#obli

[groovesnjams]

"Dancing" by Betsy · obli · Elizabeth Humfreys

DV:

Even after a decade, Betsy's online presence remains at best enigmatic - her YouTube page not only directs you to a lapsed personal site, but to Vine. Her songs occasionally pop up in various recommendations, but more often I discover them when I think to actively look her up. This year she's dropped, without fanfare: a trance remix of a single from her 2017 self-titled, a feature on a beachy house track by Holiday87 and The Knocks, and this, which is credited as a solo track or her and one of the producers or her and both of them, depending on where you look.

This relative invisibility matters because I just want more of Betsy, and I want to know when and how I can hear more of her, and the way Betsy's work seems to resist promotion or visibility makes this maddeningly difficult (her mononym does not help, admittedly.) "Dancing" may not be an instant classic, but it's filled with neat touches in the production - percussion flourishes, vocal effects like bubbles popping, a strong sense of dynamics - that make it compelling. And the song punches way above its weight class because this isn't just any singer, it's Betsy. With her voice irresistible, full of pain and power, lush and overwhelming. No one else sounds quite like her, and each time we hear from her it seems like discovering a treasure all over again. I'm sure there must be a better way to run a career, and I'm sure there are reasons why hers looks like this. But in the end I'll take what I can get.

MG:

Well, this is children's music, which, admittedly, is hard to reliably discover outside of massive hits and tie-in soundtracks. I don't mean to heap more on the plates of over-extended and well-meaning parents but, truthfully, I also think more could be done to make non-branded children's music accessible to its audience. I also think more children's music could be about, like, anything other than dancing, but I spend enough time around kids to know they really do a lot of dancing and they need a lot of dancing songs. To that end, "Dancing" is wonderful. Its lyrics are instructive and sensitive listeners will intuit the connection between movement and the release of tender emotions. It feels like there's a missed opportunity for Bleep or some arm of NTS to host a kid's mix dance hour because, wow, how glorious would "Dancing" be as the shimmering denouement of 56 minutes of wiggling?

[ooobli]

blehh

[wurm-food]

songs of the day! ✨

[faerie-goddess]

woooosahhhh

recharge station

[mami0519]

‪‪❤︎‬ ゆあてぃディズニーランドデビュー✨🏰🐭🖤 美女と野獣のお城をバックに撮ってもらった💕 混みすぎてて乗れなかったの悲しい😭 ゆあてぃいたから並びたくなくて、でも事前予約どこも取れず、当日唯一15:40からで予約できたクリスタルパレスのブッフェで遅めのランチ✨ 写真の他に、チョコレートチュロスと、ポテト＆ナゲットにハリッサソース買って食べたけどソース辛くて美味しかった💕 他にも食べたいのあったけど、なんかバタバタで時間足りなくて食べきれなかった🥲 ミッキーのマジカルミュージックワールド クラブマウスビート ショー2本見て ホーンテッドマンション プーさんのハニーハント イッツァスモールワールド 乗り物3つ乗って、ミニーのスタイルスタジオ並んでミニーちゃんと写真撮ってもらって●🎀● パレードも何となく見たいの見たし、花火もシンデレラ城の前で綺麗に見れたし、美女と野獣だけ乗れなかったの悲しかったけど、ゆあてぃデビュー戦としてはまずまずだったんじゃないかな💕 * * * #ディズニーランド #東京ディズニーランド #東京ディズニーリゾート #クリスマスディズニー #赤コーデ #ミニーコーデ #ディズニーコーデ #156cmコーデ #オブリ #セツコサジテール #ミラオーウェン #tokyodisneyland #tokyodisneyresort #obli #setsukosagittaire #milaowen #iphone13 #instadisney (夢がかなう場所) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkxKjE5pT_U/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[favvn]

Isn't it interesting that Spock refers to his friendship with Jim as shameful when he is infected by a virus that reveals one's inner feelings/desires? That he calls Jim "my friend" while he is in the blood fever of pon farr and shouldn't be able to speak at all? That he tells Jim he has always and ever shall be his friend while dying to save everyone? And then repeats the phrase mostly word for word after he is brought back to life and slowly regaining his memories (I think?? I shouldn't be posting this because I am still only on season 2! but I can not ignore the circumstances of when he uses the term "friend")

And later, by the third season in the episode Whom Gods Destroy, they refer to each other as brothers without anything altering their inhibitions.

Like. My point is they are not declared as lovers until the t'hy'la footnote, but they are declared as friends and as brothers throughout the series. Their love can not be openly declared in the show or movies but exists literally in the margins, outside of the boundaries.

[slime-sandwhich-nom]

Imagine you're a middle aged woman with most likely brain damage and this 13 year old kid is talking about changing the future

[ymsnrr]

fleeting glances, missed chances

[a-literal-toaster-wtf]

FINISHED!!! god i love lister he is actually the character ever

[ffverr]

Teleporting team WIP

[r1z3n]

Okay the angst of batkids worrying about Bruce finding out about things they think he will hate but when it happens, it Bruce finding out and going to say something only to be undercut by Alfred telling a story of Bruce doing something similar.

[ooobli]

connection

[judehatesmaths]

More pictures from the episode of them in the 70s

[nivea-ah]

was just rereading blue lock and I am at bastard vs manshine fight and I just realised just how much better chris prince is at, you know, BEING A COACH.

noel noa just sat there in his spinny chair when isagi asked for advice and said about two sentences in total, but chris prince is giving them all a personalized training regime and an actual plan to follow to achieve their ideal version of a footballer.

I've seen spoilers of the recent chapter only to realise that noel gets even worse so, chris prince, youre doing great, keep it up 👍

[muxas-world]

Characters? Formula 1 drivers are babies compared to the psychos on the MotoGP grid. The problem, though, is that Dorna sucks at marketing them. They don't sell their product well, and it's hard to find content about MotoGP outside of their social channels. They constantly block other people who try to make edits, videos, etc. How are you supposed to market something when you don't let the product be shown outside of your small sphere of influence?

Like the dumb decision to put their after-season reality show only on their site and make people wait months before finally releasing it for everyone. Their pricing on their site is also not competitive. They don't adjust their prices to what different regions can afford. On top of that, they keep focusing everything on just two or three riders. The other riders, who also have great personalities, barely get shown in the races, in the media, or on their socials. Formula 1 has done a great job of making people care about more than just the top three guys. They make people like the underdogs, the guys at the back of the field, etc. Dorna doesn't care about that, and the press doesn't help either. They focus everything on just one guy, and everyone else is portrayed as less interesting, so we barely hear or see anything about them. Like It's not that the MotoGP product is worse — it's not. It has better racing, compelling characters, etc. The problem is that Dorna just hasn't marketed it properly

[teal-fiend]

pred who finds it hard to keep a job bc they keep eating the wrong people:

housecleaner pred accidentally eats the owner/a relation bc they didn't expect them to show up at the house while they were cleaning

office worker pred who gets irritated by their manager and eats them

bartender pred who gets hungry when they're drunk and it's basically a mandated that they drink at their job

masseur pred who's hunger is triggered by having their hands on their prey's flesh

a server at a restaurant who doesn't get to eat on their shift and ends up making do with the customers