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Re: What Song Are You Currently Listening To?

Posted: Nov 13th, '24, 19:49
by Akili Li
Oh, what all is on your work's Halloween Playlist? Maybe you'll come up with new ones for me and I can add to mine!
Currently I have some Nightmare Before Christmas songs, Bogey Wail, Monster Mash, Don't Go Down To The Quarry, Have You Seen The Ghost of John, Anne Boleyn, The House is Haunted... I don't remember the others.

Re: What Song Are You Currently Listening To?

Posted: Nov 13th, '24, 20:59
by Hotarla
I wasn’t talking about the English radio tho lol.

Chinese radio does news every half hour and even reports weather and oil prices. But the news is either local or HK/China. There might be other international news but I usually just ignore it.

I don’t have any seasonal festive playlists lol.

Re: What Song Are You Currently Listening To?

Posted: Nov 13th, '24, 22:19
by blackbriar
The playlist had a lot of weird things for sure. Random songs that had vampire or zombie in the title managed to make their way in. The Ghostbusters theme and Grim Grinning Ghosts are my favorite additions though.

Re: What Song Are You Currently Listening To?

Posted: Nov 13th, '24, 22:37
by Hotarla
Sounds interesting. I would kinda like to know what constitutes as a “Halloween” song lol. Or Halloween playlist. XD

Re: What Song Are You Currently Listening To?

Posted: Nov 14th, '24, 04:02
by Akili Li
Here's a link to Youtube of the song "The House is Haunted" -it's a good example of what to me is a Halloween Song.

(It's actually a break-up song, kind of, but the lyrics and melody just work for Halloween, so...)

Re: What Song Are You Currently Listening To?

Posted: Nov 14th, '24, 06:50
by Hotarla
Pfthahaha I’ll have a listen to that.
Like a feel like Halloween songs would sound depressing or dark or just have this grunge feel to it. Like something from Evanescence.

Re: What Song Are You Currently Listening To?

Posted: Nov 14th, '24, 07:23
by Akili Li
Well, they could, if you wanted to make a playlist like that!

The one I linked is more of an old-fashioned dance tune, like really old, like 1930s old.
Kind of swing-music sort of? A bit jazzy.

Re: What Song Are You Currently Listening To?

Posted: Nov 14th, '24, 15:53
by Hotarla
Well Evanescence was like back in my high school years, my goth punk artsy friend was the one who introduced them to me. Also was the one who introduced yaoi to me lol. XD

Swing music? Lol

Re: What Song Are You Currently Listening To?

Posted: Nov 15th, '24, 01:42
by blackbriar
I feel like kpop has a serious corner on the Halloween market with songs like Ateez's Black Cat Nero and Twice's TT. I wish those would show up on playlists more! Actually, I just wish work had more kpop in general... >.>

Re: What Song Are You Currently Listening To?

Posted: Nov 15th, '24, 06:52
by Akili Li
*busily scribbles those down to go find them*

Your goth-punk-artsy-friend sounds awesome, Hotarla, we all need a friend like that.
The word "yaoi" bothers me though because I can't figure out how it ought to be pronounced. Words borrowed from other languages don't follow the typical pronunciation trends to begin with, and even if it did, I'm not sure how to go about it.
It's annoying to have a word in my vocabulary that I can't actually use because I can't figure out how to say it.
It's tricky. So many vowels in a row, where does the stress go? Does it all elide together? Are we looking at diphthongs or carefully separated enunciation? I don't know where to start.