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my very "problematic" music blog 🎶 I post mostly about non-English music, Eurovision (in May) and pop culture 🇪🇺🇮🇹, she/her, they/them

[grommelot]

I'm going to leave tumblr before the end of the year. Topics most tumblr users love to talk about (i.e. Voltron, Steven Universe, Taylor Swift, Riverdale) are not interesting to me.

[grommelot]

I feel like Anglo-American culture is too hard to understand for me.

[officialaudreykitching-deactiva]

If your body is telling you to avoid certain people, places and things - listen to it. Your body is your compass in the physical world. Learn to flow with it. Stay present and become aware of its messages.

[unillustratedadventures]

This is literally the opposite of the advice that a clinical psychologist would give you in almost every circumstance, for promoting good mental health (with the possible exception of ‘stay present and become aware of [your body’s] messages’, so long as this is construed as ‘practise mindfulness’. However, the positive effects of mindfulness depend on the realisation that you don’t have to listen to your body’s messages, that such messages very often fail to accurately reflect reality, and that following them is often a terrible thing to do.)

[kuzuryuu-course]

I hate it when people say that you’re racist for not being able to pronounce certain names.

I dunno if you know this, but names exist in every language, and I can guarantee that you are not super familiar with all of those languages, including things like pronunciation and spelling in those languages

It’s not racism, it’s the fact that the majority of people aren’t polyglots.

[grommelot]

Taylor Swift's popularity is overrated on this website, but she has never had a #1 song/album and made a concert in my country. Her last album flopped here.

[uildaan]

Please pray for Albania!🤲🏻🇦🇱😔

There was an earthquake in the early morning with 6.4 magnitude, that left 9 people dead and 600 hundreds people injured!

[jung-koook]

i’m devastated 🥺

[the-growing-rose]

Drop some black female and male artists I should listen to.

[grommelot]

Kelela, Azealia Banks, Sudan Archives, Karol Conká, Muzi, Fatoumata Diawara, Dua Saleh, Laura Mvula and KAYTRANADA are very good.

[grommelot]

I want that Anderson .Paak's "Ventura" win a Grammy. He deserves it.

[lanadelreyretroaesthetics]

Congratulations to Lana for being nominated for two Grammys!

Album of the year and Song of the year for Norman Fucking Rockwell!

[grommelot]

I know that people are no longer allowed to have their own tastes any more but usually rap sounds very boring to me. I only like female rappers.

[thegreatestfilms]

lizzo............... received eight...... eight....... Grammy nominations.... eight!!! ..... she is the top nominee.... i hope queen is celebrating

[otherwindow]

Hey quick question do people actually wear jeans indoors at home? Like, as a casual thing to wear? As in you don’t plan on going out or anything you just put jeans on.

[otherwindow]

so many of you are saying yes what the fuck

[fierceawakening]

Why would you not do this?

[grommelot]

Because jeans are too uncomfortable. I wear sweatpants or pajama bottoms at home.

[unibrowzz]

Unpopular opinion of the day: The language rule was total bs and should not be brought back under any circumstances. It gave some countries an unfair advantage and threw others under the bus because they didn’t have a language “favourable” enough to get votes like English or French songs did

[zimena]

Okay, I just have to reblog this because I need to talk about this for a while. While I understand the point that some languages are more widely understood than others, I don’t necessarily find that an unfair advantage. Music is so much more than just lyrics - a good singer, a good show, a good performance is able to hit home with many people even if they don’t understand the words.

Also, let’s not forget the fact that language represents culture and identity. When most countries sing in English, it becomes harder to notice the difference between the UK and, say, Georgia. Where is the fun in that? If most songs sound like generic hits that could be from anywhere, that’s a step towards killing everything that makes Eurovision awesome. At least for me, much of the Eurovision enjoyment is about hearing music from different countries - and what I love most is exactly the fact that I get to hear songs that are wildly different from what Is available in my own home country. And let’s just admit it - language is a part of the general mood of a song, and much of that disappears in the translation process.

So, in short, I’d say get the language rule back, and Eurovision will be much more interesting again.

[grommelot]

"Der Koenig", Klaus Johann Grobe

[omegaplus]

# 3,047

Stereolab “Free Witch And No-Bra Queen” b/w “Speck-Voice” 7″ (2001)

Today on Long Island hit the lower 30′s. Distant low clouds hovering above the horizon in front of a sinking golden, green, and blue twilight. Chilly air, no humidity. Stars and a waning gibbous moon already shining. It’s only early November but it really feels like it’s January 2007 in my heart. Have Nature deal the right cards and I can think back to New Year’s overnights and second-floor meetings at the radio station, techno parties on and off campus, the best moments at The Stony Brook Press, and meeting Cath- for the very first time over a 10 PM dinner and Elliott Smith CD’s. Thick bold Helvetica, flags and stripes of varying shades of blue and purple, greyscale images, and negative white space. The time no longer exists and everyone moved on but the euphoria is still alive when I think about it. “Free Witch And No-Bra Queen” was just a piece of the soundtrack to that era, and a product of a Stereolab run I made shortly after purchasing 2002′s ABC Music: Radio 1 Sessions and 2006′s Fab Four Suture from my final visit at Tower Records.

“Free Witch And No-Bra Queen” starts with a storm and uneven 90-second loop of Sergio Mendes & Bossa Rio’s “Primitivo” (’64) before going into the cat’s meow sampling Paul McCartney & Wings’ “Helen Wheels” (’73), with some additional stumbling, fallouts, quiverings, and faux-trumpets. “Speck-Voice” checks off everything Stereolab is: French pop, funk, Laetitia Sadier’s honeyed voice, and Seventies-pop nostalgia hit right on the bullseye. Both amazing sides were written by Sadier and Tim Gane, and this 7″ was sold exclusively during their 2001 Sound Dust tour.

Asterisk: that’s a portrait of Charles Baudelaire she’s wearing on her pendant.

[grommelot]

MEDUZA and Jess Glynne need to collab.