller

NSFW links in this bit, duh. I think my favorite non-Kendrick Lamar verse of the decade is Rick Ross’s bars in “Ima Boss” or Pusha T in “Mercy.” Ranking Kendrick verses is pretty impossible -- from his own stuff, I think it’s either the second verse of “DNA” or the first verse of “Ronald Reagan Era” or the second verse of “Ronald Reagan Era” or the first verse of “M.A.A.D. City.” I’m pretty definitive on my preferences on his guest verses from this decade, though.

1. “Control” 2. “Nosetalgia” (my favorite track of the decade) 3. “Collard Greens”

”No More Parties in L.A.” is pretty close but the Spanish in “Collard Greens” sent me when it came out and sends me now.

This has been “Rap Talk” with Tom Ziller.

Links

Lakers vs. Bucks should be early Game of the Year contender ... if Anthony Davis plays. He’s questionable.

Mike Prada on the glory of Davis Bertans, a player nearly the entire NBA whiffed on.

Michael Pina on Jabari Parker’s career reaching a critical moment in Atlanta. Sounds like some drama is building in the ATL with the bad losses.

Deandre Ayton is back, technically speaking.

The Pelicans won!

I really enjoy James Herbert’s weekly column -- the lead this week asks if Tobias Harris and Josh Richardson can save Philly’s weird offense.

Kevin O’Connor on the Heat doing positionless basketball right.

I am sheepishly ready to admit that the Heat are title contenders after they beat the Sixers in Philly. Bam Adebayo is a legit star, Jimmy Butler is so good.

Magic Johnson wants some credit for the Lakers’ success. I mean ... is he wrong? He landed LeBron, right?

Jordan Ritter Conn on the NBA now orbiting Giannis Antetokounmpo.

The Kings have a frontcourt problem.

Joel Anderson’s now-complete season of SLOW BURN on Tupac and Biggie is a masterwork of narrative nonfiction. If you are at all interested in either ‘90s rap or compelling storytelling, you have to listen.

How R.J. Barrett is getting through a rocky rookie season in New York.

All-Star voting will begin Christmas Day.

Be excellent to each other.

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fallen-gravity · 7 years ago

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TMI: 10, 16, 18?

10: Favorite bands?

I’ve been listening to soundtracks more and more recently, but my two all time favorite bands are Panic! at the Disco and The All American Rejects. You remember how I kept spontaneously squeeing over my celebrity crush with no context in the chat last weekend?

It’s because I’m absolute garbage for Tyson Ritter and I just. I love his music so much, you don’t understand.

16: Favorite Quote

I actually think it’s really funny that this came from a cartoon, but this quote just resonates with me so much that I ended up using it as my senior quote in the yearbook:

“Nobody likes getting older. But just because you’re growing up doesn’t mean you have to grow up, you know?”

I just. I love this quote so much, because who says you have to grow up? Who says you have to give up Disney movies when you get into college? Slumber parties with your friends when you’re out of middle school? I think you should be able to be a Responsible Adult™ and act like a kid at the same time.

18: Favorite Color?

Light blue!

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demitgibbs · 7 years ago

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Freedom Through Femininity: All-American Rejects Front Man Strips Down

Tyson Ritter strips down to nothing for the All-American Rejects’ new queer project.

Fuzzy leopard-print top, blonde wig, fake eyelashes, low-cut skirt, stilettos – the front man de-drags as he transforms from a prostitute, Betsy, to a seemingly married, suited-up man and life of the party, Robert.

The 11-minute short film conceptualizes identity and authenticity through the complicated and ultimately haunting duality of a single person. “Sweat,” a swaggering glam-rocker, finds Betsy leaving her mark on the streets – and in a bathroom stall when things get hot and heavy with an androgynous hookup. But then, during the juxtaposing come-down “Close Your Eyes,” we discover, tragically, Robert’s “real” life comes at a price.

As the alt-rockers mount a musical comeback with the two-song EP and a forthcoming album – their first since 2012’s Kids in the Street – Ritter, 33, opened up about his own femininity, being asexual for three years, his strong opinion on how “everybody’s selling celebrity” and being there for his lesbian sister when their family was not.

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Can you tell me about the concept of this short film and how you ended up using a crossdresser as your subject?

Jamie Thraves is a brilliant British film director who we were lucky enough – he’s actually FaceTiming me right now. Hang on. (Laughs) We’ve become brothers over this, but he approached us with a simple one-line concept that just said, “I see Tyson playing a woman and I see him playing a man named Robert whose fantasy is playing that woman.” It broadened beyond that through our correspondence because, of course, I had immediate questions for him about the story of Robert and the purpose of this film. Once we boiled it down, it was just this concept of identity and how people in all walks of life are never the same person in any room they walk into. I think Robert’s struggle to find himself was something that bled into my correspondence with Jamie, and we just started exploring all of our dark secrets together. It was really this cathartic thing to just talk about our lives and the regrets we’ve had and the compromising things we’ve done to become the person we were and are.

How have you had to come to term with your own identity? Have you ever questioned your own sexuality?

I absolutely have. I went through a really bad breakup when I was in my mid ’20s and I was asexual for almost three years, just living in New York by myself, totally stone sober and trying to find myself. I was raised by my mom and my grandma, and that femininity and that balance within myself of the masculine and feminine has always been a yin-yang. It’s pushing and pulling, always. And I embrace that energy because I think some of the strongest things about me are from what my mother and my Nannu gave me.

I feel like most alt-rockers are comfortable exploring the gender spectrum.

Iggy, man. I was covering my body in glitter in 2009 and everybody thought I was a lunatic. People forget about the spectacle of rock ’n’ roll being something that is fearless. To be a superhero in a band is something that takes all powers. And when you’re on the stage and giving yourself to thousands of people, you have to be this cartoon; it’s beautiful to embrace that in your own life.

These tea dates, where you meet with fans and have tea, which I love, aren’t exactly the most masculine thing. Have you had any tea dates with anyone from the queer community?

My tea dates have just started, so it’s been such a mixed bag of all walks of life. It’s incredible. People have been like, “Oh, you should journal about your tea time,” and I’m like, “No, this is precious to me and private.” A lot of people sell their time to their fans. Everybody is selling access now and I think that’s the fucking complete corruption of what’s going on with the music business. Everybody’s for sale in a completely different, fucked up way.

Are you referring to certain mega pop stars who give themselves to their fans in charitable ways for the purpose of advertising their brand?

I mean, I can’t even touch that, man. Everybody’s selling celebrity. And we’re a band that only sells music, and that was the most important part about this visual journey for this band. I grew up in front of the record button since I was 16 – how much have you fucking changed since you were 16? It’s funny, people put these expectations on bands to sound the same, to stay in that little time capsule with their friends from high school and their dreams in their twin-size bed and it’s like, no, art has to grow up; the artist can grow up with you, man. And so that’s where we came at with this new offering of “Sweat”/”Close Your Eyes.” We’re coming back with purpose and I’m proud of that because, ultimately, I’m not trying to sell ad time on my Insta account. Everybody has to have access to you now and so it’s really kind of – I might be shooting myself in the foot because I’m not being this, you know, social whore that most people have to be to play in this crazy rat race of the music business.

As someone who’s been acting for several years now, you may be aware of opposition to cis, white men acting as LGBT or queer. There’s been a lot of pushback regarding this. How conscious were you of that sentiment while developing the storyline for this video?

I always knew that (Betsy) was a fantasy of Robert and it’s that suspension of disbelief that kept me grounded in the character. My wife helped me a lot. I just wanted to make sure that I grabbed onto all the femininity that I’m not afraid to show and put it into Betsy. I didn’t wanna approach the character half-assed at all, and as far as it being a risk to play that role, to me it was an escape and a surreal journey through a fantasy of Robert’s. At the heart of this story is a man named Robert who has a life and has a purpose, and I was serving him. So, I guess I didn’t feel like there was a compromise given that the character I was playing was the true heart of this journey.

In what ways do you identify with Betsy when it comes to any overlapping femininity?

I think that’s precious to me. I think if there is overlap, just top to bottom, it was the curation of getting her walk down. I would wake up almost every day and put on my heels and walk around my house for hours on end to find my gesticulations and where Betsy carries herself. I think it was some of (my) stage persona. There’s a crazy confidence to Betsy that I loved being able to embrace and Robert didn’t have that. Robert’s this guy who hides from himself, and I think being able to embrace that was really a freeing thing. Honestly, it put me back in my own skin in a completely different way where even now on stage I’m finally feeling comfortable to embrace everything that I am.

Growing up in Stillwater, Oklahoma, what was your introduction to the LGBT community?

My sister. I was 10 years old when my baby sister was born and my parents had a complex, tumultuous Oklahoma divorce, and I was there to sort of raise her in a lot of ways. When I had to get on the road when I was 16, leaving her was… even talking about it, it kind of echoes a heartbreak for me. We kept our correspondence, and as she grew, I was on the road. When she was 15, she came out.

Getting the family’s acceptance in Oklahoma at 15 – I mean, probably one of the most difficult things I’ve had to help her survive. She helped me survive getting through just being an artist, too, because my parents haven’t always supported me. So we were holding each other’s hand as she got to 18, and now she’s engaged to be married. But I kind of saw a lot of (the LGBT community) through her eyes.

There are few things harder than not being accepted for who you are, but it sounds like you had each other to lean on.

We did. At Christmases we were holding each other in the corner. We were the two weirdos, but at least we had each other.

What does she think of “Sweat”/“Close Your Eyes”?

She loves it. She was so proud of me. I was really nervous. I was like, “I hope you love it and I hope you think I did good.” And she called me and she still has that Southern voice: “Aw, man, ‘Sweat’ is so good. You did so good, bubba.”

There’s an album in the works. What can the gay community look forward to?

This music is gonna be out, man. This isn’t gonna be an All-American Rejects record. This is a record that is gonna feature a lot of evolution. People are either gonna be grabbing onto it or they’re gonna be letting go, and I welcome both.

You’ve given the LGBT community many encouraging songs over the years, including “Move Along.” Can we expect more along those lines?

I realize that, in these divisive times, there is so much hate and division. The thing that breaks my heart right now in the world is just how divided we are. Even my parents didn’t go through this shit. I think it’s pouring out of me right now, so the things that I see and feel in the world are the things that I’m gonna be writing about. There are gonna be songs for people who just want to sing out as an escape, but this isn’t gonna be empathetic pandering – rock ’n’ roll is the escape, man, and I feel like we’ve lost that sentiment with celebrity. People are forgetting about the music.

When you come to a Rejects show, it’s non-denominational; it’s a congregation of people who are there to let go of the outside world. The greatest thing that we can do as a people is gather without any sort of ill-will, especially nowadays. So, the beautiful thing about this next Rejects record? It’s gonna be something that sets people free. That’s what it’s doing for me, man.

As editor of Q Syndicate, the international LGBT wire service, Chris Azzopardi has interviewed a multitude of superstars, including Meryl Streep, Mariah Carey and Beyoncé. Reach him via his website at www.chris-azzopardi.com and on Twitter (@chrisazzopardi).

from Hotspots! Magazine https://hotspotsmagazine.com/2017/09/14/freedom-through-femininity-all-american-rejects-front-man-strips-down/ from Hot Spots Magazine https://hotspotsmagazine.tumblr.com/post/165331532165

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bisluthq · 9 months ago

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I didn’t add that Zac and Taylor may have hooked up, but both never considered it dating. Douglas Boothe all but gave it away to me, in his non denial, from his interview, that there was something between them. His face gave it away. I liked that he didn’t kiss and tell though. Tyson Ritter was adamant the song many people associate with Harry was actually about him, but he didn’t like her lifestyle. Her parents wouldn’t have liked him either, even more than Martin Johnson. Matty is far more infamous than either Tyson or Martin. I wouldn’t admit to my parents I was dating Matty after what happened with Martin. Taylor is the same girl who loved Brits and guys like the rockers from the Vans Warped Tour she attended when she was young.

fair enough, again nothing personal - I do hear you and I hear you a bit clearer here (if you’re the same person).

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cynthiajayusa · 7 years ago