I feel like Tumblr hates Muse because, despite the fact that Muse represents all the same opinions the median tumblr leftist has, they're white cis indie rocker dudes and are thus assumed to have in some small way failed to be the level of 100% purestrain #woke that Tumblr demands from such people.
If Rebecca Sugar was a cis dude, but the show was exactly the same, Tumblr would be trying to argue that the creator of Steven Universe believed that the show ended homophobia, and then constantly smugly dunk on the strawman they just created.
I feel like Tumblr hates Muse because, despite the fact that Muse represents all the same opinions the median tumblr leftist has, they're white cis indie rocker dudes and are thus assumed to have in some small way failed to be the level of 100% purestrain #woke that Tumblr demands from such people.
I mean, I know you like Muse, but I'm not crazy about them myself and it has less to do with their politics (which are fine) than their musical qualities, or rather, the total lack of subtlety in any of their musical qualities.
Like, they managed to fuck up Chvrches' "Lies", which is an amazing song, by overselling it to death.
I feel like Tumblr hates Muse because, despite the fact that Muse represents all the same opinions the median tumblr leftist has, they're white cis indie rocker dudes and are thus assumed to have in some small way failed to be the level of 100% purestrain #woke that Tumblr demands from such people.
I mean, I know you like Muse, but I'm not crazy about them myself and it has less to do with their politics (which are fine) than their musical qualities.
Like, they managed to fuck up Chvrches' "Lies", which is an amazing song, by overselling it to death.
Okay but like, these people do not talk about Muse's music, they skip straight to OH DRONE STRIKES ARE BAD HUH MUSE, BET YOU THINK YOU'RE MAKING AN ORIGINAL POINT HUH
If they talked about the music, it would be them disliking the music, which is fine
I'm pretty sure Macklemore never once thought he was ending homophobia with Same Love, nor that he was the only rapper to ever think about it, and Tumblr attributing those views to him rather than Random Macklemore Fan #43245 was deeply disingenuous
I feel like Tumblr hates Muse because, despite the fact that Muse represents all the same opinions the median tumblr leftist has, they're white cis indie rocker dudes and are thus assumed to have in some small way failed to be the level of 100% purestrain #woke that Tumblr demands from such people.
I mean, I know you like Muse, but I'm not crazy about them myself and it has less to do with their politics (which are fine) than their musical qualities.
Like, they managed to fuck up Chvrches' "Lies", which is an amazing song, by overselling it to death.
Okay but like, these people do not talk about Muse's music, they skip straight to OH DRONE STRIKES ARE BAD HUH MUSE, BET YOU THINK YOU'RE MAKING AN ORIGINAL POINT HUH
If they talked about the music, it would be them disliking the music, which is fine
Fair point. But it seems like a lot of whiny political Tumblrites have really bad or boring taste in music, and tthus have nothing interesting to say for or against Muse on a stylistic level, so they bitch about the lack of lyrical nuance while lacking any political nuance in their own right.
Anyone remember when people thought Muse were going to be the next Radiohead? Or at least, Radiohead from the alternate universe where they kept plugging away at the style of The Bends.
Like, literally, my introduction to Muse was from a guy I met in college who had Radiohead and Muse in first and second, respectively, on his personal Greatest Bands Ever List.
they're like . . . Queen meets Radiohead, basically
the bombast of the former with the ambitious, proggy leanings of the latter, and the vocal range of both
See, I feel like they overreach in both directions, and they lack Queen's knack for legendary hooks and self-aware comic sensibilities and Radiohead's mastery of atmospheric dread and almost stifling tastefulness.
I'm pretty sure Macklemore never once thought he was ending homophobia with Same Love, nor that he was the only rapper to ever think about it, and Tumblr attributing those views to him rather than Random Macklemore Fan #43245 was deeply disingenuous
the fact that he wrote it for a campaign of a referendum in his home state, and that he has an uncle who's gay conveniently eludes most people
they're like . . . Queen meets Radiohead, basically
the bombast of the former with the ambitious, proggy leanings of the latter, and the vocal range of both
See, I feel like they overreach in both directions, and they lack Queen's knack for legendary hooks and self-aware comic sensibilities and Radiohead's mastery of atmospheric dread and almost stifling tastefulness.
that's fair, on both counts
i wouldn't rank them above either band, but i feel they have their sound and it works for them
they're like . . . Queen meets Radiohead, basically
the bombast of the former with the ambitious, proggy leanings of the latter, and the vocal range of both
See, I feel like they overreach in both directions, and they lack Queen's knack for legendary hooks and self-aware comic sensibilities and Radiohead's mastery of atmospheric dread and almost stifling tastefulness.
that's fair, on both counts
i wouldn't rank them above either band, but i feel they have their sound and it works for them
There is some Muse I've heard which I genuinely liked, because it nailed the sort of driving nocturnal psychedelic quality that Radiohead's best Bends-era work had in a more overtly proggy vein. But a lot of their stuff feels overwrought and operatic while aiming for transcendence in a way that just falls flat for me. Again, I come back to their cover of "Lies" because it so encapsulates my issues with that part of their work. I'll find both and compare them here if you haven't heard them, because, like, jeez.
I said it because I don't feel like tastefulness and refinement are inherently good things. Too much control and aesthetic perfectionism can make a work feel lifeless, or at least excessively artificial.
wait so where did the Goro Goro Iki thing come from then?
like i thought it was just your personal injoke
As far as I can tell, it was started by a group of Michigan college students. One of them mentioned it as "the only good anime" in an LP he did back in 2008, and linked a wikipedia page for it, which was also fake. I liked the joke, so I started using it on TvTropes, because there was just enough information on it on the internet to seem vaguely plausible.
The video above is a video the same guy and a friend of his made years later as the end for a series where they riffed on bad anime.
wait so where did the Goro Goro Iki thing come from then?
like i thought it was just your personal injoke
As far as I can tell, it was started by a group of Michigan college students. One of them mentioned it as "the only good anime" in an LP he did back in 2008, and linked a wikipedia page for it, which was also fake. I liked the joke, so I started using it on TvTropes, because there was just enough information on it on the internet to seem vaguely plausible.
The video above is a video the same guy and a friend of his made years later as the end for a series where they riffed on bad anime.
wait so where did the Goro Goro Iki thing come from then?
like i thought it was just your personal injoke
As far as I can tell, it was started by a group of Michigan college students. One of them mentioned it as "the only good anime" in an LP he did back in 2008, and linked a wikipedia page for it, which was also fake. I liked the joke, so I started using it on TvTropes, because there was just enough information on it on the internet to seem vaguely plausible.
The video above is a video the same guy and a friend of his made years later as the end for a series where they riffed on bad anime.
It's a good joke.
The guy who popularized it has a podcast called History Honeys with his wife which is excellent, and everyone should check out
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I'm sorry, British retrogamers, but that keyboard looks awful
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I feel like "space" being treated as Yet Another Key and not, you know, a bar along the bottom would make it difficult to touch-type on this unless you learned specifically for it
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Like, they managed to fuck up Chvrches' "Lies", which is an amazing song, by overselling it to death.
because on the one hand yeah it's not very nuanced
otoh it's pop music, i feel if nothing else it's encouraging people to care about these issues, or even consider them at all, which is something
they're like . . . Queen meets Radiohead, basically
the bombast of the former with the ambitious, proggy leanings of the latter, and the vocal range of both
i used to consider them one of the more lyrically interesting rock bands, but it's like they lost their sense of humour
Muse and Coldplay both took that sound in different directions, obviously, but the influence is fairly clear i think
i wouldn't rank them above either band, but i feel they have their sound and it works for them
like i thought it was just your personal injoke