#mary loves her unreleased song

[swag696942069]

Mary Macdonald is Gracie Abrams coded

[unknown171204]

Starmania 1979

The French singer, author and composer Michel Berger one day heard about a surprising news item . Patricia Campbell Hearst, the daughter of a billionaire, kidnapped by terrorists ended up joining their movement out of love for one of her kidnappers !

This true story will fascinate him, to the point of starting an album inspired by this story :

This will be the “Angelina Dumas” project .

Ultimately the album never saw the light of day and only one song that remained of Berger's work remained that he recorded as a duet with his wife France Gall :

Frustrated by what he considers to be a failure, Michel will not let go of what he thinks (rightly) is a good artistic vein

thanks to his wife who will make him meet the Canadian singer Diane Dufresne, Michel will work with his lyricist Luc Plamondon with whom he created the most famous rock opera in France :

The story takes place in an undated future (despite a now outdated reference to the year 2000 and the 80s) Humans now live in underground galleries redeveloped into a huge city called Monopolis. The only mirage of happiness for ordinary citizens is the number 1 television show "Starmania" where everyone can become a star for one night .

We simultaneously follow the lives and actions of several characters :

Johnny Rockfort : A young anarchist leader of the terrorist group " les étoiles noires " ( the black stars )

Sadia : A transvestite student co-creator of " les étoiles noires "

Marie Jeanne : The depressed waitress who works at the " Underground café "

Ziggy : A mythomaniac and ambitious homosexual record store owner

Cristal : The host of Starmania

Stella Spotlight : A sex symbol on the decline

Zéro Janvier : An extremist politician running for became president

Gourou Marabout : An extremist politician also competing in the presidential election

Roger-Roger : the TV presenter

Brilliantly the duo Berger / Plamondon went out of their way to organize the broadcast of a special television program in 1978 in order to present the songs to as many people as possible :

The show was performed for a short month for 33 performances at the Palais des Congrès , but it is considered one of the greatest French musicals

DISTRIBUTION :

Daniel Balavoine : Johnny Rockfort

France Gall : Cristal

Fabienne Thibeault : Marie-Jeanne

Étienne Chicot : Zéro Janvier

Diane Dufresne : Stella Spotlight

Grégory Ken : Ziggy

Nanette Workman : Sadia

Roddy Julienne : le Gourou

René Joly : Roger-Roger

Due to his short presence on stage, the show did not have the right to a complete recording (it is today considered a highly sought after lost media) but fortunately the audio of the show has available in its entirety !

To get an idea of ​​the visual identity of the show I had to dig into the TV archives :

The repetitions :

Full live audio of the show :

Single :

Monopolis / Quand on arrive en ville / Le blues du business man / La complainte de la serveuse automate / Ziggy / Le monde est stone

But the most memorable song is " SOS d'un terrien en détresse "

A song renowned for its difficulty and which launched the career of Daniel Balavoine then, years later, that of Star Academy 2004 winner Grégory Lemarchal :

ANECDOTES :

The original album contains two songs missing from the final show :

Petite Musique terrienne Part 2

L'air de l'extraterrestre

This extraterrestrial is a deleted character who only appeared physically in two production ( Francis Martin in 1980 and Marc Gabriel in 1986 , in this last version we discovered that Roger-Roger was in reality an alien ) the song, or rather its theme, will be recycled in several subsequent versions .

The show also contains several unreleased and missing songs from the album that will never be reused !!

La serveuse et les clients

Jingle de Stella

Sex shops , cinéma porno

Les parents de Cristal

Le tango de l'amour et de la mort

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Claude Dubois (the original voice of Zéro Janvier) is the only one of the singers present on the album who did not reprise the role on stage, unfortunately it was because of his drug addiction, he took his revenge in 1989 when he replaced Richard Groulx on stage ( thanks to miss-starmania for the archive picture and additional information )

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Michel Berger abandons his role of Grand Gourou to Roddy Julienne without any explanation ?!

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In this version, in addition to randomly attacking wealthy people in the street, scratching their cars and raping girls in parking lots, les étoiles noires of 79 are a bit more extreme than in the other versions … Roger Roger specifies that the terrorists deliberately disconnected the oxygen ventilation of an entire neighborhood, killing all the residents ! This free murder will be deleted from other versions

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The name Johnnie Rockfort (a complicated pun to translate which can mean "strong rock'n'roll " or just the cheese of the same name ? ) is perhaps not a coincidence , the producer of the show Roland Hubert, not being convinced by Balavoine, completely unknown at the time, he fought (in vain) with Berger so that the role was offered to the rocker Johnny Halliday

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According to the memories of France Gall, during one of the performances a disgruntled spectator had fun whistling throughout the show exhausting Daniel Balavoine who patiently waited for the curtain call to jump into the audience to beat him up while he was still wearing his bulky costume ( the one below )

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France Gall speaks with emotion about the show :

For more Starmania or to discover other French musicals I invite you to follow the path of my main masterlist to learn more about French musicals and their stories :

[jiliicitaffairs]

Unreleased Taylor Swift songs I’ve collected

A

All night diner

A little more like you

Am I ready for love?

American boy

Angelina

Apology song to Rachael Hunter

B

Baby blue

Barnyard song

Beautiful days

Beautiful eyes

Being with my baby

Better off

Brand new world

Brought up that way

Bunny hips don’t lie

By the way

C

Can I go with you?

Cannonball (Ft. Justin Bieber)

Check out this view

Closest to a cowboy

Cross my heart

D

Dark blue Tennessee

Didn’t they

Don’t hate me for loving you

Down came the rain

Drama Queen

F

Fall back on you

Fire

Firefly

G

Gracie

H

Halfway to Texas

Her

Honey baby

Houston rodeo

I

I heart ?

I know what I want

I used to fly

I wished on a plane

I’d lie

In the pouring rain

J

Just south of knowing why

K

Kid in the crowd

L

Let’s go (Battle)

Live for the little things

Long time coming

Look at you like that

Love they haven’t thought of yet

Love to lose

Lucky you

M

Made up you

Making up for lost love

Mandolin

Mary Joe

Matches

Me and Britney

Monologue song

My cure

My turn to be me

N

Need

Need you now

Never fade

Never mind

O

One-sided goodbye

P

Perfect have I loved

Permanent marker

Point of view

Pretty words

R

R-E-V-E-N-G-E

Rain song

Red shirt khaki paints

Ride on

S

Same girl

Smoking black nights

Spinning around

Stupid boy

Sugar

Sweet tea and God’s graces

T

Tell me

Tennessee

That’s life

The diary of me

The Ellen show

The middle of the light

Thinking bout you

Thirteen blocks

This here guitar

This is really happening

This is what you came for

Three sad virgins

Thug story

Till Brad Pitt comes along

U

Under my head

V

VMA Side story

W

Wait for me

Welcome back song for Grunwald

Welcome distraction

What do you say

What to wear

Who I’ve always been

Why do you tell me

Writing songs about you

Y

You do

You don’t have to call me

Your anything

Your face

Your heart’s somewhere else

#

4U

10 Dollars and a six pack

[sweetdreamsjeff]

Jeff Buckley: Sketches (For My Sweetheart The Drunk) (Columbia)

Jim Irvin, MOJO, June 1998

FANS OF Grace might find this album tough going. For one thing, it's hard to divorce the circumstances of its existence from the music – some of which is very beautiful, yet you know it wouldn't sound this way if Jeff Buckley had lived. In other words, you're listening to this record because he died.

Secondly, there are several moments that seem too private, things we probably shouldn't be hearing. At these times you might experience the same uneasy fascination you'd get from illicitly reading someone's diary. You might also find yourself distracted by questions like, "Who chose this running order?", "Why are there two versions of two songs with nothing much to choose between them?" or "Was this song finished?"

We'll never know if Jeff Buckley wanted anybody to hear the ugly clutter of ‘Haven't You Heard’, we can be certain he had more in mind for the complex ‘Murder Suicide Meteor Slave’ than the detuned, trebly mush it is here and we can only wonder at how its lovely Beatle-ish interlude would have turned out. Did he lay down the home-made cover of ‘Back In New York City’ (a Genesis song from The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway) with a view to putting it on record or simply for his own amusement, something to get the creative juices flowing? Is there any real value in hearing tracks as nascent as ‘Demon John’ or ‘Your Flesh Is So Nice’ – barely written songs, with arrangements just hinted at by slapdash guitars and extemporised melodies you know he'd have nailed later or abandoned completely? Is it right to include performances where his singing is unfocused, lazy or tired? Or those where the band are just feeling their way?

As I understand it, from talking to his management shortly after his death, Jeff Buckley's unreleased legacy runs thus: the remainder of the Live At Sin-E recordings; radio sessions and solo spots such as those on the French ‘Live At The Bataclan’ EP (which he hated); one outtake from Grace, ‘Forget Her’ (removed to make room for ‘So Real’); the "live in the studio" solo sets recorded during the making of Grace; a series of 24-track live recordings with the full band (some of these, like the extended version of Alex Chilton's ‘Kanga-Roo’, have appeared on B-sides and promo discs); the sessions recorded with Tom Verlaine in Memphis a few months before his death; a few tracks recorded in New York soon afterwards; and a large number of 4-track demos Buckley cut in the last weeks of his life.

After he drowned, the inevitable question of what to do with this material had to be faced. Manager Dave Lory spent days going through the tapes found in Jeff's house. He had to listen to everything, no matter what it said on the box, as Jeff had a habit of cutting demos on whatever came to hand. Sure enough, he found one new song halfway through side two of an old Michael Bolton promo cassette.

He then met up with Steve Berkowitz (Jeff's A&R man) and Andy Wallace (the producer of Grace), to make a definitive inventory of all the extant recordings and dub the demos onto digital masters. These were three of the men who knew Jeff's working methods best and they argued every day about what might be done with this stuff, which songs Jeff would have been happy with, how best to release the material or, indeed, if any of it should come out at all.

Just as they were finishing this process, they were 'fired' by Jeff's mother, Mary Guibert, who'd inherited her son's estate and assumed the responsibility of compiling an album with another Columbia A&R executive, Don DeVito, (who'd not worked extensively with Buckley while he was alive). They asked Buckley's friend, Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, to "sit in Jeff's seat". Andy Wallace was rehired to complete his mixes of the Verlaine sessions which make up Disc 1 of this collection.

When Buckley completed those tracks he told Lory that he "couldn't find his soul" in them. He was aware there was a lot of work still to do before he could cut a worthy follow-up to Grace, so he temporarily dismissed his band and retreated to his rented house in Memphis to revise the songs and write new ones. (Some of these, ‘Mood Swing Whiskey’, ‘Sky Blue Skin’, ‘Don't Listen To Anyone But Me’, ‘Woke Up In A Strange Place’ and ‘Let's Bomb The Moonlight’ remain in the can.) Disc 2 features seven of those demos, retakes of two of the songs on Disc 1, some CD-ROM material (which was not available for review) and a stray radio recording from 1992 of the country standard ‘Satisfied Mind’ ("I went with a satisfied mind"), clearly chosen as a pointed closer.

Diametrically opposed to it, Disc 1's opener, ‘The Sky Is A Landfill’, is a bleak, relentless torrent of anger. As "evil blacks the sky" Buckley advises that we "Don't suck the milk of flaccid Bill K Public's empty promise to the people". "This way of life is so devised to snuff out the mind that moves," he continues, moved to send a mail bomb to "Mr Strong Arm", who is "useless like the cops at the scene of a crime" Although impressive, it's a curious track to open with, throwing a grim shadow over what follows. It takes a few listens, then, but gradually Sketches' pearls begin to shine through.

‘Vancouver’ kicks off with a Byrdsian riff and a beautiful double-tracked falsetto, spinning into a dizzy song driven by piano, fuzz bass and crashing guitars. ‘Nightmares By The Sea’ is great, too. After an intro reminiscent of Nirvana's ‘Come As You Are’, it turns into a churning pop song – and check the lyrics: "Stay with me under these waves tonight/Be free for once in your life tonight! Bluebeard's young and handsome/So new to your bedroom floor/You know damn well where you're gone." Likewise, the a cappella ‘You And I’ (again, a song whose melody was not fully developed) starts with the line "Oh, the calm below that poisoned river wild". It can't be too long before someone ekes out a morbid dissertation concerning the water imagery in these songs.

However, it's the second track that will be this collection's calling card. ‘Everybody Here Wants You’ draws from the same divine well as ‘Lover, You Should've Come Over’ on Grace. It's a lump-in-the-throat soul ballad which sways like Smokey Robinson's ‘Cruisin'’ or Chic's ‘At Last I Am Free’. Jeff sings it in a tender falsetto with a hint of jealous ire shading the delicious, pleading chorus – "Everybody here wants you! Everybody here thinks he needs you/I'll be waiting right here just to show you our love will blow it all away" – as the bass tumbles along lyrically. Awkward middle-four aside, it's an instant classic. And it serves to make the lesser tracks here an even greater source of sadness, simultaneously reminding us that this wonderful voice has sung its last.

There's a lot of fine material still unheard and we must hope its trustees are careful with it. One thing's sure: a definitive selection will never exist, except in our heads and, one day perhaps, on our personal 'Ultimate Jeff' compilations.

At best, Sketches has much the same function and effect as The Beatles Anthology collections. It's a document of a great musical mind cranking into gear, a series of clues to what might have been. If you were hoping for a record to equal Grace, well, you'll be disappointed. But be assured that Jeff Buckley's sketches overshadow most artists' completed works.

[merp-blerp]

A Gaylor Interpretation of "Seven" post TTPD

Overblown Analysis Under the Cut ↓

So my song interpretations are often just one of my takes on a single song. For "Seven", I think every reading I've seen works basically. The general interpretation of the story of two kids being friends and the gaylor interpretation of those kids being in love whether they realize it or not make sense to me and I love that story. However, I love challenging myself to see songs in multiple ways, even in ways I haven't seen anyone else see them. And I want to share this different take on "Seven" being about "Peter" (at least I think it's different, I don't think I've seen exactly what I'm about to say before, but idk).

"Please picture me // In the trees // I hit my peak at seven feet // In the swing // Over the creek // I was too scared to jump in // But I, I was high in the sky // With Pennsylvania under me // Are there still beautiful things?"

Most takes on this song seem to take this song as not being personal for Taylor, but as a story she created, but I want to play with the idea of it being at least a bit personal, even if it's a fictional take on reality.

The first clue that it could be about Taylor more directly is that she mentions Pennsylvania, where she was born.

I find it interesting that we don't know how old the narrator is in the story they tell. "Seven" refers to how high the narrator swings, not their age. In "Fresh Out the Slammer", Taylor mentions how she used to sit on children's swings with her lover wearing imaginary rings, their age during that time on the swing also not being determined. "Robin" also mentions swings. To me, Taylor seems to see the swings as the peak of childhood/childlike innocence. The swing story is told in the past tense, so the narrator's childlike innocence must be behind them as they're beginning to wonder "Are there still beautiful things?" like there were in their swing days. To me, this song has always felt like an adult recounting childhood memories as if they were young again, and in this reading, I think Adult Taylor is talking to her younger self, Peter.

"Sweet tea in the summer // Cross your heart, won't tell no other // And though I can't recall your face // I still got love for you"

The mention of drinking something in the summer and keeping a secret reminds me of Taylor's unreleased song "Me and Britney" from 2003, a song that could also be read as Taylor having a childhood crush on a friend thanks to the lines, "That boy she ran off with, well, I thought he was crazy // Maybe I was just jealous that he'd come between me and Britney." But the line that concerns us here is "Me and Britney used to sit on the front porch drinking lemonade // Talking 'bout things no one else was ever supposed to hear // In the summer shade." There are also parallels to another unreleased song "Mary Jo", which mentions "So many questions answered // When I spent that summer with Jo". And of course, there are ties to another unreleased song called "Sweet Tea and God's Graces", a similar song to "Mary Jo" about learning through young love, which also mentions sweet tea, tire swings, and summer. I could never know if Taylor actually had feelings for her friend Britany Maack, who "Me and Britany" is allegedly (?) about, or the nature of their relationship. But it appears that Taylor is taking elements from her childhood and incorporating them into this queer-coded song.

Summer, daylight, and the sun seem to represent the freedom of knowing your queer and the ability to be so for Taylor, reflected in so many songs like "Daylight", "BDILH", etc. So maybe it's being used almost like a code to say that she's had a queer experience of some kind.

Especially in the 90s and early 2000s, if a kid found out they were queer they wouldn't tell anyone out of fear of homophobia and/or wanting to process it themselves. So older Taylor recounts that her younger self would "Cross (her) heart, won't tell no other" after summer/a queer experience.

As you get older and grow into your face, you somewhat begin to forget what you looked like as a kid. I know I look at old photos of myself and realize I forgot details. Taylor can't recall her own face as a child from memory, as it's been a long time since she's been a child, but she still has love for her younger self.

"Your braids like a pattern // Love you to the moon and to Saturn // Passed down like folk songs // The love lasts so long"

I did an analysis for "BDILH", and in that I mentioned that braids could symbolize taking your free, loose hair, or queerness, and tucking it back in a braid, hiding the queerness. Her younger self was closeted, so she has "braids like a pattern".

"Love you to the moon and to Saturn" is a play on the phrase "Love you to the moon and back" which is used to illustrate just how much you love someone. So why to the moon and to Saturn specifically? Maybe Taylor is saying that she has so much care for her younger self that it goes to the moon and Saturn combined. Or maybe, since Taylor illustrates not feeling like she belongs on earth like a human in several other songs like "Down bad" and "IHIH", she's saying that she loves her younger self to the moon and Saturn because she's not on earth. She's different, so she lives on Saturn, a planet that humans can't theoretically live on like Mars. I feel like there could be more to find with this Saturn lyric, so if you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them!

Folk songs can be passed down for decades or maybe more, sometimes the origins of them being unknown (i.e. "The House of the Rising Sun" which has no known author and has been performed by countless people, essentially belonging to everyone and no one). Very similar to folktales, fables, and folklore. Queer history continues to be spread for centuries, even when the origins are murky. Queer people have existed since time itself, so "the love lasts so long".

"And I've been meaning to tell you // I think your house is haunted // Your dad is always mad and that must be why"

Okay, so I don't want to asses this line for too long when connecting it to Taylor on a personal level if the dad is her actual father, as it feels a bit uncomfortable for me personally, but I do want to address the line. Taylor has written about fathers in non-positive lights before. Take "You say we'll never make my parents' mistakes" and "You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter" from "Mine", or "Leaving like a father" from "Betty". The unreleased 2002 song "Can I Go With You?" is a song about a father angrily leaving his home after a spat with his partner and his child asking to go with him. There was also the argument Taylor got into with her dad in Miss Americana and the email leak from December of last year. I personally take "Tolerate It" as potentially being about Taylor's father only tolerating her identity and how that frustrates Taylor, so this lyric could also be in reference to any frustration that Scott Swift could have towards something about young Taylor. But I of course don't know Taylor's personal situation with her parents and I'm not personally accusing Scott of being abusive when I have such little information.

Honestly, the "dad" could also be Scott B, which might connect the song to Taylor's early career. I think I prefer that idea because I'm able to think about it more.

The way this line is worded feels like A) a child who knows something is amiss, but interprets the source of the problem as something unlikely like a ghost or B) an adult explaining something painful to a child in a way that wouldn't hurt the child as bad as the hard facts. I'm going to go with B for this reading. Adult Taylor says to her younger self that her house is "haunted" to soften the blow of whatever the problem is and help her understand. Younger Taylor might understand the dangers of a haunted house better than whatever the complicated truth is. Or maybe younger Taylor does understand the reality and older Taylor says "haunted" like a code word the two of them can understand, but not quite the listener. Mentioning "haunted" reminds me of Speak Now and its song by that name, which would connect it back to "Mine" again. And if the dad is actually Scott B, that reminds me of the story about Taylor having to call TS3 Speak Now because calling it "Enchanted" like she wanted was seen as too childish by Big Machine, connecting to childhood and never growing up again. Come to think of it, even the braids remind me of Speak Now and the "Mean" MV. (So now I'm wondering if the "careless man" was Scott B all along—that'd be something to ponder...)

"And I think you should come live with // Me and we can be pirates // Then you won't have to cry // Or hide in the closet // And just like a folk song // Our love will be passed on"

Taylor compares her younger self to Peter Pan in her song "Peter". Pirates play a big role in Peter Pan, of course. This also gives the song another connection to Taylor personally, as Taylor describes her younger self as in the age of "pirate ships" in "The Best Day". In "Peter", Taylor laments that her younger self was supposed to "grow up" and then "come find (her)", meaning her younger closeted self was supposed to finally grow out of the closet that hurts her so and be whole with her adult self. But, as stated in "The Archer" and "BDILH", Taylor never grew up, even when she wanted to, because of unforeseen circumstances like the master heist keeping her trapped. Here, Taylor asks a similar question, imploring her younger self to live with her so they can play and be whole. Pirates in real life could have gay partnerships with each other called "matelotage", so playing pirates might be like coming out. Then her younger self won't have to cry over who she is anymore. She won't have to hide in the closet. Then their unique love can continue to be passed on through history and to others.

"Please picture me // In the weeds // Before I learned civility // I used to scream ferociously // Any time I wanted // I, I"

I already talked about this line somewhat extensively in my "BDILH" analysis, so I'll keep an exact assessment of this specific line brief, but throughout this whole song, Taylor pleads to the listener to picture her younger, rather than her now, as she's been describing her younger self this whole time. As she says in the speech during "Daylight", Taylor wants to be defined by the things that she loves, not the things she's afraid of. The Lover coming out attempt reflected that, as there was barely any vitriol towards the industry portrayed in the album, compared to TTPD. If she came out then it would've been defined by her love, not the industry's abuse. Now she has a lot of anger and fear in her life, so she wants to be pictured before the closeting took its toll. Younger Taylor got to "scream ferociously" whenever she wanted, or be queer and "loud", but then she decided to take on her dreams of being a singer, a public figure, so she had to write her songs straight enough to pass as such and take on bearding, or learn "civility". And if playing pirates is like being out, it might require you to "scream ferociously".

The "I, I" being followed by nothing specific to it, but "Cross my heart, won't tell no other", makes me feel like something's being omitted. It's as if she wants to say more about being loud when she was younger, but then stops herself.

"Sweet tea in the summer // Cross my heart, won't tell no other // And though I can't recall your face // I still got love for you // Pack your dolls and a sweater // We'll move to India forever // Passed down like folk songs // Our love lasts so long"

Earlier in the song, Taylor described her younger self as not telling anyone about her queerness, but now she's crossing her own heart the same way. She never grew up. She's been left with no choice but to stay in the closet forever. But Taylor still sings of the summer, so her queerness isn't gone.

She tells her younger self to join her again, to pack and move to India with her. My best guess as to why India specifically is that India is far away. It was never mentioned in her music before and never again so far. It's not like New York, London, or even Pennsylvania, places where people would expect to find her thanks to her music and track record of frequenting those places. India is similar to Florida in her music, a place to escape from invasive eyes and troubles. It's like a more achievable version of the "better planet" from "IHIH".

And their love still lasts so long.

Thanks for reading!

[jamiemaybeme]

every single reference to christianity i can find in bears' in trees songs because. yeah. fight me

uhhh idk why i'm doing this at 1am but enjoy ig

just five more minutes:

4am: "for god's sake it's only 4am"

fly out to alaska:

"well moses saw God in a burning bush, so i'm praying please"

bits n' pieces:

fyaaa (bandcamp exclusive): "praying to saint jude all of our lives"

i see blue:

nights like these: "stop asking st anthony"

EDITED: two of my very lovely friends, berry and jamie 1, pointed out that "mother help me, madonna and child" is a reference to mary and Jesus. thank you guys!!

i want to feel chaotic:

rust: "a broken piece/of God's great plan"

"stop me eating the sand/stop me feeling so goddamm bad"

keep me safe:

laugh/cry: "demons of the soul"

and everybody else smiled back:

heaven sent is a coffee cup: ..."heaven" (repeated throughout the song)

mossy cobblestone (kind of): "stained glass" - stained glass windows are often found in churches

"my body is a temple" - common idiom with religious connotations

"and God knows i'll live forever/or die in the attempt"

confidant: "but because you were my home/built on stone instead of sand" - reference to the wise man and foolish man, a parable Jesus told in the new testament (in the bible)

little cellist: "“even Jesus Christ himself needed help to bear his cross”"

sun machine: "i cradle God on my walk to u n i"

"she preaches gospel truth down the hall"

if i just ask politely: " you tell me you're going to church in the morning"

precipitation:

"they said the clouds opened up/and the heavens came down" (technically it's an idiom but leave me alone idc /lh)

every moonbeam every fever dream:

kind love: "set 'em in stained glass windows/build cathedrals to our flaws/the spire's crowned by galaxies"

doing this again: "oh [my] God we're doing this again"

"my mother 'cites a rosary downstairs"

"but Lord these blesséd words fail me"

how to stay shining:

bart's bike: "find heaven sent in brooklyn street" - a reference to heaven sent is a coffee cup

how to build an ocean: instructions:

i can't see anything i don't like about you: "when i'm good, good god, i'm great"

"i am everyone and everything all of the time/oh god i'll be..."

all you get is confetti: "you are magdelene, mary" - mary magdelene is a woman from the bible, who was possessed by demons until Jesus told them to leave her alone. she then became a follower of Christ and was with him until his death. in all four gospels she is cited as one of the women, or the only woman, to be the first people to see Jesus' empty tomb. she also is the first person said to see Jesus resurrected. he speaks to her and she does not recognise him until she says his name.

henry says: "but/and i'll make snow angels out of all their bad dreams"

hot chocolate: "and if it snows right now that would be heaven/i mean honestly, that would be heaven"

nothing cures melancholy like looking at maps: "praying the police won't call on us"

we don't speak anymore: "we can part any sea/that surrounds us" - in the old testament, moses leads the israelites out of egypt by parting the red sea. it is a miracle that God performs through him. moses is also mentioned in fly out to alaska (above).

unreleased songs:

tea: "whether it's the devil's water or the holy water/your essence bleeds out and you diffuse"

[taylor-swift-bracket]

Battle Of The Bridges!

Round 3 Matchup

(Links will be added as polls go live)

Debut Era 🦋

Cold As You vs. Our Song vs. Teardrops On My Guitar

Fearless Era ✨

Fearless vs. You Belong With Me

The Way I Loved You vs. Jump Then Fall

Mr. Perfectly Fine vs. If This Was A Movie

Speak Now Era 🎆

Dear John vs. Enchanted

Long Live vs. Ours vs. Castles Crumbling

Red Era 🧣

All Too Well vs. Treacherous

Sad Beautiful Tragic vs. Begin Again

Come Back…Be Here vs. Nothing New vs. Forever Winter

1989 Era 🏙️

Out Of The Woods vs. Bad Blood

Wildest Dreams vs. You Are In Love vs. Is It Over Now?

Reputation Era 🐍

I Did Something Bad vs. King Of My Heart vs. Dress

Lover Era 💘

Cruel Summer vs. The Archer

Death By A Thousand Cuts vs. Daylight

folklore era 🌲

exile vs. my tears ricochet

illicit affairs vs. hoax

evermore era 🍂

champagne problems vs. coney island

marjorie vs. happiness

Midnights Era 🌌

Maroon vs. You’re On Your Own, Kid

The Great War vs. You’re Losing Me

The Tortured Poets Department Era✒️

Down Bad vs. So Long, London

Who’s Afraid Of Little Old Me? vs. The Black Dog

How Did It End? vs. The Prophecy vs. The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

Other 🎸

Beautiful Ghosts vs. I Don’t Wanna Live Forever vs. us

Unreleased Songs 🎹

(All unreleased songs taken from Taylor Swift’s Wiki page)

4 u vs. A Little More Like You vs. Angelina

Better Off vs. Brand New World vs. Cannonball

Check Out This View vs. Closest To A Cowboy vs. Cross My Heart

Dark Blue Tennessee vs. Diary Of Me vs. Didn’t They

Drama Queen vs. Fall Back On You vs. Firefly

Halfway To Texas vs. Her vs. Honey Baby

Houston Rodeo vs. I Know What I Want vs. I Used To Fly

I Wished On A Plane vs. I’d Lie vs. In The Pouring Rain

Just South Of Knowing Why vs. Let’s Go (Battle) vs. Long Time Going

Look At You Like That vs. Love To Lose vs. Lucky You

Making Up For Lost Love vs. Mandolin vs. Mary Jo

Matches vs. Me and Britney vs. My Cure

My Turn To Be Me vs. Need vs. Need You Now

Nevermind vs. One-Sided Goodbye vs. Permanent Marker

Point Of View vs. Ride On vs. Rain Song

Sugar vs. Sweet Tea and God’s Graces vs. Tell Me

Tennessee vs. That’s Life vs. This Here Guitar

This Is Really Happening vs. Til Brad Pitt Comes Along vs. Under My Head

Wait For Me vs. Welcome Distraction vs. What Do You Say

What To Wear vs. Who I’ve Always Been vs. You Do

Your Anything vs. Your Face vs. Your Heart’s Somewhere Else

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Acoustic Unreleased Songs

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[last updated 10/27/24]

A star* next to any song indicates that the song was recently lost when one of my drives got taken down. You can still request the song, it just might be harder to get it to you and I may have to email you the file instead of messaging a link like normal.

A

A Little More Like You

All Night Diner

American Boy

Angelina

B

Baby Blue

Beautiful Days

Being With My Baby

Brand New World

By The Way

C

Check Out This View

Closest to a Cowboy

Cross My Heart

D

Didn't They

Don't Hate Me For Loving You

Down Came The Rain by Deric Ruttan (Taylor only sings background vocals on this one)

F

Fall Back On You

Fire

Firefly

For You (4 U)

G

Gracie

H

Half-Way To Texas

Her

Hold On*

Honey Baby

Houston Rodeo

I

In the Pouring Rain*

I Used To Fly

I Wished On a Plane*

K

Kid In the Crowd

L

Live for the Little Things

Look At You Like That

Love They Haven't Thought of Yet

Love to Lose*

M

Made Up You

Mandolin

Mary Jo

Matches

Me and Britney

My Cure (alternate lyric demo)

My Turn To Be Me

N

Never Fade

O

One-Sided Goodbye

P

Perfect Have I Loved

Point of View

R

Rain Song*

Ride On

S

Same Girl

Spinning Around*

Stupid Boy

Sugar*

Sweet Tea and God's Graces (acoustic)*

T

Tell Me

Ten Dollars and a Six Pack*

Tennessee

That's Life

Thinking About You

This Here Guitar

'Til Brad Pitt Comes Along*

U

Under My Head

W

Welcome Back Song (For Grunwald)

Y

You Do*

You Don't Have To Call

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You wouldn't believe me, but I noticed that you kind of like Taylor Swift 😅 that's why I want to ask what is your favorite song of hers, both overall and from individual albums. Also, since I love Simbar and I'm kind of a new listener to Taylor's songs and I haven't heard all of them yet, I want to ask what songs remind you of Ámbar and Simón and if so why they remind you of them

Hello there, dear Anon 💕

I'm actually the worst at choosing favorites of anything, I can never choose 😂 But I can give you the list of my favorites in no particular order ♡ :

Mary's Song

I'd Lie (this is an unreleased)

All Too Well

Cornelia Street

King of My Heart

Call it what you want

Look What You Made Me do

Delicate

Enchanted

Mastermind

Tis the damn season

August

ME!

Tim McGraw

Last Kiss

Red

Love Story

Sparks Fly

Mine

Is it Over Now? (From The Vault)

And from her new album The Tortured Poets Department my favorites thus far are: How Did It End, Fortnight, So High School, Guilty as Sin, The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

As to what Taylor songs remind me of Simbar, I already answered that question here. I would only add 'imgonnagetyouback' (Ámbar after their breakup in season 2) and 'So High School' a little bit, for after they get back together and they're happy <3

[arcadiken]

What are the students songs and bands?

What are their favorite subjects?

Can you tell us a random fact about a random character?

Can you give us a random piece of unreleased dialogue? (To be funny)

ill update this if i ever add more students but uuh

1.

Zack: Full Speed by Seb Adams, fav artist is BoyWithUke

Marie: That One Moment U Smiled Reminded Me Of How We Used To Be by mewka, MC Virgins is their fav band for whatever reason

Jess: Love Again by Dua Lipa, no fav band

Lucky: I Dont Wanna Be Me by Type O-Negative, her fav band is Weezer

Kel: Touch-Tone Telephone and My Trains by Lemon Demon, hes a big fan of Lemon Demon

Olive: Implanted Memories by Infinity Frequencies, fav artist is Hallow

2.

Zack: Math. he LOVES polynomials and functions

Marie: None.

Jess: Science

Lucky: ELA shes a massve bookworm and poetry fan

Kel: ..detention apparently

Olive: Computer Class. the quietness is nice to her

3. Ms. Painter hates sunglasses with yellow frames

4. "Do you know the muffin man? No im only just kidding"

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MUSIC

Lalah Hathaway's Christmas Duet with Her Dad Has Us In Our Feelings

Modern technology made it all possible for Donny to sing his Christmas classic with his daughter.

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Grammy®-winning singer Lalah Hathaway recently premiered a new video for the duet with her late father, Donny Hathaway, of his holiday classic “This Christmas.” Lalah made her first television performance of the duet this week on Sherri. The soulful video, in which she performs the track with an animated version of her father, can be viewed now on YouTube.

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The new duet of “This Christmas” weaves together stunning new vocals recorded with instrumentation by Lalah, with previously unheard vocals from an unreleased demo Donny made of the song in 1970. In the video, Donny plays acoustic piano instead of the familiar electric heard on the original. Lalah sits in with her father as they trade verses and harmonize flawlessly.

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Loudmouth & MSNBC's Rev. Al Sharpton Plays That's So Random

The civil rights leader is the subject of a new documentary called Loudmouth. We asked him about his career, his tailored suits, and much more.

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[darkchocolatedimples]

i finally listened to taylor swift (the album)!

this one required thinking. but i did it!!

tim mcgraw - dex

never forget!!!

picture to burn - sophie

okay this one i had heard before and its an absolute bop i wish she kept the "ill tell mine you're gay". also the sophie energy is just absolutely crazy.

teardrops on my guitar - keefe

never forget the way he never actually tried to win over sophie and just handed her over to fitz bc he thought it was what's best for both of them. cue sobbing.

a place in this world - tam

don't fight me on this pls just don't

cold as you - dex

still think he could've been meaner to sophie after the crap she pulled

the outside - biana

BOOK ONE BIANA BRO "how can i ever try to be better? nobody's ever let me in!"

tied together with a smile - dex

don't talk to me pls

stay beautiful - fitz

hes so corey coded i feel so strongly about this

should've said no - tam

ive yapped about the song parents too much

mary's song - biana

our song - linh

she would love this one hands down

i'm only me when i'm with you - linh

SONG TWINS ANTHEM

invisible - keefe

back on my keefitz shit LMAO

a perfectly good heart - tam

and some singles/unreleased songs so i can say i've finished her entire discography:

carolina - linh

the joker and the queen - keefe

aka keefe and sophie

christmas tree farm - linh

could've been anyone but in my head linh loves christmas

renegade - sophie

tbh forget her this is MY passive aggressive love letter to keefe

only the young - sophie

leader sophie and the child soldiers!

sweeter than fiction - fitz

STRONG FEELINGS AGAIN

live forever - tam

he'd like zayn

[djlyer]

Anne-Marie!!!!!!, April 4, 2023

What a lovely little concert on the radio this evening.  Anne-Marie Williot brought her lovely self with accordion and played some unreleased songs, busy month for this songstress.  Enjoy your Anne-Marie with a Crepe or after a play or at a house concert, or hit up the September long weekend Accordion Festival in small town Quebec! (Félicitations!)

Anne Marie Williot - Cheval Geant - Le bateau

Anne Marie Williot - Live @ CKUW - Un main

Jude Pelley - Tin Can Phone - Daniella’s Farewell 

The Tragically Hip - April 7, 2009 - We Are the Same - Morning Moon

Anne Marie Williot -  Live @ CKUW - L’homme fait en papier

Anne Marie Williot -  Live @ CKUW - L’hiver

Anne Marie Williot - Live @ CKUW - Le gout de l’air

Anne Marie Williot -  Cheval Geant - Black Birds

[sadgirlglimmeringdarling]

Lana probably came up with any excuse to not do a song for this project. I don't blame her.

She had lots of extra time during the filming of this movie. So much free time, she decided to work at The Waffle House. She traveled to Alabama and Oklahoma.

She did a lot of traveling during her off months, before she went and did her mini festival tour. So, she had the time to record a new song if she wanted to.

If she didn't want to record a new song, she has literally thousands of unreleased songs she could have lent off to this movie soundtrack. Fine China being one of them and Last Girl On Earth.

This would have been the perfect opportunity for Lana to lend her voice to a film. She's been compared to Priscilla for so many years. It would be stupid of her not to contribute to this movie.

I personally think Lana said no to this film because of what happened between Priscilla and her own granddaughter. Your own daughter's body isn't even cold yet, and you start suing your own grandchild for an estate that is rightfully hers and left for her by her own mother. The whole thing is settled now with the granddaughter giving Priscilla millions of dollars, which she didn't have to do. This girl just lost her mother and here she has to deal with her greedy grandmother, who has been a horror show in the world of Elvis for the last 55 years. Mind you, Priscilla rides the Presley name even though she was divorced from him for years when he died. Elvis was engaged to someone else at the time of his death too. This whole "forever love" bullshit story she's spewing is just that - bullshit.

Lisa Marie Presley hated the movie and asked Sofia Coppola not to film it weeks before she died. Everyone in Elvis' circle hates the movie too, except for Priscilla. She decided to change history again and make herself look good. The movie is pure fiction and tells no truth. Just pure fantasy.

The reality is, as a mother, Priscilla was a monster to Lisa Marie. Everybody knows this. Now everybody knows what a monster she was to her own granddaughter, demanding millions of dollars from an estate that does not belong to her. She's also demanding to be buried next to Elvis, which means his parents, who are buried next to him, would need to be exhumed. See what a monster she is?

There's a book called Child Pride that illustrates the monstrosities of Priscilla "Presley". This is the book that should be turned into a movie.

I completely understand why Lana said no to giving one of her precious songs to this fiction fantasy movie. Lana was probably horrified at what Priscilla did to her own grandchild and said hell no to this entire project. Good for her.

It turns out Lisa Marie Presley voiced her opinion to Sofia Coppola about not liking the "Priscilla" movie. Lisa hated the way her dad was portrayed. Sofia's attitude was pretty much whatever we're making the movie anyway. I didn't have plans to see the movie but Lisa hating the movie is confirmation enough to stay away. Of all the evil things Priscilla did in her lifetime, suing her own granddaughter a week after burying her own daughter was the cherry on top of the cake. Lana Del Rey stayed away from the movie giving Sofia excuses to not record a song for the film. Maybe Lana thought it was disgusting how a grandmother could sue her own grandchild? She rather flip burgers at The Waffle House then contribute anything to that film. 🤷‍♀️

[septembersghost]

Speaking of directors- there was a cute anedote by Director/Writer Gary Marshall about him & TS (regarding her song writing) (his sister Penny Marshall was also an Actor, producer and Director. youtu(.)be/9m_JDx1tFhs

garry marshall was such an adorable human being. i was just talking to a friend about penny recently too! (there's this commercial for pepsi with lindsay lohan right now, and she puts milk in it, which sounds revolting, but all it makes me think of is penny's character in laverne & shirley, because that was her go-to beverage, and the thought of drinking that has been deranged to me since childhood, when i used to watch l&s in syndication. my mom/grandparents brought me up on a lot of the old sitcoms, like i love lucy, the dick van dyke show, that girl, happy days, the mary tyler moore show, and so on!) they left us such great legacies in their film-making.

awww the thirteen connection 🥰

"you're 19, i'm 107" <3

"when i get depressed, i write a song"/"i said, well, i hope you get depressed a lot because you write good!" MY HEART! and also this keys in to the fact that taylor has been dealing with depression since early on (really since before her career even started, it's all over debut and unreleased songs from debut), even if it has changed/shifted in some painful ways over time, it was consistently there, and it is powerful that she's named it now.

[berrychanx]

Tokyo mew Mew Icerberg Thread - Deep Fandom

TThis was just a rumor created by Italian fans that started around mid-2004. i f

Koi Cupid - Koi Cupid is a seinen manga written and illustrated by Mia Ikumi. The manga has 5 volumes released in Japan. The first has been released by Broccoli Books but saddly the manga was later dropped due BB going bankrupt

Plot

Ai, Koi and Ren are three cupids-in-training with utterly different personalities: Koi is a shy, clumsy girl who practices archery every day, Ai is a cheerful girl that wants to be everyone's friend and Ren is a snobby show-off who is intelligent and usually completes her missions faster than everyone else.

The girls want to get the stamps that will allow them to become full-fledged cupids. In order to accomplish this, they must complete missions by going to Earth and making their targets fall in love.

They must complete their mission or their target's baby will not be born, and they are not allowed to leave Earth until they complete their mission.The girls try to finish their missions by the book, but something always gets in the way.

The cupids have three very important rules:

1- No socializing with your targets, 2-Don't consort with the enemy, and 3-Practice archery every day.

All three use different strategies to help humans find their soul mates, from the old-fashioned bow and arrow (Koi’s M.O.) to a magic notepad (Ai’s M.O.). When a demon named Lizette sabotages one of Ai’s missions, however, the three cupids try combatting Lizette’s schemes through the power of friendship.

Original Horror Concept -  Mia Ikumi wanted to start the story as a horror manga, similiar to her other work One Wish! She explained she wanted to do a story with horror themes and with a dark character but Nakayoshi wasn't pleased with that idea so it was changed to the story we know and love!

Mew Mew Power Uncensored - Rumors say 4kids did an uncensored version of the dub, meaning no censorhip of the girls transformation’s, mew marks, japanese text, no alterantion made to the plot etc.

Unreleased MMP Soundtrack - 4kids never released a n Official MMP Soundtrack, all the songs were ripped by Hikyagami from the episodes, some tracks were released as previews on the 4kids website but never used in the end.

Mary unfinished fan series - self explanitory

Ikisatashi - The aliens surnames. This was just a rumor created by Italian fans that started around mid-2004.

Ole as BL - Someone uploaded Ole into other websites mangadex and tag it as BL; which is wrong, all the male cast as a mutal affection or attraction for Anzu Hinata, the main girl of the series. Character Birthdays - In the original series, only the Mew Mew girls have birthdays, that changed witth Tokyo Mew Mew Re-Turn, now the human males also have birthdays.

Tokyo Magic Star / Tokyo Dark Mew . Fanfics and OC’s of the Mew Mew Girls where they evil  / have eil personas.