#fun fact i have a whole brain amv for the song the lyrics are from for this guy. oops

[artuurle]

I find I'm still stuck in place after so long.

[megamuscle885-blog]

TW: Suicide mention. Worm Spoilers.

Reprising my Neil Cicierega post from before about how "Mullet with Butterfly Wings" is a skitter/scurry/chitter song.

Crocodile Chop is a Gold Morning song. The lyrics are all very slurred and drunken. She's lurching around. Amy's hands on her as she "Wake(s) up!". "Why'd you leave the keys on the table?" Who's just leaving Amy alone with Taylor. They had to know she was going to do something drastic. Lisa should've, and that's the tragedy isn't it? "Here you go and create another fable." The myth, making Taylor into a weapon. Maybe I'm reading a little too much into it, but this is supposed to be a fun little post anyway, it's not too serious.

Except "I don't think you trust in my self-righteous suicide." is just a dead on, straight between the eyes, punch to the forehead shining example of Taylor Hebert's character in this moment.

The scream for Fathers feels a little bit like Taylor's frustrations with Danny, and maybe a little bit of QA (who is currently in the driver's seat) might be feeling a little forsaken by her father Scion herself in this moment? "Father into your hands I commend my spirit." and the whole section there, is SOAD directly lifting words from Jesus' crucifixion. This one's not a particularly deep take from me, but you can see Jesus' crucifixion as a kind of self-righteous suicide, huh? And Taylor is also putting herself on the line, as usual, and sacrificing any other kind of future she may have had for herself in favor of the greater good, and the unity of humanity. It's a consistent, doomed worldview she's held ever since "Cut Ties, I'm Sorry." entered the picture. She put the Undersiders aside. She spent more time with the Chicago Wards than them, and her time with them wasn't even worth mentioning in the text. She sets them aside too. She trains Golem because they have a shared enemy, but there's nothing else there. There can be nothing else there when she has to go die on the cross, unknowingly, but still. The Simurgh, Contessa and Dinah all conspiring to put her in the right place at the right time.

My read of SOAD's lyrics seem focused on the 'right to die', about how nobody truly deserves to die, but we all will die, but there are some people who are condemned regardless of their circumstances for the method of their death. Serj Tankian brings up his potential for dying in a drug overdose as his example of someone dying in a shameful way, and therefore 'deserving' to die. (This is just me paraphrasing the wikipedia entry I'm not uncovering new ground here lol). There's also the very literal Angel-like being hovering over the battlefield to consider.

Choosing how you go out is more than some people get. Except Taylor doesn't get to choose how she goes out in the end, does she? Taylor doesn't really have a choice here. The Simurgh chooses. Dinah chooses. Contessa chooses. That little static burst as the song fades out to "Transmission" (a little bit where a numbers radio is played interspersed with the introductory rift from David Bowie's Space Oddity) sounds like her turning her head to see Contessa sitting there with her gun in her hand.

All of this is set to Elton John's Crocodile Rock, which I haven't really listened to enough to have thoughts on it. I don't really have any deep takes on his side of the mashup, other than the fact that the piano and Serj's "Die" is pitch shifted to Elton's "laa, la-la-la-la-laa" making it very unsettling.

I've been listening to too much of Neil's music while driving to work and it's starting to mix together with all of the other brain worms, creating intricate mental AMVs, and it shows.

[lacyberpatate]

4 and 7 for the music ask game?

Hiii :D Thank you for the ask :D

4. A song you'd put on a playlist for a character

God I've already answered twice on this one but fear not, I have more songs :D ( here and here)

Although I really enjoy the idea of Kallus singing some Sabrina Carpenter under his fresher, I think the man is still realistically speaking a killing machine. I think post Barhyn would be really hard for him because he's questioning everything and even more himself. More than liking the song, I think Kallus would be capable or writing tortured poetry that would look something like Linkin Park with a preference for From The Inside because the lyrics really match well. Though Leave out all the Rest is also a really good one for post Through Imperial Eyes.

I actually have a whole WIP folder with all chapters based on Linkin Park songs :D I don't think it will ever see the light of day but I had a cathartic time writing those whilst listening to Meteoria :)

For once, a song that makes me think of Kalluzeb is Ma meilleure Ennemie from Stromae and Pomme. I didn't watch Arcane but I listen to a lot of Pomme (lesbian icon :D) and sometime to Stromae so it ended up in my playlist :) I don't see them liking this song but it has potential for old AMV style video montage of them ahah

7. A song you know every word to

Oh boy (gender neutral)... Fun fact, my brain is weird and will store useless knowledge like songs lyrics or poems I read once. As such, there's quite a lot of songs that comes to my mind but I guess I should really say Tryo - Mamagubida, yes it's an album :D I might be able to sing the whole thing, all the weird sounds included in one go if you ask me to start xD

Thank you again :D Hope you have a lovely day!!