how do people in those street fashion posts know what brands they're wearing all the time. they're never like yea i stole this jacket from my ex girlfriend and i found these shoes at goodwill idk what they are bc the label fell off
angels and demons can decide what they look like, is there a particular reason why crowley and aziraphale decided on their age? I don’t have any point that would speak against it but i was just wondering, what made them decide to be the age they are?
Casting Michael Sheen and David Tennant.
if this doesnt win the cobra joke contest then i dont know what will
good evening gabe saporta just said he's open to a cobra reunion tour (100% serious btw I was @ midtown tonight)
AND I QUOTE "whenever the time feels right... I'm a libra I'm very go with the flow"
when i saw cobra starship live at one point gabe was talking for so long that they just started playing the song without him because he wouldn’t shut up
cobra starship is
- bowling alley carpet
- paint that glows under blacklight
- uranium glass
- music that possesses a severe and often times unsettling sense of desperation to reach other real people instead of the empty-headed fame-obsessed dolls populating the entertainment industry. music with meaning that is so thickly buried under layers and layers of irony and ridicule and flashy neon that said plastic people can’t even pick up on it at all. music that is the electropop equivalent of banging on a glass wall with both fists and screaming CAN ANYBODY HEAR ME? IS ANYBODY THERE? to a room full of wax statues on the other side
- bisexual camp
- total shit
- one of the best bands in the whole wide world
just thinking about how the cobra starship music video for “i kissed a boy” (a cover of katy perry’s “i kissed a girl”) is set up as a parody to the book/film “girl, interrupted.” bc like… i think despite looking like it was made with 5 dollars, a tripod, and a dream, this song and mv actually have a really interesting political/social position.
i’d like to focus in this post what the mv adds to a queer interpretation of the song, but to do that we should quickly discuss the ways i’m interpreting the song itself.
on the most basic level, the listener is intended to understand that gabe saporta likes kissing other guys, and that his stated reason is that he likes causing problems, as well as because girls like it.
but i can’t help but think about this song in the context of the rest of their discography. throughout their music there this huge aspect of performative hypermasculinity. but because gabe saporta is Like That and in fact categorically not an alpha chad you get this interplay where, by doing the Straight Guy Club Song thing on the surface and having it amped up to 1000, i would argue that cobra starship is asking listeners to think abt the absurdity of the gender roles and culture they are mimicking/playing into, ie that of a cisheteronormative society. therefore one pretty straightforward reading of the song is that gabe saporta is portraying the experience of being a bisexual man who is in denial and dealing with internalised homophobia, who resorts to performative hyper-masculine heterosexuality and violence as a way to reframe his non-normative desires as something that aligns with the narratives of straight mainstream society.
i do think to some extent, given the context the song was written for (2008, right after obama won the presidency) there is also some element of the performativity of it, of doing it to piss off homophobes (who gabe saporta talks about like. being people in his audience at his shows screaming fag at him or finding him after to harass him, which is a context that in 2022 is kind of lost on us, bc it is so easy to consider homophobes this weird outgroup who would never go to a cobra starship show, but that wasn’t the case then obviously) it may not be solely a nuanced depiction of bisexuality, but i do definitely believe it is not one or the other, but rather both
with this in mind, the mv adds some pretty interesting details.
except for the opening shots, gabe saporta is filmed mostly alone in a white room. this visually references the psychiatric institution which “girl, interrupted” takes place in. this in itself could serve reference being trapped within the confines of “normal” straight society. one of the themes of “girl, interrupted” is the conflation of social nonconformity with insanity. it’s not much of a leap to therefore read the mv as gabe saporta making reference to the way society enforces a very limited range of acceptable expression of sexuality and gender, and punishes anything that strays too far outside of that.
gabe saporta is also shown through closeups to have various number tattoos (both in roman numerals and in latin numbers) that could reference a patient identification code, or again the idea of being a cog in the machine of straight society
(those are the roman numerals for 69. haha nice. the gay sex number.)
the final shot also has some interesting symbolism. it’s the first time you can clearly see that the tattoo on his upper back is a cross, plus the pose and the way the light forms wings around him. it’s clearly a reference to the crucifixion, although i haven’t exactly come to a firm conclusion on what that means narratively. one possibility is that gabe saporta is portraying himself as a martyr, suggesting that he is being open about having queer experiences and dealing with the homophobia that comes from that so that it is easier for other queer people to talk more easily about their experiences in the future. it might also be important that he is very openly exposing a large amount of skin. it indicates a level of sexualisation or sexuality, but also at the same time, vulnerability.
anyway. gabe saporta’s physicality and performance for the mv also strikes me as important. for most of the mv, gabe saporta is demonstrated to be in control. he is physically dominant over the other man, but his power and control are also established by the way he is very purposefully putting on a persona and performing for the camera.
not to insanely over analyse this shot by shot, but there are two notable exceptions.
for example, in this shot he is going to change his whole expression and push the other guy away in a second or two, but in the moment does absolutely not seem to be in control of the impulse to kiss him. and though he still has the power in the situation, with his hands on the other guy’s face, he’s moving in almost like it is out of habit or desire, rather than a plan
and then this one…. i have less to say but look how happy they are!! gabe!! what is this!!
it’s notable that these “breaks in character” both indicate a desire for other men, but also for emotional intimacy.
there’s a lot more that could be said about the every single tiny detail of this mv (the baseball bat, the bracelets, the sungalsses) but this post is already way too long so i guess you just have to brainrot about those things first hand
When I say going feral I fucking mean it I’m out of breath my makeups smeared I nearly tore my hair out I half wrecked my room it’s like a one person mosh pit in here (I am listening to I kissed a boy by cobra starship)
newt made me a bunch of mix cds including one thats designed to cause as much psychic damage as possible while still being straight bangers all the way thru and it includes boogie wonderland (from happy feet) which they Bought The Happy Feet Soundtrack to get bc there werent any crisp enough mp3s online and also the crunchiest fucking mp3 of cobra starship i kissed a boy. which is the correct way to listen to that song
Zepotha will never be Goncharov because when it comes down to it, tumblr culture is collaborative, while tiktok culture is merely iterative, and those are not the same thing.
Op I refuse to let your tags stay in the tags cause THIS!!!!!
