hsmusic · towerofnix · Jan 31, 2025 · Jan 20, 2025 · Jan 31, 2025
diff --git a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ Commentary: |-
     [[artist:decon-theed|repeatedScales]]<br>
     [[artist:dj|DJ 最テー]]<br>
     [[artist:waif|Frank Haught]]<br>
-    [[artist:kera-jones|Kera L. Jones]]<br>
+    [[artist:kera-l-jones|Kera L. Jones]]<br>
     [[artist:ray-mcdougall]]<br>
     [[artist:paul-tuttle-starr]]<br>
     [[artist:eligecos|Gec]]<br>
@@ -800,9 +800,13 @@ Track: Teal Seer
 Additional Names:
 - Pumpkinsniffle Puree (contest-submitted name)
 Artists:
-- Kera Jones
+- Kera L. Jones
 Duration: '2:32'
 Color: '#008b8b'
+Referenced Tracks:
+- Something's Different
+Sampled Tracks:
+- Something's Different
 URLs:
 - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/teal-seer
 - https://youtu.be/Dwcn4q4X0OQ
@@ -815,6 +819,26 @@ Art Tags:
 - Scalemates
 - Alternia
 - 'cw: hanging'
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Makin:</i> (wiki editor, 1/20/2025)
+
+    This track was almost entirely made out of pre-existing stems of a different stock song. This broke the rules of the contest and (unwittingly) infringed the source's licensing terms, but this was discovered in 2024 and no action has been taken. [[track:somethings-different|See Something's Different for details]].
+
+    <i>Kera L. Jones:</i> (unpublished Tumblr ask, [via Homestuck Discord](https://discord.com/channels/152981670507577344/184908151185866752/1231122466521481256), excerpt, 4/20/2024)
+
+    hand to god, i've never heard of [[artist:paul-lawler|paul lawler]] or APM before today.
+
+    what i can tell you is that i used a [shitty, defunct music program](https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/aviary-introduces-free-online-music-software/) that came prepackaged with a bunch of crappy royalty free sound bytes that I played around with until something sounded good. i was also 13 at the time and was just excited to contribute to a piece of media that I held in such high regard. i don't make money off of it anymore, since the label is basically dead, and what I did make only amounted to about... 350 dollars. that's all there is to it, really.
+
+    <i>Kera L. Jones:</i> ([Tumblr](https://brokenpocketwatch.tumblr.com/post/22071152517/so-i-heard-this-song-was-pretty-popular-i), 4/29/2012)
+
+    So I heard this song was pretty popular.
+
+    I COMPOSED THIS SONG BITCHES. I AM THE CREATOR OD THE SOUNDTRACK TO YOUR SLEUTHING.
+
+    That is all.
+
+    Terezi Power.
 ---
 Track: Cobalt Thief
 Additional Names:

diff --git a/album/lofam3.yaml b/album/lofam3.yaml
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ Commentary: |-
 
     Quotes songs by... \*deep breath\*
 
-    [[artist:eston-schweickart|eston"silence"schweickart]][[artist:brad-griffin|bradgriffin(avinoch)]][[artist:malcolm-brown|malcolmbrown]][[artist:paul-tuttle-starr|paultuttlestarr]][[artist:clark-powell|clarkpowell]][[artist:charles-neudorf|charles<span class="nowrap">"crazy-8"</span>neudorf]][[artist:willow-ascenzo|willowascenzo]][[artist:first-turn-fold|firstturnfold]][[artist:kera-jones|keral.jones]][[artist:erik-scheele|erik"jit"scheele]][[artist:kdmanderson|kristian"dacen"anderson]][[artist:nick-smalley|nicksmalley]][[artist:michael-guy-bowman|michaelguybowman]]... \*puff\* \*wheeze\*<br>
+    [[artist:eston-schweickart|eston"silence"schweickart]][[artist:brad-griffin|bradgriffin(avinoch)]][[artist:malcolm-brown|malcolmbrown]][[artist:paul-tuttle-starr|paultuttlestarr]][[artist:clark-powell|clarkpowell]][[artist:charles-neudorf|charles<span class="nowrap">"crazy-8"</span>neudorf]][[artist:willow-ascenzo|willowascenzo]][[artist:first-turn-fold|firstturnfold]][[artist:kera-l-jones|keral.jones]][[artist:erik-scheele|erik"jit"scheele]][[artist:kdmanderson|kristian"dacen"anderson]][[artist:nick-smalley|nicksmalley]][[artist:michael-guy-bowman|michaelguybowman]]... \*puff\* \*wheeze\*<br>
     <small>...[[artist:brenna-curran|brenna"randomencounter"curra]][[artist:yan-rodriguez|nyan"nucleose"rodriguez]][[artist:marcy-nabors|marcynabors(shadolith)]][[artist:samm-neiland|sammneiland]][[artist:max-wright|max"imbrog"wright]][[artist:eligecos|gec]][[artist:david-ko|davidko]][[artist:kalibration|robert"kali"blaker]][[artist:jamie-paige|jamie"hrmnzr"paige]]<small>[[artist:kezinox|sinisterpsyche]][[artist:ian-white|ian"myusernamesmud"white]][[artist:toby-fox|toby"radiatio<small>n"fox</small>]]<small>[[artist:veritas-unae|veritasunae]][[artist:david-dycus|da<small>vid"dirtiest"dycus</small>]]<small>[[artist:team-dogfight|teamdogfight]][[artist:david-ellis|davidellis(alunatic'sda<big>ydream)</big>]]</small>[[artist:demographerist|demographerist]]</small></small></small>
 ---
 Track: Dance of Viridian and Violet

diff --git a/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml b/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml
@@ -39627,6 +39627,25 @@ Artists:
 URLs:
 - https://father2006.bandcamp.com/track/someone-else
 ---
+Track: Something's Different
+Duration: 2:22
+Artists:
+- Paul Lawler
+URLs:
+- https://youtu.be/GIICuW6jEFA
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Makin:</i> (wiki editor, 1/20/2025)
+
+    This track is part of Paul Lawler's [Fantasy Tales](https://www.discogs.com/release/4818472-Paul-Lawler-Fantasy-Tales) album for APM Music's Quantum music library. Paul would end up licensing this song and others to [Aviary's Music Creator](https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/aviary-introduces-free-online-music-software/), a now-dead online DAW that came preloaded with cut-up samples and stems of such stock tracks. It should be noted that the licensing terms did not allow using this program for commercial purposes, as ended up happening with [[Teal Seer]]. (See more thorough explanations [in Homestuck Discord] [here](https://discord.com/channels/152981670507577344/164122260913913857/1231151704406360064) and [here](https://discord.com/channels/152981670507577344/184908151185866752/1231279785313832970).)
+
+    <i>Paul Lawler:</i> (email, [via Homestuck Discord](https://discord.com/channels/152981670507577344/164122260913913857/1231151704406360064), excerpt, 4/20/2024)
+
+    If I remember rightly this is a track I composed that went into some kind of program 20+ years ago, which enabled editors to play around with the audio stems, so it might be he used that, but that doesn't give [[artist:kera-l-jones|him]] any rights to sell it for profit.
+
+    <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor, 1/31/2025)
+
+    We also wrote a summary of discussion in the HSMusic community Discord server for this GitHub issue: [#541 Investigate Teal Seer](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-data/issues/541)
+---
 Track: Sorrow In a Pacifist Pillbox
 Artists:
 - NEUPINK

diff --git a/artists.yaml b/artists.yaml
@@ -6164,7 +6164,9 @@ URLs:
 ---
 Artist: Kenta Nagata
 ---
-Artist: Kera Jones
+Artist: Kera L. Jones
+URLs:
+- https://brokenpocketwatch.tumblr.com
 ---
 Artist: Ke$ha
 Directory: kesha
@@ -8883,6 +8885,10 @@ Dead URLs:
 ---
 Artist: Paul Kandel
 ---
+Artist: Paul Lawler
+URLs:
+- https://paullawler.bandcamp.com
+---
 Artist: Paul McCartney
 ---
 Artist: Paul Tuttle Starr

diff --git a/static-page/changelog.yaml b/static-page/changelog.yaml
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ Content: |-
     - added Nintendo Music listening links to [[track:big-boos-haunt]], [[track:hazy-maze-cave]], [[track:molgera-battle]], [[track:rainbow-road-super-mario-kart]], [[track:slider-super-mario-64]], and [[track:the-final-battle-super-mario-64]] (thanks, ruby!)
     <h3>data fixes</h3>
     <!-- reference fixes -->
+    - fixed [[track:teal-seer]] not referencing [[track:somethings-different]], and added various commentary related to this (thanks, Makin!)
     - fixed [[track:vriska-dance]] not referencing [[track:regent-erratic]] (thanks, Makin!)
     - fixed [[track:oh-boo-hoo]] sampling "Heartwich" instead of [[track:heartwich-with-strings]] (thanks, Makin!)
     - fixed [[track:how-2-dj-vip-excloosive-feat-dabe]] not sampling [[track:dead-secretary-zero-health]] (thanks, Makin!)