#their music is not in a void

[breserker]

re-read that rap post and realized that the person in the tags that was like "i'm not that weak rap just talks too much about sex and violence and i'm not about that. anyway i turn to screamo and thrash metal"

dragging my nails down my face MY GUY SEX AND VIOLENCE IS EVERYWHERE IN MUSIC ESPECIALLY METAL and if you're only rejecting someone's ability to talk about sex and violence based on a genre pioneered and helmed by Black people (so was rock n roll but that's a discussion for another time...!) then you're just saying that you don't like it when sex and violence is talked about by Black people, to say nothing of "you can't speak of your personal experiences"

@freevoidman mentioned WAP in their tags and i will put my whole chest into believing about how much that's a capital F Feminist song to me if you want to put labels onto it, like be careful if you say things like BIPOC sexuality should be respected but then turn around and degrade rap for having sex in it especially when it's by a woman

[distant-screaming]

guys how am I supposed to live laugh love in these conditions

[catmask]

does anyone have like an anti aesthetic. like something you look at and can recognize as a complete fashion/interior design/artistic movement and understand it but it makes you shudder seeing it. i am not talking like “its morally bad” “its poorly structured” like just sheerly devoid of joy for you actually invites a repulse response.

[macksartblock]

Anyway really enjoying the underworld saga

[doggirlnarcolepsy]

Man fuck this capitalist hellhole. I'm packing my shit up and moving to a 90s Ambient Jungle/Drum n' Bass compilation YouTube thumbnail

[braxiatel]

“Who is Mrs Flood” I hear you ask

Simple

The name flood relates to water. Water. Where else do you find water? Rivers. You know who else has a name related to rivers? That’s right! The river Irvine is the origin of the name Irving. What’s the finale of series 14 called? Empire of death. You’re dead when you’re killed. What can kill you? Getting cut by glass. Glass. Empire of Glass. What character was famously introduced in Empire of Glass?

The evidence is irrefutable. Mrs Flood is Irving Braxiatel

[esotericc-angel]

if you OBSESS over your appearance, READ THIS

(this post was inspired by @/luvlainey11 on tik tok)

you are not going to be happy no matter what changes. if you lose weight, get plastic surgery, listen to thousands of subliminals, etc, it won't matter, because if you are someone who is constantly thinking about the way you look and constantly obsessing over it, you can change all the points on your original list of complaints about your appearance. and once you do that, you will just conjure up a new list of complaints that you want to change. the cycle will literally be never-ending. no matter how much time you put into trying to look like your dream self, you will never look like your dream self to yourself because the problem isn't how you look, its how you think.

why do we obsess over the way that we look?: (I've done some research ya'll) because some people believe that how they look is who they are inside, social media has made it normal for people to mask their natural beauty with filters and makeup etc, and we are so used to seeing this false idea of natural beauty, so we compare ourselves to those people we see online claiming to be "natural" yet they use makeup and filters to fool us. if you actually walk outside, you will see that NOBODY looks like how they do on instagram or tik tok. there are just average, normal people outside.

obviously, i am not saying to never worry about the way you look but if you are obsessed over it, please learn to let that go because that will only get worse from here. trust me now babe, you are enough, and you are worthy. you need to let this go. you need to be able to live the rest of your life happily and do not let this consume you and depress you. there is so much more to your life than the way that you look. your reason for being on this earth, your value as a human being is so so much more than what you look like. stop having a list of things that you want to "fix" and change about yourself. start to embrace yourself and your natural beauty. end the cycle.

[xylocope]

In Stars and Time - Title Theme

I spent all afternoon putting this into sky only to find out someone else already did it.... I'm devastated

But I'm posting my efforts anyway, because it took me hours and so many tries and I'm proud of myself, given this is my first time putting a song into Sky.

Here's the other cover! They did a really good job so please check them out! :D

[starii-lins]

calypso's "ody, get away from the ledge" , "ill stay inside your heart" and "stay in my open arms" paralleling eurylochus, ody's mom and polites respectively

then it starts playing REPRISES OF THEIR MAIN SONGS.

jay when i get you jay jay when i get you when i GET YOU JAY WHEN I GET YOU JAY WHEN

[glorious-void]

Okay so my theory for phantom Astarion is that he got burned by the sun and never fully recovered....... he is very self conscious about his scars and wears the mask to keep the illusion of his perfect beauty

[distant-screaming]

EVERYONE IS JUST TRYING TO SURVIVE. ODYSSEUS AND EURYLOCHUS AND SCYLLA AND THE SIRENS AND. EVERYONE JUST WANTS TO LIVE.

[demigods-posts]

heartbreaking realization that in the musical. each main character has their individual song that explains their motivation for joining the quest. and each song has some sort of ensemble to support the lead singer. except for annabeth's. because annabeth is her own support system.

[scalefeathers]

Thinking once again about how Nobuo Uematsu and Masayoshi Soken are both completely amazing composers but in completely opposite directions let me explain

Disclaimer I am not a music theorist; most of music theory is black fucking magic to me. I barely know what a chord is and the circle of fifths makes me quake as though before an Elder God. I just really like both of their works and sometimes I have thoughts about things. Also this is all just my opinion, it's fine if you don't agree, etc.

So: Uematsu is first and foremost, in my opinion, an absolute master of melody. I believe it's what makes his work so iconic and makes so many of his pieces so instantly recognizable. The Final Fantasy theme, the chocobo theme, Dancing Mad, Vamo'alla Flamenco, fucking One-Winged Angel--Just from seeing those names, you've probably got one playing in your head already. You could start humming it right now. Maybe you are already.

And it makes perfect sense when you consider the era he was working in, because back in the 8-bit and 16-bit era, the melody was all you had. When you have such a tiny amount of storage space to work with, you can really play only one, maybe two notes at a time. You can't do anything that's layered, because you only have one layer to work with. I think that's why so much video game music from that era is so memorable and iconic. It's not just because you played so much Street Fighter II when you were a kid that the music is indelibly seared into your brain (though that probably doesn't hurt); it's also because Yoko Shimomura wrote really solid melodies that had nothing else competing for your aural attention (apart from the in-game sound effects, which are probably also seared into your memory). (Yoko Shimomura, btw, also composed the music for Final Fantasy XV, the entire Kingdom Hearts series, and like 50 other games over the past 40 years, another fucking icon).

But back to Uematsu: like I said, melodic genius. Even when his work is upscaled into full orchestral arrangements, that core melody is always front and center. And his affinity for melody makes even more sense when you consider that before he got into video game composing, he was writing commercial jingles. (Younger folks may not be aware, but there was a time when practically every product had to have its own theme song, and the best ones were short, snappy, and instantly memorable--and for that, again, you need a strong, simple melody. Ba da ba ba ba, I'm lovin' it.)

Compare: Soken. Soken only started at Square 12 years after Uematsu, which isn't that long in human terms (to me at least, cos I'm old), but it is a long fuckin' time in video game years. By the time he started composing for games, there was so much more you could do with game music in terms of layering, complexity, and sound, and you can tell from his work that he takes full advantage of that. His work is complex and dense, a rich layer cake of themes and motifs, all beautifully merging and weaving together, often to extraordinary effect.

And again, if you look at his pre-music career, it makes a lot of sense that he'd have that approach to music, because he first got into the games industry as a sound designer; I believe that he is the sound director for all the FFXIV expansions, as well as being the composer. So of course he'd be very aware of not just how a sound (or piece of music) works on its own, but of how it fits into the greater whole, and of how to layer and balance lots of different sounds to create something greater than the sum of its parts. And of course it makes sense that he'd bring that approach to his compositions as well.

As a consequence of this approach, though, his music often lacks the memorable melodies that characterize Uematsu's work. Like, I ground (grinded?) Dun Scaith a lot the last time it was on the Mogstone rotation, I know all the boss themes extremely well and can recognize each of them instantly. But if you asked me right now to hum one? I don't think I could. (This isn't a deficiency, to be clear; music doesn't need a prominent core melody in order to be good.)

And that's also not to say that all his music lacks iconic melodies. His vocal tracks, pretty much by definition, have to put a single melody front and center; and then on top of that (or rather, behind it), you have all that trademark Soken richness and depth. Which is probably also why his vocal tracks go so fucking hard.

I think that's also why, out of all the expansions, I like Heavensward's music the best. Most of Heavensward's score is written by Soken, but the main theme is Uematsu's, and you may notice it's basically a tasting menu of like 5 or 6 excellent, very recognizable melodies, one right after the other. And basically every piece on the Heavensward soundtrack incorporates one or more of these melodies. So it really does give you the best of both worlds, and gives the overall score a cohesion that I don't see as much with the other expansions.

TL;DR, Uematsu and Soken are both amazing composers with very different and complimentary styles that reflect their differing backgrounds and the different eras of games in which they have worked and I just think that's neat.

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Into the Void - Nine Inch Nails (1999)

[jesterjaxx]

Happy pride guys have yearning doomed yaoi 10 years later duntrent au wip

As a treat

[strawberrycheesecake000]

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