I'm seeing people point out that the Craving (at least the single version) is about SAI being perceived by a lot of people as a flop album & I think that's probably correct but I also think it probably applies to Lavish, because I truly cannot imagine why else they decided to include it on the album? Like don't get me wrong I love Lavish but narratively it reads as the most 'expendable" song on the tracklist. Yet Tyler allegedly wanted to leave off Navigating (which they gave the lore video to, lmao) and kept Lavish. Which is fair because it's a banger and a nice break from everything else, but it's also just telling to me that they very intentionally did a song about industry bullshit on this album, the most direct they've gotten since Lane Boy.
Like either their label or someone in the industry did something to piss them off that we don't know about, or it's a generalized frustration. I have to imagine it would hurt to be Grammy noms/winners two albums in a row and then be paid dust the minute you do something a little different. Or (purely speculating here) to experience label pressure to have another album cycle like blurryface, when that's virtually impossible to replicate unless you're, like, taylor swift specifically, and when it inevitably doesn't happen they start pulling back on financing/promoting you/helping you get nominations the same way they used to. They're fucking you behind your back and you can't really do much about it because they're the ones with the money and the influence, and you're supposed to trust them to take care of/care about your work. Like tøp has never been a band that values itself on award or critical recognition, it's always been for us, but creatively speaking the whiplash of going right from your most commercially successful album, to your most critically acclaimed album, then to your most criticized - and to a degree you now just assume your time as a critical/commercial darling has passed, which Tyler seems to - would have to hurt. It would have to.
Honestly tho he probably just knew he cooked with the proctologist line and needed everyone else to know too
60 notes
·
View notes
Based on me 5 seconds ago
Steve and Eddie were just casually lounging in the living room, a random video on YouTube playing- one that Eddie picked.
Then, all the sudden Chad Chad was interrupted for a movie trailer. Steve was about to skip it without looking up when Eddie gasped loudly, shooting up and dropping his book without marking the page, something he'd definitely regret when the trailer is over.
"STEVE, HOLY SHIT, IT'S GARFIELD!" Eddie shouts. Their mangy little orange cat comes trotting in at that, Eddie wanted a black cat but freaked in a similar way when he saw this sickly little thing that needs expensive food and medicine.
"Not you, trash cat" Steve says, picking the little thing up as Eddie practically starts crying at the cute little animated kitten on the screen, falling to his knees and crawling towards the TV.
"OH MY GOD, STEVE, HOLY SHIT. HOLY FUCKING SHIT" He yells, not even looking at Steve as he places his hands over their little cat son's ears so he won't hear Eddie's cursing. Eddie's holding onto the edge of the TV stand in a white knuckled grip, but his dramatic sobbing ceases the moment the Garfield on screen speaks.
"Is that fucking Chris Pratt?" Eddie says, slowly picking up his head and looking on in horror. And as if on cue, Chris Pratt's name flashes on screen. Eddie just stands up, throwing his arms in the air.
"Nope. No, no, nope. Ruined." He says as he flops back onto the couch next to Steve, face down into the cushions. Eddie literally has a Garfield tattoo on his ass, this is devastating for his favorite cartoon cat to be voiced by... Chris Pratt. Eddie looks up at the Garfield in Steve's lap, scratching the top of the scrimbly little cat's head.
"You're not voiced by Chris Pratt, are you, sweet boy?" He asks the mangy thing.
56 notes
·
View notes
have you seen The Exorcist (1973) movie yet? i highly recommend if you really like midnight mass and faith complete the holy trinity of miserable catholic priests 🙏
I just watched it in college actually!! I absolutely adore it!!
Damien my beloved tired and miserable middle-age priest <3
Some doodles I did on my friend's tablet hehe
46 notes
·
View notes
get kissed lol
[image id: a "chibi" version of Joseph Harrison President, aka "Joe Blow." Joe is a squat, pudgy cartoon humanoid with white skin, a round face, bright red hair that's longer on the left side of his face, thick red eyebrows, orange freckles on his cheeks, piercing green eyes, small batlike wings with green webbing, four-fingered hands, buck teeth, and a thick white tail that ends in a metallic tail-club shaped like a crescent moon. He is looking upwards at his forehead, which has a pink lipstick print on it, and smiling. end id.]
11 notes
·
View notes