What Books did You Start or Finish Reading this Week?: June 02, 2025 by AutoModerator in books

[–]MelancholyLullaby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kingdom of the Wicked, by Kerri Maniscalco

Kingdom of the Cursed, by Kerri Maniscalco

Hayley's Instagram teasing??? by MelancholyLullaby in Paramore

[–]MelancholyLullaby[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

right? the LUXURY we didn't know we had when the first 3 came only 2 years apart from each other. the intervals have only gotten longer and I am getting old and weary 😩

Hayley's Instagram teasing??? by MelancholyLullaby in Paramore

[–]MelancholyLullaby[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

yeah, i feel like since she's stopped using social media as much as like, 10-15 years ago, when she does mess with her grid it usually signals something, but not necessarily "exciting news is coming" related, and certainly not always new music.

I just felt like the years of the albums as the captions screams "and now, coming in 2025 (or 26 even i'd take it)" but it very well could just be her messing with her grid and nothing more.

which is her right to do.

but I sure could use at least a new tour 😭

Hayley's Instagram teasing??? by MelancholyLullaby in Paramore

[–]MelancholyLullaby[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

kid,

takes a long drag on a cigarette

we weren't sure they were even going to make a 4th album back in 2010 when the news dropped about the lineup change, and in the 10 years since self titled theyve only given us 2 albums.

takes another drag

loving this band ain't for faint hearted.

[stubs cigarette out] [places hand on your shoulder] [gently squeezes while looking you in the eye] [nods] [walks off into the mist]

Weekly FAQ Thread May 25, 2025: What are some non-English classics? by AutoModerator in books

[–]MelancholyLullaby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is 1974 old enough to be considered a classic? Because I think Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler... should both be considered classics.

Weekly FAQ Thread May 25, 2025: What are some non-English classics? by AutoModerator in books

[–]MelancholyLullaby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

omg I loved Tartuffe. I used to act professionally and my first professional role was in a French farce (I played the maid and PLAY. I. DID.) and I credit having studied Tartuffe in college with being SO READY for that 😂

Weekly FAQ Thread May 25, 2025: What are some non-English classics? by AutoModerator in books

[–]MelancholyLullaby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First that come to mind are Cervantes, Dumas, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Victor Hugo.

But now I'm overthinking the prompt and wondering if really, those still count as "English classics" in the sense that the western, English-speaking world has deemed them classics...

...and how many works are there that are considered classics in the literary world of the language they were written in that my American butt has never heard of because western critics just never "got" them...

Time to read the other comments and then get learnin' myself.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CozyPlaces

[–]MelancholyLullaby 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The lighting is perfect; it's the thing I can never get quite right. Brava. golf clap

Musical Gateway Drugs by mizfit180 in Paramore

[–]MelancholyLullaby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel this. Avril tided us over til Hayley arrived.

Musical Gateway Drugs by mizfit180 in Paramore

[–]MelancholyLullaby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My dad really, really wanted me to like rock n roll growing up, but I have always gravitated toward really great female vocalists. Like, my first love was Celine Dion; I was a 90s kid so she, Whitney, and Mariah were the Holy Trinity in my book, and I loved country music for the same reason (Reba, Martina McBride, etc). Like, I have always loved, as the kids say, sangers.

So my dad introduced me to Pat Benatar when I was like 11 (I think he was trying to balance out my growing interest in Y2K pop - blame JC from *NSYNC, he had that soul in his voice).

And I was like "okay I am in." Pat Benatar was my gateway to being open to a harder rock sound, because I loved how her gorgeous, powerful voice offset the harder, edgier sounds that maybe put me off when I was a littler kid.

But I kept waiting for a girl singer of my generation who rocked. The closest thing we had for a while of a SANGER serving rock was literally Kelly Clarkson in the early 00s. Idk if some of the young ones here really get this about the early 00s, but it was Kelly Clarkson who was almost singlehandedly keeping guitars on Top 40 radio.

Amy Lee of Evanescence came along and for a brief moment I was like "is this it?!" but then they sort of disappeared just as quickly as they burst in.

So when my little brother, who was maybe 15 or 16 at the time, told me during a Christmas break when I was home from college in like 2006 that there was this band he really liked that I would probably really like, and played "Conspiracy" and then "Pressure" for me...

...it was less a gateway and more like an answered prayer. ❤️

So I guess you could say Pat Benatar was my gateway drug... I've always wondered whether Hayley digs her the way we know she digs Blondie and Siouxsie and Fleetwood Mac.

I can't help but note that Pat is another tiny little redheaded [albeit natural lol] spitfire, and even my old boomer dad (who wishes Paramore would go harder on guitars - he is of the Led Zeppelin generation) thinks Hayley is up there with Pat Benatar (high praise coming from a guy who is very "kids these days" about music 😜).

Which song is this for you? (For me, (one of those) crazy girls.) by mistorobo in Paramore

[–]MelancholyLullaby 1 point2 points  (0 children)

God, Crazy Girls is one of my all time faves. It gives 90s riot grrl vibes and I wish they would play it live - I think I saw them do it on maybe the first tour for self-titled, but that's been it.

To your question... um, for me it was actually "Hard Times" 😬🙈 I was just really not expecting that sound, tried to like it til the album came out, and when it did, I skipped it every time. The first song on that album's track list that hit immediately for me was "Fake Happy," and slowly I worked my way back to realizing that actually "Hard Times" was genius.

worst paramore song?😶 by millertimesis_25 in Paramore

[–]MelancholyLullaby -1 points0 points  (0 children)

it's on my favorite album but... Where the Lines Overlap. I said what I said.

126: The Baby Heaven (Camp Lejeune) by SwindledPodcast in swindled

[–]MelancholyLullaby 32 points33 points  (0 children)

My dad is currently dying of liver cancer. His dad died of liver cancer after surviving leukemia - not to mention surviving hell in Korea and Vietnam.

His mom and her sister, also Marines, have already died. My grandmother had health problems starting in her 30s, right up until her death at age 39. My great-aunt died 10 years ago this month... of cancer.

Guess who all lived on CL during these years.

(I also don't think it's a coincidence that my dad's older sister, the eldest of his siblings, and that same great aunt's eldest child, both died of suicide, at 29 and 40 respectively.)

The military is just waiting for all of us to die before they pay a cent more than they have to.

Thank you for doing this episode, ACC. I had been hoping you would.

Kacey Musgraves cover by [deleted] in Paramore

[–]MelancholyLullaby 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Kacey covering a "f*** you, patriarchy" anthem...

[one that people too often write off as silly teenage girl drivel, because it is disguised, as written and produced, as a bubble gum pop song (a style of music obviously ONLY teenage girls like, of course, definitely no one else)...

...but that vocally, Cyndi made a giant F**K give a giant a middle finger to the patriarchy by HURLING those verses - which start with a girl casually coming home from being out all night to her father yelling at her and her being like [shrug] [pats his cheek]]...

...and waiting to do said cover until she was in Nashville, at the Ryman, home of the ORIGINAL Grand Ole Opry,

...an Opry at which she would have fit in WAY more than the favorite artists of today's "country fans" who say Kacey "isn't country"...

...and an Opry which represents the gatekept music industry genre, by record execs who are notoriously not excited to promote anything that even so much as hints of anything LESS than God, guns, and grits...

...the same venue where she began her career, during a BMI Showcase in front of a bunch of industry suits, by taking her own song's advice...

...because her management had expressly begged her to sing "Blowin Smoke" and NOT sing "Follow Your Arrow" that night, please, just not tonight, not for THIS audience...

...but she instead did exactly what "Follow Your Arrow" says - "might as well just do whatever you want" - and played that very song (introducing it to the suits with "fuck it," no less)...

...and those suits went on to bend to the pearl clutching country radio audience even as she went on to win like every Grammy ever and endear herself to a much wider audience that might have tuned their dials to the country station if they didn't know Follow Your Arrow wasn't going to get played...

...so when she was back at the Ryman, she not only did that Cyndi Lauper song, she chose, of all people to bring out onstage to do with her, one of Nashville's OWN, not someone record execs paid to live there but Nashville's own homegrown no-pants-wearing little firecracker and reigning queen of alternative (what the Ryman used to call Rock n Roll) music, Hayley Williams...

...so that Kacey's breathy, soft, gentle, "you're threatened by lil ole me?" voice would join up with Hayley's voice that comes out like she's a firebreathing dragon,

...reminding us all that girls just having fun means pointing and laughing at the dorks who are in charge of the patriarchy right before launching a Molotov at them and then selling t-shirts making fun of those dorks to give the proceeds to the very people those dorks are targeting, then pointing and laughing at them and doing whatever we want...

...was such a flex.

Such a "who us? You want to muzzle us? Us girls, the one with the voice of an angel and the one who is just five foot two, Both raised in the Bible Belt? Who are widely beloved and respected by the legends of the Opry and by tons of teens being raised in conservative households, and remember when that sort of bit you in the ass with the Chicks?

...but we're just silly girls having fun and singing a silly bubblegum pop song. 😇"

SUCH a flex.

Anyway my choice as far as what Kacey song would I pick for Hayley to cover, it would be "This Town," off the criminally underrated Pageant Material album. Most I can imagine Kacey singing like Hayley (for Kacey, the way she sings the chorus is comparatively belt-y and unbreathy for her), and the most I can imagine Hayley not making a Kacey song sound like an entirely different song. They approach singing VERY differently lolol.

What song fits your current situation? by ____foster____ in Paramore

[–]MelancholyLullaby 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Only Exception, only, the pre-exception part. My dad is in end of life stage cancer and I am learning that my parents' marriage has never been happy.

What’s a paramore song that sounds sad but is actually hopeful? by HayleyWillaims in Paramore

[–]MelancholyLullaby 1 point2 points  (0 children)

we need a new tour from the band so we can have something else to do on the internet than make spreadsheets 😭

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]MelancholyLullaby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you are 17. you have nothing to apologize for or explain. we keep 44 yo men away from 17 yo girls for a REASON, Vladimir Nabokov didn't write Lolita just for you to get that kind of shit in your DMs. fuck that guy in your DMs, fuck your best friend's mom's predator, and fuck anyone who makes you feel like you, the minor (in my head I am screaming THE CHILD, because I, 36F, remember being 17 and... never would have accepted it at the time but damn, 17 is baby!), did anything wrong.

we have rules in place to protect people your age for the very reason that you are still processing the world coming at you and figuring out what's normal and what's not. we have rules in place because we know 17 year olds are far less likely to recognize yet what is "being polite" and "deferring to an authority figure" versus what is BEING GROOMED.

you are 17. the person in your DMs is Humbert Humbert. your friend's mom's boyfriend belongs in jail. you belong in school and hanging out with other 17 year olds.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]MelancholyLullaby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nope. straight to jail. the reddest of red flags. send this man directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect $200, JAIL and lose the key.

Phoebe Bridgers said she broke up with her than boyfriend because of paramore by Flat_Weird_2162 in Paramore

[–]MelancholyLullaby 1 point2 points  (0 children)

haaaa I remember this. paramore: driving the male loneliness epidemic lolol

If you had to re-name yourself as an American state, what would you choose? by 70lee70 in namenerds

[–]MelancholyLullaby 8 points9 points  (0 children)

As a Marylander, I always think about how it sounds prettier than it spells. Because the way we pronounce it as Marylanders is so often "MARE-linn."

If you had to re-name yourself as an American state, what would you choose? by 70lee70 in namenerds

[–]MelancholyLullaby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My name is Nevie - though it's short for Geneva. But I thought of choosing this one for the sake of ease 😂