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Shady
@shadyrose.bsky.social
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My album dropped, comment a 🔥 if it makes you angry (streaming everywhere except Amazon)
January 27, 2025 at 5:08 AM
shadyrose.bsky.social
I released a single this week

youtu.be/Iayw7PKHI8w?...
A piece of art by Shady for the single release cover. A blue and green gradient background with dark shadows in front. Blood orange branches dangle and creep around the image centerpiece, a floating androgynous stone head in 3/4 profile floats in surreal empty space, an abandoned city peeking out of the top of the skull and leaking ominous black sludge. The title reads “that selfhood which is our torment”
December 29, 2024 at 10:44 AM
shadyrose.bsky.social
should I shave my head again
Black and white photo of Shady in a tight fitting black turtleneck. They are stiffly a covering their eyes with their hands and wearing a black expression. Their hair is very closely cropped after a recent shaving.
December 16, 2024 at 6:35 AM
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revisiting
White background. Shady (Black alternative fem) is topless with their chest hidden behind a golden sun design mirror. They are wearing a black velvet outfit and a multicolored jewel crown with wet dark hair. They are barefoot sitting on a stool.
November 3, 2024 at 7:00 AM
shadyrose.bsky.social
Saw a tandem bike in person for the first time in my life today and something changed in my heart.
An orange, vintage tandem bike leaning against a street sign in the grass on the sidewalk. The bike looks a little busted
August 27, 2023 at 7:54 AM
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Ok really cool thing this week is I’m in residency at the Kennedy Center composing music for a really cool production (coming 2024).
A large studio room with tons of music equipment and amps etc set up. Shady is strapped up with their bass making a peace sign. A close-ish shot of a desk where Shady and Navi are mid conversation over lots of papers littered with sticky notes, Shady is playing bass while taking An overhead shot of a large studio room with tons of music equipment and amps etc set up. Shady is working on a song with members of Endlings plus Ananth Batni.
August 25, 2023 at 2:47 AM
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Nothing! My whole life is in desperate shambles but at least I have a friend who will treat me to a cute fancy dinner when I’m down
Shady is smiling hugely—mid laughter—with chopsticks poised over a portion of salmon and greens. The restaurant looks mellow with a quirky yellow couch and faux cherry blossoms along the windows. They have half a glass of champagne nearby.
August 13, 2023 at 2:46 AM
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Got featured in District Fray magazine as one of the city’s many dope musicians. V cool, also got to name drop some of the other local artists I like so check it out:

https://districtfray.com/august-2023-issue/

*cover page, top: me by Aysha Scott
bottom: Zach Cutler. Photo by Nick Moreland.*
An article cover page, featuring two artists from DC. top photo : Shady, pictured singing passionately into a microphone, taken by Aysha Scott bottom photo: a musician called Zach Cutler. Photo by Nick Moreland They sing and write lyrics for the psychedelic alt-rock group Endlings, manage Wammie award-winning D.C. emcee Riz Tha Great and [redacted] Music and performance have been in Rose's DNA since they were young, whether it was drumming and singing in Ghanaian festivals and celebrations with their mother or playing berimbau at capoeira - a kind of martial art performance in Afro-Brazilian culture - with their father. As a musician with all kinds of connections across the city, Rose has a few artists they thought people should know. "Some artists need more love thrown their way: Liability, a psychedelic punk opera duo; Black Folks Don't Swim?, an incredible group that takes you to outer space. I'm a big fan of Outerloop, post-hardcore-Latin-jazz-rock; The Red Fetish - currently a one-man operation pouring out some postindustrial dirges; Ardamus, a rap artist and emcee with a hell of a spirit; and my pals in Sorge, heavy doom metal with an esoteric spine."
August 2, 2023 at 6:45 AM
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Opening the fridge thinking the food inside will somehow be different this time headass
A semi close shot of Shady wearing all black and sunglasses, looking at the camera with lips pursed. They are outdoors on a sunny day, kneeling in a patch of grass
July 14, 2023 at 3:08 PM
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Broke my foot just now (I can finally say I’ve broken a bone) and reflecting on the lack of urgency in this emergency room
Shady holds a numbered ticket which reads “103”. This is their wait number in the emergency room
July 11, 2023 at 9:59 PM
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Martha Jones deserved SO MUCH MORE from the showeunners, the fans, and the doctor and we all know why they did her character so dirty. I’ll always love her though
A photo of UK actor Freema Agyeman in the character of Martha Jones. Her arms are crossed and she offers a coy smile. She wears a red leather jacket. Behind her is a background of stars with a huge moon.
July 11, 2023 at 1:30 AM
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Reskeet with a picture and your age

32
A close shot of Shady dressed as a sexy cowboy type character. Kneeling on a greenscreen backdrop. They have cute white ribbons in their pigtails, a wild fur vest, a white rope hooked on their belt, and cow-print pants
July 10, 2023 at 6:36 PM
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https://youtu.be/wYj01O7foKw
A screenshot of the character Titus Andromedon from the show Unbreakable Kimmy Shmidt singing “oh, outside bones, outside bones” A screenshot of the character Titus Andromedon from the show Unbreakable Kimmy Shmidt singing “never forget that teeth are outside bones”
July 10, 2023 at 5:41 PM
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My favorite late night thing from the last month: the sound board at Black Cat during a DC sapphic pride party I helped organize (Booty Rex)
They sound board at Black Cat during a pride party Shady helped organize (booty rex). The image is almost entirely black with shadow but shows a large, complex sound board with a display screen showing, incongruously, the PAC-MAN game screen. Wild
July 9, 2023 at 8:40 AM
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Me too on account of the record temperatures
The background is a scene from recent smoke-filled new york looking apocalyptic. Superimposed over that is the word “ENDLINGS” on a grid
July 9, 2023 at 8:32 AM
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chicken in
A very simple white background with a very simple black line drawing of a rose
July 9, 2023 at 8:21 AM
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Played a good show tonight, feel good, am tipsy
A screenshot of an Instagram story where Shady is singing with their band Endlings at Quarry House Tavern. It’s dark and dirty looking but the viewing is covered in multicolored faery lights. There is a drummer, guitarist, bassist, and vocalist (Shady)
July 9, 2023 at 8:18 AM
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These two together made a nice poem:
A screenshot of two replies to katecrane: @nori.gay: and what a sentiment , too. joy flaring through the grass like the sun, only made all the more beautiful by the obstacle presented chelsea bridge: soft breath reading for dry air under the long sun
July 9, 2023 at 8:05 AM
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DC area crew hearken to me!! I’m performing tonight at Quarry House Tavern in Silver Spring with my band Endlings. Doors at 9:30, we’re on first! Playing with Dead Billionaires and Washer. $13 Come to, come to! (If yr broke and want to come but can’t afford a ticket lmk and I’ll put you on the list)
Under a bright white stage light Shady sings into the mic while making s placating gesture towards the audience. They’re wearing a white button shirt, unbuttoned, and a leather skirt. Above are multicolored fairy lights and behind them there are the drummer and guitarist. A broader view of a grimy looking stage, same bright stage light, same multicolored fairy lights above. The whole band this time, Shady’s head thrown back as they belt into the mic, the drummer concentrates behind them, on each side the guitarist and bassist are throwing down. A purple and black flier for tonight’s show with a grainy picture of a bounce castle in the center. It reads “Washer, Dead Billionaires, Endlings. Quarry House Tavern, July 8th. $13 - All Ages - 9:30”
July 8, 2023 at 9:02 PM
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Ah I have some really great human friends and lovers but I’ve never felt as deeply as I do about this boy
Exterior, day: Shady kneels in the grass outside an apartment building with their dog (Winston), a sweet faced pit bull mix, both sticking out their tongues. Shady wears a baseball cap in the same navy blue as Winston’s bandana.
July 7, 2023 at 2:18 AM
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This is why I’ll never take my dog on a plane, look at his sweet face! I can’t even be away from him for more than 6 hours! 😢😢 I really feel for that lady
A sweet looking pit bull, mostly black with a white nose and white face stripe, staring serenely at the camera as he leans against Shady’s thigh.
July 7, 2023 at 2:02 AM
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You 🤝🏾 your favorite game
Shady looking rather dull wearing a grey shirt and sunglasses in a grey bathroom with graffiti on the walls The poster of “Ghost of Tsushima” video game. The player character, a samurai, stands holding his sword and a mask in a field of white grass as red leaves blow in the wind.
July 6, 2023 at 3:15 PM
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Oh snap let me commune with my people #addtoblacksky
On a moody looking stage, Shady is dressed in a green satin dress while singing into a mic and playing bass with their band Endlings. Behind them is Beck playing guitar and there is the edge of a drum kit. Across the bottom reads “Endlings at Songbyrd ©️ RoXplosion”
July 4, 2023 at 1:16 AM
shadyrose.bsky.social
What it dooooo
The DC flag with the words “taxation without representation” printed on the red bands
July 2, 2023 at 10:31 PM
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Meme from the animated movie “road to el dorado” where the two male protagonists say “both is good” with a matter-of-fact expression
June 28, 2023 at 6:01 AM