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magistrate) wrote2021-03-04 05:44 pm
magistrate) wrote2021-03-04 05:44 pm
Musical miscellany (and mittens)
I don't know how I got onto this thread.
I randomly YouTube drifted onto this video of some extremely earnest young men singing their absolute hearts out to a historic Irish queen:
Who I then needed to look up, naturally. Gráinne Ní Mháille / Grace O'Malley definitely seems like someone whose historic precedent should launch a thousand young-adult or fantasy adaptations or something, and very possibly already has except all I can read is English. English Wikipedia's information is somewhat scant, and fails signally to mention such things as BADASS PIRACY, but that lack can be remedied by these two fine fellows who will teach you to sing the folk song above, albeit in a more child-accessible way:
...though it does help the level of accessibility if you can pronounce Irish words, or at least discern Irish phonemes, which I cannot. But I can probably manage some mangled gibberish in my benighted American accent.
Okay, so, I am bad at perceiving pop culture. Someone linked me to this music video a while ago:
...which is just terrifically edited and very catchy and puts me in a swashbucking/spacebattling mood. All good things. I'm not in any way actively engaged with the Star Wars franchise these days, more as a result of not being motivated to spend the time and money to keep up with it than because of any actual disaffection, but it's still very good eyecandy.
If you had asked me what the song was, I would have needed to look at the page title. If you had asked me if I'd ever heard it before seeing it in the vid, I would have guessed not. But then, in my YouTube surfing, as I do, I ran across a version of the song played exclusively on 1930s instruments:
...and my reactions were thus:
1. Well, so, the 1930s were a wild time for music.
2. There's something really creepy about these people and I can't tell if it's a British thing I'm not getting, or a 1930s thing I'm not getting, or if they're just really creepy.
3. It literally took me until they started singing to realize that I had heard this song before.
That's it. That's my story. Please enjoy the wondrous adventures of Mittens, His Royal Floofiness, holder of the Key to the City of Wellington, New Zealand. Or, if you'd like sharper and more generalized cat exposure, please enjoy the best subreddit on Reddit and possibly the most important page on the internet, r/murdermittens.
I randomly YouTube drifted onto this video of some extremely earnest young men singing their absolute hearts out to a historic Irish queen:
Who I then needed to look up, naturally. Gráinne Ní Mháille / Grace O'Malley definitely seems like someone whose historic precedent should launch a thousand young-adult or fantasy adaptations or something, and very possibly already has except all I can read is English. English Wikipedia's information is somewhat scant, and fails signally to mention such things as BADASS PIRACY, but that lack can be remedied by these two fine fellows who will teach you to sing the folk song above, albeit in a more child-accessible way:
...though it does help the level of accessibility if you can pronounce Irish words, or at least discern Irish phonemes, which I cannot. But I can probably manage some mangled gibberish in my benighted American accent.
Okay, so, I am bad at perceiving pop culture. Someone linked me to this music video a while ago:
...which is just terrifically edited and very catchy and puts me in a swashbucking/spacebattling mood. All good things. I'm not in any way actively engaged with the Star Wars franchise these days, more as a result of not being motivated to spend the time and money to keep up with it than because of any actual disaffection, but it's still very good eyecandy.
If you had asked me what the song was, I would have needed to look at the page title. If you had asked me if I'd ever heard it before seeing it in the vid, I would have guessed not. But then, in my YouTube surfing, as I do, I ran across a version of the song played exclusively on 1930s instruments:
...and my reactions were thus:
1. Well, so, the 1930s were a wild time for music.
2. There's something really creepy about these people and I can't tell if it's a British thing I'm not getting, or a 1930s thing I'm not getting, or if they're just really creepy.
3. It literally took me until they started singing to realize that I had heard this song before.
That's it. That's my story. Please enjoy the wondrous adventures of Mittens, His Royal Floofiness, holder of the Key to the City of Wellington, New Zealand. Or, if you'd like sharper and more generalized cat exposure, please enjoy the best subreddit on Reddit and possibly the most important page on the internet, r/murdermittens.
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I really liked the Star Wars edit, though. That one was fun and exciting.
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