#cavetown offline

[w3ath3r-0f-sw34t3rz]

lyric of the day ˚♫⋆｡˚

"there's not much time to spare we're slowly sinking six feet underground but i am staying right here because i'm happiest with you around"

unpopular boy makes a friend cavetown

[trixiesye]

my sour boy is a pain i wanna shoot him in the brain but i'd miss him in the morning

[olliethealpha]

If you think these two songs are the same B-B-B-BLOCKED!

Long rant:

I promise I'm trying is like when everyone is expecting too much from you and you're trying your best but can't do it. You're trying to convince them you're trying your best but they expect more from you and now you feel bad but you have that one friend who actually cares.

Trying sounds like he's comforting a friend or partner who thinks like the first one. He's trying to tell them to calm down and he doesn't expect them to do any more than they can because he understands what it's like to be pressured with high expectations.

Sometimes I like to think he's comforting his past self with the newer cover. I like it and it's just so perfect. It's also the same way with dysphoric and how he made a cover of that a while ago. If you don't know about that, search dysphoric cavetown on tiktok.

I just really like how he covers his older songs, it's such an "it will get better" vibe.

It comforts me so much.

[teenytiny-ant]

it's not easy staying clean

Wouldn't it be nice to be evergreen?

it feels like I'm slipping behind a screen

of nightlights and suicidal tendencies

it's not easy feeling cold

like burning numb hands under a water stream

Wouldn't it be nice to be evergreen?

[ineffablehusbandsislife]

you know you’re deep in the cavetown obsession when you listen to both cavetown’s main title and cavetown offline 🙈

[dj-of-the-coven]

Thanks for asking @vivi-mire and @goldensunset! To answer your questions, I'll preface this by saying I don't actively seek out character playlists that often, but I like making them. Unfortunately this leads me down some dismal fucking roads while looking for other people's thoughts on the subject.

Possibly to the surprise of some, offline I am known mostly for 2 things: anarchy and music. Music is my life. I have one million other hobbies, and in online spaces I mostly talk about video games, but my true essence is music--particularly rock and punk. My collection spans over several mediums. I have a 2018 Victrola record player that I've repaired by hand, a 2004 CD-radio player, a 2021 cassette-CD-radio player, and a 2007 Insignia MP3 player. Most people around my age ditched CD players by the time they were in high school (no judgement there), but I used mine this morning. I have two books in my bag on cassettes right now. I play two string instruments and have considered picking up a third! I don't say any of this to brag--it's just what I choose to do with my time and money, same as anybody else. The reason why I bring it up is to emphasize that I both know and care a lot about this particular subject. And let me tell you. What I feel when I see the same 6 artists over and over again in every character playlist is not simple haterism... it's pity with a dose of concern.

What bothers me more than the music being ill-fitting for some fictional character is the tangible evidence that most people do not have the means to discover new artists; also, to some degree, the foreboding conclusion that we are losing a diversity of taste. There used to be magazines and independent radio shows, local performances, older kids in the neighborhood you could talk to to find new bands, but the rise of streaming as the primary distribution method has severely limited the ways through which interested parties can discover music. Ask someone you know how they discovered their favorite artists--for real!! Most of the time, they'll answer, TikTok, Youtube, or Spotify. Algorithms. Mathematical processes designed to funnel people into profitable avenues of advertising. These are the things determining the music taste of today's listeners, and it's powerful fucking stuff, to the point that even radio stations have been affected by the algorithms of these unrelated websites. When I was living in Los Angeles, I had to watch the station 106.7 KROQ slowly go from playing 90s grunge and nu metal to running the Arcane theme song by Imagine Dragons 27 times daily, because it was being played to market the show. Everything is morphing into profit sludge! An equation on somebody's computer somewhere determined that this specific pool of artists would be able to turn a bunch of queer 16-24 year olds into a marketable demographic, and thus Tumblr is overrun by the same 8 or so bands in every poll, every uquiz, every embedded spotify playlist. You guys ever heard of Hozier? I've been listening to a rad new artist lately, yeah! It's Cavetown. You should listen to Mitski! Did you hear about Mitski? I think you should listen to Mitski. What about Mitski guys. What about Mitski.

Again, it really doesn't have anything to do with the quality of any of these artists (except for Imagine Dragons, which I'll never hesitate to shit on). I just think it's... odd, and upsetting, that so many people are trapped inside this tiny little bubble of music that has been algorithmically determined for them as the genre they can be arbitrarily sorted into for marketing appeal reasons. It's like hearing someone say they've never seen it rain before. I discovered many of my current favorite artists by browsing through secondhand stores, talking to older punks in my community, renting CDs from the library, reading magazines (I recommend Razorcake), and going to local $5 cover shows held in the basement of a record shop. It physically pains me that this method of discovery is dying. It hurts to think of how few people are engaging seriously with the music scene in the places they live. It devastates me to see so many people being restricted by their circumstances from finding the music that will speak to them, specifically, not every single young, white, very online gay person living in the United States.

Basically--this is not okay. Something has to change.

[maddogmp3]

listen to these back to back and try not to cry challenge impossible

[mybedroomceilingsbored]

Robbie is FEEDING ME

omggg :)

[flower-fields-in-springtime]

why did nobody tell me about cavetown offline…

[taylorswiftshipsbyler]

I swear to god robbie has cameras in my house or something because I relate to like 90% of his songs. and like the first song from the new ep (from cavetown offline) is literally so???? like?????

[weird-arcanefangirl]

Hii :D

I saw you were listening to Cavetown offline...are you in Caveclub?? Or just found it lol?

I am!! Dm me I’ll tell u my discord :3

[w3ath3r-0f-sw34t3rz]

remember that time i chose a top ten for all of my favorite artists? no you don't but i'm gonna re-do it. and so

forcing myself to pick a top ten (in no particular order except for the top 3) for my favorite artists. why? because!

cavetown

this is home

boys will be bugs

it's u

devil town

pyjama pants

snake & the prairie dogs

smoke signals

a kind thing to do

pigeon

let them know they're on your mind

cavetown offline edition

rocket ships

rain

evergreen

alien waves

winter coat

thank you

petrify

ghost boys

vacation with the ghosts

candle

conan gray

alley rose

fight or flight

the exit

comfort crowd

winner

best friend

footnote

lonely dancers

heather

bourgeoisieses

chloe moriondo

take your time

waves

killbot!

cry

exhausted

hotel for clowns

plastic purse

cdbaby<3

slacker

hearteyes

taylor swift

you're on your own, kid

cardigan

who's afraid of little old me?

enchanted

don't blame me

you're losing me

new year's day

champagne problems

lover

cowboy like me

boywithuke

migraine

out of tune

bad things

zoning out

so cold

falling for you

kind of sick of life

bad luck

heart of ice

problematic

penelope scott

cigarette ahegao

gross

moonsickness

born2run

lotta true crime

rät

runaway

sin eater

lavender

shuffle

beabadoobee

take a bite

1999

bobby

the way things go

the way i spoke

talk

coming home

apple cider

coffee

this is how it went

melanie martinez

evil

field trip

nymphology

pacify her

drama club

teacher's pet

carousel

brain & heart

cry baby

glued

mother mother

the matrix

arms tonite

bit by bit

weep

legs away

wisdom

forgotten souls

oh ana

love and truth

until it doesn't hurt

olivia rodrigo

obsessed

deja vu

vampire

all-american bitch

lacy

ballad of a homeschooled girl

traitor

teenage dream

good 4 u

can't catch me now

phoebe bridgers

graceland too

the gold

i know the end

scott street

would you rather

funeral

chinese satellite

icu

motion sickness

demi moore

mitski

first love/late spring

texas reznikoff

my body's made of crushed little stars

bag of bones

geyser

francis forever

crack baby

a pearl

strawberry blond

washing machine heart

tv girl

the blonde

blue hair

better in the dark

taking what's not yours

loving machine

pretty boy

not allowed

it almost worked

louise

summer's over

alex g

i wait for you

16 mirrors

thorns

runner

break

early morning waiting

mis

treehouse

time/space

know now

the neighbourhood

sweater weather

you get me so high

ferrari

flawless

the shining

greetings from califournia

reflections

sadderdaze

lost in translation

softcore

lana del rey

happiness is a butterfly

fishtail

the greatest

music to watch boys to

chemtrails over the country club

not all who wander are lost

born to die

let the light in

say yes to heaven

west coast

beach bunny

good girls (don't get used)

vertigo

racetrack

deja vu

prom queen

scream

painkiller

rearview

blame game

ghost

arctic monkeys

r u mine?

why'd you only call me when you're high?

fluorescent adolescent

arabella

mardy bum

balaclava

the jeweller's hands

fireside

505

i wanna be yours

who is this for? me. thank you

[small-giggle]

i can't possibly listen to this and NOT think of u

OAKSOQBSPWNS WAIT ITS SUCH A GOOD SONG ANSKWNDOSNAOS

ILY POOKIE<33

[olliethealpha]

If you think these two songs are the same B-B-B-BLOCKED!

Long rant:

I promise I'm trying is like when everyone is expecting too much from you and you're trying your best but can't do it. You're trying to convince them you're trying your best but they expect more from you and now you feel bad but you have that one friend who actually cares.

Trying sounds like he's comforting a friend or partner who thinks like the first one. He's trying to tell them to calm down and he doesn't expect them to do any more than they can because he understands what it's like to be pressured with high expectations.

Sometimes I like to think he's comforting his past self with the newer cover. I like it and it's just so perfect. It's also the same way with dysphoric and how he made a cover of that a while ago. If you don't know about that, search dysphoric cavetown on tiktok.

I just really like how he covers his older songs, it's such an "it will get better" vibe.

It comforts me so much.

[becausewhatiam-iswhatimnot]

my url

[felix-lover-of-frogs]

really obsessed with this song right now