Navyboy20

Because producers in the 2000s were like fine dining chefs. They were in the kitchen cooking with FRESH ingredients trying to create something INNOVATIVE AND NEW. Asking them to go back in the past is like asking a chef to go in the back of the freezer and reheat some old nachos in the microwave. Of course it wont taste as good.

Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliviashalhoup/2026/09/30/tinashes-popstar-rollout-shows-an-artist-operating-at-her-peak/ "Tinashe's Popstar has arrived, and it is shaping up to be one of the most consequential pop releases of the year"

Spent time this weekend arguing with long-time Tinashe stans on why Popstar was clearly her best album and they were NOT having it. Interesting to see the disconnect but I knew on first listen it was one of the best albums of the year. Sunglasses blew me away right out of the gate

Yall let Addison Rae and Rebecca Black have careers in music. Manon is an easy lay up.

We should all purchase Tinashe's album as a form of resistance to Taylor's reign. We will not be silenced

I mean she's an entertainer. Most of her day is in rehearsals and vocal lessons not keeping up with global affairs. She's just doing what she believes is the best thing to do with the information she has presented before her (usually from Tik Tok )

Knowing how much she's exploited by everyone around here, I will not be supporting this… or anything related unless she's deeply involved, which doesn't seem to be the case here

Is English your second language?

Disgusting but unfortunatley in today's world they're about to become incredibly wealthy very soon

Well thats one way to market to the album I cant even be mad, Dolly probably told her to do it before she crossed over

RIP Dolly P

Earring in her tongue and she know what to do with it

Face and Feet cards so lethal I didnt even notice he's fully clothed

Oh no, not boring

Like Mother like daughter

9 minutes until I can stream it. I wasnt expecting to be this excited

She had the girls fuming Paula Abdullah

GGGB was Rih's 3rd album and this is her second album

If Matthew Knowles was still running the show, Beyoncé would be working nonstop. She'd be promoting singles 24/7, doing interviews, making TikToks, and chasing every chart. She'd probably have like 25 No. 1 hits and 10 billion Spotify streams every era. But she'd also probably be on Instagram dancing with knives in her kitchen by now like Britney Spears. I honestly think Beyoncé made a conscious choice to protect her peace instead of chasing numbers nobody's gonna care about in a few years. She'd rather work at her own pace and make the art she wants than burn herself out trying to figure out how to hack the algorithm in 2026. And the reason I say nobody's gonna care about these numbers in a few years is because the industry is constantly changing. Beyoncé already had insane success in the 2000s, but now people act like none of those physical sales matter because streaming took over. So now we're supposed to believe that billions of passive streams, driven by playlists and algorithms, are somehow more meaningful than a million people actually getting in their cars, driving to Target on release day, and buying your album? Yeah, right. If the metrics keep changing every few years, why spend your whole life chasing them? I'd opt out too.

The worst thing the music industry ever did was create streaming-equivalent album units. There is no universe where streaming an album or song 1,500 times is the same achievement as someone physically buying an album. Sales and streams should be tracked separately. These newer artists are absolutely breaking streaming records, and that deserves recognition, but what artists like Whitney and Mariah accomplished in the '90s required people to literally leave their homes and spend $12 or more on an album. That can't really be replicated in the streaming era. I'm happy for Ella Langley and the records she's breaking, just like I was for Shaboozey and Lil Nas X. They're just completely different achievements from completely different generations. Both can be impressive without pretending they're directly comparable.

Now do the tour numbers which actually reflects demand

Thats tragic but Im still trying to understand how the heat resulted in 40 drownings. Is it so hot that its driving people that cant swim into the ocean/pool?

Well he has 3 trending threads on ATRL right now. I cant think of any other critic that can do that