Amy King
@girlinbluemusic.bsky.social
PhD Candidate: Music Theory & Cognition at Northwestern
☀️Empathetic Music Theory 🎶
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☀️Empathetic Music Theory 🎶
🎹🎻🧗♀️🥊📚🎓
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There are much smarter people on here talking about the economics and labor dynamics of orchestras, and I will only add:
we must subsidize orchestras more
(as part of a new, holistic, and robust approach to art making in America)
Many other industries are only sustainable thanks to subsidies
we must subsidize orchestras more
(as part of a new, holistic, and robust approach to art making in America)
Many other industries are only sustainable thanks to subsidies
October 6, 2026 at 1:22 PM
There are much smarter people on here talking about the economics and labor dynamics of orchestras, and I will only add:
we must subsidize orchestras more
(as part of a new, holistic, and robust approach to art making in America)
Many other industries are only sustainable thanks to subsidies
we must subsidize orchestras more
(as part of a new, holistic, and robust approach to art making in America)
Many other industries are only sustainable thanks to subsidies
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It's Banned Books Week. Please read widely and bravely.
October 5, 2026 at 12:46 PM
It's Banned Books Week. Please read widely and bravely.
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Surround yourself with the kind of people who find the Oxford comma to be illuminative, beautiful, and necessary.
October 5, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Surround yourself with the kind of people who find the Oxford comma to be illuminative, beautiful, and necessary.
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Senator Schmitt-Head, "I'd like to solve it. The Atlanta Hawks"
October 3, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Senator Schmitt-Head, "I'd like to solve it. The Atlanta Hawks"
I keep discovering this and promptly forgetting it 😅
Did anyone know that doing work when you’ve gotten rest and have working brain cells is way better than trying to work when you’re exhausted and your brain is so fried you can’t think? I might be the first person to ever discover this
October 3, 2026 at 6:20 PM
I keep discovering this and promptly forgetting it 😅
I love getting comments like this on my youtube. I'm so glad I started doing Obsidian/Zotero/Academic videos in addition to the music theory videos I was doing before. I had no idea how many people I would help!
October 3, 2026 at 6:01 PM
I love getting comments like this on my youtube. I'm so glad I started doing Obsidian/Zotero/Academic videos in addition to the music theory videos I was doing before. I had no idea how many people I would help!
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You ever think, what I want isn't to be a successful author. That would be cool, but no. What I want is a UBI that lets me write full-time. I'd be unstoppable.
October 2, 2026 at 11:02 AM
You ever think, what I want isn't to be a successful author. That would be cool, but no. What I want is a UBI that lets me write full-time. I'd be unstoppable.
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survivors are also frequently encouraged to "speak out" and "start conversations" in order to "change the world" but we receive nothing but harrassment, suspicion, and hate for doing so. i grieve so often for the girl i was during MeToo who truly believed that things were soon to get better.
October 1, 2026 at 6:48 PM
survivors are also frequently encouraged to "speak out" and "start conversations" in order to "change the world" but we receive nothing but harrassment, suspicion, and hate for doing so. i grieve so often for the girl i was during MeToo who truly believed that things were soon to get better.
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This is musicology.
THREAD OF EMINEM LYRICS THAT SOUND LIKE SOMETHING TAYLOR SWIFT WOULD WRITE
"Your anxiety's throwing gang signs"
"Even my cheap shots are overpriced"
"I lay awake and I strap myself into bed with a bulletproof vest on"
"You critics come to pay me a visit? Misery loves company, please stay a minute"
"Your anxiety's throwing gang signs"
"Even my cheap shots are overpriced"
"I lay awake and I strap myself into bed with a bulletproof vest on"
"You critics come to pay me a visit? Misery loves company, please stay a minute"
October 1, 2026 at 6:58 PM
This is musicology.
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Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
October 1, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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In high school, my teachers taught us to investigate source material. Where information came from, who was telling it, who they were telling it to. Not all information is created equal.
Anyway, it took me a while to realize that level of analysis, fundamental in my life, is not widely taught.
Anyway, it took me a while to realize that level of analysis, fundamental in my life, is not widely taught.
September 29, 2026 at 4:44 PM
In high school, my teachers taught us to investigate source material. Where information came from, who was telling it, who they were telling it to. Not all information is created equal.
Anyway, it took me a while to realize that level of analysis, fundamental in my life, is not widely taught.
Anyway, it took me a while to realize that level of analysis, fundamental in my life, is not widely taught.
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I wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh
September 30, 2026 at 1:40 AM
I wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh
It's 2026. Why are all of these horrific things still happening to women?! It feels so unreal that it's still happening so much. Genuinely, anywhere you go, it's happening
September 30, 2026 at 12:12 AM
It's 2026. Why are all of these horrific things still happening to women?! It feels so unreal that it's still happening so much. Genuinely, anywhere you go, it's happening
How did I not think to look for Chrome extensions to turn off AI results? I'm so happy right now
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ffcpc...
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ffcpc...
&udm=14 - Chrome Web Store
Modifies Google Search URLs to include '&udm=14' when enabled.
chromewebstore.google.com
September 29, 2026 at 9:14 PM
How did I not think to look for Chrome extensions to turn off AI results? I'm so happy right now
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ffcpc...
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ffcpc...
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i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
September 29, 2026 at 5:02 AM
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
Overheard at the gym:
"This is what the news is actually like. Breaking news, scientists discover that the glass is actually half empty. Nature is heiling, not healing"
😂
"This is what the news is actually like. Breaking news, scientists discover that the glass is actually half empty. Nature is heiling, not healing"
😂
September 28, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Overheard at the gym:
"This is what the news is actually like. Breaking news, scientists discover that the glass is actually half empty. Nature is heiling, not healing"
😂
"This is what the news is actually like. Breaking news, scientists discover that the glass is actually half empty. Nature is heiling, not healing"
😂
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You have been blessed by the friend onion :).
September 28, 2026 at 11:46 AM
You have been blessed by the friend onion :).
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I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.
I don't want to make civic arguments about history. I don't want to make instrumentalist arguments about history. I want engineers to understand my discipline is rigorous too and if not I want to be able to make fun of them forever because no historian ever built a bridge that broke in the wind.
September 28, 2026 at 12:10 AM
I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.
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Hear me out: sometimes it’s nice to learn about something just because … it’s fun and interesting! College is not supposed to be about optimizing yourself for A Career with no detours. It’s supposed to be an opportunity to learn and grow *as a human being* — much of which happens outside your major.
September 28, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Hear me out: sometimes it’s nice to learn about something just because … it’s fun and interesting! College is not supposed to be about optimizing yourself for A Career with no detours. It’s supposed to be an opportunity to learn and grow *as a human being* — much of which happens outside your major.
Went on a long bike ride today and got the super-short Pillow Pet™️ song stuck in my head on loop for basically the entire ride 🫠
September 27, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Went on a long bike ride today and got the super-short Pillow Pet™️ song stuck in my head on loop for basically the entire ride 🫠
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I just want to give a huge shout out to whoever decided that potatoes can be included with breakfast.
September 27, 2026 at 3:20 PM
I just want to give a huge shout out to whoever decided that potatoes can be included with breakfast.
Who wants to hear me yap about K-Pop Demon Hunters for 30 minutes? 😜 (sorry for the clickbait lol, trying to learn the youtube game)
youtu.be/Ax2gjG1sQ9A
youtu.be/Ax2gjG1sQ9A
This ICONIC Melody Mirrors the Entire Story of K-Pop Demon Hunters
YouTube video by Girl in Blue Music
youtu.be
September 26, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Who wants to hear me yap about K-Pop Demon Hunters for 30 minutes? 😜 (sorry for the clickbait lol, trying to learn the youtube game)
youtu.be/Ax2gjG1sQ9A
youtu.be/Ax2gjG1sQ9A
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Art is never about the destination and "pretty picture good", it is and always has been about the process itself. If you don't enjoy the process of physically picking up a tool and doing it, then you are not an artist. You're shallow and lack critical thinking.
September 25, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Art is never about the destination and "pretty picture good", it is and always has been about the process itself. If you don't enjoy the process of physically picking up a tool and doing it, then you are not an artist. You're shallow and lack critical thinking.