#because the lyrics are so vague??

[arabela25]

they're so fucking funny

[fansblogs]

just by doing what i’m able, with my elbows on the table.

"So many people write songs about horrible, horrible, horrible things. Famous people are always gonna be bad, and always gonna have supporters."

[juxtafruition]

BEFORE I PULL THIS TRIGGER, YOUR EYES VACANT AND STAINED

AND IN SAYING YOU LOVED ME MADE THINGS HARDER, AT BEST

[thecrowsart]

👁️🦎🎯

(crops under cut)

[sophaeros]

hi everyone did you know that um. 😊when julian went over to albert's house in 2013 to listen to st justice he asked if it was about him. 😊 yes the song that is a love song to albert's then-girlfriend justyna. haha. just letting you know 😊

albert hammond jr for the talk, 2013 (x)

[girlfailurefelix]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58669168

here’s that beckory fic btw! ao3 is back up so i posted this this morning. alternative timeline for the end of borrowed time cuz i felt bad for making a few of you upset, so tony lives/most of chapter 6 doesn’t happen au lol

[libraryspectre]

Copperhead Road is such a wild gem of a song and packs SO MUCH storytelling over three generations into four and a half minutes. Like it starts by establishing the perspective character's grandfather's moonshining business, and makes sure you know grandaddy killed a revenue man in the first section. Then in the second section it launches into how the main character's father died in the same line of work, while simultaneously fleshing out some details of this family operation. And in the third section, it takes a wild pivot to the main character's time in Vietnam and his marijuana-growing operation.

I think the real testament to the storytelling is how it pulls the strings together in the last verse. Without being told, you understand exactly what's going on in with this guy and how it relates to his family history. Just. Look at this.

The last and hardest-hitting lyrics, everything builds to this. The DEA chopper bringing up PTSD flashbacks is such a good detail that hammers home how the US government has ground this guy up in the war machine, and are now persecuting him for what he turned to when he had no other options. And then it invites you to think of this as a parallel to his grandaddy and the revenue man and it's like. Yeah that's where it started. This has been going on for generations. Grandaddy probably didn't have a lot of options either.

And then it implies he's rigged Copperhead Road with Vietcong-style booby traps ("Charlie" being a slang term for the Vietcong) which is an absolutely buckwild thing to include, and has the delicious twist that the government has made him a more dangerous enemy than his grandfather and father by sending him to war.

And that's not even getting into the music. This thing starts with a synth that sounds like bagpipes - which may sound like a weird choice, but there's a lot of Scottish ancestry where this takes place in Appalachia. And it's really attention grabbing. This song played at every dance I went to in high school and the sound of that synth was the signal for everyone to rush to the dancefloor. Then the synth stops and everything else kicks in - the beat is really driving and you get the sense that something is building and building as the story is told, until it takes off at the end of the second section. Everything stops for this DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN and then the energy kicks up, but the synth doesn't return until he starts singing the third section. It's just barely present until the last line up above, and then it kicks back in with the same repeating part it started the song with, now layered on top of all the other instruments and the collective effect is an adrenaline rush. Then the other instruments fade out and you're left with that repeating synth again, closing the song out.

Idk what to say, I'm not good at talking about music and I don't really have the vocabulary to do it justice. It's just a really good song.

[volivolition]

guy who's unaware he's gonna spend the next 3-5 hours reworking the lyrics of dream sweet in sea major: haha maybe i'll write a silly little narrative for my hmself, wouldn't that be fun? :)

[jimmythejiver]

Finding out that Gabor72 who was looking for "Just A Game" died before he could know the song, it makes me that more determined to find the song I've been looking for on and off since I was six or seven years old.

[afantasyoffiction]

this is a PSA for people who want writing music recs, are obsessed with greek mythology, are sad and angsty, or just like music that ticks off all of the above:

go listen to vincent lima. go do it right now. right now right now. he popped up on one of those funky spotify algorithm playlists for me as a 'more like' for hozier, noah kahan and epic and like ooohhhh boy. oooohhhh BOY hes fucking phenomenal

go listen i swear you will not regret it

[whatudottu]

Scalding hot take probably only I agree with: “Ancient Aliens” by Lemon Demon is such a Ben 10 Cinematic Universe coded song

If this were an elaborate scheme to get me to listen to a song at random this is how you’d do it, link it back to Ben 10 (or some other on of my fixations, thank you NSR fandom for TheFatRat’s Electrified), though it might be my headache or my dislike of songs that are glorified broken records but I… :P don’t like Ancient Aliens (fitting for my loathing of the conspiracy itself). Either way though I do see the vibes in the lyrics, probably my preferred Ben 10 x Ancient Aliens combo, at least it doesn’t try to claim the work of ancient Egyptians were the work of tetramands only call THAT fake by sourcing it to the bumbling of the galvan duo Blukic and Driba-

Sorry, got sidetracked :P

Your ask reminded me of a song that I’d often connect to Ben 10 - Alien Boy by Oliver Tree, if you’ll allow me to exchange songs with you - and the lyrics always made me think specifically about omnivoracious, but “I’m an alien among the human beings” stood out to me. I don’t know where that ranks on the take scale nor if it makes the song any good (roast me, it’s only fair for what I’ve said), but the power of ‘making everything about the character’ has lead me to wilder journeys that i can’t remember woops eto bleh

[thelingering]

brain tired from Latin so have an appreciation post for humanity

[pwurrz]

listen i know writing in the wall is a picture perfect kaveh song but. but-

it’s also a yakumo song if you think about it. like really think about it. and squint a little bit.

[mariana-oconnor]

The thing I find most amusing about that AO3 summaries post I made - apart from the fact that apparently by attempting to do observational comedy, I somehow managed to create a writing guide - is the way every few days I get someone reblogging it saying 'I absolutely will not read X, don't do it, it's terrible,' and so far X has been pretty much every single item on the list.

The lesson we must learn is that everything is hated by someone. There is no perfect summary, literally anything you write is going to put someone off. Is that liberating or does it make things worse?

[godlesscity]

i think watching goodbye stranger changed me as a person

[lunarscaled]

He heard the word "birthday" and now he's here for cake.

"Huh? Whose birthday do you think it is? It's not mine."

-> They were pretty sure it wasn't Tesla's birthday either, at least not that they knew, but even if it was it's not like they're opening the door for some guy they've never met ( though they can surmise by the open door across the way that he is a neighbor, and if someone was talking about a birthday it was probably them about someone in their class who they have already forgotten. either way, they're cakeless, so this guy is out of luck. ) Their foot jammed into the frame is the only thing keeping the door open as they eye him through a squint, mouth a flat line; they hadn't even had much of a chance to get past changing into their house slippers and taking off their backpack before they heard the rattling of the door.

"If you want a cake, go buy some. Weirdo."