Ultra Violet

As much progress as this court case could make culturally, it can't enforce anything, and apparently the decision that Israel is committing genocide could take years. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-12/israel-rejects-claims-of-genocide-levelled-in-world-court/103315994 ""My grandfather always regarded the Palestinian struggle as the greatest moral issue of our time," Mandla Mandela, a grandson of the late South Africa president Nelson Mandela, said at a rally in support of the Palestinians in Cape Town. The court is expected to rule on possible emergency measures later this month, but will not rule at that time on the genocide allegations — those proceedings could take years."

Speech at the International Court of Justice. The evidence he's using is literally what the world has been talking about since October (and a lot of what has been shared here).

Too many. I started typing some and gave up, but I can tell you none are post-Lust for Life. I was gonna say except for A&W but it really is nowhere near the level of the best production on Ultraviolence, Honeymoon or Paradise. Even Heroin beats A&W by a mile.

Same, and the instrumentals

It shot up to my top 3 twigs songs in like 2 listens

It sounds exactly like the demo. I'd love to know more about this! And btw, anyone know when this was recorded? Edit: found out it's a 2018 Magdelene outtake

Pink Champagne Freak (demo 2), even though the final is still in my top 10 lama songs. Beautiful people (all demos) Lucky Ones Thunder Best American Record Lust for Life (all, but especially the first one we have) Yes to Heaven Music to watch boys to (radio mix) So Good (& Summer Bummer alt version) Young and in Love

A Living Legend with Dan's strings could have been a thing? Even if not strings, everything he does enhances a track.

All seem to be moments when something about these songs just clicked with me. FMWUTTT & The Blackest Day: bus/train rides in the evening when it's getting dark. Yayo (Paradise): when I first realised how beautiful the song is and i started dancing around my room to it. Black Beauty: walking under trees in spring- trees that were dropping yellow, purple and red flowers all over the path and the grass.

I read your reply as helpful, rather than belitting! But I appreciate the clarification anyway.

A real estate company proposing beachfront houses to be built over the rubble of Gaza https://www.instagram.com/p/C0ygttBoH6X/?igshid=N2ViNmM2MDRjNw== Not surprisingly this same company has built plenty of houses for illegal settlers in the West Bank. Remind me again how this isn't colonisation and ethnic cleansing?

That's exactly why I can't with the "video game" pop-ups in this video. It's so distracting infront of the beautiful portals world. I only liked the ending because it was like a surprise return to the crybaby era. Also, can anyone really remember any periods of hate, backlash and bad treatment Melanie has had besides the T*mothy situation? Because I certainly don't think she's referencing that time. As far as i know she's really not treated any differently to every other female solo musician out there.

That would honestly be good tho. It would be fitting to lean more into that (after Mad Hatter as the Crybaby album closer and the ending of K-12), rather than the spiritual alienified version. she should have kept more of the portals outtakes on the album if she wanted what she's currently going for.

I have a feeling shed be a lust for life stan. I'd wanna show her the LFL first demo.

Short interlude here. Double standards against Arabs are just crazy. Jews have experienced shit that imo justifies feeling like people want them extinct. They're allowed to talk about it. So why can't someone like @14n4 talk about feeling targeted by Israel without being called clueless, when look what's actually happening to Arabs in the neighbouring countries!! How they feel is also justified.

Meanwhile Israel has now killed 19,600 people. Nearly the whole world is against this indiscriminate killing of innocent lives, yet Israel and the US still believe it's justice being served. 13,700 children, babies and women killed for "justice" and "self defence".

Also, the top youtube comments on Void and Tunnel Vision send me I guess it's good some people think they're experiencing the peak of her career, but to me it's like they're watching something completely different.

I Liked the ending. It was better than the whole music video. But the video overall was also better than VOID so I'll take it I guess. Idk about you but I'm sick of her falling through all these portals. I get it. It's the whole album and it has meaning and it's supposed to feel tiring, but now I feel the pattern is boring and too on the nose already. What's saving me my fan status is that Ive started paying real attention to all the Portals session outtakes, like Death (2020), Hawaii Space Guitar, Garden, Dragons Blood and Mother of Pearl. I'm seeing how beautiful, spirital and etheral this era could have been, and these songs pull me much more emotionally. But for some reason the songs she chose for the final cut make it seem less about the concept she's going for aesthetically and more about human crybabys life. Likes its been a mix up.

If someone wants to read about the IDF capturing innocent men, forcing them to strip to underwear in the street, driving them blindfolded to another location, beating them (unprovoked), and then 16 hours later letting them free without giving their clothes back or untieing their hands, making them walk hours back home like that. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-17/detained-palestinians-gaza-idf-videos-photos-stripped-men/103237684

So fucking sad. "This was against our rules of engagement." Theyre literally doing everything against every rule.

First I disagreed with the first post, then I read this and agreed. Although i loved what we got from Ultraviolence, there was still the change from the original Ultraviolence video (recycling it for Freak really watered it down), the PWYC video never coming through, etc. I think that after Paradise, "missed opportunities" have been SO reoccurring and it shows because theres always something missing. Scrapping Best American Record and getting it replaced with White Mustang was also a big loss.

Definitely The Last Shadow Puppet collabs. And she knows she could have released an "Unreleased Tracks" album and it would have been her second or third most-streamed album. But i wish there was a specifix focus on BTD outtakes as they are pretty consistent in themes and production too.

"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells soldiers they will fight "until the end" regardless of international support." "I say this in the face of great pain but also in the face of international pressures. Nothing will stop us".

Another non-binding vote: Only to support more pauses in Israel's killings. The way they're terming it a "sustainable ceasefire". They literally put the word sustainable anywhere just to make the public more complacent.

Omg Legend!!!! Thank you so much