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[roksim]

Target Acquired!!!!

Arliss hunting down his next target! Go warrior!!!!

[tiredmooncryptid]

Doodle dump

[mywifeleftme]

360: Dusty Springfield // Dusty Springfield's Golden Hits

Dusty Springfield's Golden Hits Dusty Springfield 1966, Philips

These early Dusty Springfield singles really get the “Wall of Sound” production treatment, despite Mr. Spector’s absence from the credits: mixed loud as hell like the kids liked it, screaming string charts, backing vocals en regalia, and a big beat knocking around underneath. Folks love to cite her as the second artist of the British Invasion to hit the U.S. charts, and for cultural reasons that may be significant, but her early sound was indistinguishable from American acts like Lesley Gore and the Shirelles. I don’t know many of the details about her career, but it seems like whoever was managing her was hell-bent on breaking her in the States. Call it a credit to English ingenuity (and specifically arranger Ivor Raymonde) that they were able to give Springfield a knock-out sound that passes for the contemporary Hollywood (or Detroit) product.

Dusty Springfield’s Golden Hits, her first major compilation, is Brill Building / girl group-style music par excellence, with a murderer’s row of hitwriters from both sides of the pond (Bacharach/David, Goffin/King, Beatrice Verdi/Buddy Kaye, etc.). Practically anyone could’ve had chart success with these songs and this packaging (and a number of these were subsequently hits for others), but Springfield had a cannon of a voice on her that makes the best of these numbers undeniable. Those who place her voice with the Arethas and Dionne Warwicks wish she’d been guided towards soul or sophisticated torch songs from the start, but I personally love it when someone vocally overqualified for bubblegum is made to tear into a good bop. “I Only Want to Be With You” is buffeted along by the force of her voice, the violins shrieking like a 33rpm record dragged up to 45; “Little By Little” could’ve been written for a Motown powerhouse like Darlene Love (but scarcely improved on by her); “I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself” moves from the sound of a girl sadly combing her hair before her vanity to Sampson bringing down the temple.

There’s plenty of treacle here, and “Wishin’ and Hopin’” probably set feminism further back than “He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss),” but this is a worthy addition to any ‘60s pop library.

360/365

[massiep]

Gorgeous gorgeous girl 🥺<3

Rita Wu-Arliss

My commission is now opennn, read my pin post for more information 💓

[leighlim]

I was extremely excited when I found out that Vanity Fair career retrospective of Sandra Oh.

Not just that. When I clicked play? There were actual captions. Not just AI captions (which some of the other retrospectives have). I don't think the impact would have been as big if it was just those automated captions popping up on screen.

(Let me know if you have the story behind those captions! Was there someone in Vanity Fair that specifically went out of their way to transcribe the video? Or was it a viewer who contributed?)

PS: Find the video here!

PPS: You may have found me via my quote of Angela Watercutter gushing about Sandra's performance during Season 1 of 'Killing Eve'.

[qwertythepopstarian08]

First off, I’d like to provide a small explanation as to who these characters are. In case you hadn’t seen the post prior to this one, the above concepts (and anything else tagged, “Corruptundra”) were from an old collab blog with @nontoxic-markers.

Disclaimer: Art is incredibly old...

Info under the cut:

The blog isn’t entirely shut down yet, just on a hiatus. We had many concepts for a post-game JSAB AU, titled, “Corruptundra”. It was the story of a dystopian future Paradise, wherein the Treeangle’s energy had been stolen away via the disastrous actions of a villainous organization whose name was never finalized. Going by various titles, such as the “Acolytes of Corruption”, the “Agents of New Paradise,” and the “Tree’s Light”, the group was comprised of formerly pink shapes whose natural corruption was removed as a result of Annihilate’s death and the purification of paradise.

The Acolytes sought to not only regain their own pink energy, but to infect all of Paradise, resulting in a haphazard, partial corruption of the newly healed Tree. This instability caused the Tree to split between pure and corrupt, draining Paradise of its energy and plunging the region into an eternal winter, turning into a Corrupted Tundra, a Corruptundra, so to speak.

The four Hero shapes were forced into hiding as horrific, half-corrupt experiments and infected shapes prowled the lands, forming their own organization, a resistance force now devoted to a new entity of power, the Helios, a golden diamond who was rumored to be the offspring of the sun.

The core members of the group were comprised of Chel, the brilliant square, Arliss, the heir to Barracuda and a member of the Angle bloodline, Steppes, a friendly daughter of a coffeeshop owner, and Steppes, and Snap, Steppe’s twin and the master of stealth.

Armed by nothing but their wits and hope, the quartet sought to purify what’s left of their former home... though the sudden reappearance of a certain pink beat would make sure they had trouble doing so...

More info to be announced.

[jarpadandjensens]

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[serothotin]

I was watching Arli$$ because I can’t have this much time go by without seeing Sandra’s face on my TV and there was a whole ep where her character, Rita Wu, was scared to age

The best thing is to see that ep and compare it to how flawlessly Sandra aged, how she’s still celebrated not just by us but by the media as a desirable woman in Killing Eve 18 years after that episode dropped

It’s just amazing :’)