☮ 005. ((voice))

[delincuente]

Who: Alex Russo and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Common room
When: A couple of days into the event

[The feed crackles on, and out comes Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" at full volume. Someone found the Marsiva's music collection.]

Oh my god, why did no one tell me Taylor Swift gets good in the future?

[Once the song ends, she'll be playing the rest of the 1989 album. Sorry, Floots.]

[Filtered to the SS Paisley crew, and any other close friends.]

Hey, sound off. You guys all still in one piece?

Comments

filter thing?

[timelapsed]

I could've done without the T.Swift bomb, but otherwise I'm good. [ Okay, so she's never heard this particular song, but she spends her time actively avoiding pop music, so that's not surprising. ]

[delincuente]

[A mock dramatic gasp.]

Blasphemy. It's okay, Taylor. She didn't mean it.

[timelapsed]

You know, I could hook you up with some better music. I have, like, my entire mp3 library loaded up on my phone.

Filtered to Paisley Crew

[stefanged]

That would be because she never did.

[He's so rolling his eyes at her, and not even out of love this time.]

I always thought you'd like Halsey better.

[delincuente]

Bite your tongue, Alesci!

[She doesn't answer the second part right away. Instead, she sorts through the music collection until she finds Halsey's Badlands album. Because right now, she is eating up this future-media thing.]

Ugh, everything got better after I left. I'm so stealing these CDs.

[stefanged]

[He makes a clicking sound with his tongue - nope, he's not gonna back down from this one.]

You don't have to. I was gonna ask Kirito to help me charge my phone - there's some stuff from it I've been meaning to look at. Which might also include a ton of music.

Private Filter; Video

[save_the_souls]

Alex...

[he trails off because while he thought LONG AND HARD about what he wanted to say to her after that calibration.......but it's really hard to do that when Taylor Swift is blaring so he's just kinda, kinda looking at the feed- with a worried look and his mouth half open as he tries to remember what he was going to say.]

Um-

[...Yeah how do you even do this to cheerful pop music?!]

[delincuente]

... Yeah?

[She waits for a moment, and then turns the music down. Something sounds off in Allen's voice.]

What's up?

[save_the_souls]

I just-

[Right, okay music is down. Still there, but at least quiet enough so he can think...]

- Are you alright?

oh right idk video i guess

[resnipstance]

... Hey, that's pretty catchy!

[delincuente]

Oh my god, finally someone who agrees with me!

[resnipstance]

[She sings along to the chorus:] Haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate...

Mhm. Yep. I could definitely move to this.

voice;

[geonomy]

[Oh my goddd ANOTHER T SWIFT FAN.]

Dude. Dude.

Have you heard Bad Blood yet?

[delincuente]

Oh my god, yes! And the music video?!

[She looks totally distressed by how much she's enjoying this.]

This is, like, existentially confusing. I hated her back in 2010.

[geonomy]

I know! It's so - I want to see a superhero movie made with that team!

[Oh my gosh tho]

How could you even hate her?! You know she's one of the most charitable singers out there, right? [Granted he was six by 2010 and Swift was the last thing he was thinking about but]

[deshabille]

What the hell is Taylor Swift?

[And after the beginning of "Welcome to New York" starts playing--]

That's awful.

[delincuente]

She's a singer, from Earth.

[Alex quickly skips the song - she doesn't want to think about New York City right now.]

And "awful" is relative. One girl's awful is another girl's... not awful.

[deshabille]

[She opens her mouth to critique further, then closes it. The second one isn't so bad. Sort of sparse.]

So this is your not awful?

voice; oops I missed this somehow

[huaaaaagh]

Still alive, far as I can tell. It's been a weird couple of days.

[So many headaches. But on the flipside: so many useful books to read. It would be better with video games, though.]

What's with all the music?

totally fine!!!

[delincuente]

I'm reliving my stolen youth.

[huaaaaagh]

A stolen youth that involved an excessive amount of one pop star?

[Is Taylor Swift relevant to a teenage boy from 2025? Probably not.]

Video

[alwayscomeback]

I'm gonna regret asking this, I just know it. But what's Taylor Swift?

...I wanna say it's a person's name but it doesn't sound like a person's name.

[delincuente]

She's a singer. And what about that doesn't sound like a name?

[same filter] 1/2

[misterprongs]

What in the hell is going on?

[ ALEX :( ]

[same filter]

[misterprongs]

... and who's Taylor Swift?