#isso good

[artnerd1123]

Every once in a while I hyperfocus on an owl city song for a few weeks. It pops serotonin direct to the brain. Currently it's Vanilla Twilight, and Take To the Skies to a lesser extent

You’re incredibly valid and owl city is jus..... *chef kiss*

[zepperonis]

replaying EB-Zero again bc I love dying!!!!!!

[nacsygen]

IT’S FEELINGS JAM TIME ABOUT SEVENTEEN (SAYTHENAME)

god, it’s been a while since i had a svt proper feelings jam.  probably before my last blog (you know, the one i had for five years and had 2,000 followers on) got mercilessly murked.  part of that’s because i kinda had moved on in my interests, and partly because seventeen’s music was no longer particularly compelling to me.  (which is probably a big part of why i had moved on.) 17 have put out an almost appalling amount of musical content in the three and a half years since debut, and i’m gonna be honest, a lot of it since DWC has felt and sounded an awful lot like filler.  

and the thing is, more than anything else - more than my appreciation of their group dynamic and appreciation of their sheer unity, more than my love of individual members as personas and as people, more than my appreciation of their sheer tenacity and willpower, more than my fondness of them as if they were my own kids i’m proud of, definitely way more than appreciating them for how they look - what i loved first and foremost and always has been when their musical talents shine.  

woozi, lee jihoon is, no superlative irony or overdramatic stan culture language, a goddamn genius and a prodigy, both lyrically and as a composer and producer.  he’s the core, but 17 has many incredibly talented lyricists and songwriters and composers.  woozi’s Simple was a raw masterwork of what it’s like to be someone in your early 20s struggling with depression, while also sounding incredibly mature in its composition and instrumentation and balance, almost like U2 when they were still good. My I was and is and always will be, in its wholeness between the song and the choreo, a piece of goddamn straight up unique Art, as one would expect of our resident Artist, Xu Minghao, and our Piece of Art, Wen Junhui. My I is up there in my best and most important and symbolic kpop/cpop songs/performances of all time. wonwoo is the best rapper in 17 and every full verse he writes himself is the best part of any song he’s in (AND he has a beautiful singing voice! unfair.)  hoshi’s a multi-faceted genius in his own right, both as a choreographer and a composer and as a singer, and every song he has a hand in creating is immediately danceable and a Good Fucking Time.  dino’s an amazing writer, rapper, singer, choreographer and dancer, our maknae lee chan, a soloist in the making, our magnificent quintuple threat.  vernon’s “lizzie velasquez” mixtape, for an example for him, even though it’s coming up on five years in the past now, is still a raw and beautiful and deeply personal but also welcoming to relate exploration of growing up mixed race in a country that fetishizes but also stares at and others you - to this day lasting proof that he’s so, so much more than a pretty face with a good swaggery voice for effect.  seungcheol is capable of writing amazing turns of phrase while keeping all of everybody else’s plates spinning at the same time too, AND he can sing.  i could go on, but seventeen is capable of making GOOD FUCKING MUSIC, is what i’m saying.

but...there’s been filler. a lot of filler.  which i wholly blame as a studio-influenced thing and the pressure to push out comeback after comeback to maintain their top-three spot and stay in the limelight while the sun is up.  but this latest album...oh, it’s so good.  it’s so good.  and maybe it’s because they had months instead of weeks to work on it, maybe it’s because the work load got split more off of just woozi’s small but determined shoulders, but every single song is gold (yes, even “chilly” in its way) and feels finished.  it’s a six-song 18 minute mini album but every song in it feels fully finished, not rushed or like filler, and fully in character for itself and the performers making it. and moreover, it feels like every song is a logical progression to the next, in a way that fully contextualizes each song both in itself, in relation to each other, in relation to the album as a whole, and to 17′s past musical output up to this point.

in whole the album just feels like such a massive point of maturation, which was really what i was waiting for. like, looking up the lyrics to “oh my!” (the last real comeback) was so disappointing, bc it was just simplistic boy band “all 13 of us are in love with you” kind of bullshit lyrics, and it felt like such a step backward for a group that had spent all this time growing up and maturing, and who i knew, because they’d fucking shown me, had moved past that.  it felt so much like pandering.  it felt like many steps backward.

but this album really sounds like seventeen going from boys to men. no old-school boy band joke intended. i’m gonna stop here (as if anyone’s still reading) but this album felt like true maturation, acceptance of not being school-boys anymore, acceptance of being grown men. i dig it.

[peridotite]

oof. all that matters.

[sunasfrog]

Me: "I'm gonna go to sleep before 2am"

Me @ 1:54am: "let me just finish this 10 hour YouTube video"

[peridotite]

okay bees aside all that matters is such a good song i love it.. casey’s angel voice and jeff’s beautiful lyrics and instrumentals make such a wonderful soft sad song

[ohbli]

I JUST MADE THE BEST FRENCH TOAST EVER

NO MATTER WHAT TO INFINITY