musical_mixup epitome of incomprehensibility I saw something about Emilie Autumn and thought, "Oh yes, I remember her. It's the persona what's-her-name created. Her name starts with an A... she married Neil Gaiman..." That is Amanda Palmer. And no, she did not create Emilie Autumn, who is a separate person. However, TV Tropes tells me, Amanda Palmer is part of an act called Evelyn Evelyn with fictional conjoined-twin characters. That's where the mix-up must have happened. Also with the steampunk-goth-Victorian aesthetic they both seem to have sometimes. 190521 ... e_o_i This reminds me of my weird musical-literary genealogy from one of the Things Learned from Dreams dreams: Audre Lorde is the mother of Ron Sexsmith, who is the father of the singer Lorde. Let's see... Audre Lorde was born in 1934, Ron Sexsmith in 1964, and Lorde in 1996. This could work! If they weren't people who came from different places, looked different, and have no close genetic relation (as far as I know). 190521 ... gja A musical mongrel. I love it. Mix makes the best. Ultimate unalloyed. Unclear creative. 190524 ... e_o_i While humming bits of something running through my head, I discovered it was a mix of Margaret's "Byle Jak" and Stromae's "Papaoutai" (the choruses at least, which are vaguely similar). (It was fun assembling a list of non-English music to listen to while studying, or to sit back and let Soundcloud's algorithm pick, and then to look back on it now and pick out the ones I like.) 211226 ... raze i spent a long time convinced "solsbury hill" was a genesis song. i didn't understand why i could never find it on any of their albums. if it wasn't for a serendipitous visit to a hair salon back when haircuts were still a part of my life, i don't know how long it would have taken me to figure out that it was a peter_gabriel solo track. i know there were others, too. i think some part of my brain is still trying to tell me that's mavis staples singing "groove me", when i know it's king floyd. 240602 what's it to you? who go blather from