Melissa Etheridge Covers Billy Joel’s “Only the Good Die Young” (2014)
I like this song so much better when it’s the story of a lesbian teenage delinquent coaxing a closeted Catholic girl to “come out” and live a happy queer life.
bro i LOVE indigenous fusion music i love it when indigenous people take traditional practices and language and apply them in new cool ways i love the slow decay and decolonisation of the modern music industry
I WILL !!! I WILL DO THAT
some of my favourite indigenous artists, in no particular order:
i’ve also heard good things abt Baker Boy, but i haven’t checked out his stuff yet
Another one for Inuit artists is Piqsiq! Two sisters who’ve been doing traditional throat singing since they were kids. They make some really gorgeous, eerie, atmospheric stuff. Highly recommend watching this video of them performing live a cappella using a looping machine, because they might be the coolest people on the planet actually
(Jo March nearly in tears voice) women,,,,
For anyone into North Asian and Central Asian folk music, there’s this incredible Siberian folk-pop band called Otyken! The group is mostly women and they’re from multiple indigenous groups in Siberia, with songs being sung in their range of different languages. They’re so much fun and their music videos are amazing!
i’ll go ahead and recommend The Halluci Nation (formerly known as A Tribe Called Red), an EDM group from First Nations Ontario that do really cool fusions of First Nations music with dubstep, moombahton, and hip hop.
I really really really appreciate people who share videos on posts like these, because almost without a doubt every time I love the music but I’ve never got the spoons to click on links and look through a bunch of music or worse google the artist I always end up too overwhelmed to start and I hate that
Haven’t seen Belle Sisoski here yet so here we go: she’s the current Artist of Year for BURO impact Awards. She’s from Malaysia and knows how to play an insane amount of ethnic instruments and mixes them with her own voice. She does covers and her own songs, mixes ethnic instruments with Techno and shows the process. And she’s also a live DJ at 19!
And one of her own:
Oh and of course there’s also the HU and Bloodywood for people who like more rock and metal mixed in:
King Stingray, Aussie band who sing in two languages. Yolŋu Surf rock
for no particular reason I am collecting songs that are about hating the president of the united states. so far I have Lily Allen’s “fuck you” which is about GWB, and the Decemberists’ “I Will Not Say Your Name” which is about Mr. Trump. who can give me more songs that are explicitly about hating the president of the united states.
WOW YOU GUYS KNOW A LOT OF SONGS ABOUT PRESIDENT HATING, THIS IS GREAT
I may have preemptively thrown everything mentioned in the notes so far into a playlist
bro i LOVE indigenous fusion music i love it when indigenous people take traditional practices and language and apply them in new cool ways i love the slow decay and decolonisation of the modern music industry
I WILL !!! I WILL DO THAT
some of my favourite indigenous artists, in no particular order:
i’ve also heard good things abt Baker Boy, but i haven’t checked out his stuff yet
Another one for Inuit artists is Piqsiq! Two sisters who’ve been doing traditional throat singing since they were kids. They make some really gorgeous, eerie, atmospheric stuff. Highly recommend watching this video of them performing live a cappella using a looping machine, because they might be the coolest people on the planet actually
(Jo March nearly in tears voice) women,,,,
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In case anyone didn’t know yet (don’t feel bad, i only found out this week) a band called Steeleye Span did a whole album on Tiffany Aching books 1-4 called Wintersmith. Not only was this a like thing they had permission for, the song The Good Witch has Terry Pratchett literally just reading the passage from Wintersmith about cackling being a sign of moral/mental degradation in witches. I’ve not heard all of it yet, but both (that’s right, two) Dark Morris Dance songs are amazing
I love when singers think maybe their song requires a little prerequisite information so they just cover it real fast so everyone’s on the same page. I love that TLC opens No Scrubs quickly reviewing exactly what a scrub is and when ABBA was like “just in case you didn’t know, famed 19th century militant ruler Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated in the battle of Waterloo. We though perhaps not everyone would know that. Alright, so moving on to my love life, which is similar to that actually,”
exactly thank u yes I saw that too. this is about in-song debriefing specifically. when the lyrics themselves are a quick explanation of the info you need to set u up for the rest of the song
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I really love how Icelandic folk-rock band Of Monsters and Men lay a little bit of . like. Nordic saga framing to launch us into “dirty paws,” a song about a nonspecific type of monstrous beast who is drafted into a war between a defending coalition of birds and mammals, and their aggressors, the armed bees. (Dirty Paws supports the birds.)
Which you’d think would be the thing they needed to set up before the chorus, but no.
We start off briskly with an introduction to the singer. “Jumping up and down the floor - my head is an animal.” This seems to be an interesting and energetic person with a unique mindset and I’m looking forward to hearing what they’re going to share.
However, they instantly discard the singer as a character, announcing “and once there was an animal…”
What kind of animal, its gender or place in the story is NOT important because we are actually moving on to “it had a son who mowed the lawn.”
This is what I mean about the Nordic style framing. We are burrowing deeper through the layers and levels to discover our protagonist but first we have to get through the ancestry. We are also becoming clearer in our pictures but what’s really important is clarity in the relationships.
“The son was an okay guy…” oh okay
“He had a pet dragonfly.” OKAY
“The dragonfly it ran away… and came back with a story to say.”
And then having spent a good deal of the audience’s attention on the background lore and a stint of light lawn mowing, now we start the plot.
Thanks Of Monsters and Men! Never start being normal!
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