#musical musing

[scalematez]

Starting with this Latula analysis: -The song GameGlr is a cry for help.

Okay, that might be a bit of an overstatement, but I do have some genuine (somewhat non-professional) notes on GameGlr.

For context, GameGlr is a remix of GameGrl (Original 1993 Mix), where the song Teal Seer is overlaid onto the original song. GameGlr is mixed by Toby (Radiation) Fox, whereas the original GameGrl is by Michael Guy Bowman. Both songs are counterparts to the songs G4M38L0RG and GameBro (Original 1990 Mix).

GameGrl (Original 1993 Mix) is an incredibly fun and not too serious song, though there is a lot of thought put into it. It is intentionally composed to be reminiscent of the somewhat cheesy raps you'd hear in 90's video game advertisements (Bowman actually cites these ones). The result is a song that is itself intentionally cringe-worthy, but genuinely fun and (in my opinion) kind of really catchy because of it.

The artist interview for GameGrl is actually really cool and interesting and you can read it here on the Homestuck Music Wiki, you can tell how much fun they had working on both the song and cover image!

GameGlr on the other hand lacks any notes (that I am aware of) regarding its creation, but you can glean quite a bit just from the song on its own.

Firstly, GameGlr sounds somewhat cluttered in comparison to the original. The added Teal Seer (a theme made for Terezi) is very well-put together, the points where it picks up feel very deliberate. It's composed to evoke the image of Terezi's usual mind player deliberation antics after all. However, the process of speeding it up to overlay it onto the GameGrl lyrics makes it feel a bit more strained. The tone of the 2 different songs does not match up at all and I want to believe this is intentional.

Add to that the increased distortion on some of the lyrics and the addition of the Phoenix Wright "OBJECTION" sample just barely disguised as a part of the instrumental and you wind up with a song that sounds noisy and, especially in the context of the character, like it's barely holding it together. I've seen more than one instance of people saying they had to mute the track in the Openbound because they found it annoying, or distracting while trying to read, which I do want to believe is... also intentional.

And if not intentional, at least pretty fitting.

While you can argue whether or not the song itself is good as a song, it is (in my opinion) a perfect character theme for Latula. The instrumental on its own is one of a competent Mind player, but you're distracted from it by the obnoxious, repetitive lyrics hammering in the same point repeatedly (she's a game girl). It's the theme of a competent Mind player who's been flanderizing her own identity for possibly thousands of years and developed an overbearing, repetitive persona.

[captncthrola]

just one day more... one more day to revolution.... we will nip it in the bud.....

translation: only one more assessment of the uni year left (that i am starting and finishing from scratch within 10h)

[locallibrarylover]

*by live theatre i mean plays, musicals, operas, ballets, concert versions of musicals, staged readings, & things of that nature. EDIT: YES this includes amateur, local, kids, high school, & community theatre. almost every show i've seen has been local

if you want, list the names of the shows you've seen in the tags!

[madamemiz]

sad: falling out of a hyperfixation

tragic: watching your beloved friends and mutuals fall out of the hyperfixation while you're still in it

[words-at-night]

[iphigeniacomplex]

it’s very easy to tell the good satires and pastiches from the bad ones because the bad ones are too afraid to live within the form. like if you are doing work with fairy tales and you are refusing to look closer at the underlying logic and unspoken rules of what can seem at first to be a senseless form, you are not going to create meaningful work. to borrow a turn of phrase originally used by maria tatar, if you refuse to enter “the house of fairy tale” as anything more than a gawking tourist, you will miss the particular order to the way the table is set, the rooms that are locked vs the rooms that are simply difficult to enter, the set of the floorboards and the position of the furniture. whatever you build will then be a gilded imitation of how you believe the house of fairy tale ought to look, the table set according to your educated specifications and every door open. there can be no interrogation of themes from a writer who views the form as beneath them!

[melanthaeunomia]

Do y’all ever reread an old unpublished fanfic you wrote and then get invested on the storyline but get sad because you never wrote the next part of it, just me?

[musings-n-museums]

being an immigrant child / growing up + away from your parents

"anak" by freddie aguilar // laundromat photos by @sunflowrrbabe // "everything everywhere all at once" directed by daniel Kwan, daniel Scheinert // "ladybird" directed by greta gerwig // "a letter to my 13 year old self" by laufey // "class of 2013" by mitski // "be brave be free" by zeppelinmoon

‧₊˚❀༉‧₊˚.

[btsiu]

JIMIN 'Who' Official MV

[frobby]

rhythm gamers will be like "u gotta play this song it's so fun" and the song in question gives u carpal tunnel syndrome

[scalematez]

Today marks 200 days until Sovereignstuck's release, and while I can't share the full thing I think it's only fitting that I show a sample of something I've been working on for quite a while now!

[coldlandangel]

Muse Dash but Kasane Teto (fan-made)

I love Teto。･:*:･(✿◕3◕)❤

[ultimateplaylistmaker]

Everyone shut up about the Jabberwock gjinka WE FINALLY GOT MUKURO SPRITES

[taffywabbit]

a cover of "Panic Station" by Muse, ideally suited for chases through futuristic train platforms full of loop-de-loops and hostile robots!

usually I have a really hard time doing arrangements of existing songs, but I felt unusually motivated to tackle this one and managed to see it thought to completion! (took me a while because I kept spending too much time jamming out to what I already had done instead of working on the next parts lol)

♫ made with OpenMPT! ✎ cover art by me! ► SoundCloud link: https://soundcloud.com/taffywabbit/turmoil-terminus-zone ★ original song (for comparison): https://youtu.be/vk24UKKI4yY?si=RdQkA4BAHoRX1d7P

and here's the full-size cover art, while i'm at it!

[words-at-night]

[tswiftupdatess]

Xunami Muse asked Taylor what perfume she was wearing at the VMAs last night:

X: You smell so good. What is that? T: Oh thank you! It's from Tom Ford!

(On September 11, 2024)