music recs from yours truly

guess what! you can sing! and I don’t mean like, “just try, I’m sure you’ll sound fine! :)” no, I mean that as a human being, as a creature on this earth, you can and should vibrate your vocal chords to make a variety of sounds, in whatever way makes you happy, no matter what the fuck it sounds like to anybody else

hey! nobody actually has a perfect voice! nobody sings the correct notes 100% of the time! almost every musical artist uses some form of pitch correction these days! and that’s okay, for the most part!

but if you can, please listen to people sing, just random average people. find some friends and sit in a circle and sing your favorite camp songs. tell bad jokes, and laugh together, and take turns singing whatever is in your soul! fuck, just start singing bohemian rhapsody somewhere, or piano man, and listen to everyone when they join in, and hear how different their voices all sound

music and singing aren’t just for people who can do it well enough to make money from it! you should sing whenever you have the chance, because you’re alive, and because you can, and you don’t need any better reason than that!

and before anyone jumps in with, “pfft, if you heard my voice, you wouldn’t want me to sing-” I’ve just got to say, like. listen.

listen.

I love music. you know I do; I run a music blog (well, insomuch as anything I make can be called “music”) and I listen to music all the time

but the best music I’ve ever heard in my entire goddamn life has come from regular people, not professional singers. people whose voices crack and who sometimes can’t hold a tune to save their lives, but who sing because they want to, because they know that music doesn’t belong just to people who can “make it” in the entertainment industry - it belongs to everybody.

that means you, too

and no matter if you’re bad at it - or if you think you’re bad at it - if you want to sing, you can! and if you want to listen to other people sing, you can find a way to do that, too

Andrew Eldritch: I SAID MORE BOMBAST AND FOG MACHINE.

this is what my evening is consisting of. testing out some different speaker setups for my dj-ing practice. but music is coming from my turntable that's off to the side in this bc why not also give that a little listen too.

can't even begin to tell you how much i lit up just hearing my music coming from good speakers. it's been so long since i've heard music from a proper source.