#amerciana

[thoughtswordsaction]

Stella Burns Released New Single "Love And Thunder"

Stella Burns is a musician, self-taught multi-instrumentalist, composer, and singer, as well as a graphic designer and videomaker, formerly a member of the band Hollowblue. He began his solo project in 2011, and has since published two albums. His music walks a narrow line between low-fi Morricone, visceral folk, and a 1950s-era fantasy world, providing an intimate and personal experience.…

[tabithahallows]

I have the BIGGEST side eye for anyone who says shit like 'celebrities aren't obligated to make political statements' or 'why do you even care what they think?'. Why the fuck would I want to support someone who sees what's happening in Palestine and has the power to inform their audience/fan base and simply doesn't? Why don't they care enough to say anything at all? How do they, as millionaires and billionaires with very real influence whether we want them to have it or not, not want to help? When they see these people suffering and begging to just survive, how do they continue about their lives and not WANT to speak out even once??

Like how do they see children being bombed and go 'oh, that's so sad...anyway, nothing I can do about it', when they absolutely can do something about it. Small content creators with only a few hundred people listening are doing more to help Palestine than Taylor Swift, Beyoncé or literally any other big-time celebrity with the power to both make massive change and preserve their careers through it all. So why, why the actual FUCK, would I want to support these celebrities in ANYWAY when I know that they are capable of ignoring what's happening in Gaza or any atrocity like this. Why would I give my time and possibly money to some cunt who can't get on Twitter for two minutes and post something as simple as 'I stand with Palestine' because sometimes that's all they need to fucking do!

Y'all can ask 'why do you even care what they think?' all you want, but I do care if someone I was openly supporting doesn't have the basic decency to want to help the people of Palestine when they are screaming to be heard. Where they stand on issues like this will ALWAYS be more important to me than their next album or TV show. Silence is compliance.

[mercutio-the-velaryon]

Thinking about how Miss Amerciana and The Heartbreak Prince coded limoreau is like bar for bar

[everydaygothic]

roadtrip gothic

So you've decided to go for a drive. Just pick up and go. See where the road takes you. Find places you've never been.

You're not the first to try it, but be warned. Those who tried it before you have not been seen since.

[heilewelt]

On Tour: Sound of Nashville with Jarrod Dickenson and Robert Vincent

The new concert series “Sound of Nashville” brings some of the best newcomers and sounds the Country and Americana world has to offer like Jarrod Dickenson and Robert Vincent. I saw Jarrod a little while ago, supporting The White Buffalo and unlike some other support bands I still remember him because he’s such a great storyteller on stage. Traditional without being a boring copy which doesn’t happen to often. Recently he released “Under A Texas Sky” EP, a collection of songs from his homeland and its musical heroes like Willie Nelson or Roy Orbison and you can certainly hear a bit of typical Texas sound in there. It’s the first of a collections of EPs with songs from Texas.

Robert Vincent may not be from anywhere near Nashville (Jarrod is at least now living there) but that doesn’t stop him from sounding quite a bit like Nashville or well, making some pretty fine Americana music - but who is actually surprised? Americana and England’s Folk music are somewhat closely knit together. Inspiring each other from the early days on and Robert is the best example for it. To have these two on the same night will be a fine evening for fans of story telling, heartfelt and honest music. 

06.06.2019, Köln, Yuca Club 07.06.2019, Hamburg, Nochtwache 08.06.2019, Berlin, Privatclub

See you there,

Dörte

[lucyreviewcy]

Miss Americana (2020) Dir. Lana Wilson

Taylor Swift’s story, in her own words. Sort of.

Reputation is the best album of all time. The earliest point in this film which provoked a reaction is Swift crying over the fact that she didn’t receive any Grammy nominations for it, and saying “I’m writing a better record.” Swift’s performance at the AMAs last year when she won Woman of the Decade didn’t feature any songs from Reputation. 

I’m aware that not many people agree with me that Reputation is the greatest album of all time, or that the Reputation: World Tour is the best available piece of content on Netflix. I don’t care, because in the words of Mark Kermode, I know I’m right. 

The hardest thing about watching this documentary was realising that Swift doesn’t know that I’m right. She doesn’t agree that Reputation is the best album of all time, because it didn’t get any Grammy nominations. What this documentary really showed me was that even though she’s four years older than me, and a few million dollars better off, I’m older than Swift in a lot of ways. The story we’re told is of a girl whose “entire belief system” is based on the approval of others, and who is, in her own words, “frozen in time at the age she became famous.” Watching Swift in this film, I got a glimpse of how my mother must have felt when I sobbed for hours about the fact that I didn’t want to go to Prom (except I did.) The moment when she discovers that Reputation isn’t Grammy nominated is infuriating, the way that my mum must have found it infuriating that I refused to engage with any social occasions as a teen because “nobody wants me there.” My mum knew people wanted me there. I know Reputation is the greatest album of all time. We are both right. It’s just that my mum shouting at me is more effective than me shouting at Taylor on my TV screen.

The film itself uses a lot of traditional documentary conventions to tell the story. You want archive footage? WE GOT IT. You want fly on the wall footage? WE GOT IT. You want intimate, emotional interviews? DAMN STRAIGHT WE GOT IT. But this is not Taylor’s account of events. It is the story of her much delayed growth from teen to young adult. We see her first real experience of political defeat, a moment where Swift came across more human than ever to me. She looked how I looked at 20, the first time I voted in a general election, and didn’t get what I voted for. With documentaries, we’re not being told the truth, we’re being presented with evidence and asked to create from that our own understanding of the truth. We’re presented with a possible truth. All the evidence is filtered through the producers, directors and editors, and presented as an argument. The argument here is not that Swift is right or wrong, it’s that she’s imperfect, and that she is learning. Her feelings about food, her body, politics, men - a lot of her observations felt like old news to me, because these were lessons I learned at university or at work. But this woman hasn’t ever been to university, and she’s never had an ordinary job. She’s learning these lessons slower, and she’s learning them in the public eye. 

Rather than telling the story of Taylor’s feud with Kanye, or her political activism, or her relationship to the media, this film tells the story of a woman maturing. It is at times a little sentimental, and suffers from an over-application of emotive string/piano music, but is a more complex portrayal of its subject than I initially expected. Rather than looking up to Swift, by the end of this film I felt like she was a little sister who was still learning how the world works, and who is bound to make mistakes along the way. This is the best narrative for this story, because it doesn’t argue that its subject makes the best choices, or has the best perspective, but that she’s human. There are no “bad guys” in this story, it is not targeted as a response to anything, which so much of the media surrounding Swift has been for a long time. This is an effective portrait of Swift as a character.

The last point to bear in mind, though, is that Swift had to agree to make this film. In many ways, this is the story she wants us to hear. I believe she should be allowed to tell her own story, and I’m happy that she’s chosen this approach, rather than the petty one-sided stories that we’re used to associating with her. 

[juliasays13]

Got my tickets for Lover Fest East Night 1!!! See you on my birthday @taylorswift !!!! 😭😭😭💖💖💖

[leftussilent-realestate]

hi, super new to all of the real estate stuff so sorry if you've already answered these q's!!! but is the rental that Dom spent xmas in the only rental Taylor has in london?? bc those comparison pics you used go all the way back to rep era so is that the same place tay and joe have been using for all these years?? or is there another/new one?? i only ask bc an anon mentioned "Taylor’s new London home actually looks not that big at all like not super fancy like some of her other homes" and i can't figure out which one is new lol also where does the frongal rental fit into the timeline??? sorry again for so many questions!! it's all very interesting though!

Hi lovely,

okay now we know they rented the Frognal house in 2016 and early 2017. based on Rep magazine dated polaroids and the fact they had a new year’s day party there.

in Miss Amerciana, we see her ‘unpacking boxes’ and moving into the second Belsize Park rental in the grammy scene, which i believe was filmed late 2017. **Edit end of 2018

this birthday video was also filmed in the house.

so i assume they rented Frognal from 2016-2017 and have rented Belsize Park from 2018 until now.

now we aren’t sure if they are still renting it, as you mentioned it was recently used by Dom over christmas last year, i believe they could still be renting it but it could be that they have found a new rental or bought something, hopefully not though lol

[imonsomenewshit]

‪Confirmed topics that will be covered in Miss Amerciana ‬

‪- The “aggravations of global stardom” ‬

‪- The Kanye Incident ‬

‪- reputations grammy subs ‬

‪- Taylors struggle with body image ‬

‪- Taylors political/ religious values‬

‪- Her sexual assault trail ‬

‪- Andreas illness‬

[aspaceform3]

—adivina quién ha vuelto a soñar con su ex 🤦🏽‍♀️

—hostia que pesadilla

— nunca mejor dicho.

—que pasaba?

—esta vez el tio era timador. Al principio salía como una ducha y el hacía storis de instagram sobre la calidad de el grifo de agua en si xdd random, lo se

—un poco

—más tarde saltamos a una especie de piso/hostal en una ciudad de la inglaterra profunda, y descubrimos que se ha cambiado el user del instagram a "el duende borracho" o algo de ese estilo

—súper bien

—y entonces de repente: saltamos a Tailandia. El señor espera sentao en una especie de casa con terraza delantera, como estas de las pelis amercianas? Un porche creo que lo llaman? da igual. La cosa, que el duente alcoholizao este, ve llegar un coche, arquea las cejas y estira el cuello

—joder cuanto detalle pava

—mi mente es muy visual que esperabas. Estira el cuello y sale un tio con una barba hasta el culo

—ay madre

—El susodicho da un brinco de la ventana y se acerca al pavo de la barba y con un libro en la mano, antes de decirle nada, el pavo de la barba le suelta "eh tio ese libro? Eso es todo mentira lo que escribi ahi es basura" con acento americano.

—joder alba que random

—lo mejor es que me despierto JUSTO cuando el idiota de turno le suelta al pavo de la barba "ya, pero si lo escribiese parecido crees que funcionaría?"

— Venga ya

—Sep. Oh bueno y me acabo de acordar, aparece mos mi madre y yo cotilleando sus cuentas de inatagram, super normal mi madre y yo en la misma habitacion wow

—jajaj

— y veo que ha quitado fotos de insta y que empezó a subir un huevo hace 3 dias. Subo arriba y bingo: novia nueva. Y con la nariz grande.

—uy

—y con aparato. La novia tiene 18 añitos cumplidos.

—A parte de timador es un asaltacunas????

—efectivitywonder.

—mala pelicula

[thoughtswordsaction]

The Nomadic - Treading Water

“Treading Water” is the latest single by The Nomadic, a Sydney-based band including singer-songwriter Rob Gaylard, producers and keyboardist Dan Frizza, Miles Thomas (Lior, Ronan Keating, Montaigne) on drums, Oliver Thorpe (The Whitlams, Matt Corby, Meg Mac) on guitar, and Brendan Clark (Meg Mac, Montaigne, Jack River) on bass. It’s their first piece of work in 2024 and an adequate follow-up to…

[goldrushmore]

It hit me in Miss Amerciana when the screen said “Age 23” and Taylor was performing “All Too Well” at the Grammys.

Meanwhile I’m 23 and eating a baked potato in my skivvies watching National Treasure.

[longlivetaylah]

Me when I watch Miss Amerciana tomorrow!! @taylorswift @taylornation

[angelsrolltheireyesx]

apparently city of lover is leaving disney plus tomorrow😭😭😭 NO NO NO how do i cope without being able to watch cornelia street live in hq 😔 HAHAHAHA AWWW OMG i really really hope that one day taylor sells a box set of all of the things that she’s put out over the years !! so all the tours, city of lover, miss amerciana... i’d love that SO much and it’d be so popular omg we can pray lol💗💞💓!! that would be SO AMAZING🥰 @taylorswift @taylornation

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

New Audio: The Wood Brothers Release a New Orleans Jazz-like Meditation on Circumstance

New Audio: The Wood Brothers Release a New Orleans Jazz-like Meditation on Circumstance @thewoodbrothers @ThirtyTigers @CalabroMusic

The acclaimed folk/roots/Americana act The Wood Brothers, comprised of  Boulder, CO-born siblings Chris Wood (upright bass, electric bass, vocals) and Oliver Wood (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals), and multi-instrumentalist Jano Rix, can trace some of the of origins of the act and their musical careers to when Chris and…

[whatdidyoumaketoday]

Another portrait; Carson McCullers this time