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usedpidemo · 1 year ago

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so i went to my first ever concert and...(storytime!)

Generally speaking, I don't like the concept of concerts. For the longest time, I've never had any interest in attending one. I've been disillusioned by the idea of them as a whole, with no disrespect to people who attend them. Even before the global pandemic that shut down live events, ironically, despite being on my headphones/speakers 90% of the time, I don't like crowds and extremely loud audiences. It also doesn't help that many live artists nowadays are just not good stage performers or lipsync or in some cases, aren't as pleasing to hear as the studio mix that I could easily play on Spotify. My mantra, which has always been my mother's as well, was "Just listen to the CD." This also explains why I don't really buy CDs anymore and stick to streaming instead.

It's now 2023, and as the old adage goes, things change. I've become a K-pop fan, live events are back, and there's this push to have me leave my house a lot more than I should. I'm no recluse like Bruce Wayne, but I certainly don't like going out when I could be relaxing and playing video games in my spare time even as an adult. Growing up made me realize that there's plenty of things that I should do, even at least once. I'm nowhere close to dying—I think so at least—but I definitely felt the need add some spice into my life and have some fresh memories to keep now that the pandemic's over.

Anyway—I've never been to a concert, and my older sister's only concert experience was seeing Fall Out Boy when she was in her teens that she desperately begged mom to see, and she was all the way up into the nosebleeds. Now obviously I can't go and see IZ*ONE anymore (sadblob) and every big act carries extremely large demand for them. My sister failed to secure Blackpink tickets for their tour even with the membership presale, and the experience was so frustrating and damning that she stopped listening to the group for a while. There's so many things that can go wrong even as early as ticket sales, so I understood that any concert I wanted to go to should be absolutely worth it.

It was during our vacation back in February when IVE announced that they would be bringing their fan concert around Asia, with June as the set date. I can remember seeing it trend on Twitter while waiting in the car; the hype was fucking real. I knew I had to be there by any means necessary. The campaign began as soon as we got back to our hotel. They said yes.

One thing I want to say is: fuck online ticketing. It sucks, big time. Anything that can go wrong, can and will go wrong. Yet some part of me was so uncertain and wanted to test the murky waters again. I got in touch with a third party way before they announced the ticket selling date, and I was so fixated on the success rate of the seller, against the advice of my family. It wasn't until two days before ticket selling that I was given a proper talk, saying that it could be a potential scam and that I should camp out the night before to get the best chances. Ultimately, I gave in and settled at a hotel close to a hotel without many fans. They ended up being right. I ended up first in line and got the best package for a little over $200. It was so difficult to keep my composure the moment I got the tickets all the way till I got home.

Fast forward to a little over a month. The family also booked me a nice hotel close to the venue days before the show so we wouldn't have to face insufferable traffic. I couldn't sleep the night before the show—not because I was excited and all, but I was genuinely feeling restless. It ultimately didn't matter as my mood and overall energy never diminished once I woke up 2.5 hours after finally sleeping.

You just know it's gonna be a good day when the first sign is making new friends out of nowhere. At breakfast, I befriended two Japanese tourists for some reason. My smile was wider than it normally was. It's so weird greeting people with amped up optimism that at times, it felt like main character energy, which was typically uncharacteristic of me. Mind you, I only had 2.5 hours of sleep.

An hour later, venue time—at least close to it. The concert organizers and local fanclubs held a fanhub that was already filling up the floor with a line that stretched around in a loop. So I bailed and went to the cafe across the street from where the actual concert would happen to get free shit. Saved myself almost $25 dollars from buying the I'VE IVE album because of a cupsleeve event being organized by a remnant of WIZ*ONEs. A big W if you ask me.

I even met up with some of my readers too! Cray and Nomad, if you're reading this, it was great finally meeting you. It was awesome to fanboy and connect with guys I've been talking to online for the past two years in person.

Afterward, we went inside an hour before show start, and people were already screaming like they showed up and it was just staff bringing out towels and water bottles. Then the lights went out and holy shit, everyone lost their shit. It wasn't a sold-out show but the audience's energy made it feel otherwise. They were singing instead of following fan-chants.

It should surprise no one that everyone killed it. Yujin is the 4th gen ace and no one can tell me any different. Wonyoung was absolutely fantastic in crowd control and drawing the audience in and lived up to the center title. They added both title tracks from I'VE IVE and changed up two of the cover songs for the unit stages, otherwise the set remains mostly similar to the ones in Korea and Japan, the only difference being new outfits and alternate color ones.

I'm gonna dedicate this section specifically for Liz. Consider me bias wrecked. She was not only an elite vocalist but she performed like the rent was due, holy shit. Blue Blood (my favorite stage of the night) in particular really gripped me and never let go. I was genuinely shook at how terrific she showed out in the performances. If anything, she's the 2nd best performer of the group after watching the footage.

There was an emotional moment at the end as the show was winding down. The members were lined up for the group photo when a fan video played and half of the members cried. Leeseo, Rei, and Yujin all cried and it was a wholesome scene. Rei mentioned how this was one of their first performances as a full group following her health hiatus and she was moved by the overwhelming support of the fans. Wonyoung also promised they would return—hopefully later than sooner I'm not loaded at the moment—which invalidates the stupid argument international Dives were having on Twitter. The girls felt their support, cried their heart out, and that's all you need to know.

After the event, there was a hi-bye session for all VIP ticket holders. They sent everyone else out, so it started 20 minutes after the actual ending. They kept reminding us that we weren't allowed to record or take photos of the event, but apparently someone at Starship was filming the whole thing? So there's a possibility that I might end up on YouTube, heh. Since we were on the left side of the stage, we were among the last to go up and meet them.

Holy fuck dude. I wasn't nervous while watching everyone else go up and meet IVE, but once the staff told us to form a single line and we slowly made our way around the stage, my heart began to go buckwild. You just don't know what to say or do when that moment comes—like how do I make this memorable or at the very least, not cringe? One thing I do know was that we all agreed, as a section, to walk past them as slow as humanly possible; five seconds was not enough. I was so unsure of what to do as I slowly walked up the steps to the point I was practically mouthing 'Jesus take the wheel' or else I'd melt into a puddle, lose my shit, do something stupid, or maybe all of the above.

Jesus Christ. They looked so fucking flawless. You honestly couldn't tell they were sweaty and exhausted after performing for 2.5 hours.

From left to right, it was Rei, Gaeul, Wonyoung, Yujin, Leeseo, and Liz. Liz was the first member I met, and she completed my half-heart gesture. From there, my brain blanked for a good three seconds. My mouth was still uttering 'Kamsahamnida' but that scene seemed to stick long past that moment. I couldn't register Leeseo, Yujin, and Wonyoung's reactions—I knew they were smiling and waving—but then my brain suddenly went back up as I met Gaeul and Rei's eyes right as we made our way out. I went to the bathroom and uttered a relieved, awestruck 'Holy shit.'

God. I don't know if I will ever move on from such an experience. I'm still thinking about the interaction as I write this little thought diary, and my mind keeps replaying the interactions with Liz, Gaeul, and Rei. All of them had lovely smiles and were so happy even though they clearly were gassed out, and I was in utter shock trying to comprehend what had happened. Famous streamer IShowSpeed met his hero Ronaldo the same day as the concert and if you've seen his video, he practically plays out all the emotions I wanted to feel after meeting them. I've not played any K-pop after the concert aside from English versions of songs and most certainly I've avoided IVE songs aside from rewatching my concert fancams because I'll just melt into a giddy pile of goo watching it, telling myself 'I was there.'

My sister only listens to Blackpink. She agreed to take me to the venue provided I buy her tickets, so this was a consolation or redemption of sorts after failing to secure tickets for the Born Pink tour. She's a Dive now. She couldn't stop raving over Wonyoung's beauty but she eventually found all the members to be cute and beautiful. It feels great to finally share a sweet moment with my sister despite the turbulent relationship we have.

In an ideal world, I'll be watching Le sserafim and the other IZ*ONE members when they perform/arrive here. Of course, there's many obstacles in the way, and I'm not loaded with disposable income. Seriously, these tickets were more expensive than a veteran group and they're supposed to be rookies! But the entire experience—the energy, the performances, and the ending—made every coin I spent worth it. If this ends up becoming the only concert I attend in my entire life moving forward, I'm glad it was an unforgettable one.

Gaeul, Yujin, Rei, Wonyoung, Liz, and Leeseo, thank you for making my year and giving me a core memory I can fondly look back on. I fucking love you guys.

#update #storytime

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jellilly · 4 months ago

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‼️DRAG RACE FRANCE SEASON 3 SPOILERS‼️

Just caught up with drag race france s3 and.. CHOICES

Le Filip was robbed all season and the editing made it seem like the judges didn't vibe with her at all when imo she should've won the rusical, she could've won the ball (but i think Misty was also robbed on that episode), and she should've been high for the makeover and not btm3! + i also thought the phone twist was a terrible idea especially on the semi-final. They should've just had the episode be the roast, given the win to Le Filip, and moved tf on!

Even though Le Filip was my favourite all season (alongside Norma Belle), i was on-board with Ruby on the Nail winning the crown because it made sense. She had an underdog storyline in which she clawed her way from a terrible track record in the first half of the season to the frontrunner in the second half. She had a GREAT snatch game (i'm not even french but i still enjoyed her performance and i laughed a lot even when i didn't understand the references). She's funny, had great runways, and is an amazing lipsyncer, essentially an all-rounder.

Come the finale, I think Ruby and Le Filip had the best solo performances of the night (despite half the fandom disagreeing) so them being top 2 made sense to me and even though i still felt bad for Lula, Le Filip just has this energy about her that is so charismatic and loveable that you can't help but root for her. The lipsync for the crown was honestly just alright. I don't think either queen did unquestionably better than the other but i'm at peace with that.

But i just don't understand why they would crown Le Filip when they paid her dust all season? It's not a satisfying storyline when the winner of the season didn't get the flowers they deserved during challenges and was only recognized at the tail-end of the season. It's so out-of-left-field to me. It shouldn't have been difficult to create a winner storyline for Le Filip especially when she was doing so well all season long and she's revered in france's drag scene.

I think the only logical explanation for this flub was that production failed at identifying Le Filip as THE season's fan favourite before it was too late and they didn't expect this level of fan support for her (which i cannot fathom how they couldn't see that, she's so charming). DRF's production also dropped the ball with Magnetica, Norma Belle, and Piche so it seems like they actually need to get better at recognizing potential fan favourites.

Regardless! I'm so happy for Le Filip, she's still a great winner despite production doing her dirty with the edit, and I'm excited for her reign! Despite a mediocre season, the queens still showed out and worked hard to entertain us with great drag and great artistry and for that i am always grateful 🙇‍♀️

#drag race france #DRF #rupaul's drag race

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hatboyproject · 2 years ago

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First, you are a legend. Second, I have finally broken down and started playing thru the ME trilogy thanks to (a) my ability to take a sabbatical, and (b) a friend buying me the legendary edition, and (c) threats of violence from my loved ones should I not play it. I've finished ME2 and I am 100% not booting up ME3 if there's snowball's chance in hell that the LE version of your mod is dropping any time soon.

*sings* you're not our bitch and you're not a machine * I'm a fic writer, I expect nothing. And I know this stuff takes forever and I 1000% expect the answer to be 'no' but the only thing I am inquiring is whether there is an updated ETA for your mod. OR if you have need for a legendary edition beta tester. OR if I can send you cash money to help offset the time being spent on a labor of love. OR if I should say -f- it and get my hands on the original edition of ME3 so the hatboy mod you've already (gloriously) provided us, works.

Also thank you for giving me hope that I will get to play a Shoker option, which makes the most sense thematically and narratively and I am aghast at what bioware chose to do with Joker (and EDI, wtf). You're doing god's work.

Just this week, I got some of the updated synths I've been waiting for, but I'm still waiting on BroShep.

I am still working on HBLE, don't you worry! In between writing fic myself, doing a painting, and a playthrough of ME3 to refamiliarise myself with its pacing, I have been going in and putting some necessary setup stuff in place, which is all very boring and un-exciting and not really showcase-able. Big chunks of the structure have been built, but most of the audio work has to be done, still.

In the OT, a lot of work had been done before I had the ability to read a line to the synth myself and have it transpose the voice directly, which noticeably improves delivery. So much so that it is difficult to use a lot of the previous edition's takes. This has the knock-on effect of the line needing to be re-animated because, of course, the timings of everything are now different with the new audio. There are very few lines whose takes will not be re-done.

Fortunately, however, I have my lipsync automation tools, and I'm much better at animating now than when I started. So it takes a lot less time this go-around... but still time!

Sadly and wonderfully, this is a massive mod and is much more than just a straight port. If it was a straight port, it'd have been done already. I would apologise for that, but I like to think the end result will be worth it, haha!

I am adding new content this time, including an entire conversation about his sister that you can unlock by completing some vanilla dialogues.

I am so glad that you've been enjoying your time with Mass Effect and that my mod is on your list of things to do. In what I am sure is the most shocking statement of the century, I agree that Joker is the most thematically satisfying romance for Shepard. I can't wait to get it to you! I promise, I am doing my best and there's nobody who wants it in your hands more than me.

Regarding testing, it's not quite in a state where it can be tested just yet. A few conversations work (first convo, EDI body convo, EDI discussion, some ambients) but nothing else yet.

Regarding supporting me, I do have a Ko-Fi. You can find a link to it in the pinned post, and donations absolutely do help my creative efforts, and I go a little feral when I see someone has donated. But as always, I want to make it clear; The Hatboy Project is free and will never be gated in any way. Everyone gets the same release at the same time. All you have to do is own a legit copy of the game... Which you already do!

Excitement like yours helps keep me going. Thank you so much.

Edit: lmao my link is not in my pinned post lol rofl it's hatboyproject.ko-fi.com tho

#shoker mod #hatboyproject #shoker #mass effect mods #private terminal mail

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h0n3yk1tt3n · 8 months ago

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💙🩷🤎

💙 Blue: What inspires you to finish writing a fanfic, and what makes you quit writing one at any stage in the process?

For Store Playlist, it was the fact that it was part of a big bang and I'd feel gross for not finishing it lol. For Left 2 Chill, it was/is a multi-year labor of love that i wanted to see to the end. And the epilogue will be going up in like 12 days!! So we're nearly there! (Also the deadlines I had in my head of September-October 2023 and April 2024 for a 28 Weeks Later joke/reference kicked my ass into finishing... but good lord i still need to go back and make edits bc spell/grammar check has never been kind to me)

As for what makes me abandon one, the fact of the matter is that I don't seriously start enough fics/story ideas to make them feel.. real?? I've mentioned incomprehensible scribbles in my notes app, which were made either bc I wanted to make a comic for them or just write them down before I forgot them (cough cough royal pains manifesto). So like, it's hard to call them abandoned since they were never really started beyond Vibes (halo au... i can see like three scenes for it and no other story beyond that)

As for actual fics of mine that have been abandoned (one of which has gotten a weird influx of kudos despite not being updated since 2018) were from the era of the infamous Deleted Progress of 2019 from when my old iPod Touch was being a douche about its cloud storage. So many months worth of progress... just gone.. it still makes me sad...

Sooo short answer on reasoning for abandoning fics: not being able to commit or literal outside influence I guess lol

🩷 Pink: Do you find a certain character (or characters) easy to write? More difficult -- and if so, do you avoid writing that character (or those characters) when possible?

Jeremy and Zoe are generally easy bc they're just like me fr (oddly specific familial trauma what whaaat), but it really depends with other characters. I've done very little writing for characters other than the boyfs outside of l2c (which! I! Want! To! Get! Better! About!) so like.. the au versions of the characters are generally easy for me bc. I invented them for the most part lol

I guess it was harder for me to pin down Rich, since he was a "main cast" character whose head I spent about the least time in (next to Jared, but I've already gone on abt the meta reasoning for not getting in his head much, and writing him was less hard and more mentally taxing bc i kept fussing over potential readers Not Seeing The Vision) mainly bc the other characters had more interesting things to going on to pick apart

🤎 Brown: How did you decide to write for (or why are you writing) a certain story? (Asker, feel free to chose a specific story you're curious about. You can also let the answerer choose the story.)

I'm gonna speedrun a few bc I feel like it

Left 2 Chill: started playing Left 4 Dead 2 again. Doodled Jeremy saying one of the most metal lines from the game/trailer. Quarantine happened a month later. "Haha look at me writing an au about a viral outbreak during a viral outbreak I'm sure there's no correlation at all."

Store Playlist: worked at a grocery store and watched over the self checkouts. Fun songs played sometimes that I would dance/lipsync to. Funny customer/manager interactions. ("He's sixteen." "Nuh-uh! I'm fourteen!" — "Want some water? It tastes like roses. [...] Want some roses? They taste like roses." — [The cucumber thing]) "Hmm what if self-indulgent blorbo au?"

[Anything for the Weakness saga (hi becca)]: 5am brain rot, brain rot, gay, what if missing scene, 3am brain rot, gay gay gay hgfgvcgg g a y

#asks #mj says shit #writing #be more chill #left 2 chill #store playlist #weakness au #hey. hey @ me. hey.. write more shit. idiot.#dear evan hansen

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triceratopsgirlypop · 9 months ago

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Im watching the In the Heights movie and I need to ramble so I'm doin it here I guess, this might just stay a draft we'll see

Ok so I love the musical, it really shows how good Lin Manuel Miranda is at storytelling and songwriting and lyricism and all that good stuff. And the movie has a lot of that charm, and its own new charms that I love, especially the focus on background characters having their own lives, thats like my favorite addition. Oh and all the actors do such a great job but I especially LOVE sonny. This is objectively not a bad movie. BUT I was raised by a film bro who had more 4k discs than friends so I have nitpicks (just kidding that was a joke i love you papa)

First off, the music is so obviously recorded beforehand and played over footage of the actors lipsyncing. And that's fine, that's really the best way to do a movie musical, but it really took me out of it.

Like, it's really especially with her. Does it look like shes singing here? Bc to me it kinda looks like shes kinda vaguely yelling. Especially on "champagne" And it's fine, it's a small thing but it's really not a super difficult thing to get right? Like just have them sing so that it looks like they're singing. They don't have to just lipsync. Buts thats just a pet peave, it really doesn't matter

I really just wish it had either committed to being like the artsy movie it was during the big songs that has big synchronized swimming numbers and talking mannequins that I couldn't even find a gif of

Or committed to the rest of the movie. Don't get me wrong, 96,000 is so good in this, but the bit at the beginning with the cartoons doesn't come back at all. It's just all very scattered. There's a bit in it won't be long now where big pieces of fabric falling from the sky? And she's running, but then it zooms out and it's in her eye. And none of that ever comes back, nothing like that. It's a kinda cool shot for one song and that's it. It really just feels like they got a different graphic designer to do each first act big number and they didn't talk at all. Like, in when you're home Nina draws a subway map on a fence and Benny blows it away playfully and it's all cute and that's that songs gimmick, right? And it won't be long now has the fabric, and the opening number has this really cute, like, scrapbook energy which I love by the way. BUT ITS ALL DIFFERENT. It's just so... It breaks my suspension of disbelief, to use a fancy film bro term.

ANYWAY I love Carla and Daniela so goddamn much they are in love lesbians are real like I don't know why but I'm crying over them

#jesus that got long huh #tldr the in the heights movie is good but has a very weak fourth wall #in the heights #lin manuel miranda #in the heights movie #movie rant #film bro ramble #musical posting #theater kid posting #i do love this movie tho #ramblings

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cas-coding · 1 year ago

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okay my speech is returning so heres a post abt it. i struggle with temporary speech loss and it all depends on a lot of factors. but usually my mouth kind of feels weird and then my thoughts slow down. starts as a “eh i kinda feel like being quiet” to a “fuck i cant speak or think clearly” thing in like ten minutes. sometimes preceded by a burst of lots of thoughts before “going dry.”

this time it was a burst of thoughts before i started losing speech, couldnt even lipsync my favorite song :( typing is hard too during these episodes, so maybe it’s more of a language or thought loss but i’d have to look into that. it’s difficult and slow to generate thoughts so i can still type fast in theory, but my brain has ahard time spelling and picking out words to type.

when this happens i just give in. speaking can be very painful and disressing and make it worse so if i don’t have to speak i don’t. simple. i also remove myself from environment and check myself for injury. i have a bodily disassociation constantly where some sensations, including certain types of pain, do not register in my brain. cute, huh?

i removed myself from my kitchen and went to my bedroom, and in the process my knee gave out on the stairs. put my knee brace on and five minutes later, boom. thoughts are returning! speech takes a bit longer, but i don’t need my voice tonight so maybe i’ll just rest it since my body wanted to earlier.

tldr: my speech was temporarily gone, i did my routine my therapist advised, and it is now coming back. problem solved, crisis averted, goodnight.

#autism #autism rant #autistic things #actually autistic #temporary speech loss

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myburntwritings · 1 year ago

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Day 25: Ever been to the parties? Which was your fav?

I attended all of the official parties and Remix events. I didn't attend any of the Peep Lates, due to timing.

I can think of reasons why each of these events could be my favourite, and it's incredibly difficult to pick between them.

New Years' Eve Remix was not only the first Burnt City party I attended. It was the first Punchdrunk party. It also came at a time when I had spent the majority of the previous 2 years big dates at home on my own due to Covid. Holiday seasons had been spent at home or without big events, so going to a huge party in what was quickly becoming one of my favourite places with a number of my favourite people was not only exciting, it was a comfort I had been missing for a long time.

Similarly, Last Rites in September 2023 was a hugely emotional affair. This would be the last party/big event we had in this space. We had a week left of shows, and then I would undoubtedly not see many of the people I had come to adore so deeply. Or, at least, I would not see them as frequently, and I wouldn't turn up to find we were unexpectedly at the same shows. Everything would need to be planned in advance for the most part. The joyful chaos was ending.

The performances at Last Rites were incredible, and the inclusion of karaoke in Klub was a joyful one. By this point, Punchdrunk had a great grasp on what their audience wanted from a party, and were offering a wide variety of entertainments. I was also more familiar with the format, and so I managed to catch everything I wanted to see.

The Lipsync battles after Remix in August was so unbelievably fun and entertaining. I wish we could have had more evenings like this. Sunday nights where everyone can let loose a bit, enjoy some madness. Even without Remixing the show, having events in Peep once a month or so, and on Sundays where they wouldn't have had to go into their late-night quota, would have been spectacular, and I certainly would have paid extra for a Sunday ticket more frequently if they included post-show entertainment like this. It was such a simple idea, and yet it worked so unbelievably well.

But, for me, I don't think any of them can quite compare to Ascension in April. This comes from a combination, I think. It was the second party, meaning I still had the initial excitement to explore the set and take photos (trying to ensure I captured photos of things I'd only managed to get blurred pictures of at the last party.) But, being the second party, Punchdrunk had learned a lot from the first, and had incorporated a lot more.

The performances at Ascension were not only stunning from a visual, audio, and talent standpoint, but they were so themed to this idea of the religious festival for Persephone's Ascension for Spring, that they took on a mythical, mystical cult element.

As the audience, we stopped being something as mundane as a variety of individuals seeing a fiction theatre show. We descended into a fever dream. We ascended to a place where we became a cohesive and bonded cult of worshippers to this religion within the Burnt City. We celebrated our religious holiday with food and drink, with singing and dancing. We wore the ceremonial colours and made every effort to present ourselves looking our best to worship at the altar of our Underworld Goddess for our most sacred holiday.

Persephone ascended for us, and we were going to make damned sure she knew how much we appreciated it.

#the burnt city #punchdrunk #immersive theatre #greek mythology #greek myth retelling #tbc #tbc 30 day challenge #Ascension #Last Rites #Remix #New Years #Punchdrunk parties

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jentlemahae · 2 months ago

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heavy on the "all it needs is to be interesting" part of that ask bcs i feel like that's why me and so many others have been so annoyed by lisa's choreos bcs there's literally no excuse for them to be this lackluster. jennie isn't even in the dance line and she ate the FUCK out of this mantra choreo. like she was actually given something interesting to do and she killed it and now i'm so excited to see her live stages!!!!! this is what it should be!!!! the dance doesn't even have to be difficult, it just needs to be creative and engaging but for whatever reason, sean isn't doing that for lisa. i saw bp live 3 times last year and lisa's solo stage was the highlight of every show for me but none of her newer live performances have given me that and it's not even bcs of her, it's down to the choreo. let's not lie, there's some very obvious audio problems that won't be fixed anytime soon, but i feel like even that could be overlooked if sean actually gave her something interesting to do onstage. all he has her doing is walking around and waving her arms a little. anon isn't even exaggerating, he is giving her the scraps!!! why is he able to create good choreo for tate mcrae, normani, victoria monet, literally everyone else, but his work for lisa is straight DOOKIE??? someone needs to force him to watch the lilifilms bcs what is going on over here? we all know she can do better bcs we've seen it before. fr i hope lisa sees the light soon bcs this is just not it

yep !!!!!!!!!! and i also think people would more easily overlook / ignore the sound issues lisa has been having and not immediately go for lipsync allegations if lisa’s choreographies were actually good and complex — it seems like that tate girl barely touches the mic when she’s performing but people don’t give her nearly half as much shit for it because her choreos are complicated and look actually demanding, so people dgaf if she’s singing or not. lisa’s choreos look boring and way too simple considering her skillset, so people are quicker to nitpick because there’s nothing about her performances that really wows them. and it’s not a lisa issue !!!!!! SHE is actually great !!!!!!!! plus, she’s barely promoting and performing as it is, so who even cares if the choreos were made for live singing ?????? new woman especially, cause they knew they were never gonna promote it in full!

mantra choreo is so great in itself but it also matches jennie’s style and vibe so perfectly, it’s so clearly made FOR HER!

#anonymous #sophie ask

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lifeofafangirl1 · 2 months ago

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Taylor definitely lip syncs at some parts of the eras tour cause I just sat for 3 hours trying to sing the entirely of the eras tour setlist and I’m no professional singer like she is and I haven’t been singing for 18 years like she has, but we need to take into account that…having to do that every night for over a year with no breaks is definitely gonna put strain on her vocal chords especially with some of her belter-ish songs.

And not to forget she also has choreography to do during her sets. If you’ve ever tried to keep perfect vocals while running on a treadmill you’ll know how difficult it is to lose breath really easily.

So I do think she lipsyncs for some of her more popular/upbeat songs where’s there more dancing and crowd interaction (shake it off, but daddy I love him, ready for it, I knew you were trouble e.c.t) to make it her easier to do it every night.

But this doesn’t mean I think that she doesn’t sing at all because she definitely sings live for her more chilled on the vocal chord or live performance songs (like all too well, enchanted and most of the folklore/evermore e.c.t) and the surprise songs.

And I honestly do not care! She needs to rest her vocals at some points. She’s still a great and amazingly talented singer and performer and we should grateful we saw her in the first place and her lip-syncing for a few songs doesn’t take away or differentiate the experience that is eras tour.

So why should we care?

#taylor swift #eras tour #lipsync rumours #Taylor Swift live #maisie rambles :)

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amusement-park-date · 4 months ago

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I chose to listen to The Lion King soundtrack as I write, and it's so difficult to keep myself focused on the story when Be Prepared is playing in the background. I'll probably find myself listening to it for a little while before I'm finally able to let it go and allow the next song to play.

Meticulous planning Tenacity spanning Decades of denial Is simply why I'll BE KING UNDISPUTED RESPECTED, SALUTED AND SEEN FOR THE WONDER I AM

Oh my god I love this part. And I have to tell myself that I can't sing, it's midnight after all. So I'm settling to just lipsyncing.

Ugghhh Scar is my favorite Disney villain.

#the lion king #be prepared #the lion king OST

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fanofbirdsflying · 8 months ago

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kpop idols (groups) vs. live singing: a constant fight in fandom:

the video below is a music show performance from the 2nd gen girl group jewelry

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why am i showing you this video?

with every generation choreos in kpop have gotten more and more difficult (generalization) and dancing became more and more important. and while this might make performances more exciting on the one hand, it also impacted live singing of idols on the other hand. with every generation it feels like, plain live performances are more and more difficult to find. we now have to play detectives to figure out if the performance we're watching is a lipped version of the studio version, a pre recorded live taping of the idols singing the song without dancing, how loud the backtrack is in comparison to how loud the mics are, if filters and pitch correction is used on the mics and whether or not the audio was heavily edited in post production before the performance was uploaded.

jewelry wasn't known as the greatest vocal group of all time, but they were a liked and recognized group. only 1 member, the one in the pink skirt, among them was famous for "not singing well/not knowing how to sing". the vocal performance of an idol in 2nd gen who was known for not being that good, feels like an average and sometimes even decent vocal performance of the following generations.

this song, i really like you, doesn't have the most difficult choreo, but most members in the group are able to move while also delivering decent vocals.

in kpop currently it feels like dancing and visuals are the most important thing, while singing feels like an afterthought. idols are constantly given songs that are too difficult for them to perform, whether it's just singing the song standing still or singing the song while also executing a difficult choreo. for some idols and groups the right move would be to tone down the choreo so that they can try to do their best with their vocals. for other idols more time taking actual singing lessons with good vocal teachers would help. some idols just need to work on their stamina. some idols just need different songs that suit their singing and skills.

we've have now reached a point in kpop where asking for decent live vocals is "a big demand". "you guys are never happy. when they lipsync you complain, when they perform live and make a few mistakes, you complain. you just want to hate!" is what a lot of fans of idols whose singing was criticized say. and it's true that there are ppl like that in the kpop fandom. but it's also true that a lot of idols just struggle with singing, and singing THEIR OWN songs and parts. this is a an issue. this is an issue of an idol and their respective company. part of managing an idol is to give them the right tools so that they can perform well. what i want from idols is to sing their own songs without being scared. but they know that they don't have the skills so they are scared when it's time to sing live without backtracks or audio correction/editing etc. part of an idol's job while performing is to sing, so they should know how to sing a little. nobody expects ppl to be whitney. having off days or making mistakes is normal too but there is a general skill issue with many idols. sometimes it feels like the idols spent and spend more time learning how to dance than how to sing.

i am aware that within the korean entertainment world there is a distinction between singers (for example park hyoshin, ailee) and idols. singers have the reputation of being skilled while idols have a reputation of being untalented, which is actually really sad. it takes a lot of skill to sing live and dance but it's not necessarily recognized as such because lipsyncing has become the default. (i totally understand when lipsyncing happens sometimes because of vocal rest, being sick, lack of good sound tech etc.) but again not singing live is normal now.

#th #Youtube #kpop #kpop live singing discussions

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zsterofficial · 8 months ago

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i’m currently obsessed with Rachel Dorothea Knight (a.k.a BANSHEE), meaning i think her music is beautiful; her meaningful and rage-filled lyrics and original nu metal genre she has coined as “sirencore” are very creative and so is her whole Greek mythology inspired aesthetic. i think that she is very talented and as a singer myself, i acknowledge her talent and that maintaining her vocal range must take a lot of effort. Unfortunately, though, she has replied and agreed with some pro-Israeli and Zionist posts on Threads which is very difficult to ignore bc that’s all she seems to post on there. i am proudly pro-Palestine and have been trying to use my platform to call out people, especially other artists, who are pro-genocide. However, and this is not an excuse for seemingly sweeping the genocide of Palestinian people under the rug, from what i can see Rachel’s stance is not of outwardly hating Palestinian people but of defending who she believes to have been victims of SA and since she herself is a Jewish SA victim, i can understand why she would be quick to accept the Israeli propaganda if she thought she was protecting innocent Jewish women. i’m sure she’ll come around eventually as her heart seems to be in the right place, but i’ll have u know that i do not support the way she is currently going about it in any way, shape or form.

i’m just apologising in advance for when i eventually cover (or lipsync to) one of her songs and get my comments flooded with messages saying that she’s a zionist. i understand where y’all are coming from and if i still get comments like that i will still respond to them and take it as a sign that my content has reached the right audiences and be grateful for that ♡︎

#z’s thoughts & ramblings 🖤

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thesinglesjukebox · 1 year ago

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AYESHA EROTICA X MO BEATS - "YUMMY X RIGHTEOUS"

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We take a ride on the Tube with Will R…

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Harlan Talib Ockey: google -- "who is tube girl" "why are the trains windy in london" "first lady of juicy couture song tiktok" "ayesha erotica yummy tiktok tube girl remix??????" "PLEASE I NEED TO FIND THIS SONG--" [7]

Will Rivitz: If you're part of the appropriate subgenre of Extremely Online, you may dimly recall this mashup soundtracking the Tube Girl TikTok trend over the course of a few weeks in September. A refresher for the reasonable majority of us, myself absolutely excluded, who have better uses for their long-term memory: The trend, which asks the TikToker to lipsync on the subway, takes its specific shape from the way it's shot, all 0.5-zoom selfie and camera whipped in dizzying directions every other beat. On its face, the trend is unremarkable -- most of its chatter revolved around the delulu audacity required to gesticulate violently in public, chatter broadly shared with basically every other trend on the app -- but one particular detail sticks out to me every time I return to it or its regular soundtrack. Others who hopped on the trend filmed their videos in a variety of contexts, filming in broad daylight, at peak rush hour, whatever and whenever; the only requirement, really, is enough elbow room to whirl about without whacking anyone else. However, the consistent setting of the videos filmed by Sabrina Bahsoon, the trend's originator and popularizer, lies in stark contrast with the energy drink confidence of her dance moves. Bahsoon regularly films her TikToks while the train heads through a dark tunnel, dingy floors and walls made uglier by harsh fluorescent lighting. The few commuters who dot the background of her videos typically pay her no mind, scenery rather than active participants. In her videos, Bahsoon portrays a desolate scene behind herself, almost entirely empty and devoid of spirit, a true-to-life depiction of day-to-day drudgery that lends her videos much more power than a lively backdrop would. This is critical to the spirit of Tube Girl. Joyful dance is tinged with melancholy, confidence is juxtaposed with apathy. One girl can rage against the pallid normalcy of the tube, but the pallid normalcy of the tube cannot be shaken; no matter the abandon with which you dance, you cannot part life's dreary curtain even a smidge.

So, too, with the trend's most prominent soundtrack. Ayesha Erotica provides the easiest foothold, blasting through each verse and chorus with the incisive and crushing power of a drill rig. The song is basically complete from her voice alone, as made obvious by the two-note simplicity of the production originally accompanying her on "Yummy." Mashed up with "Righteous," though, the bitterness and misery of Ayesha's verses begin to seep through more noticeably. Her lyrics are confident but largely unhappy; any self-aggrandizement is laden with an acerbic edge for those slighting her, and there are enough tossed-off self-deprecating jokes ("Yeah, he love me, but he fuck me like he hates my guts" and "I'm a fake bitch, so I'm paying him dust," for two) that they begin to sound a little too real. It's easy to call this song a portrait of an artist who, despite all she crows to the contrary, simply cannot stand herself, particularly if we use what we know of Ayesha in real life: She abruptly removed herself and all her music from public view about half a decade ago for reasons that remain unclear to this day, and has not really resurfaced since, leaving her stans to diligently keep her image alive despite someone ostensibly taking action to remove her music every time it gets illegally re-uploaded. However, we don't really need that extracurricular information; recontextualizing her lyrics outside of her typical Y2K scene production and into this mashup's beat gives us all the reading material we need. The verses match the production so well that it's difficult not to see the beat's official use as a farcical tragedy; Ayesha Erotica and Mo Beats are meant for each other here. "Righteous" sets a vibe equal parts Blade Runner neon and postapocalyptic SNES RPG; the instrumental is beseeching, morose, crystal tears falling into the wind from a skyscraper's height. It sounds plaintive and lonely, its wind-whipped arpeggios cascading brilliantly over a backdrop flattened into desolate wasteland by their force. It is, in other words, a perfect companion for its lyrics, delicately cradling and nurturing Ayesha's jagged edges until it's hard to believe she was ever bragging. Juxtaposed as they are, vocal and instrumental bellow against the dreariness of a world unable to fulfill or shelter their unbounded selves. They're raging against the night until dawn breaks and the world returns; they're burning some mark on an existence that reacts so little to any heat that it's difficult to believe the mark will ever appear. In other words, they're gyrating wildly, face cocked into a self-assured snarl, against a mundane backdrop that could not care less, and they gyrate and snarl even still. Tube Girl and its associated sound may have lasted a week or two, but both the hopelessness and the fiery conviction that we can rage against that hopelessness until we draw our last breath have seared themselves into my mind ever since. [10]

Rachel Saywitz: Not totally understanding this remix, which completely sucks out the cute-core joy of "Yummy" so that... I don't know, I guess so that designer brands and toilet paper crafters can use on it TikTok? I guess when so much of our media literacy is intentionally muddied by billion-dollar corporates, it makes sense that we sometimes lean towards watered-down art, with all its weirdness filtered out so it becomes functionally useless. Or maybe I just don't like mashups in general. It's one or the other! [3]

Katherine St Asaph: For reasons best left unplumbed by me and others, I killed an hour or so the other day watching old American Idol clip reels. I expected to be struck by the casual cruelty in which mid-2000s pop culture marinated those who lived it. What I didn't expect (and in retrospect, I'm not sure why) were the YouTube comments embracing it, laughing at the freakshow editing and Simon Cowell's fat jokes, wanting to bring it all back. Likewise, Ayesha Erotica's own nostalgia for the McBling era comes complete, in attitude as well as aesthetics. You have the Juicy tracksuits and the hot pink; you have the hyperbrandedness and the "ironic" bodyshaming ("you're a size too big, bitch"). Listening to this feels like languishing, My Year of Rest and Relaxation-style, in a sensory deprivation tank filled with expired Four Loko and pumped-in static, papered entirely in US Weekly spreads and Perez Hilton blog posts. Knowing that this was the desired effect, and that people liked it enough to exhume the demo from the Internet graveyard and make it a viral hit, feels like emerging from the chamber to find out that, while you were under, the outside world became like that too. [1]

Michelle Myers: It's not easy to be an edgegirlie while also doing it for "the queens and the queers." [4]

Nortey Dowuona: When the synth arpeggios start playing over light keyboard chords, the song jitters and frizzles, struggling to figure out a destination. The thick, heavy 808s are layered down surrounded by rigid hi hat lines and settle it, as Ayesha's smug, high-pitched snarl kicks solid B-minus punchlines over the the flat Tostitos snares. Then the arpeggios appear again, but Ayesha rolls them around her palm, unmoved, unthreatened, sitting just in the bottom of the mix, cutting through all the same. Best Yummy song ever. not much competition for that though. [8]

Ian Mathers: "Righteous" on its own has some great sounds but does feel kind of... backdrop-y? "Yummy" meanwhile already worked really well, but submerging the vocals below that thick, fuzzy bed of synths works kind of astoundingly well. The parts are good, and the sum? Well, then sum! [9]

David Moore: How on earth does this make me feel older than any other song we're covering this year? I feel at least as old as I did relistening to Avenue D, which is what this will sound like in 20 years. [7]

Brad Shoup: The original is good bloghouse revival (the desiccated "Paul Revere" rip is canceled out by the "what if Biggie was a zoomer" hook); the remix is bloghouse being banished into a nether realm, with a death-row appeal to the queens and the queers at the end. [7]

Joshua Minsoo Kim: The beat anesthetizes and de-aestheticizes the original, flattening the pomp and bombast into spiritless slot-machine synths. I'm not sure why so much hyperactive stuff is labeled "internet music" -- most of my late-night scrolling is closer to this: comforting and questionable mindlessness. [6]

Jonathan Bradley: In some distant future of colossal Amazon warehouses baked by climate change, where interstate highways, grown sentient with misplaced circuitry, curl their tentacles around Cybertrucks fed on large language models, this mash-up will play on flickering loop, scattered proof of a world that once was. "Remember the internet?" we'll ask one another. "It sounded like this." [6]

Taylor Alatorre: The unremixed original doesn't repulse me despite being contrived to do so, so why can't I vibe with this one? I think it's because the newly applied backing track feels like the background radiation of the internet -- put almost any song up against it and it would come out sounding basically the same, provided you push the vocals as far below the chiptune-gaze as has been done here. It's not uniquely tailored to Ayesha Erotica's performance in a way that uncovers some new angle to it, and it's not absurdly mismatched in a way that produces either friction or frisson. It just is, anonymous and idle, defanged of its bite but still containing enough narrowcasted filth to briefly snag your focus before you scroll on to the next thing. [4]

Alfred Soto: I've waited a year for a line like "I'm just tryna keep all the porn stars fed" to slap me sideways, and I'm still waiting for a tune worthy of it. [4]

Micha Cavaseno: A little less than 20 years ago, a certain branch of sleaze rap done (mostly) by white people existed for blogs, MySpace pages, and very little else. It was usually done by people rapping over the mess and miasma of realms we called electroclash, "blog-haus" and other assorted noises. Later, it resulted in LMFAO and Ke$ha, and we nearly disposed of the "ironically bad" rapper thing, which was better for our ears but worse for this little thread where you had people who were "cringe" but not nearly as tedious as your pseudy "undie" of the '00s nor the far more cursed sea of frat rappers to later come along. It might've been self-sabotaged by irony and a disregard from the source culture (except from SpankRock and Dirt Nasty), but it was oddly honest and pure for how little it Needed urban posture. Ayesha Erotica's fembot "hyperpop" (or hyper-femme BotPop?) dilettante rap is in many ways a return to that but displays a remarkable capability that Princess Superstar just never got close to, Uffie was never interested in pulling off, and Peaches just was never good enough to come close to. She means it, and she does her best to deliver it with the flow and aggression that dares to help edge her away from leather pants and disaffection to unabashed stunting. It just so happens that some generous soul put it over this instrumental and gave us maybe one of a handful of actually listenable "rage" tracks since the sub-genre happened (next to "Miss The Rage," and Youngboy's attempts this year). There's nothing I love more than watching a dead end give way to an unfinished road. [8]

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