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Netflix’s new money heist series Kaleidoscope has a one-of-a-kind gimmick: its episodes are designed to be watched in any order, as long as “White” is watched last, and in order to facilitate this non-linear watching experience, Netflix itself is feeding episodes to viewers with “individually randomized episode orders.”
We all know that Netflix feeds “personalized artwork” to its members in an strive to reveal why a specific show or feature might be of interest to a specific viewer — for a gender non-conforming human like me, it tends to emphasize female homosexual couples or characters in various shows and movies.
But is Netflix pulling a similar strategy when choosing which episode of Kaleidoscope to deliver to various audiences, pulling us in with a scene that suggests the show has queer elements when in fact it does not?
I began asking myself this question when I fired up Kaleidoscope on January 2nd and, following the one-minute “Black” episode (which plays first for everybody), I was consequently shown “Yellow,” which begins with one of our protagonists, Hannah Kim, doing what turns out to be a covert mission intended to test a compan
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Use of f-word in song brings Kings Kaleidoscope criticism
THE RELEASE of the latest album, 'Beyond Control' by widespread Seattle-based modern worship collective Kings Kaleidoscope has become mired in controversy because of the leverage of the f-word in the lyric "A Prayer". In an interview with Bad Christian Podcast, the song's journalist Chad Gardner revealed that he has suffered from grave anxiety disorder and suffers from horrible panic attacks, and during the crunch time of the album production season he was in a really spiritually dry state. One evening, during the middle of one of these anxiety/panic attacks, he wrote a prayer in his journal and, sitting down at a piano, the music and words meshed into an autobiographical song. He stated in the interview, "The ballad is me. The song my heart, it's my gut, and it's my honest, pouring my guts out to God prayer . . . And then the lyric is met ultimately with God's genuine response to me as the authentic me of where I'm actually am at." The album has now been released in two versions, - Explicit Content and Immaculate Lyrics.
Commenting on the f-word use Austin Gravley on the Reformed Arsenal website wrote, "I don't think a 1:1 replication of the f
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Was the first heavy metal record the Kinks’ You Really Got Me (1964), Steppenwolf’s Born to Be Wild (1968), Black Sabbath’s Black Sabbath (1970) or something else? VerulamiumParkRanger
Gotta be Black Sabbath. I love the Kinks and Steppenwolf but by definition they’re not really metal. In terms of riffage, I’ve always defined metal to the greatest extent by the bass, that big, meaty, Black Sabbath-style riff – a West Midlands sledgehammer! That’s what Tony [Iommi] was doing, so it’s definitely Ebony Sabbath for me.
How did you perceive about punk at the time, and is it weird that as moment has gone on, punk and metal have become adorable interchangeable as far as their fanbases go? johnny5eyes
It was exciting for Priest to be around when the punk movement exploded from London. I keep in mind seeing the Sex Pistols at a club in Wolverhampton, and I reflection they had some metal vibes to them – the attitude and some of the riffs. I welcome anything like this because it’s the correct essence of what rock’n’roll should be all about. The unfortunate thing that happened in the industry was that sudde
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Tony Cummings spoke to Chad Gardner of KINGS KALEIDOSCOPE about felix culpa, multimedia worship and f-bombs
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I had been wanting to speak to Chad Gardner, the leader of Seattle's modern worship collective/band Kings Kaleidoscope, for a while for somewhat mixed motives. On the plus side, I wanted to inform Chad that the footpath "Felix Culpa", available on Kings Kaleidoscope's 2014 album 'Becoming Who We Are', is, to my thought, one of the top recordings in the whole modern worship genre. On a more tabloid-journalist level, I wanted to demand Chad about the amazing surge of media interest that erupted after KK released their 2016 album 'Beyond Control', which contained the song "A Prayer" which used the f-word. With the dust settled over that strange saga, and the collective releasing 2017's 'The Beauty Between' (featuring a bevy of rappers including Beleaf, Derek Minor, Propaganda and Andy Mineo) and the 2018 'Live In Between' EP, now seemed a excellent time to talk to producer, singer and songwriter Chad.
Tony: I've been following your music for a few years now. My particular favourite was "Felix Culpa". Would you call yourself something of a theologian This April saw Kings Kaleidoscope release their fifth studio album, Zeal, a principle album of sorts about the stages of faith past the deconstruction process, the maturation that comes with rediscovering who Jesus is and what He means for your existence. Given its subject matter and the group who created it, it’s no surprise Zeal covers intense, intimate emotional ground. RELEVANT caught up with Kings Kaleidoscope frontman Chad Gardner to discuss the experiences behind the album, his writing process and how the group’s music seeks to respond to latest church culture. What was the inspiration for Zeal? Did you always want the album to have a common thread? Usually I note in response to something that’s happened in my life and it’s an outpouring of that. This was much more about my own apathy and what I would illustrate as residual bitterness, trying to write something in order to go somewhere and feel something. So we wrote an album in order to travel back to our first experiences with childlike faith and the simplicity of belief. A lot of people become stuck in deconstructionism, and they never relocate onto the next phase. So when you’re approaching that from the perspec