#there's gotta be more to this because for diao to cry like this

[thebroccolination]

Different anon here, so happy to hear you're looking forward to Naughty Babe! I feel like Cutie Pie got more flak than I would have expected for a show with it's premise so I've been trying to find and follow more people who are enthusiastic about the continuation and its melodramatic plot. MaxNat are one of my favorite actor pairings so I'm really happy they're getting this and Two Worlds (hopefully) this year.

Hi Anon! :D

Welcome! I'm definitely a safe space for sincere Cutie Pie love.

And it really did get a lot of flak, didn't it? I kept seeing Very Serious Criticisms while it was airing, and while of course no one's obligated to love everything, Cutie Pie is such an inoffensive piece of fluff in my eyes that attacking it felt like the end scene in Kung Fu Panda when Tai Lung keeps punching Po in his squishy belly and Po giggles because it tickles. Cutie Pie the Series is Director Aoftion Kittipat Jampa smooshing the snouts of pastel-colored qilen plushies together over and over and then throwing one across the room so the other one will cry. To me, it's like getting mad at a street vendor because you ordered cotton candy for lunch and now you're hungry.

Cutie Pie was always going to be exactly what it advertised itself to be: arranged marriage melodrama and fluff to launch ZeeNuNew as a branded pair. And WHOO did it do that well. The stakes lean 100% on emotions because Lian, Kuea, Yi, and Diao all have the money cheat from The Sims on. Kuea's a literal aristocrat whose money is never in any danger whatsoever. He has an extra house, and the story goes out of its way to have Diao go, "Oh no, Kuea, will you lose your Extra House?" and Kuea effectively goes, "Of course not, lol." And the story barely tries to make his family's "tenuous" financial situation a thing because most of the fans had gathered to see emotional bullshit leading up to multiple proclamations of love and the creators knew it.

Kuea and Lian could buy several small islands to make out on, go home, and immediately forget they own them. Like, sincerely, one of my favorite scenes in the entire show is when Kuea realizes he monetized his channel months ago and has been making a lot of money without realizing it. And the point of the scene is just, "Ooh! Now I know how to propose to my fiancé!" He'll forget he monetized it again in exactly seven seconds. If that.

Basically, when I play my favorite game Would Black of Not Me the Series Repeatedly Kick This Character in the Face? the entire cast of Cutie Pie are reigning champions. (Yes, even Foei. Not for class reasons, just for being chipper.)

So yes! I'm excited for Naughty Babe because even though the premise is far more melodramatic than Cutie Pie, I think it'll be a fun time. Y'just gotta go into these fluffy series expecting fluff, that's all. Don't get mad when you punch a giggling panda. <3

[dengswei]

Diao, don’t lie to me.

MAX KORNTHAS as Yi and NAT NATASITT as Diao in Cutie Pie the Series (2022) episode two.   

[skeppsbrott]

Cronus.mp3

27 + 26 tracks straight from Cronus Ampora’s media player. 93 + 87 minutes. One part straight pop, one part mostly more credible music.

[Side A] [Side B]

Oooh boy, I’ve been putting publishing this off for so long because it’s just never perfect, but truth is it never will be so I might as well publish it. The idea was to make a playlist of music that Cronus would listen to and/or identify with, eventually this split into two playlists, somewhat arbitrarily divided between pop and rock. Below are links to the songs, but I don’t think that any one lyric will be representative of the song and why I view it as a Cronus song, neccessarily.

The one band I include twice is Le Kid, mostly to juxtapose their excellent cover of Mr. Brightside with the original. Unfortunately, the version on YouTube isn’t as good as the studio version, which also seems to be floating around on tumblr for anyone interested.

Side A - Pop

Justin Bieber -  Sorry - You gotta go and get angry at all of my honesty

Le Kid -  Mercy Mercy - You should be saying you will treat me, treat me right

Erasure -  Love To Hate You - Sending shivers up and down my spine

Semisonic - Get A Grip - Well don’t be blue ‘cause there’s no one to play with you

Jason Derulo - Trumpets - Is it weird that I hear angels every time that you moan?

Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl - Hard to resist, so touchable

ABBA  - Gimmie! Gimmie! Gimmie! (A Man After Midnight) - How I hate to spend the evening on my own

The Drifters - There Goes My Baby - I broke her heart, and made her cry

George Michael - Faith - Well I need someone to hold me but I’ll wait for somethin’ more

Madonna - Like A Virgin - You made me feel I’ve nothing to hide

Anton - Begging - I’m on my knees and ready for your answer

Phil Collins - You Can’t Hurry Love - How long must I wait? How much more can I take? Before loneliness will cause my heart to break

The Limousines - Internet Killed The Video Star [Tommie Sunshine remix] - I’m a shitty romancer, baby; I ain’t gonna lie, but I’ll be damned if that means that I ain’t gonna try

Mike Posner -  I Took a pill in ibiza (Seeb remix) - I get along with old-timers, ‘cause my name’s a reminder of a pop song people forgot

Movits! -  Sammy Davis Jr. - They say I sound old-school, baby, like Frank, and Sammy Davis

The Temptations - Ain’t Too Proud To Beg -  Please don’t leave me, girl, don’t you go

The Weeknd - I Feel It Coming - So baby, I can make it right, you just got to let me try

Kanye West - Heartless - I did some things, but that’s the old me

The Chainsmokers - Closer - Tell your friends it was nice to meet them, but I hope I never see them again

Carly Rae Jepsen - Your Type - I’m not going to pretend that I’m the type of girl you call more than a friend

Taylor Swift - Style - You’ve got that James Dean daydream look in your eye

Urban Cone - Old School - Keep saying chivalry has faded, girl I can’t wait to prove you wrong

Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines - I hate these blurred lines

Prince - Kiss - I want to be your fantasy, maybe you could be mine?

Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend - Don’t you even try and explain how it’s so different when we kiss

Lady Gaga - The Edge Of Glory - I got a reason that you should take me home tonight

Le Kid - Mr. Brightside - Now she’s letting me go

Side B - Rock

The Killers - Mr. Brightside - And I just can’t look, it’s killing me

Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To - I’m gonna make somebody love me

Blink-182 - Built This Pool - I wanna see some naked duuuuuudes!

Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love - Wouldn’t you love somebody to love?

Top Cats - Basket Case - She says it’s lack of sex that’s bringing me down

The Vapors - Turning Japanese - I want to kiss you when there’s no one else around

Neon Trees - Everybody Talks - Hey sugar, show me all your love, all you’re giving me is friction

Mando Diao - Dance With Somebody - I’m falling in love with your favourite song, I’m gonna sing it all night long

Jack White - Love Interruption - I want love to grab my fingers gently, slam them in a doorway, put my face into the ground

Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine? - Are you mine tomorrow? Or just mine tonight?

The Smiths - There is a Light That Never Goes Out - And in the darkened underpass, I thought, oh God, my chance has come at last

The Kinks - You Really Got Me - Don’t ever set me free, I always wanna be by your side

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby - Tell me lover, are you lonely?

Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven - Long as she got a dime, the music won’t ever stop

Meat Loaf feat. Cher - Dead Ringer for Love - A man he doesn’t live by rock ‘n’ roll and brew alone!

Elvis Presley - Don’t Be Cruel - Please, let’s forget the past, the future looks bright ahead

Maroon 5 - This Love - I won’t say good bye anymore

The Rolling Stones - (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction - Baby, better come back, maybe next week? ‘Cause you see, I’m on a losing streak

Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself - Well, there’s nothing to lose and there’s nothing to prove, when I’m dancing with myself

Bruce Springsteen - Pink Cadillac - Honey we can park it out back, and have a party in your pink Cadillac

Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We’re Going Down - I’m watching you two from the closet, wishing to be the friction in your jeans

Pulp - Common People - When you lay in bed at night, watching roaches climb the wall, if you called your dad he could stop it all

Foster The People - Don’t Stop (Color On The Walls) - Don’t stop talkin’ to me, don’t stop giving me things

Queen - Somebody To Love -  One day I’m gonna be free, Lord! Find me somebody to love

The 1975 - The Sound - And you say I’m such a cliche

Frank Zappa - Bobby Brown Goes Down - I am the American dream, I do not think I’m too extreme - and I’m a handsome sunnovabitch, I’m gonna get a good job an’ be real rich!