[thefuzzydave]

This teacher taught students the choreography from “Thriller.” I’ve watched this four times and I’m still smiling.

[tiktoksformyfriends]

[video by themorsecoda. original caption: the ultimate excuse]

[pa-ola123]

🙏

[slartbarfast]

Domestic Abuse signal

[waddayalookinatman]

Something worth reposting

[sometimes-it-rains-2-0-deactiva]

Reblogging to get this info out there! I did not know about this!

[a-gurls-freedom]

DITTO...I had no clue as well!!!

This video gave me massive chills.

To All My Followers...please reblog and post!

Make this go viral!!

[tryanythingonce1369]

Pay attention please

[honkykong72]

Please share

[theroadgoesonforever]

Interesting,,very good to know. This is the first I've been made aware of this signal. Thank you.

[roger-taylor-owns-my-wigg]

every person can feel freddie’s presence in their souls when they sing MAMAAAAAA UUHHHH, I DONT WANNA DIE, I SOMETIMES I WISH I’VE NEVER BEEN BORN AT ALL with all the air in their lungs i’m not joking

it’s fucking crazy to think about the amount of people who have sung bohemian rhapsody? like it’s such a unifying song, by nature of the fact that so many people know it. it holds so many good memories for me and other people. it’s a song you scream in the car with your friends while you drive around your boring hometown, it’s a song you drunkenly sing with your arm around your best friend, or a song you sing along to with strangers when it’s on in public. it’s bittersweet to think about freddie’s legacy carrying on like that through his masterpiece. freddie carries on because he’s a part of so many people’s good memories and bohemian rhapsody is a huge part of that.

[deathbutwithfuzzyanimals]

Reblog if you have sung bohemian rhapsody with your friends

every time i see this post i’m reminded of the video of 65,000 people singing bohemian rhapsody in near-perfect harmony

like, what other song can make that claim?

[crewdlydrawn-deactivated2022072]

Some of the highlights of that video include:

The crowd cheering after the first stanza when they realize what they’re all doing

So many people audibly ‘doing the guitar parts’… like ya do

The sheer number of voices joining the rediculous falsetto (thanks, Roger)

How they all start jumping at the ramp-up “so you think you can stomp me”

Hands up, hundreds, thousands deep for the final “ooooo”s and the last line to close the song

[aces-to-apples]

Only days before my state went into lockdown, “Bohemian Rhapsody” came on in the restaurant kitchen I’d just been hired at and, no shit, every single worker in that little diner started singing along. Me (the only queer afaik), the manager, all the other kitchen workers, the dishwasher up front, the two people on the counter, all but two of the men over 30. Just belting out Freddie Mercury at the top of their lungs. And you can bet when “sometimes I wish I’d never been born at all” came around, we every single one of us ramped up the intensity and basically made sure Freddie could hear us in the afterlife.

[zohbugg]

[solitarelee]

[iamthespineofmybook]

One of the things that struck me, listening to the video, is that you cannot distinguish the original vocals from the crowd, and sometimes you can barely hear the music. And the POV is on the stage the speakers are playing the song from!

There’s good reason why, nearly fifty years after the height of their career, Queen is still considered one of the best bands of all time ever.

(And how albums left lying about in cars will eventually metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.)

[prismatic-bell]

Something else that’s rather incredible about this is, Bohemian Rhapsody is a very difficult song from a technical standpoint. Like–humor me, okay, go flip it on and try to sing the whole thing at the top of your voice without falling off-key, out of breath, or cracking at least once. Then come back.

Okay. You’re back? Welcome back. Unless you’re a trained singer, you probably can’t do it. There are too many long notes, too many key changes, and too many places where–if you’re singing all the parts–you’re just up and down the scale too damned fast. I’m saying this as a trained singer and I can’t do it. I always crack on “magnifico” and “leave me to die,” and I have a pretty decent range, but I know I sound ugly as hell on that final coda.

Okay. Now that we’ve established that, I want to talk a little about singing as a chorus. One of the things a lot of people learned during the pandemic is how hard it is to take twenty people, all in different places, and stitch them together to make a single coherent song with perfect pitch and timing. You’re all practicing on slightly your own tempo, slightly your own key, even if you’re all working from the same base track. (You can see this in a lot of the Wellerman compilations from Tiktok, where someone always says “Soon” a moment before everyone else on “soon may the Wellerman come.”) When you have a chorus comprised of many smaller choruses that are all traveling to be together, this is what dress rehearsal is for–to get all of you onto the same tempo so you’re starting and finishing at exactly the same time. This is a thing that normally only happens after at least several days of practice, and it is an important skill that must be taught. You’re not just born knowing how to do this.

I do not know how many people at that Green Day concert were trained singers. But I do know there is no way in hell all few thousand of them were a single group–they showed up a few at a time, maybe even flying solo for the night. Now go and listen to the video again. Listen to the ends of verses and the pickups. They’re fucking crisp as hell. Everyone is starting and ending at the same place. Not even a single note off. (And yes, you can hear when it’s a single note off, even in a crowd that big. A handful of people would be enough to throw it off.) And while a few in the crowd may be off-key, so many more are on-key that the cumulative effect is of the song being on-key. This isn’t even the band they’re there to see.

They don’t just know this song, this technically-difficult song, this long and complex song by a completely different band. They know it perfectly. They know it down to the fucking note. They know it so well that they did it in perfect synchrony, without a single chance to practice.

Do you know how insane that is?

[pendragyn]

[headspace-hotel]

We are worth saving.

[debelice]

[babyanimalgifs]

[voices-inthe-void]

[sketchinthoughts]

BABASOR

[clemenlegrand]

https://www.instagram.com/clemenlegrand/

[clemenlegrand]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CWcnOrxNN6v/ À Poil #clémentlegrand

[alanspazzaliartist-deactivated2]

matt bernstein  works queer jew fairy in stiletto nails

[icodeforlove]

Wintergatan - Marble Music Machine (2000 marbles)

This is incredible! At first i was like hmm that doesn’t sound like music, then the dude drops the beat hard.

[lecters-reckoning-deactivated20]

@zooeyscigar and @bootsnblossoms, I think you’ll love this, darlings!

[bootsnblossoms]

*jaw drop* Not only is the sound amazing and gorgeous, but to think someone spent probably hundreds of hours to dream this up and make it… Human imagination and ingenuity is incredible. 

[voices-inthe-void]

Mark me down as depressed and horny

[lostmoonchildsblog]

I'm once again fighting the urge to fake my death and move to a small city and open a little florist shop or cafe filled with books

[blackbromance]

[lgbt-tiktoks]

Description: [A white person dances on screen to the song P.Y.T. by Michael Jackson. While they dance, different text appears on screen.

The first text reads "Do I like him or do I wanna be him?".

The next reads "Is she flirting with me or is she just being friendly?".

Next is "Do I like them or do I wanna protect them?"

The last text reads "Do I wanna be single or am I just too scared of being hurt?".]

[loadingartist]

plucked up - a comic about burnout - part 3

bonus panels on patreon <3

Thank you for all your super nice comments, I’m glad you’re enjoying this series so far!

Even though this series can take dark turns at times, please don’t be worried for me, I’ve got my good neighbour. Maybe there’s someone in your life dealing with something similar who doesn’t have their good neighbour yet.

- Gregor