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Hi ATRL, So I've taken a midday cocktail to celebrate and I'm a lil tipsy, but I have something to share with you all. I love this website in all its messiness, there is so much music I've discovered on here, so many kiis I've had reading things, so many interesting corners of music and pop culture I've discovered thanks to ATRL. And I find it to be a really fun, positive community that is also very LGBT friendly (I'm ghey, obviously). And while I've been posting I've also been carrying a secret... I am a user of this website, but now there is a chance I will one day get a thread made about my new music I've been a songwriter for the indie pop scene in Vancouver BC for a while (I moved here from Peru when I was 18), and recently through an insane series of events I ended up getting an offer for a record deal from a local label. This label is 604 Records, owned by Chad Kroeger of Nickelback. This is the label that put together "Call Me Maybe". There are literally Diamond plaques on the wall of the label with Carly's face on it, it's surreal. They're distributed by Warner. They have COIN. Like I was shook the first time they invited me to their building, there's all these multi-Platinum plaques for Nickelback, Carly, Marianas Trench (Canadian icons for those who know), Coleman Hell and others. People talking about meeting Justin Bieber and Harry Styles like it's the most casual thing in the world So that happened. I had to get an (expensive ass) lawyer. It was a whole thing. I was so nervous it would fall through multiple times, like the tension was unbearable; this was all in my mind though because they couldn't have been lovelier and more supportive, it's more me being such a pessimist and not believing this could be happening to me. Like, I was struggling and hustling in the music scene for years. Doing songwriting workshops, singing back up, getting absolutely nowhere. So it was insane and surreal that they loved my self-produced demos so much that they wanted to fund a whole album and give a full record deal without ever having released music of my own And tonight the first single from my first album has finally been released. We put out a dark take on a Christmas song that they asked me to do late last year, but now they've finally confirmed the whole album is a go and this is the first single It's the most exciting day of my life in a way. I feel like Mariah in her memoir when she gets signed and can finally breathe a sigh of relief because her musical life is about to begin. As a proud and openly gay man the one thing I really would like with my music career, if I'm going to be given a platform and support and all that being signed to a big indie label means, is that I want to connect with my LGBT community. I want to get played in the clubs. I would honestly die happy if I ever see a drag queen or drag king do one of my songs. And I'm going to be pushing for gay acceptance/rights in my videos and music HARD. I'm going to use that record label coin to make some subversive gay art. The next video will be a gay themed video for a bop that's coming. I'm going to truly try to be the gay pop star that I never had growing up. This community that is my home means the world to me. So I'd rather start nowhere else than here, the internet's queer capital of pop music to start spreading the word about my music. So without further ado I would like to share my first (proper) single with you: "Great Escape" - a synth-pop bop about yearning to get out no matter what. I hope you like it. And I hope you will come with me on this journey EDIT: thank you so much for all the lovely messages and support!! This is the very beginning for me and it's so cool to see a whole thread of people talking about the song. I have a ton more music coming soon including another single next month and an EP early summer, I typically announce stuff on my Instagram first so feel free to give me a follow if you'd like to be the first to know, I'll also try some way of announcing it on here

Girl anyway

We used to be a ******* nation remember Godga.. like we used to have POP girls they used to serve the gays… we used to stNd for something. This ***** said pop music will never be low brow where the **** are the GIRLS. This greedy fake country redneck ***** from Pennsylvania has the nerve to put out Tortured Matty Healy Defenders Department and her fans eat it up. We want ******* Telephone back! We want PERFORMANCES BACK!!! I HATE RELATABILITY AS A POP STAR YOU SHOULD BE INACCESIBLE AND LARGER THAN LIFE WHYYYY WOULD YOU WANNA BE BEST FRIENDS WITH THE ARTIST YOU STAN?? IS YOUR OWN LIFE THAT MISERABLE THAT YOU NEED TO FEEL PART OF SOMETHING SPECIAL TO FEEL BETTER ABT UR OWN MISERABLE LIFE?? It should have been Gaga on top… she knew what pop culture needed. Taylor ruined everything. We need to destroy her I'm so serious the FBI needs to arrest her for domestic and international terrorism

R9 will be a reverse Renaissance. All visuals, no music

This is me... please come

"I can't even express to you how wasteful it is. It is right in front of our faces and people are just getting away with it left and right, and I find it really frustrating as somebody who really goes out of my way to be sustainable and do the best that I can and try to involve everybody in my team in being sustainable — and then it's some of the biggest artists in the world making f–king 40 different vinyl packages that have a different unique thing just to get you to keep buying more. It's so wasteful, and it's irritating to me that we're still at a point where you care that much about your numbers and you care that much about making money — and it's all your favorite artists doing that sh-t.” Thoughts?

She cares so much about what people think of her it makes her unlikeable and her artistry, in my opinion, phony.

Imagine trying to get to sleep and then hearing this echoing out of your mum's room.

Your 9 year old told you "mommy, this is so emasculating!"?

I mean the whole world except for Taylor and the Klan are over it but what do you expect from a woman stuck with a high school mentality

Onitca, I just recieved your nail collection and I have them

The fact he has praised taylor several times but he's only misogynist when he badly reviews her y'all need to look up what misogyny really means and realize y'all fave weaponized that to shelter herself from criticism

Madonna has never claimed to represent gay people, she stood up for us in a time when no one else would

"This Eco-Mix vinyl is 100% recycled compound made of trimmed flash and leftovers from any color which cannot otherwise be reused. These pieces are then recycled and re-used for production of future discs. With Eco-Mix, every disc looks different from the last. All vinyl packaging is made from FSC® certified recycled paper/boards made 100% from post-consumer waste and recycled pre-consumer fibers. The ink used is raw plant-based and water-based dispersion varnish. In place of shrink-wrap, the sleeves are 100% recycled and re-usable. For shipping, all finished goods are packaged and shipped to depots in up to 93% recycled and 100% recyclable shipping boxes." Sticking to her original point!

Ms. Thing is so calculated and yet people try to overlook her obvious antics. She knows by doing this the reviewers will be incentivized to be positive for clicks. Other girls would be scalped for this, imagine Beyonce did this, thread would be 100 pages.

She's one to ******* talk

We only fuck with the best… the best in question: Katie Got Bandz, Akbar V, and Maliibu Miitch

how about you pay your taxes instead of paying for movie tickets

No. The bar is on the floor

TAYLOR SWIFT IS AN EVIL CORPORATE ENTITY PROMOTED BY AMERICAN VALUES PUSHED BY THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT TO PROMOTE CAPITALISM AND CONSUMERISM SHE DOESNT HAVE A SOUL!!!

I mean…. Her choosing to be a spokesperson during a time it wasn't supported says enough and is arguably more commendable than not?

Just wait until she finds out about the colour...

Y'all should just sit this one out.

People want to revisit Jolene's side of the story after CC

Beyoncé takes a lot more risks with her music and risks are not rewarded in a musical climate that has been destroyed by Taylor and the business model that she's pushed down everyone throat's by making parasocial relationships the key to mainstream success.

So when Beyoncé drops 4 more tracks on streaming compared to the physicals, she's scamming her fans. But when Taylor has 15 extra tracks on streaming compared to the physicals, it's legendary?

So Teenage Dream 4.0, Prism 3.0 or Smile 2.0?

Why is she not retweeting the Pitchfork review

They didn't want to overload Spotify's servers.

This is me….trying

she's right we have Jojo Siwa now

It's signed with invisible ink! You need to pay $39.99 (plus shipping) for the magic glasses that allow you to see the signature

Not when Ken quite literally stole the movie. Did she even watch the movie? It was pretty uplifting of men.

cmon now.

Spotify announced Wednesday that Taylor Swift‘s “The Tortured Poets Department” has become the first album in the app’s history to pick up a billion streams in a single week. And it did that with still a couple of days left to go in the seven-day period in question. The previous high-water mark for most album streams in a week belonged to Swift’s last all-new release, “Midnights,” in October 2022. Spotify did not release a specific figure when it announced at the time that “Midnights” had broken the record, but observers adding the numbers through publicly available Spotify data at the time estimated the figure to be in the 700,000s. That “Tortured Poets” is setting new Spotify records five days into its run is not a surprise. Previously, the DSP had announced that the album had surpassed 300 million streams in just its first day out. As far as individual songs go, the first single from the album has also set Spotify records, as the app previously revealed that “Fortnight,” which features Post Malone, had become the most-streamed song in a single day in Spotify history on its first day of release.

must've seen a relative in the crowd

Should we call her Legend X now?

Good. Time to stop her money-hungry ways. She is already dating a billionaire, she doesn't need to do these embarrassing sponsorships.

NFR is better than any Taylor album.

that's because if you say Nicki Minaj's name 3 times, a pedophile appears to haunt you

Good luck on that hangover

sis, the movie made sure at the end to show that both sides need to be equal and that there's no point in tearing down one to empower the other maybe that's also the reason why her music has been bad for over a decade now?

Anyone seen any good movies lately? Nice weather we're having btw

She accepts payment in jet fuel only

She's recycling beats, melodies, lyrics from her previous releases. No artistic growth. Just doing the same thing we've heard a billion times before. Why is she getting flak for being an ecoterrorist when she's one of the only few big pop stars actually leading the pack in recycling music?

Mostly midtempo, very lyrics forward. She's putting a lot of humor (or attempts) into the songs.

dumb bish raising dumb sons if that's her takeway from this movie no wonder her and piqué were a match made in heaven