ChooseyLover Posted February 10 Posted February 10 2 hours ago, Worm said: I agree completely that Beyonce's process isn't worse, and that she isn't any less talented just because her talents lean towards other elements of music than purely the writing and production of her songs from scratch. Music as a whole would be far less interesting if there weren't artists like her who have the freedom to genre hop and completely change who they work with from project to project, just as I think music as a whole would be less interesting without artists like Billie who write and produce all their own music and can craft a musical identity and distinctive style or sound palette that runs through all their projects. I was just trying to make the point that it's an unfair comparison to say Beyonce's latest album is more different from her last album than Billie's, and thus more innovative, given the ways they both make their music. But I clearly didn't communicate that point as well as I should have, so sorry for that No worries sis, I understood your point completely. But I saw other fellow ATRLers in the previous page downvoting someone who pointed out Bey's insane range and that's just so delusional... Ultimately I agree with you and comparing their ability to reinvent themselves or comparing them at all is a bit pointless. They're like night and day between each other and that's cool. I'm drawn to Bey but everyone has their preferences. The GRAMMYs as an entity and the voting process is a bit of a joke but the show was incredible.
Disconnect Posted February 11 Posted February 11 On 2/6/2025 at 10:59 PM, DirtyPony87 said: That's a wild thing to say about HMHAS as it's her best album and sounds nothing like the prior 2. It is an amazing album, with amazing production and beautiful songs, but it sounds A LOT like her past two lol. Some little tweaks here and there don't make it completely different, lol. 1
Disconnect Posted February 11 Posted February 11 (edited) FINALLY, truth was spoken. Notice how he never said Taylor or Billie's albums were bad, but they just really need to switch it up. TTPD is so boring bc of its monotone style, 30+ songs, and its similarities to Midnights, Folklore and Evermore and HMHAS is literally just like Billie's previous efforts with some teaks here and there LMAO. HOW ON EARTH do you think they deserved to win? If anything, the only other albums that deserved AOTY for me, besides CC, were BRAT and Chappell's album tbh. Edited February 11 by Disconnect 1
coney island Posted February 11 Posted February 11 4 hours ago, Zendayababes said: OOF he got CLOCKED. He's for sure one of us. What bitter ATRLr could he be? We have a few.
Gov Hooka Posted February 11 Posted February 11 On 2/8/2025 at 3:45 PM, Worm said: Am I the only one who sees the enormous, glaring issue of trying to compare the 'innovativeness' of an artist like Beyonce's output with an artist like Billie Eilish? Billie Eilish writes and produces her own songs. Beyonce does not write and produce her own songs. It is vastly easier to hop across genres and styles when you don't have to learn how to create the music in that style for yourself, working from the ground up. Of course the scale of 'innovation' between successive projects is going to be more muted with an artist like Billie. Of course Billie's projects are going to sound like they have more in common with each other than Beyonce's. They were all written by the same person. Do you know how many years it would take to master a completely new genre of music all on your own so that you can write, produce, reference within, innovate and push boundaries within that genre against people who have been making music in it their entire lives? This isn't even shade against Beyonce, the way she collates songs and genres into albums takes a tremendous amount of talent. I'm just saying the two are simply not comparable. An equivalent would be asking something like 'is Beyonce a more innovative vocalist than if you took Freddie Mercury, Britney Spears, Kendrick Lamar and Nicki Minaj and smashed them together into an imaginary single artist who could sing in all four different vocal styles?'. It's meaningless. Their skillsets are completely different. Both artists are innovative, but their innovations are going to look nothing alike. Trying to pit the diversity of their projects against each other is asinine. Well said.
JonginBey Posted February 12 Posted February 12 For years, we've had to sit through committee members giving bullshit excuses like," Beyoncé wins everything so we didn't vote for her," or "Beyoncé made an album (Lemonade) with multiple genres to cheat the system and win AOTY." Y'all didn't give a **** then, and we don't give a **** now. Get over it. 2
Daniel767 Posted February 12 Posted February 12 We all know the reason why he voted for cowboy carter .. but anyway HMHAS is really different than most billie albums so ..
Odette Violet Posted February 12 Posted February 12 Billie has her time and will still have a lot of time to snatch another AOTY. this is long overdue for Bey. leave this women alone
BlossomSoul Posted February 12 Posted February 12 He voted for Beyonce because he's probably a fangirl
Yes, AND Posted February 13 Posted February 13 Katy needs to get working on that acoustic album now to snag that AOTY nom and win. Cancel the tour until the album is done 2
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