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Aim of Curated Music Collection: To present an organised collection of music with the use of keywords (marked with #) to create meaningful connections and to facilitate searching. Examples of keywords may include but not limited to singer, composer, lyricist, arranger, and genre of music. A short introduction and any available tidbits of information may be included. # Liu Jia Chang 刘家昌 Chapter 1 Taiwanese singer-songwriter and film director in the 1960s and 1970s who died of cancer on 2 Dec 2024 at age 81. Liu reportedly composed more than 2,000 songs and is considered the Godfather of Music in Taiwan. His influence in the Chinese music industry can be summed up by the following saying: Liu Jia Chang in the 1970s, Luo Da You in the 1980s, Li Zhong Sheng in the 1990s (70年代的刘家昌，80年代的罗大佑，90年代的李宗盛) – the three most prominent Taiwanese songwriters/producers of those three decades. Cover in Japanese: https://youtu.be/iHDmwviPzVo Cover in Japanese: https://youtu.be/RprY8gt7J-g

i have a liking for music, be it Canto pop, jpop or simply classical. somethings i come accross songs that i really like, either the melody is nice or the lyrics struck a cord in my heart. here's one of them, for those who cant read traditional chinese, the lyrics talks about letting go "if the worries are unfounded, wash them off with the shower head" 花灑 - 古巨基 歌手：古巨基 | 作曲：王菀之 填詞：林夕 | 編曲：雷頌德 為了要博世界讚美 便苦惱 害怕永遠也做不到 忘掉了偶爾懶理世界或會更好 期望要有這個與那個 像匹布 被剪碎飛舞 盲目了兩眼也但求 要拾到 * 何必要做奴隸 無需要為失去了的執迷 輪流涼或暖像四季 做人做過世 漫長年月有路軌 人總想擁有東西 要是代價高 越令心中牽繫 擔憂要是無謂 拿花灑洗禮 * la………. 為了要與某某愛上 便希冀 為了挫折過 便緊記 全為貢獻過 要有報答 便有對比 全為看中過 發覺看錯 便生氣 甚麼叫天理 忘掉奮鬥過要隨緣 信命理 Repeat * la…… 沙發自在自在齊齊坐 拿去它都總可去站去跑 無謂靠甚麼 何不將一切拋低 志願大過天 亦像世上螻蟻 星星永未流逝 如只可感嘆它美麗 得到也是無謂 負擔高過天際

Anyone into classical / instrumental music? I am currently playing this on a loop: Do share your favourites here!

To those who appreciate Indonesian and Malay songs, this would be our thread. I am Filipino but I am very blessed to experience ASEAN by living/studying/working in Indonesia, Malaysia and now Singapore. Interacting and being open to other cultures especially Malay has been an eye-opener to me and gave positive memories of the three countries I've mentioned. One of the part which made me feel connected with the country are the songs (of course food and the local friends goes 1st and 2nd). Please post your favourites too. My first pick would be: Menhitung Hari by Krisdayanti for Indonesia Bunga-Bunga Cinta by Misha Omar for Malaysia

helloo!! im looking for more people who are interested in the Band scene or have played in band/are CURRENTLY in band right now!! I wanna hv more connections to more people who play in band, so do hmu on tele @fthsngwn if you play in wind bands like me!! ps. i play the euphonium :))

Not sure if I am the only one watching this singing competition from China, who are catching it too? Let's discuss here.

hiii!! im looking for more people to meet who used to be or are still active in the band scene in SG!! im personally from Symphonic band right now, so it would be nice to meet more people who have the same interests and passions as me

John Lennon recorded the song in his home in 1977 just by piano and singing on a demo version. The song was never released. The Beatles had broken up in late 60s (1968/1969), the exact date of break up is not certain. There was never any reunion to start as Beatles again after 1970. Story on the song/ how it came to the other Beatles: In 1994 Lennon's widow Yoko Ono gave a tape of Lennon's recordings to George Harrison of a number of songs that Lennon never released commercially or had completed. The Lennon demo also had technical issues, there were overdubs and a technical humming sound that could not be reduced (until recently). But “Now and Then” proved more difficult to work with. In the original recording, Lennon had the TV on in the background, and a hissing sound diminished the quality. A second issue was that voice of Lennon and the piano part could not be separated from the demo tape. But: Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings director) created some technology that was able to separate voice and music. Jackson was able to extricate John's voice from a ropey little bit of cassette. Some call this technology "AI " but I m not sure it would really fall under the category of AI, as technology just managed to separate voice and instruments. To create the final version: McCartney and Starr worked on finishing the song last year. The final version of “Now and Then” features all four Beatles—including Lennon’s vocals, electric and acoustic guitar recorded by Harrison in 1995, a new drum part from Starr, and bass, guitar and piano from McCartney. The two living band members recorded backing vocals, and McCartney added a slide guitar solo played in Harrison’s style. A string arrangement for the new track was composed by McCartney, Ben Foster and Giles Martin, the son of the Beatles’ former producer George Martin, who wrote orchestral parts that were hallmarks of the band’s sound. The song includes backing vocals from the original recordings of “Here, There and Everywhere,” “Eleanor Rigby” and “Because.” The "Beatles" version: What's your point? Can we consider this a true Beatles song?

Thread Started By: metalmickey Posted: February 25, 2008 12:07 pm Any fans of Indie or Underground Pop music here? Indie pop is alternative or underground music from artistes/bands that are on independent record labels, as opposed to the usual mainstream pop (like Gwen Stefani, Pussycat Dolls, Nelly Furtado, Timbaland, Timberlake, etc) on major labels. Modern indie music is the latter-day "descendant" of the punk and new wave or post-punk movements of the late 1970s to early 1980s. Some of the contemporary indie artistes/ bands I like include Belle & Sebastian, Death Cab for Cutie, John Vanderslice, Nada Surf, Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, and a few others. Some of my favourite "veteran" or classic indie artistes/bands include The Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, Magazine, Gary Numan, Gang of Four, The Cure, Joy Division, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Television, The Ramones, Blondie, The Clash, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Public Image Limited, The Smiths, The Jesus & Mary Chain, New Order (they used to be Joy Division, but changed their name after their lead singer-songwriter Ian Curtis committed suicide), Nirvana, Mudhoney, Husker Du, Sugar, The Primitives, etc. As you can see, I'm a very big fan of the punk and post-punk scene of the late 70s to early 80s. Any body else with similar or different taste in music? Please share what you think are the merits of the artistes/bands you like and why you like or don't like certain artistes/bands. Cheers! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment 01: bigtommyboysg Posted: February 25, 2008 12:21 pm i dig the stuff u liked metalmickey. but thats just the tip of the iceberg. one band missing though - no Sonic Youth? they make beautiful and challenging stuff. as Juno mentioned in the movie - they just make noise. but what great noise.... heh.. btw is ur nick derived from the Suede song? wink.gif -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment 02: metalmickey Posted: February 25, 2008 12:27 pm Ah yes! Sonic Youth! How could I forget to mention them! I dig them too. But not so much these days. I tend to go for more mellow or laid-back music these days from the likes of Belle & Sebastian and Death Cab for Cutie. If you like Sonic Youth, how about My Bloody Valentine? I really loved it when some of its music was featured in Lost in Translation, which IMHO has got to be a "future classic cult" film. Really loved the closing scene with Bob's cab ride to the airport fading out to "Just Like Honey" by The Jesus & Mary Chain. Such a f@#king perfect, absolutely unforgettable ending ... smile.gif I like some stuff by Suede, but I was never really into them, 'cos they really remind too much of David Bowie's glam years. Bowie is one of my all-time fave artistes, too. As for my nick, you'd be interested to know that Suede got if off a once popular British kids' sit-com of the same name. Here's a link to a site for the show: http://www.itv.com/BestofITV/kids/MetalMickey/default.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment 03: bigtommyboysg Posted: February 25, 2008 01:13 pm heh - ya i knew the existence of that children tv show. tongue.gif you wouldnt believe my excitement when i heard MBV is touring again. which hopefully would translate them to work a bit more harder on that THIRD album. my neck's been stiff from craning to see when it will be dropping.... oh and speaking of the third album syndrome, me all time fav PORTISHEAD is also on tour and will be releasing their third album this coming APRIL. sweet. cool.gif im more influenced by British music - even though the veterans of American independent music are a mainstay on me ipod as well. mellow stuff eh? hows about Kings of Convenience? their concert here in singapore blew my mind. biggrin.gif ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment 04: metalmickey Posted: February 26, 2008 10:52 am I've heard some stuff by Kings of Convenience (KoC), and they're pretty good. But I'm not really a fan of theirs ... well at least not yet. They sound a lot like Simon & Garfunkel at times, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. In fact, I'm a Simon & Garfunkel fan, myself! biggrin.gif I don't know if anyone else knows this, but the best place to hear indie music on local free-to-air radio right now is actually 938LIVE! In between their news reports and special feature programmes, they always play some really good indie tunes. I've heard stuff on 938LIVe by the likes of KoC, Belle & Sebastian, Death Cab for Cutie (DCfC), The Postal Service (side project of Ben Gibbard of DCfC), The Raveonettes, The Innocence Mission, The Decemberists, The Trashcan Sinatras, The Wedding Present, Cinerama (these last two are bands led by brilliant Brit singer-songwriter David Gedge), The Primitives, BMX Bandits, Yo La Tengo, and classic stuff by Tori Amos, Suzanne Vega, The Cure, The Smiths, Morrissey, Wire, and The Cocteau Twins. They also occasionally play stuff by local indie bands like The Oddfellows, Serenaide, The Observatory and even some regional bands like Mocca from Indonesia. The type of music played on 938Live is mainly of the laidback, mellow mid-tempo variety and more often falls under the category of "twee pop." I believe station director Eugene Low is responsible for the programming of the playlist. If so, I must say he really does have excellent taste in music. I only wish they would revamp/renew their playlist more often, as I've been hearing the same set of songs being played over and over again throughout the past five months or so. Even so, the music programming on 938LIVE makes for a welcome breath of fresh air amidst the predictable Top-40 saturated airwaves in Singapore. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment: jayy Posted: February 27, 2008 01:02 am I am into Arctic Monkeys, Franz and Kaisers too. Klaxons, KT Tunstall, 30 Seconds To Mars, Mew? Not sure if they're indie per se. These days though, I'm really into Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails. I love bands that have heavy synth/keyboard influences (Depeche Mode- my fav!). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment: TopChinese Posted: February 27, 2008 11:27 am Is Mika and Scissors Sisters considered alternative? I'm still doing step machines to Filthy/Gorgeous -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment: gruffman Posted: February 27, 2008 10:24 pm Mosaic's kicking off at Esplanade on 7 Mar. Last year they had Yo La Tengo, Rickie Lee Jones, Album Leaf... this year, they're bringing in Broken Social Scene, the bird and the bee, Soil and Pimp, George Clinton among many other happening acts... in fact, Harry Connick Jr is opening the festival... cool tongue.gif ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment: jayy Posted: February 27, 2008 10:40 pm Mika is just plain annoying, makes me want to bash up the radio or tv whever he's on bw2/swear.gif This year's Mosaic does have a pretty interesting lineup... I'm going for the Mum concert. Just discovered them last year, interesting mix of electronica wink.gif ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comment: bigtommyboysg Posted: February 27, 2008 11:54 pm me attending Broken Social Scene, Mum and Sondre Lerche... bw2/thumb.gif still deciding on The Roots though - cannot bugger my friends to join me. bah... Mika is almost like a one-man Scissors Sisters - and i agree with jayy, he kinda borders on annoying. metalmickey: any local bands that you have caught on recently. i highly recommend B-Quartet and I Am David Sparkle. quite top-notched in my books. but i still yearned for those good old days when BigO is still a printed magazine. it introduced me to alot of local groups that are doing their own stuff. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment: Starfury Posted: February 28, 2008 12:36 am Hmm..I wonder where will the likes of Delerium & Frou Frou be... Can't say i identify with Artic Monkeys - but i guess some tracks from this genre grows on you the more you listen to them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment: maturemedium Posted: February 28, 2008 01:58 am Sevendust The Berzerker HorrorPops Kill The Romance My Chemical Romance Hunab Ku List goes on... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment: sutgua Posted: February 28, 2008 03:02 am black kids is a group i like. maybe you'll enjoy their songs too. they are free for download http://www.myspace.com/blackkidsrock ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment: metalmickey Posted: February 28, 2008 12:25 pm I'm going for the Broken Social Scene gig at Mosaic. Haven't really heard much of their stuff, but from the little I heard at their MySpace page, they really ROCK! I expect theirs will be a good gig. Will be looking out for you there, Big Tommy Boy, hehe! biggrin.gif As for Mika, he's not really indie, but Scissor Sisters is a special case of a used-to-be indie band that has gained crossover success in Top 40 radio-land. Hope that answers your question, TC. biggrin.gif ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment: metalmickey Posted: February 28, 2008 12:41 pm Wow, maturemedium, I see you mainly dig the horrorpunk/metal goth type groups. Not really my cup of tea, but I really dig The Misfits, the ORIGINAL horrorpunk band led by Glen Danzig.

Many songs are magical, but some are able to make your body twitch and your limbs move in a way that is only acceptable on the dance floor. Let's share our favourite dance songs here. Maybe, when you look out of your window and see some guy across the block dancing near a computer, he might be on BW. Here's the first song: (drum roll...) the no.1 dance song in US. It's Rihanna.

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I feel like this is a relatively foreign music genre to the gay community since most of us spend our time moshing to mainstream genres. Drum n Bass was a relatively unknown genre until it gained prominence in 2016. Prior to that, you'd probably only hear it in small UK communities. Most people are often put off by the loud and chaotic music. Just like punk music has its own distortion, drum n bass is similarly distorted in its own right, though good or bad distortion is entirely to your interpretation. I got into this genre back in 2013 and have never looked back since. Personally enjoy working out to them too. Just genuinely curious if any gay guys here are into drum n bass. Video included is a typical example of how Drum N bass should sound like.

You confuse making music together with socializing with music. It is the same as our conversations in BW. We converse together, although we may be continents apart. It would be nicer if we could sit together in a cafe or a bar and have some drinks with our conversations, but the interchange of ideas is the same. One of the positives of the pandemic is that it has shown the practicality of holding classes remotely. In the same way, musicians can play together remotely. And they play together because they synchronize with each other in real time, not off-line (all thanks to their nearly instantaneous connections). A conductor is not necessarily excluded from these cyber-ensembles. I am sure that there is room here for interactions, like they are in any teleconferencing. .

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I do wish to meet people with similar music taste as mine. Hmu if you keen to chat. Telegram: pentagonax / Line: xanem1233 also, anyone actively dancing to kpop songs? Not a professional dancer but i do wish to join a group that just hangout and dances to kpop for fun.

As we approach the end of the decade I thought it would be a good idea to recollect the songs that captured the hearts and minds of people worldwide. I will start off with what many consider to be the quintessential EDM track. The early years of the 2010s were defined by a louder version of house music called Electronic Dance Music, and the Swedish House Mafia were widely regarded as artists that perfected this style of music.

The Sun Always Shines On TV Take On Me Train of thought You are the one Hunting High and Low Scoundrel Days I Call your name Crying in the rain Stay on these roads I've been losing you The Living Daylights Maybe Maybe

Hi, I am looking for some kaki to sing k in Kl on weekends. It will be just a normal karaoke session and everyone shall pay for their own fee. Preferably Chinese and below age of 30 so that we can have common topics.

Hi guys, check do any of you know of any places where you can train your vocal chord loudly without any disturbances beside singing classrooms? Like a solitary room or quiet place like that. 🙃

Tumblr, July 4, 2012—Independence Day. A week before the release of Channel Orange, the debut studio album that cemented his mainstream success, Frank Ocean traded liner notes for a Tumblr note. “4 summers ago, I met somebody. I was 19 years old. He was too,” he wrote, memorializing his first love in a now-immortal post. Ocean’s two-paragraph message of thanks was largely received as a coming-out letter, and helped to formalize a significant relationship between Tumblr and music. He was one of the first popular queer musicians and celebrities who came of age, sexuality, and fame this decade on the microblogging site—folks like Troye Sivan, Halsey, Cara Delevigne, and Amandla Sternberg would also find fanbases there. For many young queer people and those otherwise culturally marginalized, Tumblr played home to communities where they became educated and politicized, to the point of their empowerment from cultural consumers to producers. Founded by David Karp in 2007, at a time when Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was still in effect and marriage equality felt like an impassable dream, Tumblr offered queer and nonconforming youths “an opaque space where users were less likely to be found and attacked,” says Allison McCracken, Associate Professor of American Studies at DePaul University and something of an expert on Tumblr-based youth subcultures. These same attributes—the heavily coded and highly visual way of communicating, the hard-to-parse archives, the mostly pseudonymous users—have made it difficult for the press and general audiences to fully grasp the platform’s impact on music and music fandom. “Tumblr has had a larger influence on English-speaking popular culture than most people realize,” says digital anthropologist Alex Cho, who’s written extensively about the site’s queer POC users. More than any other digital space, it helped to queer an entire generation. In 2019, pop is beginning to look like everything Tumblr wanted it to be in the early 2010s: inclusive, empowered, and increasingly gay. Many artists are out and proud about their nuanced queer identities, from Kehlani to Janelle Monáe, while non-queer artists are making sure to bring in, and sometimes pander to, highly engaged queer audiences. Even Taylor Swift, newfound queen of Tumblr aesthetics, has built the practice of “queerbaiting” into her release strategy. Hints of homoeroticism have become as common among pop stars—from Ariana Grande to Dua Lipa to Charli XCX—as they are characters on a teen soap. The new language used to articulate gender and sexual identity has been popularized in lockstep with the platform. “The site’s queer users have led the way for the mainstream proliferation of queer/gender-conforming identity development,” McCracken says. Asexuality, demisexuality, grey sexuality, pansexuality, as well as non-binary—which may have even originated as a term on the site, it’s difficult to tell—have made their way, as public labels, to the pop world. Miley Cyrus, Kesha, Sia, Monáe, and others have identified themselves as at least one of the above, in the time since Tumblr popularized these micro-minorities in the early 2010s. “This is the Tumblr effect,” McCracken adds. The sheer desire for queer representation that overwhelmed Tumblr fandom in the mid-2010s is now so common in the mainstream that a new type of celebrity has emerged, one whose queer identity is as celebrated as their art. Consider Troye Sivan, who has been praised for bringing bottoming to pop via his song “Bloom”; or Hayley Kiyoko, the former Disney Channel star who affirmed that “girls like girls just like boys do” in her breakout hit; or Shura, the British singer-songwriter who remodeled Rodin’s iconic sculpture “The Kiss” to feature two women on her album cover. Each of these budding icons has been sloganized accordingly: Sivan is the Gay Prince of Pop, Kiyoko is the Lesbian Jesus, and Shura is the Lesbian Pope. These artists and others, like King Princess and MNEK, are often marketed and editorialized based on their queerness alone. With the rise of queer acceptance came the monetization of it. Meme librarian Amanda Brennan, who works on Tumblr’s Fandometrics project to chart fan trends across the site, says she noticed a large spike in popularity for Panic! At The Disco among Tumblr users when the band’s singer Brendon Urie began identifying as pansexual in July 2018. The same happened for Lil Nas X when he revealed this summer that he isn’t straight. In a formative example of this trend, back in 2015, Kiyoko found her music career bolstered by queer Tumblr fandom after releasing “Girls Like Girls.” While she’d already accrued a small following thanks to her role in Wizards of Waverly Place, Kiyoko’s popularity grew exponentially after Tumblr caught wind of her ode to other girls. “I watched Hayley Kiyoko’s 5 minuet [sic] music video about two girls,” one user posted, after seeing their desires refracted into ceaseless GIF form for perhaps the first time. “It had me on the edge of tears, and it makes me so upset b/c to me finding content like that 5 minuet [sic] video is so rare.” That image-based ephemera is part of what makes Tumblr resonate with such immediacy. Users’ dashboards are filled mostly with visual mediums—GIFs, photos, screenshots, and videos, all capable of evoking strong feelings. People can share their desires not just with the clumsiness of words, but with the impossible romance of a highly edited image, an endless loop of two people kissing. For musicians who came of art and age on the website, the music become inseparable from its same-sex, pastel-colored imagery: the orange of Ocean’s summer of love, the pink-aquamarine of Halsey’s Badlands, the candy-floss backdrop of Troye Sivan’s Blue Neighourhood. At this point, these album covers might be described as giving off “Tumblr vibes,” Brennan says, i.e. “dreamy and thoughtful and super, super queer.” This doesn’t mean the artist has to actually be queer, though. Brennan points to Taylor Swift’s use of “Tumblr vibes” on her new album Lover, whose cover resembles the kind of fan art you’d find on the platform, all butterflies and millennial pink. She sees some of the trends found within Tumblr’s LGBT+ tags—“positivity, self-empowerment, vivid colors”—reflected within the visual world of Swift’s seventh album. This itself is not so surprising: In addition to courting a queer audience with her rainbow-colored, LGBTQ-icon-featuring video for “You Need to Calm Down,” Swift’s most active social media presence is on Tumblr, where she regularly interacts with fans, often reblogging their praise and referring to them by their first names. The intense level of engagement that Tumblr inspires from its queer users is an especially valuable currency now that most musicians make more money from their tours and merchandise than their actual music. At the same time as this industry-wide shift, says McCracken, “the last 10 years has really seen what is considered by fan studies scholars as the mainstreaming of fandom by the corporate media.” That’s also meant that queer fans, who rely on “transformative works” (fan-created and fan-centered art) in order to serve their own interests, have been targeted more directly. Queer people will find themselves represented (or appropriated) in pop music now more than ever—they’re even beginning to share a common language. “‘Cause shade never made anybody less gay,” sings Swift, who recently came out as straight, on “You Need To Calm Down.” It’s now increasingly common for queer fans on Tumblr to bolster the popularity of musicians who are thought to be heterosexual. This is the case for Charli XCX, once a very active Tumblr user herself. In return, she often echoes the language of her queer fanbase, rooting for herself via the excessively punctuated enthusiasm and multiple letter cases of a Tumblr post (“i really feel like Gone is one of the best songs that has been released this year.... like it’s in the top 10 best songs of the year FOR SURE. right?!? rt if u agree,” she recently tweeted). This is also, bewilderingly, the case for Hozier. The Irish “Take Me to Church” singer espouses a particularly sapphic kind of yearning, according to his queer fanbase on Tumblr. “Hozier is a lesbian” is currently an active tag on the site. There’s no greater example of the campy veneration of heterosexual artists on Tumblr than One Direction. This was largely thanks to Rainbow Direction, a campaign for queer visibility among 1D fans, created in 2013 by a Tumblr user who was tired of seeing straight girls targeted exclusively by the band. As 1D members became aware of their popularity on the site, they often participated in Tumblr fan Q&As, where they interacted with a largely queer fanbase that helped keep them at the forefront of culture until their split. “It’s a great example of how Tumblr fans queered popular culture,” McCracken says. “On Tumblr, lesbian fans of One Direction were so pervasive that they defined the fandom there.” Those attending One Direction shows were encouraged to wear rainbow clothing and accessories, which likely resulted in Harry Styles waving a rainbow Pride flag in September 2015. In the years since, the androgynous Styles has cultivated a kind of queer appeal, particularly after staying ambiguous about his own sexuality and debuting songs with a perceived subtext of bisexuality. Now, nearly a half-decade removed from the height of Rainbow Direction, it’s hard not to feel nostalgic for the Tumblr we once knew—where queer earnestness was encouraged, where Frank Ocean felt safe enough to share his heart. Since Verizon’s acquisition of Tumblr in 2017, once highly active users of the site began to feel disaffected. That was exacerbated when the company decided to purge Tumblr’s archives of pornographic content in 2018, effectively putting a digital chastity belt on its queer users who once looked to the site for a horny representation of themselves. In the early 2010s, Tumblr was a construction site for new ways of identifying beyond the heteropatriarchal binary. Today, these values have been co-opted and sanitized for the purpose of profit. At the very least, like Frank, we’ll always have the memories. Source: https://pitchfork.com/features/article/2010s-how-tumblr-culture-legitimized-queer-fandom-frank-ocean-troye-sivan-one-direction/

10 dollar KTV only opens their main hall at 6pm. Does anybody else know of any not so crowded ktv with main halls that opens earlier?

Hello Everyone! I am selling an iPad 6th Generation 32gb, WIFI version. Very lightly used. (Selling at around $550 - The price comes with the Logitech Keyboard). Condition: 10/10 (no signs of use AT ALL) Lightly used for 4 months of school and then I moved on to using my laptop. The iPad has been left alone since then. Includes USB cable (NEW) but NOT the USB adapter. ***SLIGHT NEGO ALLOWED FOR FAST DEALS

I am getting the ball rolling but I would like you guys to eventually take over and get the clubs going. 1. When? 2. Where? 3. How much? 4. Who?