#icarus lives piano cover

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No lyrics, since it's just a piano instrumental 🖤

That link for his music wasn't a full link btw. The Way Back Machine sabotaged itself by adding the web.archive url in front of Ves's YouTube link and literally only showed what's saved lol. I can almost guarantee it was just a link to another video of his original music, 95% chance that I already have it or have already posted it.

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Icarus Part 11

Again, I am working on Paper Hearts and Sweet Home Indiana until they are complete and Paper Hearts just snuck in another chapter so that was fun.

In this we have Corroded Coffin trying to change the culture of metal and the band meets Bob Newby.

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10

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Celeste Baptiste was a miracle worker in her field and everyone knew it. Producers and recording studios were chomping at the bit to work with The Fallen the second she put out feelers that their current producer and studio just weren’t meeting the band’s needs.

They decided to go with Starcourt Recording studio as it was closer to home for a lot of the members. Which of course pleased Spence to no end, as it meant that he got to spend more time with Nadia.

They were currently interviewing for producers and had yet to find on that worked for them.

Enter Bob Newby.

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Bob wasn’t used to working with bands that had alter egos. He heard of them of course. Slipknot, Daft Punk, and others. But he wasn’t a fan of secrecy for the most part and beyond the basic NDAs of contracts, he wasn’t a fan of those really, either.

But there was something about these four men that pulled him in. Especially when he learned that their previous producer had been trying to do with them. It was like he hadn’t listened to them at all and was trying to force them into what he thought metal meant.

So he thought he’d at least speak with them. If they didn’t like him or he didn’t like them, he’d walk away, no skin off his nose.

They walked in all wearing more casual versions of their onstage personas. They wore hoodies and masks of their colors to hind their face and hair, but the rest was all very down to earth. Bob supposed it made sense, after all, they couldn’t record in their tight leather outfits.

He was surprised to see that the drummer’s mask’s eyes were covered unlike the rest of the band and he couldn’t help but wonder if his eyes would give him away, like having some kind of heterochromia or something like that.

“Hey, I’m Bob Newby,” he greeted. “Everyone take a seat. Thanks for coming to meet me at my house studio, I’m two days away from a deadline and am really crunching it.”

“Of course,” the one in white said. He was the only one’s whose mask didn’t completely cover his face. “I would apologize for the subterfuge but it’s kind of our shtick.”

Bob smiled. “So I’ve been told. Tell me a little bit about yourselves.”

The one in white smiled. “I’m Abbadon, I’m the lead singer. I can play guitar, piano, and violin, but we don’t usually incorporate that stuff into our music.”

“Is there a reason why not?” he asked, clasping his hands together and leaning forward on his knees.

The band members looked at each other in shock.

“The label wanted us to stick to metal,” the one in blue said, “They were okay with Abbadon on rhythm guitar to help fill out the sound, but they didn’t want any of that other ‘stuff’.” He put air quotes around stuff.

“They do realize that metal and heavy rock have been using piano for as long as the genre has been a thing, right?” he asked, pinching the bridge of his nose.

Again the band looked shocked.

Bob sighed. He held up his hands. “Wait, wait... we’ll get into all that once all the introductions have been made.”

The one in red and the one in white shared what he assumed was a concerned glance.

“You weren’t told about us?” the one in red asked.

“Oh, no, I was,” Bob replied with a grin. “But I want to hear it from you.”

So they went around and introduced themselves and he was starting form a picture about the band’s dynamic.

“Right,” he said, “I’ve listened to your other albums, seen recordings of your live shows, and even watched interviews and this is my takeaway on your sound. Your last producer was trying to force you into harmonies and melodies of early thrash metal of the 1980s, which isn’t your style at all.”

Astraeus, the one in midnight blue, spoke from his place on the floor, “That’s what we kept trying to tell him. He said that the sound was coming back and if we wanted to compete with the likes of Metallica and Corroded Coffin then that’s direction we needed to be heading as a band.”

Bob let out a long exasperated sigh. “But you can’t compete with them.” He held up his hands when Azrael, the one in black, and Asmodeus, the one in red, bristled. “I’m not saying you’re not as good as they are. Absolutely not. But you’re not in the same genre of metal that they are. It would be like comparing the Rolling Stones and Beatles because they were both British rock bands.”

Astraeus and Azrael shared a glance, one Bob couldn’t interpret with their masks on.

Azrael rolled his eyes. “We’re what our detractors love to call nu metal as if music can’t have more than one sound.”

Bob nodded. “Yeah, that sounds about right. You’re vocals tend toward the melodic over the screaming or more guttural sounds of thrash metal. So I would focus on that. The label sent me over the demo and you’ve got a lot of great stuff here. Stuff the other guy didn’t want to touch. Some of the more...” he cocked his head back and forth, “blatantly queer? LGBTQ+? Gay stuff?”

“Queer works,” Abbadon said with a wry note to his voice.

Bob nodded again. “Who is the writer/writers?”

Astraeus and Azrael raised their hands.

“With a little lyrical help from Abbadon,” Asmodeus said darkly.

Abbadon rubbed his back to calm the other man as he bristled at his other bandmates.

“So how does your writing process work?” Bob said ducking his head to his smile.

Astraeus explained how Abbadon would write down his thoughts and feelings and that he would turn them into lyrics for Azrael to turn into songs.

“So I’m guessing that at least either Abbadon or Astraeus is some variation of the rainbow spectrum?” he pressed the band.

The two men in question shared a glance, Astraeus nodded.

“I’m bi and Astraeus is gay,” Abbadon confirmed. “Is that going to be a problem?”

Bob threw laughed. “No not at all. In fact just the opposite. I want you two to come out.”

He couldn’t see their faces but he could feel the blank stares as their eyes bore into him.

“I understand that is a daunting feeling,” he murmured kindly. “But I think it would really boost your image, allow you to be more open with your songs, especially with Starlight Eyes, and it would make more metal artists be more comfortable with an LGBTQ+ label. Because right not a lot of metal stars are out and all of them have come out while being so massively famous that they could ‘take the risk’.”

Asmodeus and Azrael shared a look.

“The two of us are straight though...” Asmodeus said, “I’m literally famous for women throwing themselves at me, is them being out going to hurt either us or them?”

Bob tilted his head to the side. That was a fair question and one that should be considered. But he shook his head. “It shouldn’t. No one is going to expect the whole band to be queer. Take Corroded Coffin for example. Other than their bassist, Brian Martin being ace, he is still attracted to women romantically,” he held up his hands in defense when it seemed that a couple of the band were about to interject, “and I’m not saying he doesn’t count as queer, because I’m not. But the only one with what the average person would consider queer is their frontman, Eddie Munson. He is an out gay man, but even he didn’t come out until they were selling out arenas.”

The other members started teasing their lead singer, ribbing him and making low probably ribald comments.

Bob raised his eyebrows and cleared his throat.

Azrael turned him and Bob could feel the absolute glee radiating off the man. “Abbadon here, has a crush on Eddie.”

His face split into a large grin. “Aren’t you scheduled to tour with them next year?”

Abbadon coughed and cleared his throat. “Yeah, we’re working on that.”

Their manager who had been waiting in the corner on her phone for the meeting to conclude turned to the band. “What do you think, boys? Is Bob our man for the job?”

He looked up at her and then back to the band. “So what do you say? You ready to rock the metal world?”

Abbadon spoke for all of them when he said, “Yeah. Yeah we are.”

****

In the end it didn’t matter what Steve and his band wanted for the tour dates because Gareth’s little stunt landed him in rehab. And Corroded Coffin’s label refused to tour without him.

Which had pissed Eddie off. They had made a deal with Gareth and he had broken the deal first. And as shit as it was, getting a touring drummer was easier than replacing anyone else in the band.

Eddie and his band were doing an interview about Gareth’s sudden stint in rehab, talking about the future of the band.

Only they weren’t dressed like they normally were. They were still in jeans and t-shirts. But their jeans were in various shades of blue and Brian wore a plain white tee, Jeff wore a Taylor Swift Eras band shirt, and Eddie wore pale pink tee with David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust on it.

In short they did not look like a metal band. They looked like three guys, just shooting shit.

It had been a slow change over the summer. Every time the band went for an interview that wasn’t at an event one of them would dress slightly different. Then two or three of them would wear something a little less ‘metal’, until they were all dressed like they were.

The interviewer, Jenna Peterson looked as uncomfortable to be interviewing them as they looked to be interviewed.

“So let’s start with something softer,” she said, crossing her legs and simpering, “so why don’t we first first talk about your shift in style.”

Jeff threw back his head and laughed. “Good god! We don’t wear the ‘uniform’ for a couple of interviews and we get the clothes question.”

Brian shook his head.

“You think all those leather and chains and shit is comfortable?” Eddie asked with a raised eyebrow.

“Maybe, maybe not. But it sure is hot as hell,” she said cocking her head.

Jeff snorted and ran his tongue over his lips. “We were getting tired of the hate metal stars get for wearing anything but leather and black denim. Do you know how fucking hot that shit gets?”

“Like there was a bassist from a huge metal band,” Eddie said, agreeing, “that was papped wearing a graphic tee and cargo shorts standing outside of a shop where his wife was shopping and suddenly everyone was talking about how he sold out and that he was disrespecting the genre. Dude was sixty or some shit. If he can’t wear what makes him comfortable without being told he’s selling out, than what hope is there for up and coming bands from being shunned because they ‘don’t conform’ to the aesthetic of being in a metal band.”

Jenna smirked and tilted her head. “Is this about The Fallen and their assertion that they wouldn’t have been welcomed if they had been themselves.”

Jeff and Eddie shared a glance.

“I won’t lie,” Jeff said, “and say that wasn’t a part of it. But it was also because one of my good friends from high school was a huge metal fan. Loved all the greats. Metallica, Iron Maiden, Dio, Black Sabbath...like was the biggest fan of all of them. Had all their albums on vinyl, posters on her wall, but other than the odd band t-shirt she sure as hell didn’t dress like a metalhead.”

Jenna leaned forward and rested her chin on her hand, elbow propped up on her knee. “So what did she dress like?”

Eddie snorted, rolling his eyes. “She was a cheerleader with a fondness for pink and frilly. She loved floral prints and cardigans for fuck’s sake.”

Jenna sat back in shock. “Wait, really?”

Brian nodded, scratching his cheek thoughtfully. “Yeah. She’s our manager now. But the push back she would get for not dressing like a metalhead and just being a girl was repulsive.”

“We apologized to her about not trying to change the culture around what a metalhead should look like,” Jeff said, “and she waved us off. Said that if it had bothered her she would have said something herself. But she was the one that helped carefully curate what we wore so that it went smoother.”

“We’ve been talking to other bands, too,” Brian said. “Getting them to help. We are supposed to the genre about non-conformity but here we are pushing a conformity on people in the same story, different font.”

Jenna returned to her simpering, she batted her eyelashes at Jeff. “Is The Fallen among those you’ve asked to help?”

“No,” came Eddie’s blunt answer.

She reared her head back in shock and blinked at him for a moment. “Why not? It seems to me that of all the bands to need to dial it back, The Fallen would be at the top of that list.”

Brian snapped his fingers. “And that would be why. They don’t need to dial it back. Maybe they would be as famous as they are without the masks and shit, but now it’s integral to who they are as a band. And we aren’t going to make them change to make other people more comfortable.”

Jenna uncrossed and crossed her legs. “Well, good luck. So you just finished your ninth album, tell me about that process.”

They talked about the album and Gareth’s battle with substance abuse.

The interview never got less awkward, but Corroded Coffin handled it with such grace that a lot of people were calling Jenna out on social media for being the absolute worst choice for that interview.

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Muse: The band who fell to earth

Music journalist Simon Price talks to Muse ahead of their 2004 Glastonbury headline set, for The Independent. Sunday, 20 June, 2004. From the archives.

Good news! It's been a while since a group arrived fully formed from outer space. But here they are, primed and ready to storm Glastonbury, phase-shifters set to stun. Simon Price hits the road to Rome with neo-prog-rockers Muse, to reflect on the plenitude of old buildings, onrushing stardom and the place of guitar overload in the music of J S Bach.

Rome is a city where the present tarantellas chaotically with the ancient past, a surreal, anachronistic jumble of 20th-century, Renaissance and first-century architecture. Turn one corner and you're in La Dolce Vita, another and you're in Caravaggio, another and you're in Gladiator.

Rome is a city where the present tarantellas chaotically with the ancient past, a surreal, anachronistic jumble of 20th-century, Renaissance and first-century architecture. Turn one corner and you're in La Dolce Vita, another and you're in Caravaggio, another and you're in Gladiator.

In the heatlamp-intense glare of the afternoon sun, Muse do not especially resemble intrepid, Icarus-like rock visionaries whose musical ambition knows no restraint. If anything, in their brightly coloured Diesel shirts and three-quarter-length trousers, they look like anonymous, carefree Inter-railers seeing the sights.

The locals, however, are not fooled. As Matt Bellamy (vocals, guitar, piano), Chris Wolstenholme (bass) and Dom Howard (drums) laze by the Fontana di Trevi, where Anita Ekberg frolicked so iconically, or stroll down the Spanish Steps (until they are shooed away by a rather camp sailors' parade), they are regularly accosted by thrilled Italians asking for photos and autographs.

Bellamy, Wolstenholme and Howard all arrived in the sleepy Devon resort of Teignmouth from other parts of England. Instant outsiders, they bonded, and spent their teens getting into mild mischief, sneaking into the Single Parents Club in Winterbourne on Mondays and Tuesdays, hanging around in Poole drinking cider and playing football, and getting their heads kicked in for having long hair. "We were 14," Bellamy recalls, "and Howard was getting beaten up by 25-year-old men. It was that kind of place." Music was mainly a means to an end. Bellamy, whose father, George, played guitar in the Sixties instrumental group The Tornadoes studied the clarinet from the age of nine and had dreams of becoming a serious jazz musician. That all changed at the age of 13, when he played a Ray Charles blues piece on the piano at a talent contest. "I somehow pulled a girl, and I realised that music was a way to get female attention."

The three future Musos all joined various bands. "Dom's band was the cool one," Bellamy concedes. "They'd rent out a leisure centre, and all the kids would go to their gigs, smoke cannabis and so on." Things became a little more serious when the trio formed their own band. After working through names like Carnage Mayhem, Gothic Plague, Fixed Penalty and Rocket Baby Dolls, and frustratingly finding themselves obliged to play cover versions, they wisely settled on Muse.

With the invaluable help of the techno wizard Tom Kirk - the band's unofficial fourth member who drove them to London for their first gig in the capital, designs their live visuals and keeps a video diary of all they do - Muse were ready for take-off.

After attracting much attention at the 1998 In The City seminar in Manchester, the trio were invited to play similar showcases in New York and Los Angeles, winning record deals with Madonna's Maverick label in the States and Mushroom in the UK.

Their debut EP, Muscle Museum, and album Showbiz, produced by John Leckie(who also produced Radiohead's The Bends), won them a following from the kind of angsty teens who were already listening to bands like Placebo and the Manics, but sceptics dismissed them as a bunch of whiny sub-Radiohead wannabes. I should know. I was one of those sceptics.

For me, it all began to change with the release of "Plug In Baby", a single which sounded like a hotwired hybrid of Air's "Sexy Boy" and JS Bach's Toccata and Fugue, and the second album, the awkwardly titled Origin of Symmetry, in which they perfected a baroque'n'roll sound which combined operatic vocals with quasi-classical keyboards, Hendrix-like guitar overload, and at some points, church organs.

Muse were burning the punk rulebook. They were fearlessly resurrecting the banished ghosts of prog rock, and making music which was unashamedly pompous, histrionic and skyscrapingly ambitious. It was, in their phrase, hyper music.

At first I couldn't handle it. Slowly, I learned to love it. The clincher was their undeniably exciting live show, as encapsulated by their extraordinary appearance on this year's Brit Awards with which, to the minds of many viewers, they stole the show from that night's big winners, The Darkness. I ask if they have been aware of the way in which perceptions towards them have changed.

Howard is impish and smiley; Wolstenholme is the strong silent type; Bellamy is thoughtful and intense. Invariably, it is he who answers first.

"In the beginning," he says in the cool of the dressing room of the Stadio Centrale Del Tennis, "it was because we were young, and people thought we were just following in the footsteps of other bands." (He's right, of course. And some of those bands have been less than gracious about it. At this year's NME Awards, Thom Yorke - accepting the gong for Best Video - sneered: "We were up against some stiff competition there... what a shame Muse didn't win!")

Bellamy adds: "I think we've always been seen as an alternative band by which I mean that we're a band that has never really had its time. We've always been outside of all those. When nu-metal was big, we used to be seen in the same bracket as Coldplay, Radiohead, Travis. Now we're seen as quite rockin' - or maybe to the retro scene. What we've become alternative to has changed."

Muse now play with the assurance of a band who know that their pyrotechnics, both aural and visual, can win over pretty much any crowd. "We played a metal festival in Portugal the other day, and we were pretty nervous because the line-up was Korn, Static X, Linkin Park, and we were the only band who weren't pure metal. But we ended up going down really well. We can just about get away with playing to a metal audience without getting bottled off."

They've recently enjoyed playing to smaller, 500- to 1,800-seat venues in the United States, where the absence of the regimentation which their full visual extravaganza necessitates allowed them to play a more spontaneous, improvised set. But Muse aren't the sort of band who fetishise dingy, smoky club gigs - they're in their element playing to the masses.

Next Sunday, Muse headline the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival. I put it to them that it's a special challenge, since they will be playing to a crowd who aren't there to see them, and indeed who bought their tickets before the line-up was announced. There's a certain pressure to unify and to entertain.

Wolstenholme is sceptical. "Sometimes it's easy to big-up certain festivals, like Glastonbury and Reading, because they were the ones we went to when we were kids. But when you've played loads of other European festivals, you look at it just like any other. But at the same time," he ponders, "it is Glastonbury..."

"Sometimes it's enjoyable," says Howard, "when you know people haven't seen you before. We do know that there will be a lot of people who aren't there to see us..." "Unless it rains," says Bellamy, "in which case they'll all go home except 4,000 Muse fans standing around in their wellies."

Ludicrous. Preposterous. Ridiculous. Absurd. Flick through any random pile of Muse press cuttings, and these words will crop up time and again. Can the band, I wonder, see where this sort of appraisal is coming from? "I think I could," Bellamy admits, "until The Darkness came along. And we had to let them take over. There was a bit of Queen in what we did, a bit of pompous rock, but now they've come along and shown people what that really is like." Listening to The Origin of Symmetry, and it's even more grandiose successor Absolution, I imagine Muse in the studio having debates on whether they can really get away with so many excessive pomp-rock flourishes.

"You'll often turn around," says Howard, addressing Bellamy, "and go: 'We can't get away with this!' And I'll go: 'Of course we can!'" I get the impression that Yes We Can invariably wins... "Definitely," confirms Wolstenholme. "There have been times when we listen to what we've done, and we've forgotten what we set out to do in the first place. And those usually are the best tracks on the album. Like 'Butterflies And Hurricanes', with those 48-track backing vocals..." "We had so many different scene changes," remembers Bellamy. "At one point there were bongos! It sounded like that percussion troupe Stomp. It sounded like that."

Yesterday, I tell them, I watched Ronald Reagan's funeral on CNN in my hotel room. The church organist played a crashing, portentous chord which reminded me of something I'd heard recently, and which made me laugh when I remembered what it was: the final note of "Megalomania" by Muse. "I can see why people are amused by it," Bellamy smiles. "It's music you can't listen to every day. If someone put it on in the background of a party, everyone would go: 'Fucking hell, turn it off!' Our music is definitely not for all occasions."

Muse's latest video, for "Sing For Absolution", is another example of the Yes We Can spirit. Most bands would baulk at a treatment which had them blasting into space on a futuristic shuttle, crashing through a meteor storm, and come skidding to Earth which, in a Planet Of The Apes-like twist, turns out to be in ruins. Muse, however, thought...

"Yeah, why not! Exactly!" Howard says. "We thought: 'Let's fly some spaceships around!'" "Something happened in the early Nineties," theorises Bellamy, "where bands started taking themselves very seriously... No, 'seriously' isn't the right word, but being very anti-everything."

There's always been an idea that "alternativeness" is about sullen refusal, about what you say "No" to. It dates right back to The Clash refusing to play Top Of The Pops. "We do say 'No' to a whole lot of stuff - teenage magazines, certain TV shows we try to shy away from... but the chance to wear a space suit? We're well up for that."

There's a famous Smiths story about Johnny Marr presenting Morrissey with what he considered to be his finest piece of music. Morrissey took it away, and came back with the lyric: "Some girls are bigger than others/ Some girls' mothers are bigger than other girls' mothers." Marr reportedly wept. When Muse have created a similarly epic piece of music, does Bellamy feel an obligation to match it with lyrics of sufficient solemnity and import? "That can be dangerous sometimes when music is written by one person and lyrics by another. But when I write something epic, I feel I have to match it, sure." Lyrically, Muse have improved noticeably since Showbiz. Gone are the vague abstractions and, while they're never completely specific either, their songs now express a similar pre-apocalyptic dread to Joy Division and The Specials in their era, or Tricky and (yes) Radiohead in theirs. "I think I'm trying to write something that genuinely means something and has a purpose," Bellamy says, "whereas in the past maybe it was vague lines strung together, abstractly. You had to read it a line at a time, and the lines never matched up.

"I've never been that confident writing lyrics," he confesses. "I've always had to do it behind the mask of a melody. I wish I could write lyrics like Tom Waits, where it's full-on stories... But as you get older, you become more open to singing things you would have said no to. I wouldn't sing lyrics like 'You've got to be the best' when I was 17 or 18, because I would have thought it wasn't very cool, and a bit cheesy to sing that hook. But you get towards your mid-twenties..." Once upon a time, Muse were typical tour-bus shut-ins. No more.

"I think something happened about two or three years ago," says Wolstenholme, "where we realised we'd been to so many cities of the world, and never really seen any of them. People come up to you and say: 'Oh, you've been there, what's it like?' and you can't tell them anything." Apart from "nice air-conditioning". "Exactly. So we've been making more of an effort to get out there and take it all in."

"Now we're playing larger venues, though, it's more difficult," Bellamy adds. "Smaller venues tend to be in the town, so you step outside and you're there. Larger venues tend to be out-of-town, so you step outside and you're in... the car park. Before you know it, you've been in five car parks in five countries. So we did a bit of wine-tasting in France, went to a temple in Kyoto in Japan, did a bit of beach surfing in Australia."

"We're just trying to turn the whole thing into a bit of a holiday," grins Howard.

"I had food last night," says Bellamy, "that actually brought me to tears (mass laughter). Home-made pasta with tomatoes. It was so simple, so perfect, so intense that I started to well up! It was so fucking good compared to England. In England, tomatoes just taste of water. And these tasted of pure tomato. I was starving at the time, obviously..."

The Stadio Centrale Del Tennis is part of the vast sporting complex built on the banks of the Tiber as a monument to Mussolini's vanity. On the main piazza, a towering obelisk bears the dictator's surname, with floor tiles spelling out "DUCE DUCE DUCE", and huge blocks of stone carrying the inscription "Fascista". In Germany or Russia, they'd have torn down such an uncomfortable reminder. Not here.

But then, almost all of Rome's great monuments were built to flatter someone, whether Pope, emperor, God or gods. I ask Muse what they make of it all. "It sounds a silly thing to say," says Howard, "but everything's very old. We went to the Colosseum, but couldn't get inside 'cos the queue was so big. And I tried to go to the Vatican but they wouldn't let me in because I had shorts on. They were quite long shorts," he sulks, "they weren't Eighties running shorts... It's a shame, because I really wanted to see the Sistine Chapel."

It took Michelangelo many years to complete his great fresco. The intention was to inspire a sense of religious awe in the viewer. Can Muse identify with that kind of endeavour, to create something magnificent? I betray my question with a giveaway chuckle.

"You can always tell when journalists are trying to make you say something embarrassing," smiles Bellamy, "because they give it away by laughing." Howard is more willing to bite. "I do look at the Colosseum and think how many people and how much talent and how many years did it take to make that. I don't think people will be saying that about us in hundreds of years' time." You're so modest.

"In two thousand years' time," says Bellamy, "maybe The Beatles. But not Muse." But what about the idea of creating something purely for the glory of someone else, be they human or divine? Can you understand that? Bellamy, whose musical heroes include Debussy, Bach, Berlioz, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Liszt, Reich and Glass, thinks about this one.

"Most great composers," he agrees, "were originally making music for God. And painters. They weren't making it for money in those days, because most of them were already part of a relative upper-class. It wasn't as if you could achieve fame and fortune by doing it. Maybe by the days of Chopin, but I'm talking before that. And I think that enabled them to do something that was out of the ordinary. When someone's got that belief that they are actually in touch with God, I'm sure that brings out things which they would not have thought possible. In architecture, music and the arts, there's definitely an intelligence in the past which has gone missing. We think we're advanced now, but we've actually slipped behind."

One of the stand-out tracks on Absolution is titled "Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist". Did any members of Muse have religious upbringings? Bellamy: "No." Howard: "I got christened, but... y'know..." Wolstenholme: "No." So, will you die an atheist? "I don't know," says Bellamy. "I think it's impossible to. At the last moment you'd be going 'Please!'" If Bellamy doesn't believe in God - yet - then some of his other beliefs may raise eyebrows. He's an advocate of the theories of the writer Zechariah Sitchin, who believes that humans are the result of genetic experiments by visiting aliens.

"It's a logical explanation," Bellamy gamely maintains, untroubled by the possibility that I might be trying to stitch him up and paint him as a fruitcake.

"I think it carries weight. Evolution theory is the most widely renowned anti-religion, anti-creationist argument, but there is a loophole in it, the missing link between humans and apes, the lack of fossils. Evolution normally takes millions of years, but we seemed to advance in a very short period of time." He's in full flow now.

"In Sumerian times they calculated there were 12 planets, counting the sun and the moon - and the 12th planet is on an elliptical orbit, and every time it comes close to the earth, every 3,600 years, Biblical-level events happen. Sitchin takes it a step further, suggesting it's a self-sufficient geothermal planet - essentially a comet - with aliens on it, who experimented with chimpanzees to make us. Which explains the higher levels of thought, objectivity and so on. Our DNA is a mixture of alien and ape." Bellamy is an obsessive character. When he gets into something, he really gets into it. His current fixation is playing poker. He carries a pack of cards everywhere, and would dearly love to be on Channel 4's Late Night Poker.

"I go to a semi-legal poker club on Clerkenwell Road in London. They've found a loophole in the law where as long as you put all your money behind the counter and use chips, it's OK. I only play for small stakes, for fun. It's not really like gambling, it's not just chance: it's more advanced than just sticking your money on a roulette table. There is an element of strategy."

This, however, is about as vice-packed as things get. By rock musician standards, Muse are unusually polite, reserved young men. I only see Bellamy snap once, while he's enjoying a strawberry milkshake outside a pavement café. A corpulent, rude American woman takes an unsolicited photo of my hairdo, with a pig-like laugh, to Bellamy's disgust. "We're gonna take a picture of your arse!" he calls after her as she waddles away. They're not very rock'n'roll, as rock'n'rollers go.

"We should be dressed up like you, shouldn't we?" he jokes, eyeing my black plastic spikes. I know you went through a phase, I say. (Bellamy once sported a huge Judder Man hairdo himself.) "It comes and goes... We had a phase where we had a go," he admits, "at the full-on rock'n'roll life. It lasted about a year, then we got jaded." Nowadays the groupies are a thing of the past. Bellamy and Howard's girlfriends are here, as is Wolstenholme's wife (with whom he has three children).

"Sometimes you have the odd week where you're looking for parties, but the rest of the time you're taking it easy, relaxing on a beach." On stage, however, it's a different story. Bellamy is a man possessed. At a recent show in Atlanta, he somehow slashed his face open with the end of his guitar, leaving a laceration on his top lip which needed five stitches and must have left him looking like a gore-movie version of Moog from Will O' The Wisp.

"In your everyday life you can be reserved, but I think you become more open, comfortable, confident, relaxed on stage. The more crazy part inside gets exposed and you don't have to hide it all." Headlining one of the nights of the oddly titled Cornetto Free Music Festival (it's actually €37 to get in), Muse's intensity and energy effortlessly enraptures 6,000 Italians who know every word of every song in a language they do not understand. When he isn't pulling rock-god poses with his guitar, Bellamy leaps, Oz-like, behind a metal keyboard-pulpit known as "The Dalek", fronted by LEDs which light up every time he hits a note. It's brilliant, and it comes as little surprise to learn that Muse once considered incorporating a vampire act into the show.

Winding down backstage, and accepting with bemusement a visit from the Eighties pomp-rockers Marillion ("Who are they?" they whisper to me), Muse tell me what the future holds in store. I heard a rumour that they want to take their music into a rock-disco direction... "I think it's something we tried with 'Bliss'," says Bellamy. "I don't think we'll suddenly change genre. We may incorporate a bit of funk in there, maybe even samba... Another thing I'd like to do is take pieces of classical music, like Prokofiev, or the music from 2001: A Space Odyssey. I don't mean sample it, I mean a piece of music which goes in and out of that." Yes, he is serious. Yes, I asked. In the more immediate future, both Howard and Bellamy have started to take helicopter lessons.

"It all depends on how many hours you can do a year to maintain your licence. I've only had one lesson so far. I've always wanted to go in a helicopter, and only recently did we get to do it when we were in..." "Australia?" ventures Howard.

"No, it was the Grand Canyon. I've always been interested in flying anyway. It's the safest form of air transport." Yeah? "People think it would just drop like a stone if the engine failed, but it would just glide slowly down. The blades keep turning - the up-force keeps them spinning." Bellamy, it must be said, has something of a daredevil streak. When he isn't piloting choppers or swimming with sharks, he's being an amateur rocketeer.

"I've got a paraglider at home. It's a 50cc engine you put on your back, with a propeller on it." His eyes sparkle as he describes it. "You've got this enormous parachute, and you run down a hill to get you off the ground, then you switch the engine on. And you can stay in the air, for hours and hours and hours..." Few bands dare to fly as high as Muse. If you see them overhead, give them a wave.

[chemicalbrew]

i think i did it!

1. Title screen music

Title Theme (Super Mario Maker)

Main Theme (Papers, Please)

Pizza Deluxe (Pizza Tower)

Title (DynamiTracer)

Main Theme (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)

2. Opening level music

Toasty Buns (Parappa the Rapper 2)

Mines of Narshe (Final Fantasy VI)

Naraku – Upper Strata (Shin Megami Tensei IV)

Mines C (Spelunky)

Everblight Plain (Xenoblade 3)

3. Music from a shooter (I don't play those so I have no way to get more than the minimum)

Alterna Challenge Stage 4 (Splatoon 3) ~ the bang bing

Mountain Retreat (Resident Evil 6)

4. Music from a console-exclusive series

godsibb (Xenosaga 3)

Dog Ninja (Rhythm Heaven DS)

Labyrinth I - The Green Green Woodlands (Etrian Odyssey 1)

Arena Entrance (Fire Emblem 4: Genealogy of the Holy War)

Sky Diving (Pilotwings SNES)

5. Hub/overworld music

Hermit's Garden (Trails in the Sky the 3rd)

Large Map (Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne)

Scuttle Town (Shantae and the Pirate's Curse)

The Phantom World (Gurumin)

Harlech (Xanadu Next)

6. Music that makes you feel relaxed

In the Deep Woods (Stardew Valley)

Sponge Cave Spelunking (Yoshi's Woolly World)

We Have to Leave This Town Because I Have Done Something Unforgivable (Peter Talisman: Lord of the Harvest)

Aurora's Theme (Child of Light)

The Elemental Stars (Golden Sun)

7. Music from an indie game

Howling Wind (Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin)

Balcony (Cave Story)

A Conspiracy (Cosmic Star Heroine)

click (Cookie Clicker)

Come Closer (Coffee Talk)

8–bit music

Overworld (Kid Icarus)

Factory (MOTHER 1)

Vampire Killer (Castlevania)

Theme 2 (Tetris NES)

Fever (Dr. Mario NES)

9. Music from a licensed game

Pizza Theme (Spider–Man 2: The Game)

Dreaming of Crits (Battle Chasers: Nightwar)

HACHI – Matryoshka (featured in Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX)

Simple and Clean (Kingdom Hearts)

Pepsi Man Theme Song (Pepsi Man)

10. RPG battle music

Rude Buster (Deltarune ch.1)

Kiss of Jealousy (Live a Live)

Gale (Radical Dreamers)

Battle 2 (CrossCode)

First Reaping (Grimm's Hollow)

11. Puzzle game music

Thiana's Theme \ Forest Stage (Panel de Pon)

Tutorial (Brain Age)

Wario Puzzle 2 (Mario's Super Picross)

Luke's Door (Professor Layton and the Last Specter)

Fruit on Grass (Baba is You)

12. Music that makes you sad

Radiant Historia (Radiant Historia)

Depression Blues (Legend of Mana)

Ending 1 (Brandish 1)

Undertale (Undertale)

Schala's Theme (Chrono Trigger)

13. Favorite from a game you don't like

Forest Chillin' (OMORI)

Meridianus (Birth ME Code)

Village of Rynoka (Moonlighter)

Character Select (ARMS)

Strato (Owlboy)

14. Music featuring lyrics

Main Theme (Daytona USA)

Drifting Away (WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!)

The Pantheon (Ain't Gonna Catch You) (Bastion)

Shadowbringers (Final Fantasy XIV)

Satisfy (The World Ends With You)

15. Boss battle music

Boss Battle 1 (Kid Icarus: Uprising)

Battle! (Reshiram\Zekrom) (Pokemon Black\White)

Chaotic Dance (Baten Kaitos)

Death Match with Torna (Xenoblade 2)

Limit Force (Legend of Heroes V)

16-bit music

Pascal's Theme (Shin Megami Tensei)

Funky's Fugue (Donkey Kong Country)

Theme of Bass Fishing No. 1 (Shigesato Itoi's Bass Fishing No. 1)

Here's Some Weapons (Mario RPG)

Sanctuary Guardian (EarthBound)

17. Music you never get tired of

Dreams of Love and Literature (Doki Doki Literature Club)

Main Theme (Pandora's Tower)

b0f (Rinne)

The Bloodless (Hades)

Rollerdisco Rumble (Rhythm Doctor)

18. Music from a game released the year you were born

Ghost Gulping (Paper Mario)

Rhythm and Balance (Sonic Adventure 2)

2 AM (Animal Crossing)

Forest of Hope (Pikmin)

Monsoon Forest (Wario Land 4)

19. A(n official) cover of VGM

Stranger (Brandish 2, from Falcom Vocal Special J.D.K. BAND 3)

Title (Mario Kart 64, from MK64 on Club Circuit)

Brat Overflow ~ Branched (13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, from 13SAR Remix & Arrange Album - The Branched)

Road to Where the Dragon Sleeps (Zwei 1, from "zwei!!" SUPER ARRANGE VERSION)

First Steps (Celeste, from Celeste Piano Collections)

20. Music from a racing game (I don't play those :D)

Rainbow Road (Super Mario Kart)

Mute City (F-ZERO)

City Trial (Kirby Air Ride)

21. Music you associate with frustration

Temple –Heritage– (Brandish 4)

Proper Rhythm (Unbeatable)

Mausoleum Mash (Crypt of the NecroDancer)

Paternal Horn (NiGHTS into Dreams…)

DARKNESS (Ghost Trick)  

22. Town/village music

My Village is Number One (Xenogears)

Village of Inoa (Alundra)

A Day in the Village (Chained Echoes)

Harmonious Moment (Tales of Phantasia)

Frontier Town –Casnan– (Ys: Memories of Celceta)  

23. Underrated music (PC-98 music)

Abandoned District (Possessioner)

Tied Up (Ace of Spades)

vac_09 (Doki Doki Vacation)

Hometown (Remix city) (Grounseed)

Level 5 (Revival Xanadu 2 Remix)  

24. Music you have stuck in your head \ find catchy

Desert (Normal) (Monarch Monarch)

Narrative of an Illusion (Vantage Master Japan)

Rockmen (Explore) (FTL: Faster Than Light)

Clarification (Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward)

Block Destruction (3D Dot Game Heroes)

25. Music that gets you pumped

Bloody River (Sorcerian)

Megalith -Agnus Dei- (Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies)

Eclipse of the Sun (Hyrule Warriors)

Price (Persona 5)

Teknopathetic (Jet Set Radio Future)  

26. Music from a game you haven't played

Propaganda (Beyond Good and Evil)

Low Layer Area (Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter)

Buying Goods at Palmira (Evergrace)

Sims Vacation (The Sims: Vacation)

What U Need (Sonic Rush)

27. Music from a handheld game

Twilight Wanderers (Ys vs. Trails in the Sky)

The Great Sage's Theme (Miitopia)

Rhythm Code (Kirby: Planet Robobot)

Burned Relic (Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team)

Kinshicho - Kinshi Park (Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse)

28. Music that makes you feel nostalgic

Opening (Dragon Slayer)

Dreams of Our Generation (Rhythm Heaven Fever)

level 3 (Botanicula)

Investigation (Astral Chain)

Quake (Soukaigi)

29. Final boss music

Zanza the Divine (Xenoblade 1)

The Azure Arbitrator (Trails to Azure)

Serpent Eating the Horizon (Bravely Default)

The Strongest Foe (Ys: Oath in Felghana)

Impossible (Transistor)

30. Credits music

Turnabout Revival (Ace Attorney 1)

Come and See (Katana ZERO)

Bound Together (Pyre)

Quietus (999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors)

Happy Shabby Parade (Chulip)

(bonus) 31. Game Over music

Agnostic Shutdown (Head AS Code)

Stay In Your Coma (OFF)

Time For A Chance Meeting (Dinosaur)

I Closed My Eyes (Secret of Mana)

Game Over (Zelda: Minish Cap)

Kind of want to redo the 30 day video game music challenge. And this time without limiting myself to one answer per question and trying to be as diverse as possible

[sleep-i-ness]

Love At First Coffee (Vanya Hargreeves x reader)

Summary: Y/N is a struggling flautist, trying to make ends meet, but when a violinist catches her eyes, life doesn’t seem quite so difficult.

Request: No

TUA Taglist: @neymarlionelmessi7​

Beep beep beep. Y/N groaned, stretching out languidly as she patted her bedside table. Her fingers found nothing but the worn wooden surface. Blearily rubbing her eyes, she pushed herself up onto one elbow. The alarm was incessant. Where on earth was that phone?

The bitter smell of coffee filled the kitchen as she poured the boiling water into her chipped mug.  A lethargic ache had settled into her bones; the haphazard pile of unopened letters mounting her dread the more she looked at the mess. A quick glance at the plastic clock ticking merrily away warned her she was on the verge of being late if she did not leave now.

Y/N slung the straps of her flute case and tattered leather satchel over her shoulder, her crumpled sheet music clutched in one hand. The lock of her apartment was always such a fiddle and she stuffed the sheet music in her satchel, wincing as it creased even further. She yanked the door shut, leaning backwards to align the lock as she twisted the key.

With a huff, she blew the strands of hair that had fallen over her eyes during her tussle with the door. Her path was a familiar one; down the hallway over the scuffed tiles, where she’d have to wait for the creaky elevator to haul itself up to her, and then out onto the street. Past the rowdy bar that never seemed to shut and the hot dog street vendor to the bus stop, littered with chewing gum and graffiti. Then, depending on whether she had the time to waste on the agonizingly slow journey, it was either onto the grimy bus, nodding to the leering driver, or straight past, a brisk walk of about 20 minutes to the concert hall.

Today was not going in her favor. Y/N sighed as it pulled away from the stop. No need to make a choice now. The walk into the more central and less dodgy area of town was usually quite unpleasant; the streets were still reeling from the nighttime activities. She wrinkled her nose as the putrid scent of rotting garbage filled the air, a dumpster nearby overflowing with ripped trash bags. 

Keeping her head down, she hurried through the streets, neatly sidestepping the ‘businessmen’ on their flip phones and the gossiping ladies, one hand always clamping their handbags shut. A rush of balmy air burst through the vent as she passed over it, the warm stench of urine and cooking garbage wafting upwards. Left, then a right, then straight on past two crossroads and lines of honking traffic and foul-mouthed drivers, swearing at the day for daring to begin. Wait for the lights to turn red, cross over and continue down the road until you reach the performers door.

The Icarus Theatre. Y/N would have liked to be one of those performers who gushed on about how their performance center was ‘like a second home’, but that was cheesy and frankly unrealistic. Her dreams of being a world-famous flautist had been crushed the moment she’d received her first lot of bills and realized how naïve she truly was. The joy in performing in an orchestra was short-lived as every day felt like a struggle to scrape together enough money to keep herself out of debt and prove her parents wrong. That was enough to dampen anyone’s spirits.

Every hour she didn’t have a rehearsal, she was booked chockful with students of all ages and genders who turned up with a passion for the flute. Or their parents were forcing them to go. Either way she got paid and hoped that maybe she was imbuing someone with a new appreciation for classical music.

“Morning, Will.”

The principal piccoloist was already sat in his seat, absorbed in conversation with Lucy, one of the second violins. He glanced over and raised a slender hand in acknowledgment. Will was always punctual and smartly attired, wearing crisply ironed shirts and smart blazers, free of lint. Y/N was sharply aware of the contrast between them, her shirt creased and half-untucked and her hair escaping from its bun.

She flipped open the latches on her case; there was a trick to it, you needed to open both at once while opening the lid at the same time. Her prize and joy, her baby lay inside. The first time she had ever saved up enough money to buy herself something worthwhile, she had bought a professional flute. Before then, she’d been using her aunt’s old flute from the 60s, a battered old thing that was lucky to even still be able to play.

The murmur died down as Lorin Toscanini, the conductor, stepped onto the raised podium and raised his baton. Y/N slipped into her seat next to Will, who raised an eyebrow at the creased sheets she deposited onto her stand.

“Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Today we need to fix the timing on the opening sequence. Remember this is iconic and it needs to be perfect. Second violins, I hope you have improved since yesterday.” The nasally tone of Toscanini grated on Y/N’s nerves, especially so early in the morning when she would much rather be in bed.

Y/N raised her flute to her lower lip, watching the baton as it swayed in time with the music. Down, left, right, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. The violins and cellos came in in unison on the downbeat, bows drawing across the string in harmony. The harmonies in perfect time caused shivers to run up and down her spine as the bows swayed mournfully across the vibrating strings in unison.

Okay. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8-

“Stop, stop,” Toscanini cried out, baton smacking against the stand. All instruments were immediately lowered, as a sign of deference. Something about stroking his highly inflated ego. “Someone in the clarinets is playing a B natural instead of a B flat. Now remember, we want to create a sense of tension, so the dynamics start off at piano and then we reach mezzo forte. But this isn’t the most dramatic section; we are building up to that. So, at bar 4 we need an audible diminuendo. Like tiptoeing... From the top!”

There was something so magical about playing in an orchestra when it all slotted into place. You stopped being an individual person and instead became immersed in a group movement of sound and emotion, compelling the listener to be draw in with you. The different melodic lines weave together into one, playing off each other to create a final piece.

It was an almost addictive sensation. The feeling of being swept away and losing sense of oneself in the bigger picture of a whole was something Y/N craved when she wasn’t playing. Music restored a part of herself that she sometimes didn’t realize she was missing. It lifted her away from the mortal world, to a place where the music and the notes were the only thing that mattered.

Y/N’s eye fell upon one of the first violins, newly promoted, her brown hair pulled back tightly in a low ponytail. The woman’s brow was furrowed as her fingers danced over the neck of the guitar, swaying gently with the music. Momentarily transfixed, Y/N’s mind turned foggy as she lost count, all thoughts focused on the violinist.

The piece drew to its climax, as if a great beast had climbed to its hind legs and roared. A mounting rush of notes as each musician lost themselves in the crescendo, furiously playing. Cascading melodies toppled over each other, nimble fingers tumbling up scales and bow strokes timed impeccably.

E, G, A!

An audible sigh of satisfaction echoed round the room as the piece ended without any pauses for tinkering; the joy of a composition well played shared throughout all the players.

“Beautiful, just beautiful. I think we’ll call that a day, there. Our next rehearsal is at one on Wednesday, now do not be late.”

Now that the piece had ended, Y/N glanced over to the violinist she had spotted earlier. While Y/N quietly packed her instrument away, the woman prepared to slip out, unnoticed. Should she…?

“Hey,” Y/N flagged down the women, fingertips brushing the cuffs of her dark shirt. “I’m Y/N, I noticed you playing. It was beautiful! You recently got moved up from fourth chair to third, right?”

“Yeah,” the woman seemed flustered by the attention, a faint blush dusting her cheeks. “I’m Vanya, it’s nice to meet you.”

Y/N pulled her slipping straps back onto her shoulder as she grinned at Vanya from beneath the curls threatening to fall in her face. “Pretty name. Say, are you busy now? I know an excellent little coffee shop across the road.”

Vanya flushed as she murmured some expression of gratitude. She hesitated, carefully switching her phone on and off again before sliding it back in her pocket when no notifications showed up. “I’m free for a couple of hours. I have to teach lessons from 3 though.”

The coffee shop was quaint and always quiet; since a Starbucks had opened only a few doors down, business had slowly dried up until only a few regulars and those who were opposed to coffee from chain shops came along. Vanya fidgeted with the strap of her violin case, her eyes darting around the shop’s wooden and gold furnishings.

“Hey Marjorie, I’ll have a cappuccino and a chocolate éclair. Vanya, what do you want?”

“Oh, you don’t need to order for me, I can pay for myself.” Vanya’s eyes widened as she protested profusely.

Y/N raised an eyebrow, leaning nonchalantly against the bar, “I asked you to come with me for coffee, there’s no way that I am going to be so rude as to make my guest pay for her order. So?”

“I’ll have a mocha, thanks.”

Y/N soon joined Vanya where she was sitting, tucked away in a booth in the corner.

“One mocha, milady.” God, she sounded like one of those ‘nice guys’ in the Instagram DMs.

“Thanks,” Vanya laughed, and Y/N decided she quite liked hearing that sound and that she was definitely going to try and hear it more often. Especially, she wanted to see the way Vanya’s eyes crinkled as she tried to stifle her giggles and how her hand flew up to try and cover her face.

“So, tell me about yourself,” Y/N propped up her head on one hand as she sipped at her cappuccino, blowing softly on the frothy layer.

“Umm, I don’t know what there is to say, I’m a pretty boring person.”

Y/N could not believe that. There was something so hypnotizingly attractive about Vanya; a quiet sort of pretty that crept up on you when you were least expecting it and stole your breath away. Someone like that could never be boring, every inch of her whispered of a tale to be told.

“Have you got any siblings? Pets?”

Vanya’s brow furrowed almost imperceptibly before she smoothed her features out, as if to imply Y/N should know something. “Yeah, I have a sister and 3 brothers.”

“Wow, 3 brothers. That must have been a nightmare!”

“Yeah, I was kind of the black sheep of the family. But I haven’t spoken to them in years; we just ended up drifting,” Vanya’s tone appeared nonchalant, but a nervous hand gave her away as she massaged her neck. “It was my fault basically.”

“No that’s ridiculous. The only real excuse for cutting you off is if you killed someone or put someone in danger, and no offence, you don’t seem particularly capable of either of those things,”-Vanya pulled a face-“in a good way!”

“I don’t know, I feel like I deserved it.”

Y/N tore the éclair in half, messily coating her fingers in chocolate as she pressed her fingertips into the half-melted layer on top. “For you. Because fuck shitty families. Who needs them, am I right?”

Vanya giggled and raised her half in response, touching them together to make a toast. “Amen!”

There was a lull in conversation as attention was redirected to eating the intoxicatingly good pastries.

“What about you?” Vanya mumbled; mouth full. There was a tiny dot of cream on the left corner of her mouth and Y/N stared, transfixed as her tongue darted out to dab it away.

“Oh, me. Well, the whole struggling artist career path was not one my parents had hoped I would go down. In comparison to my banker brother, I’m a bit of a disappointment and they make sure to let me know.”

Christmas this year had been a nightmare. It was full of meaningful looks from her parents as her brother prattled on about his new promotion, or the last exotic trip he went on, or the wonderful restaurants near his place of work on Wall Street. She didn’t know what they expected her to do; just suddenly become a high-profile surgeon?

Vanya placed her hand over Y/N’s, looking earnestly into her eyes. “You’re not a disappointment. Fuck what they think.”

Y/N cracked a half-hearted smile at the sentiment of Vanya’s sentence, although there was a certain strangeness to hearing her say ‘fuck’. A hot sensation prickled the back of her neck as Vanya kept her hand where it was, her gaze never wavering as she seemingly searched for something in Y/N’s eyes.

“Well, now we’ve got the family trauma out the way, what do you like to do for fun?” Y/N said, every muscle relaxing as Vanya moved her hand to pick up her mug. She hadn’t realized how tense she was, nervousness laced into every tendon.

“Well, my life seems to be taken up with violin, but I enjoy writing. And I can cook.” Vanya paused to think about what she was saying. “Somewhat.”

“Somewhat?” Y/N laughed, trapping her lower lip between her teeth as she awaited Vanya’s response.

“I’m not about to be out here claiming that I’m world-class standard. However, I do make a mean cottage pie which you will have to try someday.”

Someday. That was promising. Y/N smiled sweetly, nodding fervently. “I’d like that very much.”

Y/N took a sip of her cappuccino, recoiling as the tip of her tongue was scalding by the still piping hot coffee. Vanya took one look at her and grinned.

“You’ve got something there,” she said, tapping the tip of her nose.

“Where?” Y/N rubbed her nose.

“No, wait, up a bit- to the right, no, left, umm-”

“Would you mind just getting it for me?” Y/N interrupted her, and Vanya froze.

“Yeah, uh,” she leant across the table, thumb extended as she brushed the callused pad gently across Y/N’s skin. “There. All gone.”

“Thanks.”

They shared a soft smile.

The walk back to Y/N’s apartment was swelteringly sticky, especially in the noon sun. However, today felt different. Buoyed along on a cloud of joy, she practically skipped over the cracks in the sidewalk and past the piled trash bags. Her mind swooped over the fields of possibilities, whirling thoughts on a tangent of their own. The storm in her mind had cleared to allow a small shaft of sunlight through to shine on the choppy waves below, great dark clouds parting with hope.

Her phone buzzed in her pocket.

Hi Y/N, it’s Vanya.

Y/N could barely contain the gleeful grin as she read the message, pressing her phone to her chest.

Hey Vanya, it was really nice to have coffee with you today. We should do something like that again.

Barely a couple minutes had passed when her phone emitted the telltale ding, alerting her to a new incoming message.

Absolutely. Don’t think I’ve forgotten that you promised to try my cottage pie.

Y/N tapped out a quick response, finger hovering over the send button as she reread it.

It’s a date.

[hvlloweens-a]

𝙷𝙴𝙰𝚃𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙾𝙺𝙴 AND 𝖋𝖗𝖎𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 ARE HEADING OUT ON THE ROAD FOR THE 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐂 𝐓𝐎𝐔𝐑 .

hi everyone ! first of all, thank you EVERYONE for applying ! every single app was flawless and all of you seem so sweet already . . . i’m over the moon with the level of enthusiasm and all of the apps that were slid into my inbox !  making decisions was even harder than i expected ( i knew it would be difficult but .. wow ! ) . i considered adding a third band because everything was beyond my expectations and i didn’t want to turn anyone away . 

if you weren’t accepted this time, i’ll be keeping your app and if a spot opens up at any point, you will be the first one(s) i come to ! below is the full list and links will be out in just a bit ! thank you again ! < 3

𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬.

heatstroke :

lead singer - ( felix mallard , cis male, he/him ) hey ! is that JACKSON BAILEY i saw coming off of the tour bus ? they’re a TWENTY-FIVE year old SCORPIO that is the LEAD SINGER in HEATSTROKE. tabloids say they should be called THE INTANGIBLE CONCEPT which makes sense given that they’re MAGNETIC and RETICENT . their fans would describe them as GRINNING WHEN YOU CATCH A STRANGER’S EYES IN A CROWDED ROOM, THE NAGGING WEIGHT OF FEELING LIKE YOU’RE LIVING A DOUBLE LIFE AND DRINKING LIQUOR STRAIGHT OUT OF THE BOTTLE . written by jamie, she/they, est, stargczing.

bassist - ( sydney sweeney , cis female, she/her ) hey ! is that LUCILLE ‘LUCKY’ HARLOWE i saw coming off of the tour bus ? they’re a TWENTY-TWO year old ARIES that plays BASS in HEATSTROKE . tabloids say they should be called THE WILDCARD which makes sense given that they’re PIQUANT and IMPETUOUS . their fans would describe them as CALLOUSED HANDS COVERED IN SILVER RINGS, EMPTY BOTTLES OF PEACH VODKA, & JUMPING IN THE OCEAN DURING A THUNDERSTORM . written by lily, she/her, est, glossiehrs.

lead guitarist - ( sharon alexie , female, she/her ) hey ! is that ODETTE TOUSSAINT i saw coming off of the tour bus ? they’re an TWENTY-TWO year old CAPRICORN that plays LEAD GUITAR in HEATSTROKE. tabloids say they should be called THE CATALYST. which makes sense given that they’re INDEPENDENT and INSENSITIVE . their fans would describe them as THE LOOK CALLOUSED HANDS AND MANICURED FINGERNAILS, EYES AS DEEP AS THE OCEAN, HIDDEN LIP TATTOOS AND SLY GRINS . written by macy, she/her, EST, macucourtnu

drummer - ( serena motola , cis female, she/her ) hey ! is that ARAMINTA MINTY NAKANO i saw coming off of the tour bus ? they’re a TWENTY-ONE year old PISCES that plays THE DRUMS in HEATSTROKE. tabloids say they should be called THE HOYDEN which makes sense given that they’re EXUBERANT and ECCENTRIC . their fans would describe them as EMPTY CANS OF ASSORTED DRINKS, MISMATCHED SOCKS AND HEELYS, EYELINER IN ANY SHADE OF COLOUR BUT BLACK . written by juniper, they/she, gmt+8, kingfishings.

rhythm guitar - ( charlie plummer, non-binary, he/they ) hey ! is that FLYNN NICHOLS i saw coming off of the tour bus ? they’re a TWENTY-THREE year old LIBRA that plays LEAD GUITAR in HEATSTROKE. tabloids say they should be called THE BOY NEXT DOOR which makes sense given that they’re GENTLE and SELF-DESTRUCTIVE . their fans would describe them as A SPITTING IMAGE OF RIVER PHOENIX IN MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO,THE KIND OF GUY WHO’D LET YOU BUM HIS LAST CIG,  A WELL-LOVED GUITAR COVERED IN STICKERS. written by syd, they/them, est, genuineviolence.

friction :

bassist - ( kathryn newton , cis female, she/her ) hey ! is that WINSLET CARVER i saw coming off of the tour bus ? they’re a TWENTY-FOUR year old SCORPIO that plays LEAD GUITAR in HEATSTROKE. tabloids say they should be called THE INSURGENT which makes sense given that they’re CHARISMATIC and SELF-DESTRUCTIVE . their fans would describe them as DANCING ON TOP OF TABLETOPS, POPPING BUBBLEGUM, AND FLIPPING OFF CAMERAS. written by ali, she/her, central, svmmerwines.

lead singer - ( sab zada , cis female, she/her ) hey ! is that FLORRIE VELASCO i saw coming off of the tour bus ? they’re a TWENTY THREE year old PISCES that is the LEAD SINGER in FRICTION. tabloids say they should be called THE KALEIDOSCOPE which makes sense given that they’re WHIMSICAL and ARBITRARY. their fans would describe them as DYING YOUR HAIR IN THE BATHROOM SINK, PLATFORM BOOTS PAIRED WITH TEENY DRESSES, AND DIGGING YOUR CLAWS INTO A DREAM. written by kat, she/her, gmt, grlbands.

keyboardist - ( harry styles , cisman, he/him ) hey ! is that MICHAEL SULLIVAN i saw coming off of the tour bus ? they’re a TWENTY-SIX year old PISCES that plays KEYBOARD in FRICTION. tabloids say they should be called THE ICARUS which makes sense given that they’re METICULOUS and ARROGANT . their fans would describe them as THE LAST SHOT OF WHISKEY THAT YOU KNOW YOU SHOULDN’T TAKE, THE SOUND OF A PIANO ECHOING IN AN EMPTY ROOM, THE DISAPPOINTED SIGH OF A BURN OUT’S PARENT  . written by sammy, she/her, pst, wildbcys.

drummer - reserved ( khadijha red thunder ) !

lead guitarist - ( belmont cameli, cis man, he/him ) hey ! is that WYATT VITALE i saw coming off of the tour bus ? they’re a TWENTY-FOUR year old AQUARIUS that plays LEAD GUITAR in FRICTION. tabloids say they should be called THE REBEL WITH A CAUSE which makes sense given that they’re IDEALISTIC and NARCISSISTIC. their fans would describe them as LARGE ACTS OF REBELLION, FINGERTIPS READY TO PLUCK OUT A GUITAR SOLO, & SUNGLASSES AT NIGHT. written by lisa, she/her, est.

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OLYMPIAN AESTHETICS.

𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐄:   laughter-loving,      sweet smiles,    dressed  in  silk  and  satin,  flower  in their  hair,   sees the world as a runway,   unapologetically  sexual,    the sea washing their ankles, in love with love,   stirrer of passion,     cunning  concealed  by  painted  lips,  secret daggers,     doves,    revolution in their kiss,     delighting  in  the  waves,   flirtatious  winks,  strolling along the beach,    staring wistfully from a balcony,  this  is  how  to  be  a heartbreaker,   wants to be adored, gets turned on by danger.

𝐀𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐎:     glitz  and  glamour,   art  galleries, turning  the  volume  up,   being  made  of gold,   neatly-organized  music  sheets,   notebooks filled with poetry, bathing in the sunlight, the powerful urge to create,   collecting  vinyl  records,    beautiful  cover  of Wonderwall,  playing multiple  instruments, tasting like sunshine,  healing touch, speaking in prophecies,  smile mingled  with  wrath,    shunning lies,   sporting  shades,    hanging  out  at  music festivals with their  friends,  sleeps  naked,      arrow  to  the  heart,    paint  brushes,   probably  has  a Tinder  account.

𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐒:       armed for battle,   wants to raise a dog with their significant other,   soft spot for children,  gives piggyback rides, scarred body,   blood on their hands and face, willing to fight the world for the ones they love, fights against injustice, warm  hugs, well-worn combat boots,   boxing gloves,  bandages wrapped around bruised knuckles, first raised in protest,     ignites  revolutions, fear  is  a  prison,  more sensitive than what their tough shell would have you think,  exhausted, damaged  goods, force to be reckoned with,  red roses, curses under their breath.  

𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐒:       keen  sense  of  a  hunter,  freckles  like  constellations  on  their  skin, piercing eyes, disheveled  braid,  moonlight  peaking  through  the  shadows,   the  calm  of  the  forest  at  night,  lying  on  the  grass  and  staring  at the  stars, mother  doe  and  her  fawn,  protecting  their  kin, the  moon  shimmering  on  a  still  lake,     quiver  full  of  arrows  resting  against  the  bark  of  a  tree,    running  with  wolves,   bonding  while  circled  around  a  campfire,   not  being  much  of   a  people  person ,   arrow  hitting  a  target,   popping  egos,   patience  on  3% ,  touches  heaven  and  returns  howling.

𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐍𝐀:    discerning  gaze,  unreadable  face,   quiet  museums,  owl  perched  on  their  finger, armor  that  intimidates,  eye  for  architecture,   plays  the  sims  for  the  sole  purpose of  building  houses,  studied the blade  while  was  everyone  else  was  busy  getting  laid,  big  fan  of  logic, loves  brain teasers, ��  ancient  buildings, sweaters  in  neutrals  and cool colors,  hair  done  up,   can kill you with their brain,   heads  to  the  library  often  to  research,  sharpened  pencils,   abs  that  can  cut  steel,   stoic  statues,  pottery classes.

𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐑:      soil-covered  hands, smile  that  can  bloom  flowers,   skin  loved  by  the  sun,   being   the   mom-friend,   can  lift  you  and  your  friends,   flowers  kept  in  the  pockets  of  overalls,     takes  pride  in  their  beautiful  garden,     speaks  to  their  plants,   leaves  rustling  in  the  wind,    stalks  of   wheat,    picking   fruit,   greenhouses,   heart   as  strong  as  a  mountain,   values   simplicity,    daises   dotted  across  a  collarbone,   curls  crowned  with  flowers,    folded   pile  of  sweaters   in   warm   hues,   pulling  out   fresh-backed  bread  out  of  the  oven  and  the  smell  wafting  through  the  air.

𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐘𝐒𝐔𝐒:   drunk  shitposter, on  their  sixth  glass  of  wine  before  you’ve  even  finished your  second,   seductive   smirks,   untamed   curls,    rich  fabrics  on  dark  skin,     sleek-furred  panthers,     theater  masks,     stage  productions,   receiving  a  standing  ovation,     rose  caught  between  their  teeth,   being  the  baby  of  the  bunch,   wild  parties  that  last from  sundown  to  sunup, creeping  vines,   inspiring  loyalty,     grand  opera  houses, masquerade  balls,    rolls  of  film,   shattered  chandeliers  with  broken glass  scattered across the  wine-spilled  floor,     pouring  champagne  into  flutes,  lives  for  the   applause.

𝐇𝐄𝐏𝐇𝐀𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐒:   the calloused  hands  of  someone  who  knows  labor,  sweaty brow,  flame  burning  in  their  eyes,  inventive  mind,   broad  shoulders, steampunk  goggles,   nuts  and  bolts  stored  away  in  little  boxes,   ashes,    striking  a  match,   blueprints  for future  projects,   fixing  up  a  busted  up  car  and  giving  it  cool  upgrades,     wrestles  with  bitterness,    work  boots  have  seen  better  years,    wrinkled  plaid  shirts,   iron  melted  in  blazing  fire,    huge  jackets,    crafting  masterpieces,    greased-stained  overalls, fascination  with  robotics,  pain  is  fuel,     stack  of  weaponry, even  their  muscles  have  muscles.

𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐀:   resting  bitch  face,    dressed  to  the  nines, cows  grazing  on  a  pasture, cool  rain,   loving  and  hating  fiercely, hand  clutching  a  string  of  pearls,     large  chandelier with glittering  crystals, plays  the  sims  for  the  sole  purpose  of  killing  off  their  sims, romance  to realism,  pictures  of  the  sky  while  flying  on  a  plane,  files  that  under  fuck  it, downs glasses  of  wine  as  they  relax  with  a  scented  bubble  bath  and  netflix, like  their selfie  or you’re  grounded, knows 57  convenient  ways  to  murder  a  man, dark  eyes that penetrate your  soul,   marble  and  gold.

𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐌𝐄𝐒:     devil-may-care  smile,  always  up-to-date  on  the  latest  technology, will  steal  your  french  fries, does  it  for  the vine, shitposter, puts  googly  eyes  on  everything, meme hoarder, long  drives  on  the  highway, ma  and  pop  diners,   spontaneous  road  trips, folded  maps,  fingers  dancing  across  the  keyboard  of  a  laptop,    shooting  hoops  on  the basketball  court, chatting  up  strangers  as  you  all  journey  to  your  own  destinations,   goes  jogging  in  the  morning,     mixes  redbull  with  coffee,  menace  on  april fool’s, hoodies  and sneakers.  

𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐈𝐃𝐎𝐍:    storm  with  skin,    colorful  coral  reefs,   waves  crashing  against  the  shore,   stroking  the  soft   fur  of  a   cat,    their   heart   pounding   as  their   horse’s  gentle  trot   speeds   into   a   gallop,     tousled  locks,  clothes  smeared  with  paint,   owns several  sketchbooks  yet  always  yearns  to  own  more,   leather  jackets,    fondness  for  diy projects,    handwriting  that  flows  across  the  page,    nimble  fingers     playing  the  strings of  a  violin, velvety   singing   voice   that   haunts   your  dreams, mood  as   ever-changing  as  the  sea,  the  roar  of  a  motorcycle,  compass  with  a  spinning  arrow.  

𝐙𝐄𝐔𝐒:   thunder  in  their  heart,   running  on  coffee,     flash  of  lightning, natural  charisma,   eloquence,  badass  in  a  nice  suit,     aficionado  of  history, force  of  nature,  lenny  face,  nightmare-filled  nights, proud  arm  around  their  lover’s  waist,  high-rise  buildings,   planes  soaring  through  a  cloudless  sky,   technician on the  piano, maintains  order,   strong  handshake,   juggling   multiple  evens  on   their   busy   schedule  with  ease,   expensive watch.

TAGGED BY:   stolen from @pumpcursed​ TAGGING:  @youthblamed​ @manynarrators​ ( timmy or icarus!! ) ++ anyone else who wants!!

[icarusinterlude]

TWELVE DAYS OF ZAYN

 Day 1 - Year in review

I’ll start with this: I am very proud of Zayn and what he did in 2018. despite people hating him (what’s new), not getting to promote his album, shitty interviews, his team not doing their job, etc. I’ve chosen some of the good things that (for me) marked 2018. In no particular order: zoems - he stole my heart yet again, showing me how thoughtful and smart he is and letting me see what’s going through his beautiful mind. The stars are what we look at because that is what we are will forever be tattooed in my brain and my heart. Icarus Falls - he released the album and turned my whole life upside down. I’m so, so proud of it, of him. I’ll say something that probably won’t make any sense, but bear with me? I usually don’t know how to say what I want, thoughts that I have don’t come out the way I want them - I stumble over words too much (and sometimes there are no word at all, just my limbs going places). The feelings I have are left unsaid because I don’t know how to express myself, or I say too much and look like an idiot. What I’m trying to say is that I’m very bad with words, but Z helps. I find my thoughts, something I want to say, but don’t know how to in his words, his music and I guess that’s the point? Am I just saying nonsense again? Probably. All in all, I’m forever grateful for IF and I hope Zayn knows he changes lives and that we’re all very proud of him. Covers - oh boy. Killing me softly? Can’t help falling in love? Knocks me off my feet? sHe - piano version? Do I need to tell you more? 12/10 His new tattoos, all zelfies he blessed us with, the looks he served both at Grammy’s and in pap pic? He kept on giving and giving. I need to mention music videos for Let me, Sour Diesel and Entertainer; he really was out there making Oscar worthy videos and acting like he’s next James Bond (and boy, would that be something worth watching). Other things worth mentioning are photo shoots and his collabs within fashion industry. I mean, hello, C O N V E R S? Penshoppe? The Kooples? Fashion King.

@2019. be kind to him, let him rest, keep his skin clean, let him promote his music. Let us see him smile, hear him talk and bless us with some selfie here and there. And please let him be soft.

Also, donate if you can x

[rentalgoose]

I can’t fit the whole name in 1 ask, so this is part 1. Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfe­schlegel­stein­hausen­berger­dorff­welche­vor­altern­waren­gewissen­haft­schafers­wessen­schafe­waren­wohl­gepflege­und­sorg­faltig­keit­be­schutzen­vor­an­greifen­durch­ihr­raub­gierig­feinde­welche­vor­altern­zwolf­hundert­tausend­jah­res­voran­die­er­scheinen

You left out a couple of letters (in all three asks)! It’s: Wolfe­schlegel­stein­hausen­berger­dorff­welche­vor­altern­waren­gewissen­haft­schafers­wessen­schafe­waren­wohl­gepflege­und­sorg­faltig­keit­be­schutzen­vor­an­greifen­durch­ihr­raub­gierig­feinde­welche­vor­altern­zwolf­hundert­tausend­jah­res­voran­die­er­scheinen­von­der­erste­erde­mensch­der­raum­schiff­genacht­mit­tung­stein­und­sieben­iridium­elek­trisch­motors­ge­brauch­licht­als­sein­ur­sprung­von­kraft­ge­start­sein­lange­fahrt­hin­zwischen­stern­artig­raum­auf­der­suchen­nach­bar­schaft­der­stern­welche­ge­habt­be­wohn­bar­planeten­kreise­drehen­sich­und­wo­hin­der­neue­rasse­von­ver­stand­ig­mensch­lich­keit­konnte­fort­pflanzen­und­sicher­freuen­an­lebens­lang­lich­freude­und­ru­he­mit­nicht­ein­furcht­vor­an­greifen­vor­anderer­intelligent­ge­schopfs­von­hin­zwischen­stern­art­ig­raum

A - “Arabella” by Arctic Monkeys

D - “Deceptacon” by Le Tigre

O - “Of Once And Future Kings” by Pavlov’s Dog

L - “Laugh Till I Cry” by The Front Bottoms

P - “Paracetamol” by Declan KcKenna

H - “Heart-Shaped Box” by Nirvana

B - “Black Mambo” by Glass Animals

L - “Lucky Girl” by Fazerdaze

A - “Are You Satisfied?” by MARINA

I - “Inbetween Days” by The Cure

N - “Not Too Bad” from Fun Home

E - “Electric Love” by BØRNS

C - “Cinnamon” by Palehound

H - “How Soon Is Now?” by The Smiths

A - “And So It Goes” by Billy Joel

R - “Run Boy Run” by Woodkid

L - “LA Devotee” by Panic! At The Disco

E - “Edge of Seventeen” by Stevie Nicks

S - “Sex On Fire” by Kings of Leon

D - “Disorder” by Joy Division

A - “A Decade Under The Influence” by Taking Back sunday

V - “Vacation” by Florist

I - “In The Woods Somewhere” by Hozier

D - “Dust In The Wind” by Kansas

E - “Easy Target” by blink-182

A - “Allentown” by Billy Joel

R - “Rill Rill” by Sleigh Bells

L - “Love Will Tear Us Apart” by Joy Division

F - “Fluorescent Adolescent” by Arctic Monkeys

R - “Run” by Hozier

E - “Empty” by Kevin Abstract

D - “Daddy Issues” by The Neighbourhood

E - “Everything’s A Ceiling” by Death Cab for Cutie

R - “Rhode Island” by The Front Bottoms

I - “I Bet On Losing Dogs” by Mitski

C - “Cool And Refreshing” by Florist

K - “Karma Police” by Radiohead

G - “Gooey” by Glass Animals

E - “Expo ‘86″ by Death Cab for Cutie

R - “Red Eye” by Vance Joy

A - “All For Leyna” by Billy Joel

L - “Let’s Kill Tonight” by Panic! At The Disco

D - “D’you Have A Car?” by SWMRS

H - “Howlin’ For You” by The Black Keys

U - “Uprising” by Muse

B - “Be Nice To Me” by The Front Bottoms

E - “El Dorado” by Death Cab for Cutie

R - “Rasputin” by Boney M.

T - “This Year” by The Mountain Goats

I - “It Will Come Back” by Hozier

R - “Rosanna” by Toto

V - “Video Games” by Lana del Rey

I - “It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me” by Billy Joel

N - “Nina Cried Power” by Hozier

J - “Joanie” by The Front Bottoms

O - “Off To The Races” by Lana del Rey

H - “HELP” by The Front Bottoms

N - “New Slang” by The Shins

K - “Kin” by Kevin Abstract

E - “Eleanor Rigby” by The Beatles

N - “Nobody Knows You (When You’re Down And Out)” by Leslie Odom, Jr.

N - “No. 1 Party Anthem” by Arctic Monkeys

E - “Eddie” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show

T - “The Bitch Of Living” from Spring Awakening

H - “Humongous” by Declan McKenna

L - “Love Me” by The 1975

L - “Let It Be Me” by Ray LaMontagne

O - “Oh No!” by MARINA

Y - “Your Best American Girl” by Mitski

D -  “Drunk Kid Catholic” by Bright Eyes

M - “my boy” by Billie Eilish

A - “All Is Full of Love” by Death Cab for Cutie

R - “Radio Ga Ga” by Queen

T - “The World According To Chris” from Carrie: The Musical

I - “I Melt With You” by Modern English

N - “Nova Baby” by The Black Keys

N - “Normal Song” by Perfume Genius

E - “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” by The Police

R - “Right Hand Man” from Hamilton

O - “Ophelia” by The Lumineers

O - “Otherside” by The Red Hot Chili Peppers

L - “Loveletting” by Sons of an Illustrious Father

I - “I Hope You’re Miserable” by Moose Blood

V - “Vampire Money” by My Chemical Romance

E - “Every Other Freckle” by alt-J

R - “Rose Tint My World” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show

P - “Personal Jesus” by Depeche Mode

A - “Andy, You’re A Star” by The Killers

U - “Up On Melancholy Hill” by Gorillaz

L -  “Lipstick Covered Magnet” by The Front Bottoms

Q - “Queen” by Perfume Genius

U - “Uma Thurman” by Fall Out Boy

I - “I Got” by Young The Giant

N - “Non-Stop” from Hamilton

C - “Creep” by Radiohead

Y - “You’re My Home” by Billy Joel

R - “Rabbit Hole” by blink-182

A - “Anna Sun” by WAK THE MOON

N - “New York State Of Mind” by Billy Hoel

D - “Different Names For The Same Thing” by Death Cab for Cutie

O - “Our Love Is God” from Heathers

L - “last words” by isaac gracie

P - “Piano Man” by Billy Joel

H - “Harry Dean” by SWMRS

S - “Sweater Weather” by The Neighbourhood

H - “Hot Knifer” by Peach Pit

E - “Everlong - Acoustic” by Goo Fighters

R - “Rox In The Box” by The Decemberists

M - “Make Me Your Queen” by Decaln McKenna

A - “Africa” by Toto

N -  “Name” by The Goo Goo Dolls

T - “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out” by The Smiths

H - “Hero” by Family of the Year

O - “Online Songs” by blink-182

M - “Milk” by The 1975

A - “April, Come She Will” by Simon & Garfunkel

S -  “Shampain” by MARINA

U - “Under The Bridge” by The Red Hot Chili Peppers

N - “Nervous” by Gavin James

C - “Cecily Smith” from Fly By Night

A - “After The Storm” by Mumford & Sons

S -  “Starring Role” by MARINA

V - “Valentine” by 5 Seconds of Summer

I - “Islands” by Young The Giant

C - “COPYCAT” by Billie Eilish

T - “Thank You For The Venom” by My Chemical Romance

O - “Old Friends” by Pinegrove

R - “Resonance” by Home

W - “Wolfman” by The Front Bottoms

I - “Iscariot” by WALK THE MOON

L - “Let The River Run” by Carly Simon

L - “Lose It” by SWMRS

I - “I Know A Place” by MUNA

A -  “Alexander Hamilton” from Hamilton

M - “Medicine” by Daughter

X - “XO” by Fall Out Boy

E - “Echo” by Kevin Abstract

R - “running on empty” by isaac gracie

X - “Xanadu” by Rush

E - “Emperor’s New Clothes” by Panic! At The Disco

S -  “Step Out” by José González

Y - “You’re So Vain” by Carly Simon

A - “Aaron Burr, Sir” from Hamilton

N - “Need” by Pinegrove

C - “Cemetery Drive” by My Chemical Romance

Y - “You May Be Right” by Billy Joel

Z - “Zombie” by The Cranberries

E - “Ease” by Troye Sivan

U - “Underdog” by Imagine Dragons

S -  “Sunspot” by Tula Vera

W - “Why Didn’t You Stop Me?” by Mitski

O - “Older Chests” by Damien Rice

L - “Laura Palmer” by Bastille

F - “Flashlight” by The Front Bottoms

E - “Every Night” by Imagine Dragons

S - “Sedona” by Houndmouth

C - “Cola” by Lana del Rey

H - “Hurricane Drunk” by Florence + The Machine

L - “Layla” by Eric Clapton

E - “Ease On Down the Road” from The Wiz

G - “Gold Dust Woman” by Fleetwood Mac

E - “East Coast Anthem” by Good Charlotte

L - “Lone Star” by The Front Bottoms

S - “South” by Hippo Campus

T - “Teen Idle” by MARINA

E - “Edelweiss” from The Sound Of Music

I - “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor

N - “NFWMB” by Hozier

H - “Hollaback Girl” by Gwen Stefani

A - “American Pie” by Don McLean 

U - “Unobstructed Views” by Death Cab for Cutie

S - “Signs” by Tula Vera

E - “El Condor Pasa (If I Could)” by Simon & Garfunkel

N - “Northen Downpour” by Panic! At The Disco

B - “Brand New City” by Mitski

E - “Empire (Let Them Sing)” by Bring Me The Horizon

R - “Right Red Hand” by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

G - “Gum” by Moose Blood

E - “Enjoy The Silence” by Depeche Mode

R - “Red Solo Cup” by Tody Keith

D - “Downeaster Alexa” by Billy Joel

O - “One More Name In Nighlife” by Dane Terry

R - “Rock Show” by blink-182

F - “Fat Lip” by Sum 41

F - “Fuckmylife666″ by Against Me!

W - “West Coast” by Lana del Rey

E - “Enter Sandman” by Metallica

L - “Leningrad” by Billy Joel

C - “Criminal” by Fiona Apple

H - “Helena” by My Chemical Romance

E - ­”Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” by Rupert Holmes

V - “Volcano” by Damien Rice

O - “O Children” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

R - “Runner” by Kevin Abstract

A - “All The Small Things” by blink-12

L - “Like Real People Do” by Hozier

T - “Teenage Kicks” by The Undertones

E - “Even Flow” by Pearl Jam

R - “Romeo” by Chairlift

N - “Novocaine” by Fall Out Boy

W - “When Did Your Heart Go Missing?” by Rooney

A - “Adam’s Song” by blink-182

R - “Round And Round” by Imagine Dragons

E - “Everybody Hurts” by R.E.M.

N - “Nicotine” by Panic! At The Disco

G - “Goodnight Saigon” by Billy Joel

E - “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” by Wang Chung

W - “White Cedar” by The Mountain Goats

I - “Icarus” by Bastille

S - “Sara Smile” by Hall & Oates

S - “Seventeen” by Peach Pit

E - “Everybody Talks” by Neon Trees

N - “Nothing Left To Say / Rocks” by Imagine Dragons

H - “Holy Ghost” by BØRNS

A - “A Burning Hill” by Mitski

F - “Frozen Pines” by Lord Huron

T - “The Ghosts Of Beverly Drive” by Death Cab for Cutie

S - “Sun” by Sleeping At Last

C - “Cleopatra” by The Lumineers

H - “Heat Of The summer” by Young The Giant

A - “A Match Into Water” by Pierce The Veil

F - “Family Friend” by The Vaccines

E - “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” by Tears for Fears

R - “Radioactive” by Imagine Dragons

S - “Somebody Else” by The 1975

W - “Wish You Were Here” by Pink Floyd

E - “Everyday Is Like Sunday” by Morrissey

S - “silhouettes of you” by isaac gracie

S - “Stable Song” by Death Cab for Cutie

E - “Everything I Didn’t Say” by 5 Seconds of Summer

N - “No Room In Frame” by Death Cab for Cutie

S - “Scenes From An Italian Restaurant” by Billy Joel

C - “Comfortably Numb” by Pink Floyd

H - “Hallelujah” by Jeff Buckley

A - “American Boyfriend” by Kevin Abstract

F - “Feel Good Inc.” by Gorillaz

E - “Everyone Is Gay” by Great Big World

W - “White Teeth Teens” by Lorde

A - “Arms Tonite” by Mother Mother

R - “Red Barchetta” by Rush

E - “Everything Now” by Arcade Fire

N - “No Sunlight” by Death Cab for Cutie

W - “we fell in love in october” by girl in red

O - “O Valencia!” by The Decemberists

H - “Hey Jude” by The Beatles

L - “Love On Top” by Beyonce

G - “Geyser” by Mitski

E - “Evil Woman” by Electric Light Orchestra

P - “Pressure” by Billy Joel

F - “Fixin’” by WALK THE MOON

L - “Locked Out” by Daddy Issues

E - “Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)” by Death Cab for Cutie

G - “Ghost Of You” by 5 Seconds of Summer

E - “Echoes” by Pink Floyd

U - “Underneath The Sycamore” by Death Cab for Cutie

N - “Nine In The Afternoon” by Panic! At The Disco

D - “Dog Days Are Over” by Florence + The Machine

S - “Streetlife Serenader” by Billy Joel

O - “O My Heart” by Mother Mother

R - “Radio” by Lana del Rey

G - “Georgia” by Vance Joy

F - “Fool” by BØRNS

A - “Alone Together” by Fall Out Boy

L - “Lookalike” by Conan Gray

T - “The Love Club” by Lorde

I - “In Cold Blood” by alt-J

G - “Ghosting” by Mother Mother

K - “Kissing in Cars” by Pierce The Veil

E - “Easy To Love” by Billie Holiday

I - “Idle Town” by Conan Gray

T - ­”The Night We Met” by Lord Huron

B - “Baby Came Home” by The Neighbourhood

E - “Edgar Allan Poe” by Lou Reed

S - “Santeria” by Sublime

C - “Changing My Major” from Fun Home

H - “Human” by The Killers

U - “Underwater Bride” by Passenger

T - “terrified” by isaac gracie

Z - “Zanzibar” by Billy Joel

E - “Electric Avenue” by Eddy Grant

N - “Nara” by alt- J

V - “Very Few Dancers” by Sons of an Illustrious

O - “One Hundred Sleepless Nights” by Pierc The Veil

R - “Ride” by Lana del Rey

A - “Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked” by Cage The Elephant

N - “North American Ride” by Mallory Merk

G “ Gods & Monsters” by Lana del Rey

R - “Ready To Go (Out Of My Mind)” by Panic! At The Disco

E - “Electric Blue” by Icehouse

I - “I Can’t  Believe You’re In Love With Me” by Billie Holiday

F - “Farmer Refuted” from Hamilton

E - “Eleven” by Taking Back Sunday

N - “Norgaard” by The Vaccines

D - “Dancing In The Moonlight” by King Harvest

U - “Unbelievers” by Vampire Weekend

R - “Run Joey Run” by David Geddes

C - “Cupid” by Ryan Beatty

H­ - “Helpless” from Hamilton

I - “In The Heights” from In The Heights

H - “Hood” by Perfume Genius

R - “Rare” by Waterparks

R - “Riptide” by Vance Joy

A - “America” by Imagine Dragons

U - “Underground” by Adam Lambert

B - “Babylon” by 5 Seconds of Summer

G - “God In Jeans” by Ryan Beatty

I - “Inútil” from In The Heights

E - “Embraceable You” by Billie Holiday

R - “Ride Like The Wind” by Christopher Cross

I - “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” by The Proclaimers

G - “Greek God” by Conan Gray

F - “Freeze Your Brain” from Heathers

E - “Enth E Nd” by Linkin Park

I - “Imagine” by John Lennon

N - “Narcolepsy” by Third Eye Blind

D - “December, 1963 (Oh What A Night!)” by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

E - “Eva’s Final Broadcast” from Evita

W - “Washing Machine Heart” by Mitski

E - “Everybody Finds Out” by Fleetwood Mac

L - “Linger” by The Cranberries

C - “Caifornia” by Rufus Wainwright

H - “hollow crown” by isaac gracie

E - “Everybody Happy” by Queen

V - “Vienna” by Billy Joel

O - “Our Lawyers Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn’t Get Sued” by Fall Out Boy

R - “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” by Steely Dan

A - “A Lack Of Color” by Death Cab for Cutie

L - “Lolita” by Lana del Rey

T - “Take Me To Church” by Hozier

E - “Everybody’s Girl” by Rick Springfield

R - “Rock’n Me” by Steve Miller Band

N - “Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met…)” by Panic! At The Disco

Z - “Everything Happens To Me” by Billie Holiday

W - “What The Water Gave Me” by Florence + The Machine

O - “Over At The Frankenstein Place” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show

L - “Landfill” by Daughter

F - “First Date” by blink-182

H - “Hayloft” by Mother Mother

U - “Underneath” by Adam Lambert

N - “Nails For Breakfast, Tacks For Snacks” by Panic! At The Disco

D - “Don’t Stop Me Now” by Queen

E - “Ever Since New York” by Harry Styles

R - “Rich Girl” by Hall & Oates

T - “Tusk” by Fleetwood Mac

T - “Toothpaste Kisses” by The Maccabees

A - “A Movie Script Ending” by Death Cab for Cutie

U - “Until The Night Turns” by Lord Huron

S - “Smoke Two Joints” by Sublime

E - “Every Breath You Take” by The Police

N - “Number Of The Beast” by Iron Maiden

D - “Daniel In The Den” by Bastille

J - “Jolene” by Dolly Parton

A - “A Diamond And A Tether” by Death Cab for Cutie (LOOOOVE this song)

H - “Hazey” by Glass animals

R - “Remembering Sunday” by All Time Low

E - “Everytime I Close My Eyes” by The Backstreet Boys

S - “Swimming Pool” by The Front Bottoms

V - “Virgin Veins” by Coma Cinema

O - “One Of These Nights” by The Eagles

R - “Run To The Hills” by Iron Maiden

A - “Angela” by The Lumineers

N - “Not Today” by Twenty One Pilots

D - “Dear Theoosia” from Hamilton

I - “In Bloom” by Neck Deep

E - “Everytime I Look For You” by blink-182

E - “Evil” by Interpol

R - “Runnin’” by Adam Lambert

S - “Swear To God, The Devil Made Me Do It” by The Front Bottoms

C - “Coconut Skins” by Damien Rice

H - “Hiding With Boys” by Creeper

E - “Evil Eyes” by Styx

I - “Information Travels Faster” by Death Cab for Cutie

N - “Nirvana” by Adam Lambert

E - “Excuses” by Alanis Morissette

N - “Nice Guys Finish Last” by Green Day

V - “Visiting” by Pinegrove

O - “Old Scars/Future Hearts” by All Time Low

N - “Night People” by You Me At Six

D - “Dancing Queen” by ABBA

E - “Exit Music (For A Film)” by Radiohead

R - “Roll Away Your Stone” by Mumford & Sons

E - “Exquisite Dead Guy” by They Might Be Giants

R - “Redundant” by Green Day

S - “Silver Soul” by Beach House

T - “Tiny Vessels” by Death Cab for Cutie

E - “Extraordinary Girl” by Green Day

E - “Eye Of The Tiger” by Survivor

R - “Reject” by Green Day

D - “Dammit” by blink-182

E - “Earth” by Sleeping At Last

M  - “Make You Feel My Love” by Adele

E - “Elvira” by The Oak Ridge Boys

N - “Nettles” by Arctic Monkeys

S - “St. Walker” by Young The Giant

C - “Cruel World” by Lana del Rey

H - “Holding On To You” by Twenty One Pilots

D - “Delta Dawn” by Tanya Tucker

E - “Electric Chapel” by Lady Gaga

R - “Restless Heart Syndrome” by Green Day

R - “Reckless” by You Me At Six

A - “Anna Molly” by Incubus

U - “Uptight” by Green Day

M - “Miami 2017 (I’ve Seen The Light Go Out On Broadway” by Billy Joel

S - “Swimming Field” by Memory Tapes

C - “Cherry Wine” by Hozier

H - “Hell Above” by Pierce The Veil

I - “I Believe” from Book Of Mormon

F - “Feel It Still” by Portugal. The Man

F - “Flaws” by Bastille

G - “Gold” by Sir Sly

E - “Evil in the Night” by Adam Lambert

N - “No Buses” by Arctic Monkeys

A - “Ana Ng” by They Might Be Giants

C - “Can I Stay” by Ray LaMontagne

H - “How To Be A Heartbreaker” by MARINA

T - “Thank U” by Alanis Morissette

M - “My Body” by Young The Giant

I - “I Miss You” by blink-182

T - “Toxic” by Britney Spears

T - “Two Coffins” by Against Me!

U - “Unison” by Pinegrove

N - “No Shows” by Gerard Way

G­ - “Ghost” by Sir Sly

S - “Super Trouper” by ABBA

T - “Thinkin’ Bout You” by Frank Ocean

E - “Electricity” by Arctic Monkeys

I - “I Got You Babe” by Bahamas

N - ‘empty” by Ray LaMontagne“National Anthem” by Lana del Rey

U - “Up The Wolves” by The Mountain Goats

N - “Nothing To Lose” by Billy Talent

D­ - “Down By The Water” by The Decemberists

S - “still feel.” by half•alive

I - “I’m Low On Gas And You Need A Jacket by Pierce The Veil

E - “Evil Twin” by Arctic Monkeys

B - “Brazil” by Declan McKenna

E - “Ephemeral Artery” by Neon Indian

N­ - “No Plan” by Hozier

I - “Immortals” by Fall Out Boy

R - “Room To Breathe” by You Me At Six

I - “It’s Time” by Imagine Dragons

D - “darkness of the day” by isaac gracie

I - “I Will Possess Your Heart” by Death Cab for Cutie

U - “Until I Am Whole” by The Mountain Goats

M - “Man” by BØRNS

E - “Empty” by Ray LaMontagne

L - “lovely (with Khalid)” by Billie Eilish

E - “Evergreen” by Cavetown

K - “Kelly Kapowski” by Moose Blood

T - “The Man” by The Killers

R - “Rock Is Dead” by Marilyn Manson

I - “I Do” by Kevin Abstract

S - “Songbird” by Fleetwood Mac

C - “Coney Island” by Death Cab for Cutie

H - “Heaven’s Gate” by Fall Oout Boy

M - “Mind Over Matter” by Young The Giant

O - “Over The Sun” by Tinpan Alley

T - “The Answer” by George Salazar

O - “Orange Crush” by R.E.M.

R - “R U Mine?” by Arctic Monkeys

S - “Seventeen Again” by Eurythmics

G - “Guns and Ships” from Hamilton

E - “Everything Is Temporary (Sticks And Stones)” by Cavetown

B - “Bethlehem” by Declan McKenna

R - “Red Right Hand” by Arctic Monkeys

A - “American” by Lana del Rey

U - “Untitled V.2″ by Cavetown

C - “Californication” by The Red Hot Chili Peppers

H - “Hang ‘Em High” by My Chemical Romance

L - “Lisa” by George Salazar

I - “Ingenue” by Death Cab for Cutie

C - “Clint Eastwood” by Gorillaz

H - “Homewrecker” by MARINA

T “that was then” by isaac gracie

A - “Always” by Panic! At The Disco

L - “Liability” by Lorde

S - “SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK” by Joji

S - “Satellite” by Guster

E - “Exhausted” by Chloe Moriondo

I - “Into The Cave We Wander” by Gerard Way

N - “Nobody” by Hozier

U - “UGH!” by The 1975

R­ - “Rust” by Clay Cages

S - “Smother” by Daughter

P - “Palisade” by Pinegrove

R - “Recycling” by Pinegrove

U - “Ultaviolence” by Lana del Rey

N - “No One’s Gonna Love You” by Band Of Horses

G - “Grace Kelly” by MIKA

V - “Ventura Highway” by America

O - “Out Of Control” by Hoobastank

N - “Not In That Way” by Sam Smith

K - “Kiss From A Rose” by Seal

R - “Rings” by Pinegrove

A - “American Idiot” by Green Day

F - “Funny You Should Ask” by The Front Bottoms

T - “This Is Why We Fight” by The Decemberists

G - “Geyser” by Mitski

E - 

S - “Snow (Hey Oh)” by Red Hot Chili Peppers

T - “the death of you & i” by isaac gracie

A - “Awkward Conversations” by The Front Bottoms

R - “Rut” by The Killers

T­ - “Tennessee” by P.S. Eliot

S - “Spaceman” by The Killers

E - 

I - “I Was A Kaleidoscope” by Death Cab for Cutie

N - “Narrow Your Eyes” by They Might Be Giants

L - “last words” by isaac gracie

A - “A Horse With No Name” by America

N - “New Friends” by Pinegrove

G - “Good Help (Is So Hard To Find)” by Death Cab for Cutie

E - 

F - “Flintridge” by Kevin Abstract

A - “Au Revoir (Adios)” by The Front Bottoms

H - “Heart To Hart” from 9 To 5

R - “Run And Tell That!” from Hairspray

T - “The Mighty Fall” by Fall Out Boy

H - “Hear Me” by Imagine Dragons

I - “I Was Once A Loyal Lover” by Death Cab for Cutie

N - “Nashville” by The Indigo Girls

Z - 

W - “Where Is My Mind?” by The Pixies

I - “Istanbul” by They Might Be Giants

S - “Satisfied” from Hamilton

C - “Cherry” by Moose Blood

H - “Hold On Till May” by Pierce The Veil

E - 

N - “Namesake” by Pinegrove

S - “Starry Starry Night” by Don McLean

T - “telescope” by isaac gracie

E - 

R - “Raining” by The Front Bottoms

N - “Nine To Five” from 9 to 5

A - “Aftershave Ocean” by The Vaccine

R - “Rhode Island” by Kevin Devine

T - “This Is What Makes Us Girls” by Lana del Rey

I - “I’m So Sorry” by Imagine Dragons

G­ - “Georgia” by Kevin Abstract

R - “Roses And Cigarettes” by Ray LaMontagne

A - “Aqualung” by Jethro Tull

U - “Under Presure” by Queen

M - “Modern Love” by David Bowie

A - “All Revved Up With Nowhere To Go” by Meat Loaf

U - “Undone - The Sweater Song” by Weezer

F - “Friendship” by Kevin Abstract

D - “Diet Mountain Dew” by Lana del Rey

E - 

R­ - “Road Trip” by Chloe Moriondo

S - “Sink My Ship” by Melacholily

U - “Unhappy Birthday” by The Smiths

C - “Cough Syrup” by Young The Giant

H - “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now” by The Smiths

E - 

N - “Night Light” by The Mountain Goats

N - (Nice Dream) by Radiohead

A - “Another Night On Mars” by The Maine

C - “Carried Away” by Passion Pit

H - “Home Is A Fine” by Death Cab for Cutie

B - “Bruise” by Ryan Beatty

A - “Asleep” by The Smiths

R - “Radio Free Europe” by R.E.M.

S - “Stay Young, Go Dancing” by Death Cab for Cutie

C - “Corduroy Dreams” by Rex Orange County

H - “Ho Hey” by The Lumineers

A - “Alive” by Pearl Jam

F - “Fourth Of July” by Fall Out Boy

T - “The Other Woman” by Lana del Rey

D - “Dead!” by My Chemical Romance

E - 

R - “Rain” by MIKA

S - “Stay Together For The Kids” by blink-182

T - “Tattoo” by Kevin Abstract

E - 

R - “Rainbow” by Kesha

N - “Naked Sunday” by Stone Temple Pilots

W - “Waking The Witch” by Kate Bush

E - 

L - “Lost In The Light” by Bahamas

C - “California Dreamin’” by The Mamas and the Papas

H - “Heartlines” by Florence + The Machine

E - 

G - “Gone” by Tula Vera

E - 

H - “Homemade Dynamite” by Lorde

A - “Addict With A Pen” by Twenty One Pilots

B - “Blackbird” by The Beatles

T­ - “Tom Sawyer” by Rush

B - “Brothers On A Hotel Bed” by Death Cab for Cutie

E - 

W - “Whole Lotta Love” by Hozier

O - “One Song Glory” from Rent

H - “Heavy In Your Arms” by Florence + The Machine

N - “Need 2″ by Pinegrove

B - “Bridge Over Troubled Water” by Simon & Garfunkel

A - “Air Catcher” by Twenty One Pilots

R - “Rat A Tat” by Fall Out Boy

P - “Poacher’s Pride” by Nicole Dollanganger

L - “Lovesong” by The Cure

A - “A Loaded Smile” by Adam Lambert

N - “Narrow Escape” by Ray LaMontagne

E - 

T - “Technicolor Girls” by Death Cab for Cutie

E - 

N - “Natives” by blink-182

K - “Karma Chameleon” by Culture Club

R - “Re: Stacks” by Bon Iver

E - 

I - “Impossible Year” by Panic! At The Disco

S - “Shake It Out” by Florence + the Machine

E - 

D - “Dirty Summer” by Mother Falcon

R - “Read My Mind” by The Killers

E - 

H - “House Of Wolves” by My Chemical Romance

E - 

N - “Night Knuckles” by Cavetown

S - “St. Peter’s Cathedral” by Death Cab for Cutie

I - “I’m Going Home” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show

C - “Chiquitita” by ABBA

H - “Hardest Of Hearts” by Florence + The Machine

U - “Unknown Brothe” by The Black Keys

N - “Nostalgia In My BedRoom” by Cavetown

D - “Disasterology” by Pierce The Veil

W - “What Sarah Said” by Death Cab for Cutie

O - “Outlaws Of Love” by Adam Lambert

H - “Hey There Delilah” by The Plain White T’s

I - “I Can Make You A Man” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show

N­ - “Noise In My Head” by Cavetown

D - “Death Valley” by Fall Out Boy

E - 

R - “Rebel Rebel” by David Bowie

N - “Nature Boy” by Nat King Cole

E - 

U - “Until The Night” by Billy Joel

E - 

R - “Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secure” by Arctic Monkeys

A - “A Car, A Torch, A Death” by Twenty One Pilots

S - “Sweet Caroline” by Neil Diamond

S - “Strawberry Blond” by Miski

E - 

V - “Vital Signs” by Rush

O - “Ode To Sleep” by Twenty One Pilots

N - “Naughty Girl” by Beyonce

V - “Victorious” by Panic! At The Disco

E - 

R - “Reckless Serenade” by Arctic Monkeys

S - “Summer Shandy” by The Front Bottoms

T - “The Drug In Me Is You” by Falling In Reverse

A - “Aftermath” by Adam Lambert

N - “Neal Cassady Drops Dead” by Morrissey

D - “Doors Unlocked And Open” by Death Cab for Cutie

I - “I Don’t Care” by Fall Out Boy

G - “Give ‘Em Hell, Kid” by My Chemical Romance

M - “Mr. Brightside” by The Killers

E - 

N - “Neon Gravestones” by Twenty One Pilots

S - “Smile Like You Mean It” by The Killers

C - “Come Together” by The Beatles

H - “Hold No Guns” by Death Cab for Cute

L - “Learning” by Perfume Genius

I - “I Don’t Love You” by My Chemical Romance

C - “Cloudbusting” by Kae Bush

H - “Hot Patootie - Bless My Soul” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show

K - “Kids In America” by Kim Wilde

E - 

I - “If U Seek Amy” by Britney Spears

T - “Tangled In The Great Escape” by Pierce The Veil

K - “King And Lionheart” by Of Monsters And Men

O - “One For The Road” by Arctic Monkeys

N - “Never Enough” by The Cure

N - “Never Going Back Again” by Fleetwood Mac

T - “Teenagers” by My Chemical Romance

E­ - 

F - “Folkin’ Around” by Panic! At The Disco

O - “One Point Perspective” by Arctic Monkeys

R - “Red Tide” by Rush

T - “The Chain” by Fleetwood Mac

P - “Poor Boxer Shorts” by Mom Jeans.

F - “Famous Last Words” by My Chemical Romance

L - “Lone Digger” by Caravan Palace

A - “Awake My Soul” by Mumford & Sons

N - “Never Let Me Go” by Florence + The Machine

Z - 

E - 

N - “Never Had No One Ever” by The Smiths

U - “Untouched” by The Veronicas

N - “Never Too Late” by three Days Grace

D - “Dance, Dance” by Fall Out Boy

S - “Seven Devils” by Florence + The Machine

I - “I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)” by Meat Load

C - “Crush Culture” by Conan Gray

H - “Hurricane” by Panic! At The Disco

E - 

R - “Red, Red Wine” by UB40

F - “Friction” by Imagine Dragons

R - “Red Sector A” by Rush

E - 

U - “Unwritten” by Natasha Bedingfield

E - 

N - “Nobody” by Mitski

A - “All The Time” by Green Day

N - “Nobody Puts Baby In a Corner” by Fall Out Boy

L - "Loveryboy” by You Me At Six

E - 

B - “Burn” from Hamilton

E - 

N - “Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)” by My Chemical Romance

S - “Superposition” by Young The Giant

L - “Lies” by MARINA

A - “Are We The Waiting / St. Jimmy” by Green Day

N - “No One Does It Better” by You Me At Six

G - “Golden Days” by Panic! At The Disco

L - “Little Wanderer” by Death Cab for Cutie

I - “I Won’t Give Up” by Jason Mraz

C - “Candy Store” from Heathers

H - “Hum Hallelujah” by Fall Out Boy

F - “FROOT” by MARINA

R - “Reflektor” by Arcade Fire

E - 

U - “Up All Night” by blink-182

D - “Dammit Janet” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show

E - 

U - “Uptown Girl” by Billy Joel

N - “New American Classic” by Taking Back Sunday

D - “Death Of An Interior Decorator” by Death Cab for Cutie

R - Rehab” by Amy Winehouse

U - “Us And Them” by Pink Floyd

H - “Heaven Can Wait” by Meat Loaf

E - 

M - “Motorcycle” by The Front Bottoms

I - “I Have Friends In Holy Spaces” by Panic! At The Disco

T - “Twin Skeletons (Hotel In NYC)” by Fall Out Boy

N - “New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Have You Seen My Wife, Mr. Jones)” by The Bee Gees

I - “I See Love” by Passenger

C - “Cough It Out” by The Front Bottoms

H - “House Of Memories” by Panic! At The Disco

T - “Talking Bird (Demo)” by Death Cab for Cutie

E - 

I - “Interlude” by Melancholily

N - “Nico And The Niners” by Twnety One Pilots

F - “Fade Away” by Susan Sundfør

U - “Use Somebody” by Kings of Leon

R - “Religion” by Lana del Rey

C - “Cath…” by Death Cab for Cutie

H - “Hotel California” by The Eagles

T­ - “The Phoenix” by Fall Out Boy

V - “Vegas Lights” by Panic! At The Disco

O - “Only Ones Who Know” by Arctic Monkeys

R - “Rent” from Rent

A - “American Eulogy: Mass Hysteria / Modern World” by Green Day

N - “New York, New York” by Frank Sinatra

G - “Ginger” by The Front Bottoms

R - “Reptilia” by The Strokes

E -  

I - “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” by Panic! At The Disco

F - “Frankie Sinatra” by The Avalanches

E - 

N - “Night And Day” by Frank Sinatra

V - “Valentine’s Day” by Linkin Park

O - “Old Yellow Bricks” by Arctic Monkeys

R - “reverie” by isaac gracie

A - “American Sports” by Arctic Monkeys

N - “New Perspective” by Panic! At The Disco

D - “DESTROYA” by My Chemical Romance

E - 

R - “Rhiannon” by Fleetwood Mac

E - 

R - “Ribs” by Fleetwood Mac

I - “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)” by Hall & Oates

N - “Night at Lake Unknown” by Conor Oberst

T - “This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An arms Race” by Fall Out Boy

E - 

L - “Long Division” by Death Cab for Cutie

L - “Little Bribes” by Death Cab for Cutie

I - “Islands In The Stream” by Dolly Parton/Kenny Rogers

G - “Grapevine Fires” by Death Cab for Cutie

E - 

N - “Nirvana” by sam Smith

T - “The Sound Of Settling” by Death Cab for Cutie

G - “Golden” by Fall Out  Boy

E - 

S - “Someone To Watch Over Me” by Frank Sinatra

C - “Caraphernelia” by Pierce The Veil

H - “Heartache Tonight” by The Eagles

O - “Overtrown” by Pinegrove

P - “Plastic Flowers” by The Front Bottoms

F - “For Crying Out Loud” by Meat Loaf

S - “Sarah Smiles” by Panic! At The Discoo

V - “Venus” by Sleeping At Last

O - “Over My Head” by Fleetwood Mac

N - “No Cars Go” by Arcade Fire

H - “High Dive” by Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness

I - “I Wanna Get Better” by Bleachers

N - “No Peace”by by Sam Smith

Z -  “Zeroes” by David Bowie

W - “We Looked Like Giants” by Death Cab for Cutie

I - “Isle Of Flightless Birds” by Twenty One Pilots

S - “Spooky” by Classic IV

C - “Cemetery Drive” by My Chemical Romance

H - “Hey Julie” by Fountains Of Wayne

E - 

N - “No you Girls” by Franz Ferdinand

S - “Stop The World I Wanna Get Off With You” by Arctic Monkeys

T - “The Ghost Of You” by My Chemical Romance

E -

R - “Ring Of Fire” by Johnny Cash

N - “Northern Lights” by Death Cab for Cutie

A - “Anyways” by Arctic Monkeys

R - “Riot” by Three Days Grace

T - “The Secret Society” by Creeper

 I - “Imitation Of Life” by R.E.M.

G - “Girls / Girls / Boys” by Panic! At The Disco

R - “Rise” by Skillet

A - “A Happy Tune” by Melancholily

U - “Using” by Sorority Noise

M - “Maps” by The Front Bottoms

There are literally not enough songs in the known universe that begin with  ‘E’ or ‘Z’ to complete the name. I hate this man and his ridiculously long name, I hate this ask game, I hate you I hate myself. This took my three fucking days, I hate it.

[emjenenla]

answer the questions and tag 21 mutuals you would like to get to know better! 

Thank you @wrapmeupinplastc for tagging me!

nicknames: I don’t really have a nickname irl, though there are a couple people who call me Em. I was almost universally called Tree in high school (yikes).

zodiac sign: Aries

height: 6’1” (henceforth: Tree. The worst part of this is that it was a teacher who gave me this nickname)

hogwarts house: Ravenclaw

last thing i googled: “what ira are they talking about in peaky blinders?”

favourite musicians: Bastille

song stuck in your head: “Nobody Can Save Me Now” by Linkin Park (oh, how embarrassing, I’d promised myself I wouldn’t admit to listening to them anymore after a irl friend laughed at me for it.)

following: 110

followers: 203 (I hit 200, yay! I want to do something to celebrate, but I don’t know what. Does anyone else have any ideas?)

do you get asks: Sometimes, more now that I started taking fanfic requests. I like to talk if anyone wants to.

amount of sleep: I go to bed between midnight and 2am every night regardless of when I need to get up.

lucky number: 8

what you’re wearing: jean capris and a black Batman tee-shirt

dream job: librarian and an author

dream trip: London, Italy or NYC

instrument: I’m a singer (first Alto). I don’t play an instrument beyond enough piano to learn my parts.

languages: just English, though I think languages are really fascinating and would like to learn another

favourite songs: I listen to music almost constantly, so this is as hard a question as asking me what my favorite books are. My favorite Bastille song is Icarus because it reminds me of one of the protagonists of my original WIP. I’ve been listening to a lot of covers of anime theme songs recently and I really like “Period” and “Again” from Fullmetal Alchemist.

random fact: My family and I are the type of people who habitually drive fifteen hours to visit relatives who live in another state.

aesthetic: earbuds, books and graphic tee-shirts

I’m tagging @queenjustyna @clawsnbeak @desertflower303 @theredscrolls @jemimavetcci @bookishwitchling @possiblephil @gottalovedogs21 @madi-starlight @thethorabides and anyone else who wants to do this!

[jasntodds]

Summary: 2 Underground Boxers. Biggest underground competition in Chicago. Both are the ones to watch, expected to win. Bet on by everyone who knows of the league. Neither can afford to lose. One champion. Only one problem: they fall for each other.

Series masterlist || spotify link || songs below the cut

1-800-273-8255 - Our Last Night cover

The A Team - Ed Sheeran

Afterimage - WVNDER

All I Need - Courage My Love

Anyone - Lauren Sanderson feat. Former Vandal

Back To You - Our Last Night cover

Break Away (piano version) - Artist Vs Poet

By My Side - Brett Hite

Camisado - Panic! At The Disco

Close The Distance - Go Radio

Come Back Home - We Are The In Crowd

Crash - You Me At Six

Dear God - Hunter Hayes

Double Helix - Knuckle Puck

Downtown’s Dead - Sam Hunt

Drown In My Mind - Story Untold

Face Down - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

The First Punch - Pierce The Veil

Get By - Real Friends

Ghost Of You - 5 Seconds Of Summer

Gone - Knuckle Puck

Gone, Gone, Gone - Phillip Phillips

Had It Coming - Like Pacific

Hall Of Fame - The Script

Hell Of A Night - Don Vedda

Home - Daughtry

How To Save A Life - The Fray

The Hurt Is Gone - Yellowcard

Hurts Like Hell - Andrew Garcia

I Don’t Love You Anymore - Real Friends

I’ll Follow (acoustic version) - Fancy Cars, Svrcina

Laps Around A Picture Frame - Broadside

Late Nights In My Car - Real Friends

Lauren’s Song - Breathe Carolina

Lego House - Ed Sheeran

Let It Go - James Bay

Live Like You Were Dying - Tim McGraw

Lose Yourself - Eminem

Lost In The Moment - NF, Andreas Moss

Make It To Me - Sam Smith

Make You Miss Me - Sam Hunt

Maybe I Will Learn - Rhys

Mind Over Matter (acoustic) - PVRIS

Mum - Grayscale

My Heart I Surrender - I Prevail

Not Alone - Red

Nothing (stripped) - OhHeyMy

Numbers - The Cab

Ooh - Jon Bellion, Christianne Jensen

Overstepping - Belmont

Perfect - Simple Plan

Peter Pan - Kelsea Ballerini

Photograph - Ed Sheeran

Poison Pen Letter - Knuckle Puck

Rehab - Rihanna

River Of Tears - Alessia Cara

Savious - Picture This

Scared To Be Alone - Real Friends

Sixteen - Real Friends

Skin And Bones - Marcelo

Sleep Well, Darling - Secrets

Sorry - Halsey

St. Patrick - PVRIS

Stand - Rascal Flatts

Starving For Friends - Slaves feat. Vic Fuentes

Superman - Boyce Avenue

Take What You Want - ONE OK ROCK feat. 5 Seconds Of Summer

Tell Me You Love Me - Demi Lovato

Tennessee Sky - The Icarus Account

Tequila - Dan + Shay

That’s All She Wrote - Boys Of Fall

Turn The Lights Down - Cavalcade

Undertow - Keelan Donovan

Unsteady - X Ambassadors

Untitled - Knuckle Puck

Untitled - Simple Plan

Waiting For Superman - Daughtry

Well, I’m Sorry - Real Friends

Who You Are - Anna Clendening

WILD - Troye Sivan

Winder Everywhere - Slaves feat. Tillian

Wonderwall - Oasis

Youngblood - 5 Seconds Of Summer

[help-im-a-medstudent]

Rules: List 10 songs you’re currently obsessed with and then tag 10 people

Thank you @martastudyblr for the tag! My music taste is....random haha

No Choir - Florence + the Machine (can I just put her entire new album on here?? I love all of it but I think this one is my favourite)

Wanna Be Missed - Hayley Kiyoko

Porz Goret - Yann Tiersen (this is a piano piece it is absolutely beautiful and I love playing it even if it does have a horrible key signature)

Icarus - Bastille (this has been a long term favourite of mine I listen to it a lot)

School Song from Matilda the Musical (I saw it in the theatre a couple of months ago and it was amazing)

Tightrope from The Greatest Showman (no words can describe how much I love the soundtrack to this film)

Live Like Horses - Elton John (I don't know what it is about this song, I don't know when I heard it first but I listen to it so much)

Confrontation from Les Misérables (yeah I know, another musical.....)

Gymnopedie no. 3 - Erik Satie (again I love to play this piece when I'm back at my parent's house

That's Life - Collabro (I love this song anyway but their cover of it gives me shivers. It's beautiful)

Ahhh hope you enjoy the insight into my music taste! Tagging: @dxmedstudent @studylizziee @englishpansexualfangirl @quilavastudy @beezarre @whitecoatandstethoscopes @shes-elecktric @flyonthewallmedstudent if you fancy it :)

[dustedmagazine]

Listed: Tangents

Sydney-based quintet Tangents have been playing together since 2010, but 2016’s Stateless LP marked a shift in the band’s method and sound, bringing their improvisational, collaberative playing into the studio to be reconsidered and reconfigured in the moment. This year’s Stents + Arteries EP showed the continued vitality of that approach and teased their new album New Bodies, of which Dusted’s Ian Mathers said their “post-everything mode of working is embracing rather than exclusionary [...] the result creates something intoxicatingly new.” To mark the occasion, all five band members have contributed to our Listed feature, with influences and interests running from U2 to µ-Ziq and back.

SHOEB AHMAD

Tony Conrad & Faust—Outside The Dream Syndicate

Leading up to the New Bodies recording session, I started playing bass guitar at points during our live set and really enjoyed locking into Evan with a singular pulse while the other three could let loose melodically. I wanted to pursue something similar in vibe when recording so that’s what you hear from me on ‘Gone To Ground’.

This album is pretty up there for me - not as ecstatic as LaMonte Young’s “dream music” works that Conrad was part of but also not as freewheeling as the Faust albums before this and definitely darker than both.

I love the myth of Jean-Herve Peron playing the second bass note on “From The Side of Man and Womankind” against Conrad’s wishes and I’d like to say that the loose implied funk of my bass playing is in a tribute to that.

U2—”Stay (Faraway, So Close!)” from Zooropa (1993)

Tangents is pretty left field with our musical aesthetics so this selection could be seen as a complete joke but I’ll own U2’s influence on me as a musician, even if it’s a bit naff to others.

A lot of the processes in place for the making of Zooropa (the album this track is from) remind me of how we like to work in Tangents - Ollie in a pseudo Eno role with his loops and live effects, melodic/harmonic improvisations and rhythm based studio jams - but the thing that resonates most about this song in particular is The Edge’s lullaby-like guitar riff that creates and then sustains the sweet sentimentality throughout. I’d say as much as his “single note through effects” style is basically the seed from where my guitar playing grew from, his fondness to write simple twee melodies on their best songs has influenced me more. I enjoy being able to do something similar to offset the more adventurous elements of our music and I’d say it comes to the fore in New Bodies more than before too.

Oh - did I say I was a sucker for the Wim Wenders video that was intercut with scenes from Wings Of Desire? I be honest, I think U2 may have more to answer for in making me wanna pursue an Art Pop vibe...

PETER HOLLO

µ-Ziq vs The Auteurs—”Lenny Valentino 3″ from The Auteurs vs. μ-Ziq (1994)

If we talk strings in Tangents, we’ll probably be referencing somebody like Godspeed, but as contemporaries I find it hard to describe them as an influential. I love their work but never for a second think of them when I’m playing the cello. So I’m choosing this gorgeous piece of faux-classical string pads with overdriven beats from the maestro Mike Paradinas aka µ-Ziq (it’s got very little to do with the Auteurs), because mid-’90s idm is in my blood, and Mike’s (and Richard D James’) plangent layered strings are always in there when I’m layered cello lines.

Amon Tobin—”One Day In My Garden” from Bricolage (1997)

Ollie & I have many discussions about our love of jungle & drum’n’bass. Ollie’s duo Icarus of course were contemporaries of early Amon Tobin, and a track from their first album appears on his Recorded Livemix album - serious props! Obviously the insanely chopped beats of the junglist pioneers, then Photek & Source Direct et al, contribute to our modus operandi(Photek joke, sorry), as do the more avant-garde sounds from Plug, Aphex, µ-Ziq et al. But Amon Tobin drew from his love of jazz and Brazilian music to create magnificent journeys in each track - the samba gives way to snapping breaks as, presumably, the garden becomes a jungle, and calm is returned by the end. Amon Tobin once regarded himself as a collagist more than a musician, and this collage aspect, albeit drawn from the instrumentalists in the band, is a big part of Tangents’ construction of our music.

EVAN DORRIAN

Arca—Arca

Everything Arca does has been blowing my mind for a while now. The production, rhythms, art, various (high-profile) collaborations, and on this record, his beautiful vocals, are all next level. Funnily/awkwardly enough I first heard Arca because his Soundcloud release (set/mix) Entrañas was reviewed next to our album Stateless by Pitchfork. A real honour to paired up with such a incredible modern artist, even just in web print. Looking forward to hearing more from him.

Scott Walker—Bish Bosch

This was and is a very important record for me, as is all Scott’s stuff from Tiltonwards (and Scott 4). When I first heard it I wasn’t sure how to take it all in and I’ve come to accept that I won’t. It’s a complicated and dark record that has a lot of wit and heart too.

ADRIAN LIM-KLUMPES

Tim Hecker— “I’m Transmitting Tonight” from Radio Amor (2013)

Tracks from New Bodies like ‘Immersion’ and ‘Oort Cloud’ spring from music like that of Tim Hecker. To call this music ‘drone’ or ‘noise’ is to ignore the delicacy of the rhythms of the layers, as well as the jazz-like piano chords that flutter around in his musical stratosphere. ‘I’m Transmitting Tonight’ drifts along but also has a driving momentum, depending on your perspective while listening. Our music too has different angles to approach it. When I produced ‘Immersion’, I enjoyed crafting the stretch, reverb and delay of the piano and guitar, while slamming the cello down an octave so it pensively mumbles below the stacked drum takes. This means you can hear this track almost as jazz, drone or minimal, depending on what your ear is drawn to. ‘Oort Cloud’ has similar cascading piano loops over cello and guitar drowning in sometimes noisy processing, all with an uptempo drum take layered in behind.

Bill Evans—Live in Helsinki 1970

“You use the intellect to take apart the materials, learn to understand them and learn to work with them. It takes years and years of playing so that you develop the facility so that you can forget all of that, and just relax and just play.” - interview during the filming in Helsinki, 1970.

The music of Bill Evans has inspired me for many years. His approach to harmony, melody and interplay is nuanced and emotive, and almost always a sense of calm pervades his music. Playing like Bill Evans, and thinking like him, is a lifelong pursuit. With Tangents, Bill’s philosophy of facility before play is spread across many domains. This includes pianism, a fluid approach to harmony and layering, and even the skills involved to intuit the use of effects pedals and software. The same goes for the others in Tangents - having a meta-consciousness of our band sound while improvising on stage or in the studio is necessary for all of us.

I’d love to see more live concert videos where the artist eloquently discusses musical approaches mid-set.

OLLIE BOWN

This is more of a discussion of records that I dream might be more explicitly inspirational in future Tangents records.

Alice Coltrane—Eternity

The loose funky joyousness that I associate with Coltrane is something I think we've started to explore in Tangents of late, though it is still quite latent. We don't really foreground solos too much though, which is something I like about our sound. I've been digging into her archives a bit lately and reflecting on how hard but rewarding it is to find that playful balance point where everything is poised on the verge of falling apart, as in the jammy madness and rhythmic pushing and pulling of Los Caballos. Many bands do this exquisitely and in one guise or another it's always been a strong interest for me, starting in my work with Icarus. There are moments where I think Tangents take it there, such as in the middle section of Terracotta. I look forward to exploring this more both in live improvisation and in studio post-composition. Then I love the fact that this record drops into a Rite of Spring passage (my favourite passage, seriously funky, excellently done). Also inspiration for future work: I'd love to work with Tangents to explore innovative covers and reinterpretations one day.

Pink Floyd—Wish You Were Here

You can't get more boring than to pick Pink Floyd as an influence. Is anyone still reading? But! Truth told I was having a melancholy moment the other day and I put on Wish You Were Here and for the umpteenth time in my life it just blew me away. Tangents' current work is nowhere near this carefully planned, but I hope we might engage in this kind of strict structuring in a future album. Nevertheless that kind of space and casual smoochy blueseyness is something I think we have explored our own way in tracks like Lake George and Gone To Ground, which I actually think is very Floydy. I love the pace of Shine on You Crazy Diamond, that sax solo bursting out of nowhere is stunning, verging on ironic, but completely loveable. I love how Pink Floyd do suites and guest appearances and carefully work the segues between tracks.

[wheneverythingslipped]

Tag Game

tagged by @definitely-not-your-noona

Rules: answer 30 questions and then tag the blogs you want to know better

nickname: Kat/Kitty/Kit-Kat

gender: Female

zodiac: Aquarius eyyyy

height: 5'7

time: 15:26

favorite band/solo artist: Florence + the Machine

song suck in my head: “Youth” by Daughter

last movie i saw: Moana - it’s my godson’s favorite movie so we watch it every night before bedtime

last thing i googled: cartilage piercing hoop earring (I snapped mine when I hit my head so uhhh if anyone’s got any links to send my way they’d be appreciated thx)

other blogs: nope

do i get asks: sometimes, mostly from my mutuals tho. hmu yall i’ll seriously answer anything 

why i chose this username: it was a lyric from one of my favorite songs at the time, “Slipped” by The National and it’s also very aesthetic 

following: 85

amount of sleep i get: depends

lucky number: I like the numbers 2 and 7 

what i’m wearing: a very large pastel yellow sweatshirt my sister got from a thrift store, blue dream catcher earrings, shorts, and pink socks with sloths on them

dream job: I want to work as a therapist in trauma for children/teenagers but a part of me also wants to keep doing music and dance so. we will see.

dream trip: I’ve always wanted to go to Thailand and Tokyo! 

favorite foods: I really love basil noodles and kibbee

instruments: I taught myself how to play the piano and I can poorly play the guitar and ukulele mostly for songwriting/accompaniment purposes 

favorite songs: I have to limit myself to ten because otherwise this will get real messy lmao I wrote that and then i started writing this list so uhh ur getting 13

Cosmic Love - Florence + the Machine (but especially this version here) (this is one of my favorite songs to cover as well)

The End of Love/No Choir - Florence + the Machine (okay another Florence I’m sorry and I know this is technically two songs! But! these are off her new album and the way End of Love blends into the beginning of No Choir is just incredible,,, it gives me chills every time. It’s just as a whole so cohesive and so, so good like honestly if I could put the whole of High As Hope on here I would lol)

Everything All at Once - Local Natives 

Colombia - Local Natives (the first time I heard this song live I started crying and didn’t even realize it until it was over. My favorite lyric from here is “every night I ask myself/am I giving enough?/am I loving enough?)

Who Knows Who Cares - Local Natives (my favorite version of this song is here, and the song starts about 1:35ish) 

Start a War - The National

Sea of Love - The National ( “if i stay here, trouble will find me/if i stay here i’ll never leave”) (also, you can get some amazing harmonies on this song, it’s beautiful)

This is the Last Time - The National

Icarus - JJ Project (okay let’s be real Verse 2 as a whole was incredible, I think it was slept on, but whatever, anyways this song was my favorite because I vibe with these vocals fam it was so good)

Emmylou - Vance Joy (I love this live version here, it starts about 40 seconds in. this is one of my go to cry to feel better songs)

Do I Wanna Know (Cover) - Hozier (ah yes hozier u funky little lesbian dryad... all jokes aside I love his voice and I loved how he completely changes the feeling of the song. It’s actually incredible and I much prefer this to the original)

Devil Like Me - Rainbow Kitten Surprise (this is a jam okay I fuckin love this song its got like subtle jazz/blues/alternative vibes)

I Feel Like I’m Drowning - Two Feet (also a really good song, I really wanna choreograph something either for my pole dancing class or on the silks for this, I think it could turn out really well)

Okay I promise I’m done now lol

thank you for tagging me, this was fun! I’ll tag @jango-tango  @weir-woods @mocha-mudpies and @well-i-still-have-my-lightsaber to join in on the shenanigans xx 

[communistchexmix]

Okay??? But??? Beauty and the Beast???

I just got done watching Beauty and the Beast, the new remake, with @icarus-will-rise and… wow… I think there were times I cut off the circulation in his hand I loved it so much

Let’s start at the beginning, shall we? As usual, spoilers. This will be tagged as such tho.

• THE. CHOREOGRAPHY. AT. THE. BEGINNING. As a dancer, this was what made me instantly love the movie, like IT’S HISTORICALLY ACCURATE AND BEAUTIFUL AND??? WHY??? I LOVE IT SO MUCH • C O S T U M I N G. I especially loved at the end that some of the servants still had face paint on their faces, like “oh yeah, that’s still there, it’s not like they’ve magically had their human faces cleaned while they’re not human or anything” • speaking of the end, “Turn back into a clock. TURN BACK INTO A CLOCK.” • and when the piano turned back he had no teeth? I approve • also speaking of the end, HOT DAMN, Dan Stevens’ growl when Emma Watson asks him to grow a beard… like… damn… that was hawt • THE TRANSITIONS FROM THE HUMANIZED OBJECTS INTO NORMAL OBJECTS MADE ME CRY. Cogsworth not being able to talk, Mrs. Potts’ face disappearing, Chip’s dish shattering (I GOT SO SCARED), Lumiere and Plumette, the dog with his legs up, just, AH • Okay, unpopular opinion here, I didn’t love the songs all THAT much. The originals are better. Emma and Dan definitely did a great job recreating the songs and all, but I think we can all agree the original “Beauty and the Beast” by Angela Lansbury smashes the new one to pieces, right? • However, on that note, the new songs were pretty good and fit right into the soundtrack in everything from background music to lyrics. Evermore was good, but the one in the movie was def better than the credits one, I mean, come ON, guys. • Okay, back to the movie– • LeFou. • LEFOU. • L E F O U. • Props to the casting director for ALL of his/her choices (Emma Watson could not have made a better Belle if she spent DECADES preparing for this role), but OH MY GOD JOSH GAD AS LEFOU. • I don’t know WHO saw Olaf in Frozen and went, “This snowman would make a great gay sidekick for Gaston”, but whoever did, I love them. • Speaking of LeFou, he went through some GREAT character development. From being completely obsessed with Gaston at the beginning (telling the Bimbettes they didn’t have a chance, talking to an imaginary Gaston in the mirror, calming Gaston down with thoughts of the war <which was HILARIOUS btw>, winking during “Gaston”) to actually having a backbone after they tie Maurice up in the woods (you can see him begin to shift his alignment, and lose his love for Gaston, there) to finally being like “yeah, screw this, Gaston wouldn’t save me from a falling talking piano with key teeth missiles, I'mma help the talking teapot spraying my fellow villagers instead”. I LOVED LeFou. • You know who else loved LeFou? THE DRAG QUEEN. I know he’s either Tom, Dick, or Stanley, and I think it would be pretty ironic if he was Dick. I’ll have to check when it comes out on DVD since I wasn’t really paying attention, and by GOD I loved that little hint that they ended up together during the dance at the end. • Anyway, back to the plot • Those wolves were TERRIFYING • Also, I don’t know about you guys, but instantly when I saw the beggar lady I was like “she’s gonna be important”. It was when she rescued Maurice I knew she was the enchantress in disguise, don’t ask me how, I just knew. They wouldn’t put a character in there randomly unless she was essential to the storyline, so I guess that’s why I guessed that. • …did I mention LeFou was by far my favorite? • But Emma Watson came in as a close second. By GOD, she was a great Belle. Her reaction to that library was tbh exactly how I would’ve reacted. • Like I said, casting was spot-on amazing. • You could FEEL the angst radiating off of Beast. • Maurice was great, not as kooky as the original but I like him better as a sad artist. • ^By the way, Belle’s parents’ backstory had me in tears. The plague representation was so accurate and answered SO many questions of mine. • Also, Gaston was really good • He actually tried to woo Belle a little instead of being like “I’m so great, you should totally marry me just for my looks and charm and hunting skills and my luxurious hair” • He gave her flowers, sorta kinda pretended to be interested in her books, and seemed genuinely interested in saving her when the townsfolk were being mean so at the beginning I was sorta like “gee, why’s Belle being so rude and shit”, which was the only reason I didn’t like the change in Gaston’s behavior • Then he started being a dick to her dad and I was like “whoops never mind” • Umm,,, the fight against the villagers was really great?? Mrs. Potts seeing her husband (who was the citizen with the most sense, let’s be honest here) and falling from the chandelier, the boiling tea, THE DRAG QUEENS, Chip being a badass smol, Lumiere’s fireworks display, Plumette dusting people’s faces and the piano being heroic by trying to cover the door? It was A+ • Also “GRANDMOTHER?!?!?1?????!!??!!” • Le Fou… the gay is strong with this one… • Basically, I loved Beauty and the Beast’s live action remake, 10/10 would watch again.

• My only problem is her dress, really. My only GIANT problem, that is. • They didn’t include the dog in “Beauty and the Beast” (the song), but fine, I’ll forgive that • My major problem is that dress • Okay, fine, it’s got the appliqués, but WHERE IS THE NECKLINE • WHERE ARE THE CORRECT RUFFLES NOT THIS RUFFLE SHIT YOU GIVE US DISNEY • We demand the truth • (Side note: what is it with Emma Watson’s dresses being inaccurate in movies because this is now the second one???)

[behind-the-screen-of-bangtan]

Little details in the “Blood Sweat & Tears” Japanese version MV

Release date: 10 May 2017

“BU content certified by Big Hit Entertainment”

Lyrics

Clothes and accessories identified by @GetOnSwag: MV, concept photo

I think that’s the MV with the most references, it’s impressive. Here’s the post about the teaser, it has a few more details.

The Drama Files made a complete analysis of the MV and all its links with the previous releases. You can find it here.

SleapyJeannn also made an impressive theory about the MV, taking into account the colors, the boys’ metaphoric role, and the plotline.

References to “Blood Sweat & Tears”

There are several shots from the MV itself.

There are wings marks on the place where Jungkook was lying. WINGS is the title of the album containing the Korean version of “Blood Sweat & Tears” and it’s also a reference to the myth of Icarus that was used several times in the MV for the Korean version.

Jin is once again facing The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Bruegel. But this time he also has the little portable glasses J-Hope used to look in his direction in BST.

There are other scenes that are reenacted in a different way. I made special posts to detail more and compare them with the Korean version:

the arrow shooting scene

the absinthe scene

What Jin sees in the glasses is also a reference to the MV, more exactly the scene with the black winged statue that he kissed.

Suga once again covers Jimin’s eyes.

In the scene where J-Hope throws away the pills, Jungkook has a blueberry lollipop like in BST.

Suga and Jimin are together in a blue room, and RM and Jungkook are together in the room where the absinthe scene happens. They’ve been duos for the whole WINGS concept. In “Blood, Sweat & Tear” we know that Suga and Jimin’s room is above RM and Jungkook’s.

The ground around Jin is cracking like his face at the end of BST. It also happens in the teaser for the Live trilogy Episode III - The Wings Tour.

References to the Short Films

There are several scenes referencing the Short Films. Jungkook sleeping like in BEGIN, Jimin’s red apple and his outfit from LIE, V scratching a wall like in STIGMA, Suga with a piano like in FIRST LOVE, RM surrounded by broken mirrors like in REFLECTION. You can also see the Landscape with the Fall of Icarus painted by Bruegel behind RM, a painting appearing two times in “Blood, Sweat & Tear”.

In a more subtle way, the hallway in which Jimin walks is similar to the one where Jin leaves in AWAKE.

The last reference to the Short Films is Jimin’s solo dance. It’s the same one as in LIE. On the other hand, J-Hope’s dancing the choreo for “Boy Meets Evil” the intro of WINGS. You can distinguish the two easily as J-Hope has a blue background and Jimin a red one.

The art on the ceiling of that room is the Fresco from the Ljubljana Cathedral, by Giuglio Quaglio the Younger. It was also in BST.

And now, let’s go even further back, in The Most Beautiful Moment in Life.

References to “I NEED U”

They play again the scene where J-Hope throws his pills in a fire.

At the very end of the MV, the scene with Jin and RM happens at the same station as the one where RM works in “I NEED U”. Even his clothes are identical.

References to the Prologue and “RUN”

The truck in which Jin drove the boy in the Prologue and in “RUN” appears once again but only with our dear hyung. It’s the first time he’s seen at the back of the vehicle.

The scene of Jin and V fighting reminds two scenes from “RUN”. The fighting scene between Suga and Jungkook and the scene that also happened in a kitchen where V shoved the cards castle Jin had made.

In both MVs, after the song, there’s a shot of falling petals. There’s also one at the beginning of “I NEED U”.

Little details

RM has a padlock as a pendant. It was already the case in the photo concept for their first Japanese album Wake Up.

One of the roses in the vase on the left is bent.

Some of SUGA’s and Jimin’s scenes were filmed near Imsong Camp, on this bridge, and in this tunnel.

The scenes in the house (Jin and V’s fight, j-hope throwing the dart at V, V on the rooftop, the reunion around the fake campfire, j-hope under the green wings) were filmed here, in Seobbingo-dong.

There’s a little pot of Skippy behind the mixer. Another appeared in the MV for “Agust D”. When Jimin mixes what may be an apple, he pushes the button 5.

The bottle of Absinthe is a Grande Absente (meaning Important Absent in French). Interestingly, the package is the autoportrait of Vincent Van Gogh, a painter that was mentioned several times by the boys, especially by V who’s a fan.

J-Hope’s favorite color is green~