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My guardians angel's got wings of tinfoil and cigarettes found in the street My angel's got eyes like a housing project He was born inside a guitar And i can't forget his red lips and eyelashes And his "How'd we end up where we are?" Transangelic Exodus - Ezra Furman

#somehow i deal with stress through music and drawing #art #lyriumwolf #ezra furman #transangelic exodus #trans #angel

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RIP Anthony Head (1954-2026)

nickyandmikey

when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳

nickyandmikey

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ONE DIRECTION I DON’T KNOW WHO THIS “HARRY” PERSON IS GO WATCH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND CLARENCE CLEMONS KISS ON STAGE RIGHT NOW

irrelevantlyvalid

op is the only valid person i’ve ever met. everyone else needs to come to the light

chokolattejedi

Okay, but this is really important: Bruce Springsteen occupied this really weird place in music history. His songs were all from this pessimistic, nihilistic view of an America that had let him down:

Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.

Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.

It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.

Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.

So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.

Passages from American Popular Music by Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman

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I used to think that Bruce and Clarence kissing onstage was exuberance, showmanship, and telling racist homophobes to fuck off. Like, they picked up a certain kind of audience and went “Racist homophobes? Not in our house!” And started the kissing then but then I actually looked it up and

https://www.gq.com/story/this-fucked-me-up-bruce-springsteen-singing-about-clarence-clemons

It was a story where… we remade the city. We remade the city, shaping it into the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldn’t have been such an exceptional thing. - Bruce Springsteen

It wasn’t about showmanship or rejecting bigots or anything it was just. Damn right that was one of the loves of his life and damn right he was going to kiss him onstage

It gets me a little that Bruce has had a divorce, that he’s been married twice, but he loved Clarence for the rest of Clarence’s life and will presumably love him the rest of his own

Clemons said in one interview. “Bruce and I looked at each other and didn’t say anything, we just knew. We knew we were the missing links in each other’s lives. He was what I’d been searching for.” In another version of the story, Clemons says “He looked at me, and I looked at him, and we fell in love.”

I’m having some emotions about it!

“He was elemental in my life,“ Springsteen adds, “and losing him was like losing the rain.”

Not just! I love you pure and deep and true but! I am going to love you like that in front of the whole damn world!

We have fewer narratives about taking risks and making statements for platonic love rather than romantic and supposedly it would be easier to downplay this onstage than romance and! They refused! They fucking refused! In front of hundreds of thousands of people, over the course of years! In the spotlight, in word and deed, I love you!

God I’m not okay about it

ramshacklefey

Now I’m mad that this is not among any of the things I was ever told about this artist.

jbbartram-illu

I knew about this in general (& via all those fabulous photos), but this just adds even more beautiful context <3

eregyrn-falls

Just to add to the pile: this was the cover of Springsteen’s break-through album Born to Run, in 1975:

I mean, will you LOOK at this:

This was the pic chosen for the album cover from an extensive photoshoot, too. A few others:

There’s a lot more online if you search. They’re all pretty amazing. But the photographer is right, the one chosen for the album cover just pops.

blightbright

friendly reminder that solas' goofy hat in halamshiral is the helm of the drasca, the hats an anti-imperial rebel group wore fighting against tevinter and against the orlesian empire AND possibly modified it to make his elf ears stick out too

because even if nobody catches the reference, the Rebel Wolf is committed to saying fuck you to empire

hollytree33

ANd i should finish this one

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sarahsspectrums

Serena x Solas

"You change...everything."

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emcolbs

yeah

tompodowski

like can anyone fucking hear me...............

renlyslittlerose

Kyoto Day 1~

corseque

Remember how the Tarot card that represented Solas falling in love was “the hierophant,” the ultimate religious leader, this when 2 of your other companions with cards in the tarot deck can fully become Dragon Age Pope during the game. I love that they reserved the Hierophant for him because, well, yeah. He quietly outranks any Pope, religiously speaking.

I also love that this card matches with Female Lavellan’s character card, like he’s gently taking her hand, what she’s offering. The both of them holding staffs and in a peaceful forest.

But there’s another layer because that card, while called “the Heirophant,” actually had the iconography of “The Fool” card, the first card in the deck, the card of starting over and youthful optimism.

So combined, the card of him falling in love has this complicated double meaning of “god himself is a hopeful fool because he fell in love.”

I love the comparison between this card and his alternate card, how deep and obvious an impact you can make on him. Anyway I love when the iconography and symbolism in a series Is Actually That Deep. Bless.