#AND THEYRE RELEASING AN ALBUM SOMETIMES THIS YEAR I THINK???

[sockatoothewafflebird]

i saw a post somewhere on this hellsite that was like "having ocs absolutely ruins music for you" and that goes the same for being obsessed with any piece of media. like back when i was obsessed with ragatha and pomni every single song became a ragapom song. and now ddlc has me in a chokehold, so every single song i hear is "oh my godh thats so monika" or "sayori would definitely like this band" ITS RUINED ALL OF MUSIC FOR ME. AND I WOULD NOT GIVE THAT UP FOR ANYTHING.

that being said. um. you should listen to Wild Party... they only have one album and a couple EPs out right now but... but their vibe reminds me of sayori.... sayori would love wild party..... wild party save me.....

[sisville-v11]

todays the 1 year anniversary of techdogs release, and god. i cant believe its been a year now dude

ive definitely talked about the impact this album left on me here before, but i think i need to like. actually elaborate on that, because techdog had a paw in what would end up being a complete life restructure i went through earlier this year that fundamentally changed the core of who i was. for this post, though, i wanna talk more specifically about techdog itself and what was going through my mind as the parts were dropping & immediately afterwards rather than its aftermath of what it did to me. this is probs gonna be a long post so best to put this read more here (update from future me after i finished this post: i was right its extremely long)

so prior to techdogs release, i already had some familiarity with patricias work cause a friend of mine introduced me to her stuff, and at the time i thought her songs were... pretty cool! i think it was rosa, daylight spectrum, and visiting narcissa i listened to sometimes before this, but it wasnt often and i was still knee-deep in my c418 fixation so she wasnt what i would consider a favorite artist of mine at that time. enter techdog.

i saw she had just uploaded TECHDOG 1, and saw her pinned comment saying it was a 4-part project shed been working on since 2022, and that shed be uploading each new part every day. cool! took a listen through it, thought it was a neat lil collection of tracks but i didnt think too much about it then, it sorta came and went for me.

the next day came and TECHDOG 2 dropped. much like techdog 1, i these tracks sorta came and went for me though i did like them a bit more than techdog 1's, outside of the first one which i found super catchy. i did notice at the time it was a bit longer than techdog 1, but didnt think much of it then.

new day, new techdog. TECHDOG 3 dropped, and it was here that i started noticing the trend of each part being about 20 minutes longer than the last. something else i immediately noticed here is that this album sounded a lot more mature than the first two, but couldnt pin down why exactly i thought that at the time. regardless, i enjoyed it notably more than the first two techdogs.

then TECHDOG 4 dropped and god DAMN was this a good-ass album, at the time it was easily my favorite of the TECHDOGs and also my new favorite album of hers, i absolutely love skillful use of repetition in music and i felt every song in 4 executed it perfectly, so many of the songs in here stick out in my mind even today (especially big mention to tracks 1 and 10... and again just about all the other tracks in here theyre all kickass). so that was that, the techdog series was concluded and she mentioned she would be uploading the compilation of all 4 albums the next day, which i was immediately planning to listen through the entirety of again and i was very much looking forward to it.

and then shit got real.

when shit gets real

TECHDOG 5 dropped to my COMPLETE and utter surprise and it threw me so off guard that i had literally no idea what would be in store with this one. i re-listened to some of techdog 4 to get myself warmed back up before jumping back in and... i was not ready for the tone shift. the pure emotion of these songs. GEGTGEGHGETECETHTOTHCHDHCOCDCODODOD literally sounds like an anxiety attack perfectly translated from emotion into song. SO MANY of these songs are perfect transcriptions of raw negative emotion put into song form, i dont know how the fuck she did that. and the entire progression of the album sounds like youre being pulled deeper, deeper into the negativity and fear and pain and turmoil of your mind, by the time you get to the last track its clear theres no way youre seeing the light anytime soon, only the growing darkness awaits.

(context for those that dont know: excursions is the c418 album that completely reshaped the way i thought about music back in 2020 and my brain latched onto his music extremely hard as a result. and then i realized that was happening again with techdog)

so uh. i think its suffice to say that i was locked in when it came to hearing this series out til the end. and i didnt have long to wait for continuing it, as TECHDOG 6 would drop the next day.

i saw it drop in the morning, and its description immediately stuck with me - "Feeling pain." the feeling of pain being translated into music was something where i had NO clue at all how she couldve possibly executed it, and its something i found myself pondering the entire day until i finally listened to it in the evening. i already wasnt feeling great that day, so i think what happened next only exasperated my emotions further while listening to it.

pain. pain its all pain. of course musical pain would be noise. of course it would sound like garbled noise thats what pain FEELS LIKE. the onslaught of static garble was so intense that i had to take off my headphones and listen to the album through my laptop speakers. for the rest of the albums duration i was just laying on my bed and, letting my ears absorb the musical onslaught this album was bringing forth.

techdog 6 isnt my favorite of the techdogs, but i think its extremely impressive how, once again, patricia was out here translating pure emotion to sound almost to a tee; its pretty clear to me that all of the tracks here emphasize different types of pain one would go through. the first few tracks focus more on physical pain, the type of searing physical pain you'd feel from being horribly beaten up, while the rest sound more akin to mental pain, bubbling mental anguish from being depressed, feeling like a failure because you cant do what comes so easily to others, or... other similarly horrible mental health episodes. both very different types of pain but still unbearable to go through all the same. DODTDODHDODTOGOTOHTETHTGHCHGHEGCGEGCECECEC sounds like desperately trying to convince yourself youre okay when you absolutely arent and youre spiraling about it in a manic state. DEDGDEDCDEDGEOEGECGHGCGOCTCOCHOTOHOTHTHTHT is terrifying, terrifying beyond what my vocabulary can adequately describe it as, the absolute rock bottom that leaves you feeling broken beyond all repair, that there's no way you're escaping this, youre trapped in the pits of hell as the leviathans swarm around you until you finally relent and you need to just give up now.

until... the final track happens. GEGCGEGHGEGCEDECEHCOCHCDHTHDHODTDODTOTOTOT happens.

i was not ready for this song to sound like that. to hit like that. a song so harsh yet so beautiful, blasting tiny rays of sun down through the roaring sea of pain for you to grasp onto and try to free yourself from the pits. a release. its the only song thats ever made me ugly sob, and for 20 minutes at that, its so inexplicably powerful. guys this is still the most beautiful song ive ever heard in my life, i still think this a year after it hit me for the first time. for all techdog relistens after this, i needed to forbid myself from relistening to this song unless i was doing an entire album runthrough from the start, or at least the entirety of the dark side portions, because this is the type of experience you cant ruin with overexposure. this is the type of song you only get the pleasure of experiencing once in a blue moon. likely even less often than that. its just- god. god damn. i cant believe it. i cant believe this song exists

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the dust clears and TECHDOG 7 reveals itself the next day. patricia made it a point to say that this one was the true final part in the techdog series. i didnt even know if we would get a techdog 7... how the hell could you follow up that last song? in what way are you able to do that?

...with drone, i found out.

i remember i was confused when i first started playing 7 because i heard nothing coming through my headphones at all - thats intentional, as i soon found out. it starts out with nothing, and each track slowly but surely brings things back into focus, back to reality as the hollowness left from the aftermath of the pain starts to be replaced with regular emotion again. different emotion than before, but still, better than emptiness. i dont have much to say about OCOTOCODOCOTOCECTCDCTHTDTETDGDEDHDEGEHEGEHGHGHGHG specifically, as i feel it speaks for itself, but i did want to highlight the way techdog 7s tone changes after this because i find it really, really interesting.

the way GEGTGEGHGEGTGECETEHETOTHTCTHDHCHOHCDCOCDCODODODOD sounds so desolate, as you start desperately screaming into the void harder and harder hoping to hear a response back. the way DODTDODHDODTDOGOTOHOTETHTGTHCHGHEHGCGEGCGECECECEC sounds like trying to process the loss of a version of yourself you never thought would leave, the way THTCTHTOTHTCTHDHCHOHCECOCDCOGODOEODGDEDGDEGEGEGEG sounds like dusting off the rubble and finally accepting that this is the way it is. (some of) the stages of grief on full display here.

but, just in case there is anything left... the 2nd-to-last track, DEDGDEDCDEDGDEOEGECEGHGCGOGCTCOCHCOTOHOTOHTHTHTHT is one last journey through reliving all the past trauma in hopes of finding something, anything from beforehand before calling it quits for good, yet coming up empty handed and being like fine ill let it go, ready to accept the circumstances and move on, try to rebuild yourself with what you do have. this was another song that i had to like... stop what i was doing, and fixate my full attention on everything happening in the song. it was too intense to ignore.

as was the final track of the techdog series, GEGCGEGHGEGCGEDECEHECOCHCDCHTHDHOHDTDODTDOTOTOTOT. a song that absorbed me for the last 30 minutes of its runtime, my entire being felt synergized with the energy this song brought with it until... suddenly, its gone. its over. and i had no idea what the hell i just experienced.

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even now, i dont really know how to describe what happened after i finished techdog. i barely remember it, its all kind of a blur.

one thing i do specifically remember is that i tried remixing a song from techdog a couple days after i finished the series, and eventually scrapped it after it got a ways in production because uhhh... dude i slowly realized that i couldnt make music anymore. at all. techdog had set the standard of music in my brain so high that i would not be able to make any new songs i was proud of until i buckled myself down and figured out how to stop playing bab songs on my fisher price keyboard and start making some real shit. there was a path my music was taking shortly before techdog did what it did to me, and that IMMEDIATELY got terminated and hard branched elsewhere because i realized oh my god, that type of music i was making sucks actually and i need to get better right now before i make anything thats worth showing people again. and thats how it took 8 months for my confidence in making music to come back, after i sat down, learned some new plugins, and learned how to make crazy shit.

...i sorta lost focus a bit there oop. but yeah, techdog still holds such a special place in my heart and its so often that ill still revisit some of the songs cause they go hard as fuck. especially those from 4, 5, and 7, theres some songs in there that i absolutely adore. if i had to rank my enjoyment of each album nowadays casual-listening wise it would probably go 4 = 5 = 7 >> 6 > 1 > 3 > 2. i think theyre all great, its mostly just a vibes thing for me that has me preferring some over others.

i dont know how to end this big ass mini essay i wrote about my time experiencing techdog after saying all those things i did about it. so uhhhh... i guess thats it. maybe ill attach a wip of that scrapped techdog remix in a reblog just so it sees the light of day at all? idk

...ok yea im ending this post now

[awesomefringey]

i think it's weird to assume that because they're not on tour they're not working, for all we know harry might be deep in production of his next album and with that comes a hell of a lot of prep as well for when it releases next tour and stuff. yes he took time off right after tour ended but might have a lot of other stuff to do now, it's been half a year since tour ended. assuming that when they're off tour theyre absolutely free from work is sillyyyyyyy two or three weeks of having time for each other is normal with their hectic schedules in the profession they both chose to do

Yeah, definitely. Their lifestyle is extremely different to what us commoners with our 9 to 5 jobs and our PTOs are used to, yet we apply the same standards sometimes.

They’re the heads of entire enterprises, their own brand as artists first and foremost, but also the head of their touring and merch companies, they even own fashion labels.

I can see them going on “workation”, hanging by the pool, slurping on a cocktail but also writing down lyrics, reading movie scripts, playing guitar, reviewing sales numbers, thinking of promotion strategies, collecting design ideas.

I don’t think their brains and phones are ever completely disconnected from the world. They just allow themselves some privacy from time to time.

[angstics]

my chemical romance has always been a band about death. bullets' bonnie and clyde, three cheers' resurrection-rampage plot, black parade's dying main character, danger days' "where the good guys die and the bad guys win". the vampires and corpse-like make-up and lyrics constantly looking to the end. 1000+ hits when you google: "death-obsessed" "my chemical romance". gerard way's "if we never play another show again, keep yourself alive" in 2008, when the band had an exhausting few years and an uncertain future (video, article).

it took a few years, but the band eventually played its last show. it wasn't just a break or dissolution. the band died. their final song was released posthumously in 2/14 and it was titled "fake your death" -- not a hint at reunification, but a finale that put to rest who they were as my chemical romance. as gerard way said: "i don't think my chemical romance is supposed to happen again. i think it's supposed to stay beautiful forever; it's a beautiful thing. it's supposed to die young in the car wreck" (kerrang , 7/14).

dying young has haunted my chem as long as death has. every single main character of theirs' was both dead and young: irl demolition lovers on the LOTMS cd, the patient being "too young to die", the fab four being teenagers according to the killjoys: california comics. even gun's "never gonna have a son" and "if im old enough to die for your mistakes / then let's go". even helena, who is directly about the ways' grandmother, is played by a young actor -- with make-up matching the bands'. there were fears surrounding gerard's health ending the band then at one point his life, as stated by brian schechter in LOTMS. after the band ended, mikey and frank had near-death experiences. gerard released hestiant alien's how it's going to be, a song about "waking up from the dream and realizing it's not exactly what you wanted" (video): "you said we'd all be dead by twenty five" and "we're just bored you're still alive". the entertainment industry is marked by the iconization of artists who died young. the 90s - 00s was a time + place defined by DARE and AIDS and young veterans. the band coincided with BIG life changes (sky-rocketing careers, new families).

this is all to say that my chem tightly links youth and death. there is also a great emphasis on death as a performance -- dedicating songs and albums and theatre productions and art and stories and appearances to it. the aesthetic of death.

though the band died young, its people didnt. years went by. my impression as an outsider to that time is that even without reason (least of all from these fuckin guys), hope didnt die. it laid dormant. the group friendship and musical relationship was revived sometime 2017 - 2018 because of a family bbq (podcast, quote). that was two years of possibility before they decided to return in 2019. after some hurdles where hope never diminished, they began their first tour after a decade -- filled with projects and personal hardships and children growing up -- in 2022.

this tour has been marked by their visible and stated joy. not a nostalgia tour, not an album tour, but a chance to "reintroduce ourselves to the world" (podcast, quote). the sources of joy are endless (isnt that just so beautiful??) one of them is discovering the link btwn living and old age.

theyre still about death, theyre still about youth, theyre still about drama. gerard's dressed as princess diane and joan darc, famous women who died young. the when we were young night 2 costumes are bout the horror of aging but not changing. it's a forever mcr theme.

[wegonbealright-09]

https://x.com/fjimindata/status/1724548947698688502?s=46 see now im REALLY pissed off

first of all, it makes sense that they wouldn’t get certifications for the much older songs that they’re not interested in promoting, i get that part. but when you have it all laid out like this its just obvious that there’s no excuse and they didn’t have any interest in acknowledging him.

the 7 certification came just in time to push his album release and the grammy push and yet, that flopped.

jimin is the ONLY member to have literally every main solo song (Lie, Serendipity, Filter, and now Like Crazy) to qualify. It’s established that he sells in the US and each of his songs is great in both quality and overall appeal. so why not make more of an investment in him.

there’s at least three possible scenarios i can think of:

1- this is all part of the plan

sometimes, the cynic in me wonders if they forced him into an underdog role bc that’s the brand they felt would sell for him. the members themselves have spoken about the concepts they were given pre-debut. i remember jin talking about how he was meant to be a cold serious type of guy but eventually that just didn’t work for him and he became the handsome and confident but goofy one. we can assume it was the same way for others.

at first, jimin was the “ladykiller” type with the ab flashing antics and then he became the sweet, kind, charismatic but “self-conscious” guy most of us became extremely attached to. he already had the “hard-work genius” title (🥴) that has been pushed for ages so it would make sense for the underdog-that-thrives-against-all-odds narrative to be the next step.

bc jimin has always performed strongly in the us they knew he wouldn’t flop no matter what and fans would feel incentivized by the “mistreatment” narrative so they would work even harder for him.

much like with bts, there was always a social-justice-oriented motivator for how hard armys worked since BTS had been treated like shit by racist/xenophobic/homophobic/elitist people in both the domestic and Western industries. meanwhile, the only real competition bts ever had was a group of attractive but averagely talented individuals who got all their material, promotions, and mediaplay handed to them on a silver platter. this only motivated armys that much more to work hard for the ones that actually do the work and “deserve” it.

does that sound similar to a certain someone? do you see where i’m going with this?

i could write an entire essay on the parallels i see here but i’ll leave it there for now.

2- the company really only cares about jk

another scenario is the worst case scenario pjms have been talking about all year. the company has a one-track mind of who they’re trying to push and they know the other members will follow even if theyre mistreated by the company bc they simply won’t do that well elsewhere or by themselves.

3- for some reason, they see Jimin as a liability so = not worth investment

something we don’t often talk about (because we don’t know much about it) is the topic of sponsors. jimin must have some but we don’t really have a clue as to who they are. for th (and probably jk) it’s obvious that that paradise hotel group family sponsors him. i don’t doubt that’s one of the reasons why he made such a big deal over those dating rumors. dating the daughter of the people funding your career sounds a tad bit icky if you ask me. now we now it was also bc he was actually dating a friend of the daughter’s (who also appears to be sponsored by them 😶) but i digress.

***this next part is purely gossip based on my observations and is 0% grounded on any legitimate information. ***

i suspect that jimin had pretty big sponsors circa 2019 while jk didn’t and now it is the opposite. when the whole paris clubbing scandal dropped even though the videos were everywhere on stan twt barely any korean media picked up on it. on the other hand, when the jk scandal triad happened (tattoo girl, car accident, and mid-covid itaewon outing) that shit was everywhere and he got dogged on real bad by knetz. it’s possible that jimin just got lucky that it coincided with jk’s scandals and got off scot-free (outside of stan twitter). in contrast, when jimin had the whole insurance payment evasion/stolen mail debacle that got covered extensively in k-circles even if stan twt didn’t gaf about it. now we know after face era was jimin was struggling around that time which inspired his songs and then he decided to “get his head straight on”. since that time period, which was the first half of 2022, he’s almost become ultra conservative with his image. i suspect the company took the blame for the insurance thing even though it was on him and that that was his wake-up call that he wasn’t doing well mentally.

if jimin, like the rest of hyung line, doesn’t have sponsors that are that influential anymore then maybe more of the brunt of funding his solo debut relied on the company and they decided to be conservative about it in case it was a risk at any point.

Is a very different approach to the situation I've never heard anyone analysing the situation like that it is very different and baby armies and them stupid ass ot7s would eat that one up.

But I think we all agree it's two. I'm trying my best not to post about Hybe because the festive season is here and I don't want nothing and nobody to ruin my spirit.

[mp3playergirl27]

Was listening to Zomboy tonight after many years of missing out on his new stuff. I listened to his music from his Game Time, Nuclear (Hands Up), and Mind Control eras. But fell off listening as my music tastes shifted toward more future bass and vaporwave (still favorite genres).

I found a playlist on Musi of his "top" hits and noticed I havent heard of (and maybe even cant remember) half of them. So even tho was searching for a more nostalgic and familar sound, I enjoyed hearing his style in his older music, which, to me, is all new. C o o l!!! Some songs I found nice were Bad Intentions and Lights Out.

However dandy this trip down memory lane was, when I got to Terror Squad in this playlist, I was weirded out by how much it sounded like a Skrillex song I knew (sometimes the titles of songs escape me lol). It was itching my brain so bad that I had to go to the internet to see which one cameout F I R S T, since i knew beyond a resonable doubt they had to be inspired by each other or something lol.

I found this Genious article about it and this relieved me a lot.

"Yea thats exactly the song!" <- the gist of how I felt knowing they sounded analogous to S O M E B O D Y else lol.

This part suprised me tho . . .

Youve think theyd have beef since their songs were so similar and apparently released the same yr ? ? (Tho I was suprised to see Skrillex's "version" came out first lol). But despite the fans' reactions, they were both cool about it all, and Zomboy himself needed to clear up confusion publically.

I was too young and disinterested in artist profiles at the age I was curating (and settling) my tastes for Zomboy's jams, so this was all lost on me. Perhaps for the better lol. I was occupied in 2013 with Skrillex's debut album and how . . . different it was, let alone him coming out from radio silent hiatus tbat felt like years lol.

Very cool music history stuff. Anyway I do like how similar they are now thats its clear to me the songs' eerie similarities were apparently coincidences (or not idk. Lol I didnt look t h a t deeply into it all). I enjoy remixes a lot for their creative spins on rhythmic motifs, so Zomboy's version, for me, is like hearing a remix of Skrillex's mix. It scratches my brain just right with the irony of how its a completely new song for me yet its terribly nostalgic bc of how much it sounds like All Is Fair Love . . .

I prefer All Is Fair Love because I like the more complex rhythm's in it and also bc its just the one I heard first l o l, so it's grown on me. But def a nice duo of songs. Theyre like butterfly wings. Very similar on both sides in form and color, but not quite exactly the same. Or better yet, like a butterfly's wing where the inside is one color, and the outside a different one; the shape of the wing is the same but the forms of the patterns are different. Idk l o l.

What a coincidence, indeed!!!!

[rebelwhodoesntknow]

I think Sena's voice has really improved over the years but yeah she was really young and inexperienced in Stars, I like her singing but it was definitely a little rough

I always wondered why they didn't release dolls!!! It's not like they releaased figures (except ones that were way too delicate for their target audience + too expensive), they really missed the mark there. Literally I would pay so much to hold a tiny version of the sweet dreams star pr are you kidding me?? 😭💗

Ahhh I actually really like Raki... I understand people dislking her 100000% because she DID like. Personally design her own Jeweling rare which is supposed to be purely made from magic, not designed by anyone, she designed her own star wings which can only be gifted by the system, same with the wings for her zodiac coord like Ichigo gen. So it's not just that she took most of her inspo from existing coords, she just kind of broke all the rules somehow and nobody in-show was like THATS IMPOSSIBLE????

But Idk I like her! I love her design, her voice actor (also voiced Wakaba) is great, I honestly wish she got more songs. I think it just made sense for her to be there. Even if Parade was just meant to get excitement + money back up for Planet's release, there was some love put into it for people who grew up with the series, and everyone kind of takes care of Raki. She's an excited kid obsessed with the idea of Aikatsu in general and tbh I see myself when I was like 13 diving into all of it, she's like a representation for new and old fans that just love it and want to be a part of it. She wasn't supposed to be a super fleshed out character, just kind of a tour guide along the show

OR IM PROJEVTING TOO MUCH AFBKSNDDJF But fr I don't mind her! The first anniversary album actually has her cover one of Mizuki's songs because it was her voice actor's favorite, she was a huge fan of Aikatsu when she was little and she won a singing contest to voice Wakaba in Friends!!🥺💗 Even if it wasn't the biggest role, I'm really happy for her, I feel like even that says something about what Raki meant

I love that kids still write letters about shows, I also follow Super Sentai and every so often the staff mentions kids keep writing to them asking them to redeem the villains because they like the actors too much LOL

Hinaki & Yume's voice actors actually had a unit irl too for a little bit, Min☆na, they've disbanded now and the song's werent my vibe but good for them!!

DONT BUY THE AIKATSU GAMES ITS SO EXPENSIVE + THEYRE REGION LOCKED. You can play them on a PC on Citra though, and if you turn up the graphics quality it looks sol so much better than on a console- basically like you're playing the akari gen DCD!

If you're interested, I can send you the roms, it will take a couple days though I'll have to find my hard drive 💗

I have all of them! Only 2 are worth playing imo, most don't have many songs or coords but these are powerhouses

Aikatsu! My No. 1 Stage features every single Ichigo/Akari gen song up till the last like 15, stages and dances included, it's crazy. It had a good amount of coords for most brands, only a couple for dolly devil and mecha panic but there's a lot of fun mix and match stuff you can do! The dressup system is the same as the arcade game so you can swap PRs and everything.

The gameplay is really simple, short visual novel-style stories to unlock songs, play songs to unlock coord cards. The outfits you use do effect special appeals too!! I play it sometimes, but mostly I mess around with outfits in MV mode and just watch

The other game is Aikatsu Stars! My Special Appeal. This is the only stars game sadly, and it doesn't have a lot of songs, but there's a few cute new animations in the mvs (i.e. in tsu•ba•sa, you can't have just one character, so before the song starts your two backup dancers help you out of the throne, idk its just cute)

It does have 1,000 outfit pieces though...! A lot of the brandless coords were included this time. No berry parfait, but all the other brands before it are included (one PR per brand) and nobody from venus ark (😭) but it looks nice and again, it's fun to play with outfits!

The gameplay is the same as the other game. And in this one you get to make your own character with a few customization options for hair & eyes!

Honestly, I don't think playing to get all the coords is worth it, it really takes a long time and you're just repeating the same thing over and over to get it (and usually get duplicate pieces which don't do anything)

I have a save file for each game, with all songs & coords unlocked though! If you're interested in trying either of them I can send those too with the roms (And if you haven't used citra I don't mind explaining how to add the saves!)

THIS IS A WHOLE ASS ESSAY

ITS OKAY IM HAVING A GREAT TIME TALKING ABOUT THIS and I hope you are too fhfjf

Yeah I’ve seen the figures before and they’re always ridiculously expensive and I’m like ‘oh come on I’m broke and want to be an idol here’ plus they didn’t even have the coords which is like the best part??? Come on???

I think I like ( while knowing very little about Parade) seeing Raki more as a superfan/vehicle for idol display rather than a full fleshed character, although I really wish she didn’t just straight up break the aikatsu system. I saw her star wings outfit and was definitely confused by why the wings were on her in her whole performance. If anything, she should have gotten them when she made her true PR and actually debuted her brand. I do think her va’s origin is super cute though!

Unfortunately I have never used Citra before and am very new to emulators (I’ve used melonDS like three times maybe) so I would definitely need help with whatever rom stuff you’re mentioning lol, I am not good with that stuff at all. I’m not too bad at rhythm games, though, so I think it would be really fun to try the games out! Maybe that’ll be better than trying to teach myself Idol Activity from the stage videos on YouTube lol!

[selamat-linting]

hey! im fans of that group in 2017. their story is just as wild btw, and i've been itching to basically talk about this to anyone!!! so, apologize beforehand, im going to infodump a whole fuckton of kpop gossip. you can ignore this if you want.

so triple h, the kpop group, consists of two guys called e'dawn and hui from a recently debuted boygroup called pentagon, and a girl called hyuna, a solo artist who used to be a member of a girl band called wonder girls and another group called 4minute. basically, she's a veteran and theyre rookies. they made two mini albums, which was really good, not only musically but also in concept. Seriously go steam retro future and fresh 365 its really goood. their music video often portrays them almost like a throuple, all three together. theyre quite touchy-feely too. the fandom likes to call them a bisexual triangle and ships all three. kinda like D generation X if shawn and hunter are normal kpop idols and chyna gets her respects. and just like said faction, someone eventually gets involved with one another.

hyuna and e'dawn was revealed to be dating around august 2018. they confirmed it, and i remember them even admitting that its been going on for two years and they started the relationship when e'dawn was still a trainee. a few weeks later, they both got fired.

there was an uproar. this isn't the mid 2000s where fans got angry their dream idol are dating, fans are mostly angry that the company, cube entertainment, threw them away over an outdated and unfair rule. and especially since they feel hyuna have not been pushed well and was mistreated on her current agency AND her old one despite being very talented and was willing to be risky and do all sorts of sexy-themed performances. also e'dawn is a popular rookie, give him a chance! ofc there are detractors, company stans who think its the agency's right to fire them, people getting mad because poor hui and the rest of pentagon gets caught up in the middle of all the drama and their career might be in trouble from the scandal, and there's also people who thinks its predatory that hyuna dated e'dawn when he was a trainee (he was 25 years old when they met. hyuna is two years older)

but things eventually blew over. hyuna and e'dawn gets signed by another agency, they made decent numbers, announced theyre engaged in early 2022, and everyone seems to be praying that they will get a career and marriage that will make cube entertainment regret firing them both.

until they broke up.

the problem isnt exactly that they break up tbh, most fans are just sad, a few are angry because e'dawn botched his career for a relationship that failed, but they really couldnt blame it on hyuna. they couldnt blame her, until a few months later after their break up, hyuna dated a man called junhyung, who is recently released by his own boygroup, highlight, because he was involved in the burning sun scandal. the burning sun scandal is entire can of worms that really deserved its own post but in short, hyuna dates a man who would watch and share videos of women getting SA'd. so, public opinion basically turned against her. there are rumor mills noting how many of her ig friends unfollowed her after the announcement (three), ppl bringing up old hyundawn discourse topic, that sort of stuff.

e'dawn recently left the agency he was at, psy nation, to go on another lesser known agency. hui is still in pentagon. recently finished his military service i believe. he joined an idol survival show (a show where a bunch of guys compete in dances and singing so they can debut as a part of a hyped up idol group) to debut in a boygroup called zerobaseone, but he didnt make it. he's not in trouble at all, its just that sometimes companies would send a member of a boy group to an idol survival show to gain more exposure and renewed interest and sometimes the guy just feels like they need to learn more. anyway, stream 365 FRESH and RETRO FUTURE. Stan triple h (the band not the wrestler lmao)

they should replace triple h the wrestler with triple h the kpop group

[wickymicky]

oh and itzy lol

[vyl3tpwny]

why & how i make so much music

i got a question about this earlier and i answered it with a meme so i thought i'd actually answer this properly.

this is what happens when your hobby and your job are the exact same thing.

i experience everything as music and through music. whenever i have feelings and thoughts, i think about them musically because it's sort of terrifying to analyze those things purely with the objectively flawed words we have in our head. so first and foremost, i literally cannot examine myself emotionally without music.

the way i organize my workflow is so that i can get ideas down as absolutely fast as possible. things are always set up so that if i need to write something or play something, everything's ready to go. even when i'm hanging out with friends on discord or playing video games, i always have ableton open, my keyboard on, and my Bear note app ready for writing. it sounds stressful but it's not i promise. i can still relax and live my life even with all of that.

i discovered Savant's music around 2012, and since then he's been one of my biggest inspirations on the electronic-music side of things. he made me realize that i shouldn't ever limit myself to a style or genre just for the sake of it. and he also used to release like 4 albums a year. i saw that and was like "if i did that i could articulate all these feelings and stories and ideas in my head pretty often and reliably". so i let myself make as much music as possible. and what i release isn't even everything. for every finished song i have, there's a few unreleased songs/unfinished demos. (i currently have a backlog of like 20 finished songs that ARENT on any album project. and i wrote something like 125 songs for Fairytails and then narrowed it down to 40.)

i'm also able to release music frequently because i'm only limited by myself. i do all my own mixing and mastering, so i dont need to wait on engineers to finish stuff. i play all my instruments, do all my own sound design and arranging and vocals, so i dont need to rely on other people for that. i dont have a label or management telling me to do things (or not to do things) so i can put things out whenever i want, however i want, and on my own schedule. a lot of the reason some artists release music sparingly isnt because theyre not always writing music, its because their label is being super picky or their music is in a VERY LONG HAUL process of getting approval and release, etc. ive done music with other people and we'll finish a song and i wont see it released until like a year and a half later. the music industry sucks, so i just dont participate in it much.

i also used to think doing purely production and composition was easier than performing instruments live and doing real recording. but i found out that the more i played piano and guitar and did vocals, things got easier because that stuff is so much easier to get into a flow-state with than doing endless production and arranging. so the more instruments i played and more live recording i did, the faster my workflow became.

i dont limit my inspirations. i can listen to a song i dont like and still have ideas and inspiration from it, which will become an idea that gets turned into a song. sometimes i'll just go outside and listen to sounds outside and i always discover hidden rhythms and melodies even in the quietest natural settings. trust me, when you take the time to go out and just listen to the world around you, you'll realize how inspiring it is just to exist in it. go and pay attention to the everyday sounds and atmospheres that you usually just block out mentally or with headphones or something. i love to ride the bus and public transportation, it's probably one of the best things for my mental health. every single time, i can hear the way the windows shake, the way the wheels pass over bumps and gravel, its music. there are rhythms and feelings hidden in things like that, and when you start to hear music in the world around you, the more compelled you feel to make music and be a part of that world too. you can even find inspiration from watching a completely unrelated youtube video or reading an article. everything is inspiring. i love that about life.

its also important not to worry about perfectionism. i think thats the thing that held me back the most for a long time was worrying about if something was perfect or if i was """""""better than someone else"""""""". trust me, i used to be super competitive and kind of a dick about it, anyone who knew me like maybe before 2017 can tell you as much. but i eventually came to hate that mentality, music is absolutely not something to be competitive about imo. i think the music industry makes it so that its tempting to do it that way, but music is so free and creative. its important for everyone to learn from each other and share ideas rather than gatekeep them and think that one person is better than the other. and its important to just make music and try not to make it perfect. because perfection doesnt really exist, so youre gonna be chasing an ideal thats impossible to reach. now i try to make music and when it sounds like it reached the idea i wanted to articulate, it's done. sometimes it's important for something to sound like it's filled to the brim with sounds and ideas and sometimes its important for a song to be sparse and understated. it doesnt matter, its your own music.

so ya!

here's a picture of when sylver and i were finishing Tales From Equestria (2017) :3 just because.

[kindahoping4forever]

now that the whole album has been released, do you think that the set for the aus leg of the tour is gonna change drastically to include many new songs? or do you think theyre just gonna add like bad omens and maybe one more like caramel or older to replace an old song off the set and save the rest for a seperate tour next year?

🤔🤔 It's hard to say... while I am confident there'll be a 5SOS5 tour sometime next year, I'm sure they'd love to play more new material sooner rather than later and would love for their home country to be the first to hear it. But it is still the Take My Hand Tour and I'm sure many Aus fans have been looking forward to their show based on what they've seen from other legs and may feel slighted if their experience varies. (Like, say they eliminate some of the older songs they revived or don't play as much CALM - an album that was never toured until now - as they did in other countries.)

At the very least, for each leg they've added in their most recently released single, so Bad Omens definitely makes it into the set. Which actually brings me to another point: even if they only add Bad Omens and keep the rest of the TMH set, that's 6 songs off 5SOS5, that's almost an entire third of the album! So it's hard to argue for them adding more if they still want it to be a well-rounded, career representative set.

[augstd-blog]

not 2 be an army but, ,,,, ,, ,

[dojae-huh]

SM is stupid theyre a business and will go with the kind of music they think will suit an idol and change it if they see gp and fans like something else. take for example jonghyun he got a song that most ppl wouldnt remember as his first solo single https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yIDkbbdOoE&ab_channel=SMTOWN but they saw that the other song was doing better they made it a double title track thing and released a video within a week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcvDR5xz97g&ab_channel=SMTOWN and jonghyun won alot of awards with it. jonghyun also wrote most of his mini album and also opted to continue with the same design that taemin went with his album (ultimately all shinee did that with their solo debut) unlike ppl think SM also funded jonghyuns very indie sounding albums https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_Op.1 (LSM personally was interested in funding jonghyuns music) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGP-gfCWXYI&ab_channel=SMTOWN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0O9ZU5Nd9g&ab_channel=KKBopper

after the first mini jonghyun was left to produce songs on his own and never pushed to take a stylist choice, so doyoung talking abt doing something his fans will like is his brain telling him he has to to be successful. unlike lets say key or jonghyun, doyoung wants to be a pop star and be popular like taeyeon and kyuhyun who go with music that sells.

this is also the reason yuta keeps telling him to follow his own wishes

Video, Video2, Wiki, Video3, Video4

SM has a whole Indie label under them. There is a lot of projects that go unnotticed, but are still supported for the music. There is an old SM group, whse member said that they could release their music only because LSM supported, that they weren't profitable at all.

You gave a good example that even seasoned producers don't always guess correctly which song will make it. Sometimes it's "time and place" or a unique exposure (like going viral). Some songs get a second life years later.

I agree with you. The first place is the ultimate prize for Doyoung.

Well, Doyoungs covers never dissapoint, he has a taste in arrangement, so maybe we worry too much and too early.

[romewritingshop]

30 qs - 20 blogs

Rules: Answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs you are contractually obligated to know better!

Well for the record, you are not under a contractual obligation so don’t worry 😆 I offer you immunity. I would love to get to know some of you and let you guys know me so thank you @what-do-you-mean-theyre-evil @withbeautyandrage @shewillreadyou @nikki-2406

I’m gonna tag five people:

@eleanorbloom (I love you and want to know more 🧡)

@drariellevalentine (I am slowly reading Medically Inevitable and I am loving it 💕)

@ladylamrian (Writing your request is a lot of fun and I hope you’ll enjoy it 💜)

@utterlyinevitable (You’re amazing and I’m absolutely in awe of your work 💙)

@melaninnntae (I love the way you react to my fics and I am in awe of your aesthetic 💛)

Name/Nickname: I go by Rome here but if you’re close, I’ll tell you my real name 😉

Gender: female (she/her) or (They/Them)

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius ♒

Height: 5′0 to 5′1 (I actually dk)

Birthday: Feb 3 (It’s actually coming up soon 😅)

Lucky Number: 3, 14

When did you create this blog?: 18 June 2020

What do I post?: Choices fanfics, a bunch of other fanfics (Might transfer those to AO3) Memes sometimes but important stuff, fanart. I have a sideblog: @romereadingshop where I reblog fics I enjoy reading or fanarts I like, more important reblogs on there.

Last thing I googled: “The Yorkshire Ripper” 😶 “easter chocolate usa” 😄 “yt” 🤦🏽‍♀️ 

Do I get asks?: No. I’ve gotten one or two recently but that’s about it. Nothing on my other blog. I would love asks. sounds pathetic but I’m starved of conversation. Would love an anon ask,

Why did I choose my URL?: My first original blog was chroma3 which was something Tumblr suggested. I had a sideblog I wanted to start where I did writing and posted my reviews of stuff but Tumblr sucked and I wanted my writing blog to be my main. So I deleted and restarted (Had around 314 followers on there) I write stuff and technically it’s a shop where you look around for fics to try so I stuck with Rome Writing Shop. It’s diverse and not limited to a single fandom. This is the name I’ll be known by and die by 😅 I don’t have the strength to change it.

My current projects and wips: 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 I have a dissertation and essays to complete but in terms of here: Some of the titles are on my masterlist with ‘Coming Soon’. At the moment, I’m writing Baking Love which I aim to release monthly and have a completed series. My Colt series, Meeting in Paradise is going to be retconned so I’m sorry if you wanted to read it. I’ll be deleting it soon and a new story line. I have 2 - 3 requests to write and one which I hope to finish soon and post.

Favorite artist(s) (atm): 

The Weeknd, especially with his new album After Hours. 

Michele Morrone 😍 

Shawn Mendes 🥰 

Lubalin (Really love his internet drama songs) 🤩

Song stuck in my head: 

'She stole my Broccoli’ - Lubalin (SLAPS HARD)

‘Love Faces’ - Trey Songz (Slowed version 🥴🥵)

‘Honey’ - Jessica Jimenez (🥵 Her voice)

Favorite song of all time: 

‘Hard for Me' - Michele Morrone (All versions because they all hold significance in my heart. Helped me heal through tough times)

‘Fallin’ All in You’ - Shawn Mendes (It is so romantic and honest and I just want to dance with someone on that song)

Last movie: My Neighbour Totoro (Still haven’t finished it 😅)

Last show: Bridgerton on Netflix 😂 (Cannot get over Simon) and Night Stalker (It’s about the Richard Ramirez case and it freaked the fuck out of me)

Favourite food: Anything with seafood

Food I hate: Some Asian curries 😬 Other than not much, also don’t like jalapeños

Favourite colour: Black, brown, blue, purple, green and red. The dark shades the better but I do like pink, yellow. I basically named all the colours of the rainbow 😂 I like shades more than specific colours. Hate strong pinks.

Favourite animal: Don’t really have a specific fav. I prefer foxes and really got into ferrets 😂 Animals with ✨ big ‘Fuck you’ energy ✨

What I’m currently wearing: A purple iron man shirt with black leggings. If you DM me, I’ll tell you my underwear 😂 If it was upto me, I’d wear a baggy shirt and underwear with socks.

Dream job: A writer at PB (I’m still salty at their treatment of books and POC characters) or an Editor at a publishing company. Become a part - time YouTuber

Dream trip: Anywhere snowy, like Austria, Norway or Switzerland. Also want to go to Iceland. They’ve got such pretty places there.

Currently Reading: Should change that to start but I’m gonna start reading Shakespeare’s stuff: King Lear, As you like it, Much Ado about Nothing

Currently thinking about: When will my [REDACTED] jumper come?, How much of a disappointment I am (Literally most of the time) My uncompleted deadlines and goals.

Fun Facts: Despite having a licence for two years, I don’t know how to drive. (Insurance was expensive and now I’m terrified to get behind the wheel)

I’m Muslim and Pakistani. People think I’m Indian, Goan, Punjabi (One time Arab) and they think I’m Christian or Hindu but I am a fairly religious Pakistani Muslim with liberal thoughts (To an extent, most people take advantage of my liberal opinions so I have to clarify to an extent)

Never had a boyfriend, dated or kissed anyone (Alone but I’ve done dare stuff)

Top three fictional universes: 

Choices (I want to be there with all my baes)

A world with Detectives, Murder and Mafia because I love mystery so I guess would that be Scooby Doo?

Detroit: Become Human universe or Almost Human. Love Androids with cops

[videostak]

ive also really warmed up to compilation albums lately cause i used to be super against the idea of compilations tho thats cause i would mainly think of like greatest hits from musicians who already have great albums and are perfectionists et cetera. but lately ive come across and looked for compilations of music that is sometimes hard to find on cd or just underrated and am fascinated with the idea of someone curating all this music in a compilation hoping that more people get to get exposed to it :) like this compilation called electronic toys 2 which has a godawful cover but has p great early synth music and a lot of songs that have never been released on cd elsewhere(i wanna buy it cause some1 is selling it but if i miss it i dont mind too much) and then i bought that lee perry early 60s-70s comp which still hasnt shipped yet but im excited for and then also that cho yong pil greatest hits cd i got at the thrift like 5 years ago (i knew it was good after hearing it once but havent listened to it in 4ever until yesterday lolol) and then this compilation cd of some artist named sheila chandra that was p cool cause i had never heard of her b4! i’ve just warmed up to compilation cds lately since theyre pretty cool sometimes ^~^

[got2ghost-archive]

ten ships and why!! I was tagged by @alienfuckeronmain AHH THANK U I LOVE TALKING ABT THIS SHIT

Half of my list is childhood best friends to lovers let's GOOOO

1. drarry

*deep shuddering inhale* I have thought abt draco and harry being foils before I even reached double digits. they could have saved each other and had so much potential to even just be FRIENDS!! if j*r wasn't like that, then she could have actually made a meaningful impact on draco early on. abt how you don't have to be your parents! and how to heal!! anyway I love them any way shape or form. I love reading dark gritty fucked up stories about them just as much as I love reading domestic silly fluffy stuff for them. draco would NOT put up with harry's bullshit and harry would NOT go easy on draco either but they're ultimately just two lonely boys who grew up in fucked up households who have much more in common than they realize!!! LIKE!!

2. wangxian

yes they're a new one but God their love extends so deeply. yes they r basically Chinese fantasy Kirk/spock!!

lan zhan is so in love w wei ying and is so devoted and everything he does is action or acts of service which js very much my love language!! but he also feels a deep sense of obligation to the rules and codes he's learned?? and wei ying loves lan zhan but it takes him a long time to accept it bc he DOESNT BELIEVE HE IS DESERVIG OF LOVE despite being so GOOD. AND THEY NEVER TALK TO EACH OTHER OR COMMUNICATE THEY WAY THEY SHOULD!!!! AND HE DIES and LAN ZHAN IS JUST. REPENTENT FOR 16 YEARS AND RAISES HIS SON AND IS SO INCREDIBLY SAD AND MISERABLE BUT THEN WWX comes BACK TO LIFE and they get to try again AND THEY GET TO BE HAPPY???? ANYWAY ACTS OF DEVOTION I!!!!

3. soriku

I've genuinely thought abt them since I was TEN when the first kingdom hearts game came out but it didn't solidify until KH2 came out when sora has to search for riku the entire game and when he finally does RIKU DOESNT EVEN LOOK LIKE HIMSELF BUT SORA STILL RECOGNIZES HIM ANYWAY AND HOLDS HIS HAND AND CRIES. THAT SHIT MADE ME GAY! I had never witnessed such tenderness and they are so inherently queer and subtle that it's one of the first stories I ever saw myself in. on top of that I also read that doujinshi that I consider Canon and it's so!! childhood best friends! with big complicated feelings of jealousy and betrayal and possessiveness when you start to grow apart from the person you care about the most!! and in game they're slowly... circling to become end game? the entire story revolves around them saving each other and RIKU LITERALLY CALLING SORA HIS MOST PRECIOUS PERSON? AHHHHHH

4. sterek

I will never forgive what the show did but the Fandom and the writing from that fandom is incredibly important to me. they're like my comfort pairing and I just love that Derek is sad and grumpy but it's because he's fucked up and needs to go to therapy and stiles is also kind of fucked up but happier and he's smart and beautiful and!!! they were obviously attracted to each other!! almost all of their stories involve CONSENT or Derek hale getting better slowly. they mean a lot to me bc my mom was dying while I clung to this fandom and wrote my grief fic and I always associate them with that time in my life. I could and did read like 30 stories abt Derek doing laundry and buying wooden spoons and trying to move on and be a healthier happier person.

5. taagnus

rarely have rare pairs but this is one of them and!!! look. I didn't ship them until the last two arcs of the show revealed that instead of only knowing each other for a few years and being idiots they in fact knew each other for 100 years+ and DIED A LOT together and saved each other. BUT COULDN'T REMEMBER IT YET THEY STILL KIND OF... FALL IN LOVE AGAIN? they balance each other so much. magnus is magnus - brave and GOOD. taako is so closed off, careful abt trusting people so when he acted on gut instinct to LITERALLY THROW HIS SOUL OUT OF HIS BODY TO SAVE MAGNUS I was hooked. I know that taako ends up w kravitz but bc we didn't get to see Krav much I couldn't grow attached to him? I love the thought of first love and exploring that - how it never goes away, really but you can still love other people!! plus! I love writing them as lesbians! they're butch/femme to me!

6. ruth/debbie

UGH. UGH!!!!! they're so obsessed with each other and it's so filled with repression and anger and betrayal thst has nothing to do with Ruth fucking her husband and everything to do with the trust of their friendship. it's such a complicated weird fucked up intense 'friendship' that I love to see and like!! sometimes my friendships w women FELT like that. the times I have felt the most hurt is when I lose a friend bc a part of me is in love w them in some way!! Ruth and Debbie are just. in love. though. and Ruth is never gonna admit it and she's gonna... be in a comp het relationship even tho she thinks Debbie is smart and sexy and she idolizes her GOD.

7. gene/finny

YES MOST OF MY PAIRINGS ARE SAD WHAT OF IT? I read this book as a sophomore in hs and I simply could not stop thinking abt how gay and in love they were. FIRST OF ALL THE metaphors!!!!!! gene as winter and finny as summer!! and how codependent and weird they were even tho finny KNEW gene broke his leg. he didn't want to believe it bc he WAS IN LOVE WITH HIM. THEY WENT ON A DATE TO THE BEACH? THE PINK SHIRT? finny being the embodiment of childhood innocence and Gene literally breaking that? and killing it? once again I just love reading abt how complex jealousy is and where it comes from and also REPRESSION!!!

8. forrden

yes I'm including my own OC with @dosalesbian

I wrote abt them for FOUR YEARS. they're childhood best friends who fall in love and marry and are in love no matter what universe and are so soft and tender and healing. forrest goes thru a lot of gender exploration and aiden is just the partner I want to be!! he's goofy and LOVES HER SO MUCH AND SUPPORTS HER SO MUCH GOD!!!!

9. kuroken

they r a new one and yes once again childhood best friends but in a FUN NEW WAY that I want to explore. kenma is like disinterested in most things except gaming and whatever kuroo wants to do and has a hard time socializing bc he's SHY and is too observant! and kuroo is big and dumb and passionate but was also a stupid anxious child. I think they're those friends who are dating but don't even know they're dating or their relationship is so indescribable to themselves and others that it's hard to take any step forward or backward bc theyre SO codependent and yes. I want to explore that and read abt them more.

10. don't look at me yes im putting ryden on here

THEY WERE IN LOVE BUT COULDNT ADMIT IT AND THEN BRENDON WROTE 3 BREAKUP ALBUMS ABT RYAN? AND RYAN RELEASED A SONG THE SAME WEEK BRENDON GOT MARRIED? they're never gonna be friends again bc they can't just be friends

okay!! I tag @scottspack @dosalesbian @pattern-pals hehe