#listen i know they're bops but i know them as like.... that bach song that goes like this: *incoherent noises* asdfghjsdfghjkjhgfdsdfghjkjhg

[pommedefemme]

🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favourite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨ - I got sent this so now I send to you !

Oh, hey, thanks! Don't mind if I take this opportunity to a) not follow the prompt and b) be a little unhinged :) I'm gonna go with five categories of Things I Listen To instead of five individual songs:

Lesbian Swagger

Okay, so, Brandi Carlile collaborating with Joni Mitchell (a la Lady Gaga with Tony Bennett). They're all great! But this one. Can we talk about her blazer in this clip? Can we talk about Joni bringing the jazz stylings? Can we talk about Elton's cute little hand gestures on the "yeah, yeah, yeah"s?

I watched this and it immediately reminded me of kd performing with Brenda Lee, Loretta Lynn, and Kitty Wells. There's something to be said about a stylish lesbian having an absolute blast and bopping about the stage with a giddy grin because she's doing what she loves. (And if she makes everyone else on stage look like a goofy mom doing wine night karaoke, I mean, hey!)

Both kd and Brandi have that infuriating ability to out-sing everyone they've ever shared a stage with. CAN YOU TWO PLEASE GET TOGETHER ALREADY?

And Now: The Gents

Billy Brown is Penny Lane's out and proud younger cousin. You're Nearer makes me think that there is a Paul McCartney drag show in my future. You Have Been Loved is an underrated gem. I often wonder who these guys' target demographic is. I asked my early-twenties gay male coworker if he liked any of them; he said he'd never heard of them. Alarming! Generational shift? Maybe. I've met too many young lesbians who don't know kd or Indigo Girls or Melissa Etheridge. Still! No offense, but Sam Smith and girl in red can't hold a candle to Ye Olde Homosexuals Of Yore.

The Source Of My Snobbery

My voice teacher (of two months) wanted me to sing Un Moto Di Gioia as a recital piece (before my performance anxiety and commitment-phobia got the better of me). Several performances I looked to as reference points are still coming up on shuffle a year later. My showerhead's ears are bleeding. While rehearsing (before quitting), I kept thinking of Tom Hulce and tried to make my version uhh joyful? Sprightly? A smidge on the ironic side with exaggerated winks at my non-existent audience? Embarrassing. Glad I chickened out before the public humiliation phase. Je Crois Entendre Encore quiets something in my ribcage and leaves me in a fugue state. Hey, have you heard Bach's Ricercar? I checked out this CD from the public library in elementary school and it's still embedded in my neurons.

The Local Beat

I'm doxxing myself a bit, but here are my musician friends. Amara The Muse, Chris Braegger, Catfish Mustache, Before Giants, and svlph. Support your local musicians today!

Hey, Siri, Play...(The Songs I Put On Repeat Lately)

Love Is The Right Place, As The World Falls Down, Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby, Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes, Close To You, Gentle On My Mind, The Wind, It Doesn't Matter Anymore. I was going to list Newish Songs That Prove I'm Not A Snob Who Only Listens To Old Things, but it was kinda short and disingenuous. I'm old! I try to keep up with the youth, but I keep coming back to the oldies.

[retvenkos]

Olive, my darling, do humour me: cym as classical songs that SLAP to you

MUTUALS — let me know if you want to be included or taken off!

this one is my absolute FAVORITE actually but also i’m sorry for my classical music illiteracy

@noesapphic: lacrimosa — mozart | ♩

@permanentreverie: masquerade suite waltz — aram khachaturian | ♩

@teaand-dreams: nocturne no. 1 in b flat minor op. 9 no. 1 — chopin | ♩

@anthonysharmaa: devil's trill sonata: iii. allegro assai — giuseppe tartini | ♩

@moonlit-imagines: the four seasons: summer, presto — vivaldi | ♩

@heliads: piano concerto no. 2 in c minor, op. 18: 1. moderato — sergei rachmaninoff | ♩

@locke-writes: the orange tree — philip glass | ♩

@amortensie: orfeo ed euridice, wq. 30 — christoph willibald gluck, raniero de' calzabigi | ♩

@juliastrojan: 1812 overture — tchaikovsky | ♩ (but also !!! every time i hear carpe diem from dps,,,, i think of you 😭)

@murswrites: dracula enters — philip glass | ♩

@swanimagines: badinerie — bach | ♩

@biqherosix: elfentanz — david popper | ♩

@the-radio-star​: swan lake, op. 20, act II: no. 10, scene. moderato — tchaikovsky | ♩

@musicallisto: après un rêve, op. 7, no. 1 — gabriel fauré | ♩ (but also,,,, ma’am,,,,, light of the seven from GoT my BELOVED !!!!! ramin djawadi did the absolute mOST there and i love him for it <3)

@ughgclden: slow dancing in the dark — nicholas yee | ♩

@donnakenobi: études dans le genre fugué, op. 97: no. 4b, allegretto è sempre legato — antoine reicha | ♩

@scvrllet: wyden down — riopy | ♩

@mirclealignr: string quartet no. 1. mov. ii — derya kavuncu | ♩

@oceanspray5: finding melody — gavin luke | ♩

@missameliep: ave maria — charles gounod | ♩