Gaia
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The way the thread title was swiftly updated when it was positive but always takes hours/days when it's negative
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Obama still has a LOT of influence in the democratic party.
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Neon is cute but idk I don't think its that far off from aespa already. It's not revolutionary or anything for everyone to be gagged like this
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Taylor is smart and calculated. She does what she needs to do for the records she wants. Would she release exclusive music videos on Apple Music and Spotify if it didn't inflate her numbers now that YouTube doesn't count for BB? No. But you'd think she's big enough to not need such tactics. Would she release 30 variants of an album if it didn't inflate her numbers by millions? No. Some variants have some actual thought behind them even if I disagree with incentivizing bulk buying. Midnights needing 4 albums to complete the "clock" at least made it somewhat of a theme. TLOAS was literally throwing nonsense variants that had no vision. They were solely for sales with 0 artistic vision behind them. Even if the album was universally panned, it would not crater like it did if its first week sales were natural. The issue is we don't know what natural looks like for Taylor anymore because she always does shenanigans her first weeks
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I will boycott if Madison/Evelynn is not involved
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I'm just hoping this turns the industry away from STILL making NJ copycats. No one is going to do it like them. It's time to move on to new images. I'm over everyone doing y2k hoping for a Nj moment
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Why is this group smashing out the gate. Did not know Korea was still perched for LSM like that
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No more Monday updates by swifties to prove it's a hit?
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Do you think this is a natural progression? Midnights (2022) - 1.6M -> TTPD (2024) - 2.6M -> TLOAS (2025) - 4M You think Taylor Swift's fanbase (despite getting no smash hit from TTPD) nearly doubled in one year between TTPD and TLOAS? You could argue yeah, even with its excessive variants and tracks, TTPD was released in her peak / eras tour so at least it seemed warranted even if we knew she was pulling excessive variants. But nothing occurred between TTPD and TLOAS that would justify that spike outside of variants and tactics. Mind you, it's now been almost a year and she has not even doubled her opening week numbers yet. Her having the record for highest first week is a joke. It took 30 versions of her album. Adele managed to debut with 3M+ and you knew it was genuine because she had multiple other weeks at 1M+ and was at like 8M by the end of 2015. No one is saying Taylor Swift is not successful. But her achievements are overstated because she always pulls shenanigans. Additionally, no one cares if you debut a song at 30M streams if its at 3M streams in 3 weeks. TLOAS streams are pathetic considering its opening week numbers
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Meovv is giving 2ne1 in a good way
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I think this all just entertaining because Taylor's chart manipulation tactics are very obvious and her fans ALWAYS try and act like we have no proof that her tactics are the reason for her success. It was VERY obvious the jump the first week was from the music video exclusivity on Spotify and Apple Music and her fans were acting like the song was just smashing Now here we are with the song already out of Top 10 and likely out of Top 20 next week. Luckily she has her remaining shenanigans of physical sales to keep her #1 on the hot 100 but this is why her achievements don't mean anything. They're all fabricated and bought. A tactic here or there is fine even at her status, but EVERY release being riddled with manipulation is just crazy. Even IKIIKY. Charting Top 1-3 despite being in the 60s on AM and Spotify show her team was pulling strings there too. But because Billboard allows it she's going to keep going. The fact that she's had what, 4 hot 100 #1 hits this year? And the only one that felt like one was Ophelia.
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The fact that this is gonna fall behind The one that got away, Die with a smile, Man I Need, and likely even training season in the next week or two
