#iowa musician

[kingrosalani]

An old hula video of mine from THREE years ago has officially hit 100 THOUSAND views on YouTube. Just blew up this year. More comments and over 800 likes. That’s INSANE!

It’s very bittersweet. This was my last year able to compete in the Bill Riley talent search for the Iowa State Fair.

I used to sing for those but for my last year eligible I decided to perform hula.

My mother recorded this video, you can hear her cheering at the end. Everyone loves Lilo n Stitch (just like lil toddler me).

What’s bittersweet is I have no practiced nor performed hula since my mother’s passing. I’d like to get into dance again somehow but it is sad and love combined.

My mama loved it when I did anything Hawaiian and loved how much I taught myself our cultures and heritage. She went to school in a time it was still illegal to learn the Hawaiian language in HS up until she graduated.

I hope to find motivation and some message to continue with these personal studies.

[soisaidfine]

Ethel Cain, Iowa: 'This is a hometown show for Kaylee. So, give it up for her!'

hinterlandiowa: 'We love a hometown hero. Ethel Cain with Iowa native Kaylee Stenberg on bass 🤘'

Hinterland Music Festival, St. Charles, Iowa, Sunday, August 4, 2024

Kaylee Stenberg (bodiesb0dies, bass guitar, Ethel Cain)

Ethel Cain - Kaylee Stenberg (Instagram)

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[soupy-sez]

Mike Patton on the tour bus in Davenport, Iowa, 1992, © Ian Dickson

[latenightgasstationwalk]

Made a new musician friend last weekend. We haven’t met yet but he’s cool as fuck and we’re guna make some music this weekend and I’m beyond excited. I’ve always had trouble finding musicians in my area who, like, make music, rather than just play covers or whatever. But this guys the real deal like he’s made a few albums with a handful of bands and he’s toured with multiple bands and he knows how to CREATE a song with someone. I already sent him a couple little riffs I’ve made and he was like “oh yeah I could totally write around that”. I’m really excited. Not to be the “I’m so good at guitar” guy, but everyone I’ve ever played with has said the same thing when i show them some music I’ve made and ask if they’d like to write a song around it. They’re always like “yeah no to hard” like immediately. these mfs don’t even try. Not this guy, not THIS GUY! We’re guna do BIG THINGS. YOU MARK MY WORDS.

[folkinsomnia]

screaming myself hoarse til I pass out we were together during a very tumultuous time in our lives I will always have your back and be curious about you about your career your whereabouts!!!

[littlemuppetmonsters]

listening to the new fob album on repeat until i like it

[ryamusic]

😂😂

[fsfsfsgkgkgk]

Trump vs. Celine Dion

[puppyboycunt]

Whenever you hear a band/musician with a weird as fuck accent they're either from another country or MIDWESTERN. No in between. When the Illinois, Ohio, Iowa dudes get too insane from the corn and soy fields they make fire music

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Ritchie Valens - La Bamba 1958

"La Bamba" is a Mexican folk song, originally from the state of Veracruz, also known as "La Bomba". The song is best known from a 1958 adaptation by rock and roll pioneer and forefather of the Chicano rock movement Ritchie Valens, which became a Top 40 hit on the US charts. Valens's version is ranked number 345 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. "La Bamba" has been covered by numerous artists, notably by Los Lobos whose version was the title track of the 1987 film La Bamba, a bio-pic about Valens; their version reached number 1 on many charts in the same year. Their music video won the 1988 MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film.

"La Bamba" is a classic example of the son jarocho musical style, which originated in the Mexican state of Veracruz, and combines Spanish, indigenous, and African musical elements. "La Bamba" likely originated in the last years of the 17th century. The oldest known historical references come from the town of Alvarado, Mexico, where it apparently was performed with an atypically lively rhythm. The oldest recorded version known is that of Alvaro Hernández Ortiz, who recorded the song with the name of "El Jarocho". His recording was released by Victor Records in Mexico in 1938 or 1939, and was reissued on a 1997 compilation by Yazoo Records, The Secret Museum of Mankind Vol. 4.

Ritchie Valens learned the song in his youth. In 1958 he recorded a rock and roll flavored version of "La Bamba", originally released as the B-side of his number-two hit "Donna". His recording of the song was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame and the Grammy Hall of Fame. On February 3, 1959, on what has become known as "The Day the Music Died", Valens died in a plane crash in Iowa, an accident that also claimed the lives of fellow musicians Buddy Holly and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, as well as their pilot. Valens was 17 years old at the time of his death. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, the Native American Music Awards Hall of Fame, the California Hall of Fame, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2018, his version of "La Bamba" was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

"La Bamba" received a total of 92,2% yes votes!

[kingrosalani]

It’s finally here and on Coming out Day of all days. GARDEN OF DES MOINES! A short film for my One Iowa Leadership Class. I’ve spent the last two months interviewing and editing this on the local drag scene here.

Enjoy 🩵

[soisaidfine]

"A few mumbles" - well, we love your mumbles, Ethel Cain ♡

The Daily Illini: 'Ethel Cain delivers passionate performance.' Hinterland, August 4, & Lollapalooza, August 3, 2024

Video by Ava Rose: Ethel Cain: A House In Nebraska - Hinterland Music Festival on Sunday, August 4, 2024 in St. Charles.

About Ethel Cain at Lollapalooza, the day before:

'Ethel Cain delivers passionate performance at IHG stage Saturday'

The Daily Illini is the independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871.

"Indie rocker Ethel Cain performed an alluring set at IHG to an immense Lollapalooza crowd on Saturday.

... Where in the studio version of “Preacher’s Daughter,” the instrumentation provides a graceful accompaniment, the drums and guitar manage to overpower Cain’s voice on the set.

Her voice was extremely faint throughout the first few songs, making it very difficult to hear what she was singing besides a few mumbles, and frustrating people in the crowd.

The attendees livened up as the eerie strum of the guitar signaled the beginning of “House in Nebraska,” one of her most popular songs off of “Preacher’s Daughter.”

The opening of the song sounded like Cain was merely muttering into the microphone, but her voice finally amplified as she started on the chorus.

“And I still call home,” she sang, as she held out her microphone to the crowd encouraging them to sing along. “That house in Nebraska.”"

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[soupy-sez]

Mike Patton and Billy Gould, Davenport, Iowa, 1992, © Ian Dickson

[justanapparatus]

Death of the Tortured Poet

Taylor Swift and other poets in conversation with Roland Barthes's "The Death of the Author" (1967) and Michel Foucault's "What is an Author?" (1969)

I want to say thank you to @ttpds @youmeetyourself and @ohdorothea. This post would not exist were it not for your musings on the topic, our conversations, and your encouragement. Seriously, thank y'all.

Sources:

Unless otherwise noted, lyrics are from Genius and screenshots/scans/etc are from taylorpictures.net

Barthes, Roland. "The Death of the Author"

"delicate" music video

"Dear Reader" lyrics

Foucault, Michel. "What is an Author?"

"Style" music video

"mirrorball" lyrics

Barthes

Taylor Swift before singing "betty" on the Eras Tour in Glendale, AZ on March 17, 2023 (text from @cages-boxes-hunters-foxes)

Siken, Richard. "The Torn-up Road" in The Iowa Review

Promotional image for The Tortured Poets Department from Swift's social media

Savage, Mark "Midnights: What we know about Taylor Swift's songwriting" for BBC.com

Foucault

reputation prologue

Barthes

Promotional image for The Tortured Poets Department

Barthes

Halsey. "Gasoline" lyrics

"mirrorball" lyrics

Barthes

Florence & the Machine. "King" lyrics

"Dear Reader" lyrics

Foucault

"22" lyrics

Foucault

"Out of the Woods" music video

"...ready for it?" music video

"Anti-Hero" music video

"look what you made me do" music video

"if you're anything like me" from the reputation magazines

Foucault

Album covers for the Taylor's Versions of Fearless, Red, Speak Now, and 1989

Taylor Swift in Musicians on Musicians: Taylor Swift & Paul McCartney for Rolling Stone

"look what you made me do" music video

"the lakes" lyrics

Foucault

"look what you made me do" handwritten lyrics from the reputation magazines

"my tears ricochet" lyrics

Foucault

"my tears ricochet" lyrics

"look what you made me do" music video

Foucault

"hoax" lyrics

"why she disappeared" from the reputation magazines

Barthes

1989 prologue

Foucault

[citizenscreen]

#OnThisDay in 1959, the Day the Music Died.

Musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were all killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson.