St. Charles

Her first albums were genuinely innovative and interesting enough to not get slammed by critics. Her albums after Artpop, like everyone else, benefitted from poptimism.

I feel like the issue with statements like this is that they're clearly made to get attention or go viral on Twitter with "say THAT king" / "louder for those in the back" and attract controversy. Meanwhile it allows other people to twist and spin the narrative because the statement is so vague and un-nuanced. Then inevitably you have to backtrack and explain what you "actually meant" when you could have opened with that in the first place.

I love bjork and she's my fav artist but I didn't care for utopia and her latest was unlistenable. But I liked medulla and Volta + Vulnicura. OT: I'm sorry, but poptimism. There's no way we live in a world where Tate McRae's latest album gets above a 70. That and Carly Rae Jepsen's music. She seems sweet but the hype around emotion was kinda overdone, even though I'm sure she deserves the success. Olivia's music feels really middle school just like Taylor's, and I'm surprised you can be a 25+ gay male and relate to either. She again seems really nice though so I don't dislike her and hope she continues making music.

I thought this was for a song. Damn.

This is off topic and not meant in an offensive way, but she looks albino here. I didn't realize she was that pale.

She only received 3.85 streams? DMF should pick up the pace instead of making threads all day.

What happens in ~18 months when this person is gone and none of the people can use MAGA/Trump anymore? Do they know how to do anything else? The more they post stuff like this, the more desperate they look. Time is running out pretty quickly.

On ATRL we like to pretend the average person has the memory of a goldfish, so no.

Just curious though, because there's been two different things happening. The first is that the House is recognizing the Spanish-administered settlements in Africa belong to Morocco. That is a first, and I'm not sure about why there's a sudden change in strategy there. It very well may have been retaliation towards Spain's I-P stance. But the other is that we paid 40m to Morocco to have this happen. This report seems like it is the foreign aid / national security report that would be published every year. https://foreignassistance.gov/cd/morocco/0/2026/obligations From this link, it looks like we regularly give Morocco an average of about 80M dollars annually over the last decade or so. So I'm not sure if the monetary part is a valid hypothesis, as this is not outside of the norm. Let me know if I'm missing something though. Also I don't think it makes sense to say "money was given" because hasn't this not been passed yet and therefore no money administered or obligated? And the original tweet says "sitting inside of a bill funding Israel", but if you read some of the tables of content in the report, it includes the breakdown of funding for all countries and regions… So the way the account phrased it is odd and just makes me wonder if they are more interested in constructing a narrative than anything when half of these facts are very mundane.

I can't tell if it was because this was right before Covid (I think?) but it feels like this song got banished and I haven't thought about it in a long time.

I personally liked The Cure more

It's Peter Gabriel coded

She already went #1 and had the biggest debut week of the year. I think most people would be happy with that and move on.

That honestly sounded better than I thought it would

Her music all seems to be so extremely reactionary. Like everything is "**** the haters! you're all delusional! i'm unbothered! i'm keeping my peace! my face hurts from smiling! i'm such a *****! i'm the problem!" If anything I think this is what turned a lot of people off along with the dancers situation.