#asian american music

[sivavakkiyar]

[toiletpotato]

The 2023 American Girl Doll of the Year is Kavi Sharma, a South Asian American theatre kid who loves Wicked SO SHE HAS A REPLICA ELPHABA COSTUME. I am absolutely ecstatic that kids get this.

edit: SHE ALSO HAS A GLINDA COSTUME

SHE ALSO HAS THIS!! BECAUSE SHE PERFORMS A TRADITIONAL DANCE ROUTINE WITH HER FRIENDS AT SCHOOL AND SHE LOVES BOLLYWOOD

[purecommemasolitude]

One of the lines that makes me go craziest about Asian Paul is “this could’ve happened to anyone”

Like with white Paul it’s him waking up and realizing the consequences of what they’ve been doing and also their own mortality

But Asian Paul? There’s no way he’s not aware that he’s always in more danger than every one of his Soc friends. Personallyyy I like the take that his phrasing there is just a cover that he’s really talking about himself. And then you could go either way of the terror of him always being in a precarious position and the real narrowed-in statement that that in a lot of situations it is him lying dead now, or the heartbreak of he always thought it was going to be him who got attacked and beaten down, and he doesn’t know how to cope now that it’s his best friend instead and he’s the one who has to keep living

[animelosers]

Rainy nights with nsb.

Warnings: light spicy, curse words.

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OLIVER:

The rain drops on the other side of the window, muffled as Oliver and I slowly kiss deeply. Our hands explore our clothed bodies. I pull away before laying down and pulling Oliver on top of me. We start kissing heavier as the rain gets louder. Once Oliver pulls away, all I can see is him, the Moonlight darken by the rain clouds and the rain plastering on the window.

SEBASTIAN:

His hands grip my waist as we give each other slow quick pecks on our lips. The rain sounds pour into my ears louder than Sebastian and I's lips disconnecting and connecting to each other. This has been a long day for us, and this is our night... rain pouring, Moonlight slightly shining through, and we are just lovingly kissing. Best night.

JUSTIN:

His hands slide up my thighs as he stands between them. I lean against the kitchen cabinet, sitting on the counter. He kisses my neck affectionately, making me move my head nsvk to give him more room. We hear muttered laughter from upstairs as the boys do their skits. Other than them laughing, I can hear the pouring rain and thunder with a mix of Justin kisses on my neck.

RYAN:

The rain pours as Ryan's hands cup my face as we deeply kiss. My legs go around his waist as he accepts my actions. He gently carries me to his bed, making me get comfortable. Now the rain is louder than ever but makes this moment more memorable. My hands slowly tug his shirt, signaling him to take it off. I feel him smirk a bit against your lips before pulling away gently. He takes off his shirt before continuing.

KANE:

I straddle Kane as we talk and make out a bit. Since the rain ends up being louder than our conversation, him and I end up talking about our days between our kisses. It was the most comfortable thing to do with him. His hands at my waist and my hands are on his shoulders for support.

REGIE:

His head is on my chest, making soft marks on it. I just lightly run my fingers through his hair as I allow him to make kiss marks. I look to the side a bit to see the rain drops sliding down the window, making everything seem so calm and loving. I feel Regie pull away a bit, I look over at him before he kisses me lovingly. I smile into the kiss, feeling safe and comfortable.

DARREN:

I kiss him lazyingly as he kisses back with energy, I got a slight rush. I kiss him with the same energy back. We both pull away a bit and laugh at our actions. He looks at me lovingly, and I look at him affectionately. His hands grab my waist a bit, all you hear is the thunder and rain clouding both of our ears as we slowly kiss again.

[yourdailyqueer]

Avu-chan

Gender: Non binary (she/her or kanojo)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: N/A

Ethnicity: Japanese, African American

Nationality: Japanese

Occupation: Singer, songwriter, music producer

[demisexual-in-distress]

MUSICAL THEATRE PPL

ESPECIALLY MY FELLOW ASIAN ONES

GO SHOW THIS MUSICAL SOME FUCKING LOVE

DESC:

OUT is a coming-of-age drama-comedy that weaves together stories of three queer Asian kids in their mid-20s. When OLIVER accidentally tells his parents that he’s found a girlfriend, he turns, as one does, to the internet. With the help of his best friend, KASEY, and a new dating app “+1”, he hires MAY to be his pretend date. The three soon find their lives becoming intertwined in more ways than they’d expected, and begin to question not only who they are, but what they owe to their families.

Book by Kalos Chu

Music by Ian Chan

Lyrics by JuHye Mun

I think it deserves so much more attention than it's gotten!!

[gennsoup]

One does not play memories of music; one plays music itself. And lifetimes, from beginning to end, are as sheets of music, ready to be played.

Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

[not-your-asian-fantasy]

SASAMI

[chilli-talks-a-lot]

Dude, punk and Riot Grrrl specifically were so important to me because it not only allowed me to express my struggles as a girl but as an Asian-American.

The model minority myth was pushed onto my parents and onto me by my parents. Sometimes I get really stressed out about my identity because I am basically a walking, living, breathing stereotype. I get straight As every year, I'm good at math, I literally wear a Harvard hoodie every day because it helps me keep sight of my goals.

Punk is my way of combatting that. Listening to punk music and embracing punk culture is my way of saying, "I am not your model minority myth. I will not stay quiet. I have struggles. I may be doing well in school, but the education system is still systemically flawed." It helped me remember that I am who I am not because I want to perpetuate those stereotypes but because I want to go far in life. Riot Grrrl helped me say, "My ideas should be taken seriously."

But, Riot Grrrl isn't inclusive of WOC.

Riot Grrrl isn't inclusive of me.

The worst thing about this is that I thought it did. The Riot Grrrl movement supports young, white, middle-class women. I am a young, Asian, middle-class woman. I was blinded by my middle-class privilege, preventing me from seeing the hostility towards WOC in this movement. And in that, I lumped myself in with white people.

I am not white, and I don't want to be seen as white. My dad and I constantly get comments like, "You're basically white people."

So yeah. I don't want to be a Riot Grrrl anymore. We need a cool new intersectional feminist punk movement now.

[daisyachain]

The nature of time is that (culturally) Christian Euro/Anglo colonial consumers (hereafter white ‘people’) fetishize the idea of being ‘close to nature’ or ‘primitive’ or ‘savage’ and latch on to the idea that there are groups of people in the world who are somehow bestial or who have some kind of special powers from holding animist beliefs/beliefs that acknowledge the body as opposed to the Christian belief that the body is a kind of useless appendage to a person. We see this across decades from the 19thC to today in the racist fetishization of indigenous people across the globe, particularly residents of the Americas, Australasia, and southern/eastern Africa.

White consumers use a warped conception of other cultures to live out the fantasies that the Christian soul/body stuff engenders. You keep getting told that your emotions and physical sensations are the devil’s work? You want to get in touch with those physical sensations, but you don’t want it to interfere with your worldview? Simply project them on to a convenient group of people with slightly different conventions from you. Imagine how cool it would be to be 100% physical sensation (especially those pesky violent and/or sexual urges) and no mental burden, then unleash that in a way that causes millions of deaths worldwide via the dehumanization of entire nations of people just trying to live their lives. White consumers love a Proud Warrior Race Guy.

Flash forward to the 2010s, it’s generally considered impolite to spread the same propaganda that justified the genocide and dispossession of many different groups of people. However white culture hasn’t changed that much and normal human activities still need to be explained away to maintain the veneer of white intellectualism that has been used to justify white violence for years and years. You can’t just stomp around and clap your hands and dance badly, you’ve got to project it somewhere else.

But wait! There’s a community of people considered ‘tribal’ and ‘savage’, considered violent and bestial, who were never colonized! It’s…the Norse. Fetishizing early medieval North Sea raiders can’t be cultural appropriation, see, they’re white! It’s not offensive to replace an entire culture with white (male) ideas of what’s cool if that culture is totally unassociated with colonizer stereotypes and is in fact a culture of colonizers!

And that’s my theory on why there are so many Norse-inspired folk bands/video games/tv shows/memes/literally anything in the 2010s. VSaga not counted because that manga has been running since 2003 and is actually well-researched and comes out of a culture with a similar but distinct tradition of racism. The Euro storytelling tendencies of needing some kind of violent avatar have taken on ye anciente Norseman now that people care a little bit about the gallons of blood used to sketch other ethnic stereotypes. Done and dusted. Except the other side is that the fetishization of early medieval Norse culture is literally just white supremacist 101 and a lot of artists don’t step around that nearly as carefully as they should

[sivavakkiyar]

from the liner notes of the original Grain of Sand LP

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Anne Akiko Meyers

Anne Akiko Meyers was born in 1970 in San Diego, California. Meyers is one of the world's most esteemed and sought-after violinists. She made her debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the age of 11, and has premiered new music with symphony orchestras from around the world. Meyers has released more than 40 albums and been nominated for a Grammy Award. She has performed at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, as well as Mexico City's Auditorio Nacional. Meyers performed the national anthem in front of 42,000 fans at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, and performed for an audience of 750,000 at the Austrlian Bicentennial Concert in Sydney Harbour.

[purecommemasolitude]

Ever since Ryo debuted I have been Thinking about a Paul with more traditional parents who have accents and behave in ways that he finds embarrassing. And the importance of keeping that from people to keep his social status. And then the trust it would need to let Darry spend the night at his place

[citsiurtlanu]

okay i got tagged by both @phoenixmetaphor and @nostalgicatsea so i must expose how uncool my music taste is and post five songs i've been listening to a lot lately. i had to title something recently so all of these songs' lyrics/titles were in contention for that (and then in the end i didn't actually use any of them... not directly, anyway. lol)

And at once, I knew I was not magnificent High above the highway aisle Jagged vacance, thick with ice And I could see for miles, miles, miles

(this song was the closest to being the winner and i named the fic epoch instead of holocene hahahahaha. shoutout to chibueze ihuoma, who was hadestown's touring orpheus for a while, for covering it 'cause seeing that made me fall in love with this song)

In the confusion and the aftermath You are my signal fire The only resolution and the only joy Is the faint spark of forgiveness in your eyes

Let's raise a glass or two To all the things I've lost on you Tell me are they lost on you? Just that you could cut me loose After everything I've lost on you Is that lost on you?

But there is no one who Could wake my heart like this Could break my world in two I felt a suddenness

Don't wait, don't wait The lights will flash and fade away The days will pass you by Don't wait To lay your armor down

[ldhun]

keshi icons, pls like or reblog if you save 🥀