#Singing Contest

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Me and this creepy clown had a singing contest in an dilapidated house. When my turn to sing came, I forgot the lyrics of the song I was supposed to sung, so I just sang High Range Test by KimurawaiP.

[sonicjustbecause]

They both got nice singing voices :D

[oldtvlover]

Hey E! Gang,

yes, me again and I’ve been busy with this wonderful episode. Just didn’t know what to do first: the guy and his rescues or the singing contest.

You can see what won. :-D As I found out via Internet, the guys are called The Barbershop Quartet, so I go along with it, though it should be a quintet.

I love how Johnny is so deep into this thing and draws everyone in, except Roy. Or more partly but Mike, Marco, Chet and Cap Stanley are full for it. Good gang and team! lol

P.S. If I should post one gif separately, let me know. *wink, wink*

[throughtheeyesofayla]

And when the angels sing from heaven above,

It’s hard to miss his voices echoing,

Down the halls,

And through the chambers of my mind.

-Ayla J.

[teanie-beanie]

Have I ever posted something myself on here?

Heck no. But here’s art that I’m really proud of

[enter-the-phantom]

What she says: “I’m okay”

What she means: “Nebulossa’s ‘Zorra’ is easily one of the most beautiful and heartbreakingly powerful songs ever to come out of Eurovision and possibly one of the greatest and most timely feminist anthems ever written. The juxtaposition between Mery’s soft and stately voice giving life to her pain and the faceless male voices screaming slurs at her throughout the song is haunting. Her voice rising over the chants on the line ‘…soy una Zorra de postal/I’m a picture-perfect bitch’ is cathartically tear-jerking, and the subtle switch from angry male voices to proud female ones near the end is pure poetry. In this essay I will—“

[shakingparadigm]

So it's pretty likely that the participants of Alien Stage don't get to choose or write their own songs (save for Till, who was beat and punished immediately afterwards). Pairs are assigned a song that suits them best and they both have to sing it to the best of their ability. I just find it hilarious how most of the songs just happen to line up with the life situations of at least ONE of the contestants singing it. Like imagine being a normal guy and assigned this song about unrequited love but when you go to sing it with your opponent he starts singing it with the intensity of a person who's CURRENTLY LIVING IT. Like MAXIMUM desperation and relation to the song. Like you just have to stand there and go "damn they picked this song just for him didn't they. im fucked"

[catboy-phoenix]

BOYCOTT EUROVISION

They have continually shown massive support twoards israel.

Israel almost arrested Hatari at the airport, after they raised the Palestinian flag on air in 2019.

DO NOT WATCH

This is not about politics this is not even about war,

we are talking about a genocide happening right now and a powerful organisation that's supporting it.

DO NOT VOTE

DO NOT TALK ABOUT IT

FLOOD THE EUROVISION TAG WITH POSTS ABOUT THE PALESTINIAN GENOCIDE.

[iztea]

Sooo you said you drew a black sun symbol in your drawings to represent Dazai and a star for Chuuya, right? It kinda reminded of that one French song, L'oiseau et l'enfant (The Bird and The Child) because at one point the lyrics say smth like "I'm just a child of darkness, Who sees the Star shine at night, Oh you my Star that weaves my ring, Come and light up my black Sun" and the song is just sooo beautiful overall and I just wanted to recommened it to you TuT Older French songs have the same vibe in general :D They have the most non-sensical yet poetic lyrics that seem to be written by a drunk man slapped onto the most beautiful melodies ever (imo at least) and I thought, considering your artstyle, it might bring you some inspiration :0000 I haven't slept in three days and idk what I'm saying probably but yeaaaaah if you are interested, I'd recommend :

- Vanessa Paradis -> plsss listen to Il y a and Divine Idylle

- Tryo -> Désolé pour hier soir, Toi et moi

- Noir Désir -> Le vent nous portera, Comme elle vient

- Renaud -> Manhattan-Kaboul, Dès que le vent soufflera, Mistral Gagnant

- Louise Attaque -> J't'emmène au vent

- JJG -> Je te donne, Quand la musique est bonne

- Céline Dion (well I'm sure yk her already but...) -> Destin

- Olivia Ruiz -> J'traine des pieds, La femme chocolat

- Indochine -> J'ai demande à la lune, L'aventurier

And if you're really really interested, there are some classics like Les lacs du Connemara by Sardou or Les démons de minuit by Images or Santiano by Aufray or Macia Baïla by Rita Mitsouko.... or anything by KIDS UNITED (they made covers of famous songs so it's easier to get more exposure through them :D) or Jenifer or Zazie or maybe even La Compagnie Créole, Mozart Opéra Rock or Le Rouge et le Noir. There's also Indila but she's already pretty popular because of Tik Tok so yeah....

(did I just want an excuse to yap about French music? yeah probably, but I really hope you enjoy it TuT sorry you had to read through of all this lmao ToTTTT)

anon, you move like a kpoppie but for french music 😭 you're an Fpopper... a Fropper.. froppie?

jk jk ofc, thank you for the song recs! i do actually like to listen to french music (albeit mostly old vibey opera(?) music) i've given the first one a listen and i love it! Maybe this is my que to learn the language better through the lyrics so i can rizz up Clorinde Genshin impact haha.. i only know Indila from your list bc she had that hit in like 2013 that took over the world (rightfully so, it's banger) so i'm very excited to give the others a listen and maybe find some art inspo like u mentioned! thanks again smooch ♡◇♡

[gamerkats]

Best part about having a Bard at game night? They tend to come in with an ear worm that will drive you NUTS!!! So excited we get to post this!!!!

Sung to the tune of "The Devil Went Down To Georgia", by The Charlie Daniels Band.

The Devil went down to Hazbin, He was lookin' for a dream to kill. He was in a bind 'cause in Charlie’s mind, She was doin’ up Heaven’s will.

When he came upon this tall man, Sawblade in a smile and spittin' it hot And the Devil jumped on the chandelier stump And said, “Alright then, tell you what,”

“I guess you just don’t know me, I must’a stayed away too long. But if you'd dare to take a care, I'll meet you horns head on. Now you tickle pretty good ivory, boy, but give the Devil his due, I’ll bet Charlie’s love gold against your soul, ‘Cause I know I’m better than you."

The man said, “My name's Alastor, and it might be a sin, But I'll take your bet, I’ll make you regret You ever came to our Hazbin.

Alastor, tighten up your grin, and play your piano hard. ‘Cause Hell has come to Hazbin, and the Devil is a bard. And if you lose, the Devil’s now the owner in control. But if you win, you just might get your soul.

[music interlude part, you know you're hearing it....]

The Devil was the first to sing, and he felt he could not lose. With fire just like a video killing all the radio’s reviews. And he plucked on every single string to fiddle with their hearts, And if Charlie would not barter, at least that smile’d be torn apart.

[music interlude that sounds like Adam just chimed in]

Before the Devil finished, Alastor said, “Well, not bad for an old man, Who’s least is quite his forte, I’ll show you how to lend a hand.”

Charlie’s got a dream, fun, what fun, The Devil’s jealous of all that I have done. I should really fear his seven wrath woe, Charlie, should I bite him? No, Al, no.

[more music!!!!]

The Devil ground his accordion down to Alastor’s hooved feet, And he readied for a second verse to make that deer heart bleat. Alastor said, “Devil, let’s go again, if you’re not all spent and flimsy.” Then the door broke down, to stomp on their bitch, Truest best of all was Mimsy. She played,

Charlie’s got a dream, fun, what fun, The Devil’s jealous of all that I have done. I should really fear his seven wrath woe, Charlie, should I bite him? No, Al, no.

[music!!!!!!]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK AND HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THIS SONG

[semi-senioritis]

Me @ Luka bc at this point he's deliberately being an asshole

Hyuna come get your dog before Mizi puts him down

[gingermintpepper]

I spent something like six and a half hours in the hospital today so day 6 of my challenge is being further postponed but, in the lieu of not doing any drawing, I did end up rereading Ovid's Metamorphoses in between waiting and I just wanted to offer some of my favourite underrated bits.

Cadmus and Harmonia's twin transformations into snakes is so gentle? Cadmus goes first, transformed mid plea for his wife to caress him one last time before his face is completely covered in scales, then he rests gently between her boobs and wraps around her neck and shoulders like a big snake gorget. Harmonia follows him shortly and the two snakes intertwine with each other before gently slithering off into the bushes and I love that actually mwah mwah mwah (I also appreciate the sweet irony of Cadmus who slew a snake for his glory becoming a snake, toothless and gentle in the last of his days)

Everything about Perseus was hilarious. Like, I'm sorry - I've never done a lot of reading into Perseus but I did always remember the banquet massacre and the Andromeda rescuing and like, bro I know it's not meant to be funny but Perseus is funny. I think it's his politeness honestly? He goes up to Atlas and is like "hello kind sir, may I please stay a night in your lands? I've travelled an awful long way and I am weary and hungry. If you only accept noble guests, rest assured, I am of noblest birth and have completed the noblest of deeds. 🥺" and Atlas takes one look at him, has a That's So Raven vision about the one time Themis gave him a prophecy about a son of Jove stealing his apples and then told Perseus to kick rocks. So Perseus, like the well adjusted and noble individual that he is, turns Atlas into a mountain with Medusa's head. This is how a great many of Perseus' stories unfold. It is actually hysterical.

I am going to give a special shoutout to Athis and Lycabas who were two young lovers in attendance at Perseus and Andromeda's blood wedding. Athis died first - a skilled archer who never got to shoot and was burnt and bludgeoned across the face with a wedding brazier. When Lycabas saw that his dear friend's beauty was ruined, he picked up the fight against Perseus himself in Athis' name and was slashed to strips by Perseus' sword. Lycabas managed to drag himself over to Athis in his last moments and died beside him, so I thought that was a particularly touching bit of beauty in the otherwise extremely tragic blood wedding.

No one can ever make me feel bad for Niobe. In a lot of the Greek accounts I've read and heard, because they tend to be much shorter or references in a wider narrative, it's hard to really grasp how insanely disrespectful she was to Leto (not that her boasting she should be the goddess of motherhood to the actual goddess of motherhood isn't worthy of death and destruction enough) but Ovid really did go the extra mile to dig it home how far down her throat this lady put her foot because even at her sons' seven way funeral she did not stop boasting about how she was still glorious. I did find it interesting that the seemingly innocuous detail of Apollo killing off the boys first and then Artemis killing the girls was kept cross-culturally, I assume it's because boys were more auspicious than girls in both cultures.

The detail of Athena bonking Arachne constantly with a wooden box and her being transformed into a spider because she begged to not be bonked to death. Also very interestingly, in Ovid's account, it's not a clear victory for Athena against Arachne - she gets flustered at the depictions of her relatives' affairs and rips the tapestry up - the judges didn't actually get a chance to opine. This is in contrast to the contest the Muses sang about where their representative Calliope unilaterally won against the daughters of Pierus.

The account of Apollo and Marsyas was much shorter than I remember it being. I recall it being touted as one of the more vicious and visceral tales in Metamorphoses' collection but it included neither the details of Marsyas' contest against Apollo, nor Apollo's feelings (or even any dialogue from him!) throughout his peeling of Marsyas' skin. Instead it is wholly focused on Marsyas - on describing the physical gore of his exposed veins and contracting muscles and the grief of the rustic crowd as they mourned his loss - which is curious indeed since the entire theme of the poems of Book 6 is divine punishment and it is otherwise filled with rather full accounts of these contests and insults.

Byblis and Caunus made me want to reread Euripedes' Hippolytus for the twelve thousandth time. Caunus made the right call of course but I also very much hoped he would have a huge big speech about incest being bad instead of just smacking the messenger.

And lastly, for now, Jove's speech as Hercules lay burning atop his death pyre where he addresses the host of his gods and goes "Man, wasn't Hercules a great guy? Look, there goes all his mortal attributes burning away in the fire, now he is all my son and surely we are all in agreement that any divine son of mine deserves a place on Olympus :)" was very endearing. I always feel quite bad for Deianira because she truly didn't mean any harm by her gift and I've always wished for an account of Heracles/Hercules' death from her perspective. There could scarcely be a thing more awful, especially given how long and drawn out and incredibly painful Hercules' death was.

Lowkey, I want to take a day and compare Ovid and Euripedes' Medeas. They're both very different women and they both handle their situations very differently. Partially for my own vindication - I adore Medea and Jason equally and since popular fiction cannot speak about Medea without flattening her or making Jason completely monstrous, this is just one of those things I'll have to do myself sometime.

[sleevebuscemii]

why the fuck is eurovision trending. every single person blogging about eurovision right now i think you should kill yourselves

[juuret]

Minor update on what's going on on the shitshow called eurovision:

-it's been confirmed that the ad campaign were organized (and paid for) by Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (it's in hebrew so i have to trust what people say tho)

-Ukraine got fined because of their "free azovstal defenders" shirts (refuted by suspilne, still leaving the link tho)

-avrtros is mighty pissed but we all knew that