demo soulmate

i talk abt the same things all the time she/they

[demolitionsoulmate]

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NAME : Molly PRONOUNS : she/they || 18 || 🇦🇺🦘

I have Cerebral Palsy and a vision impairment (and post abt it a fair bit)

Mainly a blog abt life stuff and bands i like maybe some other fandoms

BANDS/ARTISTS I LIKE

My Chemical Romance | Placebo | HIM | Manic Street Preachers | Ezra Furman | Garbage | The Cure | Pulp | Chappell Roan | Suede

OTHER NON MUSIC FANDOMS

Interview With The Vampire | Doctor Who | Musical Theatre

Feel free to sends asks n stuff abt anything im into!

[demolitionsoulmate]

Aussie ppl what are your good things predictions? 

[placebocomments]

Brian Molko looks like a cool lesbian aunt. I love it

[cordspaghetti]

why is everyone calling gerard a girl like did i fucking miss them coming out 😭

im not qualified to answer this

[spiny-norman]

The trans and lesbian flags color picked from these two pictures of Nicky Wire

[demolitionsoulmate]

start my hsc trails tmw brain wont shut up

[theaterard]

its so great how gerard is a girls name to me. like gerard butler? yeah i’ve heard of her too

[mooned-knights]

we have to hold the line on misandry not being real. it's getting scary out there

[koiagain]

U guys are like Tumblr users to me

[demolitionsoulmate]

i don't know anything about australian culture/politics😞 tell me about your guy's politics and ill tell you about ours?

okay well long post

right--------------------------------- centre---------------------------left

one nation --------- liberal----------------labor---------------greens

liberal and labor are the major parties

labor and liberal are the two main parties

one nation is on the rise scary the leader pauline hanson is basically like trump or at least she tries to be including saying that she needa to stand up for the most opressed group in the country men

greens are our left leaning party wanting free uni and stuff like that the only party who doesnt think the national disability insurance scheme to be cut and the only party not in trumps pockets parroting ableist rhetoric

liberal may lose the spot as the more popular right wing party to one nation atleast thats what everyone is worried abt bc liberal party is right wing and one nation is far right

labor in power rn after a landslide defeat of the liberal party is meant to be the left wing party to liberals right wing but they are really quite centrist my family were stern labor voters until everything with the NDIS now my family tend to vote greens

very basic description and i may have gotten somethings wrong but yea

[captain-price-returns]

Arrest everyone involved.

[captain-price-returns]

Money saved: maybe a couple million dollars.

People killed: around three quarters of a million.

[yamelcakes]

world’s most evil man and I’m not being hyperbolic

[demolitionsoulmate]

jdb mentioned in class

[lestatbf]

its amazing that everyones first question about gerard was the gay thing and not the girl thing

[demolitionsoulmate]

i need to dress better cooler gayer

[demolitionsoulmate]

gen how hard is the atar/hsc system to understand for ppl who arent from australia/nsw

[demolitionsoulmate]

hsc trailss stress me out

[demolitionsoulmate]

A thought/opinion ? (No particular subject)

i think music streaming has dractically changed how people interact with music/get fav bands/discover new music infact i wrote a short piece on this for class

i dont think my opinions are uncommon but if anyone whats to read my piece

The Opening track

My earliest memories consist of me sitting on the lap of someone much larger than me whilst we watched music videos ranging from Tom Jones to ABBA to the Rolling Stones on the old family PC.   what is there to do when you have a baby after your youngest is just turned 18 and you were told that this baby may never see?   where you focus on the auditory instead of the visual, what else is there to do when you can't see the television, your mum's phone screen is too tiny and you can't possibly move your face any closer to the family PC.  Why, you listen to music?   It is this advice from doctors that would foreshadow the shelves full of vinyl records.

Whilst my music taste has changed from that toddler who used to sing “What's up pussycat” on her Pop’s knee, music is still fundamental and how I interact with people.  The first question I asked someone new is “What’s your favorite band or artist?”.   However, I am finding in today's digital age less and less people have a favourite.  You don’t see bedrooms covered from floor to ceiling in band posters that was commonplace 15-20 years ago, rather most of my friends have their music contained to a single square on their phone.  My bedroom has an entire wall dedicated to Gerard Way, the lead singer of My Chemical Romance, which me and my mum spent 6 hours blutacking them to the wall.  The shelves filled with records and CD’s that my more digitally inclined friends feel the need to sift through every time they visit. 

The A Side: Surface Level

In the digital world most music discovery is done through platforms such as Spotify, TikTok or some other platform I have yet to discover. One is given the freedom of choice with these platforms having access to every song ever made and every song you've ever listened to.  They know everything about you, making it completely personal!  Even the phase you had when you were 12 and considered the Glee cast version to always be better than the original.  Does this true freedom lead to music based decision paralysis?  Does it lead to music apathy?   with the same algorithm feeding you 50 different songs from 50 different bands.   Does it limit your ability to connect with the band, the fans or anyone outside of your own personalised algorithm?

Shuffling through a 500-song playlist removes the story that fits in an album.  The shuffle button my worst enemy as it allows you to sit there for minutes on end trying to find the perfect song for your individual experience.  The 500 song playlist filled with artists who have no shared history removes the listener from connecting with other fans and removes the ability to understand the artist’s context, their past series of events that led them to create this album. 

Turning it over

Fans of the algorithm would assume based on My Chemical Romance being my favourite band, that I too would like bands that the algorithm pairs with MCR such as Fall out Boy and Parramore.  However, my personal way of music discovery is to examine what I like about a band.  I hesitate to call myself a MCR fan as it is gerard ways aesthetic and lyrics that draw me back time and time again.  

The B side: The Back Catalogue

Way takes inspiration from the alternative rock scene that came out of ‘90’s Britain such as Placebo, Garbage and Manic Street Preachers.  Brian Molko from Placebo and Nicky Wire from Manic Street Preachers helped create Way’s obsession with androgyny in rock music. Making these connections and creating a map of the past help strengthen my love for a band.  It requires discernment to go through interviews, blurry concert pictures to find any crumb of evidence that showcases the connection between these bands.

This discernment is lost in the age of the playlist with infinite space; there is no need to connect with the art you consume.  Whereas physical media requires you to truly value the art you consume because eventually you will run out of space and / or money.  Everything about an album is curated, from the design of the sleeve, the tracklist and even the colour of the record itself.  It is created to not only satisfy one’s own need for music but the visual element of looking through the lyric booklet or the physical movement of having to put the record on create a deeper connection.  It allows one to examine all of the tiny details that go into making an album.  Forcing the listener to relinquish the control that is granted by the algorithm but it allows for the deeper connections between listener, fan, artist to be made.

The Needle Drop

Physical media is becoming more prevalent as can be seen from the bookshops that have started to sell records.  The rise in record collecting becoming a hobby once again correlates with people's need for connection that is taken away in the digitalised world.  I barely pay attention to every lyric unless I have put on a record, the inconvenience of it grants people the autonomy that can be taken away in the digital world.  If we lose autonomy over our own interests, what is left?  This rise in going back to analogue as the algorithm gets stronger implies that the past may just be the end of the future.

whilist i dont think this is a perfect summary of my thoughts (i wrote it under time) but none the less gets my point across