#WHITE GIRL MUSIC PLAYING

[thisispoggers]

HC that Shakes is a shower singer in private

[punkitt-is-here]

here's the art I did for the Susan Taxpayer OST! :D You can catch the first post right here on Bee's tumblr :)

[aeolianblues]

was kinda thinking about this when I saw Renee Rapp live recently-- I didn't know her visual vibe, I'd heard a few songs here and there but I hadn't really *seen* her, and her attire at Osheaga was really casual, a jersey (baseball/basketball?) and slacks. And that was so amazing! I couldn't help thinking, the work Billie Eilish has done for how women in pop music are allowed to dress is incredible. Seeing her up there all comfortable you just know that Billie walked in her oversized tops so that Renee in her slacks could run; Billie walked through all the critcisms about how she dressed slobbily and having to assert that she didn't owe anyone a display of skin, so that Renee could be comfortable and unquestioned running up and down the catwalk in front of 10,000 people. How iconic.

And I don't think we even realised at the time how much something as simple as letting Billie dress the way she as a (then-) 17-year-old teenager dressed, could end up meaning for a future generation of women in music.

Obviously there is still way to go, there were weirdos complaining about how 'plain' Dua Lipa's Glastonbury outfit was this year (in 2024!!), l have to ask, are you at Paris Fashion Week?? She is the musical HEADLINER of an entire day of music at one of the biggest music festivals in the world, and you can't grant her the space to exist as an artist, you have to moan about her dress not being excitingly revealing enough. There's work to do, it's still dismal out there. But the space Billie Eilish has created for a most ordinarily-dressed woman popstar is still heartening.

[aeroblossom]

midori occupies every crevice in my brain. so here is some aimless and scattered rambling. it is absolutely not organized, and this is a continuation of my last post. please don't come for me

when alice 'killed' him, he didn't bleed. later in the secret repair room, you find a repaired head that reported a broken left eye, which matches what happened to the midori that alice pushed into the fence. the original midori was gone before he even began to recruit the cast. the only surviving bit of his human body we know of were attached to mai, but even mai ends up drilled or otherwise dies after the last trial.

more than half of him is doll, and the only evidence of his humanity has been destroyed. midori creates and destroys dolls of himself and the others as easy as breathing, abuses and torments people and watches them contort mentally and physically with great interest. he despises his entertainment coming to an end. he's aloof most of the time, unless he's bullying the cast and enjoying himself, or angry, disturbed somehow.

i have half a guess that the midoris that recruited the cast are not the same, but rather several different dolls of himself. this way, not only would he have discarded his physical humanity, but also minimized any consequences of him dying. on the one hand, he has trivialized the life of others as well as others, boldly inviting everyone to try and kill him. on the other, he is human yet at heart, fearing death like any other. trivialized is the less than half of him that is still human, like a majority vote, as he is. the game is a great criticism of democracy - the majority decide for everyone. a collective mass with no space for anyone's individual choice, with the few protesting voices silenced. they are trivialized.

an empty human, soulless. a doll. an aloof, empty husk that finds enjoyment only in controlling and torturing. perhaps he feels alive. perhaps he feels the fear of death and remembers his vulnerability, but from a safe distance, able to detach himself from it.

him having multiple replacements for himself would also mean he is, in a way, immortal. i assume every midori has the same personality, at least. that would be shedding the final layer of being human: mortality.

but one thing remains - shin tsukimi, living with midori's real name and a living caricature of who sou hiyori was. midori is a bit obsessed with him and who he was before he stole midori's name and adopted his general demeanor - the ai shin is a timid, but kind and sweet presence, like shin before the game. midori remarks that he regrets not being able to be the one who kills him. as infatuated as he is with the kindly ai shin, his love of control is first, and when pushed far enough, he 'kills' the ai shin too.

but why this, seemingly, immense need to lose one's humanity? something to do with what he was as a normal human at the beginning of everything? does being human impede him somehow? though regardless of how much he runs from it, he ends up with the very human fear of death all the same, a lack of control over his destiny, a lack of control in general. he loses all composure once he's seen through. the dolls establish that they have a right to make their own choices, and thus that makes them human - breaking shackles, freeing themselves of their circumstances, of control. this was midori's trump card over them - the ultimate trap, death. he puppeteered them by abusing their human psyches and weaknesses and hanging it over their necks like a guillotine, until the same guillotine chopped off his own head in the end.

having seen kai's episode, i wonder what kind of effect his mother had on him. i'll call her mrs hiyori. in her first interaction with gashu, she seems the picture of a great mother, giving him the right advice for kai and sei. gashu takes it to heart, and the results are extremely positive as well. but once the objective is complete, her attitude flips on its head. she suffocates gashu with his circumstances. she forces him to choose one, not the other. she changes as she sees fit, displaying that same suave manipulation midori is famous for. i don't think i covered nearly everything i wanted to say, but this will do for now

[nashvillethotchicken]

"Lestat would get woken up by the macarena" "No he'd get waken up by dubstep" "No he'd get waken up by Call Me Maybe" You fool's. You absolute fools. Lestat is buried/out in the dump of New Orleans, a city that's 60 percent black. He's getting woken up by Back That Azz Up by Juvenile

[the-uncanny-dag]

Just saw a poll that asked whose summer it's been music-wise & Kendrick isn't even there to choose from. I think we actually need to start being violent to pop fans

[izloveshorses]

‘cause we never go out of style

[incorrectbrawlstarsquotes]

Do you think Draco and Melodie would be rivals or BFFs?

Both.

Melodie on the surface would be all over Draco while secretly hating his guts for rivaling her in popularity. She has zero clue how he got this famous by doing nothing but, in her eyes, screaming into a mic and playing ear-gratingly awful music. Eventually though she’d probably come around to it.

Draco meanwhile would be completely oblivious from the start and consider her an industry bestie (maybe even a bestie in general). He just wants to jam, man. Music is music. And Melodie’s is pretty catchy.

[heartz4shauna]

bangers only on this blog!!!

[valdrinors-writing]

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[bumblingbabooshka]

SNW Christine has the vibes of someone who pours a glass of wine, hands it to Uhura, then starts drinking from the bottle. SNW Christine says she’s going to have “one glass of Romulan ale” and then pulls out a comedically large glass as a goof. Christine wore white converse with her thrift store dress to space prom. I can see this all clearly. She is this to me:

[ratatatastic]

when i say that forsblad ring picture has law firm vibes this is what i mean

[gilfrespecter]

Listening to coinstar by the growlers and thinking about mel so hard I get nauseous

Ridiculous stream of conscious in the tags apologies but not really

[spidersunny]

I LOVE MACHINE GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thursdayg1rl]

okay learning french making me feel less depressed

[deconstructivesurgery]

What is your favorite music and do you have any suggestions? <3

Oh lord almighty, this is one of the most difficult questions for me to answer on the planet. I have a really hard time picking favourites when it comes to music, especially by genre, but I can narrow it down a little! A few of my long-time favourite bands include The Decemberists, a kind of folk-rock-indieish mix (maybe? i'm bad at distinguishing musical genre, sue me). I would heavily reccomend their rock opera album The Hazards Of Love if you enjoy narrative albums, or The King Is Dead if you prefer a more folk/slightly country at times lean. My favourite songs by them currently are Oh No!, We Both Go Down Together, and Travelling On.

A few other long-term favourites in that vein are The Shins, Modest Mouse, Father John Misty, and The Buttertones.

In another vein, I enjoy a fair bit of goth music- Rosetta Stone, The Soft Moon, Sisters Of Mercy, London After Midnight, and Fields Of The Nephilim in particular. I also love what I lovingly refer to as dad metal. Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold, Judas Priest, Audioslave, Social Distortion and TOOL are favourites of mine.

But I also just listen to a lot of shit in general. Right now, my suggestions are just gonna be the songs I've been listening to the most in the past few days, which are:

the house is alive and the house is hungry - the paper chase

moral threat - social distortion

october song - amy winehouse

beautiful morning - avenged sevenfold

jigsaw falling into place - radiohead (fuck me man, i do like radiohead)

matador - the buttertones

she sells sanctuary - the cult