#i didnt know if this was top 10 albums of all time or just 10 albums that are my favorites in some capacity so i kinda split the difference

[ambienthousewife]

tagged by @xltl for 10 favorite albums/10 mutuals (in no particular order)

burial - untrue

dj shadow - entroducing

frank ocean - blonde

radiohead - kid a

dj sprinkles - midtown 120 blues

slowdive - souvlaki

playboi carti - die lit

todd edwards - prima edizione

nick drake - pink moon

solange - when i get home

tagging @deirdreskye @dilleater @august-sysex @nid0 @pam3s @preesistersswallowingadonkeyseye @gnostic-coffee @ape-of-naples @divafit @pugetsounds (it is ok if you decide not to do it)

[whiskeyswifty]

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[lily-blue-blue-lily]

im only a very casual taylor swift fan (everything i know about her comes from people i follow on here who happen to like her) but i found out that she performed getaway car with jack antonoff the other night, and lemme tell you, i would genuinely sell my soul for that

[landososcar]

so high school ; JB5

pairing(s) ; jude bellingham x singer!reader , jude bellingham x student!reader

summary ; twitters favourite new(ish) artist drops her new album right during her school year.

warnings ; nothinggggg & mainly just fluff bc i love happy people

note ; SORRY ITS SHORT AHHAHA, i��ll post a new lando fic soon i just have no inspiration… ignore any dates that are wrong or don’t match - im lazy. also this is VERYYYY LOOSLY based off so high school lol (it’s mainly the aristotle line)

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youruser surprise !!!!! as an end of term present (for myself🤭🥳) and in honour of knowing the loml for 15 years, here’s 15 new songs for you guys to (hopefully) enjoy 😊 noah, thank you for trusting me and letting me join you on what might be one of my favourite songs ever!! i loveeee youuuu. && to my jude<3 thank you for inspiring me every single day of our lives. i love you bigger than the whole sky 🩵🩵 (guys he’s actually v v talented and he helped me write scared of my guitar, hard to sleep, and feels like) j, you are my safe place and these songs — especially the ones i haven’t let you hear yet — are for you.

ps guys idk how to only write happy songs but jude is the only one who makes me feel safe enough to express my emotions through my songs 😁 i looooovvveee him and am NOT 🙅‍♀️ breaking up with him. he is stuck with me forever💞

‘the alchemy’ is YOURS tonight at midnight 💓

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user1 WHAT

user2 YOU CANT JUST DROP THIS ON US WTF

oliviarodrigo my girl💞💞 i’m so so soooo excited😭

user3 GIRL I KNOW YOU DIDNT JUST CALL THE ALBUM ‘the alchemy’ FOR NO REASON. WHERE TF IS THE TITLE TRACK I KNOW YOUVE GOT HER SOMEWHERE

youruser jude and i love the alchemy the most out of all the songs and wanna keep her just ours for a little bit longer but maybe if you guys enjoy these songs i’ll let you have my baby

user4 YNAJDKJSKDKDIS

user5 WHATTTT songs did she not let jude hear omfg i need to know

youruser he’s heard them all except for daylight, paper rings & so high school lollll

judebellingham refreshing my spotify every minute til midnight you guys don’t understand she’s kept these songs in a VAULT

user6 jude i know you love spotify but apple music get new music 10 minutes early xxx

judebellingham just made an apple music account

user7 TEN MINS TIL THE ALBUM OF THE YEAR DROPS

taylorswift so so proud of you beautiful 🩷🩷

judebellingham I LOVE YOU SO FUCKING MUCH

judebellingham putting ALLLL of these on the pre-game playlist

youruser babe idk if some of these will pump you up before a game

judebellingham hearing your voice will pump me up idc how sad the song is xx

user8 why’s no one talking about how she’s in UNIVERSITY and dropped a FIFTEEN song album like …??? she’s INSANE. WHERE did she find the TIMEEE

user9 not to mention she lives with him in madrid and does school online coz her uni is in the uk

user10 she’s insane i don’t understand how😭😭

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youruser just posted to their close friends story.

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youruser surprised my fav person in the uk for his england game and he scored for me 😆🩵🩵

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user1 she wrote “you know how to ball” and he said “yeah” then scored a goal and did a celebration for her😭

user2 zoom in on pic 6 and you’ll see me laying on the road waiting to be run over

judbellingham ‘unemployed girlfriend’ but you’re the greatest singer on earth while also doing online uni full time and you still make time to be able to come see me

youruser it’s coz i love you so so bad

jobebellingham you make me sick

youruser i love u too jobeyyyyyy

england our favourite visitor💙💙

user3 how does she do all this whilst going to uni😭😭😭

oliviarodrigo 💖💖💖

judebellingham I LOVVVEEEE YOUUUUU

user4 i NEED the top in pic 8 where is it from

youruser i found it on depop and HAD to buy it😭😭 i think someone made it x

chappellroan HOTTTTT (you not ur bf)

youruser I WOULD DIE FOR YOU MY WIFE💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓

user5 i don’t understand how you write sad songs like the ones on your album if ur ‘in love with jude’

user6 jude deserves better than someone who’s so caught up on and still writes songs about her exes

user7 WHYS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THE LYRICS SHE POSTED ON TWITTER IM GOJNG INSANE

user8 LITERALLY?/!;!!/;@:8@ LIKE ??????? “WHERES THE TROPHY? HE JUST COMES RUNNING OVER TO ME” IS SO JUDE CODED WHEN Y/N IS AT LITERALLY ANY OF HIS GAMES

user7 EXACTLYYYYY HE ALWAYSSS RUNS TO HER IMMEDIATELY AFTER HES ALLOWED TO DO HIS OWN THING. ITS FUCKING ADORABLE

user8 IM SO GLAD SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS ME

user7 were both insane let’s get married

user8 dm me right now wife

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youruser lol little life update coz i’ve been m.i.a. for the last almost two months. 1: i went blonde again. 2: my man still as fine as ever. 3: got engaged or whatever lol. 4: slaying up exams. 5: i miss tour so i decided imma come back and see you all soon 🤭🤭 tour dates soon <3

ps in honour of becoming fiance or whatever🤗 the alchemy and 4 other songs are yours on the deluxe version of ‘the alchemy’ ,, out tonight !!!

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user1 WHAT THE FUCK

user2 GIRL LET US BREATHE

harrykane juudddeeeeee!!! congrats🥳❤️

declanrice mr bellingham that is a ROCK

user3 SHE DISAPPEARED FOR TWO MONTHS AND THEN CAME BACK AND DROPPED ALL OF RHAT ON HS

gracieabrams OMG WIFE IS GONNA BE A WIFE

user4 BLONDE YN IS BACK AND SHES A FIANCÉ OH MY GOD

judebellingham WIFE WIFE WIFE‼️‼️‼️

youruser not yet my love but so close🥰

judebellingham I CANT HEAR YOU MY WIFE IS AN ACADEMIC AND LYRICAL GENIUS

user5 she’s still writing break up and sad songs whilst engaged… so weird

user6 yeah and jude helps her,, he must be so disgusted right? seriously get a life and go touch grass

taylorswift so so happy for you 💓💓

youruser 🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶 i love you

user7 TOUR TOUR TOUR TOUR TOUR

england juddeeeeee💙 sooo happy for you two

trentarnold ❤️❤️❤️

user8 how girl just gonna casually drop a ENGAGEMENT announcement in the middle of a photo dump

user9 REALLLL LIKE THATS A BIG ASS RING TOO

noahkahanmusic YESSSSS🤍🤍🤍🤍

user10 HOWWWW is miss girl gonna find time in her schedule to do uni, make music, keep a healthy relationship, AND TOUR

judebellingham mrs*

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[mizugucci]

2023 MID YEAR CHECK IN

it's that time of year, and I'm only a week late! I was tagged by several people to list my top 10 title tracks of the year so far, but I had too many songs I liked (and opinions I wanted to share) to keep it to strictly 10 songs.

thank you for tagging me, @lunetual & @keidom !! i dont think i'll tag anyone directly for the challenge, but i will probably use some usertags just so it can be seen a bit more <3

FINAL OBSERVATIONS:

my spotify was riddled with peak time songs, both originals and the covers. however, step by step (24k), hola! (bxb) and coco colada (dkb) are an unmoving top 3

3round IS AN ALBUM!!! dont look at me!!!! peak time ruled (and still rules) my life and my spotify...

ive fallen more and more for girl groups, especially ones i did not expect (nmixx, secret number, and ive, especially). as for girl groups i already stanned, they did not disappoint!!

ive liked way more boy group releases than i had in the past couple of years, but mainly from groups i didnt stan, which was strange. quick shoutout to tempest, atbo, xdinary heroes, p1harmony -- i'll have to get into them!

on the flip side, a lot of the releases i was looking forward to... did not hit like i wanted them to. im so sorry dkb & wei

also i am SO enjoying the new trend of boy groups going back to doing fun stuff!!! i know 'noise music' is an irritating (and untrue) generalization but im glad we're back to doing fun groovy upbeat stuff and not what the current trend was

the only reason don't call me is on this list is bc i listened to it so many times that it got burned into my brain and also theyre clearly having fun & not taking it seriously

even after how long this list is, i still missed a few... (sorry cravity!! also ungjae!)

i was going to include boys planet as a part of the 'best of' categories, but i realized i didnt care at all and i only liked jelly pop!

macarena is THE song of 2023

[dragonfliescreative]

Joel (oc) x Reader..

Ch 1. Getting Ready.

Huffing in an attempt to calm my nerves, i stare into the mirror. The outfit Chloe had picked out for the concert felt odd against my skin. i normally just wore what was comfortable, but she insisted that i dress up for this. apparently id feel out of place otherwise. if i was honest i didnt even know what i was walking into. she had been listening to Bloodied Daisies alot long than i had, hell she had been to their concerts too. this was my first time going because she won a raffle for backstage tickets.

"Are you about ready??" Her voice boomed through the door. Pulling briefly at the tight netting over my arms i respond "Yeah i guess so." And with that im met with my best friend. she had her blonde hair up in a spiky looking bun, and a matching punky looking outfit to mine. She covered her mouth with her hands. "Oh my god! Y/n you look so handsome!" she snickered, her fingers shortly finding my face afterwards to fix the makeup i had most likely smudged it while putting in my top. "Perfect." She grinned.

I followed her out of the apartment i rented and out to her little black car, that she had of course stickerbombed. Once we sat i tuned back in to what she was saying to me. "-and i hear he's quite the party-er. though if im honest im mainly there for Grayson. god he's smokin' hot." she started the car and we were off. the venue was about a 30ish minute drive from my place since my complex was closer to the edge of the city. "plus, theyre small enough still that they'll most likely drink with us. is that okay?" she asked, turning to me as she hit her breaks for the red light. "I don't wanna be like, wasted." I mumble. the idea of drinking around strangers never was a good one. "You can though, i'll drive us home." I continued, giving her a small smile. And there was that giddy grin of hers, it always made me feel better. "Perfect! im so excited! i know you dont party much but i promise you'll love it." she cooed, before going on to explain that the tickets she gor were basically pay to get in party tickets, and were limited to about 10 ish people excluding the band obviously.

The next 20 minutes of the drive was us jamming out to the album they were touring. I had to admit, I loved this dudes voice. Chloe went over the band members names and what they played. Joel, the vocalist and guitarist, though apparently he could play several instruments too. Grayson, the drummer, her favorite. And lastly their bassist, Arlo, who also could play a few instruments. The more we sang, the more excited i got. i had never even been to a real concert before, let alone one like this.

Holding the CD case in my hand, i actually started to look at the members. inside the case was a picture of them together, with their signatures beside each of their heads. She had gotten this at their last concert. Joel, a kinda small dude, covered in tattoos and freckles with a dark fuzzzy mohawk and green eyes. Holy shit he had braces too. Grayson, a super tall scary looking man, with long black and blue hair, way more piercings than Joel, and gnarly cutting scares all over his body, even his cheekbones. I see why Chloes makeup was blue now. And Arlo, taller than Joel but shorter than Grayson, a lanky androgynous person, with long hair pulled up in a messy ponytail, glasses, and just as many piercings and tattooes as Joel.

The more i stared at the vocalist i started to giggle "How tall is he?"

"Uhh, five eight i think?"

"that voice comes out of that little man?"

"mhm!"

"thats funny as hell."

She giggled with me "isnt it? he's honestly scrunkly as hell. when i met him he smelled like cigarettes and like a woody smelling cologne"

"Chloe that's oddly specific. Why is that what you noticed?"

"It's hard not to when he's just below me in height. his forehead met my nose."

I rolled my eyes and tuned back into the song, into the venue parking we went.

Notes: Grayson belongs to my friend!! @grioxim

Ch 2

Pretty Handsome Awkward Ch List



[luwukass]

oki so i actually didnt get any no votes for my poll yesterday so

lukes favs! october 2023

music (according to my spotify stats, in order of most to least streamed average top 10) songs: glitch, suburban legends, i know places. style, one of your girls troye sivan, i can see you, this is me trying, maroon, you're on your own kid, karma. albums: midnights, red (taylors version), 1989 (taylors version), evermore, folklore, speak now (taylors version), 1989 (stolen unfortanetly), fearless (taylors verstion), reputation, lover. artists: i pretty much only listened to taylor this month lmao these stats arent the most reliable but. taylor swift, troye sivan, marina, bon iver, haim, lana del rey, the national, halsey, ed sheeran, lil nas x.

media podcasts: i just recently started listening to a dnd podcast called gals and goblins im only on ep 2 but its very good so far! i also started listening to swiftlit made by tumblrs own @kingofmyborrowedheart its a taylor swift podcast with literary analysis its very good if youre new to podcasts!!! shows: ive watched a lot of new shows this month mostly with my partners. ive finally started watching avatar the last airbender but i did start watching this back in september but i watched it this month so its on the list, also started watching an anime called castlevania with my bf and everyone in that show is hot so 10/10, ofc i watched the amazing digital cirrus ive seen the pilot maybe four times now and im obsessed with it!!! im not caught up on either of these but i watched the first few episodes of loki s2 and our flag means death s2. ive also finally got back around to watching the boys with nex and we just started s3 and omg its so good, i also did my yearly rewatch of over the garden wall! and ive been rewatching how i met your mother with my bf! movies: most of my movies ive watched this month were on weekly polycule movie nights which were ghostbusters(the og one), beetlejuice, coraline, halloweentown, and all three of the kingsman movies, i also did finish watching the scream movies with a cute girl im flirting with! comics: for comics i just got back into reading comics again so most/all of it was just catching up on my favs! everything is fine by birchall, lovebot by chase keels and miranda mundt, ingrid the plauge doctor by harry amoros, hyperfocus by kip trevor and love me to death by toonimated! books: i also got back to reading this month so i only got back to where i was in rereading the percy jackson books games: i didnt really get to play much this month but it was mostly minecraft, sticky business an indie game about running your own small sticker business, paleo pines another indie game thats a dino farmsim and a tiny sticker tale another indie where you travel around an island helping people with your magic sticker book! lmk if yall have any suggestions for anything!! im really trying to branch out with stuff so dont be afraid to send an ask! 💕

[namelessvoid77]

I'm curious about your rankings, like what are your favorite songs of her ? and how you did got into Taylor's music ? Tell us more 👀( if you want of course )

oh my god i would love to tell you more LMFAO

so i mean when i was like. A Child like legitimately like seven years old i was like.. obsessed with some of her bigger hits at the time (love story, bad blood, 22, etc. all of which i stand by being rly fun and good songs though i know her actual fans dont like them as much LOL). so when i like.. actually started developing a music taste beyond what my parents put on the radio in the car it was like right around when lover came out, which i listened to in full and REALLY REALLY liked tbh its still my third favorite album of hers.

but then for whatever reason i never fully listened to folklore or evermore when they came out (honestly i think because at the time i didnt appreciate more slow/chill/sad music i was more into faster "edgier" stuff but my music taste has. broadened since then) and then i didnt rly know what was happening when fearless and red tv released lmfao. and then once midnights was announced stuff about the album was like, ALL OVER all of my socials so i decided to try listening to it and again i found i actually pretty good (its still my fourth favorite album).

(god this is getting long sorry) so then i decided to just like fuck it go through and listen to all her albums, and i started ranking them mainly just bc i saw so many other people sharing their opinions about her albums i thought it sounded fun. i actually only finished this task this weekend because listening to new music is like. a LOT of effort for me but i finally did it lol, finishing off with fearless tv which i liked a LOT more than i thought i was going to tbh.

for a while i had reputation at the top of my list, but since its shifted to folklore, but i honest to god love all of her albums lmfao.

album ranking:

folklore

Reputation

Lover

Midnights

evermore

1989

Fearless

Speak Now

Red 

Taylor Swift

and i suppose for now ill give you like, my top seven songs (totally not just bc thats how many i can easily fit in a ss from spotifylol). i actually have a playlist of all (most. i left some out but the ones on her main studio albums should all be there) her songs organized from best to worst in my opinion that i can post if poeple want lol, i also have all her albums ranked individually in a google doc (i have become seriously obsessed i know).

(ID: spotify screenshot showing my top seven albums. the order is

this is me trying

right where you left me

All Too Well (10 Minute Version)

Would've, Could've, Should've

Getaway Car

the lakes

Cruel Summer

end ID)

oh, and for fun, before i listened to all her albums i predicted how i would like all of them. so heres that. its quite different lol

Reputation

Lover

Midnights

Red 

folklore

Speak Now

1989

evermore

Fearless 

Taylor Swift

i really thought i would like Red way more than i actually did lmfao. again its not a bad album just a lot of it isnt quite my taste.

rant over. lmfao

[boypussydilf]

this is for music game. and i will make an unexpected move, provided that your expectation was for me to inflict you with metal! instead i am asking about jack stauber.

OHOHO! JACK STAUBER! its been a pretty long time since i listened to any jack stauber … but a fffffew years ago? i went thru an era where jack stauber was 90% of what i listened to but like, largely just the same few songs. i think.

Favourite Song: OOF…. it changes… maybe buttercup? maybe two time? maybe coffee?

Least Favourite Song: oh i dont know. probably some song i heard only one time and then didnt listen to again because i didnt care about it and so i forgot it existed or what it sounded like. of the songs i actually remember mmmmmmaybe baby hotline?

Favourite Album: SHOP A POP OPERA. i rewatch this playlist (ir)regularly it is a religious experience for me. its beautiful. i think everyone should see it.

Least Favourite Album: have not listened enough to have one 👍

Song that got me into them: PRETTY SURE IT WAS THE BALLAD OF HAMANTHA <3

Seen Live?: pretty sure jack stauber doesnt do live music. anyway ive never seen live music outside of random people in coffee shops but its worth including this one One Time

Rate: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 <- i say 7 off the top of my head but when i actually sit down and listen to some jack stauber and properly get into it i go absolutely wild. ascend to heaven. wonder why all music isn’t like this.

[fandomfluffandfuck]

Just a little curious, what genre/type of songs do you listen to, s?

I've been drooling at the songs you've posted this week

D. All of the above

You've just activated my trap card! I fucking love music. I am about to RAMBLE--

Seriously, though, my taste in music is pure chaos; I listen to a bunch of different genres. Although heavier, more aggressive sounds will always have a special place in my heart--heavy metal/rap metal/death metal, rock, punk, hardcore, screamo, etc. There's just something about it that means I'm always returning to those sounds. (And by sounds I mean straight fucking screaming, haha). But I do enjoy rap/hip-hop, pop, alternative, indie, electronic, etc., etc. (Also, I am ashamed to admit there is a certain 10-15 year period of country music that I know so well that I could sing the exact words to the top 100-ish charted songs for each year. My mother is a big country music fan, so I heard it constantly growing up. My father likes classic rock, so I've got that covered too, lol.) I could go on for hours about music, lmao.

I am always listening to music.

I currently have 65 custom playlists on Spotify, and I follow way more than what I've made myself. I collect vinyls (and I have a bunch of CDs, I don't go out of my way to find them but, hey, if I see one at a thrift shop or something... I'll probably get it. I'm weak for music, lol). I am always in the top 1% of listeners in Spotify (as in, my wrapped always says, "you listen to more music than 99% of other listeners in the U.S.!") Last year, I actually listened to more music than 99.5% of people in the U.S., lmao.

Clearly, I have a problem 💀💀

In payment for listening to me rant--have a few of my favorite drool-worthy songs:

(Hopefully, ones that aren't super out there so you can have more discoveries 👀 And fair warning that there is no genre organization to these, lots of them are rock or metal, but not all of them)

Hot Gum - Sofia Istella

EAT SPIT! - Slush Puppy ft. Royal & the Serpent

Jaws - Sleep Token

Dirt - Dream Drop

MOMMY - BLACKSWAN

Make Me King - The Haunt

Let's Get Animal - Divide The Day

Like That - Sleep Token

Beg - Emphatic

The Only Time - Nine Inch Nails

Pray - Xana

Fire Up The Night - New Medicine

DICTATOR - REI AMI (the first part)

Go Fuck Yourself - Two Feet

The Summoning - Sleep Token (listen to the end. The end fucks)

THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND - Bad Omens

River - BRKN LOVE

Physical (You're So) - Nine Inch Nails (also Closer and Reptile by NIN, but I feel like everyone knows about those songs, so I didnt directly list them even though they FUCK)

IN MY MOUTH - Black Dresses

Secret Scream - The Black Queen

BONES - Demi Lovato

Fuck Away The Pain - Divide The Day

I Miss The Misery - Halestorm

HATEFUCK - Pussy Riot ft. Slayyyter

Whore - In This Moment

Alkaline - Sleep Token (okay, basically anything by Sleep Token, I HIGHLY recommend them, and if you're interested in musician thirst traps... go find all the content of them on TikTok. They literally grind on stage 🥴) ((they also JUST released a new album, so it's the perfect time to pile on))

SLUT - WHOKILLEDXIX

Don't You Know - Jaymes Young

she calls me daddy - KiNG MALA

Pure Mode - Model/Actriz

BABY SAID - Måneskin

CUM - WHOKILLEDXIX

Train Wreck - Divide The Day

Oxytocin - Billie Eilish

Muse - OCAD

Turns Me On - Cilver

Enjoy~

[mosviqu]

youth in the shade review 🌈

back to ZEROBASE - the instrumental is very very good and the vocals ate!! i dont know whose voice is whose or basically ANYTHING about this group but this is so good and catchy !! is it REAAAAL !!!!! 8/10 a good promising start to the album. in bloom - i heard this all over the tiktok but this is my first time listening to the whole song and man it only got betteRRRRR THE INSTRUMENTAL OH LORDD fuck it up!!!! i love it so much AAAA everyone said it has seventeen vibes and while i dont see it i am definitely enjoying the song. the chorus makes me feel like im levitating or something AAAH just the kind of song i LOVE. idk who sings the chorus but i wanna give him a medal he slayed. 11/10 fuck it up! new kidz on the block - 👀👀👀👀👀 okayyyyyyy. the intro? OKAYYYY. the beat ??? okay..... it has slight house tendencies in the pre chorus and if i knew how to dance id definitely dance to this song. veryvery good 😩 very toned down clubbing music and u know i love me some club music. 8,5/10 !! and i - first boy your vocals eat so much. also prechorus boy. this song is such a feel good song its so FRESH too !! the chorus is soso catchy it makes me bob my head i am enjoying myself. 8/10 :p our season - RIGHT FROM THE START IM SITTING HERE LIKE :D LISTENING TO THIS IT JUST KEEPS ON GIVING EXSCTLY WHAT I EXPECTED IT TO GIVE. prechorus boys your voices!!! CHORUS!! vocals@!!! okay slay!!! very VERY good oh lord just the type of chill summer vibey song i needed right now. one of my favorites instantly! 9/10 !! :) always - whoever is mariah careying in the beginning eats pls sing me lullabies. the song is too short for my liking (unless its supposed to be an outro type of situation) but the song is very very good! I see myself listening to this one the least out of the whole album but still amazing!! 7/10

i am definitely glad they didnt debut with noise music and went for the fresh concept !!! such a good move i think, i am enjoying this and i am looking forward to what they have to bring 👀

top 3 definitely in bloom the best debut song ever, our season and new kidz on the block!

[chanstopher]

I resisted most kpop and all kpop fandom for a very long time 😆

I got into visual kei in high school (2007 ish) and one of my online friends also listened to some. She got me into J dramas, from where I got into KAT-TUN in 2010. She also watched K dramas and listened to kpop and she sent me some, but not being able to sing along by ear or through romanized lyrics frustrated me since I'd been able to do that with Japanese since I first listened to anime openings and such in middle school. I did listen to some 2ne1 and Big Bang, but mainly Japanese releases since at that point I was studying Japanese and reaching conversational fluency.

After college she and I mostly fell out of touch, KAT-TUN had slowed down after losing a member in 2013 and then another later, LiveJournal got taken over by a Russian "news" company, so all my sources of music and drama torrents were gone, the two main VK bands I listened two took hiatuses or had record company issues (one came back, the other eventually broke up), and so I was back to mostly listening to top 40 radio.

At some point, I got suggested a "reacts to kpop" video on YouTube, and I was like, "I wonder if I'll even recognize and of these groups." The answer was no, I did not, but one if the songs was Blackpink's Whistle, and I was like, "damn, this song is fun," so I started listening to them. I still didnt keep up with anything beyond just their music (and still dont), but it got some kpop on my radar again.

Then I went to Holiday Matsuri in 2021 and went to the hottest men in anime show, which is a men's burlesque contest. The winning act performed to God's Menu and Lisa's Money, two bangers that I hadn't heard because I wasn't actively paying attention to new music. I went and looked them up and played a Spotify kpop playlist the whole 6 hours drive home to add new songs to my library, but I still didn't look up any groups. I continued like that for about a year, just liking individual songs. Then, around when Time Out came out, something made me look up the Stray Kids youtube. I had watched the God's Menu video that first night I heard the song, but I didn't watch anything else. I subscribed to the channel that time, but u still didn't dive into the music videos or add a bunch to my library. Its like part of my brain new I'd not crawl out of that hole and it wasn't the right time for it lol

Finally, late August of last year, I let myself watch the music videos and listen to full albums. Then I resisted any additional content outside of "making of" videos for another month (which is a while for a disabled person with nothing to do but consume content).

Now, here I am. Awash in the swamp. Watching Han and Chan and understanding nothing 🤣

Thankfully I had already planned to learn some Korean since its the third most common language where I live and I had started watching kdramas, but its hard! I still have some bias to Japanese releases for that reason 😆 but it does vary by song since some don't fit/match rhythmically to the Korean versions as nicely as others. Hopefully I'll get there with Korean. I have to remember I have decades of familiarity with the sounds and basics of Japanese compared to very little familiarity with Korean.

this is a wholeeee journey u did not take the easels to mordor lmao but omg i’m learning so much about how things were found in the 00’s and 10’s when i was content to go to warped tour and never be online lmao but this journey feels educational with all the stuff u were into! and ur bias for japanese releases is understandable especially jyp groups they just hit different so i can understand having spent all that time learning japanese and being into japanese culture would only add to the fondness for them! your will power to get into skz so slowly is amazing I don’t know if i’ve ever done such a good job of avoiding diving straight into something the second i found a part of it i liked, but alas we all end up in the skz swamp one way or another lmao

[kineko-fab]

What are your favorite FOB songs? I've always liked Thnks fr th Mmrs, Just One Yesterday, and The Last Of The Real Ones, but I admittedly am a radio-listening normie so I only know a small selection of their songs ^^"

vees my dear friend vees im gonna write so many words now thank you TL;DR heres a list of my faves and me only letting myself choose my top 2 from each album. i do not talk about EVERY song on this list but i talk about a lot

FUTCT

Lawyer sued

Dance

Sugar goin down

Get Busy

XO

IOH

Arms Race

Lawyer (Me & You)

Hum Hallelujah

Golden

Thnks

(After) Life

Bang

Fame

Crashing

FAD

Disloyal order

I dont care

Headfirst

(Shipped)

[Coffee]

What A Catch

W.A.M.S.

West Coast

Pavlove

SRAR

Phoenix

Light em up

Alone Together

Where did the party go

Miss missing you

Save Rock and Roll

ABAP

Centuries

Kids arent alright

Jet Pack Blues

Favorite Record

MANIA

Stay frosty

last of the real ones

hold me tight

Wilson

church

heavens gate

sunshine riptide

OTHER:

City in a Garden off of Lake Effect Kid

ok to start those are all great songs. Thnks fr th Mmrs is one of my personal faves cause i grew up listening to that song. however did you know that song has a lead in song? fall out boy has many segue songs; a song whos end flows seamlessly into the beginning of the next. Golden, the song before TFTM is gorgeous and i loooove listening to it, especially since the transition to thnks is so dramatic sounding. Last of the Real Ones is also a big ol song for me. it is, admittedly, on several of my character playlists. now im gonna go by album. ill admit right here i dont listen to take this to your grave very often so. its. not gonna be on here. off of from under the cork tree. theres a lot of good songs but the two i come back to are another segue pair, Get Busy (im not writing the whole title its their longest one) and XO. i love the transition, but both of those songs are absolutely wonderful as standalones.

infinity on high is where things start ramping up in terms of songs i like off of it. ignoring the popular ones because i also like those, and golden that i already talked about. I'm Like a Lawyer is such a nice sounding song I like it a lot. The lyrics are really good (as usual, i will gush about fob lyrics), and the music is very upbeat and fun, the contrast between the lyrics and the music should be stark but they go well together. The (After) Life of the Party is another absolutely gorgeous song holy shiiiit. i love that song so much it sounds gorgeous. fun to belt, fun to listen to, 10/10. Bang the Doldrums is one of the songs i listen to most frequently, and like a lot of fob songs, especially on IOH and FAD, it has a little section right before the ending chorus that has lyrics thatll kill you. Fame>Infamy is such a fun song to listen to, but i have to say the switch from minor to major in the middle blows me away every time. its so gorgeous. Crashing is fantastic but the subject matter is so heavy i have to be like. prepared to listen to it. love it to bits.

Folie a Deux is hard because thats. like my first or second favorite album. but this album FUCKS HARD. a lot of the songs on here have orchestral parts to it that makes them absolutely gorgeous. The first song, Disloyal Order of Water Buffalo, is gorgeous, big, loud, and dramatic and i love it. Headfirst Slide is also great and i love it and i wish i had his range holy cow. (Shipped) Gold Standard is great and i love trying to sing that little genre change at the part before the last chorus its so fun. [Coffee's for Closers] is. wowie wow wow. This song is why i think people who didnt like folie were just upset that it didnt sound like their perfect little emo songs because holy shit this song slaps. This song perfectly combines fall out boys version of emo with orchestral music. its honestly a fucking tragedy more people dont listen to it. What a Catch is so great, i just cant listen to it all the time because its so sad. which is understandable given the songs context. however, it does make for a funny little "hey is that [insert another famous musician that hangs with fall out boy a lot]" moment. W.A.M.S. is one of my all time faves and is one of the reasons Im learning bass guitar! still cant play that! fuck you pete your bass lines fuck severely but are so complicated for me to play! I also love West Coast Smoker. high energy belt/scream song. also not on the album proper but on the delux edition, love me Pavlove!

Save Rock and Roll has so many bangers, but did you know theres a music video for every song on this album and all the music videos tell a story? its really cool. again, skipping the popular ones. Alone Together is such a pretty song. that song sounds so good. Where Did the Party Go is so fun. I love their fun songs theyre fun to dance around to. Now, if I had to choose ONE FOB song as my all time fave? Miss Missing You. Holy fucking shit that songs so fucking good. The lyrics in that song are just one punch after the other and its so. AAAA. Save Rock And Roll (thr song) is also fantastic. Elton John hello sir. ABAP has a couple good songs. I recently used Irresistable for an OC piece i did. Jet Pack Blues is also a pretty sounding song and is nice to listen to for more of a chiller vibe than some of their other music. Favorite Record my beloved I love that song its so nice and upbeat and love filled.

Mania my beloved. My good time boy. My rotten soldier. genuinely dont think theres a song on this album I don't like. Stay frosty will always be there for me when I feel like throwing hands. that song slaps. hold me tight is a funky little jam. fun song. Expensive mistakes? my song. i love that song. pete was after my own heart making that song. Church is such a fuckin devotion song. Church and Last of the Real Ones are songs that feel like you sing them to someone youd give your life for. i also use those on charcter playlists. Heavens Gate is my FAVORITE love song. of all time. Sunshine Riptide is such a good song and is so fun to listen to.

not on any of their main studio albums, but City in a Garden is so good. so lovely so full of emotion.

[ihophashbrowns]

2022 is ending and the public needs to know what your most & least favorite kpop releases were this year! there was good stuff, bad stuff, underwhelming stuff, growers, etc. lets hear yours! :D

the way it would be easier to count the stuff i liked vs the stuff i disliked 😭😭 anyways here's my favorite releases this year...

20. generation - tripleS

fun, upbeat, the mv has a nice laid back "aesthetic" feel to it. the only ppl who didnt like it were miserable newjeans stans! 😭

19. hair cut - xdinary heroes

i actually liked the chorus... doesnt have much replay value but i do listen it whenever it comes on

18. antifragile - le sserafim

i DID love this one, it had to grow on me but its catchy af! 😭

17. forever 1 - snsd

this one had to grow on me too! but its super cute and sweet!,

16. mascara - xg

people who said they didnt like this are liars!! have you considered not messing with your mascara..?

15. nabillera - hyuna

there were a LOT of growers this year! even when i first listened to it i thought she was going for babe pt.2 and when i started liking it i knew that was in fact the case!

14. stupid cool - dawn

i got it on the first listen. i love the beat and i thought the lyrics were absolutely adorable :(

13. talk that talk - twice

pop perfection! the chorus is everything

12. aria - yerin

u either get it you dont! the two gfriend soloists deserve so much better it surprised me how much buddys slept on this release. but i was SEATED!

11. dice - onew

father was fathering through the whole album IDGAF!!! like every song is so good and well made, well sang. this is the superior kpop song named dice that was released this year. lol.

10. maison - dreamcatcher

its catchy af and the message is so REAL! ngl at first i thought they made that word up for the song but i looked it up and its french for "home" so 😭😭 extra points for making me think they came up with that word themselves

9. illusion - aespa

its cunty! catchy! i definitely got it on the first listen! (points off for the yummy yummy yummy in your tummy tummy tummy line tho)

8. bop bop! - viviz

if u hate this song you hate fun tbh! the thing i loved about this song is that it felt less like a debut song and more like a comeback song. we love you viviz.

7. good boy gone bad - txt

i had to pretend like i didnt get it on the 1st-and-a-half listen bcuz i was still very much in my txt anti era. but now im normal so i can appreciate what this song means to me ❤

6. jikjin - treasure

why were so many people pretending like they didnt fuck heavy with this song. perhaps broaden your mindset like. [korean korean] jikjiiiiiiinnnn woooooooooooooo. anw it feels like pop rocks to my brain and in the best way possible so its here.

TOP 5. These were the objectively best releases of 2022!

5. last sequence - wjsn

thats gay clubbing music baby! something about this song feels so... not 2022. more like i opened a time portal and went back to mid-2017. idk why. but i love that vibe.

4. shut down - blackpink

the lyrics, production, that violin, everything about this song was an instant hit. no im not just saying that because blackpink was my first group. their comeback this year ate and served cunt severely. we love you blackpink.

3. 2 baddies - nct 127

i like thot music! the way ppl complained about it was so 😭😭 its an nct song what were you expecting. shut up. you either rock with it or you dont. like the song was made BY baddies FOR baddies. so if it isnt hitting...

2. pop! - nayeon

ms. im nayeon put the POP in kPOP with tjis song! and it was her SOLO DEBUT? PLEASEEEEEEE........ i love the girly cutesy bubblegum-y fun of this one. so. so. so. much. like everything about it SO iconic. she not only solidified herself as a capable soloist but as a pop princess too!

1. brand new - xiumin

are you surprised? im an exol after all! but fr this song had me GAGGED since the mv TEASER dropped! everything about it is so good, the beat, the lyrics, the vocals... everything! when it comes down to the mv minseok had $10 and a dream but he still made it work. that song was MADE to be a hit!! when i heard it i knew NOTHING ELSE released this year was gonna top it!

very honorable mentions that didnt make the list for lack of space :( (imagine they are in 2nd place with pop by nayeon)

i don't even mind - chen, invu - taeyeon, hurdle - suho, feel my rhythm - rv, candy - nct dream, gasoline - key, gingamingayo - billlie, loveade - viviz, dreamers - jungkook 🤪,after like - ive

[missgenesis]

Start at 13:13

I used to listen to this section of the mix every day on my way skateboarding to work when I worked at a weed dispensary in Vancouver.

Really rough period of my life, the year after I graduated from university I had the worst depression and anxiety of my life. I hated that job. Canna Clinic. I made $13 an hour but I couldn't find a better job for the life of me after graduating from UBC. I graduated top of my class, BA Economics, Business minor with like all 90s, then I full-time tutored and TA'd for a year after. I got 99% in 3rd year statistics for christs sake. Cursed from birth I tell you...

I applied for jobs for months and months but couldnt even get an interview. Lol except for one that was like a 45 min train ride out to Burnaby, I didnt even know what the job was, I put in so many applications I couldnt remember applying for it. I got to the interview and it turned out it was to be a phone solicitor trying to collect donations for the Liberal government. I was like....please just shoot me.

I was so sad, I felt like I did everything right... I worked so hard in school and got the top mark in my upper year courses probably 5-10 times, sometimes in 200 person lectures.

I was so smart and hardworking, so why did nobody want to hire me? I felt like there was no place for me in the world. Everything I worked so hard to achieve in school was futile.

I moved in with Madi in this dingy dark basement suite, we called it the Rabbit Hole because it's where we both lost our minds. 2017 was a big wave of awakening, that's when we started to wake up on the summer solstice.

Life feels very unfair when we don't understand. When something is not meant for you, life will put you through the ringer. It's best to just let it go. Something better is waiting.

When one door closes, another one opens.

A labrynth is not a maze. There is only one path.

This is exactly why I can't pick a favourite song. I thought I had my top 2 but then today I was like wait no - Indie Rokkers.. and now I'm like no this one:

[microwavedlion]

i am in uni :3 i too am having a dan howell moment, and i just got dropped from an 8 week course bc i procrastinated and didnt finish all the required assignments before i went to tit... hashtag worth it but anyway !! my top 10 songs at the moment are all by muse, oops 1. animals 2. the handler 3. undisclosed desires 4. map of the problematique 5. mk ultra 6. screenager 7. uprising 8. sunburn 9. escape 10. citizen erased

i love language and grammar i think it's really cool ! do you just do english and japanese or do you know any others ? i really like asl, it would be cool to one day practice signing w someone if you know any ! (if i come off anon 😭) i am curious... do you have any suspicions on who i may be ? i wonder if my writing patterns are distinct enough to notice last question before i go: what's something that makes you feel better when you're upset ? i like driving late at night with the windows down and the music blasting, it feels So Good meow ! -🐍

good to know we're in the same age range haha. so exciting you went to tit, i went last weekend (don't live there though, so this isn't a self-dox). how was it? what was your favourite part?

oh my god, i'm so glad i haven't been dropped from any courses yet but i did lose my scholarship </3 would not be shocked if my parents make make me withdraw after this semester (currently avoiding studying for an exam which is tomorrow 🤐)

shockingly i haven't listened to as much muse as you would think?? definitely about to go listen to all of these (10 -> 1 order, gotta save the best for last).

i used to know chinese, i grew up learning it, but i switched to french and completely forgot everything i've ever learned so. i speak baby babble chinese and first grade french. i actually have learnt asl though! i used to think i was going deaf (i wasn't) so i learnt the basics out of fear. i also took a proper asl class for the first time this summer (saved my gpa thanks asl). i would absolutely be open for practicing, provided you aren't a serial killer or something haha :)

I do have my suspicions but i think i'd have to bury myself in a hole for all eternity if they're wrong so it's a secret for now... mayhaps you like a certain album that isn't muse.............

for me when i'm upset, the only way to get through the feeling is to have a 4am crying session staring out the window at all the cars that pass by. i particularly like the lighting at that time of night (before the sun rises), nice and orange, it really suits music. sometimes i like to talk it out with someone, but it really depends on the feeling. i can't drive, but it really does sound amazing to go for a ride like that.

meow :>