#yfip: loves to be tagged but is too scared to tag other people

[rogue-coyote]

ty for the tag @gunfucked !! music rambling below 

i’m so uncomfortable tagging ppl because i don’t want to be annoying so... feel free to do this if you want to !!!

who was your first favorite artist?

my teenage years were spent thirsting for trent reznor and angsting to nine inch nails

who are your current favorites?

the weeknd, laurel, son lux, florence + the machine, hans zimmer, lord huron, mitski. idk this is hard for me bc it’s rare i end up liking everything an artist creates, and i tend to bounce around drastically.

are you into musicals? which ones/why not?

fun if they’re not cringe (see: hamilton). hope that helps! 

ok but real talk: phantom of the opera is my undying love, fell in love with the objectively mediocre but subjectively fun and sexy gerard butler movie, then saw it live for my 13th birthday and again in new york. traumatized kids will really be like *relates to the phantom and cries every time*

also, phantom of the paradise... if you know you know, and if you don’t, please watch asap. les mis, chicago and wicked are all quite good too. overall musicals are not really my first choice bc i get second-hand embarrassment very easily but they’re ok once in awhile. my tolerance for cringefail is low and unfortunately a lot of musicals are very much cringefail.

are there songs you consider so special you only listen to them very rarely?

yea... third eye (florence + the machine)

what’s your preferred way of listening to music? (time of day, medium, situation)

i like to study or work on assignments with chillhop/jazzhop/instrumental playlists, typically with headphones on. i absolutely cannot think about anything else while playing songs with lyrics so i only play lyrical tunes when i’m doing non-brain tasks, drawing or making graphics. genre is whatever, if it slaps then it slaps

what would you say is the most niche music you listen to?

oldies, babey! 

what’s your favourite music related movie/tv show that’s not a musical?

does the pianist count??? swing kids?? velvet goldmine????? idk

albums or playlists?

literally too many external and internal factors to give a straight answer. depends on the context and how i feel and the alignment of the planets on that particular day and

favourite albums?

how big, how blue, how beautiful (florence + the machine), high as hope (florence + the machine), diamond dogs (david bowie), rumours (fleetwood mac), dogviolet (laurel), the suburbs (arcade fire), after hours (the weeknd), my dear melancholy (the weeknd), animals (pink floyd), trouble will find me (the national), masse mensch material (rome), lanterns (son lux), the fragile (nine inch nails), shallow bed (dry the river), am (arctic monkeys), dragonslayer (sunset rubdown), wasteland, baby! (hozier), pure heroine (lorde), cannibals with cutlery (to kill a king) dune & blade runner 2049 (hans zimmer), so many video game and movie osts

is there an artist you’re trying to get into?

nah bro i’m just here to vibe

whose music do you find overhyped?

kpop, t-swift, most of the radio darlings even though i don’t mind their music - it’s all just very formulaic, empty in a late capitalist way. also fuck the beatles forever and for all time. 

what’s an underrated song?

literally anything laurel does... life worth living changed my life

what’s a thing a bunch of songs do that you love every time?

whatever the weeknd has going on in my dear melancholy... yea. send tweet

what song is better acoustic?

i generally find acoustic covers really uncomfortable in a secondhand embarrassment kind of way but i can tolerate iron (woodkid)

what’s the worst song of all time?

idk about all time, but stressed out by twenty one pilots gives me homicidal urges. congrats you made the most annoying, soul sucking song of all time about our annoying, soul sucking reality. 

do you put individual songs on repeat? if so, for how long and how often?

yes and until i physically cannot listen anymore w/o becoming ill. usually its because of ~character feelings~

do you make your own playlists? if so, what’s your most entertaining playlist title?

i have many playlists and none of them are for entertainment, they are all the auditory equivalent of self-flagellation over ocs or my favourite sad boys.

i think hypokeimenon is my all-time favourite but like... all of my daud playlists slap. the triumphant fall is next but only two people on my blog care about an obscure lore character from destiny 2 and i’m both of them

headphones or earbuds?

headphones at home, airpods at work

do you always sing the lead vocal or do you harmonize sometimes? if you harmonize, do you ever invent your own harmony?

oh girl i don’t understand anything about music. it’s like modern alchemy to me. harmonize deez nuts

a musical confession

people who only listen to one genre are freaks