#love listening to her speak though and I was better than like 90% of the other white students cuz I can make a kh sound
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spidersinyourshoes · 2 months ago
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Phantom Troupe music headcanons because i cannot stop projecting my interests onto them
in honor of me creating 6 different playlists today, here’s my thoughts on what type of music the Phantom Troupe would be into :>
Chrollo
Likes classic goth bands such as The Cure and Bauhaus, and is also really into classical music
Avid collector of the most obscure type of music that no one has ever heard of
Like what do you mean the first hour of your playlist is just Gregorian chants??
Listens to artists who have roughly 7 monthly listeners, and somehow he is 3 of them
Also an insane music nerd
He just somehow knows everything about different genres and their societal significance
Will also go into long rants about music based subcultures and their relevance
Nobunaga
Bit pretentious with it lol
Just doesn’t get modern music
Big fan of anything from the 70s or 80s though
Any song he can get nostalgic over tbh
Probably likes Johnny Cash as well??
Just picture any music that you���d hear at a suburban barbecue organized by single dads and he’d know all the songs by heart
Feitan
I don’t see him as someone who listens to a lot of music tbh
But when he does it’s some obscure shit
Probably more into instrumentals than vocals
Again, doesn’t care much, just know that it has to sound haunting or moody, otherwise he’ll turn that shit off
Shalnark swears he once saw him nodding along to Elton John but no one believes him
That did happen actually
He blames Phinks
Machi
Another one who doesn’t listen to a lot of music, but does have a few playlists she rotates between
Went through an emo phase when she was younger and still knows all of the lyrics to basically every Paramore song
Now she’s more partial to artists like Lana Del Rey and Girl in Red
Likes chill songs that aren’t too intense, just here for some good vibes that don’t distract too much
Phinks
Dad rock.
That’s it. That’s the headcanon
Single-handedly responsible for half of Led Zeppelin’s streams
Argues with Nobunaga over who has the better taste in music even though there’s actually a lot of overlap in their tastes
Has a guilty pleasure for emotional ballads as well but he’d sooner die than admit that out loud
Shalnark
Listens to everything
And when I say everything I mean everything
Has about a million playlists all for hyper specific scenarios and moods, but the only playlist he ever actually listens to is just a massive collection of all his favorite songs
It’s definitely over 50 hours long, and will switch from Britney Spears to Pierce the Veil, then the entire Shrek soundtrack, followed by old school country, of course some lo-fi beats, and then goes right back to ABBA
Everyone hates it but he loves it
If it sounds good it’s going in his playlist
Half of the songs he listens to are in languages he doesn’t even speak
Franklin
Chill music because he’s a chill guy
Likes the blues and jazz
But can also appreciate some 90s grunge
When driving, he’s the only one allowed on the aux because no one else can be trusted to play music that everyone will enjoy
Somehow he just knows exactly what songs to play with different people so that everyone can enjoy themselves
Shizuku
Unironically listens to elevator music
Another one of those ‘If I like it, I like it’ people
Really doesn’t care about genres or what’s popular
But I do think that Sufjan Stevens is one of her top artists every year
Does tend to listen to the same song on repeat for hours without even realizing it though
Pakunoda
Her taste in music is timeless and classy, much like herself
To her, it’s important that music shows emotion or tells a story
Debussy and Chopin are some of her favorites
She likes smooth, elegant music, perfect to dramatically sip wine to
Also prefers vinyl records over their digital counterparts
Honestly her music is the perfect ambience for planning heists
Bonolenov
Bono, being the walking music instrument he is, has a very deep connection to music
He has an insane sense of rhythm, and likes his music to be very rhythmic as well
The type of music you can dance to
While nothing will ever beat the music from his own tribe, he also loves exploring traditional music from different cultures all over the world
Preserving that type of music is very important to him
He can probably deduce a songs hidden meaning or secret story very easily, even if others are struggling to even comprehend what they’re listening to
He can certainly appreciate the artistry of different genres as well
But culturally significant music will always interest him most
Uvogin
All genres of metal and rock
As long as it’s loud, he’ll like it
Definitely the type of person to listen to Motörhead at 3AM and fall asleep to Black Sabbath
Could definitely do the vocals in a metal band if he felt like it
Also listens to Frank Sinatra religiously
I’m sorry I don’t make the rules that’s just how it is
Kortopi
Probably really likes very experimental stuff
Something that’s unconventional and just a tad eerie
Has never made a playlist once and doesn’t plan to
Just picks a song he likes and then listens to whatever’s suggested next
Probably listens to haunted house music to relax
Like out of tune organs with creaky doors in the background
The occasional whisper of a ghost
Everyone thinks it’s really weird but he’s enjoying himself lmao
And of course, they are all theater kids in their own right, so play any song from broadway and they’ll sing along (some more enthusiastically than others)
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irisbleufic · 6 months ago
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Of all the current Devil’s Minion writers your playlist is the one I want to see. Do you have one? If not, are there particular songs you’ve been listening into to while you write? The vibe of your prose with them is hypnotizing like the short story about them in the books, it’s impressive, and does your music also inform this choice if at all?
Intense question, anon. Fourteen-year-old me fucking hyperventilated after reading the DM chapter in Queen of the Damned (me, on the floor of my bedroom at 3am because I don’t want to get caught reading this book, staring dazed at the ceiling; me, now, three weeks ago, sitting shellshocked on the sofa after watching S1 and S2 over two days as a binge; me, over two of those weeks following the binge, rereading the first half of the Chronicles and starting to see double, tilt the prism, see what happens when the narratives are overlaid and blurred), and it still feels like that. Likely my prose turning out the way it is in these stories is about 90% my giddy teenage self having access to my adult self’s writing experience to finally write this beloved pairing without fear of litigious letters (IYKYK, my fellow elder Millennials in the fandom). I don’t often love film and TV adaptations of my favorite books, but I adore this show. It’s flawlessly transformative; its improvements only make the resonances and overlaps that much more meaningful. No notes.
However, I have been listening to the same small handful of songs on repeat for 6 days as I write these pieces. I imagine they are affecting my sense of scansion at points; my writing life didn’t begin with fiction, it began with years of poetry before I ever tried prose. These tracks are as meaningful to me as poems as they are songs. It’s as good a starting point for a playlist as any; I’ll keep adding and put it together on Spotify at some point.
1. Vesuvius - Sufjan Stevens
Vesuvius, I am here
You are all I have
Fire of fire, I'm insecure
for it is all been made to plan
Though I know I will fail
I cannot be made to laugh
for in life as in death
I'd rather be burned
than be living in debt
This song was my entire first 72 hours of writing. I’m that Autistic weirdo who will listen to a single song on repeat for a month and think nothing of it. Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii being the nexus point of their love story from beginning to end in QotD, this is everything to me; I was never going to be able to write about the show incarnation of them without integrating this location and this imagery in the most reverent love letter I know how. This is why my series title for these stories is Caldera. Volcanic crater blowout if ever I saw one; I ran with it.
2. I Forget Where We Were - Ben Howard
Hello love, my invincible friend; hello, love, the thistle and the burr. For you, I have so many words—and I, I forget where we were. I haven’t known this song for all that long in the grand scheme, but it found me via Spotify shuffle in 2022 right after something awful happened. The longing in this song hinges on one of the lovers in it waking up to something they’ve forgotten about their relationship, something precious, and I’m thrilled to finally have a fandom application for it.
3. Make You Better - The Decemberists
I sung you your twinges
I suffered you your tattle-tales
and when you broke sideways
I wanted you, I needed you, oh
to make me better
Oh, to make me better
But we're not so starry-eyed anymore
like the perfect paramour you were in your letters
And won't it all just come around to make you
let it all un-break you to the day that you met her
No excuse for this one; it does a great job of speaking for itself. Front-man Colin Meloy is one of my all-time favorite songwriters, and his work is frequently dark, creepy, and/or gothic enough in flavor that I could find a few more.
4. Song to the Siren - Elisabeth Fraser & This Mortal Coil
On the floating shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
till your singing eyes and fingers
drew me loving to your isle
and you sang, “Sail to me,
sail to me, let me enfold you—
here I am, here I am,
waiting to hold you.”
This cover of Tim Buckley’s folk masterpiece completely transforms the vibe of the song, and in the kind of way you need for this pairing. This one is at responsible for the events and imagery in my “Still Life with Sunken Treasure.”
5. Hal - Yasmine Hamdan, Only Lovers Left Alive OST
لأ ما أقدرشي
لأ مش ممكن
لأ ما أقدرشي
لأ مش ممكن
يا عزيزة اطلعي
لأ ما أقدرشي
يا حبيبتي شرّفي
لأ ما أقدرشي
وطلعت يا ناس، مغلوبة يا ناس
يا عزيزة اتريحي
لأ ما أقدرشي
يا حبيبتي اتلحلحي
لأ ما أقدرشي
وسمعت يا ناس، مغلوبة يا ناس
لأ ما أقدرشي
لأ مش ممكن
لأ ما أقدرشي
لأ مش ممكن
لأ ما أقدرشي
لأ مش ممكن
يا عزيزة اتفرفشي
لأ ما أقدرشي
يا حبيبتي قربي
لأ ما أقدرشي
فرشنا يا ناس، مغلوبة يا ناس
يا عزيزة اقلعي
لأ ما أقدرشي
يا حبيبتي اتجرأي
لأ مش ممكن
شلحنا يا ناس، مغلوبة يا ناس
لأ ما أقدرشي
لأ مش ممكن
لأ ما أقدرشي
لأ مش ممكن
يا عزيزة اتغندريله
يا حبيبتي اتذوقيله
افهمي يا سيدي مش قادرة
وطبعا تقنعني مش واخدة
ايه يا عزيزة؟
ايه اللي إنتي عملاه ده؟
يا يا يا راجل يا هوه!
مش عيب عليك اختشي ونو
لأ ما أقدرشي
لأ مش ممكن
يا عزيزة اخلعي
لأ ما أقدرشي
يا حبيبتي اتشخلعي
لأ مش ممكن
يا خيبتي يا ناس، مغلوبة يا ناس
يا عزيزة اتبغددي
لأ ما أقدرشي
يا حبيبتي جربي
لأ ما أقدرشي
وجينا يا ناس، غلبنا يا ناس
جينا يا ناس، غلبنا يا ناس
I don’t think the Arabic justified to the correct side when I copied this, but the translation is very easy to find. I don’t speak Arabic, but honestly the English translation is dull compared to the beauty of this language. If you haven’t watched Only Lovers Left Alive, what the hell are you even doing with your vampire-loving, monster-fucking life? All the tracks on it have the right vibe for DM, really.
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prettygirlstothefloor · 10 months ago
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a messy review of TTPD
okay i need to preface this that i have the credentials to be able to speak my mind on her. i've been a fan since 2006. i've been a fan since i was 11 so don't get your panties in a bunch.
i think this album is messy. the production is the only thing i can really praise about it. the lead up to it and now the full release has just been so unbelievably messy. i'm going to make a continue reading for the people who still have yet to listen where i won't spoil it for you. PS. i do get mean in this. so if you're not wanting to hear critiques and criticism and taking that in, please scroll.
EDIT: this was pre-anthology release. so this is just based on the original 16 song release.
SPOILERS AHEAD
i am fully aware she is allowed to go through the grieving process of her breakup with joe. i respect that whole heartedly. i completely understand having someone in your life for such a big chunk and for them to be gone and feeling lost and alone and angry. what i don't like at all is essentially telling us in this album that she couldn't handle joe having severe depression. obviously i don't know everything that went down but it seems as though he didn't want to get married until he felt mentally better. and as someone who is also in the same boat as him, i also wouldn't want to fully commit to marriage until i felt like i could give them 100%. and if that's his biggest crime, being too depressed, then that's a her problem. being depressed is not all "haha relatable".
now onto... that man... i did not expect 90% of this album to be about him. i've only hated two people in my life. one being a family member of mine. the other, him (i will not be saying his name because he does not deserve it). the way she spent so much of this album talking about how she will defend him with her life. girl i am begging you to get up off the ground. it felt like a backstab from her in "but daddy, i love him" where she's basically saying fuck everyone for ruining a relationship i wanted. the reason no one wanted her with him is because he's a racist, misogynistic, homophobic asshole. i am aware he supports queer rights but it seems like he only cares about queer rights and the safety of queer people when it involves white queer people (ie. what happened in dubai and malaysia). i'm almost confident she cheated on joe with him while her and joe were still together. i'm sorry to taylor that i care about BIPOC and queer people's rights than making a racist white man happy.
joe truly got the short end of the stick here. he has been treated so horribly this past year by swifties who made up rumors about him just to make taylor seem like the good guy and the only thing this album told me was she was the villain in all of this. i hope joe has a good support system around him and i hope he's able to get any mental health help he needs. i do also think that taylor desperately needs a therapist as well. she is very adament about not having one and just using her mom and her friends but she needs an outside source to really listen and give her advice that isn't "yes man"-ing her all day long.
anyways, like i said at the beginning of this post, i enjoyed the production. my favorite songs were fortnight and who's afraid of little old me. it's gonna take time for me to enjoy this album outside of its messiness. i did enjoy midnights btw. so it's definitely not the sound i don't like it's just everything surrounding it.
70/100
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thegeminisage · 1 month ago
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STAR TREK UPDATE TIME. the update is, we have finally started enterprise. here are things i knew about enterprise before starting:
set 100 years before tos (i was close, it's more like slightly under 100 years after first contact and a hundred and change before tos)
hoshi sato apparently dies on tarsus iv
INSANELY sexy chemistry between t'pol and trip tucker every gifset i have ever seen is bananas but they have a love triangle with archer, who is a bitch
they have some kind of baby in an au or something
MIRRORVERSE
vt'pol pon farr episode
lots of sexism everybody is mean to t'pol bc nobody likes vulcans
riker cameo at the end and everybody hated that and also a bunch of people die in badly written ways in the finale
theme song controversial.
prior to starting this i was like this is sttill technically kinda 90s trek it's got the riker cameo like 2001 isn't so far from the 90s and immediately we got hit with the theme song and the weird sexism and MAN what a downgrade from voyager. this is post 9/11 trek baby. we are in a different world now. i will miss ds9 and voyager so much
i was...honestly kind of bored by this. it wasn't as bad as the tng pilot but nowhere near as good as the voyager or ds9 pilots, the latter of which is high art. i did not find myself especially endeared to anyone except poor hoshi sato, who did not ask for this and reltably jumps at her shadow at every opportunity. i know it isn't t'pol's fault she's writen that way, and i feel certain i will be very endeared to her by the end, but in this episode she just kind of annoyed me.
as for the men, no one really stood out to be except trip and archer (i'm not even sure of everybody else's name yet, except dr phlox, whose freaky smile did make me scream aloud). as stated, archer is a bitch. he is mean and yells for no reason because of like...daddy issues that don't feel like they have any real weight. i don't like his acting and he has evoked no emotional response from me except annoyance. i like trip a little better! while i'm not losing my mind over him or anything he is fun, and i do like that even though his accent is fake (said "can't" instead of "cain't"), he did remember to change the end of "thursday" to "thursdee." that is how we say it yeah
the time period we're in did seem neat to me at first (you have to appreciate them not having gotten the transporter working on people yet and warp 4 still being fancy to them lol), but i don't really understand why the vulcans have been the boss of these guys for 90 years or whatever, have they just been saying "space is dangerous don't go" for that long and all of humanity listened? i think narratively they exist to be rules, and the rules exist to be bucked by captain archer, because he's an AMERICAN, DAMMIT. post 9/11. i get there's no federation or whatever yet, this is the wild west, but jesus fucking christ. also i hate that cochrane came up with the fucking speech. fuck that guy! rapey ass tos episode. anyway speaking on the time period i also liked the gravity thing. very fun
but like...the dinner where she was cutting her breadstick and talking about human barbarism for eating animals?? what even was that. we've had this philosophical discussion in trek a thousand times already. we KNOW humans aren't going to become brutes because this is a prequel. nothing in here was meaty enough (sorry) to justify retreading those points.
i did like this new race of bend shapeshifting guys. like, i miss odo, but also, whatever they've got going on was really fun. and the language barrier with the klingon at the end DURING the fight was also entertaining. i did also wind up liking the extremely gregarious scene with the decontaminating gel or whatever...at first i was very annoyed (you can see her nipples! give this woman some dignity! they could have done this separately!) but 1. trip was a perfect gentleman and 2. when she was like "turn around" i knew in my heart she could give him the strap.
other than that, very little to be compelled by, but at least i don't hate anybody except archer and the fucking subtitles. the subtitles on this were so so so so so SO bad. straight up disappeared at one point. i hate paramount plus so much <3
TONIGHT: ent's "fight or flight" and "strange new world."
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alabasterpickles · 1 month ago
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Hi ! I love your style !
I wanted to know: what’s Hades and Persephone's relationship with their kids? And the kids’ with the other gods and mortals? After all, their father betrayed Zeus 🤔
SO excited to answer this one, sincerely Anon.
Persephone falls into the role of mom so naturally and easily and I think because she’s felt like such an outcast her whole life she takes extra care to make sure her children feel loved and accepted. She can be intense, and a little over protective, and she might sometimes overstep boundaries out of care, but generally speaking she’s a pretty damn good mom.
She and Zagreus are kindred spirits and so I think perhaps they get along the best — they have similar dispositions and Persephone sees a lot of herself in him. He’ll come to her with all his problems, and Persephone is more than happy to lend a patient, listening ear. When he gets older? I like to think he travels with mom on her Spring expeditions and helps out.
Melinöe is very different from Persy but admires and respects her mother very much. Persephone is what her angsty teenage brain imagines the perfect “woman” to be (a fact that Persephone finds very sweet and ironic) and so Mel often finds herself feeling insecure when she can’t live up to that. Persephone obviously thinks she’s perfect exactly as she is, so she makes an active effort to encourage Melinöe to be the best version of herself that she can be! Persephone is very supportive, even when she doesn’t always understand her daughter.
Brimos and Makaria are Persephone’s babies so they definitely get a little of that special youngest sibling treatment! And I think Persy can be a bit doting and maybe even a little too forgiving of their behavior. She’s watching her two oldest grow up so fast, she sorta wants the twins to stay her babies. 😂
In short, she loves them all very much!
Hades’s relationship with Zagreus is comedically awkward — he and Zagreus are polar opposites when it comes to personality, and as his firstborn and oldest son, Hades feels this pressure to make Zagreus like or relate to him (like how Hercules and Zeus are so similar to each other — it’s a bit of a competition thing). Hades doesn’t mean to be, but sometimes his pushiness can be bothersome to Zagreus.
He’ll go out of his way to spend time with Zag, but doesn’t have a clue on how to establish a genuine connection with his son. He tries. So. Hard. though, and Zagreus comes to appreciate that this is Hades’s strange way of showing he loves his son.
Hades and Melinöe don’t always get along, mostly because Mel is a moody teen and doesn’t necessarily want to be as much like her dad as she is. She’s a little embarrassed that she’s an Underworld goddess, and self image can be very important to her — especially since she doesn’t make friends easily. However, Mel and Hades work together incredibly well, and Hades loves his daughter immensely. He wants her to be happy and is proud of how smart and capable she’s turned out to be. Both of the girls take after him, and Mel specifically has a knack for Underworld management — the monsters and minor gods of Tartarus respect her and just generally like her better than Hades, so having her along makes his job much easier. I think she’s often surprised at how well her father understands her, and that often proves to be a blessing in disguise.
He knows how it feels to be an outcast, to be ignored and ridiculed for being different. But he appreciates all the qualities about her that she finds unpalatable and so Hades faith inspires more confidence in Melinöe, especially as she gets older. He’s very proud of all his children, even Brimos, the troublemaker.
As for the twins, they’re both pretty attached to their parents still. Now that mom and dad have got some experience under their belts with child rearing, I think they take raising Brimos and Makaria very seriously, despite the fact that Brimos has their hands full 90% of the time. He’s a USDA certified mama’s boy and usually skirts punishment because Persephone is so lenient with him and his sister. “They’re just kids, they don’t know any better” is usually her excuse 😂. Brimos shares Hades’s hot-headed tendencies but without the problem solving abilities or maturity, so dad often finds himself flustered trying to wrangle him, where Persephone does so with ease (probably because she’s married to Hades!).
Makaria shares her mother’s melancholy and her father’s aptitude for working with the dead — only the caveat is, she’s more sympathetic to the plight of the deceased, and shows less of an interest in the divvying out punishments part, and more of an interest in understanding them, or recording their stories. Makaria has a wisdom beyond her years that only Persephone seems to understand, but like her brother, Makaria feels a particular draw to one parent and it tends to be Hades. This is likely due to the fact that they both share more traditional Cthonic traits. Also, Makaria is very quiet and shy and Hades demands very little of her!
When it comes to the other gods, Zagreus seems to get along fairly well with the Olympians, his three younger siblings, however, are total black sheep. Where Zagreus straddles the line between Oympus and the Underworld (mostly thanks to mom’s genetics) Melinöe, Makaria and Brimos are almost strictly death gods and it’s evident that they don’t fit in with the higher ups. I like to think Demeter loves all her grandchildren, and the kinder Olympians are pleasant, but generally? The Hades family prefers to keep to themselves.
That’s a looootta text, thank you for the ask, Anon!
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greycappedjester · 1 year ago
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Hi I just wanted to let you know how much I LOVE reading about your Bart (your side story included) and I heard he's one of your favorite characters to write! So I can't help but ask how well do you think Comic!Bart and ATFO!Bart would get along or react around each other given how... different the two ended up personality wise? You know, given ATFO!Bart's much more ruthless and cautious nature and Comic!Bart more innocent outlook on the world and his more impulsive (Haha get it?) behavior.
I mean it makes sense as they both originally came from post-apocalyptic time lines but Comic!Bart was put in a VR simulation most of his childhood so he avoided the worst of it. ATFO!Bart on the other hand though? He LIVED through it for better or worst.
Not to mention, the different type of relationship they had with Wally. Do you think ATFO!Bart would be a bit jealous of the other Bart? That HIS Wally was still around but they just... don't have as close of a relationship? Or do you think he'd encourage him to listen to him more often and try to form a stronger bond?
Heck- what is Comic!Bart's thoughts on ATFO!Bart's general "everything"? Would he be a bit weirded out by his dimensional counterpart? Heh, sorry about the large question dump. I just love your story so much I'm just... a bit excited to hear your take on them lol.
Wow, I really enjoy this ask, thank you!
Sooo, I guess this gets more into first how I consider the comic!Bart who I really enjoy but honestly I feel like it's really hard to get a writer who does him completely right (imo). You either get ones who lean way too much into the goofball nature to the point that they want to make him the token "stupid" member rather than just a person who fundamentally was raised in a different world. Or you get people who lean too much into the angst and we get the better-to-forget Flash!Bart or that weird New52 run when he was a future terrorist or something, idek.
Oof, I had to dig back way in my comics for this...but, actually I feel like the truly best bit of Bart characterization comes from Impulse #1 way back in 1995.
I'm cutting this down a lot since it's a lot of pages; but, these bits in particular:
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I feel like this is the essence of Bart Allen.
He is the perpetual stranger in a strange land (only no one else realizes it's strange but him). He has to learn a lot of completely new things very, very quickly and--for the most part--he does it so well that people kinda ignore the fact that that's a huge thing to ask. In all worlds, he basically had to raise himself from early in his own life (and honestly, I feel like the 90s comics really ignore how objectively horrifying it would be to constantly live in a video game...like we have multiple animes on how that's basically a horror scenario. Like that was his life, he did live through it). Despite this, he has family who he dearly loves and admires....who he nonetheless feels very disconnected from and possibly even unwanted due to how different he is from them.
But, despite all of this, Bart doesn't really complain. Like, sure, in comics he'll complain or pout about minor things from Max or teenage stuff...but, the major things like adjusting to an entirely new life, it's almost as if Bart doesn't even notice how crazy that is because really is life is just that crazy (it's the norm). Even his dialogue here, which unusually blunt compared to how he normally is written, isn't speaking of any of this stuff as any great tragedy...it's just his life.
And I think the most heartbreaking thing is the crossed out line about his Grandma Iris that implies that there's the only person he ever felt really cared for him (whether that's true or not doesn't matter, it's currently what he beleives)...and he couldn't keep her.
So back to the question at hand, I definitely went with a more mature take to ATFO!Bart because his world was more grim (with Comic!Bart the videogame consequences were presumably constantly eraased which is a different kind of existential crises). But, despite this, I think the two Barts still share a lot of similarities that would make them get along fairly well. Similarly, I think Grandma Iris is to Comics!Bart what Wally is to ATFO!Bart so I think they'd understand each other fairly well. ATFO!BArt would still enjoy seeing a Wally even if I don't think he'd be particularly hurt by that Wally not being close to his Bart since I think ATFO!BArt really does fully understand how much the difference in timelines affects people and knows it's not his Wally.
Put another way, I also don't really think Bart has an expectation of people being close to him (in any form) so isn't really surprised about Wally and Comics!Bart. Bart really does view himself apart as a norm--partly since it's so hard to connect to people when he's literally living at a different speed than them. He likes people a lot and deeply loves his friends/family; but, I think he does often stuggle to connect to them. I think this is likely true for all Barts.
That's Bart Allen. The Impossible Boy. The Too Familiar Stranger. And He's Always Smiling (Real or Not).
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sonicjustbecause · 10 months ago
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Sonic - English, Japanese version - my impression as somebody who doesn't speak any of the two languages.
First - my experience with the two languages, to explain how I perceived thing as a total foreigner.
English - I truly can't speak English. My written English sucks. I don't know if you can read/understand my posts. I can read English, both British and American (I usually use British English but I use American when I want to be more concise), overall I can read all kind of topics, but I don't like slangs. My listenings skills are bad, it depends who is speaking. I could listen and understand enough Sonic Prime without subtitles, but in other occasion the language is too different from Italian and I need the subs.
Japanese - Mostly I watch anime in Japanese. I don't speak the language at all and I can count all the japanese words I know in one hand. The sound of the language is sillabic so is as clear as Italian. As for Sonic, I watched Sonic X in Japanese version (Italian and English version long ago, I don't even remember a lot), the two adventure in English, Unleashed in both version, Frontiers in Italian and Japanese.
Sonic Force is boring, I was unable to pay attention. I saw it not long ago and I quickly forgot everything. The only good thing was Infinite's Italian voice, is very beautiful.
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OK, my impression of the character from English version was not like it was describled there. I perceived it more how is perceived in the Japanese version. Many times I said our personal experience make us perceive a character in a certain way, maybe the language I speak is part of it. Italian is more contextual than English, or maybe is how character act (that does't change whathever language they speak), I don't know... I remember perceiving Sonic as a aloof, slightly grumpy but kind hearted and happy character before watching the Japanese version (that just confirmed that). Current Sonic - even in Japanese, is more outgoing and sullen.
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Flanderization happened in the Japanese version too and is undeniable (I said i watched the Japanese versions too).
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Indeed...
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this remember a old cartoon I used to see in early '90s...
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"Cecil, help me!"
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Knuckles still does his duty, but I saw him more and more relaxed lately. Like: 'A bit of absence won't hurt!'. The describled flanderization sounds more like the one we saw in Sonic Boom.
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Yes, this.
Sonic X is Japanese and she is clearly different from videogames (Right, I've said I watched the Japanese version). In the two adventure Amy was energetic yet gentle. I remember her kind attitude toward Gamma and Shadow. in Sonic X she made me laugh, but yes, she looks also dangerous. Sonic is right to avoid her.
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Magical girl Amy. Well - Eggman deserve that.
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This poor guy had it the worst. I remember Shadow being overall gloomy but still playful. Is like they just took away all the facets that made Shadow likeable and left only the flaws (inflating them to 'fill' emty spaces) . The Shadow we had during last decade (except for Lance Shadow) is the perfect edgy character that only 15 years old kids like. At 15 I also lingered on edgelords and I though they were the best because they were 'oh, pure serious' and didn't lingered in 'foolish cheerfulness'. I even characterized some of my own characters as edgelords (I'm glad I'm out from it since late teen). My mum made me understand why they suck, calling them 'arm candy' (belle statuine). That was a great and helpful criticism.
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I loved funny and evil Eggman. I don't like what Eggman is lately, more than a villain, he seems a mignon.
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Though Japanese dialogue might be better and more meaningful (when different from English ones), this doesn't mean Japanese version of Sonic is free of issues. We need to accept that Sonic franchise is flawed, that the fandom is not perfect. The good thing is that all the material we have around can satisfy all palates. Let's enjoy what we like and hope for the better, whathever will be.
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gammagoop · 1 year ago
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my recent fixation has been the wings of fire book series since ive been rereading it, which i feel is not very related to any of my other interests and so i havent posted much about it. but i literally have “post whatever i want” in my bio so i’m not going to let the whims of an audience stop me any longer
all that to say heres some of my series opinions in the form of tierlists
(not including 3rd arc bc i havent gotten there on my reread and i dont remember it very well)
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character tierlist! (added the legends: darkstalker characters manually since they weren’t in the tiermaker version)
notes:
mightyclaws is my background character fave. category 10 glup shitto event
i need to do a long post on how much i love whiteout. another day
i realy like clay in the first book and if he retained the same level of depth throughout the series he would be in the top tier-- its just that his writing makes him so shallow in the rest of the books it makes me so sad :[ i was listening (audiobook) to hidden kingdom and like. 90% of his lines/actions were about food and the other 10% were about protecting the other dragonets..... i related so much to his anxiety in the first book and his empathy and his ability to see both sides of things... gah. sad.
jambu is also one of my glup shittos. i love his whimsical ass
foeslayer is a hard one for me because she never did anything wrong she's just..... not as present as i wish she was. she's treated as a very vital character with how many large plot points hinge on her, but she doesnt have much agency herself. its stated a lot that she's extremely important to darkstalker but in the legends book we dont see much of them interacting? idk. i like her but she always feels so uninvolved
the 'beat you to death (funny)' tier is just for characters who i like on some level but are also pathetic and worms. out of that tier i like deathbringer the best and mastermind the worst
tier after that are for characters who i have a positive opinion on but not really a strong one. anemone and sora are more complicated, but i do generally like them. i really just feel bad for them if anything. i think i like clearsight more than the other characters in this tier, but she's not in the 'wonderful :D' tier because i dont think she has a very strong personality
the 'conflicting feelings' tier is kind of a trainwreck because it means a lot of things
obviously riptide is the outlier since he hasnt done anything nearly to the degrees of coral, glacier, and albatross-- but i do have conflicting feelings on him. riptide is completely inoffensive, hasn't done anything wrong, i just dont like him because he has no real reason to be in the story. like you could write him out very easily. his only purpose is to be a love interest for tsunami which is like...... gh. dude. she doesnt need one. if she's gonna have a romance it should come naturally. not "wow this seawing is handsome and also he's the first one ive properly met as well as a guy do im in love with him now" like girl do better
coral and glacier both have done bad things and obviously have bad intentions but also.... theyre not the worst. bad but not the worst.
albatross is a victim of emotional abuse and even though that doesnt justify his actions it does explain how they could have been negated
next 3 tiers are self-explanatory. i forgot to put her on there but queen vigilance goes in 'the grime beneath my shoe'
actually no i wanna talk about scarlet and battlewinner: i think the thing that i like about them is their theatrics. they bot have such a huge presence, like a disney villain. whenever i read scarlet dialogue it almost feels poorly written with how over-the-top she is but. no other character talks like that. its just how scarlet is. and i think thats so good. whereas battlewinner's situation conceptually is just cool as hell. i love how she struggles to speak because of the ice in her throat, her rage, the way she's hinted at but her reveal is completely unexpected...... very very good
no one likes morrowseer
when im in an emotional abuse and classism competition and my opponent is queen lagoon 😧
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ship tierlist! (made on ms paint since i couldnt find any good ones on tiermaker. turned out to be nice since i can mess with the placement more)
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top tier is /j i just dont really like how tui writes romance
i was kind of against glorybringer at first for the same reason i dont like tsunami/riptide but honestly it grew on me. their dynamic is so fun
anemome/tamarin is good i just think tamarin could do better if she wanted to. but i understand the "i can fix her" mentality and i do genuinely think tamarin could help anemone
sunny/fatespeaker is kind of a funny concept but also i can totally see it
i genuinely forgot turtlejou was a thing in canon ... it does not make sense to me. who came up with this. in the words of my friend "forced heterosexual on both parts tbh"
i love turtle and peril as friends so so so much if i saw someone romantically shipping them i feel like i could get mad
smolder/thorn is like if glorybringer was bad. mostly just because thorn can do way better than him. smolder and vermilion should kiss each other and bond over being wimp princes who havent actually done anything wrong themselves but bow to tyrant relatives to avoid getting killed
i dont know if this will be an unpopular take but clay and peril is such an awful ship. i like them as friends, i think theyre great as friends, but a romantic relationship between them would be so deeply unhealthy considering their situation. peril would be even more dependent and attached to him than she already is, and clay is not the kind of dragon who has an easy time saying 'no' to things. it would not be a malicious relationship in any way, but it would not be good for them. peril needs to learn how to live for herself, not for the approval of anyone else
okay thats all for today friends. thank you if you read all of my mismatched thoughts if you did ^_^ i love talking
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fitzrove · 2 years ago
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🔥 Elisabeth unpopular opinions!
I think like 90% of my posts are this... xD But then again, it can be hard to know what opinions are really "unpopular", because there's such an incredible diversity of opinion in the fandom :D
I'm limiting myself to five rapid-fire ones...
1. The Essen/Stuttgart staging/directing and therefore those productions aren't that great or enjoyable to watch jfkgkf. Like, it's more trouble than it's worth, so to speak... It's where Tod's not-that-great costumes come from (Yan Tax made the Essen ones), and in general it's where things started going kitsch with the direction. Plus it has Conspiracy which makes me so mad 🤣
2. KKOG is a better song that Schwarzer Prinz... 😭😂 Listen, the original 1992 "wie du reprise" (mama, wenn ich älter werde...) is the only valid option. Schwarzer Prinz is soo simple and dull in terms of lyrics, and while it's better than KKOG in that at least it's Elisabeth POV, I never listen to it. Don't get me wrong, I'm still happy Vienna 2003-5 doesn't have KKOG.
3. Ajkgkd this is such a random thing that has no bearing on the actual show but every time I bring up my wish to see a woman play Tod in Europe someday, there are at least 10 people who suggest Dutch musical actress Pia Douwes for the part. While I admire Pia and her talent as a performer, these people are ignoring that by saying I want to see a woman as Tod I really mean I want to cast myself. JSKGKDKDKD okay joking but in general I'd love for someone unknown and up-and-coming to do it if it happened, and preferably not a soprano!!!
4. Idk if this is unpopular but Fritz Schmid is a super awesome Rudolf 🥺 It's really him who made a big difference in me getting into Elisabeth so intensely (and staying around for several years). I don't actually find Lukas' or Jesper's performances as "chewable" (ajfkdkdl) and multifaceted, even though I like them very much.
5. Again, don't know if unpopular, but I find the 2005 Prolog without the overlapping lines from different characters better than the 1992/2019/2022 version. Needs a good Lucheni to work, obviously, but I think the overlapping melodies version is a bit on the nose... Unfortunately, considering it happened in Brussels, I think that this version of the opening is becoming a permanent fixture of the show again.
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grandhotelabyss · 10 months ago
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What kind of music do you typically listen to? Are there any musicians that have inspired or influenced your work in any way?
I pretty much answered this one here back at the end of 2023. For an update and more specific answer to your question about inspiration: lately, I've been trying to listen to at least period-specific music as I work on the Invisible College research and preparation, like Beethoven and Chopin paired with the Romantics, some Wagner with Shaw, Rachmaninov with Conrad, etc. I'll make an attempt at Schoenberg when I get to Beckett for the full Adorno trip. The algorithm has really been insisting on Sibelius lately, however, which I'm guessing Adorno would call fascist. (I never read Adorno's music criticism, though I studied—mainly visual art and literature—with one of its distinguished translators.) Also, speaking of fascism, even though I gave Dune: Part Two a bad review, I have been listening to that soundtrack for better or worse; this is a plebeian taste, I'm sure, or maybe "Reddit" or whatever other insult, but I like a lot of the ambient soundtrack music popular on YouTube: Zimmer, Einaudi, Richter, that style of material. For some reason, maybe also algorithmic, I lately went back to that electronica group I remembered from the '90s, VNV Nation, and was interested to see they had some new material; this has been a recent favorite, somewhat relatable lyrics if you ask me. Speaking of the '90s or even the '80s, I listened to a lot of music from that era when I was writing Major Arcana last year to create the appropriate late-20th-century Dark-Age-of-Comics mood, everything from Joy Division and The Smiths up through Portishead and Massive Attack and the like, and Americans, too, my melodramatic preference for Tori Amos and the Smashing Pumpkins being well-known to my regular readers, as well as "Malibu"-era Hole (even if she [allegedly] did kill Kurt, I like "Malibu" better than any of his stuff). That and some of the jazz favored by my character Ellen Chandler, especially Sketches of Spain and A Love Supreme, which are thematically crucial to the novel. What else? I'm excited for the apparent Joanna Newsom revival-comeback. She might be the most inspirational musical artist of my generation just by her example: create your own strange world, and listeners will come. (I wrote a little tribute to her on here a few years ago.) The aforementioned algorithm knows I compared Lana to Shakespeare 10 years ago—she had to forgive the rest of you for how you treated her; she didn't have to forgive me!—so I usually happily let it give me all the visionary "sad girls" past and present. But, and just in case this was a subtext of your question, there being so few ways nowadays to draw the line between macroculture and meso- and microcultures, I must halt at the frontier of Ms. Swift's empire.
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skinks · 2 years ago
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I got tagged by @rockcandyshrike to do a wee music meme post and I’m gonna follow her example and do my top 10 most RECENT repeated songs because that’s more interesting than just my top 10 repeated songs. gives it a lil summer snapshot. I find that I mostly listen to metal and prog in the winter whereas as soon as the sun is actually warm I remember funk and classical exists lmao
1. Breakwater - Release the Beast
However hard you might imagine this song goes, you’re not ready for it!!! Heard this for the first time before the Coheed show the other night, immediately recognised a part of it being the origin sample for the entire daft punk song “robot rock”. This is so insanely good, and my discovery of it coinciding with actual summer weather means I’ve been blasting it while driving around with my windows down nonstop lmao. You’re welcome fellow citizens. The beast is fucking released
2. Bilmuri - BOUTTA CASHEW
Just because it’s summer doesn’t mean I stop listening to metal and post-hxc… Bilmuri have never failed me except for the fact that they never tour the UK. The danciest tongue-in-cheek bangers this side of dance gavin dance
3. Halogen - U Got That
SPEAKING OF DANCE!! Who among us can resist a house drop when it’s this chonky. I heard this on a tiktok meme shared to tumblr that I had to do like 3 levels of googling to understand because I’m an old woman. But this song makes me actually want to go to a club for the second time ever in my crone life
4. Caroline Polachek - Caroline Shut Up
I had heard a snippet of one of her songs ages ago and it didn’t wow me, but I gave her new album a try and holy moly!! Really interesting acrobatic vocals plus lush dense intricate dramatic varied production… im in love. Even though this is actually from her first album, it’s the best example of what I like about her stuff. She’s like a mix of Bjork and 90s Madonna and Enya and Imogen Heap. And brother I’m nothing if not a Heaphead. Caroline pls come to Scotland
5. Maria Callas - O Mio Babbino Caro
I got this song stuck in my head and of course it’s so hard to sing along to a soprano aria, but I specifically love this Callas version because the way she really takes her time with the phrasing emphasises the longing of it and it makes me cry
6. bel canto - A Shoulder to the Wheel
Recently discovered there’s a name for an artistic aesthetic I have VIVID memory and nostalgia for from the mid-late 90s - the name of the aesthetic is Global Village Coffeehouse. I found a 50 hour gvc playlist on spotify and have been finding banging new music one of which is this song!! I love the propulsive synths and drums and the DRAMA… let it wash over u
7. Chris Rea - On The Beach
It’s got to be this specific single version not the slower album one! My whole life I only knew Rea as the singer of a pretty great xmas song until this April when my beloved pal added this to our Highland roadtrip playlist. If this doesn’t get you feeling like a neon-soaked sweaty lounge-lizard having a hallucinatory tango under a palm tree with a sexy extra from Miami Vice idk what will
8. Aviations - Coma
Is it really a joe skinks music post if there’s not a 10 minute prog metal song………….
I’m hoping their last two singles this year mean we have an imminent album incoming and it’s gonna SLAP as hard as the rest of their output! Aviations embody everything I love most and seek out in my prog metal; super agile clean AND harsh vocals interacting with the extreme amount of syncopation and intricacy in the instrumental arrangements. Aviations use piano in their compositions better than any other prog band I enjoy. I mean listen to this shit it’s beautiful
9. Stereophonics - Pick A Part That’s New
I had a really fun time making a playlist of songs I remember my parents always playing in my childhood, it’s full of a lot of 90s soul and electronic music and also this… whiny britpop. But it surprised me how much fantastic whiny britpop there is
10. Sumerlands - Force of a Storm
My brother introduced me to this album and it truly fucks how much they sound like an old-school Heavy Metal band while being fully contemporary. Like they truly sound like Sabbath or Iron Maiden but with modern production sensibilities. I LOVE the strength of this guy’s voice. Like if this doesn’t make you feel like a barbarian riding a winged steed and brandishing a massive sword against a dragon drawn by Frank Frazetta idk what will. Can u tell fantasising is how I process music
I will tag @shrikestrike @acuzena @lungtile @kitsune-sam @wordssometimesfail @kelsey-arts @erebones and whomstever else wants to… of course nobody has to if they don’t want
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umazane-muesli · 1 year ago
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Jukebox January: Day 19
(Queuing for the next morning again, sorry it's very late)
Today: songs starting with S:
Oh my God there are so many songs starting with S. SO MANY. Why are there so many. What the fuck. My notes app is a bloodbath right now I don't even know what I'm doing anymore. Artists make more songs starting with X instead challenge
Anyway I've tried my best to wrangle them but this is going to be an incoherent mess at best. Let's go:
Sata vuotta - BEHM
I don't know why it took me so long to start listening to BEHM, but her latest album has been a constant in my December and January. This song is my favourite on it, I love the violin melody, and I think she has a beautiful voice :)
Senida - Senidah ft. Žene
Continuing my Slovenian music propaganda with Senidah this time.
Sédè - N3
I have to shout this one out because Jan played the guitar on it ^^
Stand by - Extremoduro
I love this song so much. I first heard about it (and this band) when I went on a language exchange in Spain when I was in high school. My exchange partner listened to this song, and even though we haven't kept in touch, it still makes me think of her sometimes. It's been one of my absolute favourites for 10+ years now.
Si te vas - Extremoduro
I normally try not to put too many songs by the same artist in the same post, but i swear to god all the best Extremoduro songs start with S. What's the deal with that.
Salir - Extremoduro
Teenage me listening to this song: hehehe swear words in spanish >:)
Adult me listening to this song: hehehe swear words in spanish >:)
San Francisco - Maxime Le Forestier
San Francisco - Scott McKenzie
Grouping these 2 together because they're sort of about the same thing really, San Francisco during the flower power movement. But I like the vibe of both. Thank you Kuesli for including the other San Francisco I was thinking of, because I somehow had THREE. Madness.
Short Film - Ethan Gruska
This is my favourite song from a very soft, calm album. I love the sort of muted sound from the piano and the slightly mysterious atmosphere.
Le Sud - Nino Ferrer
This song is like. Weirdly depressing at the end and also a bit dated let's be honest, but I think it still has its charm, I learned it in choir as a child and I'm a bit attached to it.
Stay - ČIUTŌ TUTŌ - Monika Linkyte
I have to admit this was not among my favourites on first impression, but I really warmed up to it and it is definitely one of the songs that stayed with me the longest after eurovision, I still very happily listen to it.
Somma Time Man - Salt-N-Pepa
This song is so fun and sounds SO 90's. It's a bit silly and puts me in a good mood.
Something in the Air - Pegasus
I discovered this band as a small festival in Switzerland around the time this album came out, and it was so fun to hear from a band for the first time as they're playing live. I haven't done that much (haven't been to many festivals) but yeah, Pegasus kind of stuck with me since.
Some Things Have to Be Said - Florent Dorin
Yeah I know this song is 9 minutes long and the french accent (and probably questionable English) is uuh discernible, to say the least (though miles better than his earlier songs) but listen, I love this guy so much and this song is such a journey, his music has gotten so much richer as time went on and this is the best example I think.
Sorry - dodie
Speaking of people who's music has gotten much richer with time, this is one of my favourite songs from dodie, I love the strings and the harmonies. At the end it blends into the next song (called When) and I will neveeer not lose my mind when artists do that.
Show me the way - Styx
Still loving you - Scorpions
Yes I have a power ballads playlist and yes I will use it against you >:)
Salut les amoureux - Joe Dassin
I love how perfectly bittersweet this song is, it's about a couple who breaks up on good terms, without any drama, they just go their separate ways. Just a little bit sad but not in a way a typical break up song is.
Satama - KUUMAA
The latest single from Kuumaa, exactly the kind of song they do best, I love it.
Somewhere out there - Donald Glover and Danny Pudi
Yeah this was in my playlist so i'm including it lol, even though it's not a "proper" song. Community is one of my comfort shows and this is from one of the best moments in it :)
Spirit in the Sky - KEiiNO
I'm going to admit a dirty little secret: even though I do like Eurovision, I haven't watched it religiously every year. And so I didn't even know this was a eurovision song until very recently; I only had it in my library because someone on a discord server had made (very good, might I add) playlists for completely unrelated little blorbos. Anyway, very funny that I'm coming back to this song now.
For S I also want to include 2 non-songs:
Starmania: it's a French and Canadian (Québec) musical from the 80s (well, '79 technically, but it feels extremely 80s). It's such an odd thing, it has the camp and flamboyance of the 80s, but a surprisingly dark dystopian plot. It's weirdly dated and not dated at the same time. The original cast had several singers who were or would become big stars in France (and french speaking countries)(including a eurovision winner lol). There's a robot waitress, and a gang, and a guy who's totally not David Bowie. It's pretty weird. The plot is kind of impossible to explain, but you can go listen to the songs, they're really good :)
There's a new version on tour now I think, and honestly I would love to go see it, because I've only ever heard the songs. (Seems pretty expensive though lol)
Single Handed Sailor - Dire Straits
The second thing I want to include is the album Strangeland by Keane. It came out around when I went on a school trip to Spain and I listened to it a lot during the long bus rides. I just have very fond memories associated with it.
And now frankly way too many bonus songs:
The Story - Brandi Carlile
Sinnerman - Nina Simone
Seven Wonders - Fleetwood Mac
Sad Song - Oasis
Sutra - Lollobrigida
Si Tú Me Quieres - Alex Cuba, Gian Marco
Stille Før Du Kom - Oh Land
Sunday Morning - The Velvet Underground and Nico
Someday - City of the Sun
Surrender - Birdy
Statues - Amy Macdonald
Sunset Lover - Petit Biscuit
Samara - Blanco White
Sve Još Miriše Na Nju - Parni Valjak
Sweet Woman - Cris Williamson
Saturn - Sleeping At Last
Sausalito - Lydia Luce
Shut Up and Dance - WALK THE MOON
Strah me je - Jet Black Diamonds
Stranger - Bec Sandridge
Would you believe me if I said I did actually try to cut as many songs as possible? Anyway, if you've read until the end, thank you (what a mess) 💛
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delulu--lulu · 2 years ago
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Spider-Man into/across the spider-verse Spider-sona story
Oc name: Kyana (nickname is Yana)
I wrote a Spider sona story instead of drawing one because I suck at drawing more than writing... so 😃👍
Face Claim! :
Spider-Man into/across the spider-verse Spider-sona story 
Oc name: Kyana (nickname is Yana) Her family moves a lot. She was born and raised in Dallas Texas and her family moved to Brooklyn New York later. 
Her family moved because her father’s family lived there and her grandma was sick so they came to help. 
Mr. Wilson’s family lives in the Bronx but he didn’t want to move back so decided to move to Brooklyn.
She has two annoying younger brothers; Keenan (10) Kel (8). 
She speaks English and only knows a little bit of Spanish but the rest of her family speaks it well which Yana gets frustrated at cause she can’t understand the rest of them while her younger brothers speaks better than she does.
She understands it more than she can speak it unfortunately. So she hears what her family members say about her behind her back. She wishes she didn’t though.
On her dad’s side, they’re Dominican 🇩🇴 . Her mom is just American 🤷🏽‍♀️.
Yes, she knows how to dance bachata.
Yana’s parents swear she was born in the generation because she’s an old-head, loving all the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s classics. One of her favorite songs is I Have Nothing by Whitney Houston. 
Yana was bit by the radioactive spider before Miles was. 
She went to Visions Academy prior to taking the test in Texas and getting in (another reason why her family moves). 
Personality: she’s kinda awkward, little bit of anger issues, but is the nicest person on earth, she’s sensitive and gets taken advantage of sometimes because of it. A completely different person at school than at home (quiet kid 101). 
Got bit by the radioactive spider before she went to school. She was bitten by it without knowing (kinda like a mosquito bite) while she was listening to music and senerioizng on the rooftop.  
School was kinda ass for her. Despite the racial dysphoria of other people wanting to be her race, everything was semi normal.
“How come you’re Latina but your last name is Wilson?”
“Oh, I don’t know, maybe there’s something called colonization to other countries.”
She handled that better than she thought she would. “By the way I don’t identify as a Latina. I’m black but my ethnicity is Dominican and my nationality is American.”
Gwen noticed her powers first and they became friends first. Yana also spoke to Miles first. 
But that was a mistake after she remembered that her parents were more strict about boys than they were with her brothers about girls.
Ain’t that a shame 😔
Yana was who Miles talked about with his uncle but Gwen happened to be there instead of her. 
While he was trying to rizz up Gwen and his hand got stuck to her hair, he panicked and swung his arms around and it stuck to  Yana’s uniform shirt (she happened to be walking by). 
So they were all embarrassing each other in the middle of the hallway.
Yana spoke to Gwen about what happened afterwards when and explained to her that she thought Miles might be like them.
Spider-Man’s death didn’t take a surprise to Yana with all those crazy villains he fought. 
They both “befriended” him in the forest after they stole the hard drive. She went with Gwen first to save them in her store bought spider man suit. 
Miles and Yana had coincidentally wore the same store bought suit and Yana used one of his cringey lines from the beginning of school.
“Oh, my gosh! This is embarrassing. We wore the same suit.” She laughed but he wasn’t amused.
Yana goes with them to Aunt May’s for the first time and meets the new spider people. She befriends Peni first. She gets to tell her story: “Hi, my name is Yana Wilson and for the past two weeks, I’ve been Brand New Spider-woman.”
Her theme song is Push It by Salt-N-Pepa.
Yana’s spider-woman name is “Spider-Blast” because her spider suit is extremely colorful (she’s based off of the Green Bottle Blue Tarantula) it’s like a “blast” of color. 
The spider team didn’t think that Yana and Miles were good enough to save New York and it made Yana feel insecure about herself.
Of course I’m not going to be good enough, I’ve only been spider woman for two weeks!
When Miles ran away and his crazy self started jumping off of buildings, Yana accompanied him.
They both helped each other personalize their suits. Yana made her suit colorful with the Dominican flag. 
She wanted to practice with him because she felt like she didn’t deserve to be Spider-woman and if she was then she’d at least learn how to.
On that roof after Yana and Miles swung around the city they shared their first kiss. 
During the fight and while everyone was going to leave, Yana almost cried when Gwen had to leave but she assured Yana that she would see her again.
After the fight with Kingpin and after they save New York City, Miles and Yana start a relationship.
A secret one at that matter. Mostly secret from their families. 
ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE
Yana got her phone taken away for failing a class (because she was doing spider things) so she couldn’t call or text Miles.
But he randomly called her phone that was sitting on the counter and Yana just happened to answer the phone before her mom could.
“Boy, it’s past 12! I got minutes.” She whispers angrily into the phone. “Ima call you back on the house phone. Do not call back if I hang up.”
It took a lot of convincing and serious talk with her parents about boys before Yana finally takes Miles to meet her family. But they like him and say that he reminds them of their daughter (no sabo kid). 
Her aunts like that he’s Latino. 
Keenan and Kel do not like Miles at all. They speak about him behind his back in Spanish. Yana tells them to stop though.
Being the only spider people in their dimension gets lonely so they of course miss their friends. 
Yana notices that Miles seems to miss Gwen more than she does. (She finds his drawings of her). 
Once Yana got home from fighting a villain and Spider-Blast was on the TV news in her family’s living room. 
“Spider-Blast?” Her Tia Semira questions while helping fix dinner. “What kind of name is that?” 
Although Yana knew that her Tia didn’t mean it in a criticizing way but it still made her cringe.
“I heard that she was from la caribe.” Her messy Tia Maia says, sticking her nose up. “She better not be dominicana.”
“Nah.” Yana quickly jumped in the conversation. “I’m pretty sure she’s boricuan.” Her tias shrugged it off with a scoff. 
Yana quickly went to Miles’s the next day. “Man, I almost got caught by my nosy tias.” 
“Oh, word?” He says, smirking. “Let me guess… she said that she hoped Miss Spider-Blast wasn’t Dominican.” Yana nods with an eye roll.
When Yana and Miles first met the Spot, as said, Miles didn’t take him seriously. Y’know, that “villain of the week” mess. 
But Yana sensed something off and tried to tone Miles down but he wasn’t listening.
He had to go to his parent teacher conference and was already late so he was rushing. 
Yo girlfriend is always right, Miles 🤷🏽‍♀️
When it’s the party that celebrates Jeff’s promotion to captain, Yana puts off her spider work to go while Miles clearly does not. 
She gets to thinking that he supposes that he’s the better hero than her for still tryna save the city. 
He obviously doesn’t .
When he does get there, his parents are on his ass about not getting there on time and Yana calms him down. While sitting in his room talking, Gwen arrives.
Yana is ecstatic to see her best friend after a whole year and a half. But Miles seems happier. 
And she sho notices too 😒. 
“Wanna get out of here?” Are the last words said that Yana immediately knows will lead to trouble. 
Although swinging around the city with Gwen is fun, she feels like a third wheel even though she and Miles are together and not him and Gwen.
Yana’s petty like that and goes back to the party to see if Gwen and Miles would even notice if she was gone. They do, but not until a little later.
Strike 1
At the party, Yana sulks around watching Miles and Gwen interact on the tower thingy. Rio notices so she goes up to introduce herself to Gwen.
As you could tell, it didn’t go well.
After Gwen leaves Miles and Yana have a little serious talk about what happened and he says he won’t do it again. 
Mhm 😒. 
So to make up for the little argument, Miles decides to take Yana with him to follow Gwen. 
Great job bro 😑
Miles turns invisible and Yana camouflages (another perk of the green blue bottle tarantula). 
Blah, blah, blah, the learn about the spider society and follow Gwen into the dimension. Yana is the first to go in because she feels like she’s being pulled towards it. 
Miles tries grabbing her hand to pull her out but he gets sucked in too.
Meeting Pavitr is the best thing that could happen to Yana. That instantly become friends and she joins in on Pavitr grilling Miles about saying Chai tea.
“That’s like saying Naan bread. Naan means bread. It’s like bread bread, Miles! I thought we talked about this.”
He got sad. “Man, even my own girlfriend is chewing me out.” He mumbles. “I SAID I WAS SORRY, YANA.” ☹️
When Yana met Hobie, it was over. She befriended everyone instantly and it made her happy to meet so many friends since she didn’t have a lot back home. 
Gwen was a little upset that both of them were there because they weren’t supposed to be. But she didn’t have any control over it because Miguel requested both Yana and Miles.
Learning that the Spot was traveling dimensions to get power was nerve wracking to Miles because just yesterday he said that he was just a villain of the week and he wasn’t. 
Yana told him he should’ve known better because she warned him.
Strike 2 
Meeting Miguel could’ve gone better than Yana hoped. He wasn’t very friendly in her opinion. She definitely didn’t like him after how he talked to her and Miles.
She was tryna be nice and chill but obviously it didn’t work.
“Hey, my name is Yana-“
“You aren’t supposed to be here.”
“Damn. This is why you can’t be nice to ppl 😒.” Yana rolls her eyes at him. 
When she learns about the canon events is when things really started to become trouble. Miles’s dad was supposed to die and by Miguel’s introduction on saying that “she isn’t supposed to be here” he explains that Yana is the only variant of herself.
Meaning there are no other Yanas in any other dimension. 
Basically like America Chavez. 🤭
That’s when all her friends turn to stare at her in either awe, confusion, or anything else for that matter. Yana feels exposed in that moment. She didn’t even know it was true but somehow she felt judged.
But the look Miles gives her is something else. It’s the look as if he was hesitant. 
It wasn’t until she and Miles were being chased by every single spider person in existence that Miles realized that she was too fragile. There wasn’t another Yana, so if she died, that was it.
He didn’t want to lose her just like that. 
“Go find Margo and tell her to take you back to our universe.” He said.
Yana didn’t have much choice since she wanted to get out of the chase. These people were chasing her like she owed money. Yana didn’t find Margo until Miles found Margo.
He looked pretty upset. 
Even though they were both invisible/camouflaged, they could sense each other.
Turns out Miles wasn’t even meant to be Spider-Man. So that meant Yana wasn’t either… or so he thought.
Margo didn’t want to send Miles and Yana to Ty roe dimension due to Miguel’s constant threats to not let Miles nor Yana go. 
But she had too.
(She and Hobie the real ones). 
Miles helps Yana into the dimension switching thingy (I don’t know what that thing is even called😭). 
Yana and Margo made intense eye contact which was a whole conversation without even talking. Miles thought it was some girl telepathy thing.
Margo pressed the button. “42.” Yana says with furrowed eyebrows. “We’re not from 42-“ 
Miles yanks Yana along with him as they both tear down through the streets on New York to Miles’s house. Yana climbs through the window first and then Miles does.
His room looks the same… “but this isn’t our New York” she wants to say.
“We made it…” Miles sighs in relief before he turns to look at his girlfriend. “Yana, are you alright?”
She nods. “Yeah, I’m fine… But Miles, this isn’t our-“
The door opens, light filling the room. Panic fills Yana’s head. Since she’s the only version of herself in every universe, that means Rio won’t recognize her.
Yana swiftly hides behind the door. “Miles?” His mom enters with a basket of clothes. Miles had quickly put a large jacket on. “Is now a bad time?”
She continues to make conversation with him as Miles tries to figure out a way to tell her he’s Spider-Man.
Yana watches it all intently. 
“I’m… I’m Spider-Man.” He zips his jacket revealing his suit. 
Rio stares blankly at him. “Who?” 
That’s when Yana realizes. It confirms her suspicions that they aren’t in the right dimension. There is no spider-person in this universe.
No wonder the streets looked so gloomy and dark. As soon as Miles and Rio are out of the room, Yana makes a break for the rooftop. 
As soon as she’s on the roof she takes her mask off to breathe. Taking deep breaths in and out, don’t seem to calm her. They wrack her nerves even more.
Yana looks around. It’s night and it’s darker and gloomier than Brooklyn regularly is. Her eyes soon land on something that makes her jaw drop.
Jeff’s mural. It replaces Aaron’s.
He’s dead in this dimension.
The rooftop door opens. Yana panics again because this time she doesn’t know where to hide. So she goes over the roof but sticks to the wall so she can still see.
“You got the plan?” Aaron’s voice enters her ears. 
Aaron?
“Yeah…” Miles follows quickly behind him looking just as shell shocked as she is. “But maybe we should go over it again… just to make sure.” 
He looks around shocked at all the chaos. And at his face, that’s when Yana knows that he’s seen it. He’s seen the mural.
Aaron gets a text and upon that text, he turns to look at Miles suspiciously. 
At that moment, a dark figure jumps up and punches Miles in the face knocking him down.
Now, how immature would it be for Yana to shout something at this moment? Very. 
“Damn!” Yana exclaims. She didn’t mean to, it was an instinct. She quickly covers her mouth and ducks back down when Aaron and the figure look in her direction. 
“Someone’s here. Check the area.” Aaron orders and slips back into the stair room while the figure disappears. 
Yana panicky looks around for where the person went but doesn’t see or hear them until she’s getting smacked back into the rooftop floor right next to Miles. 
Despite the pain and ringing in her ears, she can look up to see the figure more clearly. A more clean design of the “prowler” suit. 
Another prowler?
The new prowler’s phone rings in his pocket. He takes it out and answers it and his mask opens up. 
Yana’s eyes widen at the face. It’s Miles, but not her Miles. 
It’s the last face she sees before she completely blacks out.
A/N : Do y'all know how long it took for me to finish this?? 😩 I was kinda on and off this this tho
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domnq88 · 2 years ago
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Korean studies
So, I’m still studying Korean and made it to level 1B. The levels for the king sejong(the king of Korea who made the Hangul alphabet long ago) goes like beginner, 1A, 1B, 2A 2B and so forth. I’m still a beginner but I leveled up so yay! 😁
My listening is still better than anything. I watch a LOT of lives of BTS and some shows/Korean YouTubers! So I think that’s why. Talk to me in Korean is good. I like watching
Pony Syndrome
Q2han (they speak mainly English though)
Hello jadoo AKA 안녕 저야
Learn More Korean with Go Billy! Korean
MEJIWOO (that’s Jhope’s sis her blogs are cute)
Cheezefilm cheezefilm is wild, but the vids are short and enjoyable
Learn Korean in Korean (Mr. Kim /선생님 김)
쥬네일 JOUNAIL(her nails are awesome! It’s usually a subtitled nail video! I love watching her for nail Inspo!)
Aaron and Claire they cook a lot. Claire reviews the food , and does so in Korean 😊
Seoul walker. Self explanatory. Cool to see places using Korean in Korea lol
엘피디LPD she does fashion for “plus sizes” she so Stinkin cute!!!! She does couples ones too sometimes
And sometimes random vloggers
K dramas are good for phrases but sometimes some things used don’t sound too natural to me, but sometimes over the top. But like…Duh, they’re acting so that makes sense.
I’m getting a bit upset though
I love the study group Im in, and 90% of the time people are really friendly and nice. But thy other 10%
NOPE. BIG NOPE.
I keep getting accused of using higher level of Korean and to “slow down.”
WHICH MAKES NO SENSE TO ME!
Like, I’m learning, what do you mean slow down? If I know how to use the phrases correctly, how is it pass my limit???
For a bit of background (except for math lol) I usually excel at things like this if I try/study.
So…why put me down about it?
I’m so annoyed. Not everyone does this but it’s weird that I’m literally just studying and practicing and get told, “wow that’s really beyond your level.” Sometimes they mean it in a compliment but lately it’s been as if to say I’m doing too much. 😑
I really like Korean. I ENJOY studying it. Maybe cause it’s a challenge. Im working on speaking and will edit a vid of me speaking it too!!! More of those are coming. 😁 it makes sense cause the last time I checked I WANTED TO FINISH ART SCHOOL THERE THROUGH MY COLLEGE!!!
I just like it….like why say I’m doing too much I don’t understand
🥺
Like…..I’m gonna keep going. I’m grateful for the people who ARE helpful and sweet! 😊😊😊
Everybody else can kick rocks.
🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨
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990forever · 11 days ago
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Modern Donuts
02/04/25
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Well I began the day in a small panic. "I began the day," this is starting to sound like Renee Gladman. Anyway I'd had some sort of bad dream and I called my friend Skijler who said that I should get out of bed and start the day over. So I walked to the donut store and bought half a dozen donuts and listened to Madonna on my iPod. and you know what. I do feel better.
I put on Coastal Grooves when I got back with the donuts, my favorite album to just wildly dance around my room to as of late. Twitter's been forcing me to keep up with the Grammys and I've been questioning my long-time crush on A.G. Cook... I've been in love with him pretty much since high school but I think my affections have since shifted... to Dev Hynes! Sorry! I only have time to crush on ONE English experimental pop producer-baddie and I think it's obvious who wins that one.
Anyway, all this dancing got my hair in a pretty ecstatic state. It almost looks teased. And I only know of one thing that can hold a look of such teased-hair proportions together: a Vivienne top. I'm borrowing this one from my bestie and need to return it expeditiously... though I don't want to!
My favorite of Vivienne Westwood, this top included, are not the Sex Pistols-adjacent punk vibes but pieces like this that harken to Mod--Beatlemania through a sort of awesomely perverted punkish lens. Not The Beatles, Beatlemania. In a lot of ways, early rock-n-roll was more ecstatic than punk. All that disaffection! Compared to the craze that was Mod? Rock-n-roll before there was No Future? I'm thinking about those pictures of girls screaming and crying, like God's present.
I'm no historian but I do remember a number of old Betty and Veronica cartoons which made fun of Mod style:
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And also a villain who I loved in Teen Titans called Mad Mod. (Once, while I was working at the club, some really drunk twink told me I looked like a batman villain, and he said it with so much sincerity that I still fondly think of it as the best outfit compliment I've ever received). Mad Mod was a typical mop-top English mod and all of his villainous tactics were these totally groovy booby traps...in fact I think that my American idea of the Mod is completely and totally cartoon-based.
A good example of this is that Vivienne's resurgence in America during the years leading up to her death, especially amongst younger people, had a lot to do with the popularity of Ai Yazawa's late 90s mangas Paradise Kiss and I think to a somewhat larger extent Nana (though I'm much more a fan of the former). I can't speak to Vivienne in Japan aside from a vague knowledge that it got really popular in the 90s, partially due to Yazawa's influence (I've personally only ever encountered Red Label garments with Japanese sizing, maybe speaking to Vivienne's popularity in Japan over her American popularity). So for me, styling Vivvy today means throwing the look through all these time-stretched, multinational, cartoon portals: we're doing an American 60s batman villain interpreted by a Japanese animation studio for an American audience in the early 2000s doing an English 60s Mod doing a 90s Japanese Harijuku Paradise-Kiss character doing an 80's English punk. Keep up.
Below is one of my favorite images ever and I think probably one of the most iconic: when Naomi Campbell fell down during Vivienne Westwood's fw1993 show. (Note her hair, btw. love, tried to resemble). What I love about this image is her smile, her laugh. How her legs are laid out in front of her, like a doll. In the video, she nods her head with its great hairstyle, doll-like, too, as she falls. And after the fall, she reappears with a cane, but held sideways, as a joke-- kind of a cartoon, the kind of cane that would pull Daffy Duck offstage.
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I think the doll vibe is very mod: think Twiggy-style makeup. But Vivienne's false-mod is punk, too--a distortion midcentury of English youth culture; a fantasy of a doll that blushes real blush, wears rubber tights.
True to the Mod tradition I've paired this top with a miniskirt and go-go boots, plus a sweet little pussybow. But if you look closer you'll notice that, perhaps against a Mod sensibility--they're all black. In fact, my boots are Pleasers, the iconic stripper boot which I often wear out and about in order to be taller, and the pussybow is a scrap of t-shirt fabric lovingly gifted to me by my girlfriend (I'm trying to wear it a different way every day).
I wouldn't chalk this up to a 90s does 60s, I don't think it's that simple, but here I'm thinking about Sonic Youth's cover of of The Stooges' 1969 I Wanna Be Your Dog (btw, can anyone ID Kim Gordon's tights in this video? Is it possible that they are also rubber tights???), or Black Francis flirting with some leggy girl singing I wanna be a singer like, uh, Lou Reed on Pixie's Come on Pilgrim. There's a cartoonish 60s present in the 90s that extends beyond punk. Post-punk, "go-go" boots don't exist anymore--Pleasers do. This is something I think Vivienne was very good at understanding and using as creative material.
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chorusfm · 4 months ago
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Taylor Swift – 1989
Can it really be your “first documented, official pop album” if you’ve already released three of the biggest pop albums in recent memory? 10 years ago this weekend, Taylor Swift delivered the answer to that question, and the answer was a decisive, resounding “Yes.” From the vantage point of 2024, it’s almost difficult to remember any version of Taylor Swift that wasn’t a world-conquering, stadium-tour-dominating pop star. The past two years of Taylormania have so thoroughly dwarfed any other pop star achievement in my lifetime that it’s even a little difficult to think back to pre-COVID times, when it seemed like the Taylor Swift machine was maybe starting to run out of gas. As mid-decade lists pour out from every music publication out there, I expect plenty of debates about what was the quote-unquote “best song” or “best album” of the decade. When it comes to discussing the artist of the decade so far, though, there is simply no debate: it’s Taylor, then it’s 93 million miles, and then it’s everyone else. But it wasn’t always that way, and in the Taylor Swift story, it’s album number five, 2014’s 1989, that serves as arguably the most important inflection point between phase one Taylor and the force of nature we know today. Per the narrative, Taylor Swift before 2014 was a country star who had crossed over to pop music success but never fully left her Nashville roots behind. 1989, in being her “first documented, official pop album” – the weird phrasing she used to describe the LP when she officially announced it in August 2014 – was the album that made the crossover complete, and solidified Taylor’s status as the world’s biggest musical star in the process. The thing with narratives is that they’re often predicated on half-truths. Real life is messy, full of all sorts of jagged edges and unclean lines. The stories we tell about our lives often sand away those edges to simplify the act of retelling. Such is also the case with artists and the stories they tell about their art, and it’s certainly true about Taylor Swift, someone who had absolutely made pop albums long before 2014. Let’s review: Taylor arrives, at least as a recording artist, in 2006 with her self-titled LP. No arguments from me that this debut album is clearly a country record. The same is probably true about 2008’s Fearless, even though it achieved the kind of crossover that no country album in my lifetime up to that point had achieved. There had been massive, massive country acts in the ‘90s, of course: Garth Brooks and Billy Ray Cyrus and Shania Twain and Faith Hill and the Dixie Chicks. All those artists sold tons of albums, and most of them scored massive hits. Faith Hill even had the top-charting song of 1999, besting Santana and Rob Thomas and “Smooth.” With Fearless, though, Taylor felt more embraced by the pop mainstream than any of country’s ‘90s titans, especially as songs like “You Belong with Me” and “Love Story” broke down every genre barrier out there. Fearless was also an awards show darling in extremely notable ways, whether Taylor was beating out Beyonce at the MTV Video Music Awards (much to the chagrin of a certain rapper) or winning her first of four (and counting) Album of the Year Grammys. So, that’s one true-blue country album, and one album that rode the pop-country divide so cleverly that it brokered a new kind of peace between pop listeners and country listeners. The widespread embrace of Fearless set the stage for two albums that arguably have more pop in their DNA than country. 2010’s Speak Now throws Nashville a couple bones, in the form of songs like “Mean,” “Back to December,” and the b-side “Ours.” But it’s also got pure pop moments like “The Story of Us” and “Sparks Fly,” and big rock songs like “Haunted” and “Better Than Revenge.” It was also the first Taylor album to sell a million copies in a week, a mark previously only achieved by one country album: Garth Brooks’ Double Live from 1998. 2012’s Red is even more blatantly “not country,” and that’s… https://chorus.fm/reviews/taylor-swift-1989-2/
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