LMAO kallen's back.

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

LMAO kallen's back. she commented on one of my videos "Go away..." ok boomer

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

she has doubtless hate watched a bunch of other videos which did not move her to comment. this one just pushed her over the edge. it was the recent rossini barber recitative i just did. interestingly i have posted some dire crap lately that didn't provoke her but the barber recitative is imo fine enough for an amateur effort. the established pattern is now clear: she is specifically upset by barber of seville content. so now to engineer barber stuff specifically to piss her off even more

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

known to piss off Kallen Esperian:
- a passage from contro un cor, a song from Rossini's Barber
- the finale of Paisiello's Barber
- a joke about Manuel Garcia breaking a guitar string at the premiere of Rossini's Barber
- a recitative from Rossini's Barber

clearly barber gatekeeping. yes safeguarding the exclusivity of one of the most popular operas of all time and one that is most likely to attract amateur interpretations

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

the Paisiello Barber finale and the recent recitative are inoffensive in as much as they are not grating to the ear. like what's "wrong" with them is underdeveloped technique and not anything like being out of time or out of tune. i have plenty of videos that are snippets of what ive been practicing lately that have screeched head voice, wrong notes, and other horrors but those dont upset her as much as blandly amateurish barber content

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

alternative theory: she doesn't specifically care for barber, that's just what the algorithm serves to her, thus she has yet to see my deliberately trollish Tosca and Luisa Miller videos. I can test this by doing more Tosca and Luisa Miller videos and tagging them Barber of Seville

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Xibanya in terms of people going away i would say time is on your side here and not hers

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

current plan: ive already been practicing "Empio dirò tu sei" ("You are wicked, I say") from Julius Caesar In Egypt so ill knock out a half minute of that and put Barber of Seville tags on it. And if anyone questions me I'll be like wait I thought Cesare was Barber's librettist???

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

i have mutuals who are professional spinto sopranos who idolize Esperian and would adore to make contact with her but they have not been deemed as worthy of her personal attention as the programmer singing in silly hats for fun

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@Xibanya you obviously need to up your game if there were videos she didn't feel compelled to angerreply.

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

tiktok's algorithm, seeing she has commented so many times on my videos, is sure to serve them to her even more aggressively. i love technology

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@Xibanya enragement is cool when you're on the other side of it 8-D

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

lets see if this rage bait does the trick. idk if shell be able to handel it

(the joke is that it is a bait and switch of one rage aria with a bunch of sixteenth notes for a different one. she has no sense of irony so she is likely to believe i genuinely think im singing the right song)

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

lyrics

Respira ormai. del fido sposo in braccio,
vieni, vieni a godere più lieta sorte.
Taci...
Olà, t’accheta!

Empio, dirò, tu sei!
Togliti a gli occhi miei!
Sei tutto crudeltà!

COUNT: Breathe easy now in the arms of your faithful husband. Come, come enjoy a more joyful fate. [to Bartolo] Shut up... Hey, be silent!

CAESAR: I will say you are wicked! Get out of my sight! You are all cruelty!

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

Empio dirò tu sei is clearly not performance-ready but should function well enough as a shitpost that others just think it's me shitpostin' as usual but will also give a legendary soprano an aneurysm without it being obviously a targeted hit

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

as far as the actual serious considerations wrt Empio dirò tu sei are, what makes it in some regards even more challenging than Cessa di più resistere is that the baroque style calls for all the notes in the coloratura to be super clearly articulated. if i could do that shit in a single smooth line it'd be a cakewalk

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

i have found interviews with her in which she discusses community outreach and introducing high school students to opera. im imagining her smacking teenagers with a ruler if they dare to try to sing along with any opera she's trying to teach them about. MUSIC IS FOR LISTENING. NOT DOING. DO NOT DO A MUSIC. ONLY LISTEN

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

what i think is more likely is that she tolerates amateur efforts that come with self flagellation, so she is fine with some teenager trying to sing and being embarrassed about it; what is actually pissing her off is that i am not sufficiently visibly ashamed of what im doing

in truth i do feel silly about pretty much everything but if i preface each post with "i am aware i am exposing my lack of skill and the sense of vulnerability that results is uncomfortable" it'd get tiresome real fast

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

i still think the funniest complaint i got from Kallen is when i did a video in which i claimed i was going to perform Ecco Ridente exactly as it was performed at the premiere of the Barber of Seville; I then act surprised when I discover one of the strings on my guitar is broken, and the video cuts out (this is indeed the manner in which Ecco Ridente was performed, or better said, not performed, at the premiere) she apparently thought this was a legit unexpected fuck up and scolded me

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

it should be obvious that if my intention was to do a video of myself playing the guitar, if i had recorded a video of myself hyping up what i was about to play then discovering one of the strings was broken, i would not post that video, i would replace the string and do another take. but no, it was taken by her to be the same as an unintended snafu during a live broadcast. this is how the boomer mind works

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

esperian seems particularly territorial about Rosina. singing a Rosina solo I already knew well but transposed down a 2nd interval or so seemed like low hanging fruit. i don't think ill do another high effort troll like Te Deum until i have more certainty about what provokes her