#it's a hell of a song i love it sm

[dilfsuzanneyk]

i need everyone to go watch this thanks

[pdrrook]

The song Primadonna by MARINA is so Reed omg

[synthshenanigans]

apparently im not all that wicked since i chose to rest rather than work on this so its a bit late buuuuuut

aint no rest for the wicked moment :}

technically its Ain't No Rest for the Wicked AND The Man With the Skeleton Arms; the cashier in anrftw is also the guy who got burned in tmwtsa [these abbreviations i stg]. I named him Hymn from what I remember

[Its a redraw of my art from last year of the song!!! old version below cos i think the change is fuckin WILD honestly]

im not usually insanely proud of my art. at most im content with it [covered in content you could say.....ha.ha] But damn im hella proud of that glow up thats insane to me. thats like made by two whole sepearate ppl to me what

[[also also the basic color palette i used in the new one is that aroace flag i made using the video thumbnail :} a fun lil thing to me idk]]

[harbingersecho]

ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country did to you

[mothstiel]

IM CLOSE TO TEARS AT 10:30 PM DOING HOMEWORK BECAUSE IM LISTENING TO HELENA AND ITS SO GOOD THAT SONG IS SO GOOD UIFIOSHOIAJDOISIBDOISIOWJEIDFJFUIODHOJ

[einsatzzz]

"I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe; I want to die but I'm told to live, I want to live but I'm told to die" insp: non-breath oblige

[mimikyuno]

oh the himejoshis are eating good this spring 🛐 🌸

[seaofreverie]

Sparkstember Day 24: FFS (Things I Won't Get)

I have something terrible to confess, which is that at first I was not much of an FFS fan, at all. I actually actively DISLIKED most of what I've know from them at that point, which was what the Spotify algorithm seemed very content to throw at me whenever possible until it eventually forgot about it. Well, nothing wrong with that I guess, but I also want to think that most of my initial aversion to this project came from how I was still pretty, uh, close-minded in a sense when it comes to music at the time (and I'm saying all this as though FFS is even THAT much of a departure from Sparks, which it's really not? But maybe I just I saw it differently back then, which I guess is also fair).

But yeah anyway, I had a huge change of heart a couple months later, decided that all these songs are incredibly cool actually and I'm a huge fan now. This is a very solid collaboration and album and I'm so glad this happened. Like, it really is among my very favourite things from Sparks that I barely ever think about in such terms for some reason. Because I've noticed that I treat FFS more like a compliation than an album maybe? Cause yeah I'm pretty sure this is the only album where I have 30-40+ plays on several songs and only around 5 or so on a couple others. And I'm not super attached to the order of the tracklist either, and I'm mostly saying this because I've been a 100% albums over playlists type of person for the longest time. I will listen to the whole album start to end even if I don't like everything on it. It's like, well, if I like the whole thing enough to revisit it, then too bad, I'm sitting through it all until I can enjoy everything on it to at least some extent.

Overall, to me this album embodies that mid-2010s electro pop / indie rock energy that I love very deeply, in the sense that it feels appropriate to think, had I known about it back in the day, I feel like I would have LOVED it and it would have been my personal soundtrack of those early middle-school years of my life (or even earlier, I have this one note of me saying that "FFS is so primary school-core it hurts", so. While it didn't exist in the world yet at that time it still FEELS like that time, and I absolutely love it when music reminds me of a period in my life from around its release even if I was absolutely not aware of it yet at that point. It's like this source of free nostalgia that you didn't know would be attainable from this particular place.)

Also I will just say that it's ENTIRELY because of FFS that I eventually decided to give FF a go as well, and now I'd consider them one of my favourite bands, so, well, heck yeah to that!!

Favourite songs (and other highlights):

Johnny Delusional: oh yeah, I think it's important to note that it was especially THIS song that I found annoying as heck in the beginning. I thought it got very schematic and predictable at points (the long pause after the bridge especially I found to be so.... ahhhh come on, I could see this coming from a mile away!!) All of, which... well, maybe that was still a valid point in a way, but who cares since I love this song now, absolutely and completely and it's just soooo replayable. Every day is a good day to listen to Johnny Delusional a dozen of times

Call Girl: huge huge fan of the intro on this one and that whole wobbly synth sound it has

Dictator's Son: I really like that little guitar riff moment during the bridge

Police Encounters: notably the only FFS song among those early ones for me that I really liked from the start. And it's the ultimate jam, it's incredible how instantly happy and energized this song always makes me feel even after so many listens

Save Me From Myself

So Desu Ne: maybe the biggest offender (positively) when it comes to that "primary school-core" sound. Those cutesy synths are so important to me personally

The Man Without A Tan: realized quite regrettably late how much of a banger this is

Things I Won't Get: you know how it is with me and Russell's falsetto

So Many Bridges

[womanofdarkdesires]

i love how weve all agreed collectively this is skwisgaars song

[dooodle-bug]

"don't you need me,

oh baby boy?

cause i'm so happy,

without your noise"

[spinninglightning]

whenever i read fics i always end up thinkin of a song for the fic or like, th chapter and then i canr stop associating the fic w/ those songs

[sparklyseblos]

we as a fandom, moved on far too quickly from adrian lyles & dara reneé’s cover of the best part like that was INCREDIBLE jetney deserved a duet this season we were so robbed

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cki9wc7M0RS/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

[vriska-serketboard]

PLEASEEE GET INTO SYSC ...... u gotta . do it . for me. for connie .....

also their new album coup de grace comes out in literally 2 days so u can get into them thru that if u want LOL but i love all their stuff , their other 3 albums are all totally different vibes so it depends if u want sassy mathy breakdown music or sad metalcore or sassy melodic post-hardcore

OH SHIT AWESOME!! yeah i've been meaning to listen to them for a long time bc based on your posts about them they seem like a really sick band! also i love all those genres you mentioned so i will probably really like their stuff

[void-critters]

Ruidisborn.

[vogelmeister]

anyways i am feeling kinda brave today so im gonna share a potentially unpopular taylor swift hot take. when i was talking to my friend yesterday about ttpd i realised that i kinda have a similar problem with the anthology as i do with evermore.

like don't get me wrong, both have absolute gems (willow, tolerate it, long story short, gold rush and NBNC from evermore are great and i love the albatross, so high school, the prophecy black dog, manuscript etc) but i think both collections (bc anthology is not an album) suffer because they came out connected to a much superior more cohesive work, and both almost feel like rejects from the body of work that proceeded it.

[the-acid-pear]

Mutuals saying why they followed me ERM guys y'all gonna make me blush... 🤨