Billie M Jones

This voice teacher/reactor calls her reaction “emotional”, and I don’t think she’s faking it. She started with TW from third grade level and jumped right to a post-grad level in under 20 minutes. (That’s my lame metaphor.) Maybe it was too much, too quick, but I like when reactors unexpectedly tear up.

This reaction is fun, shorter, and they decipher the plot much sooner.

Unseen wrote:
I wonder if the trend to highly processing the vocals and cranking up the distortion on the guitar and bass might be in response to their producer’s wishes.

I wonder too, but I’m putting my bet on the band just having fun with it. Pau’s smiling a lot, and I really love her fills in Sun. In any case, their audience mostly loves it, a…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg!!

Unseen wrote:
It’s the girls’ personalities. They are just fun to watch. Maybe it’s part of their latina-ness, but their are all very animated and effusive.

I think it also speaks to their incredible parents and other chosen support structures, including their absolute insistence on keeping final say on everything. It’s like they were train…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
And they are not half bad.

Per YouTube reviews and comments, I expected they’d be pretty good. I’ve not looked into them because I need to limit my rabbit holes. Good song, this one. I estimate it’s about 150 bpm (if it’s time signature is written in 4/4 time), bannable in Chechnya. I wonder if/how the law defines time signatures,…[Read more]

Did you guys notice the eclipse backstage near the middle of Automatic Sun? I didn’t. Just watch for a minute if you can, where I jump into it.

Unseen wrote:
having a gorgeous lead singer

Ok, I’m unintentionally imagining, behind every gorgeous performer, Unseen dancing with arms up in the air.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Let’s see how their new album does.

I don’t love the song you first suggested, a lot because of the mono-tonality of the singer, but that shouldn’t be a minus in every case. A lot of hit songs pushing the tonic a lot, i.e. the root note of the key that the song’s in. BB King comes to mine, in a few of his iconic h…[Read more]

I want symmetry.

No you don’t Jake. All I see you doing is condemning the barbarity of Hamas and justifying the barbarity of the Israeli army. You are not interested at all in genuine justice but in justifying gross double standards. None of you talking about Israel/Palestine for the last weeks have been remotely capable of a shred of nuance, self…[Read more]

I accidentally ran into their newest release that’s only three hours old. I like it. It’s the 3rd video below. I looked for lyrics and lucked out. (I’m not impressed by the lyrics. Am I missing something?)

I’ll present the live fancam-quality video first. The audio is unsurprisingly awful (IMO), but you can see the professional video cameras on…[Read more]

I eat babies all the time. (Before they’re actually babies.) IIRC, Japanese eating chicken and eggs call it Mother and Son, or something like that.

Another side note, I only recently learned that cheeseburgers are not kosher. Although this belief might depend on which flavor (err, I mean interpretation) of Judaism one adopts, it’s a violation of…[Read more]