#that music video was fucking iconic

[man-i-love-folklore]

ok so the nobody's soldier music video was fucking fantastic, i don't know where to begin. but i'll try my best.

1. first and foremost, holy shit the visuals here. the objects with the words on them are probably my favorite part. like the little girl's shoe with "collateral" on it? the helmet with "profit"? oh my god? but also the shots of the currency and the businessmen, it just drives the message home so well. speaking of the message...

2. yeah this music video screams in your face the actual meaning behind nobody's soldier. and i absolutely love it. there is no hiding that what he's trying to convey here is that this song is anti-war. not only that, i feel like it also criticizes the government for treating people like business deals. long story short someone call up that person on tiktok that said it's about fame and break the news to them.

3. the only part i'm not understanding initially is the dolls. like i understand in essence, but not enough to out it into words (if that makes sense). i've only seen the music video like two or three times, so i'm sure if you give me some time i could get it more. but yeah.

anyways, tldr: nobody's soldier kicks ass and is anti-war as fuck, as it should be.

if you did read all of that thank you for reading all my yapping <3

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

I thought I'd do a music video featuring the King of Horror, Vincent Price!

*I do NOT own rights to the song in the video*

[short-and-ugly]

ugh. king.

[ag-updates-and-archives]

How Dare You by L.S. Dunes is officially streaming everywhere! take a listen [and happy valentines day]

spotify, apple music, youtube music, visualizer

[blueberryrock]

So everybody, how are we feeling after BDG's and Tom Cary's new collab song? Is everyone else normal about it or is it just me going fucking insane

[oceangloww]

[downtherabbitholewithlucy]

Fred Durst in the Break Stuff music video

[rosegardendreamsetonfirebyfiends]

She's something else...

[kathlita20]

Taylor, you’re a fucking mastermind with the karma music video, and it always amazes me what you come up with.

Themis? Iconic

The Easter eggs? Iconic

The transitions? Iconic

what I’m calling Tay Fiti? FUCKING ICONIC

The lightbulbs and the hourglass? Iconic

Let alone the Dorothy scene, and the cat, and ice’s parts, and just ughhhh. All of it. Visual perfection.

You’re so big brained. Pop off mother.

[sonicfrontiers]

the d4dj all mix ed in full!

[myvintagejam]

HER

[stripedstarsblueflags]

rip sleepover by hayley kiyoko you would've loved better kind of best friend by xana

[weedstop]

no thoughts, just MEG

2008… you just had to be there

[fuiru]

A 44 year old man goes to a K-Pop Concert

I promised you a report on the K-pop concert that I, a 44-year-old accountant, went to a couple of weeks ago with my wife and daughter in Toronto. So here it is.

The band we saw were Ateez. They're my daughter's favourite band and my wife's second favourite. I know most of my mutuals are similarly aged like me and may not be familiar with them so let me give you a brief primer on Ateez.

Imagine the most attractive eight men you can think of, just unfathomably beautiful specimens of aesthetic perfection, and make them sing songs that somehow combine the subjects of 'dancing like nobody is watching' with 'we live in a dystopian hellscape that we must all work together to overthrow'. Give them an ongoing music video story lore that literally nobody - not even the band themselves - understand, so that online discussion of their visual motifs looks more like the fevered rantings of a conspiracy theorist, complete with speculation about alternate realities and time being a Moebius strip. There is also a giant sand timer, for some reason.

That's Ateez. That's what you need to know.

Now, K-pop concerts are very different to the gigs I've been going to for the last 28 (!) years. There's no support act, for a start. Also the band perform for like, three hours, with breaks for costume changes and interpretive dance. Furthermore, hanging above everything is the constant looming threat of mandatory military service.

So this being my first such concert, I wasn't sure what to expect. What happened was difficult to explain, but I will try as I am already six paragraphs into this write-up and I'm too invested to stop now. Here goes:

In his Wicked + Divine comics series, Kieron Gillen places modern pop icons as deities, feeding upon and gaining strength from the worship of their fans at the altar of musical performance. I thought I understood that metaphor. I thought I understood it AS a metaphor. I was wrong, because that night Ateez WERE Gods with a capital G and we were their worshippers, a crowd emanating adoration (in the religious and non-religious senses), bestowing strength upon them and gaining their strength in return.

If that sounds weird, it probably is. But as pointed out above, I have lived over four decades and never yet experienced anything like the overwhelming passion of that crowd, the utter abandon with which they conveyed their love for the band.

"But Fuiru, what of the actual music?" you ask. Thinking back, there was a moment in one of their songs - I can't remember which - where I watched the stage, and the people around me, taking it in, and I thought, "Man, I just love Music". But that doesn't answer your question, sorry.

Ateez's music is bloody great. As a tiresome indie/rock/metal kid I'm resisting the urge to add the usual tiresome indie/rock/metal caveat of "...for pop music" because honestly that does it a disservice. They have some genuinely amazing songs. Halazia is an absolute fucking masterpiece that descends into furious hardcore breakbeat. Bouncy is a big, brash racket that somehow is also a perfect pop song. Utopia, Wonderland, and Guerrilla are similarly superb. The obligatory boy band slow number is represented by Dancing Like Butterfly Wings which will make you cry because you will forever associate it with your twelve year old daughter being pointed to and waved at by her favourite Ateez member (Seonghwa) because of her Seonghwa-branded lightstick.

That might just be me, though.

So in summary: being a 44 year old dad at his first K-pop concert rules and you should endeavour to partake in the experience if the opportunity arises.

Finally, for any Atiny reading this: my bias would be San or Seonghwa but my wife and daughter said they were taken so it’s Mingi. My concert outfit (designed and created by my offspring) reflects this.