King Mob’s evolution mix is up now. The King Mob evolution mix is technically one of my new-classics-rich villain playlists, which I started compiling in 2013 as a framework for me to organize music I liked in a fun way while sort of excusing myself for the explicit lyrics that inevitably creep into some of the true bangers. In 2019, as I was trying to recover from being targeted with a series of bizarre and cruel crimes and violations in Canada that nearly defy explanation (for example, see: the Easter egg page associated with: Apocalypse report #5), I started expanding the collection quickly. My playlist methodology has proven to be good for relaxation and addressing current traumatic stress. There are over a dozen of them now. I don’t like villains, to be clear, but I like fiction.
There’s a permanent link to my playlists in the sidebar (which is usually situated at the bottom of the site on mobile devices).
King Mob, of course, is sort of a villain protagonist from Grant Morrison’s iconic and iconclastic ’90s-era conspiracy punk comic book series The Invisibles (which by the way, was unnecessarily rough with the Moonchild mythology, perhaps in reaction to how mysterious the term was in the U.K. back then). There are villain villains throughout the story, but King Mob mostly goes up against them in a very bleak fictional world influenced by Gnostic theories, Illuminati rumors, and eschatology. He gets a graffiti shout-out in the show Stranger Things; you notice it if you do. Villain protagonists were a trend in the ’90s, and they were a novel enough trope at the time that they didn’t come off as too offensive until we hit market saturation, which arguably happened in the 2010s. Have they contributed to a disaffected populace beset by malaise? Maybe.
The villain evolution mix playlists are supposed to invoke concepts of rehabilitation and de-escalation. Some of the songs have dark themes, but that’s art for you sometimes. A song is a point of view, not instructions. The lists celebrate fiction as a framework for presenting a wide range of music, and are also good for stress relief and other therapeutic applications. Be advised that Spotify seems to remove certain tracks from its public catalogue from time to time, and those I tend to leave on my playlists, but users can hide those greyed-out tracks via Spotify’s user settings, and there’s also an option there to hide songs with explicit lyrics. As always, please evolve responsibly.
The Divine Feminine evolution mix and the Divine Masculine evolution mix also went up this year, and have nothing in particular to do with villains.
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