base talk Post your unpopular pop opinion - will it survive ATRL's new like/dislike feature?

[x æ a-xii]

Shakira > Beyoncé

[GraceRandolph]

Gaga lost the AOTY for Born This Way due to homophobia. 

[bestfiction]

Madonna was correct when she called Born This Way "reductive" and did nothing wrong 

[suburbannature]

Lorde only lasted two eras because she was the label’s attempt at a mainstream, watered-down, more palatable version of Lana. Lana ended up influential and timeless while Lorde is releasing Solar Power and completely forgotten.

[State of Grace.]

Jessie Ware is a Zionist and her "faggy, warm, lush" music isn't really enough for me to turn blind eye on it.

 

Also miss thing simply lacks a queer soul to me. Her entire aura gives me straight white girl being into voguing and gay culture after a night out in the club with her GBFs and having a Drag Race watch party.

 

[wish]

Taylor Swift is very fake, her music is average & a lot of her success has been built off the back of PR and media narratives

 

Nothing is groundbreaking about having public relationships & writing love songs for her fans to obsessively draw connections to her "personal" life. Notice how she ONLY dates other celebrities (even controversial names like Matty Healy) in a constant attempt to hook the GP into her personal life, which ties heavily into her music.

 

The worst part is that Taylor then turns around and acts like everything about her career is sincere, and pretends to be "above" the drama while simultaneously feeding into the PR machine on a constant basis

[iknowplaces]

Rihanna is one the most overrated artists. 

[Specter]

1 minute ago, suburbannature said:

Lorde only lasted two eras because she was the label’s attempt at a mainstream, watered-down, more palatable version of Lana. Lana ended up influential and timeless while Lorde is releasing Solar Power and completely forgotten.

Interesting. As a (former) fan of both (that especially dislikes their current output and thinks in Lana's case the music is taking a nosedive, lifted by retrospective acclaim), I will just say that though their bases overlap, when it comes to music...they are very different, sonically and especially lyrically. I never understood the claims that Lorde wants to mimic Lana.

[Kylizzle]

Ariana has yet to release a memorable song in the 2020s despite racking up quick #1s

[Josh]

1 minute ago, wish said:

Taylor Swift is very fake, her music is average & a lot of her success has been built off the back of PR and media narratives

 

Nothing is groundbreaking about having public relationships & writing love songs for her fans to obsessively draw connections to her "personal" life. Notice how she ONLY dates other celebrities (even controversial names like Matty Healy) in a constant attempt to hook the GP into her personal life, which ties heavily into her music.

 

The worst part is that Taylor then turns around and acts like everything about her career is sincere, and pretends to be "above" the drama while simultaneously feeding into PR narratives on a constant basis

This isnt unpopular

[GraceRandolph]

Michael Jackson is a pedo who shouldn’t be celebrated. 

[Big Bad Wolf]

ARTPOP is a good album. In fact, it is the last really "great" Gaga album.

 

[blown away]

The Art Of Letting Go is one of Mariah's worst singles ever. Truly a terrible song.

[brooklyndaddy]

American Life is a great album that was painfully misunderstood. The production elements in particular are so ahead of its time!

[khalyan]

Born this Way is Gaga’s (2nd) worse album behind Joanne

 

ARTPOP is Gaga’s (2nd) best album behind The Fame/Monster

[brooklyndaddy]

Future Nostalgia is a decent at best album

[Alex]

Tinashe mother

[EnigmaticAndroid]

25 minutes ago, GraceRandolph said:

Adele is a conwoman. 

I choked 

[KatyPrismSpirit]

A lot of the gaes only "stan" artists like caroline polachek because they bandwagon everything p4k praises. a lot of people aren't listening to their own ears anymore

[Alex]

Charli is Charli XCX's worst album btw. Just an awful compilation of dated (or doa) songs with a few good songs thrown in with the trash.  

[Phaunzie]

10 minutes ago, State of Grace. said:

Jessie Ware is a Zionist

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh, girl I didn't know this. Let me sip this tea. No wonder The Love Invention is far far far better than her last attempt at an album

[bringdanoize]

Born This Way is better and more meaningful than any Madonna’s album.

[EnigmaticAndroid]

I think Taylor is a good writer and listen to her quite a bit, but will never understand why she's heralded as an all-time greatest songwriter. For all the storytelling talk, her lyrics still feel surface-level often and her melodicism can be inconsistent (ie. MIDnights). Folklore and Evermore were so great because it was her storytelling with elevated emotional complexity and rich melodies. 

Edited May 18, 2023 by EnigmaticAndroid

[bringdanoize]

Evermore is better that Folklore, but both are great.

[JoeAg]

 

45 minutes ago, GraceRandolph said:

Dance in the Dark’s bridge washed Vogue. Vogue in general is overrated af. 

yo I agree

 

Deeper and Deeper is ALSO everything Vogue was trying to be and more. her best single, and her best music video did THAT

Edited May 18, 2023 by JoeAg