Adlubescence

This is where the half thoughts go

Neocities currently has a link to most of my projects, in no particular order: Boss Fight, Barest Minimum, Sad Witches, Lophotrochozoa, Chair Floor, Pursuing Pixels, etc. Music, Video Games, Media, and me.


Deep down a breakcore rabbit hole rn and there sure is a lot of manipulated jpgs of anime girls/screenshots of video games as album art and artist profiles. Don’t have any thoughts on it or conclusions, just interesting that it’s nearly universal.

Fascinated by how genre metastasizes and solidifies outside of the framework of the actual art and forms a semantic signifier through communal tropes and cliches. I think why I bounced of Anxious as a whole was because it was a little TOO on the nose with their use of every single emo composition technique that was just too much for me. Origami Angel for me too, tbh


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Aside from aiding in discoverability, the art ironically terminates curiosity in the audience. You may genuinely be “looking for new music”, but when you see an anime demon girl gripped with ennui and the search is so over. The music could be shit and you keep digging into the albums, hoping to find something more than mildly pleasant. The signifiers tell you you’re already home, but you aren’t satisfied. None, if not few of these tracks linger in your mind, impossible to tell if you’ve already heard this song. Less an earworm, more a musical sandpit.

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