#Healy-Rae

[just-ray]

US elections: if we do not vote for the right candidate freedom and justice could collapse entirely in a way that would take years, if not decades to fully repair, and the country itself may never be the same.

Irish elections:

[dougielombax]

I’m genuinely starting to believe that some idiots in my country can’t comprehend war crimes, genocide and other such atrocities!

For most of these simpletons, the most violent and horrible thing they’ve witnessed is a drunken fistfight outside a pub!

At best!

You do so much as tell them about genocide or any other such atrocities and try to explain they’ll probably drop dead of a heart attack!

For fuckness’ sake!

Fucking morons!

Fucking hell.

Stupid creatures!

[dullahandyke]

Why is there not a bus within walking distance of my house. Fucking homophobic. Healy-raes all talk about rural roads n shit but when are they going to give me my own train

[alanshemper]

“There is this myth that the party ran like some kind of well-oiled machine, but it was never that well organized internally... The FBI did a much better job of keeping track of our members than we did unfortunately.”

—Dorothy Rae Healy, former CP member, quoted in San Francisco Reds: Communists in the Bay Area, 1919-1958 by Robert W. Cherny (2024), p.114

[zot3-flopped]

Excerpts

The Tortured Poets Department delivers some of her most cringe-inducing lines yet. The title track alone boasts the worst on the record, even if it’s a stab at sarcasm. “You smoked then ate seven bars of chocolate / We declared Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist,” precedes the clunky “I scratch your head, you fall asleep like a tattooed Golden Retriever.” 

Elsewhere, on ‘Down Bad’ she’s unceremoniously “crying at the gym”, and ‘Florida!!!’, an otherwise cathartic, Southern gothic-imbued collaboration with Florence Welch is marred by the line: “My friends all smell like weed or little babies”.

I Can Do It With A Broken Heart’ highlights her unrelenting work ethic that doesn’t falter amid personal tragedy. But, it seems poised for internet virality than anything more substantial, given its restrained verses that plod along before catapulting into a euphoric, Carly Rae Jepsen-indebted pop chorus. Lyrics like “I’m so depressed I act like it’s my birthday everyday” are almost too glaringly obviously written to be lip-synced into an iPhone 13 front camera.

Musically, it’s an album mostly devoid of any noticeable stylistic shift or evolution. It descends into a monochromatic palette, existing in the same Jack Antonoff-branded synth pop as ‘Midnights’, yet struggling to capture any of its brightness.

Most bizarre, though, is ‘But Daddy I Love Him’, which seemingly exists as her response to the backlash against her brief relationship with The 1975 frontman Matty Healy. Their fleeting romance, which seems to be the muse for much of the record, triggered an explosive reaction from her fanbase who were distraught at Swift’s public association to the singer, given his slew of controversial comments (a few of which centred around her soon-to-be collaborator Ice Spice).

Swift seems to be in tireless pursuit for superstardom, yet the negative public opinion it can come with irks her, and it’s a tired theme now plaguing her discography and leaving little room for the poignant lyrical observations she excels at. It’s why the pitfalls that mire her 11th studio album are all the more disappointing — she’s proven time and time again she can do better. To a Melbourne audience of her Eras Tour, Swift said that ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ came from a “need” to write. It’s just that maybe we didn’t need to hear it.

[taylortruther]

Lmao shouldn’t fauxmoi hate Charlie because she associates (and has defended multiple times) the human scumbag that is Matty Healy? I mean that was Taylor’s huge crime to them, no? (I guess this is more directed at the other anon then you rae sorry I just think the blatant hypocrisy is so funny)

bitch eating crackers syndrome, i'm telling y'all

[q-soc-official]

Irish Politicians React To Someone Else Hitting on You

Simon Harris

"d-dont say that to her...."

Leo Varadkar

"okay I'll find someone else too!"

Micheál Martin

"don't be doing that now, aw stop"

Micheal Healy-Rae

"You're a disgrace!"

Danny Healy-Rae

"But who's gonna drive me home from the pub now that drink-driving has been made illegal"

Jedward

"one of us is straight and one of us is gay! We don't know who..."

[loveoldmen24world]

Jackie Healy-Rae

[ohthatvibe]

This is my springtime Playlist

It’s mainly run on ~vibes~ that feeling of winter turning away, the sun finally shining, searching for the warmth that’s coming, little green sprouts pushing out of the ground. I tried to pick songs that even hit the topics in their lyrics on top of having that vibe of renewal and growth. Nothing too aggressive or fast, or so slow that it is wholly melancholy, slower to medium vibes for that sense of wonder and curiosity.

Nina Simone – Turn, Turn, Turn (to everything there is a reason)

Jesse Woods – Gold in the Air

Glass Animals – Gooey

Afterlife – Sunrise

Wilson Pickett – Hello Sunshine

Anni B Sweet – Take on Me

Corinne Bailey Rae – Put Your Records On

Caroline Pennell – Follow the Sun (Acoustic)

Alina Baraz & Galimatias – Fantasy

Hozier – From Eden

A Fine Frenzy – Now is the Start

Christine and the Queens – Saint Claude

The Well Pennies – Nothing to Do

Louane, Jean-Philippe Massicot, & Tristan Salvati – Avenir (Radio Edit)

Cassandra Wilson – Shelter from the Storm

James Bay – Hold Back the River

Emiliana Torrini – Sunny Road

Josh Ritter – Snow is Gone

Fleet Foxes – Ragged Wood

Linda Perhacs – Parallelograms

BOY – Little Numbers (Acoustic Version)

Simon & Garfunkel – The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)

Henry Jamison – Sunlit Juice

Waxahatchee – Lilacs

Dirty Projectors – Search for Life

Love You Later – Growing Season

Miley Cyrus – Wildflowers (Spotify Session)

Beach House – Take Care

Melody Gardot – Morning Sun

Healy & Becky and the Birds – Back on the Fence

John Hiatt & Jerry Douglas – All the Lilacs in Ohio

Blossom Dearie – They Say it’s Spring

Caroline Polachek – Spring is Coming with a Strawberry in the Mouth

[pocketgalaxies]

1, 11 and 20 for the song ask game

hello thanks for asking!

1. 4 songs that help you cheer up

carly rae jepsen - sideways andy grammer - give love (ft. lunchmoney lewis) gareth coker - the waters cleansed (ft. tom boyd) sutton foster - if i were a bell / singin' in the rain

11. 4 songs by bands you don't admit to liking

surprisingly not really any bands that i'm embarrassed to admit i like! here are songs i like by bands that i otherwise don't care for

glass animals - your love (déjà vu) imagine dragons - enemy (feat. J.I.D.) maroon 5 - give a little more two door cinema club - what you know

20. 4 songs you love but rarely listen to

dominic fike - 3 nights healy - reckless sandara park - festival anima! - moving mountains

4 song asks

[tayfabe75]

The resemblance to acts like Scritti Politti, INXS, the Police, and Hall and Oates also makes [I Like It When You Sleep] feel like the X-rated cousin of Taylor Swift's 1989 and Carly Rae Jepsen's E•MO•TION—despite Healy's brash exterior, his primary mode is lovelorn and yearning.

February 25, 2016: Music writer Laura Snapes compares The 1975's 'I Like It When You Sleep' with Taylor's '1989'. (source)

[just-ray]

fuck marry kill

-simon harris

-one of the healy raes

-ceann comhairle

This ask smashed my head with a brick.

[dougielombax]

You dragging the Healy Raes in the comments of a post about a flat cap is fantastic. Fuck those guys

Thanks.

They’re a bunch of shysters and grifters.

[taylortruther]

You had a Matty Healy era Rae? 🤭

oh god, unfortunately. this was almost 10 years ago so it really feels like i was an entirely different person back then. i really didn't know any better because i was working through some deep insecurities at the time. i was a very angry feminist 'sjw' in college but i still strongly desired the approval of the types of guys that ignored me in high school (frat boys and sad bois basically)... so i flew straight into the arms of a couple of guys who were edgy and "subversive." they played devil's advocate all the time, said reverse racism against white guys was a serious problem, made lots of ~jokes~ about how sexism benefited women or racism benefited poc, that kind of shit.

soooo... yeah. very very glad i got over that phase of my life but kept and strengthened my values.