u/afragmentedsoul

Seriously, our queen really has low self-esteem because wdym you don't consider yourself a composer or a songwriter then drop THIS, which would've received generational glaze had it been dropped not by an asian pop singer but one a white one from the USA?

Let's give it some love y'all, specially anyone else who's a massive prog rock / math rock fan

People usually only pay attention to the chorus or main melodies in 4/4 and dont realize the 7/4, 7/8, 5/4, etc, time signatures in certain instruments underneath, or really just how complex the drums are. I think it's genius tbh, making it sound so smooth at times despite the lurking darkness, it fits the lyrics well

She was the most streamed Japanese singer overseas, sold 150k physical copies first week with no variants, but more importantly for Lollapalooza, she knows how to draw crowds by being an amazing performer.

She recently had 150k attendees over two days back in her home country and has also just completed the biggest World Tour ever for a Japanese artist, with an estimated 500 thousand attendees and selling out major 20k+ venues around the world, including the United Center in Chicago, only 4 years into her career.

With these accomplishments, I feel as if she has more than earned an opportunity to perform on the big stages like her peers Fujii Kaze, Yoasobi or Hanabie have in previous years.

Despite that, she's set to perform at Airbnb, which I'm sure will be a great experience, but I feel as if she has the credentials to perform at Bud Light or T-Mobile. I acknowledge this could be a result of things like scheduling or stage production needs, but I just felt like writing this as it is my wish from the heart of a fan to see Ado on the big stages. I hope you have a nice day, and for everyone going, I think you should give her music a try!

Song's great but Ado said 3 lines and left </3 She deserved some more time

The sounds people often mention being a reversed distorted guitar is actually a sitar, or maybe a veena or a rabab. After research, TeddyLoid and Giga mentioned in an interview that it was inspired by Indian culture and movies from Bollywood, which Giga said to be a big fan of.

Not only that, TeddyLoid said Giga is great at playing the sitar and other string instruments, which was a pleasent surprise.

So that said, considering these instruments are all inherently xenharmonic, could someone with a better ear than me confirm it? It'd be very interesting to know such a big song uses concepts that, in the west, are usually reserved to bands like King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard.

It's obvious the use of 'meends' in the melody, which is another thing that points me to it being xenharmonic.

They know who the goat is

(Artist is Ado)

I don't have the courage to even type your initials. I can't understand how I came to this point. It feels like a mixture of being cursed and the adults in my life failing me, but I can't deny I too am much to blame. I should've drawn with you more, given you more candies and played Terraria together. I should've learned the keyboard and we could be a small band.

And to this time of my life, I can't help but think it was the last time I was truly happy. Memories flash by, and it was just so hopeful. Even the scenarios that terrified me back then, looking back feel bittersweet. I would like to have told my parents who I truly am. I should've been able to have a childhood as well.

The smell of that early winter is burnt into my mind, and it feels so happy it makes me miserable. Maybe part of me is still living there, going on a better path of life than I did. I wish her well. On this one I'll only be a John Doe.

It's what happens when your song is actually good

Listen, I get it, it has its use cases, it started out pretty valid, I've had to interact with annoying weebs, but for months now I solely see that image being top replies under anything vaguely east asian.

The other day I saw a clip of Parasite and the top comment was literally this, with 10k likes. Parasite. The critically acclaimed Korean movie. 10 thousand people agreed that movie was "only liked because it's Japanese". Am I really crazy for finding it insuffurable?

Or how the other day people were discussing the decline of physical media in the American music market and I brought up how in other countries it's still common, like how Japan (the second largest music market in the world behind USA) is much bigger on physical music sales than the USA (which is objectively true, in Japan it accounts for 66% of sales and in the USA it's 11%), and I got like 5 people calling me a weeb and sending this meme.

It's just really insuffurable how you can't enjoy anything not made by americans or europeans anymore. Watching anime? Thing, Japan. Watching a donghua? Thing, Japan. Listening to K-Pop? Thing, Japan. Reading a manhwa or watching a Thai Drama? That too is Thing, Japan!

I could bring up how this could come from white defaultism and USA/european defaultism, but the post is long enough and that should be obvious already. I hate how even the wokest of westerners still can't recognize that.

obviously gonna get downvoted because this is probably a limp bizkit line somewhere, but i just wanted to scream it somewhere

Of course there'll always be war and hunger and all, everyone's said that, it's not what I mean, what really gets me is that I'm afraid things will never change because people as a collective don't want it to. All I've ever seen is even the self proclaimed wokest of people turn to nazism if a minority dares to exist near them. The 3rd grader concept of empathy doesn't exist to anyone.

I think I'd call myself a misanthrope, but I don't really hate everyone on a individual level. I love the people around me. It's just that it feels like people as a collective love to make things shit because we're just animals. I can understand it seems edgy, but I can't argue against it as much as I try to. It's correct on a personal level and on a historical level. Everyone is evil, and I'm the worst for realizing.