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Imagine trying to get to sleep and then hearing this echoing out of your mum's room.83 points
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We only fuck with the best… the best in question: Katie Got Bandz, Akbar V, and Maliibu Miitch80 points
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America's cultural relationship with the Dance/ Pop genre evolved from its precursor (Disco) in the 1970's. Both genres (Disco and Dance) are at their core the same genre, only back then drum machines and electronic production were in their infancy so orchestras were (mostly) used instead. Disco began in 1975 and for four years the U.S. was accepting of the genre. However, guitar loving, straight white Male Rock DJ's grew tired of their radio programming being cut short to accommodate the disco format which was so beloved of gay men and women of color. At one point in 1979 one of those white male rock DJ's got so pissed with the popularity of Disco that he arranged something called "Disco Demolition Night" during a televised football game in Chicago. People were invited to burn their Disco Vinyl in a bonfire in the middle of a sports stadium. This event was low-key racist and homophobic (as they were setting fire to the favored music of gay men/ black women). Within weeks of Disco Demolition Night, all Disco records disappeared without trace from the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The strength and dominance of Disco Demolition Night was held firmly in the U.S. for four years until 1983, by such time drum machine technology/ synthesisers had evolved to a point where they had become commercially affordable and became more practical than hiring orchestras for the purpose of creating syncopated music. This led to a resurgence in syncopated rhythms, but to avoid all past negative associations with the events of that fateful evening in Chicago in 1979, Disco had been re-branded as "Dance". The first song to re-emerge and break through in the U.S. was this one. This was a phoenix rising from the ashes moment in the history of contemporary, syncopated U.S. music and pop culture as it reached a peak of No. 8 (thus others followed suite) and the dam began to break. Within 24 months technology had moved on even further and underground Chicago House had evolved (coincidentally born in the same city that previously denigrated its elder sibling's identity). Other regional sub genre's of Dance also evolved and proliferated, one being "Miami Freestyle" (particularly beloved of the gay market). This track being an archetype of that sub-genre and considered an all time gay dance classic. Many of the 2024 executives who control Clear Channel were regional 'Jock' radio programmers in the late 70s (who followed the lead of their tribal brotherhood from Disco Demolition Night). The 2024 crop of (mostly white straight male) Radio DJ's, were chosen by these executives because they hold the same musical and cultural values/ belief systems as their predecessors (i.e. they were selected to maintain the status quo) and control the national formatting of regional U.S radio playlists for each regional U.S radio station that comes under the control of Clear Channel (now re-branded as "I-Heart", the master company). A certain contemporary and hugely influential YouTube critic (Melon) is an evolution of the straight white 1970's DJ brotherhood of Disco Demolition Night. He successfully hides in plain sight. He begrudgingly likes just enough dance music to maintain the persona of being objective (generally conditional of him scoring an interview), however it's a mask. He does not support queer culture and he glosses over the Dance genre and otherwise denigrates it as "derivative" whenever he possibly can.28 points
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I know, she really decided to turn me on with Foolish One.23 points
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Girl how many times do we need to get into Brit's other early 2010s bop under her previous stage name..........22 points
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omg we cant lose 900 pages this is like burning the library of alexandria don't delete our culture19 points
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Artists should know by now that the majority of Coachella attendees are less concerned with the music itself and more focused on sharing photos of their outfits and let everybody know that they were at Coachella.18 points
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Inb4 something like "these b*tches is my sons they can't match the price / of these diamonds and plaques with some iced tea, no spice"18 points
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DOJACHELLA. Six costume changes with special appearances from 21 Savage, Teezo Touchdown, A$AP Rocky and South African a capella group The Joy. she killed it16 points
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She's not necessarily trying to compete, she's trying to make some coins and possibly revive the lifelong dream of a career in music that didn't work out 12 years ago. And it's fair game. JoJo Siwa is a multi-million dollar brand that has been selling products to kids for a decade now, she's not a rookie or an underdog. She's not a kid either. Besides, JoJo's entire campaign is absolutely based on bad publicity and forced backlash, so Brit Smith is lowkey helping her out by sort of participating in the (false) narrative that the song was stolen.15 points
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I hope she pulls a Beyoncé and hides the credits for until a couple of days after the album drops just to see OJHs scramble on what track to pretend to hate!15 points
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"if you actually cared for Palestinians lives….” It's absolutely unfathomable to Zionists that people don't view Palestinians as subhuman like they do. Their brains absolutely goes Error 404 whenever someone's well educated is not on their side. That's why their brain immediately goes "antisemitism!”. Because they have dehumanized Palestinians for so long that they reached a point where they quite literally can't view them as human. The idea of caring for Palestinians is alien to them. How else do you think a generations long military occupation lasts? You have to dehumanize the people you're oppressing in order to rationalize your own life. That's why no matter how educated and pervasive you are in your arguments you will never be able to crack through their skulls because they reached a point of no return. They're brainwashed and I feel bad for them. Listen to what figures like Gideon Levy have to say about the society they live in. … And these are the leftist Zionists.15 points
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'Taylor is not important. She might be a safe space for girls, and she's probably the Madonna of now, but she's not interesting as an artist.’ Courtney is even tiring a little of Lana Del Rey: 'I haven't liked Lana since she covered a John Denver song, and I think she should really take seven years off. Up until 'Take Me Home Country Roads' I thought she was great. When I was recording my new album, I had to stop listening to her as she was influencing me too much.’ 'I like the idea of Beyoncé doing a country record because it's about Black women going into spaces where previously only white women have been allowed, not that I like it much. As a concept, I love it. I just don't like her music.’ And as for Madonna, 'I don't like her and she doesn't like me.14 points
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Imagine if we extended this policy to elected politicians calling for genocide14 points
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JFÁD has officially surpassed Deadpool 3's teaser, making it the most viewed movie trailer of 202414 points
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They really reinvented cable, I can't believe it.13 points
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Olivia is one of the more authentic pop Stars we have. You can tell she actually LIKES the music she makes. Or the genre at the very least. So if she loves making that kind of music then she should stick to it.13 points
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this forum is stuck in the past... they still make threads about xtina or katy like it's 2011, you think they wouldn't use an outdated term?13 points
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Aww but it's easy to get them sex offender criminals mixed up cause Minaj is surrounded by them13 points
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Even if it was about Doja, it's weird to call someone a user just because they denied a collab. Doja asked Nicki to be on TWO songs on Planet HER but Nicki denied it because she "didn't feel like she could add anything to it" and then Doja denied a collab with Nicki because she wasn't in the headspace for that song, well more so "she was in a new era". So Nicki's excuse is valid, but Doja's is BS? Nicki really walks around like female rappers owe her their life as if they also couldn't have worked hard, had their own struggles, and prayed to God for their success.13 points
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She's literally one of the most annoying people out there. Nicki get the f*ck outta here with that lame as*s accent13 points
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Well Xtina IS bigger than Beyonce... just not when it comes to music12 points
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