3/18/2023 0 Comments Tool reflection lyrics![]() Which isn’t to say the song itself isn’t fannish, but it’s not as if her account was Stranger Things or fandom-themed at all, before or after. Fan musicians in the 2010s (in my experience) divided themselves mostly by individual fandoms: There was Trock (Time Lord Rock) for Doctor Who songs, and Homestuck fansong genres were entire universes unto themselves, from Broadwaystuck to Tindeck.Īll of this is to say… what interests me about the Sapphire incident, upon reflection, is that it doesn’t seem like she was creating the song as a mode of participation in a larger fandom. ![]() There was a transitional period in the 2000s, as indicated by a fan studies scholar asking the question “Is Wizard Rock filk?” regarding the Wrock scene and its constituent bands such as Harry and the Potters but by the time I began making my own fan music, I don’t think I ever heard the word “filk” until I began researching fan history much later. ” Filk songs, many of which featured new lyrics set to classic or well-known tunes, were recorded and traded on cassettes, but it was largely an in-person group activity, influenced by the traditions of the folk revival.įan music in the 21st century is not nearly as cohesive nor as well-documented as the filk subculture, though. In the mid-20th century, congruent with the increase in attendance at science fiction and fantasy cons and gatherings, fans began to gather and perform sci-fi-themed folk songs, which eventually became codified into a genre known as “filk. Instead, from age 14 to 17 I was heartened and encouraged by the enthusiastic responses that my songs received from fellow fans, and to this day if I get into a new fandom I make it a point to record and upload at least one song about it, just for old time’s sake.įan music has a long and storied history. Good for her - but I can say with the deepest sincerity that if anything remotely like that had happened to me when I was posting my heartfelt reams of fan music as a teenager, I would literally have had a breakdown and never picked up a guitar again. She released a follow-up song about another Stranger Things character a month later then she turned off comments on all the TikToks related to both songs, didn’t make any response videos to the haters, and is now mainly posting original music. To Sapphire’s credit, it doesn’t seem like the insane amount of bullying has affected her (at least publicly).
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