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Quite happy that the singles were mostly red herrings (especially on the night side — Don't Leave Me on the Dance Floor might be in her all-time bottom 5). Very nice album. Mother.

Boring

This post, while technically true, doesn't really apply to the actual debate here, and could just as well be used as a defense of Pink, Ed Sheeran, or Debra Messing. Almost nobody in the American mainstream supports genocide (at least not publicly), but the discourse is still heavily shaped by bad actors still framing the mass casualties at Israel's hands as tragic collateral damage of necessary military retaliation against Hamas. Yes, it's all bull****, but Western news media by and large are still not calling it a genocide, nor are most American politicians. Whether Gaga supports genocide in general is not seriously being debated here. What's being debated is whether Gaga is sticking her head in the sand, willfully ignorant of or turning a blind eye to reality so as not to alienate future paying customers or concert bookers or whatever the case may be. And given that Gaga has in the past given her unequivocal support to Israel, it's not unreasonable to question whether she still maintains that position. I can forgive her for not knowing in 2013 Israel's already long list of crimes against the Palestinian people (I didn't know either), back when calling for a Free Palestine was still a relatively fringe position and the entire western media apparatus still had a firm lid on criticism of Israel. But the cat's out of the bag now, and the only people who don't know there's a genocide are people who don't want to.

I mean she probably is or at least was but at least she (assuming she even has a meaningful amount of input in these selections) seems moveable, or at least not Pink levels of militant. This thread is celebrating like the absolute bare minimum. This could have been seen as a bold thing to do like four years ago back when Dua Lipa was getting nominated for "Antisemite of the Year" for calling to save Sheikh Jarrah, but the public sentiment and Overton Window have moved so much that this barely even qualifies as lip service.

ahdhshdhhd this is so cathartic. Good for all of them.

Clock that tea. The Scooter-abetted narrative that Carly didn't hit her creative stride until she got out from under the weight of Call Me Maybe and started working with "critically acclaimed producers" or whatever is so ahistorical. Kiss is and always has been heavenly

Being horrible has always been her calling card tbh, that's the P!nkprint. She'll learn nothing from any of this blowback.

It's giving JLo playing Selena Q and becoming a bigger star in the process

It's an epidemic, the girls are scared to write bridges now for some reason

probably the best song of the era so far if only because of the production

Yes, I think so. That's a very good point. It's not really their hit at all at that point. It's the songwriter's and producer's.

Damn. This is even worse than Tove Lo.

She wants to be Carly so bad. Understandable though. Very noble pursuit.

Very sad. Only one good song here and it's from the one artist who has seemingly retired.

Oh no, not Giles