#favorite artists

I miss Tumblr’s golden age bc of the music I got introduced to: Death Grips, Azealia Banks, Mykki Blanco, Princess Nokia (fka Wavy Spice), Cakes da Killa, Dai Burger, Junglepussy, CupcakKe, Kelela, Zebra Katz, FKA Twigs, Maluca and so many more.

Fun times, popping artists.

I’m listening to a Halsey song, 11 Minutes, which has always makes me cry, not just because of the story behind it, but because it shows me my biggest fear when it comes to my marriage: him dying in a car accident on the way home from work.

But it now for me it has a little new meaning, now that she’s got diagnoses and treatment options and is hoping to help others. I’ve often cried at my central nervous system, “why aren’t you here?” when something fails to regulate.

Sometimes chronic pain and everything that comes with it feels like a car crash that won’t stop.

There are so many Halsey songs that resonate, though, so it’s easy to find something that fits me.

villainous-queer:

radwolf76:

icarus-suraki:

lew-basnight:

The thing re Weird Al that I think is worth recognizing is illustrated by the Spike Jones Jr quote “One of the things that people don’t realize about Dad’s kind of music is, when you replace a C-sharp with a gunshot, it has to be a C-sharp gunshot or it sounds awful.“ It’s like really good parody has to do it all backwards and in heels, and Weird Al gets in there and counts the syllables and pours over the phrasing and word choices so that it all sounds precisely like the original, and then re-records the song, acknowledging the tiniest details of the recording, and also makes it a highly detailed spoof of an adjacent and absurdly unrelated piece of popular culture. I think really good parody has a love for the source materiel that’s impossible to fake. It takes real musicianship (or craft) to do and it usually gets tossed aside as “novelty” recording.

You gotta be fuckin’ good if you want to fuck it up.

Al will also try to reuse the original music video sets if they’re available, and bring back the same background actors.

I assure you, in the music industry, Weird Al is highly respected. If he makes a parody of your song it’s acknowledged that it means you have ‘made it’ as an artist. Rappers have commented on how ‘scary good’ at rapping he is. His range is right up there with Danny Elfman in terms of how incredibly huge it is. Accordion players have commented that he’sinsane on the accordion, and does it while jumping around on stage, I may add. He learns from his mistakes and to top it all off he’s a really kind man (I’ve met him).

Meant to post this yesterday, but Daddy was spoiling me all day long like a princess