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grimelords · 7 years

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Hello and god bless, I have finally finished my November playlist a week and a half into december. Disco, Guns N’ Roses, an entire doom metal album and everything in between. Please enjoy.

Extraball - Yuksek: Aside from the extremely nice electro bass I think what I appreciate most about this song is that the chorus seems like the sort of thing you could sing in a round, or as some kind of children’s clapping game.

Mirror Reaper - Bell Witch: Let me be the first to apologise for putting an 80 minute doom metal album as the second song on this playlist. I’m sorry. It was selfish and it won’t happen again. That said, please listen to this because it is transformative. I’ve listened this a lot this month and it’s really affected my mood I think. Doom metal is one of the only genres that takes itself seriously enough to release an album that’s just one 80 minute track but I really can’t fault them for doing it. This is a piece of music that demands to be listened to in full, and while it does naturally divide into movements like anything else this long would, it would be weaker overall if it were split into individual tracks or listened to individually. A lot of the playing on here, which is very sparse in long sections feels like ritual music of some kind - a feeling that’s compounded by the length when you’re absolutely lost within it. It makes electric bass and drums feel like modern ritual instruments and this album feels like an invocation of the spirit of loss itself.

Sixteen Tons - Merle Travis: For some reason I keep thinking about and listening to different versions of Sixteen Tons. This is Merle Travis, the orginal songwriter, but this is a new recording he did in 1989. Notably I love the very plaintive solo in the middle of this, but I especially love that he changed the lyric at the end to say “I owe my soul to Tennessee Ernie Ford” which feels like an agressive rebuke or a solemn nod but I can’t tell which.

Looking Up - Michael Smith: My girlfriend sent me this song because she heard it on the podcast Good Christian Fun which as I understand it is an exploration of the bizzare world of american evangelical christian media. Anyway this song rocks. It sounds like Todd Terje remixed the theme to some lost 80s sitcom and I really can’t get enough of it.

Wild - Beach House: This is such a beautiful song. I love the tinny drum machine and the live drums that sound programmed constrasting against the huge wall of guitar and synths. I used to listen to this album a lot a few years ago when I worked night shift and it reminds me of standing on top of wine tanks in the cool night air at 2am texting my now girlfriend as she went to bed. Sorry.

Piano Concerto No. 3 In D Minor, Op.30: 1. Allegro ma non tanto - Sergei Rachmaninoff: I had a friend in school who did his licentiate degree in piano in year 12 and was obsessed with this piece. One day he took me through the whole first movement and showed me how the theme is established and comes back in different forms over and over again throughout and basically taught me how to listen to classical music which was very kind of him because it’s something I’m only really appreciating now.

Verklärte Nacht, Op.4: String Sextett for 2 Violins, 2 Violas and 2 Cellos - Arnold Schoenberg: This is an early Schoenberg piece before he got into that good good atonal serialism, but it does still have moments that presage what was to come. I don’t really have much to say about this other than it’s a very good place to start with Schoenberg because it’s like proof that he was a human man at one point.

Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) - Harry Belafonte: I’ve really been thinking about how work songs like this and like Sixteen Tons become international hits. This one especially, in the 50s, was it because it was a really good song (which it is) that a lot of people related to or was it a sort of exoticism about funny banana song (which to be fair, it also is).

Boogie Wonderland (12" Version) - Earth, Wind And Fire: This is the song you hear playing from the other side of the door when you get to heaven.

Apollo’s Mood - The Olympians: This album is basically a collection of Daptone All-Stars under the name The Olympians just doing their thing and it’s really amazing. I especially love the harpsichord in this, an instrument that doesn’t get nearly enough of a workout in soul music. Also, I don’t really know how to describe it but I really love the way the snare roll that starts it off and comes back a few times sounds - buzzy and busy without rushing anyone.

Saturn - The Olympians: This is the song you use for your montage at the end of a James Bond movie that’s just four minutes of him relaxing and drinking different cocktails by himself that the critics called ‘wholly unneccesary’. In the drums and bongo break he does a little dance and falls over.

November Rain - Guns N’ Roses: As far as overblown classic rock epics go, I really wish November Rain had the cultural place of bad song Bohemian Rhapsody or Stairway To Heaven because underneath the 9 minutes of stings and bullshit it’s actually a very beautiful and sad song written by an idiot.

Sisters Of The Moon - Fleetwood Mac: With the current wytchy cult that Stevie Nicks has around her it’s easy to forget that she wrote songs like Sisters Of The Moon, a song explicitly about a witch converting other women to witchery. I love the big extended phrase of guitar chords in the chorus and I’m very mad about how this song fades out just as it’s absolutely going off.

When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin: Rounding out this unexpected classic rock trio is When The Levee Breaks which I was thinking about because I was thinking about The Big Short. This song sounds so good and there’s been so much written about the famous drum sound and the production but what I only learned this month is that it was apparently recorded at a faster tempo and then slowed down afterwards, which explains a lot about a lot of the sounds in here.

Bad Liar - Selena Gomez: This is maybe the pop song of the year honestly. It’s so good in every single aspect, especially the when she says’ oh baby lets make reality, actuality, reality’ which is a very weird lyric. So is 'you’re taking up a fraction of my mind, every time I watch you serpentine(?)’. Great stuff all around.

Hello Miss Lonesome - Marlon Williams: I saw Marlon Williams a year or so ago and it was one of the best gigs I’ve been to because things just kept going wrong. Broken strings and misunderstandings and all that sort of thing, and the highlight for me was in this song the drummer got overconfident and started pushing the tempo near the end and eventually tripped over himself so badly they had to stop and start again.

The Voice Of Q - Q: Here’s how you can tell a song is good: you can only find it on Spotify on a compilation album called 'Cocaine Boogie: 24 Kilos Of Underground 80s Dance’. This song seems like a classic case of 'somebody bought a vocoder’ and it’s very very good, another fantastic entry in the canon of interplanetary disco. I also love the children sadly pleading with Q to come back at the end, because the song hasn’t really given you any understanding of who or what Q is other than a being with a voice who is from space.

Take A Trip - Rev. Utah Smith: If I were, hypothetically, to start, for example, a UFO cult, I would definitely have my congregation sing this song. I love it so much. Outside of the fun premise it does what good gospel music should do and completely uplifts my spirit by promising a better life after this one, and if I get to go there by rocket ship, well that’s all the better.

Normal Person - Arcade Fire: I love the little 'do you like rock and roll music? 'cause I don’t know if I do.’ he sings at the start because it sounds like they’re into their 13th hour of recording or something. I love the lead guitar that sounds like it’s severely undernourished but trying its best and I love how strangely heavy the bass and rhythm guitar is compared to a lot of their other songs. A good song to sing along to while you’re driving.

Top Of The World - Kimbra: I don’t know exactly how or why but Kimbra made a Kanye song. Playing the dual roles of Kanye and Featured Artist she does a great job and once again defies whatever I thought she was going to do next. I can’t wait for the album, I hope it has even more Raps.

Eric’s Trip - Sonic Youth: I’ve never gotten much into Sonic Youth because they seemed way too New York Cool for me, so imagine my heartbreak when I found out the lyrics to my favourite song of theirs are wholesale lifted from an Andy Warhol film. I still have a lot of love for 'my head’s on straight, my girlfriend’s beautiful, it looks pretty good to me’ though.

I Hope I Sleep Tonight - DJ Seinfeld: God I’d be embarrassed if I blew up on soundcloud with the name 'DJ Seinfeld’ and then had to keep it when I put my album out. This album varies pretty wildly in quality but I really love this track, the synth melody that just careens around wildly while the rest of the song happens nearby is what does it for me I think.

Problem With The Sun - Nicolas Jaar: “In an interview with Self-Titled Magazine, Jaar said “I was watching a documentary about bugs. It said that if they looked at the sun, they’d die. I thought ‘Oh, that’s funny; that’s cute’ and I wrote a track about it (…). If you find something really special in a tiny story about bugs, it could have a much bigger meaning than that. I like the idea of turning life into this miniature thing”.” He’s used this particular voice modulation on a couple of song and it really cracks me up because it so thick and textured and just plain silly but somehow it suits the song perfectly.

Long Strong Diamond - Baggsmen: This is a song I remember seeing on Rage late at night years and years ago. The guy was dressed up as a werewolf and kidnapping some girl but he gets so distracted by his song about being a werewolf that she ends up escaping. Extremely mad to find out that the guy in this song from years ago that I love is none other than personal enemy of mine Jake Stone from Bluejuice.

XO/The Host/Initiation - The Weeknd: Trilogy could well be the best album of the decade. Remember when The Weeknd was this mysterious anonymous guy who was firmly a character and not an actual guy who seems to actually believe what he’s singing? I love Trilogy because the progression across the three discs from like 'cool indifferent party guy’ in House Of Balloons to extremely deranged cult leader in Echoes Of Silence is very satisfying. Initiation especially is great because it’s like a cool fun song about a party mixed with some extremely dark shit about the clocks not working so you can’t tell the time and the blinds not working so you can’t see outside in a scary pitch shifting voice. “And all I wanna do is leave 'cause I’ve been zoning for a week and I ain’t left this little room, trying to concentrate to breathe” but you absolutely MUST meet my boys.

This Guy’s In Love With You - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass: Anyway here’s a change of pace. A very peaceful song about just fucking dying if she won’t be your girl. I love how dramatic this song gets before completely stopping and starting again into a very relaxed trumpet line.

Jasmine (demo) - Jai Paul: I’m obsessed with the cult that develops around guys like Jai Paul and Jay Electronica, who put out two songs that are so good that it drives people insane when they don’t put out any more. There’s apparently a bunch of stuff happening with Jai Paul currently that I haven’t been keeping track of but The Fader had a really good article earlier this year about how the Jai Paul leaks and how insane it made everyone. Aside from all that, the song is pure magic - just listen to it and you can understand why everyone was obsessed as they were.

Freaking Out The Neighbourhood - Mac Demarco: I remember I saw an interview with Mac Demarco talking about this song and he described the riff as just some dumb little thing he made up which is shocking to me because I am totally obsessed with how good it sounds. It’s perfect!

Bob - “Weird Al” Yankovic: Yes baby it’s Weird Al’s all-palindrome Bob Dylan parody! I was telling my girfriend about how this is actually really good songwriting because even though it’s essentially gibberish it has enough good imagery and fun sounds that it works anyway and really how different is 'may a moody baby doom a yam’ to 'transient jet lagged ecto-mimed bison’ from the Mars Volta which also appears on this list? Anyway she hated it, and rightly so.

I Have Good News To Bring - Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Live from the basement church of my UFO cult, a beautiful version of Take A Trip that sounds like it was recorded on the organ of an empty baseball stadium at night.

Julia - Jungle: I have been desperately waiting for three years now for another Jungle album and they finally posted about new songs the other day and I got very very excited. This is an amazing song, every sound in it is so perfectly placed and the vocals are very beautiful and have such a rich bass for such a high tenor. I love the way the drums subtly get very busy in the last few choruses, I could listen to this song for hours.

Ray Gun (feat. DOOM) -BadBadNotGood & Ghostface Killah: I love that this song is maybe 20bmp faster than Ghostface or Doom are expecting. Doom especially sounds far more excited than he has in years and they both do really well with it. Also, I was certain the melody it breaks into in the last third was some Lalo Schifrin bit I’ve heard before but I can’t seem to find any info corroborating that. If it’s familiar to you or you know where it’s from, please reply to this post because it’s been driving me crazy.

Confessions Pt. III - BadBadNotGood & Colin Stetson: Any song where Colin Stetson has to play with others is funny to me. He’s such a self contained ball of power that him joining a traditional group like it just wouldn’t work. Sure, this song does sort of sound like him doing his own thing for seven minutes while the band sort of reacts to him but it is absolutely fantastic anyway.

Everyone Nose (All The Girls Standing In The Line For The Bathroom) - N.E.R.D: Remember when Pharrell was crazy? This song is total chaos. The pitched down sample in the hook, the two note bassline, the sax that just hoots once a bar. And I absolutely love the contrast of the beautiful bridge, especially the 'achooo’ backing vocals.

Parties - Shlohmo: Bad Vibes was such a moment. It is such a beautiful album, and a very easy album to fall asleep to and then wake up 20 minutes later terrified and choked by your headphones because Trapped In A Burning House, the song that sounds exactly like its title and nothing like the rest of the album, came on. I have such a strong emotional reaction I really can’t explain to the cutoff samples of people laughing near the end of this song.

Bering/Human Till Born -Talkdemonic: I have no idea how I came across this album but I’ve been listening to it constantly for ten years now and I still find new things to appreciate in it. The drums especially in Human Till Born are a source of obsession for me.

Don Caballero 3 - Don Caballero: For a long time I never 'got’ Don Caballero or Hella or any of these supposedly legendary math bands, despite loving so many bands obvously influenced by them. But then one day this album, and this song especially just clicked for me. It also happened to coincide with one of the most surreal weeks of my life when I was on a cruise ship and all I listened to was this and a field recording album that seems to have completely deleted itself from my computer since then. The best advice I’ve heard for listening to this is, and bands like it is that it’s backward. The drums are the lead instrument and everything else works around that, if that helps. This song has a twisted sort of morose quality that’s really hard to pin down. Some days it is absolutely heartbreaking, which sounds silly but it’s true.

B.Y.O.B. - System Of A Down: There’s a few reasons I was thinking of this song. First and most importantly it’s because of that dog vine but the other reason is I was thinking about how there hasn’t been a good anti-trump song yet outside of YG’s FDT, and that came out before the election. This and American Idiot came out in 2004/5, and I suppose it’s only been a year since the election so we’ve got a few years yet until the real hits come out I guess. Or I suppose he’d have to actually properly declare war, which, you know.

4D/MTI - Koreless: These songs are so intertwined in my head I feel like you can’t have one without this other. 4D is such a simple, beautiful piece of music. The synth that sounds like glass and the chopped vocals getting more and more contorted as the song goes on contrasted with the propulsion of the drums is so great. Both of these songs have a meticulousness and restraint to their sound, every single piece is perfectly where it should be and nothing else is allowed. Even MTI using so much white noise feels incredibly controlled and when it totally drops out it feels like coming up from underwater.

New Lands - Justice: Remember when Justice took 4 years to write a follow up to their album that lit the world on fire and instead of doing the same thing again they made a classic rock album? Everyone was so mad. Luckily this song is incredible and everyone was wrong once more.

You Discovered The Secret And Juiced It For All Its Majesty - Venetian Snares: This is from an EP called Cubist Reggae which I think a lot about in concept alone. This is probably the song that illustrates the idea worst but I love it a lot. My incredibly unpopular opinion is that Venetian Snares is miles better of Aphex Twin and whoever but everyone’s written him off as the Rossz Csillag guy so he doesn’t get no respect. I love how detailed his music is, how every one of the million sounds seems to be perfectly placed. I think he’s in a similar position to Autechre where he’s been making and listening to only his own music for so long now that he’s forgotten how normal music sounds, which is good.

Blues Run The Game - Jackson C. Frank: I made a playlist a couple of years ago of all the songs I sing to myself when I’m just walking around or whatever and it turned out about 6/10 had 'blues’ or 'hard times’ in the title, which is tough but it’s ok, and this was one of them. If you want to read a wiki article that’ll make you cry, read Jackson C. Frank’s, but mostly you should just listen to this, his only album.

Thermal Treasure - Polvo: I played this song for my girlfriend and during the intro she said 'you have such a wide variety of tense, off kilter music seeminly designed just to put people on edge’. I’m a huge fan of this very defensive sentence in Polvo’s wiki article 'Their sound was so unpredictable and angular that the band’s guitarists were often accused of failing to play with correctly tuned guitars’.

FML - Kanye West: This is such a strangely affecting song and it’s hard to be sympathetic to Kanye as a narrator sometimes (especially when he insists on doubling down on dogshit lines like “'I'mma have the last laugh indian cause I’m from the tribe called chekaho’”) but against all odds you can identify and relate to his struggle to hold onto the woman he loves and not be undone by his own worst instincts. Musically this is the best The Weeknd has ever sounded and I already love him a lot, and the way the drums lead into the sample at the end is just perfect.

Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of) - The Mars Volta: This is the album I’ve probably listened to the most in my life. As a teenager I would listen to this album every night for easily a year and somehow there’s still something new to hear in it. It’s almost hard to listen to it now because I have so much Teenage Feeling attached to it but it’s still an incredible piece of work. Jon Theodore deserves a statue for his drumming on this album, and this song especially, in my humble opinion.

Life’s A Beach! - Studio: God I love Studio. I think if you tried to describe them on paper you could never make it sound like good music. “It’s sort of, balearic , reggae, guitar-led dance music and the songs go for about 15 minutes most of the time.” But it is good music! I absolutely promise it’s incredible music!

The Number Song (Cut Chemist Remix) - DJ Shadow: I love this remix because it feels like theseus’ ship as demonstrated via remix. How many parts can you swap out for similar but not identical parts before it’s a completely different song. The drums are almost the same beat, but a totally different sample.The Jackson 5 horns in the original that signal the transition to the second half are still here with the same function, but it’s an entirely different horn sample, and an entirely different second half save for 'the party’s already started, and it’s about to end’.

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loveyourlocalgirlgang · 5 years

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INTERVIEW DJ’S Made in Montpellier #4 MISS AIRIE

On imagine que certain.e.s d’entre vous connaissent déjà Miss Airie. Et pour celles et ceux qui ne la connaissent pas, c’est partie pour une session de rattrapage.

Dotée d’une indéniable présence physique, d’un enthousiasme et d’un mental à toute épreuve, cette activiste de la techno (qui a à elle seule a inspiré toute une génération de dj’s de Montpellier et ses alentours ) est imparable face à un dance-floor. Très présente dans l’univers trance et techno, pionnière de la scène techno / trance montpellierainne depuis 1992, elle a fortement contribué à diversifier ce style et à faire muter cette musique vers les clubs.

Elle a, tout d'abord, goûté les plaisirs de la musique expérimentale, explorant l'univers de Banco de Gaïa et d'artistes comme Aphex Twin. Puis, épicurienne, elle s'est tournée vers la transe progressive, et la house et la techno acide. Grâce à son expérience en Espagne, au Canada, aux Etats-Unis, en Italie, en Bulgarie et en Allemagne, elle s'est épanouie dans sa culture musicale. Elle fut résidente dans deux clubs ,sur Paris au RedLight et sur Carcassonne au Rockadelik et était résidente du Barlive depuis 2001, l'une des plus grandes afters de France, Elle a produit des soirées « Xing Party », ainsi que les soirées RedNose " Aquatic games & Electronica Zinga Zanga " dans le sud de la France . En Septembre 2009 , première sortie digitale d'un EP " Night Life " avec Anton'x.

Aussi lyriques et alanguis qu’aquatiques, les flux musicaux de Miss Airie invitent à la caresse et au dépassement.

Quatrième portrait de la série dédiée aux femmes DJ’S de Montpellier et alentours sur le site de Support Your Local Girl Gang …. Miss Airie a répondu à notre interview Girl Gang !

Peux-tu nous raconter ton parcours et tes activités artistiques ?

J’ai commencé en 1992, en créant une asso : Les Sales Gosses , après avoir découvert le son électronique cette année là. De l'underground avec les Spirals Tribes, et de la house avec Les Pinguins.

Après de nombreuses expériences musicales électroniques (6 festival Boréalis entre 1993 et 1998), Willy & Lee Grtz ont crée les labels Kobayashi (en 1997) en alternative à la "french touch" parisienne. Puis, ils ont lancé Extraball, un label de la scène montpelliéraine et du sud de la France, sur lequel sont sortis des titres house mais également tech houseet techno (13 sorties à ce jour). Enfin, Humungus, un label plutôt axéHardTechno.

Pinguins Records était le premier disquaire généraliste de musiques électroniques à Montpellier, né en octobre 93 suite à la collaboration de deux dj's issus de la tribu des pingouins : William et Stéphane, un lieu incontournable de la culture électronique à Montpellier.

Du coup notre asso était plus Trance, avec Max le Sale gosse , Alex Escalofrio et Rykkk's.

Je ne mixais pas encore, mais ça mixé tout le temps à la maison .. donc j ai appris à utiliser le matos.. j avais déjà eu des tourne-disques.. mais pas des MK2 :) et en 1996, j ai vraiment commencé à mixer sans jamais m 'arrêter, cela aller devenir mon métier .. plus que ma passion.. de jolies années à tourner en France et de belles dates dans le monde.

Quand es-tu tombée dans la musique ? Tu te souviens de tes premiers disques ?

Mon papa était musicien, il jouait de la guitare.. et ma maman aimer danser sur du Kraftwerk pendant sa grossesse.. :).. kihihhihihi

Il y avait des disques à la maison, et j avais un tourne disque orange, qui mangeait les disques...

De Bob Marley, aux Beatles, en passant par le Jacques Dutronc, Serge Gainsbourg, jusqu'à Nina Hagen... Manu Dibango.. du classique aussi et du Gilberto Gil..

Mon 1er disque vinyl.. vers mes 8 ans : Bashung : oh Gaby :) The Cure : Kiss Me Kiss Me, Brian Ferry .. and more

Y a-t-il des artistes qui ont compté.e.s dans ta carrière ?

Oui , tout ceux que j ai cité plus haut et en musique électronique : ça sera toujours les mêmes : Sven Vath, Laurent Garnier, Jeff Mills, Carl Cox, Moby, Monika Kruse..

Il y a aussi , des artistes français qui étaient activistes, je pense à Kriss, un ami qui est parti dans les étoiles il y a peu..Lui m'a donné ma chance de devenir Miss Airie, j avais une bonne sélection musicale mais je ne savais pas mixer.. il avait raison.. en 1996... hahahaa.

On parle souvent de la misogynie dans la musique . Te sens tu investie d’un rôle par rapport à ça ?

Investie je le suis, car je l ai subi et je le subis encore.. et ça me fait vraiment C..., quelle indécence de la part de ces gens.. que faut il en penser ?

Je m’éloigne de plus en plus de ces personnages mauvais et méchants... j ai mieux à faire dans ma vie de Dj, et je donne de mon temps pour des causes qui me touchent.. Et il y a évidement : mes fils , ma famille, ma passion, mes disques..

Celà évolue.. mais doucement..; alors moi je rale.. je m 'exprime.. je dis les choses... j 'en prend plein la tête en retour.. bref... Fuck !!!

La scène féminine a bien évolué en quelques années. Comment perçois-tu cette nouvelle vague qui secoue un peu les choses ?

Dans un monde d'homme, ben voila ou on en est.. t'es bonne, t'a du fric, .. nan je rectifie : t'as du fric, t'es bonne .. tu fais le tour qui monde, tu rencontres les stars de ta vie, tu utilises les meilleurs logiciels et les meilleures machines pour faire du son, tu te payes des formations .. t'as tout compris... STAR SYS'theme !!!

Vivement quand on sera vieux !! hahahaha, Vieilles je voulais dire....(jusque là !!! tsss)

Tes artistes préféré.e.s du moment ?

C'est un groupe de femmes djs.. elles sont un petit groupe .. elles sont parfaites... elles sont solidaires .. et mixeuses : Les Mixeuses Solidaires !!!

Avec quel autres artistes aimes-tu jouer le plus ?

Rykkk's, Lolita, Anton'x, Mark's

Avec quel artiste aimerais-tu jouer?

Laurent Garnier

Ton artiste féminine préférée ?

En ce moment c'est une ukrainienne NASTIA...

Une punchline / devise ?

C'est parti , je vais le faire

Des endroits que tu recommanderais pour faire la fête ?

En ville de Montpellier, c'est le Bar d'un copain : La Fabrik .. c'est bien sympa la bas.. j aime beaucoup

Quel est ton spot à apéro ?

heu.. ben .. La Fabrik :)

Tes prochaines dates ?

Le 30 avril à la Churascaia : remember bar live.. avec Cebb, Nhar ..

Le 28 mai à la salle Tropisme avec Scan X , Arnaud Robotini...

Le 21 juin dans un château.. private party

Le Charivari de la Fabrik ..

Le 10 aout Insane Festival en B2B avec Nikita ..

Que penses-tu de Support your Local Girl Gang ?

J aime beaucoup les infos que vous passez sur les réseaux sociaux.. ouvert .. gay and friendly.. tout comme j aime... support à fond.. les news qui vont bien ... on pourrait en faire un gros magazine... je vous aime bien, fort..merci de votre attention..;je vous embrasses et prenez soin de vous .. les autres on s'en fiche .. c'est notre vie alors régalons nous...

Emeraldia Ayakashi - Support Your Local Girl Gang

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