Lynn · Playlist · 23 songs
Cosimo Galluzzi
RMH
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will byers stan first human second
Jules of Nature
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Claire Keane
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i don't do bad sauce passes
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todays bird
Three Goblin Art
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Lynn · Playlist · 23 songs
Hyperpop! (or something)
For those (like me) who can never seem to understand genre, I think that hyperpop is the perfect place <3.
Hyperpop seems like it is supposed to be genreless - it’s definition as an exagerrated version of pop music already colors outside the lines of a genre a lot already just because pop music is already so loosely defined. Pop music can mean something as simple as “popular music,” but for me means a strong melody, autotune, lyrics (typically about romantic love) with not too much substance, something you don’t need to think to like.
For me, hyperpop is a saturation of the music I am the most familiar with. I’ve always liked pop music like Troye Sivan... for whom I stand on firm ground that that was the artist who made me fall in love with music.
Because of him, I got know a few of my favorite songs of all time (and meet one of my best friends of all time and also come to terms with my sexuality <3): Flamingo by Kero Kero Bonito and LEMONADE by SOPHIE.
“How many shrimps do you have to eat / before you make your skin turn pink / eat too much and you’ll get sick / shrimps are pretty rich”
In terms of rhythm, I’m unsure how much Flamingo is hyperpop (it’s certainly plenty playful and groovy... ), but the lyrics certainly seem to be. It’s almost anti-pop... the way the lyrics are like nursery rhyme as opposed to about more adult themes. I don’t think that mainstream pop music is usually about the self, but this song is about learning to love yourself as you truly are.
“Black, white, green or blue / show off your natural hue / flamingo, oh, oh, oh / if you’re multicolored that’s cool too / you don’t need to change / it’s boring being the same / flamingo, oh, oh, oh / you’re pretty either way”
🦩🦩🦩 https://open.spotify.com/track/3AaiEsiqHO2ylnnOdWninE?si=31c6d7d587434f28 🦩🦩🦩
Hyperpop is also sexy, heavily queer because it embraces sexuality. It’s a queer space by definition... anti-pop... something to get away from the straightness of what plays on the radio....
When I first listened to LEMONADE, I was immediately drawn to SOPHIE’s high pitched voice. It was my first exposure to how electronic music could really be. Like lemonade, it’s sweet and sour at the same time, and leaves a taste in your mouth that leaves you wanting more.
It’s bright and so much fun and I like to listen to it only every so often because then it still feels like I’m listening to it for the first time. I think that it’s just the perfect amount of noise. Not so noisy that I feel like I’m one of those rats that’s brain is destroyed from the music because it’s so much (I hope this is actually a real study that I’m remembering - where they played rats different kinds of music and the music that had a lot going on, like hyperpop, rewired their brains and messed them up or something).
🍋🍋🍋 https://open.spotify.com/track/390ey4VzRGd88FHKCIflG7?si=e4521998314c4680 🍋🍋🍋
I never want to discredit the lyrics when it comes to hyperpop, but I think something beautiful about the genre is that often times the lyrics aren’t meant to be discernible.
//Reflection
One of my favorite albums (in the ever) is mono. by RM.
I recently learned that RM, the pseudonym of Korean musician Kim Namjoon of BTS, sounds like aleum (아름) a Korean word for beauty. I’ve always thought that he has a beautiful way of writing about life, about making the mundane seem special.
I consider this album (or, a, I’m pretty sure he refers to it as such, playlist) a forever friend. Do you also have an album that you think of as a best friend album? An album you can listen to when you’re happy, when you’re sad, when you’re everything, when you’re nothing? One that you’re convinced will always be your favorite? This is mine! It’s a friend for every situation, but especially for when I am especially in need of comfort that isn’t from myself.
It takes me exactly one mono.-listen to walk to my favorite spot on the river, I like to sit there for another mono.-listen, and then walk back home. It takes three mono.s for what I think is is sufficient self-not-reflection but more like for remembering that I’m a person... self-actualization? It’s a good unit of measurement for the things I like to do (three mono.s is around an hour and 15 minutes)! And about 6/7 of a mono. to walk to the duck pond I live near... 18/7 for the total..
A lot of the songs that RM makes as a solo act feel like they’re putting my loneliness into words, in turn making me feel less lonely. An Oh. I’m not alone in feeling what I feel.
Right now, I’m overwhelmed with the lyrics in Life, a song off of his first project, which is self-titled. Why would there be no antonym of loneliness? Perhaps it’s because we never have a moment of no-loneliness until we die (translated from the Korean lyrics 외로움의 반대말은 왜 없을까 / 사람은 죽을 때까지 안 외로울 때가 없어서일지 몰라 via https://doolsetbangtan.wordpress.com/2018/06/28/life/). My mind always go to this lyric when writing and thinking about my loneliness and my ever-present desire for companionship.
His song Reflection I think perfectly reflects the utility of his music in my life. It’s about the thoughts he has while at a park that he visits when he is overwhelmed or sad or both. Although I will genuinely listen to his music whenever, like as in to the what would you bring with you on a deserted island question I would bring mono. .... his music is perfect for these moments when I need to force myself to confront my thoughts. Journalling music!
슬며시 다가와서 나의 손을 잡는 fear and the fear that gently approaches me and holds my hand
세상은 절망의 또 다른 이름 [ireum] The world is another name for despair
나의 키는 지구의 또 다른 지름 [jireum] My height is another diameter of Earth
나는 나의 모든 기쁨이자 시름 [sireum] I’m my whole happiness and my worries
매일 반복돼 날 향한 좋고 싫음 [sireum] They repeat every day, the likes and dislikes directed at myself *The above four lines end-rhyme (-reum).
(the above five lines copied from https://doolsetbangtan.wordpress.com/2018/06/16/reflection/)
I’m always struck by the rawness of his lyrics... like this fear that he writes about... what he writes gently approaches me and holds my hand! And my heart. And my soul. And my everything.... thank you....
There are many, many, many RM lyrics that I carry in my heart! And I could go on and on...
The song that I think is my favorite of his (at least, off of mono.) is called uhgood. The title in Korean is 어긋 (pronounced as uh-geut) which means: “(1) fall short of expectations and (2) miss each other (by taking different routes)” (quoted from https://doolsetbangtan.wordpress.com/2018/10/25/uhgood/). It’s really interesting that there is this contrast between the English title and the Korean title; uhgood is “good” yet uhgeut seems to be “bad.”
Equal parts dreamlike (sound) and real (lyric), this song is so beautiful. To me, it is about the pains of self-discovery; My ideal and reality, they are too far apart. But, I still want to cross the bridge and reach me. The real me, the real me (translated from the Korean lyrics 내 이상과 현실 / 너무 멀고 먼 / 그래도 다리 건너 / 내게 닿고 싶어 / 진짜 내게 (yeah, yeah) / 진짜 내게 (yeah) via https://doolsetbangtan.wordpress.com/2018/10/25/uhgood/).
*A note that there is sooo much that a simple translation like this can not capture. There are often translator’s notes that come with the lyrics. Such as, at the bottom of the lyrics quoted above, the translator mentions that due to “I” and “you” sounding similar in the Korean language, one could hear the above lyrics as being second-person instead of first-person. Again, the relatability! This is part of why this song touches my heart so much.
A lot of his songs talk about self-hatred, like Reflection, which repeats the phrase “I wish I could love myself,” thus I am drawn towards his sentiments of hope.
I can’t let go of me who I know as myself, because you, in my head, are so whole like this, because you are so perfect (translated from the Korean lyrics 내가 아는 나를 난 놓아줄 수가 없어 / 내 머릿속의 넌 이렇게 온전한데 / 완전한데 via https://doolsetbangtan.wordpress.com/2018/10/25/uhgood/, the translator notes that the “you” used here is the ideal “me” that RM is referencing).
All of my favorite RM lyrics (there’s more ... like the whole song of Trivia: Love and forever rain) are so touching and meaningful to me in that they seem to capture a picture of my heart, and feel like a warm hand on my back.
Lynn · Playlist · 7 songs
Think of a lone duck floating in the water under a grey sky, a wet boot, or the way spring wind chills you to the bone... / the absence of cherry blossoms? Today I want to the park and watched the ducks... tucked my legs up on the bench with me when they got too close. It was cloudy and then sunny and then cloudy and then even more cloudy. The uncertainty of April is always my favorite and my least favorite (it’s like me & I just want sun and the outside my bedroom window to bloom). Keep heart, I want to live and enjoy the world but schoolwork and finals and my invisible motivation... I want to live fully and freely.
(Songs that make me feel like I’m wrapped in a warm sun blanket)