#vas-rayya

You can’t tell me Freddie Mercury wasn’t the most dramatic person to ever grace the stage

Okay, but, hear me out: “Always wear your helmet” becomes a double entendre

oh i know that’s the joke lmao Half of them mean it honestly, the other half... do not. T’ad squad is split in half on it lol 

But….does it?

Cannibalism as a rule requires you to eat human flesh. It is no longer human flesh if it has feathers. Unless you ask Diogenes and/or Plato I guess. One could argue if you turn human again if you die in animagus form like a werewolf does.  

Jazz was also pioneered by women, so that “Billy was just pretending because music was seen as a man’s game” line sounds pretty bullshit.

I found a New York Times article that had the wording i was remembering mostly.  The entire thing is a shitshow, so major warnings for misgendering and lesbophobia as well as transphobia (eve in the title of the article!!). like i got even angrier trying to find the phrase in this article. Like kill bill sirens but replaced with “DING DONG. YOU ARE WRONG”

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/02/arts/one-false-note-musician-s-life-billy-tipton-remembered-with-love-even-those-who.html

The actual wording is  “With few exceptions [...] jazz was a man’s world. Whether simply as a matter of sexual choice or to get work in jazz, Tipton lived the life of a man.”

So yeah! It is absolute bullshit. 

if you study music theory and history like at all then you’d know it was not only not just a man’s world, but it wasn’t a white man’s world either. White men stole it and got popular but there was no reason someone like Billy would have to just ‘pretend’ to get a spot in jazz culture. Jazz was liberating. It had no borders. By design. Jazz is the least likely candidate to refuse a woman. 

Likely it just ended up being sheer coincidence that Billy was getting recognized in music as he was using his new name. In fact it’s more likely that as he figured he would get popular, he’d rather his music be attributed to his true name, not his dead name. Ergo...

like it only takes two tiny steps to tear apart this mindset of “RAWR MUSIC MAN’S WORLD RAWR NO WOMEN EVER GOT POPULAR IN JAZZ WITHOUT LYING OR GAMING THE SYSTEM RAWR” 

That's kinda the big mystery with this case, isn't it? How those live rounds got in there.

So what I'm hearing is that I should buy an extra two boxes of tagalongs to make up for this, right?

He deserved it!

9:A song that makes you happy 

Bryan Adams - Everything I Do (I Do It For You) - This has been my favorite song for as long as I can remember. It’s one of the only songs I can play on the piano. There’s something wonderful about the melody of this that goes straight into rock ballad territory. In a lot of ways, I don’t know that I agree with it lyrically these days (since it definitely slides into codependent territory), but as far as song structure goes it is a pretty well-written song all around. I am also a SUPER sucker for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. I used to have an imaginary friend as a kid who was based on Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood. :-p 

11:A song that you never get tired of

Hanson - MMMBop - I mean this both seriously and sincerely. I love this song. I’ve loved this song since I was 11 years old. People used to joke about torturing people by locking them in an elevator for hours listening to this song... and I find that hilarious because I have a “top however many performances of Mmmbop” playlist. I love so many versions of this (the one I linked is one of my favorites, though the new one on String Theory is AMAZING). This song is a lot deeper than people give it credit for because the chorus is kind of ridiculous and catchy but there’s more to it. Fun fact about me: I am a card carrying Hanson Fan Club member and we talk about this. Also, if you’ve ever listened to these guys harmonize this a cappella you would understand.

20:A song that has many meanings to you

Metallica - Nothing Else Matters  -  This is one of my absolute favorite songs. I love everything about this song. I have a lot of significant memories of hearing this song during periods of my life and they cling to it like little particles. This was a song featured on a mix tape my sister made for our mom at one point. It was on constant rotation in the car for about a year. I still have a playlist that’s almost exactly what was on that tape because it was a tipping point in a lot of ways for our family. I don’t even think my sister remembers making that mix tape, but it was both fundamental in shaping some of my taste in music, and also a comforting thing for me when I looked back on it after she left.

22:A song that moves you forward