me and my friends dancing to “mr. brightside” 

If this ain’t me

LMFAO! Who did this to my song?! 😂

After that second spin, it looked like he was about to hit them folks MEAN😂

They Litt

Coachella’s livestream is currently replaying Beyoncé’s set now! Tune in before it’s too late!

Video of the Year.

That camera action spicyyyy

My people creative af

forever my favorite, idc what time of year it is lmao

If only I had friends

Buddy switched sides at the end 😂😂

this bangs

Sometimes I just start singing and my mom joins in

Whoa…

#don’t trust this #they’re probably sirens

These two are singing “O magnum mysterium” by Tomas Luis De Victoria! It’s a very pretty piece from the renaissance that has a lot of different voice parts singing totally different melodies that mesh well together. I sung tenor for a song of his as well. It sounds ethereal in cathedrals and bathrooms alike my opinion. Its the room’s ability to bounce sound and make it resonate, giving it it’s “mermaid siren” like quality. It sounds great. Congratulations, you both! Sounds very pretty and seems like a fun time to clean with things like that.

yes its back on my dash

god lol

I always reblog the bathroom sirens <3 

Welcome to why I sing in stairwells and bathrooms. IT SOUNDS SO MUCH BETTER.

La La Land (2016) dir. Damien Chazelle

i cant believe i had to sit in the theater watching Emma Stone “dance” to jazz music played by a white guy surrounded by black people faded into the background like????

shes still dancing off beat and horribly im so??

It really bothers me that people hate this movie? Like y'all really have THAT much hate that you’re going to shit on this movie. Dance is a form of entertainment. It was created because it’s fun! You don’t have to be good at dancing to dance. He was playing and she loves him. So she wanted to dance. That’s all this is. There’s no “white agenda” in it there’s no “white washing” to it there was TONS of black people in the movie. Sure not as the two main characters but you guys act like it was ALL white people.

It especially annoys me because I understand that Jazz was created by black people. There’s no denying that. But you guys act like y'all are keeping it alive…cause I’m sorry but that goes to the white folk. You guys almost entirely abandoned Jazz for Hip Hop! Which is fine! But stop trying to reclaim this genre that you left behind!

Jazz musicians pay homage to the black jazz geniuses ALL the time. They all know Jazz would be non existent without black people. But Jazz is not the face of Black culture anymore it’s Hip Hop and y'all can call me ignorant or anti-black as much as you want (cause I know that’s what is gonna happen) but please stop acting like white people are ruining Jazz or stealing it from you when you guys left it for Hip Hop.

What the hell are you talking about? American Jazz is still a predominantly Black genre, unlike Rock n Roll, a Black genre that somehow got skipped over in the “Black people abandoned Jazz for Hip Hop” theory. 

Is that what La La Land teaches? Because it’s false. And it ignores the evolution of Black jazz into the modern day, that Black artists created jazz funk, fused jazz with electro first, and started Nu Jazz. Black artists are keeping jazz alive and constantly evolving it, not looking at it as some kind of rosy old-fashioned nostalgia.

This is what La La Land teaches. And as a Black musician, it bothered the everliving fuck out of me. Ryan Gosling’s character is portrayed as keeping jazz alive…by not adding any innovations to it whatsoever??? While John Legend’s character is treated like some kind of shill artist cause he modernizes and makes jazz-hip-hop fusion that actually appeals to people younger than ninety? But this is bad, cause he has sexy twerking backup singers, and jazz was never considered racy back in the day, and was always considered high art. 

This is such bullshit, because at first white people thought jazz was all about sex, drugs, and crime and they called it actual, honest-to-goodness Evil-with-a-capital-E. They thought of Cab Calloway the same way they thought of Snoop Dogg. And after it had been around for a while, and they felt comfortable around it, they started appropriating it, watering it down, and acting like they were better at it than the people who created it. I have a record at home of King Olivier’s band, including Louis gotdamn Armstrong before he went solo, like these were the best of the best. And whatever white dude wrote the blurb on the back of the record case called them “the best of the Negro bands” as if that were some lower tier of jazz, as if to say, “they’re alright for Negros I guess.” 

This, by the way, is the same process that happened to Rock n Roll, which evolved out of the blues, and therefore out of Negro spirituals and work songs, in the first place.

And, like what was already mentioned, Black people have been innovating and fusing jazz since we created it. If you want an explanation for why older jazz is considered elevator music (New Orleans jazz is my fave, btw) you can look to white people who sanitized it, and started treating it like classical music, like it’s this higher, classier form of entertainment for classy old people to go to the opera house to see, and which should never, ever be changed. The rose-colored nostalgia goggles are the reason why jazz is considered elevator music. 

And @mamihlapinatapia, what you said is ignorant and anti-Black. It shows poor knowledge of jazz history, ignores the still-ongoing innovation of Black jazz artists, and dismisses both the white appropriation of jazz and La La Land’s glorification of it. We have every right to be pissed about it. 

THIS RIGHT HERE👆👆👆👆

There are two things you should know about this beautiful song:

1. Luna composed this herself

2. This song is about her mom being her “medicine” during difficult times

god rest your head sunday afternoon and the wicked in me is surely coming through and I’ll pray to a ghost that I’ve never met still searching for some way out of this mess

there are so many layers to why this vine is immaculate. the slight blur of maple in the background. the halo effect on her fur. the warm autumn lighting. there are no flaws to this and i could watch it forever

More animal vines here

Are they playing colors of the wind?

Playlists for Writing

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     Music to write or study to! These playlists are works in progress and are continuously growing. Titled after like-themed action movie and game music, the playlists each have their own personality, and encourage different moods or activity levels. Most music is from soundtracks. The calmest playlists, Temple Ruins and Party Camp, are useful for getting into the writing or studying mood. This music is less distracting. Once your pace is set, or if you want to get in the mood to write an action scene, Boss Fight is the playlist for you. Tavern Nights, of course, is a fun-filled playlist, but it can be more distracting, and Field Music is right in the middle.

     All playlists are available to follow on Spotify, and can also be accessed via the web player with a free Spotify account. Just click on the [listen] for the link. Please do not hesitate to suggest music/changes to me, either here or on Spotify.

YouTube decided to delete the video, but Thank Goodness I was smart enough to download it before that happened, so that I can re-upload it over here, because it’s still one of the beste NGD-performances I have ever seen. (I did not record this video though and I can’t find the user who did, for which I’m sorry. I will give you the right source-claims if you turn up after all.)

@set-wingedwarrior

“Talk Show” Big Sean & Jhene Aiko

This is too cold

I love this!!!

Bryson Tiller - I Love Beyonce Too

This boy got the ball right now , if you don’t know this you shleep

OH my god..❤️❤️❤️

Missy Elliott – Pep Rally