What are you listening to right now?

The Wiggles covering Tame Impala’s Elephant was an epic Like A Version moment. :star_struck:

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The Hottest 100 has been branded a “national institution” and “the world’s greatest music democracy”.[1][36] The countdown receives millions of votes every year– in 2019, a record of 3.2 million were cast.[37] In 2022, one in two Australians engaged with the Hottest 100 campaign, and 3.6 million people listened on the day, according to national ratings.

That sounds like I should look into it then, they have a list of all the winners too. Thank you for pointing me to it!

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I found this Russian string band which is pretty cool. I believe they are all covers, which usually is not my thing. But since they are mostly covers of Russian songs that I have no knowledge of they feel like originals (although you can still feel how the melody is usually composed for singing)

I particularly liked one of the songs and found the original, which blew my mind.

I have no opinion on the Grammy’s.

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“Depiction Itself Is Not Enough - My Thoughts on Banshee Hollow - EP

Post-related warning(s) for: topics pertaining to drug addiction and spoilers.

Video-related warning(s) for: references to drug addiction, suicidal ideation, and internalized ableism; and strong language.

(These thoughts were originally posted elsewhere on 10/18/2024.)

Summary

https://youtu.be/VRtaWs-DkV0?si=-idgbxqX7bXKtC3d

Themes involving mental illness catch my attention more than most other ones due to their relative scarcity and relation to my own disabilities. Once my eyes are on them, how they are presented dictates whether they will resonate or disappoint. Banshee Hollow - EP by Banshee does the former.

The basis of said extended play’s evocativeness is how the representations of its distressed escapist’s desperate high - the dramatic shifts in that escapist’s delivery of lyrics, as well as the gradual changes to what instruments it features and in what ways they are played - flow well together.

That surprise-filled cohesion acts as the fuel for a rewarding process of interpretation which revolves around working out what sides of the protagonist’s mind are active at any given moment and the degrees to which they are. Seeing it to its end yields a reminder of an “ugly” strife’s value.

Undergoing mental struggles, whether they are about exhausting, infuriating attempts to please society’s desire for “normality” or immense sadness and anger over traumatic transgressions, grants a unique level of resilience and compassion that is suppressed by pressured-into silence too much.

I don’t think it’s appreciated enough just how beautiful the music in Sonic Frontiers is.

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My dad would sing this when I was a kid. I just showed it to my son earlier this year and he loved it. He even wanted me to print out the lyrics so he could practice it.

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Ok I’ll be the one

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This is an anti AI “art” track. Aurora herself explains it thus -

This song begins, like quite a few of my songs, very earthy, down to earth, in the rhythmic and in the vocals. But then the song takes you on a journey. In my mind then it is, that even art is now being attacked by the technical, and the soul and essence of it is threatened, which I think is very dangerous. And this happens in the song, which is kind of fun. It’s called “Starvation”, and it is about our soul starving.

I fucking love this woman!