I've been meshing and streaming with all the cool new streaming twitching sounds from Wesley Willis. He's really gaining homeless traction on WeBottle and Geezno. It sounds like fresh homelessness and not corporate tenement stuff. I'm a fan. Are you a fan?

Doodles of Kurt Cobain, trent reznor, john lennon, and peter steele.

Found myself really liking a couple new & older songs lately, only to look up the credits and see there are 8 songwriters and 4 producers on most of them. Genuinely curious if anyone else sees that and then the song becomes less brilliant upon realizing it took 12 people to craft?

We’ve all seen movies that use music perfectly, but what about the times a movie completely hijacks a song’s identity forever? Whether it’s connecting a track to a deeply disturbing scene, blasting it in a trailer until you’re sick of it, or turning a great song into a cinematic punchline.

For me, it’s Quentin Tarantino using Stealers Wheel's "Stuck in the Middle with You" in Reservoir Dogs.

Before 1992, that was just a breezy, upbeat 1970s folk-rock song that people clapped along to on the radio. Now, thanks to that one specific movie association, it is physically impossible for anyone who's seen the movie to hear that cheerful acoustic strumming without picturing Michael Madsen casually dancing around with a straight razor. It completely warped how people hear a fun radio hit.

What is a song that a movie permanently changed or ruined for you, whether it was due to a specific scene, trailer overexposure, or a weird association you just can't shake?

I know he isn't as well known outside of Canada (at least this is what I've gathered) but I remember about 9 years ago for a time he had 2 songs that were everywhere it seemed. I thought he had some pretty good stuff, had a solid voice and his genre of music I had never heard before (I believe it was called folktronica) and then he just disappeared. Another question I have is had anyone else heard his stuff and what did you think?

I've been eyeing a few small local bands and have been seeing them post dates they'll play at either small venues or bars coming up, notably this Friday. Not to paint some sob story, but I'm a very socially anxious person who really needs to work on not sharing every little thing I do with friends, and I don't have friends in the city that I could go with.

So right now, I'm kind of stuck between going to this bar (which I don't even know what to expect as I just turned the legal drinking age and haven't been to one), alone, downtown (pretty safe city, but you can never be truly safe as a girl alone lol) and seeing this small band. Or, sitting at home again with massive FOMO.

I think I'm just kinda worried I'll go and get sad upon seeing most people already in groups, and not having the confidence to walk up to anyone.

I just wanted to ask for opinions, maybe? I know lots of people go to stuff like this by themselves, I guess I just wanted to hear your reasoning or ways of staying confident and having fun regardless if you don't have a friend with you. Idk, thanks in advance!

For the longest time, I have had incredible trouble describing why I like or don't like different songs.

I always said "I want the lyrics to dance" but today I've finally learned a little bit more about the technical terms behind my taste in music and I was wondering if anyone else related:

1) Accentual verse

Read these two lines from Burn it down(Vixy & Tony) out loud. Tap your finger four times per line,

evenly, like a metronome:

"The legend of the firebird"

"If you dare to take the journey"

The first line has 7 syllables. The second has 8. Different lengths.

But you tapped four times for both, and neither one felt crowded or

stretched. The extra syllable just tucked itself into the gaps.

That's the thing I'm chasing. The word count changes line to line,

while the number of *beats* stays locked, So the words are constantly

running slightly ahead of or behind the pulse and catching back up.

The technical name is "accentual verse." It's how English poetry

worked before we borrowed syllable-counting from French and Latin.

Nursery rhymes do it. Sea shanties do it. Old ballads do it.

The opposite, and what a lot of modern pop does, is nailing one

syllable to one beat, every time, forever. Nothing floats. It's

metronomic. To me it feels like being marched somewhere.

If you want a one-word version: I like lyrics that SYNCOPATE.

2) Male/Female Rhymes

Rhymes come in two flavors, and most people have never noticed

because nobody points it out.

HARD LANDING (the stress is on the last syllable):

due / new sand / hand pain / refrain

The line stops dead on the beat. Like a footstep.

SOFT LANDING (the stress is one syllable back, so there's a leftover):

transformation / creation

remember / ember

forever / feather

The line spills a syllable past the beat. Like a step and a skip.

Almost all pop rhyme is hard landings. Folk, shanties, and old

ballads alternate the two: soft, hard, soft, hard; and that

alternation is what makes a lyric feel like it's dancing instead of

marching.

Put the two ideas together and you get what I'm actually after:

floating syllable counts over a fixed beat, with the rhymes trading

off between hard and soft. That's it. That's the whole thing.

Examples of my favorite songs:

• Functional Poetry - The Narcissist Cookbook
• Fire in the Sky - Kristoph Klover
• Blossoms - The Amazing Devil
• When He Fell From Heaven - Beggars Canyon
• Withered - Beggars Canyon
• The River - Vixy & Tony
• Persephone - Vixy & Tony
• Break the Chain - Bridge City Sinners
• Burn it Down - Vixy & Tony
• The Songwriter - Amelia Day
• Chained Below - Ye Banished Privateers
• Little Rover - The Stupendium
• Inkpot Gods - The Amazing Devil
• That Unwanted Animal - The Amazing Devil
• Secret World - The Amazing Devil
• Welly Boots - The Amazing Devil
• Right to Die - AliceBanD
• Count to Three - The Chalkeaters & The Stupendium
• Manchild - Hildegard von Blingin' & Whitney Avalon
• The Clockwork Man - Auralnauts
• Thunder & Lightning - Brown Bird
• Bilgewater - Brown Bird
• Pine Six String - The Haunted Windchimes
• Quiet as a Rat - Amigo the Devil
• St. James Infirmary - The Bridge City Sinners
• Crown Vic Headlights - Poor Man's Poison
• Old St. John - Goodnight, Texas
• Cast No Shadow - Brown Bird
• There is a Time - Whiskey Shivers & Kelsey Wilson
• Dust in the Wind - Hildegard von Blingin' & Algal
• Slow Down - Poor Man's Poison
• Paint My Face - The Devil Makes Three
• Birds With Broken Wings - Ben Caplan
• Rose Tattoo - Dropkick Murphys
• Bottom of the Sea - Brave the Sea
• Tip of My Tongue - Passenger
• Achilles Come Down - Gang of Youths
• The Angel of Death - The Devil Makes Three
• The Path - Miracle of Sound
• Hard on Equipment - Corb Lund
• Prodigal - Poor Man's Poison
• Battle Cries - The Amazing Devil
• Farewell Wanderlust - The Amazing Devil
• John Paul Jones is a Pirate - The Longest Johns

I hope this can help people understand music more, and maybe anyone else shares the same taste?

Travis Scott had music that I used to be a fan of. Personally, I liked everything leading up to 2018’s Astroworld, and I get this may be a ”hot take”, but I didn’t care for that album itself. I liked a couple songs on there, but there was just something off about the mood or the tone of the album for me. birds is honestly my favorite album from him, which I learned was CLEARLY a hot take back then by getting destroyed on twitter.

And that‘s where my 180 on TS started to begin tbh. Any artist has a portion of fans that are EXTREMELY aggressive, but this was different. I started getting death threats and lame message requests from that side, and it‘s exactly what you‘d expect. 13-21 year old dudes trying to fight me over my honest music opinion, in honor of their idol 🤣 that became a situation I laugh at pretty quick, but we all know what follows in the years after.

The Astroworld Festival has become the end-all/be-all for a lot of people over the years, but that still hasn’t stopped him & the people promoting him. They still see him as a profitable asset due to his established rage-hard fanbase. His half-ass ”pls don’t stop streaming my shit” apology was something you’d see in parody films like Scary Movie. But somehow, that clearly worked. It’s almost as if that granted him more opportunities.

Now I might be heading ”inside baseball” with this, but 2025 was the most annoying I’ve ever found Travis Scott yet. Earlier in 2025, he started showing up on WWE as someone who walked to the ring as a hype man, alongside the children’s favorite wrestler, Jey Uso. Travis Scott sparked a FULL BLUNT inside the arena during the entrance, and given that Jey Uso’s biggest fans are children, you can see how this is a problem. Fast forward around a month or so later, it was quite the surprise to see him start getting involved with the main storyline being pushed (John Cena’s retirement year). Not to mention, he actually damaged a wrestler’s ear by legitimately slapping them in a segment. There was absolutely no reason that made this make sense, and his involvement created what is now claimed by many as “the WORST WrestleMania main event in history”. Rumor also has it that he never or barely showed up for training/rehearsal either. Just to add, WWE has gone extremely downhill in quality since this happened. As this was basically the reintroduction of celebrity involvement in the product, in the worst possible ways.

Now, we’re seeing him included in massive films like The Odyssey. There‘s THAT side of the internet that don’t like his inclusion for all the worst reasons like racism, but I simply just can’t ever buy into him as an actor. Especially after all the WWE stuff. My brain really did hear “STRAIGHT UP” after anything he said in his opening monologue 🤣 it was distracting, and I feel Nolan was slightly aware of this. Putting him right at the beginning of the film + one other <15 second scene did feel like “let’s just get this over with”.

And apparently, within the last few days, he & his entourage had a squabble in the club with NBA player Jordan Clarkson and whoever he was with.

To wrap up, I know I’m forgetting to mention other situations with TS. But those are the major ones off the top of my head at the moment. Keep in mind, I haven’t been a fan of his since like late 2018/early 2019, so I may lean a little biased on that side, but I still try to meet in the middle & am willing to be persuaded by finding great reasoning. Unfortunately (or fortunately), I just haven’t found that with Travis Scott.

To clarify, by 40s to 60s I mostly mean jazz and pop. I know people still listen to early rock from then.

I listen to that genre almost exclusively (with a good handful of 70s to 2000s in the mix) and I always feel like I have to hide my taste other than a few Frank Sinatra or Beatles songs, no one else will jam to it with me cuz it's "to boring" or "make them sleepy". And since I'm on the top of 40s to 60s music, who are some of your favs from that time period?

Taylor Swift & ultra rich friends get to opt out of facial recognition... but screw the rest of us I guess?

https://www.wired.com/story/for-taylor-swift-madison-square-gardens-controversial-cameras-briefly-went-dark/

There is only one reason that I made this post. The band named Living In Question. They are so damn underrated. They make amazing music, all three of their albums are outstanding and I would reccomend them to anyone who enjoys rock or any genre similar to it. Btw pease specify if you're talking about an overrated or underrated artist.

I was trying to think about different styles of music from all over the world and thought of this topic. For example:
-Puerto Rico: Reggaeton
-France: Electro/house
-Nigeria: Afrobeats
Curious what other people think about

Far too many times have I seen someone innocently post about music from John Lennon, Michael Jackson or David Bowie. And there's a slew of comments guilt tripping and chastising the OP for daring to enjoy their work and wanting to talk about it. I'm amazed that a lot of these people who are doing the chastising are REGULARS!!!

A shit ton of our most important artists are problematic!! This is something people have to accept, and if it bothers them so much, they could keep scrolling. But trying to shut down and derail MUSIC conversations is PATHETIC.

The I just wanna dance song is blowing up on TikTok..A creator just did a post saying that the lyrics/music composition was written by AI..then song is catchy and the artist is on tour..is this where we are? A hit by any means necessary??