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Well she's dead so this will be the last of her speaking on the matter76 points
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A smash musical, not everybody has that these days36 points
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Oh I'm so glad to see that some MPG films will do well this year31 points
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They should also publicly call out TikTok for not having any fact check options present under posts. That place has easily surpassed Facebook as THEE way misinformation spreads. They make Elon Musk's Twitter look it has journalistic standards atp30 points
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This is like the second or third time he fantasizes about her getting killed. This man is vile27 points
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Just Dance LoveGame Paparazzi Poker Face Bad Romance Telephone Alejandro Born This Way Judas The Edge of Glory Bloody Mary Applause Million Reasons Shallow Always Remember Us This Way Rain On Me Die With A Smile27 points
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Her team is so smart that they decided to release a companion album to this flop film and ended up as her lowest charting album ever, right?24 points
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He is absolutely revolting to me. I would genuinely feel relief if we all found out he had terminal cancer tomorrow. I think he's the only person on the planet who I can say that about.21 points
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I find this believable. Imagine dating Madonna, Brooke Shields, and Lisa Marie but settling to have kids with Debbie Rowe, instead. No shade to Debbie21 points
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Welcome fellow ATRL users! Since the Britney-Army's been kinda dead lately and we desperately need something to discuss, I thought it'd be a nice idea to talk about Britney's scrapped album that was in the works right before Glory, which some of you might know by the fan-coined name "Pretty World", a project that was set to be released in summer of 2015, but never came to fruition. Let's go! First of all, let's contextualize things and pinpoint some people that will be relevant during the thread: Let's pick things up from the Britney Jean era, everything is a hot mess, a mess hotter than the sun! Britney has virtually no control over her life, nor music, and decides to actively boycott herself in every concievable way, purposely singing horribly on the studio to make her takes unusable and delay an album with a direction that she didn't enjoy (which led to the infamous Myah disaster, all a desperate attempt to have some new material ready as a tool to promote her upcoming Piece Of Me Residency). Who were those in charge of handling this hellhole of an era, if not Britney, you might ask? Well, the executive producer of the album, Will.i.am (Who will be spared from more lashings from my behalf) and most importantly, the A&Rs, who were Adam Leber, Larry Rudolph (Her two managers) and the often overlooked Rani Hancock (Keep her name in mind, we'll get back to her in a second or two). So, to sum things up, Britney's career is in the trenches from an artistic and commercial standpoint, which led to her people thinking "What is the most profitable thing she can do from now on?", question that was quickly answered by the mindblowing success of the Piece Of Me Las Vegas Residency, causing a complete shift of their priorities, focusing on her Las Vegas show over any new music related project, a lesson they learnt from Myah Jean's lukewarm sales and all the difficulties caused by B herself during the recording of the album; so in a certain way, she accomplished what she wanted, with no more forced studio sessions for another pre-fabricated album, despite being stuck in Vegas doing a show she wasn't enjoying at the time. Now, time for a little timeskip all the way to the middle of 2014. Britney, being the unpredictable icon she is, decides all by herself that she wants to make new music, but in her own terms and without a defined deadline, and RCA, her label, not having anything to lose since they weren't planing on doing much promotion anyway, greenlights her proposal and assigns her one of their A&Rs for this new project, can you guess who? Exactly, Rani Hancock! So let's see what she's all about... As I just stated, Rani was one of the A&Rs of RCA at the time, who had quite an insane streak of hit albums at the time, with As I Am by Alicia Keys followed by Kesha's Animal, Cannibal and Warrior, Adam Lambert's Trespassing, Miley's Bangerz and Hilary Duff's This Heart that would soon become Breathe In Breathe Out. Hilary's project apparently stuck with her, as she was the one who linked Britney and Duff's husband, Matthew Koma, together, and his tracks were some of the ones that she recorded first. According to Britney, the project's recording process began on september 5th of 2014, right after a Writing Camp was held to write material both for Britney and surprisingly also Ariana Grande, which funnily enough also ended up being for a scrapped 2015 album called Moonlight. After gathering some material from these sources (One of the songs born from that writing retreat was Liar), the main producers involved at the time along with Komma were Rock Mafia and The Invisible Men, as she had many sessions with them, and fun fact, they had Charli XCX making some demos for Britney as well! Despite all of this, she wasn't impressed with Rani's work, and two years later, in 2016, expressed that the A&R system she had going on at the time wasn't doing it for her. Even with a disfunctional A&R, the album was developing quickly, and the lead single of it was recorded in the september sessions; and yes, I'm talking about no other than PRETTY GIRLS, whose existence was confirmed as early as in december of 2014 by none other than Iggy Iggs, along with other collabs she did with her that we still don't know about, also, around that time, Tom's Diner was recorded for Giorgio Moroder's album. Months after, in March of 2015 Azalea was yet again the one who confirmed Pretty Girls would be the first single of Britney's upcoming album; despite the skepticism that this claim recieves from the fandom, the tune really got such treatment, with an old fashioned rollout featuring a web redesign with brand new vectors and an unused personalized font, a live performance at an award show (which she hadn't done since 2011), special ubers playing the song in exclusive through L.A to create hype, a spot in her Las Vegas how's setlist and intensive radio play, which is basically the same treatment, if not better than Make Me's. The bulk of the album was actually recorded during the first months four months of 2015, and despite being first conceptualized by Brit as a Pop-Rock project, it quickly leaned into Bubblegum Pop, and as if that wasn't surprising enough Britney wanted to dip her Lousiana lily-white toes into PC Music and record the SOPHIE-penned track When I Rule The World, which sadly never happened bc of that girl who shall not be mentioned! The album was set to be released in summer of 2015 a few months after Pretty Girls, as the production was almost wrapped up by the time of it's release in may, but after Britney became aware of it's tankery and all the hate it got made her self-concious (If only Katy Perry had these levels of self awareness...) and decided to switch things up by hiring a brand new A&R, Karen Kwak, to start over with different producers; which is kind of a similar situation as the of Femme Fatale when Teresa LaBarbera Whites, who was her A&R at the time, left Jive right before the planned release of the album back in August of 2010, taking with her many songwriters that were working for Britney and basically granting full control of the project to Max Martin and Dr. Luke since the new A&R Peter Thea was (and still is) a nobody, no shade. So! June of 2015 is where the story of the B9 1.0 ends and the one of Glory begins, how poetic! Sadly, we don't have a confirmed tracklist nor the working title of the album, but we know that at least over 20 songs were specifically recorded for this album, as she stated she recorded over 50 tracks for Glory and the sessions prior to it, which out of those 50 only 20 of them were released, and from those 20 songs we surely know that two of them belonged to the B9 sessions (Pretty Girls and Swimming In The Stars). #Maths To conclude, I'd like to point out that this project, even if scrapped and probably sort of messy, showed that Britney still had that passion for music flowing through her veins and an unbreakable spirit that was still deep inside of her despite 4 lethargic years of hazy numbness in her life; and proves that even at your lowest, when you least expect it, a muse comes and whispers in your ear: "It's Britney Bjtch!" just to remind you of who you really are.20 points
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GLASER: […] How much do you pay attention to what is being said about you online? LOPEZ: I've been doing this a very long time, I hate to admit. I like to think that I'm still 16, but I'm not. GLASER: You look it. LOPEZ: [Laughs] I know that everything that's being written and said about me, and all the conjecture of who I am as a person, is not who I am. I learned that a long time ago. And social media, because it came along after I had been in the public eye for a while, I don't take it as seriously as everybody else. I know I'm a good person. I know I'm a good mom. I know who my friends are. I know my friends know who I am, my mom, my dad, all that stuff. If you hope to have a long career, you have to learn how to deal with that part of the business. Some people are going to love you and some are not going to understand you, and some people just want to hate you to hate you, and none of that really matters. What matters for me, as an artist, is doing work that inspires me and that I enjoy doing, whether it's a huge commercial success or something that only touches one person that nobody ever ******* even sees. It doesn't matter. This is my life's passion. I love to sing. I love to dance. I love to act. I love to entertain. I love to create. And anything anybody could say about me—and please don't get me wrong, if I see something that's hurtful, I'm not Teflon. GLASER: Right. LOPEZ: Somebody who is going to take the time to make a video just to jump on that thing—how can I pay attention to that when I have these beautiful kids and all this amazing stuff going on in my life? I can't. Even in hard times, I just go, "You know the truth." Head high. Like they said in Finding Nemo: Keep on swimming. https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/jennifer-lopez-tells-nikki-glaser-how-a-turbulent-summer-changed-her20 points
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So you don't believe that Beyoncé personally sabotaged Aaliyah's airplane engine?19 points
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There's something very rare about this song. There's something in it that makes it remarkable on first listen, and on the 1000th listen. It appeals to maybe the widest demographic of any song in a long time - loved by anyone from literal children to highbrow critics, from gym bros to grandmas. It doesn't follow trends or borrow heavily from the past either, it's innovative yet classic. I wouldn't be surprised at all if it ends up the most streamed song ever, or at least the most streamed female song.18 points
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her 5$ will feed many people in need while your dumb post is costing resources on the atrl server. perspective!17 points
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One broke boundaries, while the other made people broke.17 points
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She knows and I know she knows17 points
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Disgusting. Won't suffer any consequences because he is a billionaire. If she wins she should prosecute him and send him to jail. I am sure he has done enough bad things to warrant jail time.16 points
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B1 OT ECAR 35 yaD (122.987.01+) 336.846.645 deriuqer egareva yliaD (374.54+) 257.242.8 tfel syad 5516 points
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And that's probably a million times more entertaining than whatever Austin, Jaime Ochoa, Eric (Alex's Friend) and many others had to endure in their seats before asking for refunds16 points
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Supposedly Beyoncé was powerful enough at age 20 to cause Aaliyah's plane crash. I mean she probably killed her in person then parachuted out afterwards while smoking a cigar on the way down.16 points
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Imagine spreading your legs for this monster Grimes girl15 points
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The endless moral handwringing over Kamala's basic political manoeuvring from people who know and follow politics every day is tired as hell. She is going to give a never-Trumper Vererans Affairs or another relatively bipartisan position. It will make absolutely no meaningful difference to her administration and is all part of her effort to win midwestern ticket splitters. Yell about any actually impactful and bad decisions, like if she fires Lina from FTC chair or something. On the 'run right' - yes, she is running more aggressively moderate than Biden or Hillary, particulary on immigration. Does that reflect Kamala being a secret conservative all along? No. It reflects her pragmatism, openness to change, the times and the reactionary nature of the 2024 electorate. She is playing defence for an unpopular administration and she is also aware of the fact that she will not have the senate to pass any big change anyway. Why commit to a big policy that will be attacked and fearmongered about by Republicans when there is no chance she can pass it anyway? It doesn't take much to understand why the campaign is making the decisions it is making. It wants to win. You can disagree with the strategy - I do too in places, like her embargo position - but enough with the moralising and the disingenuous implications that Kamala is a secret raging right winger.15 points
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I think she should announce the single at least a week before it releases. DWAS/Harlequin was cute for side projects but this needs to be hyped up. Everyone needs to know it's coming. Give us the title, then the cover, then snippets, then mv teasers. All of it!15 points
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She went in harder than I do at the local glory hole, and that kind of dedication resulted in the best song on the standard version I said what I said15 points
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/can-lady-gagas-acting-career-recover-from-joker-folie-a-deux-flop15 points
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