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Sabrina is more successful. The other, in my opinion, is more impactful in that her career and her art is more unique. Chappell has done a lot in terms of normalizing queer stories in pop music. I’ve been in sports bars with dance floors and I’ve seen dude bros lose their minds and dance to Pink Piny Club, a song about finding home in a queer club dancing with drag queens. That’s an insane cultural achievement. I also think Chappell’s aesthetic and sense of voice in her music is going to have more impact long term. It’s great that Sabrina finally found her stride to carve a successful lane for herself. But, I think that Chappell’s lane she created is so special and unique that it feels more impactful to me. We’ll see over time though.

The tweet in the OP isn’t showing up for me. So I’m gonna pretend there’s misinterpretation happening somewhere.

We have no clue that this is what was said; Kelly never even claims this was said. Regardless, most people would be happy to see a cheaper alternative to an item they’re interested in. In this economy, the offense to being offered a cheap alternative is a rich people thing.

"Michael loved children." I don't entirely disagree. I just think he "loved" them a bit more than appropriate.

Of course. It’s genuinely absurd to say someone who has written so many fantastic songs isn’t talented. Is she a talented vocalist? No. Is she a talented dancer? No. But, she’s better than the average person (by a wide margin) when it comes to singing; she can play several instruments; and she has a unique ability to craft landscapes with her lyrics that many artists need other armies of other songwriters to emulate. That requires talent. It might not be the right package of talent to meet your subjective standard for taste, but it is still objectively a package of talent.

I don’t eat Chick Fil A anymore either, but I agree. I find companies that pretend to be allies and sell pride merch only to then donate to anti-LGBTQ politicians to be immeasurably worse.

I don’t think anyone being offered a $2,000 bird is assumed to be poor. But feel free to run with your own interpretation.

I appreciate that they are able to read the room and are shifting their rhetoric on this matter (albeit, very mildly, since they refuse to call it a “genocide”). However, look towards 2028, Kamala has disqualified herself on this issue when it comes to that election. Kamala had every opportunity to say genocide was bad during her 2024 presidential campaign. She, instead, chose to say that being a strong ally to Israel is a top concern, led the DNC to disallow a pro-Kamala Palestinian delegate to speak in favor of her at the 2024 DNC in Chicago, had her campaign practice racial profiling by kicking out Muslim Americans from campaign events for fear they might call to Free Palestine, and she chose to say she will ensure we "have the most lethal fighting force in history" while children were being torn apart in Gaza with American weapons. She mode those choices. That history is there; we cannot change it. But, she must also sit with the consequences of those bad decisions. I welcome this sign that the tides are shifting. But, Kamala has patently demonstrated that she cannot be trusted on this issue. If feeble, deeply hated Joe Biden was too intimidating for her to take the moral stance against genocide in 2024, then she will fold to take that moral stance under any pressure.

Have you been to a furniture store? Furniture pieces that are on display have price tags but that does not mean the furniture pieces on display can go home with you. You have to put in an order and wait for it to arrive. The bird automaton is no different; the price tag refers to a replica that is for sale but is not located at the store. This is not complicated.

Enchanted is literal magic. That one wins for me by a wide margin. I would put The Cure in second place. I really did not click with HMHAS when it dropped two years ago. It's grown on me and I can appreciate it now—I love listening to it on my vinyl player. But the only song I really love as a standalone song is BOAF; every other song really only clicks for me within the context of listening to the album in full. CHIHIRO basically just feels like a vibe song that heavily depends on its production to carry the sparse lyrics within the context of the album. So, the song—on its own—feels pretty lacking to me.

America has killed millions of people across the world in order to maintain its empire; the Iraq War alone resulted in the death of a million Iraqis. Pulling a single example of radical religious rule (which America also does; see the laws being passed that call for the death penalty for women who seek an abortion) doesn’t magically outdo that terror.

Oh we will be streaming!

Kelly is my literal fave and I think this whole thing is embarrassing and she shouldn’t have dusted off her inactive Twitter account to feud with a small business.

Maybe this is the comparable item the employee offered her?

I love Kelly. She’s the only artist I’ve truly stanned… but they ended her with their statement. This whole thing is embarrassing and it’s a shame she spent all that time to go through the “forgot your password?” protocol for her Twitter account to start this nonsense.

Prison staff should be around a criminal because that is literally the job description. There is nothing pragmatic about giving the government legal authority to murder someone. You go on to say I’m comparing this to the children’s competition in the Hunger Games… No, dear, I am comparing a live execution to the live execution the evil Capitol government did throughout the books.

Study after study show that the death penalty does not deter crime. This line of thinking is juvenile and barbaric. Try to evolve beyond supporting the actions of the Capitol in the Hunger Games.

Janet and Kelly. Where is Avril..?

I know this might look uniquely bad... But, this is the natural conclusion of the death penalty. When you say the government has a legal right to murder (including its own citizens), then why wouldn't it be live-streamed? Is the issue that the murder should be done privately in the shadows or is the problem the murder itself? I'd argue it's no better or no worse when the government murders someone in the shadows or in the daylight. The government should never have the right to murder anyone. The death penalty needs to be completely dismantled.

It is a good thing that people are able to maintain a standard against someone even as promising (for a politician) as Mamdani. It is good that the Left doesn’t engage in the same brand of hero worship as MAGA does with Trump.

Reminder that Ann Selzer shouldn’t have ever been taken that seriously because singular polls mean nothing. Aggregates are really all that matter. Ann Selzer, regardless of her past record, should have never gotten the hype and fixation she got in 2024 when it was a literal outlier.

Thinking the Muslim man is uniquely and existentially threatening for Jewish Americans is bigotry, yes.

Black people are people and all people are capable of practicing bad judgment and resorting to bigotry. Placing Black people on a pedestal where you tokenize their racial identity for political expedience is... racist.

I love Tortured Poets. Evermore and Red are my favorite albums from her and Tortured Poets is like the child of those two albums specifically: it’s meandering, it’s devastated, it’s sprawling, it’s embarrassingly confessional, and it’s emotional throughout. Despite it easily being her most inaccessible album because of how in the trenches of the lore it is, I still think it’s a career highlight.