#hyde's new song got me thinking about the mars red track he did and like

[crehador]

now this one is easy. brother crab's number one ending of summer 2024:

there is absolutely noooooo contest. if i had to rank ops and eds together, man. i dunno. kamakura style might be able to take on the demons op (but idk it'd be really close)

this is just such a good track. i feel like it's only a matter of time before botchiboromaru gets yoinked to make a track for hpmi (manifesting)

2. unchain x unchain (tasogare outfocus)

no one is more surprised than me that i'm ranking this one so high (above demons ed) but it is honestly just. holy shit

first of all the fact that the yaoi of the season has yuri in the official mv of its ed is just so blessed to me. love and peace on planet earth

secondly this guy's voice is insane. i thought he was a girl named amber and was like "oooooh gender" when i first watched the mv, then i read about the band and was like "oh shit?!" then right back to "oooooh gender"

banging song, banging lyrics. linking the mv because it's just that worth watching

3. zezezezettai seiiki (dead dead demons dededede destruction)

and of course one of the demons eds does at least make the top 3

honestly both of the demons eds could be on this list but i'll limit myself to one. linking the full mv again because it's just so perfect. ano and lilas ikuta is a duo for the ages fr

[p4nkow]

Happier - part V

I know things are evolving very slowly but I promise next part is gonna be worth the wait ☕️

I always have so much fun writing the scenes with the boys so I hope you enjoy as much as I did. It can also be read as Ben!Roger and please let me know what you think! My dms and inbox are always open 

Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV

Summary: you work as an assistant at EMI and you meet Roger while organising Queen’s gig at Hyde Park. lots of fluff but then, after months of relationship, Roger admits something that breaks your heart and the two of you break up. You try to move on and so does he, but after two months of being apart you meet at a pub and you both have a date. What will happen? But most importantly, will you and Roger fall in love again after being forced to see each other everyday?

“It might be useful” Brian said while giving a look at the recording studio.

You‘d been in Montreux for two days by now. The flight had seemed endless and you spent most of it trying to plan the upcoming tour; Freddie had helped you out with it, even though there still were a lot of things to take care of.

And then there was also the album release party to plan, which according to Freddie would have been the most outrageous party ever. And that terrified you.

You narrowed your brows by looking closely at the building— it was a pretty different place compared to the Rockfield Studios. Modern, even.

“What for?”

He shrugged and the gentle breeze led some strikes of his curly hair in front of his face. “Maybe we won’t argue a lot here. Y’know, being far from home and all that stuff.”

You sighed as you thought that it was a pretty impossible thing to happen and you followed him inside the studios.

The rest of boys were already there, chatting close to the recording room. RT, who was now a friend of the band rather than their producer, was busy with the sound board but you were pretty sure he was just trying to ignore them. Veronica was nowhere to be seen and you already missed her.

“Oh great, you finally remembered we’re here to record an album.” Roger didn’t miss the chance to snide remarks to Brian, who answered by giving him a death stare.

You couldn’t help but think that Roger had broken up with Nicole, but why? He seemed happy with her.

“Y/N, darling, don’t you think it might be easier for us to record Don’t stop me now first? Brian’s booty song—”

Brian rolled his eyes at Freddie’s words. “Fat bottomed girls.”

“Yeah, that one might take us a little longer.”

John gave him an annoyed look. “Says the one who wants a section of his bicycles song to be composed only by the sound of bicycle bells.���

“From what I’ve heard during rehearsals Don’t stop me now might be the best choice as first piece to record, yeah.” You said by agreeing with Freddie and John nodded at you.

You felt Roger’s gaze on you but as soon as you looked back at him he looked away. You raised your brows and took a deep sigh, looking around you in order to try to find something to do.

“RT, we’ve got our song!” Freddie announced to the producer, who nodded at his words.

“‘kay, let’s start with the basic track then. Y/N, I might need some help. Take a seat here” He nodded towards a stool next to him and you quickly sat down, excited that you might be useful in the whole process.

As everyone entered the recording room you heard Freddie say “I’ve spotted a pub down the road, seems very lovely. Anyone in for a quick stop by later?”

“Don’t count on me” John quickly replied and you weren’t surprised by his words. With Veronica here in Montreux there was no way he’d leave her side.

Freddie nodded and gave Brian and Roger a questioning look. “Yeah, why not” Brian said as he put his Red Special on his shoulder.

Roger took his seat behind the drums and looked at you. He shrugged as to answer Freddie’s question and said “I think I’ll pass.”

You raised your brows in disbelief and so did Freddie. “That’s a news.”

“I’m just not up for a party tonight.” Roger twirled his drumstick and put his headphones on, sign that the conversation was over.

“Ah, heartbreaks” Freddie murmured while giving a look at the lyric of the song and you quickly looked away.

You felt like a knot on your throat— did he feel the same way when he broke up with you?

Freddie’s voice brought you back to reality. “Why can’t it be Mercury?”

Brian narrowed his eyes at Freddie’s question. “What?”

“The line I’m a rocketship on my way to Mars. Why Mars in particular?”

John chuckled at his words but he didn’t intervene, leaving the spat to be just between the two of them. Roger sighed and rolled his eyes.

“And how exactly are you gonna sing ‘I’m a rocketship on my way to Mercury’?”

Freddie ignored his sceptical tone and started to sing “I’m a rocketship ’mma-way-t’Mercureh.”

Roger chuckled and rubbed his eyes, desperately trying not to intervene in that conversation. He exchanged a stare with John and they were both trying not to burst into laughter.

Brian seemed shocked by Freddie’s proposal. “Well, of course it fits like that! You ate half of the words!”

“But it sounds good!”

RT rolled his eyes a sighed, causing you to giggle. He pressed the button to communicate with the recording room and said “Alright boys, can we start with the real work?”

Then he turned towards you and said “I have the feeling these are going to be long, endless months.” And deep down you knew he was right.

The four of them started to play the basic track and you couldn’t help but smile. You loved seeing them in action, it was part of the magic.

Right after the recording of the basic track it was Roger’s turn, so everyone else left the recording room.

“Could you bring this to him?” RT asked you, extending you a metronome. You nodded and passing by the boys who were still discussing about which planet fitted better in the lyric you entered the room.

Roger raised his gaze to you and you shyly smiled at him, nodding towards the object. “RT said you needed this.”

He took his sunglasses off and you were more than happy to meet his blue eyes. “Oh, yeah thanks. You can drop it here.”

You nodded and before leaving the room you asked him “D’ya need something else?”

Roger answered only after a few seconds. “A good luck kiss?”

You parted your lips in disbelief and you patted him on the shoulder, causing him to chuckle. “Don’t even start, Roger.”

“I had to give it a shot.”

You shook your head and you walked out under his amused look.

The drums recording was always the longest part, not because it was a tricky one but because Freddie liked to try different things.

“Why don’t you try to do something like duh, duh, du-du-du-duh tsh!”

You let out a small laugh by noticing Roger’s confused face and RT gave you an amused look.

“Wow, that was a really technical explanation” John commented and Freddie immediately replied “Oh, shut up. Roger what do you think?”

The latter narrowed his brows and cleared his throat. “Duh, duh, du-du-du-duh tsh, I could do it, yeah.”

“He’s just making things up” Brian murmured, lifting his gaze from his Red Special. Freddie simply ignored him and exchanged a knowing look with Roger, who started to play again.

Freddie’s smile grew wider as he heard Roger getting his suggestions right, turning towards you and clapping his hands in excitement. “Don’t you think it’s beautiful, darling?”

“Oh yes, it really is. Roger’s good.” There was no need to lie— Roger was the best.

He took off his headphones as soon as he finished recording that part. “Was that what you had in mind, Fred?”

“Even more beautiful! Simply awesome, our dear Y/N adores it.” Freddie quickly glanced at you and Roger’s gaze immediately moved on you. He raised a brow and asked “You do?”

“Press the button” RT murmured and you followed his advice before replying “Of course I do, I love it.”

And Roger’s smile widened as he simply nodded, putting on his headphones again in order to keep going with the recording.

And that’s basically what you did all morning— Roger tried to keep up with Freddie’s suggestions while Brian and John tried to refine the tune sat in the corner of the room. You did nothing but press buttons every now and then when RT told you to do so, but you actually enjoyed mornings like these. You loved seeing Roger being so focused in his music, even though in the past it had been one of the subjects for your fights.

Veronica joined you for lunch and you ended up sitting next to her and right in front of Roger. You tried to avoid his gaze as much as you could while waiting for food but he wasn’t even trying to pretend he wasn’t staring.

“And how’s Noah, Y/N? EMI is going hard on him?” Freddie asked you as he took a sip of his drink.

You cleared your throat before answering “He’s good, but he’s always at work. And now that he has to take care of Ringo too I can’t imagine how he’s doing.”

“You dropped Ringo at Noah’s?” Roger immediately asked.

You raised your brows at his question. “Of course I did.”

“Couldn’t one of the girls have kept him?” You were confused by his behaviour. You met his gaze even though he was wearing shades— the brown ones, your favorite.

“Roger, you know Mary’s allergic to dog hair and Chrissie went back home to visit her family.”

“Yeah, right” He murmured and a weird silence fell over the table, until Brian said “I remember when Roger gave it to you.”

“Yeah, he did nothing but talk about that dog for weeks” Freddie backed him and you could feel your cheeks become rosy.

“But the name? Who would name a dog Ringo?” Veronica didn’t miss the chance to hold your dog’s name against you.

When you met Roger’s gaze he was already looking at you with a little smile. “We chose it together.”

“That’s why it sucks” John replied but you knew he was joking.

“What’s wrong with Ringo?”

“He’s a drummer, for starters.”

Roger gave Brian the finger and said “Fuck off.”

“Oy but do you remember that time we caught them making out in the dressing room?”

“Which one? ‘Cause it happened all the time” Freddie replied to Brian’s question and you fixed your gaze on your glass, blushing at the memory.

You heard a tap to your foot under the table and you raised your gaze to meet Roger’s. He had taken off his shades and his blue eyes were fixed on yours.

“I’m sorry” He mouthed and he was about to add more when the waitress arrived with your orders. You shrugged as you let the subject drop.

You were chitchatting while enjoying your meal when Veronica cleared her throat and said “Now that we’re all here...”

John looked at her with the biggest smile and his eyes were the eyes of love. “Yes, we wanted to ask you something” He said by continuing Ronnie’s sentence.

“Y/N” She said and you turned towards here, not having the smallest idea of what she might have asked you.

“Hm?”

“Y’know you’re my best friend, right? Even if I don’t like your dog’s name?”

You chuckled at her words and nodded, so she went on by saying “That’s why I couldn’t think of a better person to be our baby’s godmother.”

“Oh my—” You said as you tried to find the right words to give her an answer. “Oh my God, yes! Yes, of course. I love you, both of you. You too, little peanut” You babbled, standing up in order to hug her and John.

“That’s so sweet” You heard Freddie murmur and you met his gaze, giving him the biggest of the smiles.

As you rubbed Veronica’s belly with glossy eyes, John kept going. “Well we also need a godfather” John said in an amused tone, looking at everyone. “And as much as I love all of you guys, even though I have this thing to strangle you almost every day, my choice could not but be Roger. I promised you that, remember?”

“Yeah, buddy” He replied but you could tell by his tone that he was emotional just as much as you. He stood up too and hugged John, so everyone congratulated with the soon-to-be parents and you and Roger, the godparents.

Right after hugging back Brian, you turned towards Roger. He was looking at you with the biggest smile and without thinking twice you threw your arms around his neck. You were too happy to let the rift between you two ruin that moment.

He seemed taken aback at first but then he immediately hugged you back, surrounding you with his arm. It felt like you were able to breathe again after months.

He buried his face in your neck and you smiled— it felt so familiar to you, so right. “You’re gonna be the best godmother that baby could wish for” He whispered in your ear and you backed away in order to meet his gaze.

You gave him a big, genuine smile and thanked him in a whisper. That one would have been another adventure you had to share with Roger.

-

That night felt so lonely. You had called Noah to make sure he was okay and Ringo wasn’t causing any troubles, but soon enough you had to put the phone down. He had to go back to work.

Now you were laying in your bed staring at the ceiling and that was pretty much what you did for most of the evening.

You couldn’t go bother Veronica and John, you had no wish to be the odd man out.

You couldn’t bother Freddie and Brian either, eventually they went to that pub down the road and you didn’t really wanted to think—nor know— what they were doing.

There was Roger left, but you didn’t know if it was a good idea. Things seemed quiet between the two of you but you couldn’t just ignore the fact that he was your ex. And you were seeing another man.

You sighed as you let your mind be filled with these thoughts, rolling over the bed.

But there wouldn’t have been no harm in being friends, right? He was the one who proposed it first and now it didn’t seem such a bad idea. Moreover, you were going to be Michael’s godparents and you had to be on good terms to do so.

Without thinking about it twice you quickly got up of the bed. You remembered seeing a bottle of bobbly in your minibar so you took it alongside with two glasses.

You left your room and in there you abandoned your concerns.

It didn’t take you long to find Roger’s room but it did take you some time to summon up the courage and knock on his door.

You had no idea how things were going to develop from this moment on but by now the damage was done. You took a deep breath before raising your hand and firmly knock on the door, waiting for him to open it.

It took just a few seconds for you to hear steps behind the door and your heart beat fast when you heard the lock snap.

Roger seemed shocked to see you there, in front of his room, with a bottle of champagne and two glasses. He raised his brows in surprise but right after a little grin appeared on his face. Maybe this wasn’t a good idea, after all.

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[mermaidinstereo]

LIST: 10 of My Favorite Dark Music Videos

What you probably couldn't tell from my ongoing Christina Aguilera project is that I love dark shit. No, you probably won't find me at the local goth club nights (in suburban Florida, we don't have those), or crying to Sisters of Mercy, or blowing an entire week's paycheck at M.A.C. just for eyeliner (because ya girl is broke). Still, I enjoy a good vampire flick (and a lot of bad ones), prefer to rock a good dark lip, and one time blew $50 at Hot Topic on a coat that makes me feel like a tragic Edgar Allan Poe heroine. I guess you could say I'm barely a low-budget goth, but that's okay. That's just my vibe, I guess.

So today, I thought I'd count down 10 of my favorite music videos, that are all at once super totally goth and not at all. In no particular order, of course. (Because of Tumblr’s rules, I can’t embed more than five videos at once. So I’ll link to the bottom five, and embed the top five.)

10. "Mine" - Kim Jae Joong If the former TVXQ member was looking to make a name for himself, other than being just a K-pop prettyboy, well, he did it right. He was already a bankable actor, racking up views on both the big and small screens. And even after departing from TVXQ, with fellow ex-members Park Yoochun and Kim Junsu, formed the group JYJ, also successful in their own right. However, Jaejoong was not content with staying the course of K-pop typicality. In response, Jaejoong tapped into his inner rocker, unleashing "Mine," off his first solo mini album I. In this video, he runs through dark forests, plays with snakes, and struggles to break free from a wall, before appearing at the end of the video as a vampire that looks straight out of a J-rock band. One can only argue that this is Jaejoong's final form. Or is it?

9. "Hyde" - VIXX While VIXX started playing with darkness in "On and On," it was "Hyde" where they really hit their stride. Telling the story of a man struggling with a Jekyll-and-Hyde-esque duality in a relationship, images of the band's six members are juxtaposed--wearing white as cute, loving, boyfriend material, and black as horrifying, nightmarish, even abusive monsters. I gotta give an award to Leo for looking a little too into it when he strangles his lovely lady, shortly before black angel wings burst from his back. Dude is scary. And so is the setting of this video! It appears to be a vaguely decrepit mansion crawling with macabre decor...and some classic creepy crawlies. It's no wonder VIXX are pegged for K-pop's go-to goths. (For more creepy craziness from VIXX, there are a lot of videos to choose from, but perhaps nothing is more terrifying than “Voodoo Doll,” a video so gory it was banned from TV! Don’t worry, though--there is a clean version.)

8. "Election Day" - Arcadia When Duran Duran temporarily split in 1985, they birthed two side projects. On one side, the pop-friendly Power Station, led by powerhouse vocalist Robert Palmer, along with drummer Tony Thompson of Chic, and Duran's own John and Andy Taylor. Then there was Arcadia, the artsier goth-influenced group, comprised of Nick Rhodes, Simon Le Bon, and for a short period, Roger Taylor. In this video, Le Bon just looks like he got a nice dark dye job, but it's Nick Rhodes who got the full goth makeover, because of course Nick Rhodes did. I'm not exactly sure what's even happening in this video--leave that to anything Simon Le Bon did in the 80s--but the image of Nick Rhodes dancing around with a candelabra is pretty goth, if I do say so myself. Also, it's just a damn good song. And album.

7. "Married to the Music" - SHINee As K-pop acts go, SHINee have not always been the group that goes with the flow. Instead of ripping off T-shirts in music videos, they play with unusual concepts, sometimes freaky ones. Among those was 2015's "Married to the Music." While not exactly elegant, "Married" boasted a quirky, camp-horror concept, inspired equally by Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Michael Jackson's "Thriller." In the video, the five members visit a wacky house party in which, throughout the night, they find themselves having various body parts removed in bizarre methods. Key gets his head hacked off while spinning on a giant roulette wheel. Taemin's eyes pop out when he gets smacked in the back of the head by a baseball bat. A phantom hand in the sink rips off Onew's nose. Jonghyun's mouth comes off after some kind of kiss of death. Then, Minho's entire body is sacrificed in a birthday cake incident gone wrong. All this culminates at the end, where our mystery woman uses the discarded parts to build the perfect FrankenSHINee. Like Mary Shelley, but with more BB cream and an Off the Wall beat.

6. "Beast and the Harlot" - Avenged Sevenfold Unlike SHINee, A7X have always toyed with the darkness, but in a similar manner, do it their own way. This cut from 2005's City of Evil is actually a track describing the fall of Babylon, in incredible detail. The video, however, tells of a Faustian tale, through a lens of rock 'n roll excess. A visually striking video, and I'm not just talking about Zacky Vengeance's eyeshadow. Careful what y'all are getting into when signing contracts, guys.

5. "Call Me When You're Sober" - Evanescence I could list nearly any Evanescence video, really. In fact, I kind of owe a lot to Evanescence, since they kind of helped me discover my artistic identity a bit. That said, I picked this cut from 2006's The Open Door. In it, Amy plays Red Riding Hood, on a pretty bad date with the Big Bad Wolf, played by dashing British actor Oliver Goodwill. He cuddles up to the plaid-clad Amy, who is clearly uncomfortable with his advances. Somewhere there is an awesome scene with Amy surrounded by black-clad dancers as they float above the ground, and this is honestly the coolest thing I've seen in an Evanescence video (though, truthfully, "Good Enough" was pretty cool, too). But nothing tops Amy walking toward her douchey wolf--across the table, as dining utensils go flying off the table. Very Once Upon a Time. Regina would be proud.

4. "Out of My Mind" - Duran Duran

This is an obscure cut from their 1997 album Medazzaland, a period in which the beloved New Romantics got suuuuuper experimental. It's hard to find this video in HD on YouTube, so you kinda take what you get. The then-trio of Rhodes/Le Bon/Warren Cuccurullo traipse around a creepy house, are sometimes ghosts haunting a library, or sometimes--in the case of Rhodes--are Rococo gothic drag queens. Also, Simon rocks a choker at some point. Totes 90s. Also, the setting and cinematography recall Marilyn Manson's "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)." Hey, wasn't that by an 80s band, too?

3. "Frozen" - Madonna

I was maybe around seven or eight when Ray of Light was released. Maybe. But I vividly remember seeing this video on VH1 when my mom left it on. I was freaked out by it at the time, but of course, I was a child, of course I would be. A solitary, black-clad Madge dances around a barren wasteland, cuddling nothing but her flowing gown as ravens surround her. I think she was playing with Indian motifs at the time, considering her hand gestures and tattoos (also, Ray of Light boasted "Shanti/Ashtangi," never forget). This was probably the beginning of the Kabbalah thing, too, but it wasn't quite as big a story as it would become years later.

2. "Within Me" - Lacuna Coil

I'd be betraying myself if I didn't include a Lacuna Coil video in all this, another group that, with Evanescence, led me down an aesthetically dark path. A mellower cut from 2006's Karmacode has vocalists Andrea Ferro and Cristina Scabbia at odds, with Andrea sitting lonely in some kind of elaborate chair or throne, as Cristina crawls the desert, producing these creepy black tendrils for some reason. It's just a pretty video and song.

1. "Sayonara Hitori" - Taemin

For his first Japanese solo single, SHINee's Taemin pulled out all the stops. None of the cutesy image that was cultivated during SHINee's early period, instead, Taemin fully embraced his darkness, portraying several different characters. The first looks like he walked out of Inuyasha, dancing around a piano (no, I don't know why either) as blue flowers grow around him. The next scene finds him clad in the edgiest black garb possible as samurai spar behind him. Perhaps the most goth thing, however, is Taemin laying in a black coffin as very fabulous mourners lay blue flowers down. Not bad for a kid who somehow loses nearly everything he touches. Gotta keep it relatable. Of course, I subscribe to the belief that Taemin couldn’t have gothed it up without Jaejoong paving the way. 

Now, a few honorable mentions. Okay, a lot of honorable mentions:

Stone Temple Pilots, "Sour Girl"

Sunmi, "Full Moon"

4Minute, "Volume Up"

XIA, "Tarantallegra"

Rihanna, "Disturbia"

Taeyang, "I'll Be There"

Depeche Mode, "Walk in My Shoes"

30 Seconds to Mars, "The Kill"

Christina Aguilera, "Fighter" (I wanted to save this for the Xtina project, whenever I manage to get to this video)

Keane, "Disconnected"

FT Island, “Pray”

INFINITE, “Bad”

2NE1, “It Hurts (Slow)”