#gingerstellagiulia

So explanation/context I guess? I constantly make extensive playlists for every character in CP (and @ace-off​ so that’s a thing).  Here is my fandom spotify. I do have more playlists on the back burner, I just tend to post them when people have requests because it’s less labor intensive for me that way? So in short: music is a major way I explore characterizations and relationship dynamics so I’m always up for talking about songs. 

Anyway, I haven’t seen Cowboy Bebop other than a few passing scenes when my dad watches it late at night (it’s his fav anime I swear). So I had to dig this song up and yes I agree. 

So the tone hits a lot of stylistic themes that resonate for Kent? You have this folksy/western undertone that fits Las Vegas well. (And actually reminds me that I should explore this idea of the “wild west” and his rise to stardom a little more). Then there’s this undercurrent of 90s grunge influence (mostly in the vocals and lyricism). But musically there’s also orchestral accompaniment which is soooo 90s. 

And I think these things are important when considering Kent because the proverbial 90s didn’t really end until 01-05 (I say 05 because there was this distinct shift in music and film around that time, and if it normally takes a decade about 3 years to find it’s rhythm it makes sense that a new century took a tad longer, but that could talk about more some other time). So a lot of how Jack and Kent grew up was extremely informed by a 90s aesthetic.  

ok now onto some lyrics 

I close my eyes and I keep seeing things

you already win for giving me a Kent with flashbacks/triggers 

Confusion creeps inside me raining downGot to get to youBut I don't know how

yea this is hard core Kent “loves until he bleeds” Parson trying to figure out wtf to do to bridge that gap between them 

Call me, call meLet me know it's alright

This is basically what Y1 of Ace Off will feel like at times 

Call me, call meDon't you think it's 'bout time

this is also appropriate for “waits six years for something to happen and it never did” 

I had your number quite some time agoBack when we were youngBut I had to grow

See this part is interesting because you could argue this is Kent post Epikegster (which I’ve always seen as his turning point to *get* that he can’t get Jack back). Or, this is Jack as a call back to Kent saying he is done and Kent should be too

but yesssss, Kent is anime trash and I can see him connecting to this on a deep level. 

ALSO -- have we considered how much Kent would love watching Seraph of the End? because two childhood friends driven apart by toxic regimes and constantly trying to “save each other” and fucking up seems like Kent’s jam 

@jumping-cholla replied to your post “hey may i please know what this laurel yanny thing is?”

theres an audio clip that some people hear laurel some people hear yanny (½)

its like the dress (2/2)

@gingerstellagiulia replied to your post “hey may i please know what this laurel yanny thing is?”

They play the same (maybe) word at different pitches and some sound like laurel and some like yanny idk i didn’t investigate further

@the-haus-snowman replied to your post “hey may i please know what this laurel yanny thing is?”

My local news had a thing in twitter with a clip linked http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/05/16/laurel-or-yanny/

aaaaaaah, thank you so much to everyone who answered me, you’re all truly too kind!!!! and sorry it took me awhile to get back to everyone, wanted to learn what my sisters heard before i replied!!!! but all this just makes it sound like some demonic shit and i’m terrified. nonetheless, here are the results: