#music industry do better!

[edge-oftheworld]

hey guys I just connected some dots and when I say to you that we owe every 5sos gf since 2011 so much better treatment that doesn’t even cover half of it. it’s one thing to empathise over the internet sure but when it’s a real person less than 2 degrees of separation from you it feels so much more like. this is a human who deserves to be adored and celebrated just as much as a man she’s associated with and it’s like. I know I can’t gift anyone else the experience of empathy in like being a local or whatever but when I tell you that this fandom has inadvertently done so much damage to not only women who happened to know the boys but also to their professional careers and music and things they choose to share with us (or stop sharing with us) please believe me and please join the conversation around the fact that yes we’ve done a really shitty job in the past. but we’re growing up and we can do better I believe that 100%

[marciliedonato]

lowkey need käärija to win this year and avenge blind channel frfr.....

[edwa0243]

Last Thursday morning (in Australia) I was scrolling through X and boom the TMZ article came up. I didn’t believe it at first but then I was shocked and saddened by the news. Liam was too young and the world had let him down. My heart breaks for his family, his boy, the boys and his friends

This time 8 years ago after going to my 4th funeral for the year I decided it was time to move from the city to the “edge of nowhere” (rural Soth Australia) as I was sick of doing life rather than experiencing it. If the boys decide to just disappear I get it.

3 years ago I lost 3 people in a month I found out about the 3rd when I was at the wake for the 2nd person. I went around to my friends place and downed 500 ml of whiskey (I barely drink)

We all cope with grief differently and I hope everyone is finding a healthy way to do it. I disassociate from the persons death but reflect, on their life, those that loved them and my own life.

So this past week ish I’ve been thinking about my friends/family members mental illnesses, my mental health, social media and the music industry.

Treat people with kindness pftt Treat people with some fucking humanity people! Behaviour on SM is shameful

Music is an amazing thing. I am a Louis music fan and his music saves my mental health. I’ve listened to 1D this week and while the music isn’t really my taste the music brings smiles as some songs remind me of videos I’ve seen and others ignite core memories of my daughter making up dances with friends. However, the music industry is a dark place and while I want to send a big fuck you to all the powers to be, I need music in my life. So it’s a big do fucking better music industry!

Liam, the world will miss out on the magic you could have shared with more of your music. But RIP we will remember your contribution to making people smile with your music, and antics on stage and SM xxoo

[giantkillerjack]

One of the things I love about Glass Onion is the way that the camera and music work together to tell nonverbal jokes.

Like when Benoit basically has to hold Miles' hand to get him to the conclusion that someone reset the puzzle box Benoit lies about receiving:

Benoit asks if it's possible that someone reset the box, and Miles then declares that someone must have reset the box like it is this huge reveal - and the camera zooms out while the music subtly swells as though he really has figured out something smart, when actually he literally restated what Benoit just said.

[itspileofgoodthings]

tags continued from prev post.

[didnt-hear-cold-as-you-live]

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[bmpmp3]

i think its really fitting that the "this shit........ is so ass :'') " anime girl reaction image is from oshi no ko because that is also what my expression was like the whole time while reading the entire last third of the story

[bandzboy]

i did a post yesterday about my feelings regarding the whole seunghan situation and how the kpop community is moving recently and many people said they resonated with it and that i said everything they were thinking about and i'm honestly glad that there are a lot people that think in a similar way and did give me hope for a better future

[tarraxahum]

Randomly remembered all those times someone on a forum or wherever would ask, like, "if your comic was ever turned into a movie or a tv-show, what would you want it to be like", and I was always spewing something about obvious answers like Fortiche or whatever

BUT ACTUALLY. That's wrong.

The correct answer is that I would want it to be filmed as one of those film-student-project fan movies. Where no one has any money and their camera isn't stabilized and the 'sets' are all local buildings but everyone is very committed to making it work with what they have. And all the actors are friends or classmates or someone's parents and therefore look especially real and human.

[anintelligentoctopus]

I mean, I (a white middle-class Brit) do not have a good answer for what you do with the knowledge of, for example, the number of classic country stars who stumped for segregationists like George Wallace. Except that acting like country music was all pro-working class and anti-capitalist before 9/11 isn't helpful.

Yes, there have always been songs sympathising with the working man and about hard times. Many country artists came from working class backgrounds.

But then again you can also count the black Opry members past and present on one hand. There were blackface performers on the Opry in the 40s. The black artists who contributed to the development of country music have often been overlooked for a long time (e.g. Lesley Riddle, who went song-collecting with A. P. Carter). Many many classic country artists had conservative politics. You can't overlook all that. It doesn't help anybody and it's important to examine these things. Country has a very long and complicated history and I don't think you can look at in isolation from the history and politics of the south as a whole

[pohutukawa22]

Last night I found more comments like this but of course I can't find them now!

Mikey (for those of you who don't know) was from Boyzone (Ronan Keating's old band.)

This industry needs to do better.

[edge-oftheworld]

thinking about the way when i interact with fellow aussies on here I see so much disappointment about how they didn't come here on their last tour. how sydney 5sos fans are a different brand of human i'm not really sure how to describe (we all freaked out when we went to the same concert lauren was at for example). thinking about how the australian leg of take my hand tour felt like it was almost its own thing, sandwiched between the gap after the bulk of the tour before it and that short gap before they announced the most recent tour after it--almost as if it was meant to bridge both of those tours. how they played in newcastle and on the gold coast and it wasn't quite cairns or coffs but it was a bit more than your state capitals headline tour. how, with the exception of the big four, we often don't realise how small our cities are on a global scale. there are only 27 million of us on this desert island.

thinking about how they wrote easy for you to say and had to perform it on tour six months before its actual release, it was so important to this setlist, to the vibe, and how it's about nostalgia and missing sydney and they finished the tour in sydney and it makes me wonder, i can kind of guess when the song means the same thing to me, how much it hurts to be able to perform here and yet not be able to stay for longer than a holiday. and yet they do do that for us, put on shows about as regularly as any other artist does. even if they didn't play splendour in the grass. or falls festival. even if it's been four years since fire fight australia, it was only months ago sierra was promoting beyond blue as a charity to donate to. friends of friends did some fundraiser for a youth centre in blacktown: maybe I have to look to see it, but I can see the impact they've left.

and then I see how happy they all seem to look when they've gotten a chance to hang out in australia. ashton covering songs in the heat. calum obviously having a blast. luke dropping sydney pics that were assumedly from before it got really hot, looking carefree, a familiar skyline and familiar urban graffiti. the way when michael arrived in perth for the first time after lockdown he simply had to tell us all right away. and i've always kind of seen them coming back here for good? heck, joel madden even assumed right on his podcast some of them might have already. the way ashton doesn't have a dog in the states, and how i've always seen him with an aussie. the way luke integrates seamlessly into the life and culture of the inner west area; and calum carries blue mountains vibes with him wherever he goes, as michael does with the sydney pop punk scene. we know brandy and sierra at least love australia--i was actually fangirling about sierra in their comments with the veronicas just the other day (bless them for deciding my comment was something that needed to replying to). while crystal does have a massive group of usamerican friends and family I can see her enjoying the vegan places in melbourne and brisbane (they're coming to sydney too. the inner west and parts of the north side are almost there) and maybe being a little more hopeful about politics. I can also see it being a really healthy place to raise lua.

maybe it's the hopefulness of an urban designer who sees the impact of art and culture and having people around who create for a living on our cities, but maybe I see myself in 20 years bringing my kids to see them play and being able to tell the story of a series of songs (red desert, efyts, whatever is next in the theme in the works for 5sos6 as well as the solo stuff like a lot of wfttwtaf and boy) and how they figured out what we all have to, how to find and create a place that's home to you--because it's actually a pretty likely event. and i love seeing the evolution from the 'let's get out' / 'worked every weekend just to get out of town' vibe of self titled and sgfg to now. I really do want them all to feel like they can relax now after so many years of working and depriving themselves of the love that comes from belonging (I do feel like we've heard more about it from luke and ash specifically) and I also get the subtle vibes of where that might happen. and how much it might hurt when they don't get to have that. what did they do for aussies? gave us hope that we could make it, in whatever we want to do and whatever success means for us. maybe it's just me though. for now. maybe i've got the expectations of someone who grew up unable to afford things like concerts mixed with the anticipation for this june. I hope i'm not projecting, but also, the empathy I feel when I see myself in someone is usually spot on.

so idk. one day i'm gonna design some really classy public housing made to unfuck the status quo and i'm gonna raise money to build it and sierra will write a song and say she's doing a donation to this charity in australia doing things about homelessness and the class divide and it's gonna help me fund it. that's just one option of something i can see going down that's not completely unrealistic if very very optimistic but it's how i live my life. but i'll go to a 5sos concert eventually. i'll play their songs i've arranged with an orchestra one day too and we'll do it impressively, noticeably. i don't really know what else i'm supposed to expect? I know my experience is worlds away from many people's. but these guys inspire me to create and I don't really need anything else to do that.

[countess-of-edessa]

nepo babies =/= person from a rich family i always thought?

[jukain4216]

"But the CEO sold his car (he owns many) to support the girls!! So he has to be innocent!" Shut the fuck up

Kpop fans will literally bitch and moan about mistreatment when a member doesn't get as many lines as everyone else but when there's actual abuse suddenly the members are greedy and underestimated their hold in the industry

[buscandoelparaiso]

Oh darling it's strange 'cos you and I are strangers all over again