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ID: Four pictures of a lion and a cub in the snow. The cub touches the lion's mane with one paw, before he shakes the snow off, leaving himself clean while the cub looks on now covered in snow. /end ID.
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icon id: a blonde catgirl seated in a mech
header id: the album cover for '...because i'm young arrogant and hate everything you stand for' by machine girl, on an alloaro flag colourpicked from it
artificial heart - actual machinery
the world in a box - objectum
www.posts - silly / only vaguely in theme
the infidelity of the body - meat & metal
voiding the warranty - nsfw
slightly out of sync - art of all sorts
track eight album nine - me (kitties)
eat your heart - emetophilia
apéritif - men
distant stations - unrelated or other stuff
i tag blood / gore, but not body horror
#artificial heart#the world in a box#www.posts#the infidelity of the body#voiding the warranty#slightly out of sync#track eight album nine#eat your heart#apéritif#distant stations
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Daddy Yankee - Gasolina 2004
"Gasolina" was released as the lead single from Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee's 2004 album Barrio Fino in the US in October 2004. By November 6, WSKQ-FM in New York City reported "Gasolina" in their top 10 rotation, and WRTO-FM in Florida said the song was their number one most-played track. It entered the US Billboard Hot 100 chart a week later, rising to number 32 in January 2005. "Gasolina" was a hit in North America and the Caribbean, gaining Daddy Yankee popularity among Latino mainstream music fans. In July 2005, "Gasolina" was released as a single in the UK, eventually earning a Silver certification in March 2019. Australia saw the single enter their charts in late January 2006 during their summer season, rising to number 12. "Gasolina" was the first reggaeton song to be nominated for the Latin Grammy Award for Record of the Year. Puerto Rican reggaeton singer Glory sings the line "dame más gasolina", although she is not credited.
In 2015, the song was ranked number nine on the "50 Greatest Latin Songs of All Time" list according to Billboard. In 2018, it was ranked number 38 on Rolling Stone's 50 Greatest Latin Pop Songs. In 2017, it was included on Billboard's "12 Best Dancehall & Reggaeton Choruses of the 21st Century" at number eight. In 2021, it was ranked number 50 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time", and a year later it was ranked at the first place on their 2022 "100 Greatest Reggaeton Songs of All Time" list. In 2023, "Gasolina" was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The song was used in the 2023 movie Fast X / Fast & Furious 10.
"Gasolina" received a total of 77,4% yes votes!
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SHORT N’SWEET — THE SERIES ♡
a series of drabbles based on each song off sabrina carpenters newest album short n’sweet — an album equal parts toxic as it is horny, just like the ramblings on my blog! hope you enjoy, cutiepies 🧁
♡ TRACK ONE — TASTE
♡ TRACK TWO — PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
♡ TRACK THREE — GOOD GRACES
♡ TRACK FOUR— ESPRESSO
♡ TRACK FIVE — SHARPEST TOOL
♡ TRACK SIX — COINCIDENCE
♡ TRACK SEVEN — BED CHEM
♡ TRACK EIGHT — DUMB & POETIC
♡ TRACK NINE — SLIM PICKINS
♡ TRACK TEN — JUNO
♡ TRACK ELEVEN — LIE TO GIRLS
♡ TRACK TWELVE — DONT SMILE
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i realize that this is a world where anything is possible and—
a Pro-Football/Rockstar Super Bowl Steddie AU for @thefreakandthehair
I don’t as a rule write sports AUs, but I do, as a rule, bend my own rules when someone gives me prompts for a fic I’m writing as a gift.
So: when @thefreakandthehair prompted me with ‘Starry Night’ but said she would have liked also something about football? I tried to fulfill the request (try being the operative term)
Lex, I hope your birthday was as brilliant as you deserve, and that this little fic in celebration of you brightens your day
title from this poem, aptly titled and about, what else, but football; divider credit here
(Also sincerest thanks to the ever-lovely @pearynice for listening to me babble about this and having a look at the final product and being amazing all around, and @hbyrde36 for blindly hlepng pick which ending was ultimately posted—you guys are the best ✨)
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“I am about ninety-nine-point-nine…” Eddie chews on his bottom lip, coils a stray curl around his index finger and resists dragging it across his mouth: “eight, point-nine-eight percent sure I’m not supposed to be here.”
He’s entirely sure he’s not supposed to be here. Not now.
“What are they going to do?” Steve scoffs at him, leading him by hand through the tunnels. “Kick us out? Ban us?”
He snorts, and Eddie stops trying to not-hide behind his hair a little because: not supposed to fucking be here.
“You’re gonna get us arrested or something.”
“Oh, how the mighty have fallen,” Steve cackles a little and maybe Eddie’s anxious, but he’ll never not melt at that sound, music brighter, holy like he could never touch, let alone play: “Eddie Munson, poster child for sticking it to the goddamn man,” Steve tuts, clicks his tongue and shakes his head: “afraid of stadium security.”
“Pretty sure they’ve got better people on payroll for this,” Eddie points out under his breath but never once fights Steve’s hold, his lead: he’d put his whole fucking life in this man’s hands, no question. It’s just that…
“Relax, babe,” Steve squeezes Eddie’s hand in his own; “no one will know.”
Eddie…Eddie doesn’t doubt Steve, never would, but, like—this is a big fucking deal.
“If Chrissy finds out we fucked something up—“ because that’s why Eddie’s here, obviously, at least in this specific capacity; not like Corroded fucking Coffin, no matter how many albums they’ve sold, would ever land a gig like this for themselves. Nope: Chrissy’s been a friend for eons, and when her career skyrocketed they were all ecstatic for her, but she never changed from being a hometown girl with a sweet heart, never let the fame or the money or the statues dull that down in her, so she was still the cheerleader who clapped for Eddie in middle school, and so of course she invited Eddie’s band to feature on a track—and of course they said yes.
So when she signed on for the halftime show and knew they’d be nearby recording? She’d asked them to join her on stage as special guests for a couple songs.
And no matter what else proved an incentive: Eddie and the guys would have said yes in a heartbeat. It’s the fucking halftime show, but more than that? It’s Chrissy Cunningham, and she smiled and cheered when the Hawkins auditorium sat in silent judgment in the face of their…everything.
“A,” Steve’s pulling him along just a little further, still; Eddie can tell they’re almost to the field, can see literal light at the end of the tunnel; “we will not fuck anything up.”
“I’m clumsy,” Eddie offers a token protest; it’s not untrue, but he’s also kinda half-assing the fight of it; “I might—”
“B,” Steve’s cut him off; “Chrissy loves me,” then he points to Eddie; “Chrissy loves you,” and Eddie tucks his chin a little more to press the bunch of his hair tighter against the seam of his lips; “Chrissy also loves us,” Steve gestures between the two of them, then, chest-to-chest and back; “as in, us together.”
And yeah, okay: Steve had been Chrissy’s friend properly before Eddie, used to help her get the height on her ponytail before games, caused a million rumors but they were never an item—so. Yeah. Chrissy loves them. As themselves, and as SteveandEddie.
“Just here,” Steve eases them to a halt and steadies Eddie by the biceps when he stumbles for the stop anyway because: clumsy, if he’s not on stage. Steve knows this, they’ve been at this too long for him not to, but.
He anticipates it so perfectly, and it still kinda skips in Eddie’s pulse like a giddy schoolgirl for the fact of it. They they’ve got this.
“Close your eyes,” Steve instructs as he smooths his hands past Eddie’s elbows, down to circle his wrists.
Eddie feels his eyes get big as he tries to frown, but gapes instead.
“I’ll run into—”
“I will not let you run into anything, love,” Steve pulls him in for a quick peck on the lips, and speaks into the contact sweet and warm:
“I’ve got you.”
Yeah. Yeah he fucking does.
Giddy-schoolgirl-under-his-ribs again, Jesus.
Eddie slips his eyes closed and barely even has to wait for Steve to grasp his hands tighter.
“Okay,” Steve murmurs deep and rumbly and hot under Eddie’s skin as he walks him at a careful pace further, further, turns a little, further again then slows: “now,” he brings Eddie’s hands together and kisses his knuckles, and Eddie’s not just warm under the skin, now he’s warm everywhere.
“Now, follow me down, we’re just going to sit,” and Steve presses one hand to the small of Eddie’s back and leads him, and Eddie goes because there is nowhere he wouldn’t, nowhere he won’t go with Steve beside him.
It’s just not possible; he’s not built to be anywhere else.
“And now lie back,” Steve eases him gentle even as he says it, and Eddie lets him, enjoys the feeling of being handled like this, precious and delicate almost, in this space that’s anything but save that it’s them, and what they are is stronger than spun silk, tested further than diamonds but they’re also tender, they’re also blood and bone and tangled together soft and vulnerable, if only just to shore each other up and tie together tighter.
“There you go,” Steve says as Eddie feels the whole of his body, the length of his back make full contact with the ground; “and tip your head,” he puts his open palm under Eddie’s chin like he needs to guide, but Eddie figures it’s just to touch: he doesn’t complain, because hell if he minds. As if he could ever.
“Now open your eyes.”
Eddie lets himself bask in the blind touch of Steve for just one more breath before he blinks and looks and—
“Oh,” Eddie barely breathes, and he can feel Steve beaming at him, so wide and shining out in the dark like the meteors that are streaking across endless stretch of sky above them, leaving trails behind to mark their paths, to leave proof of their being before they burn on descent and oh, oh.
“Right?” Steve breathes close to Eddie’s ear, strokes Eddie’s pulsepoint where he still holds at the wrist, kisses Eddie’s jaw as Eddie gapes up because it doesn’t matter how many times he sees the show, it’s awe inspiring.
So much like the man next to him, pressed tight against him so Eddie can feel him breathe: never once has Eddie stopped being filled up with wonder for him, never once will Eddie ever do anything but marvel that he’s here, that he exists, that Eddie can look at him and know in his bones that it’s true, unshakable when he stares and thinks: mine.
“Stevie,” Eddie spins his hand so it can lace with Steve’s, fingers interlocked as he turns into the press of his mouth to catch his lips for real, to taste: “sweetheart,” he mouths, tongues into Steve’s kiss: “it’s beautiful.”
You’re beautiful goes unsaid because they say it clear with touch; what we have is so much more than beautiful is the understood fucking you. Given like the spin of a planet, or the expanse of the universe.
“I know how much you like the stars,” Steve shapes the words more than speaks them, never moving back to pull apart their lips, not all the way; “and when I saw there was a shower, and we’d have a shot to see it, I,” and Steve presses a quick kiss into Eddie then: I couldn’t not, and Eddie thinks lucky isn’t a word that means anything at all, in the face of this.
He watches with Steve pressed against him, slid down to fit with his head on Eddie’s shoulder for a long stretch of seconds before the question comes to mind and he kisses Steve temple, reverent, but still in askance:
“The lights?”
Because it’s too dark. There are still a few bits of the stage setup that need to be moved before the kickoff, so he has to figure there’d be some lights, but the space surrounding them is a near-perfect void.
“So maybe someone knows we’re here,” Steve answers, a little wry. “I maybe bribed Lenny in Operations,” and of all the people working in this mass-ass complex, for this insane fucking event, Eddie actually knows who that is; let him bum a smoke the first time they came to rehearse. “We have about half an hour.”
Jesus. Jesus.
“God, I love you,” Eddie half-exhales, half-wonders at this, this, this specimen of a human before him, pressed against him close and he pulls Steve in, brings their still-joined hands to his chest and stretches down to kiss the tips of Steve’s fingers before just pressing hands there, making sure Steve feels:
“Every time I think you’ve stretched this heart as far as it’ll go,” Eddie whispers, because it’s sacred; this feeling, this thing they make together as one: “every time, you find room to fill it up all over again,” Eddie feels that stretched-heart of his pound a little beneath their hands, and fucking good, too, because then Steve feels it at the exact same time, and that’s what matters, what counts: that Steve knows the depth of this in Eddie’s chest, always; that he understands because:
“You’re magic.”
And Eddie means that. Eddie means that with all his pounding heart.
“You’re playing the Super Bowl tomorrow,” Steve says it like an explanation; like it’s enough of a reason. Like he would have done all of this anyway, just because.
“I am playing as a guest at the halftime,” Eddie knows that’s correct, he knows, but it’s still instinct to look at Steve like he’s making sure he gets the terms for all the different sports games right and it’s worth the knee-jerk instinct surviving all these years just for the grin and the nod he gets, so encouraging and indulgent and sweet; “show.”
“You are playing the Super Bowl, tomorrow.”
Because that’s the other thing, the thing that was entirely not-music-related that existed as the whole fucking incentive for Corroded Coffin to be in town for studio space in the first place: Steve, his Stevie, his partner and lover, beloved and adored, his Steve Harrington is the goddamn starting linebacker in the motherfucking Super Bowl.
Like Eddie would miss that for his fucking life.
Which: hold on.
“Don’t you have curfew? Coach’s orders?” Eddie turns a quirked brow to him and Steve just grins and, god: taps Eddie’s nose.
Gawwwwwd.
“I’m sneaky, baby,” Steve whispers and fuck, the stars above them are exquisite but they’ve got, like, nothing on the way Steve’s eyes shine. “Stealthy like a ninja.”
Eddie wants to laugh, snicker maybe a little under his breath but he…he can’t.
He can’t because he’s, his whole body feels weightless and tingly and untethered from gravity and matter and any atmosphere that isn’t Steve and Steve alone, like just be next to this man, the love of his life, is akin to and far beyond swimming alongside the shooting stars overhead: he can only relish, can only marvel.
He gets this. He gets to have this.
Unfathomable. And yet.
“You did all this for me,” Eddie exhales, still wondering at this. At Steve: the fact of him. The whole of him. This is the night before the biggest game of Steve’s career, likely the biggest day of Steve’s life and yet, here he is. Breaking rules, risking fuck knows what, just for Eddie. It’s, it’s…
“That can’t be a surprise by now,” Steve breathes back, nuzzles their noses a little and Eddie keens, because fuck.
“It’s not just,” Eddie tries to collect his thoughts, his point; “this is big, Stevie,” he says, like that encompasses it, encompasses the day they’re on the brink of, and the fact that they’re here right now, just before that day:
“This is big.”
“All the more reason,” Steve nips at Eddie’s lip then leans back, meets Eddie’s gaze square on before he breathes out slow, and lies back down, turns Eddie’s body to him, both of them on their sides and then he brings their hands between them, close enough that they hit both their chests when they breathe in: “because,” and he takes one more breath, and Eddie doesn’t know why it feels like Steve’s steeling himself, or building up to a thing he feels he has to steel himself for, because there’s nothing he could say or do that’ll sway Eddie from his side, there’s nothing, but then—Steve doesn’t feel stiff, or scared, or nervous against him, his hand in Eddie’s hand.
It just feels big, this moment, whatever it already holds or is gearing up to hold as more; it feels momentous, equally so, either way.
“Win or lose, tomorrow, no matter how big this is,” Steve finally speaks words into the tiny space between them, his grip firm and his eyes unwavering on Eddie the whole time. “I won the only thing I really wanted in life,” and his smile, dear god.
There are no stars, falling or burning, dying in a supernova or sprawling newly born: not a single goddamn one could compare.
“And he’s not really a prize, so it’s not really winning,” Steve’s watching him with so much love, so much love; “he’s a gift, he’s my heart,” and Steve mirrors Eddie this time, draws Eddie in to press against his chest, to feel the fluttering there; “and he gave me his to keep safe, and that was a whole other gift on top of everything,” and Steve laughs a little, his own overwhelming awe, and Eddie almost doesn’t know what to do, save grip Steve so fucking tight; save to memorize the cadence of his pulse like a song.
“So no matter what you call it,” Steve draws a deep breath and lets it shudder a little when he blows it back out; “when I wake up in the morning and I know he’s mine, and I’m his,” and Eddie lifts the hand not held to Steve’s heart to cup Steve’s cheek and just touch, just drink him in:
“I feel like the biggest winner in the world,” Steve says it, so honest, so heartfelt: so much.
“You’re a fucking sap,” Eddie doesn’t realize he’s crying until the tears clog the words when they tumble from his lips but then he’s leaning, then he’s kissing Steve like the world’s ending only to begin again and it’s perfect, it’s heavenly like the fires burning miles upon miles above their heads, cosmic and immense but then Steve’s pulling back, but his open palms are pressed to Eddie’s chest to manage it and it’s contact, it’s grounding: it, too, is perfect.
“Oh, really,” Steve’s lips curl, even as they’re swollen at the pout and wet-red still; “I’m a fucking sap?” but he doesn’t even look irritated, he looks entertained, no: he looks delighted and what—
“Let me one-up your standards then, Munson,” and Steve’s leaning in, catching Eddie’s lips one more time before he raises up on his knees, tips back on his calves and lifts from those glorious fucking thighs of his and if Steve’s ignoring curfew entirely Eddie thinks he’s got a good chance of asking for those thighs to be wrapped around him at some point in the next twelve hours before he gets to spend a good stretch of hours sharing the clothed version in those tight fucking pants with the whole goddamn country, sure, but at Jumbotron-size he can’t wholeheartedly complain and—
“Edward Elliot Munson.”
Wait. That’s him. He’s Edward Eli—
Why is he being full-named here, now?
He starts to sit up too, brings his eyes up from Steve’s glorious legs where they stretch even under his track pants, to meet his eyes and—
They shine. They shine.
They put the stars and the space matter and the glow of angels on high if they’re there at all: they put them all to fucking shame.
Steve puts them to shame.
“Eddie,” Steve breathes deep and Eddie catches the gleam of something in an obvious shape in his hands, but it’s only in his periphery: he cannot, he will never look away; he might be trembling already.
He’s definitely trembling already.
“Will you,” and Steve pauses, plays with Eddie’s bare ring finger, the only one empty just now and Eddie honestly never thought on it too hard but in this moment he knows, he knows in the marrow of him that he was waiting, that he was wanting and he was keeping it safe for just one thing, just one thing:
“Will you let me fill your heart up to stretching,” Steve blinks, and a tear falls; just one, glistening and glorious for the avalanche that’s spilling from Eddie; “and then will you let me fill it up even more, again and again and again, Eddie, will you let me do that for the rest of our lives?”
As if that’s a fucking question.
Eddie doesn’t even have to process the necessity of putting his lips on Steve, of kissing him breathless and then boneless and then weightless, so fucking close and so fucking fierce and giving everything and anything and all that he is and allthat they are; he doesn’t have to process it as a choice before they’re consuming, devouring each other relentless, unceasing, and Eddie will pull back and speak the ‘yes’ that’s already obvious, he will shake a little as Steve puts the ring on the naked finger waiting to be adorned, the last lone space waiting to be claimed; Eddie will wear it proudly on the stage when millions watch him play tomorrow, and there won’t be a single second he’s not smiling like a loon through the whole goddamn day, and it’ll have so very little to do with playing the biggest show of his life, and that’s wild, that’s insane: that is the only real thing in the whole fucking world and—yeah.
Yeah: the biggest prize of living at all is the one they’re holding tight between them, the one they’re passing back and forth, soul to soul between their lips.
#steddie#steve harrington#eddie munson#fluff#established relationship#established steddie#marriage proposal#rockstar au#football au#so very very soft#stranger things#gift fic#thefreakandthehair#hitlikehammers v words
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Kpop stan Twitter hates them. Sena is talentless tweets hitting crazy numbers. Jiah deactivated her Instagram account. #BaebiGoSolo has trended for three days now...They had ONE chance.
VENUS entered 2021 mad as hell with their second full album, "I AM VENUS," which included the title track "I AM. "I AM was a commercial success in South Korea and topped the Circle Digital Chart for six weeks. It also reached the top ten in Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam. The song has been certified platinum for streaming in South Korea. It also received four PAKs and nine music show wins.
Dazed ranked it 19th among the 50 best K-pop tracks of 2021, and Grammy named it one of the 15 K-pop songs that defined 2021.
The group would repeatedly go viral for their performances of I AM as the girls were either emotional while performing the song or they were in platformed heels. For the first time in their career, Chloe was able to look people in the eyes during the music show interviews. Though the heels were a hit, they raised concerns for fans as there were multiple instances of the girls twisting their ankles or falling during performances because of them. Either way, iconic.
The platformed heels Venus wore during the promotions of I AM. These are the ones on displayed at the Angelico Artist Muesum. The group wore a total of 36 different pairs of heels for this era.
Their repacked album "VENUS, I AM." would come shortly after I AM VENUS with the title track "DIVE". Before the song's release, the teaser images for VENUS, I AM would go viral for their unique concept and artistic expression.
The teaser images used for "VENUS, I AM." under the creative direction of LEXA.
The album debuted at number one on the weekly Gaon Album Chart and also topped the monthly chart, selling 544,339 copies in its first month of release. It has since been certified triple platinum by the Korea Music Content Association (KMCA) for surpassing 750,000 units.
Tássia Assis from NME gave Dive a 4 out of 5-star rating, describing the track "Dive" as "the definite, luxurious plunge. " Despite being "more subdued" than the group's previous album, "I AM," it is a "chaebol crush" that matches the extravagance and confidence that defines VENUS. Uproxx named it one of The Best K-Pop Albums of 2021.
The hate train finally seemed to slow with the ever-mounting success the girls were receiving. It's not like the girls had enough time on their hands to even really focus on the hate. They were always working on something. That next something would be their 6th mini album, "Illusions," followed by a title track of the same name.
Upon its release, Illusions was praised by music critics for increasingly showcasing all members' vocal abilities with "trendy" production. Illusions was a commercial success in South Korea and charted in Japan and the United States. It debuted atop South Korea's Gaon Album Chart on the chart. Overall, it ranked seventh on the Gaon's 2021 year-end album chart.4 Walls debuted at number thirty-nine on Japan's Oricon Albums Chart, and it peaked at number one on the US Billboard World Albums Chart, becoming Venus' second number one on the chart following 2019's Love Simulator.
Illusions was primarily beloved for its "multidimensional" concept and music video. In the video, the girls were trapped in a time loop, and the song restarted midway through the eight-minute video, signifying that the viewer was also in the time loop with them.
Stills from the "Illusions" music video. Creative direction by LEXA.
The girls would close out the year with the summer classic "Summer Luv!" and a title track of the same name. When I tell you this song was massive, it was huge. Love Simulator was finally overthrown as Venus' most-known song because you could not go anywhere with Summer Luv'ing.
GQ Korea named "Summer Luv!" its Song of the Year in the magazine's November 2021 issue. In December, IZM listed the song as one of its top 10 singles of the year. Dazed ranked the song at number two on its 20 Best K-pop Songs of 2021. The song landed on Billboard's 20 Best K-Pop Songs 2021 list at number four. Melon ranked it number 15, while Rolling Stone ranked it number 13 in their lists of the greatest K-pop songs of all time, with the latter publication praising its production and hailing it as the epitome of "summertime fun, adventure, and romance."
Summer Luv! would win the girl's Song of The Year at the 2021 MAMA Awards and the Best Dance Performance – Female Group award. They would go on to win the Digital Daesang at the Golden Disk Awards and Song of the Year at the Korean Music Awards.
Some of the various wigs and hairstyles were worn by Venus during their Summer Luv! Promotions. Gif style inspired by @pickmedolls !
The Summer Luv! era was not only defined by success but looks as well. The girls would wear different wings at nearly every stage, mixing up their styles and colors while "giving their scalps a much-needed break," as said Chloe during an interview. The girls would go through seventy-five wigs between the five of them, with a fraction of them, the most iconic ones, being displayed at the Angelico Artist Museum.
#╰ * venus : discography ⧽ burn it to the ground .#kpop oc#fictional idol community#idol oc#kpop addition#idol au#kpop au#bts addition#fake kpop oc#oc kpop group#oc girl group
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Song of the Day - “Take Five”
Today is the 65th Anniversary - July 1st, 2024 - The Dave Brubeck Quarter recorded their signature tune - “Take Five” at Columbia’s 30th Street Studio in New York.
The track would appear on their next album “Time Out”, and would also get released as a single…
It remains the biggest-selling jazz single of all time….
The album “Time Out” was another concept album for Brubeck, and this one’s concept was to have songs with odd time signatures…
His thinking was that jazz in 1959 was having some landmark innovations with Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue” and Coltrane’s “Giant Steps”, but that the one thing that never seemed to change was that the music was being played in 4/4 time.
Brubeck said, "It's time that the jazz musicians take up their original role of leading the public into a more adventurous rhythm”
So he set about doin this album of original songs and each with an odd beat structure… with six-four, three-four, nine-eight and, in "Take Five," five-four timing…
“Take Five” was a collaborative creation, starting with Morello’s 5/4 drumming, upon which Paul Desmond constructed the melody to match and then Brubeck wove together the elements.
The record label was nervous about an album of all original songs without one single cover of a jazz standard… but once this album and the single of “Take Five” were released, the song became a new jazz standard in its own right…
A bit of a waltz, “Take Five” was straight up innovative at the moment of being released, but its legacy is to be a very accessible piece and an enduring classic…
[Mary Elaine LeBey]
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“Jasmin” 2008
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I'm extra proud of this one :)
#30daysmusicchallenge2024 for Daughters of Darkness!
Day 23: A song by a band (artist) you want to see live:
Evanescence - Haunted
I wish I could see evanescence live during that time when they started their shows with this intro, it was truly haunting.
Haunted is the fifth track from Evanescence's debut album, Fallen. It was originally developed during the 2001-2002 demo sessions. Amy wrote the song and referenced a short story written by Ben.
Ben Moody's story about Haunted:
"A little girl around eight or nine in a little white Easter dress is walking down a neighborhood street bouncing a little red ball. As she approaches an obviously deserted large house with a sinister demeanor, her attention moves from the ball to the house. Not paying attention to her bouncing, the ball hits the curb and ricochets toward the house. As she chases the little red ball toward the house, the ball picks up unnatural momentum and bounces right into the huge gaping front door. The little girl pauses for a moment, looks up at the house, which now appears to be staring down at her, and cautiously enters the house in search of her little red ball. as she slowly walks into the atrium, she surveys the decaying mess that once was obviously a beautiful mansion. She becomes mesmerized by the exquisite detail of every inch of the banister winding up the seemingly endless staircase in front of her. Suddenly her thoughts are broken by a horrifying commotion. She whips around to run out the front door, but finds only a blank wall where the door once stood. Frightened, she runs down the first hallway she sees, trying desperately to find a way out, but with every turn the world behind her changes, bending to the will of the house, so that even finding a path back to the atrium where she began becomes impossible. Terrified, the little girl sinks into a corner, puts her head in her hands, and weeps.
10 years later....
The little girl wakes up in a panic, now a young woman. Dirty, scarred. She's now clothed in black pants, work boots, and a black wife beater. Her skin is pale and dirty. Sun has not graced her flesh in over a decade. She wakes to find a meal placed on a dirty silver tray before her, just enough to sustain life, just like every morning before. Placed there by a figure she can only see in passing, around a corner, walking through a door.... a figure that has become her only friend, and her only hate. Her entire existence has become nothing but to hunt and destroy this shadow that keeps her here. As she hunts him relentlessly day after day, she becomes lost in the dichotomy of her being. This thing that keeps her here, this person that repeatedly rapes her mind and watches her when she sleeps, has become her only friend. For if this person left, she would cease to exist. For she live only to kill him. But lives only FOR him. Every day the house changes around her, so that every day she wakes in a foreign land. The only constant... is him. She hears his heart beating, she smells him, she can only think of finding him, but he is also the only thing she knows of love."
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#30daysmusicchallenge2024#evanescence#amy lee#rionka edit#neverlostmycrown#ilovethis#haunted#fallen era#malice in wonderland#ben moody
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BUZZ ! an anthology featuring REAL MADRID.
SUMMARY : an rpf series featuring some of the 24/25 real madrid squad based on niki's album ' buzz ' . NOTES : hi... excited for this... this is one of my favorite album releases this year and yeah!! these all will be unrelated one-shots. please send me a message/inbox if you would like to be included in the taglist. feel free to request a real madrid player for certain songs if there is no one assigned to it already. repeating players is fine. hope you enjoy this ♡ general masterlist. #BUZZ ! → series tag
TRACK ONE : BUZZ ! ✶ TO BE ADDED X READER ( to be added. ) play here 📼 . read here 💌
it's feeling dizzy when you're tipsy wondering why you're so nervous 'round your so-called "friend"
TRACK TWO : TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING ! ✶ VINÍCIUS JÚNIOR X READER ( to be added. ) play here 📼 . read here 💌
maybe it won't be a sure thing but it sure is a good thing
TRACK THREE : COLOSSAL LOSS ! ✶ TO BE ADDED X READER ( to be added. ) play here 📼 . read here 💌
and yeah, i'm gonna play the shit out of the blame game
TRACK FOUR : FOCUS ! ✶ TO BE ADDED X READER ( to be added. ) play here 📼 . read here 💌
no guys, i swear! he's not emotionally unavailable, he's just traumatized
TRACK FIVE: DID YOU LIKE HER IN THE MORNING ? ! ✶ JUDE BELLINGHAM X READER you try piecing the puzzle of jude's ex-lover together. play here 📼 . read here 💌
i know it'd be easier if i just didn't ask but it'd also be easier if she wasn't your last
TRACK SIX : TAKE CARE ! ✶ TO BE ADDED X READER ( to be added. ) play here 📼 . read here 💌
when bitterness bites, novelty is nectar
TRACK SEVEN : MAGNETS ! ✶ AURÉLIEN TCHOUAMÉNI X READER ( to be added. ) play here 📼 . read here 💌
guess what i'm trying to say is i'd rather die than be friends
TRACK EIGHT : TSUNAMI ! ✶ TO BE ADDED X READER ( to be added. ) play here 📼 . read here 💌
a roaring tsunami you came crashing in like an act of god
TRACK NINE : BLUE MOON ! ✶ KYLIAN MBAPPÉ X READER ( to be added. ) play here 📼 . read here 💌
maybe i'll give you a call when i turn 32 and you'll say, "who knew?"
TRACK TEN : STRONG GIRL ! ✶ EDUARDO CAMAVINGA X READER ( to be added. ) play here 📼 . read here 💌
it's to the death or less than nothing
TRACK ELEVEN: PATHS ! ✶ FEDERICO VALVERDE X READER ( to be added. ) play here 📼 . read here 💌
but real love is a verb i get it now
TRACK TWELVE: HEIRLOOM PAIN ! ✶ ARDA GÜLER X READER ( to be added. ) play here 📼 . read here 💌
i do the dishes and tend the garden soften up where i used to harden
TRACK THIRTEEN: NOTHING CAN ! ✶ TO BE ADDED X READER ( to be added. ) play here 📼 . read here 💌
and what's unsaid feel like concrete slabs hailing down from the sky so fast
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Light Verse Project Complete!
As many of you know, Iron & Wine is my absolute favourite artist of all time. So when he released a new album earlier this year - Light Verse - I decided to do a fic for each song. And it's done! Here is the collection.
For anyone who is curious, here is what I did!
Track One: You Never Know
Fic: you could make light
Full lyric: You could make light, be the silly word Sitting on a tongue You could make nice or beat a drum
Summary: When a sudden blackout leaves May and Buck trapped for hours, the two find themselves getting a lot off their chests, and bonding over several important parts of their lives.
Track Two: Anyone's Game
Fic: no one can be born too many times
Full lyric: Anybody born knows how to play this little game No one can be born too many times First they kiss their lucky dice and then they dig themselves a grave They do this until it's killing them to try
Summary: When Ravi's younger brother shows up at the station unexpected, the 118 gets a better glimpse into his life, and Ravi gets a better perspective on both his families.
Track Three: All In Good Time
Fic: i told my future by reading your lips
Full lyric: All in good time, our plan went to shit I told my future by reading your lips You wore my ring until it didn't fit All in good time
Summary: In 2018, on their way to a call at a child beauty pageant, and feeling a little strange, Buck and Eddie are suddenly thrown into a fast-paced look at some key moments from their future. And, what they see? Well it can only lead to one logical conclusion.
Track Four: Cutting It Close
Fic: time likes pulling my teeth
Full lyric: Time likes pulling my teeth I never knew how many teeth I would need So it goes and it goes It doesn't matter but it's cutting it close
Summary: Buck is enjoying the last day of a family vacation with Eddie and Christopher. Over and over and over again. And Eddie seems determined to keep it that way.
Track Five: Taken By Surprise
Fic: i've seen a couple suns that set forever
Full lyric: I know this kind of moon It looks too full to come back down And I've seen a couple suns that set forever
Summary: Freshly home from Texas and faced with the prospect of his dad's feelings for Buck, Christopher's abandonment issues surface. A conversation with Bobby, and realizing the parallels between Buck's relationship with Bobby, and his relationship with Buck, gives Chris the perspective he needs.
Track Six: Yellow Jacket
Fic: a cold world for such a long life
Full lyric: Doves are losing lucky feathers in the sky Appaloosa's in the moonlight going blind What a cold world for such a long life Dogs are barking on the record every night
Summary: Eddie befriends Bobby's estranged older brother in a virtual support group for queer adults struggling to come out. The only problem? He has no idea that's who Charlie is.
Track Seven: Sweet Talk
Fic: Sweet Talk
Summary: Eddie asks to crash at the loft while Christopher is gone, struggling to be on his own. Only problem? There's only one bed, and no couch.
Track Eight: Tears That Don't Matter
Fic: are you not the lost and found?
Full lyric: Fly right, eat a rainbow Speak of the devil when gods in the details Meet the moment, kill kindness Finding and keeping that pot you can piss in
So are you or are you not the lost and found?
Summary: In which Bobby has the opportunity to meet an alternate universe version of his daughter, who has lived to adulthood, but her life has not been without its own complications - including their relationship.
Track Nine: Bag of Cats
Fic: treat an opportunity like it's treating you
Full lyric: Treat an opportunity like it's treating you Another plum thumbing for a ride Love is only fair 'Til all its favorite hair is falling out, falling out Falling out, falling out, falling out
Summary: After losing his leg as a result of the fire engine bombing, Buck is presented with the opportunity to have a service dog donated to him.
Track Ten: Angels Go Home
Fic: all our bruises beg for a chance
Full lyric: All our true believers break like fever All our bruises beg for a chance, beg for a chance
Summary:
Buck is adjusting to life living with Eddie, Chris, and his service dog Cranberry, when his parents visit for the first time since he lost his leg.
OR:
A Cranberry-verse take on the events of Buck Begins.
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I am thinking of doing this for more albums! This was such a fun project!
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Songbird || TWELVE
Eddie Roundtree x Fem!Reader
Warnings: mention of blood
Word Count: 3.7k
Part Summary: The band records songs for Aurora and Y/N attends a party with Daisy.
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DAISY JONES: We must’ve written eight or nine songs the first couple weeks. I would have an idea, and then he’d flesh it out, or he would come up with a riff, and I’d come up with a melody line.
BILLY DUNNE: When you’re making an album, any album, it’s an intimate thing. I mean, it has to be.
DAISY JONES: Which isn’t to say we didn’t fight.
BILLY DUNNE: Oh we were fighting constantly.
WARREN ROJAS: For a month it was like that. We’d be in the studio, you know, recording all the arrangements, and they’d be who knows where doing god knows what.
EDDIE ROUNDTREE: Everyday they’d come in with something new.
KAREN SIRKO: I mean great fucking songs.
Y/N L/N: Even though I didn’t want to be in the band, I can’t fault the songs, they were great, amazing even.
EDDIE ROUNDTREE: And every night, they’d come in giggling like two little schoolgirls.
INTERVIEWER: Did it concern you?
GRAHAM DUNNE: Not really. Not yet, anyway. I mean…like whatever they were doing…it was working.
INTERVIEWER: How was Y/N adjusting to being in a band?
KAREN SIRKO: She adjusted well, it was only the arguments that was a concern.
…
“I did everything you told me to do, Billy!” Y/N yelled into the microphone.
“But it’s not good enough,” Billy says from the booth, “Try again.”
Y/N sighed, and began to play again but as soon as she started playing, Billy cut her off again.
“In what possible way was that wrong,” Y/N exclaimed, “I played one note.”
“It was the wrong note.” Billy says, trying to remain calm.
Y/N rolled her eyes, “You need to get your hearing checked.”
Billy turns to Teddy, “It was the right note, Billy.”
A smirk appeared on Y/N’s face at Billy’s annoyed expression.
“Again.” Billy ordered.
Once again as soon as Y/N began to play Billy interrupted her.
“Right,” Y/N says, “This is bullshit.”
Y/N lifted the guitar and placed it back on its stand. With one final glare at Billy, she left the room, joining the rest of the band.
“You finished?” Karen questioned.
“Nope,” Y/N said, flopping down on the couch next to Eddie, “Apparently Billy needs to get his hearing checked because everything I’m doing is wrong.”
Billy came storming out of the booth, his eyes focussed on Y/N, “Get back in the studio now, Y/N, you’re wasting time.”
“Why?” Y/N questioned, “So you can stop me every two seconds, I’d say you’re the one who’s wasting time.”
“Billy, just give her a break,” Karen says, “She’s been in the studio all day.”
“And so have the rest of us.” Billy says.
“Yeah, but we haven’t been yelled at for the past two hours.” Eddie muttered.
Billy sent a glare Eddie’s way before his gaze landed back on Y/N, “Y/N, get back in the studio.”
…
KAREN SIRKO: Billy didn’t know when to stop when he argued with Y/N.
WARREN ROJAS: Y/N never let her emotions show much, but I could tell that she was getting to her breaking point.
CAMILA DUNNE: I knew how Billy was treating Y/N and I wasn’t standing for it. She was my best friend and he was treating her awfully. I knew they didn’t like each other but that was no excuse.
BILLY DUNNE: Y/N got on my last nerve. She always wanted things her way.
Y/N L/N: Billy was a controlling prick.
DAISY JONES: I knew that Y/N didn’t want to be in the band, and I didn’t understand why she was in the band. Her talent shouldn’t have been pushed to the side like it was.
…
The band sat around in the studio waiting for Billy and Y/N to come back with their new song. Y/N sat with her guitar, carelessly strumming a tune she had come up with, humming along to lyrics she had written months ago that was meant to be for her album.
“I like that melody.” Graham says.
“Thanks,” Y/N smiled, “I was working on it for my album.”
Graham began to listen to the song as Y/N continued to strum her guitar. As he began to play her own guitar, working with what Y/N had already created, she turned to him and smiled. One by one each member of the band began to play along with Y/N and Graham. It didn’t sound fantastic but to Y/N it sounded like the most amazing thing in the world.
“Sing the song.” Graham says.
“I wrote the song as a duet,” Y/N says, “Eddie, would you be able to sing the other part.”
“Me?” Eddie questioned.
Y/N smiled and reached down to her bag and pulled out her notebook, turning to the correct page and held it out to Eddie.
“The green ink is what you’re meant to sing. You’ll pick up the melody.”
Everyone began to play what they were before, slowly getting a good balance. Y/N began to sing everything melted away, the only thing she concentrated on was the music. Y/N signalled that Eddie should start singing. As he began he was out on timing which caused Y/N to smile but he soon got into a rhythm.
Their voices complimented each other perfectly. Y/N couldn’t help but smile. Every member of the band got into the rhythm of the song, fully enjoying themselves for not being told what to do, they all got to freely play what they wanted.
The door to the studio opened and in walked Billy and Daisy. Daisy slowed down her walk as she listened to the song, meanwhile Billy let out an annoyed sigh. Y/N was the first to notice and she stopped singing and playing, everyone followed her actions.
“What’s going on here?” Billy questioned.
“Y/N wrote a song and we were playing around with it,” Graham answered, “It’s a great song.”
“It’s not going on the album.” Billy says.
“Come on,” Warren says, “It’s a great fucking song.”
“It’s not going on the album.” Billy repeated.
“I think it should go on the album.” Daisy intervened.
“Thank you Daisy.” Y/N says and Billy rolls his eyes.
“It’s not going on the album,” Billy says, “And that’s final.”
“Okay,” Daisy challenged, “Then I want Y/N to sing The River with me.”
The room fell silent.
“It’s one or the other Billy,” Daisy says, “Her song goes on the album or she sings The River with me.”
…
Y/N L/N: Originally I never wanted my song to go on the album, but the look on Billy’s face when Daisy gave him that ultimatum was what made me want to have my song on the album.
DAISY JONES: We recorded Y/N’s song that day.
EDDIE ROUNDTREE: Y/N’s song was my favourite on the album, still is.
WARREN ROJAS: I think that was the most laid back recording we did. Y/N took the reins on it and let us fuck around with it. It was a good day.
…
“Camila!” Y/N says, entering the house through the front door.
“Y/N,” Camila says, coming around the corner, “I didn’t know you were coming around today.”
“It wasn’t originally,” Y/N admitted, “But figured that since Billy isn’t here, I would come around. I haven’t seen Julia in ages. How are you by the way? We haven’t had the chance to sit and talk in a while.”
“I’ve been okay,” Camila says, sitting down on the couch next to Y/N, “I’ve been busy with Julia, she’s getting to the point where I can’t leave her unattended for too long or they’ll be another broken glass on the floor.”
“Billy hasn’t helped at all?” Y/N questioned.
“He has barely been here,” Camila says, an edge to her voice, “And when he is here, he’s always on the phone with Daisy.”
“I would say that I would have a talk with him, but we all know how that would go, so…”
Camila laughed, “It’s fine, you don’t need to talk to him, I’ll try to when he gets home, whenever that will be.”
“Hey, if you ever need help with anything, you can call me and I’ll answer and be here as quick as I can.” Y/N says, talking ahold of Camila’s hand, “If you need any help with Julia or even a break from her, I’ll babysit her and you can go and take as many photos until you literally can’t anymore.”
“Oh,” Camila says, getting to her feet, “That reminds me.”
Camila walked to the other side of the room and opened a drawer, “I forgot I developed these photos ages ago and I thought you would want them.”
Walking back over to Y/N, Camila handed her three photos and Y/N’s heart sank. The photos were of her and Eddie from the Christmas her first single was released. The first photo was just after Y/N handed Eddie his gift. The two were looking intently into each other’s eyes, a look of adoration on their faces.
Flipping to the next photo, Y/N’s heart sank even more when she saw it. In the photo, she was staring at the camera with a smile while Eddie looked at her. The look on his face couldn’t have been mistaken for anything other than love.
The final photo ripped Y/N’s heart out and threw it on the ground. The photo was taken when neither of them were aware. The two were cuddled up on the couch. Y/N’s arms were wrapped around Eddie’s torso while his arm was wrapped around her waist and the other held onto her arm. Her head rested on his chest while his head was dipped, his lips brushing her forehead.
“When did you take this photo?” Y/N questioned.
“The same day,” Camila says, “It was a cute photo, I took it when you both weren’t looking.”
“Stalker.” Y/N jokes.
Y/N placed the photos back in a stack and handed them back to Camila.
“Don’t you want them?” Camila questioned, furrowing her eyebrows.
“I just-I just don’t think I need them.” Y/N says.
Camila saw right through Y/N’s lie, “What else is going on? Because months ago, you would have been excited to have these.”
Y/N sighed, “Nothing’s going on-”
“Is anything going on between you and Eddie?” Camila questioned.
“What?” Y/N says, “No, there’s nothing going on.”
“Are you sure because the two of you have been acting like strangers for months now.” Camila points out.
Y/N shrugged, “We just grew apart. I was busy working on my non-existent album and he was working with the band, we just haven’t had the time to talk and hang out.” Y/N hated how easily the lie rolled off her tongue.
“Are you sure nothing’s going on?” Camila asks.
“I’m sure,” Y/N says, “There is nothing going on between me and Eddie.”
…
Y/N L/N: All of these lies were eating me alive. Of course there was something going on, but at the time I couldn’t figure out exactly what it was, I had never felt that way before so it was all new for me.
…
The next day, Y/N was sitting in the studio, bored out of her mind. They were meant to be recording vocals for Aurora but Daisy never showed up. With her notebook in hand, Y/N was just colouring in the page out of pure boredom. They had all been sitting there for hours.
“Did you try her room?” Teddy asked.
“Yeah, couple times,” Billy says, “I��m worried something’s happened.”
“She’s probably just off somewhere.” Teddy suggested.
“No,, no this is her record as much as it’s mine. Something’s not right,” Billy says, “I got to go.”
“I’ll go with you.” Teddy offered.
“No, it’s worse if the principal comes.”
“Well, take Warren.” Teddy says.
“I can handle it.” Billy says, walking out of the studio.
Y/N looks to where he had disappeared before throwing her notebook down and followed after him. Just as he started up his car, Y/N climbed into the passenger seat.
“What are you doing Y/N?” Billy sighed.
“Look, we don’t like each other, cool,” Y/N says, “But I care about Daisy too, so let’s just go.”
Surprisingly, Billy didn’t argue. He simply nodded and pulled away from the studio.
As the two arrived at the hotel, music was blaring out and shouting was heard for every direction. Y/N and Billy slowly walked closer to the pool where they found Daisy.
“Y/N,” Billy says, “Can you give us a minute?”
“What? Why? I want to see-”
“Y/N, just go.” Billy says.
Sighing, Y/N sat down on a chair, watching the interaction between Daisy and Billy. Y/N had never been one to pry into people’s relationships but she didn’t quite understand what was going on between Daisy and Billy. One moment, they were acting like the best friends in the world and then the next they were acting like they detested each other. Y/N couldn’t work it out.
As Daisy climbed out of the pool, Y/N watched as the glass dug into her feet, causing them to bleed. Y/N winced, standing to her feet.
“Say, hi to Camila for me!” Daisy called to Billy as he stormed off.
“Billy, wait!” Y/N says as he leaves the hotel grounds. Y/N contemplated following him as he was her only way home but she decided against it, opting to check on Daisy.
“Let me guess,” Daisy says, “You’re here to yell at me as well.”
Y/N says, “No, not at all, unlike Billy I know what a fun time looks like.” Y/N lied, she had been annoyed with how late Daisy was but she wasn’t going to outright be angry about it like Billy was.
Y/N looked down at Daisy’s feet, “Can I clean that up?”
Daisy looked down at her feet and watched as the blood mixed with the water, “I’m fine.” As she tried to walk away, Daisy limped, in obvious pain.
“Look, I’ll make a promise,” Y/N says, “You let me clean that up and I’ll happily leave you alone to do whatever you want.”
“Why don’t you join me?” Daisy says.
Y/N sighs, “As long as I can clean that up.”
Daisy rolled her eyes and sat down and Y/N rushed to find a bandage and some alcohol, the latter being much easier to find. After getting some bandages, Y/N went back to Daisy who was miraculously in the same place.
Bending down, Y/N inspected her foot, luckily there wasn’t any glass embedded into her foot so it would be rather easy to clean up.
“Okay,” Y/N says, unscrewing the bottle of alcohol, “This will probably sting a little bit.”
Daisy nods before Y/N pours the alcohol onto the cuts. Daisy winced but Y/N continued to wipe away the blood, disinfecting the cuts. As Y/N wrapped her foot in the bandage, Daisy watched her intently.
“There,” Y/N says, “Just please don’t put your foot in the pool again, I don’t think I can find any more bandages.”
Daisy put her foot down on the floor and looked at Y/N. She didn’t say anything before reaching down and picking up the bottle of alcohol, “No your end of the deal.”
Y/N smirked and took the bottle of alcohol from Daisy and took a long swig.
***
“Where’s Y/N?” Warren asked as Billy entered the studio alone.
Billy looked around, like he was surprised that Y/N wasn’t with him, “I think she’s still with Daisy.”
“You think?” Eddie says, “You just left her?”
“Yes Eddie I did,” Billy says, “I had more important things on my mind.”
“Look,” Karen spoke up, already sensing the tension, “She’s probably fine, she’ll either stay with Daisy or she’ll find her own way home, she always does, there’s no point in worrying.”
No one said anything as Billy picked up his guitar case and left swiftly without a word to anyone.
Back at the house, Eddie was finding it difficult to sleep. Every time he closed his eyes, he felt fully awake. Every time he tried to get comfortable, it would only turn into the most uncomfortable position only moments later.
As Eddie closed his eyes for hopefully the final time that night, the phone began to ring in the living room. Due to having the room closest to the living room, Eddie flipped the covers off and got out of bed. As he passed the clock on the wall he took notice of the time. Four in the morning.
Picking up the phone, Eddie answered it.
“Hello?” Eddie says.
There was a long pause before there was an answer, “Eddie?”
“Y/N?” Eddie says, “Are you okay?”
“I-I don’t know where I am.” Y/N says.
“What do you mean?” Eddie questions.
“I lost Daisy,” Y/N says, her words barely legible, “So I continued to drink without her and this guy gave me some pills and I took them.”
“Y/N, are you okay?” Eddie asked, suddenly fully alert.
“I’m-I’m fine,” Y/N says, “I went to walk home but I think I took a wrong turn.”
“Can you describe what’s around you?” Eddie questions.
There was a pause before Y/N answered, “It’s too dark. I don’t think I’m that far away from the hotel.”
“Okay, Y/N, stay where you are, I’m coming to get you.” Eddie says and hangs up the phone.
Only picking up a jacket before he left the house, Eddie got into the van and pulled out of the driveway. His heart was beating fast as he drove, the only thing he thought about was Y/N. As he neared the hotel, he slowed down and kept an eye out for her. There wasn’t much around at all, simply a road and trees with a few houses scattered down it.
As Eddie drove further down the road, he spotted a payphone box and a person sat down next to it. Immediately Eddie got out of the van and ran the small distance.
“Y/N.” Eddie says softly.
Y/N looked up and she smiled, “Eddie…”
Y/N was shivering and goose bumps covered her skin. Pulling off his jacket, Eddie placed it around her and helped her to her feet.
“I’m sorry.” Y/N says as his arm wrapped around her waist as he helped her to the van.
“For what?” Eddie questioned.
“For dragging you out here in the middle of the night.” Y/N says, clutching onto Eddie.
“Don’t apologise.” Eddie says, helping her into the van.
Y/N pulled his jacket tighter around her body as she sat safely in the passenger seat of the car. Eddie got in and began to drive back to the house. Y/N didn’t say anything the entire way there, she simply looked out of the window at the world passing by. She was fully aware of Eddie continuously sneaking glances at her.
As they arrived back at the house, Eddie tried to help Y/N out of the van but she pushed him away, “I’m fine, Eddie.”
“You sure don’t look fine,” Eddie says, “You don’t normally get this bad, Y/N.”
“Yeah?” Y/N questioned, “Well I have all the reason to be.”
Y/N sniffled, trying to fight back the tears she had been keeping at bay for months.
“I’ve had everything I’ve ever been working towards taken from me,” Y/N says, “My album was the one thing I’ve always wanted to do and now that opportunity is gone. I never wanted to join the band and now I have and I haven’t been more miserable in my whole life. Billy never lets me have any creative freedom, and everything I do is wrong. I can’t do anything right in his eyes. I am a singer and a songwriter and it’s been taken away from me. ”
“You have one song on the album.” Eddie says, trying to look at the positives.
“A song that I wrote for my album.” Y/N says, finally letting the tears fall, “I wrote that song with the idea of you singing it with me. I wrote it for us.”
Eddie didn’t say anything, he didn’t know what to say. Y/N looked up at him, tears streaming down her face. Reaching up, Eddie cupped her cheeks and gently wiped them away. He stepped closer to her, decreasing the distance between them.
Y/N continued to stand there, not knowing how to react. Her thoughts weren’t clear and she didn’t know what to say.
Looking down at Y/N, Eddie began to lean forward, his lips inched towards hers like it was a magnetic pull driving them together. Eddie couldn’t help himself, the feeling of Y/N’s lips on his was a feeling he craved, it was as if it were his own personal high and he needed a constant fix. Y/N, noticing this, pushed him away harshly.
“What the fuck do you think you’re doing?” Y/N whispered.
“I-I-” Eddie cut himself off because he didn’t really have an answer.
“No, Eddie,” Y/N mumbled, “You’re being mean.”
“I’m not,” Eddie begs, “I’m not, I’m sorry.”
Y/N shook her head, “You are, you don’t do that to someone. You can’t do that to someone. You don’t mess with someone’s feelings like that. Don’t talk to me again.”
With that, Y/N walked back into the house leaving Eddie outside on his own. Eddie remained there in silence for a moment, processing everything. He wished he could rewind time and never did what he did. Angrily, Eddie turned around and punched the wall. Almost immediately he brought his hand to his chest, cradling it. There were cuts on his knuckles and bruises would certainly form, but Eddie didn’t care.
The pain made him aware of what he did. The pain on the outside reflected the pain he was feeling on the inside.
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EDDIE ROUNDTREE: Everything I did that night, I regretted. I ruined what was left of my friendship with Y/N. I loved her, but I ruined that. And I only made everything more complicated from there.
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Today In History
Mary J. Blige, the QUEEN OF HIP HOP and R&B is born on this date January 11, 1971.
Iconic Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, producer and philanthropist, Mary is a figure of inspiration, transformation and empowerment making her one of the defining voices of the contemporary music era.
With a track record of eight multi-platinum albums, nine Grammy Awards (plus a staggering 32 nominations), two Academy Award nominations, two Golden Globe nominations, and a SAG nomination, among many other accolades, Blige has cemented herself as a global superstar.
“You know I’ll try to wait… I love you baby, I love you baby yeah… Why can't we work it out Why, baby? Can't we try? (Why why, why, why, why) You said our love would always stand the test of time”
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MERRY-GO-ROUND: NEON NIGHTS THE BEST is the fifth anniversary compilation album by fictional girl band NEON NIGHTS. It was released on July 12, 2024, a week after their fifth anniversary, and is the final Japanese album with guitarist QIUYUN. It contains twelve tracks: three new songs and nine re-releases of older music spanning their Korean discography as well. The album peaked at number seven on the Oricon weekly album chart.
Described by the band and critics alike as their “cutest album yet,” the three new tracks feature a brighter sound reminiscent of their first studio album. Like the vast majority of their music so far, the production was led by HWAJUNG. It is their second album to feature songwriting contributions from all five members, following their English-language debut from earlier in the year.
TRACK LIST
MERRY-GO-ROUND — Title track
Gachapon
Sneaker Cinderella
Cross - 2024 Version — The opening track of their debut album, INTENTION. Re-recorded.
We Are - 2024 Version — The lead single from the same album. Re-recorded.
Dice - 2024 Version — The lead single from their first EP, FIRST SIGHT. Re-recorded.
KICKASS - 2024 Version — A popular b-side from the same album. Re-recorded.
Deja Vu - Japanese Version — A b-side from their Korean magnum opus, NEW ISLAND OF UTOPIA. Translated into Japanese.
Jealousy - Acoustic — The second lead single from INTENTION. Acoustic arrangement.
That Won’t Save Us - Acoustic — A b-side from INTENTION. Acoustic arrangement.
I Know I Love You - Neon Nights Version — The title track of their first Korean EP, MIDNIGHT. Originally featuring FABLE’s Andrew and Mingeun.
(No More) Utopia - Symphony Version — The title track of NEW ISLAND OF UTOPIA. Re-arranged.
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The elephant in the room is, of course, Qiuyun’s impending departure. They gave her a slightly different send-off with every show, and they had a lot of shows. Highlights included: part switches where Qiuyun sang a few songs (usually “Merry-Go-Round”), chose the encore songs (usually “仮面ミーハー女子”), and picked some of their stage outfits (she had Eden wearing dresses).
No one seemed to be upset about this. In fact, it was the opposite. There were very few tears shed. Hwajung looked happy, despite being almost completely hidden behind her drum set for every show.
In their company’s usual cash-grab style, the album released with a lot of extra content. Besides the songs, each member wrote a letter expressing their thoughts on their anniversary. In the only attempt at marketing them to their widest audience, their words were translated into Japanese, Korean, and English.
The album also included a DVD of behind-the-scenes content for the re-recording of their songs, and another DVD of highlights from their careers so far.
Hwajung is still banned from her personal Instagram, but both she and Eunbyul alluded to disliking these business practices multiple times during live shows. At the same time, they both re-signed their contracts. So there’s that.
During a few shows, they took requests for songs for the first time instead of playing whatever they want. There were some deep cuts in there, especially when fans requested “Asphalt,” their second single ever. Yumi forgot half the chords, since it’s been eight years since they last performed it.
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Santana featuring Rob Thomas - Smooth 1999
"Smooth" is a song performed by American rockband Santana and Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty, who sings the lead vocals. It was released as the lead single from Santana's eighteenth studio album, Supernatural (1999). It was originally conceived by Itaal Shur as a song called "Room 17". The lyrics were stripped off and the track was given to Rob Thomas, who re-wrote the lyrics and melody and re-titled it "Smooth", then recorded the song as a demo to play for Santana. After hearing the song, Santana decided to have Thomas record the final version. Thomas originally had George Michael in mind to sing the song.
The single became a chart-topping hit in 1999, spending 12 consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. "Smooth" stayed in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 for 30 weeks and the top 100 for 58 weeks. In the UK, "Smooth" peaked at number three, spending eight weeks in the top 40. The song also peaked at number three in Ireland, spending ten weeks on the Irish Singles Chart. The song also peaked at number one in Canada for a week, number two in Greece, number four in Australia, and number nine in Austria.
On Billboard magazine's rankings of the top songs of the first 50 years of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, "Smooth" was ranked as the number-two song overall and the number-one rock song in the history of the chart.
"Smooth" received a total of 85,6% yes votes!
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