Hey trans people! any of you found that your musical tastes have changed after taking hormones? because I have found myself listening to music that is more upbeat/poppy since i began that process. I mean I don't think it's the mones themselves that are changing my musical preferences, it's that I'm feeling so much happier and that's changing the music I listen to. so i guess it's an indirect link there
― ava (paolo), Saturday, 3 June 2023 08:00 (ten months ago) link
if any of you have been wondering why i haven't started a grime and uk rap thread this year (and i'm sure you've all been desperate to know) it's because i just feel too happy to be sat around listening to fucking drill
― ava (paolo), Saturday, 3 June 2023 08:03 (ten months ago) link
having said that the music i make myself is still towards the more moody end of the spectrum so fuck knows what's going on there haha
― ava (paolo), Saturday, 3 June 2023 08:04 (ten months ago) link
the only joyful music made by trans people i can think of is by eris drew and octa octo. anyone else got any recommendations?
― ava (paolo), Saturday, 3 June 2023 08:21 (ten months ago) link
That is super interesting!!
beverly glenn copeland makes very joyful music.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 3 June 2023 19:28 (ten months ago) link
yeah my music tastes did change after i started hormones, i really fucking hate frank zappa now for instance haha. but yeah i... it's complicated for me because a lot of it was that i tended not to listen to music by women because i felt like i didn't have the right to women's experiences. and now when i listen to music i'm sort of catching up on that.
regarding trans punk there's a lot of it, i just today ran across in my youtube subs the guy who did the cover art posting the public phone school record and i went down a little bit of a rabbit hole from there and found this split where one side is by LiliXElbe
https://lilixelbepowerviolence.bandcamp.com/album/split-w-terminator-x
i don't know if they're trans or not and i'll be honest i have no idea what any of the lyrics are, i like powerviolence but i can't for the life of me make out the lyrics. i don't know. i have a whole pile of it but one of the other things that's happened is that i got more extraverted and i feel all these emotions and i was really obsessed with music because it was the only way i could feel anything. and once that stopped being the case i stopped listening to music, i spent a couple years just listening to dead bootlegs. over a year ago now when i broke up with my ex i put _dots and loops_ in my car and i've just been listening to that any time i'm in my car on repeat since then.
a lot of my favorite trans music is music that's not actually trans, before transgender dysphoria blues there wasn't a lot of trans music made by trans people. i haven't ever actually heard jayne county. i probably should sometime. so one of my favorite songs that's not trans is a song by underground resistance called "transition". it's not about gender transition but the lyrics super fucking apply and it's really inspirational to me.
in trans community there are a lot of women really into metal, and i think that's super cool but i have to be in the right mood for metal. and trans guys are into like folk and stuff. the meme about trans music, i'll just put the text here:
music made by transmascs:i just wish i was a bug, the world would be so much more mine*ukulele solo*music made by transfems:i am smoking weed*the loudest noise you have ever heard*
i just wish i was a bug, the world would be so much more mine
*ukulele solo*
music made by transfems:
i am smoking weed
*the loudest noise you have ever heard*
i actually _don't_ smoke weed, but i'm _very_ much in the minority, and it's just about the only transfem stereotype i don't conform to.
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 4 June 2023 16:56 (ten months ago) link
Psychic TV?
― sarahell, Sunday, 4 June 2023 17:00 (ten months ago) link
another trans punk-ish band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44RP1du5W4U
― sarahell, Sunday, 4 June 2023 17:05 (ten months ago) link
actually here's a deep cut, a band by a '90s band called "bitesize"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMXj7iqNIGs
idk what genre, maybe it's a little noise-pop, a little gbv, it's something or other
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 4 June 2023 17:05 (ten months ago) link
they billed themselves as "power pop" (they lasted through about 2001-2002)
― sarahell, Sunday, 4 June 2023 17:10 (ten months ago) link
Just discovered Evelyn Gray recently when she came through town. Not punk, more experimental indie with emo/hardcore flourishes or something, but pretty cool stuff.
https://evelyngray.bandcamp.com/
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 4 June 2023 17:15 (ten months ago) link
ahhhhh it's so frustrating, there's so much fantastic trans music coming out of pdx and i don't know hardly any of it!
in my circle tami t is pretty fucking big, not "punk" at all but pretty relatable trans stuff, some of it's upbeat, some is less so
https://tamit.bandcamp.com/album/high-pitched-and-moist
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 4 June 2023 17:36 (ten months ago) link
there's also the truly amazing Dorian Wood (link is to the first album of hers that I heard)
https://dorianwood.bandcamp.com/album/pearline-ep
― sarahell, Sunday, 4 June 2023 18:12 (ten months ago) link
and this is Moira Scar's earlier band
https://thefloatingcorpses.bandcamp.com/album/barbary-ghost-revenge
― sarahell, Sunday, 4 June 2023 18:30 (ten months ago) link
oh thank you for the recs folks! i had never even heard of beverley glenn copeland but that is exactly the kind of shit i need in my life rn!!
― ava (paolo), Sunday, 4 June 2023 20:28 (ten months ago) link
yeah in my experience A LOT of transfems are into punk/metal/noise and I am absolutely sure that i would have been one of them if i'd transitioned when I was younger. Am doing this at the ripe old age of forty and sometimes i feel sad that i didn't realise when i was younger but there are positives to it too, ie my teens and twenties were enough of a shitshow as it was without having fucking transitioning in the 90s and 00s thrown in there as well. so one of the positives of doing it now is that i've had a lot of therapy and dealt with quite a lot of trauma so am in a much better place to transition now!
but yeah, there's a reason so many transfems are making angry music and i would be joining them if i was a trans teen now. But as it is I just feel really happy, medical transition feels like microdosing mdma, not even joking! so am not really in the mood for powerviolence but I appreciate the suggestion :) :)
― ava (paolo), Sunday, 4 June 2023 20:36 (ten months ago) link
Psychic TV - i forgot about them! I'm not sure if I've ever actually heard any. was genesis out as genderqueer or whatever in the tg days??
Moira Scar and her earlier band - feeling it! esp the newer stuff, coldwavey vibez
Tami T and Dorian Wood - also feeling it!
― ava (paolo), Sunday, 4 June 2023 20:42 (ten months ago) link
https://vivariumsounds.bandcamp.com/track/easter
one of my trans pals played on this GORGEOUS cover of Easter by Patti Smith Group
― ava (paolo), Sunday, 4 June 2023 20:43 (ten months ago) link
was genesis out as genderqueer or whatever in the tg days??
no, that came later
― broken breakbeat (sleeve), Sunday, 4 June 2023 20:45 (ten months ago) link
i forgot about the ephemeron loop, she's trans, saw her last year and she has a super live show, not the kind of thing i fancy listening to on a summer eve tho
https://heatcrimes.bandcamp.com/album/psychonautic-escapism
― ava (paolo), Sunday, 4 June 2023 20:45 (ten months ago) link
i got more extraverted and i feel all these emotions and i was really obsessed with music because it was the only way i could feel anything. and once that stopped being the case i stopped listening to music
oh wow, i don't listen to music any more or less than i used to but i do find that songs hit differently now, the emotion is more intense. had a wee hormonal milestone the other day when i started crying out of nowhere listening to a song, i've been told that i'll get tearful at adverts and films but am yet to experience that yet
― ava (paolo), Sunday, 4 June 2023 20:51 (ten months ago) link