#banned song

[garudabluffs]

Hong Kong bans popular protest song

May. 8, 2024

An appeals court has granted the government’s request to ban “Glory to Hong Kong.” Demonstrators once sang it during the anti-government marches in 2019. It’s the latest crackdown on pro-democracy movements by China.

LISTEN 01:18 https://theworld.org/segments/2024/05/08/hong-kong-bans-popular-protest-song

[tiffanyachings]

it would have been very beautiful. camilla would have had to cook (horrible bone soup)

[starry-eyed-steve]

No, I'm still not over this. A Spanish reporter was begging the EBU to ensure freedom of press at the ESC because he got intimidated by the Israeli delegation yesterday. Like this alone should've warrant a fucking ban. Not to mention they shouldn't be here in the first place. Like in every corner of the world, Israel is allowed to break the rules and commit crimes without any repercussions. I'm so sick to my stomach. This is not what the ESC stands for initially. But money talks more than morals.

As of rn, Israel is still harassing other artists. They create an unsafe environment for everyone, the artists, and the audience. If this is the last contest ever, congratulations for ruining the legacy over a genocidal country that isn't even in Europe.

[faelapis]

Don't Vote in Eurovision.

the 2nd semi is about to happen. israel is competing. i want to start by acknowledging something: i hope my fellow eurovision boycotters, protesters and general #BanIsraelfromEurovision people know it's not like. impossible for israel to win this year.

at eurovision, you only need a minority of televote to "win" televote, when there are 26 entries in the final. nobody wins with outright majority, they win by being the biggest minority.

if there's 10% dedicated zionist viewers who will vote for israel just because it's israel, that probably outweighs the points that a lot of other countries will get. if you divide 100/26, you get an average of 3.8%. if there's 10% dedicated zionists, i hope you see how that's suddenly a HUGE percentage. (of course, eurovision votes are not even. some songs get 0.2% of a country's vote, some songs get 20%. but the point stands. you don't need majority support to win.)

yes, this means that, theoretically, a country that supports palestine 90% could still give israel televote points - because of the united 10% voting for israel, while the 90% votes divided among the other entries. and you can't vote against songs in televote.

i side with the bookies that it's not LIKELY. we are very unlikely to see "ukraine 2022" level televote numbers for israel. europeans are much more divided on the apartheid colonial state. and many will vote just for "whichever song they like best."

i'm only saying that, IF israel were to get a huge televote score, it doesn't mean the "majority" of europe supports them. quite the opposite. it just means you can't vote against entries. you can be deeply unpopular and win.

i'm also saying this because, in the likely event that israel gets at least top 10, please dont let the zionists spread it as "proof" that europe is behind them. their apartheid colonial regime is bleeding support every day. most pro-palestine folks are boycotting.

this is a silly song contest. do not feel hopeless because of it.

instead, focus your attention on helping palestine and boycotting the contest. do NOT vote. that's giving the EBU money, which is a zionist organization willing to disgrace the contest to let israel use it as a propaganda platform. they don't deserve your money.

boycott eurovision. no watching, no voting.

donate to the world central kitchen, whose aid workers were murdered by israel while attempting to help palestinians.

[kuruksenshi]

Yet another proof how disgusting and pathetic Israeli delegation is.

Keren Peles, Israeli delegation member and songwriter of their song, is still targeting Joost Klein on her Instagram stories.

Source: Twitter profile @IsrBreaksRules

(I didn't take these screenshots myself, credits to the person mentioned above.)

"No anti-Semitic has the right to sing or breathe next to us and won't come close."

I can't find words to express my disgust with EBU who's letting all of this happen without any consequences. Not the first or last poke at others contestants I'm sure and they get to run around free to do that.

Disgusting.

Pathetic.

Still ruining it for everyone.

Eurovision won't be the same after this, if it even continues to exist after this catastrophe that could've been easily avoided.

Shame on Israel

Shame on Keren Peles and the whole of Israeli delegation

Shame on EBU and any endorser of Israeli doings

[thebigchips]

Nothing can stop us, not now, I love you

(t.A.T.u. "Not gonna get us")

[x-to-o]

ddhdhjshdj forgot to post this but BOOMBOX MY BELOVED I LOVE THEM!!! /plat

i cant decide on how light/dark i want their skin to be so yea! alt versions under the cut (further rambling will be taken to tags) (i’ve decided that now…) (<- probably because i can write WALLS of text about my art and stuff if people let me) (i will GLADLYYY ramble in dms) (also tag limit jumpscare)

style practice </3

grrrgh i love this idiot they’re just so shakable

trying to draw chubby people too this is all just practice tho i’m still learning despite how long i’ve been doin art :,]

[project-sekai-facts]

The 2DMV for Twilight Light contains various references to previous 25-ji, Nightcord de. media, as well as lots of imagery connecting to the members.

To begin with, each member is associated with an object or two that which appears frequently in the background of the 2DMV.

"of the box that gently resounds"

Kanade's item is a music box, a nod to the music box her father made for her mother. This music box played a significant role in Kanade's first unit event, Carnation Recollection, helping her to realise why her songs weren't reaching Mafuyu.

"of the sealed up cocoon"

Mafuyu's items are a birdcage and chains. This is likely a reference to the marionette doll from Mafuyu's first event, Captive Marionette, that was kept in a similar-looking cage. This doll was what started Mafuyu's arc of rediscovering her true self and realising her mother was hurting her, which culmintated in N25's second arc ender.

The lyric that accompanies this is likely a reference to Kanade's trained Determination Ignited 4* card, which contains a purple butterfly (representing Mafuyu) locked in a glass lantern.

"Inside of the picture frame that keeps chasing"

Ena's items are a picture frame and a tin of paint. The tin of paint is likely a nod to the Unsatisfied Pale Color event and Ena's trained I Don't Want to Give Up 4* card. The picture frame is a reference to the Portray Yourself set that accompanied Ena's 3rd unit event, Someday, This Wish Will Transcend the Morning Sky.

"Inside of the abandoned mirror"

Mizuki's items are a mirror and ribbons. This is a reference to the IDSMILE 2DMV, the 2DMV for Mizuki's first unit event. Both that song and Twilight Light were produced by toa.

Because of the shared producer, there are also some similar lyrics in both songs, such as "The boundaries have begun to blur, the future uncertain" from IDSMILE, and "The boundary lines where disharmonies resound with each other" from Twilight Light.

There are also a few references to N25's second arc ender, Saying Goodbye to My Masked Self, most notably there being a glitch effect when Miku sings the lines "I still can't hear you, not yet" and "I still can't see you, not yet". When she appears on a phone screen in the second chorus during the line "I'm right here", she also appears glitched. In the event, Mafuyu's phone was damaged, causing the Virtual Singers to appear glitched when their holograms appeared. Miku couldn't contact Mafuyu for a while before the phone was able to turn on again, hence the lyrics.

Miku projecting out of the phone is also a nod to how she usually manifests herself to Mafuyu.

These images appear over the following lyrics:

The melodies that we create, The words that we pull in, The colors that intertwine together, And the scenes that are stitched together,

Once again they contain the items associated with the members in this MV, but the lyrics and on-screen text reference the members' respective roles within N25: composer, lyricist, artist, and editor.

Before the final chorus, the members of N25 are shown with picture frames behind them, another reference to the Portray Yourself set.

This part of the song contains multiple other references too, including:

The heart-shaped apple gem that originated as a charm on the costumes from the Snow White in Oblivion set, and later appeared as it does in this MV in some of the cards from the Where is ♡? set. Ena's card from the latter set also contains the birdcage associated with Mafuyu in this MV.

The apple is significant to Mafuyu as it was the food her mother would feed her when she was sick as a child. It was this care her mother showed her that caused her to want to become a nurse, the very dream her mother shattered. Those apples might also be Mafuyu's favorite food.

The blue butterflies that appear during this part and also at the start of the final chorus, which are a reference to the Samsa single jacket, and the Poisonous Fangs and Peeking Shadows set which had butterflies as a motif, particularly noticeable in Kanade's Determination Ignited 4* shown earlier in this post.

The phone underwater, which is actually a reference to three things. Firstly, this is a direct callback to the in-game jacket for Lower, Mizuki's second event commission.

However the phone falling in the water also links to a plot point from Saying Goodbye to My Maked Self, when Mafuyu's phone fell in her fishtank during a fight with her mother.

The throbber (loading wheel) on the screen is possibly a reference to the arc ender animation that plays after chapter 8 of the aforementioned event, which can be further backed up by the "Chasing your light, at 25:00" text that appears during that animation appearing in the 2DMV about 15 seconds after the phone is shown.

This part of the MV being underwater also connects to the Searching for a Reflection Beneath the Waters event, which introduced a lake to the Empty SEKAI.

The Heart in Water set from that event takes place underwater because of the new location, which in turn might be a nod to Mafuyu's trained Dive Into Me 4* fes card.

[memesmunsigra]

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[fant-asm4]

who do i complain to about the CR captions where they said that Dorian and Yasha were playing “Chopsticks” in the study of the tower when, in actuality, Robbie and Ashley were singing “Heart and Soul,” a completely different, yet equally obnoxious, rudimentary piano song

[crashing9against9the9walls]

Eurovision is becoming a fucking banana republic, y'all.

Joost got into a confrontation with the Israeli delegation

Said delegation is now harassing Marina Satti

Joost is nowhere to be found and wasn't in the rehearsal

Bambie and the rest of the Irish Delegation were crying after Genocide Barbie qualified

RAI is got in trouble with the EBU for leaking the televote earlier

Everyone is booing that place and Martin Osterdahl

Angelina Mango is singing Imagine

Everyone is on edge and is throwing jam sessions left and right

No one knows what's going on anymore, not even the press

ROTW votes are delayed

And now there's a possibility that Joost might get DQ, which is fucking unfair.

Everything is literally topsy-turvy now and it's fucking delicious, although a bit worrying. Seriously, a lot of these problems could have been avoided if that place have gotten the boot in the first place,

[heich0e]

gonna start reporting every sad gojo tiktok i'm forced to see on my fyp i can't do this anymore

[jaredsbf]

need band!au winchesters where they perform at bars for money and hunt after each show to continue the high

[faelapis]

another day passed, another day i contacted the EBU and SVT about banning israel from eurovision! i advice everyone else to do the same! please never give up, never stop protesting! <3

if all else fail, if you can, please show up in may to protest in malmö! lets ruin the contest as much as possible, because the EBU deserves it. if you can't fight with hope, fight with spite.

[darling-solaire]

[i-am-the-oyster]

It’s the apologetic tone for me

23 May 1967

BBC's director of sound broadcasting, Frank Gillard, informs EMI head Sir Joseph Lockwood that, with regard to "A Day in the Life,"

we cannot avoid coming to the conclusion that the words “I’d love to turn you on”, followed by that mounting montage of sound, could have a rather sinister meaning.

The BBC's ban was reportedly lifted in 1972, though whether they'd decided it was not sinister or that that was the point is unclear.