A Couple Mousy Commissions!

"I can be myself when I'm with you" is a top tier compliment

I unironically really enjoy the opera-rap + tuba sections.

Okay so it’s finals season which means I’ve cracked and need to go on my ramble about one of my favorite pieces of music of all time: The Most Unwanted Song.

The thing about this song isn’t that it’s bad. It’s a special kind of horrific. It’s so bad it crosses the invisible artistic barrier and becomes brilliant. And it was designed for that. 

See back in the 1990s these two artists decided to make a series of paintings (I promise it’s connected). Graphic designers  Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid sat down to create the “best” and “worst” paintings based on opinion polls. There’s commentary about public opinion in there, but that’s not the point right now. The point is, they were approached by a gallery owner and asked to make a CD using the same principle. 

So they started polling people. Turns out, the American public, when asked about what they hate in music, has a lot of answers. Winning answers included bagpipes, opera, rap, intellectually stimulating music (hah!), cowboy music, swearing in music, long songs, songs about America, children’s choirs, advertising jingles, and accordions. 

And then they set out to put all those things into one song with the help of Dave Soldier. 

And boy did they succeed. 

In order to make this song work, they couldn’t just have all the individual elements working separately. There wasn’t time for that, and they would have lost a lot of unity. So they went the inventive direction. So that’s why we have a opera-rap soprano singing lyrics with casual profanity about being a cowboy and philosophical discussions. That’s how we get this: 

It’s 22 minutes long. 22 minutes to consider your place in the universe. 

People also hate politics in songs, so at the end someone screams a protest rant through a bullhorn. At one point it sounds like someone is throwing up in the background. 

The best part of this, of course is that it was done by professional musicians. It’s pretty clear that they know what they’re doing and are choosing to do it really really badly. It adds to that flavor of chaos. 

I genuinely believe that everyone should listen to this song at least once. If nothing else, it will be funny. 

i think if you're going to love a young boy character who's filled with an inescapable sadness and overperforms masculinity you're really just going to have to accept that some people are going to see those issues and decide estradiol and she/it pronouns are the fix she needs

those candy-cane-shaped m&m tubes they make for christmas, every time i see one i cannot resist holding it like a pistol and going pew pew

the beverage brand Fruit2O is pronounced "difruit monoxide"

i have become hopelessly obsessed with RATGRL

Update after a full workday of using Heexy: The bang search could use some tweaks (it requires the bang to go at the beginning of the query whereas other search engines recognize it anywhere; it is only working for me directly from the website rather than in searches from the address bar; and it triggers captchas a lot on websites like Google Scholar), but as far as the normal search functionality---still excellent. I get plenty of relevant results from a decade ago rather than other search engines' flood of very recent pages, and there is better prioritization of reliable sites like a higher ratio of .edu pages for informational sources.

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