Music
I listen to music. I don't listen to artists. What I mean with that is I don't listen to songs for the source or the genre, but for what they do to me.
A song needs to accomplish one of three things. It needs to touch my soul, it needs to make me want to dance, or it needs to make me want to draw. If it accomplishes none of these, I don't need that song. Funny songs (songs with jokes for lyrics) to me aren't songs. They're comedy in musical form.
So, when it comes to music, I will listen to anything that can do one of those three things. Examples of songs that do each of these..
Songs that touch my soul:
B-Tribe's Las Salinas
Crystal Method's Comin' Back
Fugees' Killing Me Softly
Garbage's #1 Crush
Gnarles Barkley's Crazy
Gorillaz's Latin Simone (English version)
Jewel's Foolish Games
Lifehouse's Somewhere In Between
Michael Andrews' Mad World
Pink's Dear Mister President
Songs that make me want to dance:
Galvanized by the Chemical Brothers
Christina Aguilera's remake of Candyman
Darude's The Flow
Deborah Cox's remake of Absolutely Not
Groove Armada's I See You Baby
JC Chasez's Blowin' Me Up
Lou Bega's Mambo No. 5
Ludacris' What's Your Fantasy
Madison Avenue's Don't Call Me Baby
Missy Elliott's Work It
Moloko's Fun For Me
Shaggy's Boombastic
Songs that make me want to draw:
Dope Smugglaz's The Word
E.S. Posthumus' Pompei (I edited this one so that it cycles for 10 minutes and getting progressively faster)
Oliver Shanti's Onon Mweng (Rainbird)
Rihanna's Umbrella
Royksopp's Remind Me
Sheryl Crowe's All I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun
Sister Machine Gun's Burn
Sneaker Pimps' Lightning Field
Wheatus' Teenage Dirtbag
Songs that do two or three at once:
Happy To Be Hardcore's Eye Opener
India Arie's I'm Not Your Average Girl
Jem's They
Jimmy Eat World's Pain
Joi's Lick
Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You
Nelly Furtado & Timbaland's Promiscuous Girl
Smashing Pumpkins' The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning
Now, I didn't make this list so folks could go out and download these songs. I just wanted to show that my interest in music isn't limited by genre or flavor. I have everything from heavy metal to rap to R&B, even some older stuff like Shaggy. And these are just examples. There's a lot I didn't touch on, like the fact that I like a lot of songs from Evanescence, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, and Smashmouth..
Point is I listen to the songs for the feeling they give me, or the creative water they flow through me. I could give a rat's ass if a song is made by Britney Speares (I like Toxic and Everytime), focus groups like N-Sync, or sell-outs like Metallica. If I like it for what it is, I'm keeping it.
I kinda get tired of people pulling politics or reputation over music or entertainment. My roommate does it a lot. He refuses to watch a Tom Cruise movie just because Cruise went insane with his religion recently. He hates Britney Speares' music because of how she was represented as an artist. Forget the fact that some of her songs sound good. And he's hardly the first person to do it. Just like all the people in the world who immediately threw out all of the Speares CD's just because she married Kevin Federline.
Fuck what happens to them outside of their music or movies. I really don't give a flying fuck about their parenting skills or their relationships. Matter of fact, I'd expect them to be sorry-ass parents because most of them had parents that would beat them for performing poorly at their school plays or something similar. The chances are that with everything they have to go through in their life, the appreciation they do get for their accomplishments is barely any help for the absolutely back-ass-wards mental twisting they go through from everyone around them. And so I won't let it have any impact on how I feel about the things they've made that I do appreciate.
Anyone would think that being a beaten wife is how life is supposed to be, if they were raised by parents who did that all the time. Trust me, when I was sixteen I actually had to explain to a 23-year-old woman that you shouldn't be getting into fights with your husband, especially not ones that involve the use of fryingpans and ironing boards. She actually believed that's how it was supposed to be.
They do it with movies, too. This movie has practically invisible Christian overtones that I wouldn't even be aware of had I not researched it, so I can't like it as much.
And the same way, if a person in entertainment happens to promote or support something, people immediately say they love that person's material, even if they suck ass, just because of the fact. Cher is a good example. Don't get me wrong, I like some of Cher's music, and I think she is a splendid person. But because she supports homosexuality (her daughter is gay), people out there who are gay or pro-gay scream about how everything Cher has ever done is the best music they've ever heard. They like things that even Cher has said she didn't like doing, and it really has nothing to do with the work or its quality, but who made it. How about enjoying something for what it is and not for who?
Anyway, off the rant circle, this is my latest post. And it's about music.
I've been drawing a lot. Mostly Daxter and Timon. Want to see? http://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/xyanth/
A song needs to accomplish one of three things. It needs to touch my soul, it needs to make me want to dance, or it needs to make me want to draw. If it accomplishes none of these, I don't need that song. Funny songs (songs with jokes for lyrics) to me aren't songs. They're comedy in musical form.
So, when it comes to music, I will listen to anything that can do one of those three things. Examples of songs that do each of these..
Songs that touch my soul:
B-Tribe's Las Salinas
Crystal Method's Comin' Back
Fugees' Killing Me Softly
Garbage's #1 Crush
Gnarles Barkley's Crazy
Gorillaz's Latin Simone (English version)
Jewel's Foolish Games
Lifehouse's Somewhere In Between
Michael Andrews' Mad World
Pink's Dear Mister President
Songs that make me want to dance:
Galvanized by the Chemical Brothers
Christina Aguilera's remake of Candyman
Darude's The Flow
Deborah Cox's remake of Absolutely Not
Groove Armada's I See You Baby
JC Chasez's Blowin' Me Up
Lou Bega's Mambo No. 5
Ludacris' What's Your Fantasy
Madison Avenue's Don't Call Me Baby
Missy Elliott's Work It
Moloko's Fun For Me
Shaggy's Boombastic
Songs that make me want to draw:
Dope Smugglaz's The Word
E.S. Posthumus' Pompei (I edited this one so that it cycles for 10 minutes and getting progressively faster)
Oliver Shanti's Onon Mweng (Rainbird)
Rihanna's Umbrella
Royksopp's Remind Me
Sheryl Crowe's All I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun
Sister Machine Gun's Burn
Sneaker Pimps' Lightning Field
Wheatus' Teenage Dirtbag
Songs that do two or three at once:
Happy To Be Hardcore's Eye Opener
India Arie's I'm Not Your Average Girl
Jem's They
Jimmy Eat World's Pain
Joi's Lick
Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You
Nelly Furtado & Timbaland's Promiscuous Girl
Smashing Pumpkins' The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning
Now, I didn't make this list so folks could go out and download these songs. I just wanted to show that my interest in music isn't limited by genre or flavor. I have everything from heavy metal to rap to R&B, even some older stuff like Shaggy. And these are just examples. There's a lot I didn't touch on, like the fact that I like a lot of songs from Evanescence, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, and Smashmouth..
Point is I listen to the songs for the feeling they give me, or the creative water they flow through me. I could give a rat's ass if a song is made by Britney Speares (I like Toxic and Everytime), focus groups like N-Sync, or sell-outs like Metallica. If I like it for what it is, I'm keeping it.
I kinda get tired of people pulling politics or reputation over music or entertainment. My roommate does it a lot. He refuses to watch a Tom Cruise movie just because Cruise went insane with his religion recently. He hates Britney Speares' music because of how she was represented as an artist. Forget the fact that some of her songs sound good. And he's hardly the first person to do it. Just like all the people in the world who immediately threw out all of the Speares CD's just because she married Kevin Federline.
Fuck what happens to them outside of their music or movies. I really don't give a flying fuck about their parenting skills or their relationships. Matter of fact, I'd expect them to be sorry-ass parents because most of them had parents that would beat them for performing poorly at their school plays or something similar. The chances are that with everything they have to go through in their life, the appreciation they do get for their accomplishments is barely any help for the absolutely back-ass-wards mental twisting they go through from everyone around them. And so I won't let it have any impact on how I feel about the things they've made that I do appreciate.
Anyone would think that being a beaten wife is how life is supposed to be, if they were raised by parents who did that all the time. Trust me, when I was sixteen I actually had to explain to a 23-year-old woman that you shouldn't be getting into fights with your husband, especially not ones that involve the use of fryingpans and ironing boards. She actually believed that's how it was supposed to be.
They do it with movies, too. This movie has practically invisible Christian overtones that I wouldn't even be aware of had I not researched it, so I can't like it as much.
And the same way, if a person in entertainment happens to promote or support something, people immediately say they love that person's material, even if they suck ass, just because of the fact. Cher is a good example. Don't get me wrong, I like some of Cher's music, and I think she is a splendid person. But because she supports homosexuality (her daughter is gay), people out there who are gay or pro-gay scream about how everything Cher has ever done is the best music they've ever heard. They like things that even Cher has said she didn't like doing, and it really has nothing to do with the work or its quality, but who made it. How about enjoying something for what it is and not for who?
Anyway, off the rant circle, this is my latest post. And it's about music.
I've been drawing a lot. Mostly Daxter and Timon. Want to see? http://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/xyanth/