Achilles.
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Pop Emergency: Taylor's TLOAS departs the UK Album charts after only 47 weeks.
Gone was any trace of TLOAS I think the UK is finally clean
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Favorite MILEY lead single?
Mileybu Mother's Daughter Midnight Sky Can't Be Tamed See You Again Bass Persuades End of the World 7 Things Flowers Party in the USA We Can't Stop Dooo It
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Is Blake Slatkin the worst thing to happen to popular music in the last decade?
Morgan Wallen?
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Rate Signup Thread: The RE-UP
@Ace Reject i know we've kinda talked about this a bit in the past without anything coming of it, but it's kinda time to actually do something for Dolly. A full discography rate is impossible given the overwhelming abundance of material and a singles rate wouldn't fully capture the range and greatness of her catalog, so my proposal would be a rate of 150 songs selected from across her albums, a mix of singles and deep cuts. Where it gets sticky is… Do we focus solely on her individual material, or do we include the Trio and Porter Wagoner stuff too? Maybe just 10-15 songs total from the collab work? I wouldn't be ready to launch it just yet; even as a stan, there are still what feels like dozens of albums I haven't heard yet (and that's without accounting for thirteen ******* Porter Wagoner collab albums) and I really do want to listen to them all to make sure nothing gets overlooked in compiling a song list for a rate. But I'd like to do it sometime in the coming months.
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Jessie Ware: The Discography Rate
Oh, I'll try to do this. WYP? is one of the few great pop records of the decade. Can't say I cared much for the two after it, though. Will be my first time checking out the first three! I will also be looking up this The Way We Were cover that we're apparently not rating.
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Miley - "Bass Persuades"
Wow she looks gorgeous in the video. That cinematography! That editing! That direction! Best video I've seen in a long while.
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Complex: Top 26 Best Actors In Their 20s
Elle Fanning easily has the best career of anyone on this list, but it's baffling to consider her (or Hailee Steinfeld) "rising stars" considering the depth of their resumes.
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Forbes predicts the 2027 Grammys frontrunners
It's gonna be AOTY: Dean vs Kahan vs Bridgers SOTY: Langley vs Dean (vs Kahan / Swift) ROTY: Langley vs Dean (vs Raye / Swift) BNA: Langley
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Troye Sivan - 'She's The Best'
He put out a collab with that person back in 2021. If those are the options it better be Madonna. He can't handle a Celine collab and Sia is atrocious.
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Troye Sivan - 'She's The Best'
If that was meant to be an easter egg, Madonna, Celine, and Sia have songs called incredible…
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An AI-generated song is very close to reaching #1 on the UK chart
We simply need hitful Olivia to stay at #1 a bit longer.
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Ridley Scott blames Paul Mescal for Gladiator II & felt he wasn't masculine enough
Him saying this as if he didn't personally choose Mescal. People do the absolute most about Paul's performance anyhow. I thought he was fine and I can't really think of anyone who we could say for sure would've been better. The real problem was the screenplay and that's an issue no matter who you cast.
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Hot 100: Choosin' Texas #1x20, 2nd longest-running #1, Dolly Parton takeover
196 debut for Brandon Flowers
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Jonathan Bailey also drops out of 'Sunday in the Park with George'
It's like nobody wants to work anymore.
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Millennial MPGs and their most-streamed songs - rank from best to worst.
Someone Like You 10/10 We Found Love 10/10 Cruel Summer 8/10 Halo 8/10 Summertime Sadness Die With a Smile Toxic Dark Horse 7 Rings
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LA Times: Owen Thiele and Jack Innanen revived the classic TV slow-burn romance
"Reviving" the slow burn romance as if it didn't take Janine and Gregory 50 episodes to get together, a mere two years ago.
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Madonna - CONFESSIONS II - The Album Survivor - Round 8 (pg. 24)
SAVE Betrayal Everything OFF I Feel So Free Love Without Words
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Dolly Parton has died, aged 80
I was first introduced to Dolly as a kid through the combo of "When I Get Where I'm Going" and her Hannah Montana cameos. Sometime during my college years, I bought one of her greatest hits compilations and started following her new releases beginning with Blue Smoke. Every now and then, for whatever reason, a few new catalog songs would find their way into my library; I have no recollection of how I discovered a deep cut like "Robert" in 2016, but it's been a favorite ever since. While I started getting more into her catalog when I switched over to streaming at the end of the 2010s, it wasn't until 2024 that I began my proper deep dive into her albums; if the list I kept at the time is correct, I had heard 19 of her 46 non-holiday studio albums by the end of that year. It was a very rewarding experience; every album I played had at least a few songs I fell utterly in love with. And there weren't really any true duds (I'm never touching the post-9/11 "god and country" mess or her children's album). The vastness of her discography means that there will be more songs to discover for a long time to come. I've checked out six more albums for the first time this week and I just keep liking more and more songs. Her pen was kinda unmatched in both quantity and quality. Nobody writes quite like her—the humor and heart; the abundance of class consciousness and soft feminism; the empowerment and spirituality; the way she wrote with so much nostalgia for her home and upbringing, but never shied away from the harsher truths about those things; the unexpected turns of some of her storytelling (she has multiple songs where the narrator commits suicide! multiple songs from the perspective of sex workers! multiple songs about swingers! a song about orphans committing arson and murder!). And despite being such a fantastic and prolific songwriter, she never hesitated to record great material by other writers; Donna Summer became the first black woman to write a country #1 hit because of her and she recorded the song whose royalties probably paid for Kesha's musical education—and those were just the singles from one album! Then there's the Rockstar of it all… Another thing I've noticed is that she has a fair number of songs that seem to reuse or interpolate her own melodies from other songs—which does not have to be credited because she's the sole writer on the material, and which rarely seems to be commented on? But like… listen to "A Cowboy's Ways" and "Try." Several such cases. Also love her tendency to rerecord her own catalog songs if she felt they suited a new project; love how 1970's "My Blue Tears" got a bluegrass treatment in 2001 and a rock remake in 2024 and works any which way. Can't even start to list my favorite songs, my "liked songs" folder is well past a hundred entries and I've only heard like… half of her discography, really. If she hadn't been there, where would we be?
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What was the last pop era that genuinely felt unavoidable?
I'm kinda thinking SOS? I guess Showgirl was arguably unavoidable, but that's only really true of the era as a whole for a week or two around the album's release; outside of that it was just radio airplay and relationship discourse that had little to do with the album/era. Disagree with Doja Cat. I have never even heard a song by her so she wasn't unavoidable.
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Poll: Jon Ossoff would knock Harris, Newsom from path to POTUS in 2028
I love that top 3.
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Nashville International Airport to be renamed after Dolly Parton
Why stop there? I saw that he said some **** about renaming the atlantic ocean… Partonic Ocean sounds cute.
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Nashville International Airport to be renamed after Dolly Parton
Tennessee tried to build a statue of her a year or two ago and she declined the honor. I think she said something along the lines of "maybe in a few years" or "after I'm gone." So that'll probably come soon too.
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The HQ Thread | 2026
Bring back Dolly. Trump lowered flags for a whole week for her. Are we really gonna let his tribute last longer than ours?