#corsaircornelia

[sympolite]

Ziltoid, Invader Zim, Peridot, rate em

ZILTIOD:

Not My Type | Alright | Cute | Adorable | Pretty | Gorgeous | LORD MERCY

Good taste in coffee.

ZIM:

Not My Type | Alright | Cute | Adorable | Pretty | Gorgeous | LORD MERCY

HE’S A TRAGEDY. I CAN’T NOT FUCK HIM.

PERIDOT:

Not My Type | Alright | Cute | Adorable | Pretty | Gorgeous | LORD MERCY

look, real talk: she’s a snooty, analytic dweeb who’s learning to be Nice and her outfit is a+

[sympolite]

12, 15, 86

12: what's your favorite planet?

TrES-2b. just... look at it. it’s Goth World.

15: go google a weird space fact and tell us what it is!

TrES-2b reflects less light than coal or black paint. THAT’S GOTH.

86: do you like concept albums? which ones?

yeah, i enjoy ones with a sense of humor, tbh; i don’t talk much about Devin Townshend or listen to him much, but puttin’ Ziltoid The Omniscient on every once in a while is GREAT (same w/ Zappa’s Joe’s Garage)

[cosmo-ren]

corsaircornelia

 what would be some useful things to put on my...

“Not to be confused with Kylo Ren”

dont

[sympolite]

happy b day! =)

ahh, thanks, cornelia!

[robotgoat]

No, you looooove it. B^)

:(

[twocubes]

how did you get the robot voices to sing steven universe? what programs or plugins did you use?

i found the API for the robot voices in the depths of the mac developer library and the rest is over here (heres the text for the steven universe version (sorta))

[not-trans-gali]

Nice troloing

ummm???? thank you???

[skeppsbrott]

@corsaircornelia​ (because that’s just Not a post I’m going to reblog)

Let me start off by saying that 1) my knowledge of the beatles as far as their discography goes is kind of limited, and that 2) black folks DID indeed invent rock music.

With that said...

While most of the factual stuff in that post is, well, factually correct, there’s absolutely NO context whatsoever. Also, it’s a pretty gross oversimplification/misrepresentation of the issue at hand.

Like, for one thing, the Beatles never claimed to have made “Roll Over Beethoven”, “Come Together”, “Please Mr. Robinson”, etc.. Covers weren’t just an accepted part of rock music at the time, but it was expected of musicians to primarily perform the scores of other artists. I don’t think I can underscore how little creative power artists had in the western music industry in the early sixties. Usually songs were created by a) a literal conveyor belt of song writers and producers, or b) by black artists before Rock ‘N’ Roll died in the late fifties. Chuck Berry and Little Richard wrote and performed their own music (as did a lot of Jazz artists before them) in a way white musicians didn’t, certainly not before, and not until the Beatles made the idea of the artist as a creator acceptable in the minds of studios. While we have outliers such as Bob Dylan or Marvin Gaye, it wasn’t really EXPECTED that artists write their own music until Beatles and the Beach Boys made it a thing in the late 60′s.

The reasons the Beatles are hailed as such a huge thing isn’t because they were the greatest band ever, or because they made such amazing renditions of “Roll Over Beethoven”. The reason is that for whatever reason they became huge, and after writing their own songs with great success, studio folks decided to give them creative freedom. The Beatles were good enough musicians to make use of this creative freedom, and started creating albums which COMPLETELY CHANGED POPULAR (and especially rock) MUSIC. That’s the big deal! And regardless of whether you like them or not, that still stands true.

The Beatles were part of a scene in GB that loved and idolized american, blues based rock. Which was, you guessed it, black. Though this didn’t matter as much to some brit dudes when visual media and music was still pretty separate but I digress. As far as I’m aware they were always happy to point out how influenced they were by black musicians, and even then Chuck Berry is STILL hailed as the father of the idea of the rock musician as we see it today. If you want to get outraged at white people “stealing” black music, look at Bill Haley and similar artists, who literally made covers that would be played on white radio and thus profit off of black artists. Look at the fact that with a few, sparse exceptions, rock music today is almost entirely white! 

I constantly thank God for black people making rock and roll happen, and I’ve never seen anyone who’s actually got the slightest understanding of popular music history claim anything else than that yes, black people invented rock music, and that yes, white musicians got way more credit than deserved for playing it. We can argue all we want about the quality of Beatles’ music, but that doesn’t change that they’re still the biggest thing to happen to rock music since Chuck Berry. I’d argue they’re even more important (justly so? Maybe not) than Chuck Berry, because while he introduced the idea of the rock artist, they established it as the rock artist standard. Chuck Berry planted the idea, the Beatles and their peers (Led Zeppelin etc.) made that a sustainable reality.

Like seriously, let’s stop the Beatles defamation league thing going on here. You might not like them, and you may not be a fan of their music, but they DID change the landscape of popular music. Could they have done it without their black predecessors? Not at all, but then again, no one is saying that.

ETA: Also, OP claiming that ALL THE BEATLES EVER DID WAS PLAGIARIZING is some straight up bullshit, and really doesn’t help their cause. Black people, feel free to return the glory to black artists, but lying about it won’t help you and will only make the people defending Beatles as the Greatest Thing Ever (which is... I don’t ever see that? People rather uniformly agree that the Beatles on a whole probably weren’t the best, just the most influential) more prone to dismiss you entirely.