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You can tell from the lack of maintenance on the music section of the site, that Metacritic don't care about music reviews. The only reason they keep posting reviews scores, is because stans post links to Metacritic reviews on social media. This happens because of weighting factors that make the Metacritic reviews scores higher than AOTY and others. To get a good aggregate score on Metacritic, you need good scores from a small bunch of publications that include: Pitchfork Rolling Stone New York Times (a publication best known for being cheerleaders for a genocide). These publications have all had some questionable reviews, and NYT don't even post a numerical review score, yet somehow they can have a major impact on the final Metacritic aggregate review score. No one should take Metacritic scores too seriously, but stans will continue to quote Metacritic because they tend to have a higher number attached. OT - Fantano has never given Lorde a great review and probably never will. But he is just one reviewer/youtuber and the AOTY score uses a fairer system than Metacritic. This site is also good: http://anydecentmusic.com - and they don't include fantano review scores. But stans won't quote that one either, because Metacritic scores tend to be higher.

Why not, do I have to mention other singers in my post when other people in this tread have already pointed out the obvious? Also, there was a video in the post I replied to and I had seen the video more than a year ago and was amused by some of the Swifties who had insisted it was all live, or that he had chosen the wrong song or some other excuse.

She wrote about having so many doubts at the time. This was in one of the NZ news sites, and I think it was just a day or two before the Melodrama album release. https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2017/06/lordes-difficult-second-record/

What you have to understand is that everyone in this thread already knew most singers are doing it, so you don't need to reply to everyone to tell them.

I remember that video, the Swifties complained and asked him to look at different songs, so he did a follow up video showing that most of the Eras tour was pre-recorded and the parts that weren't were using live autotune. Edit: actually it was two follow up videos:

They can be a bit hit and miss, but I'm not going to get angry with them. However, Metacritic should stop using their weighting formula that puts more weight on reviews by Pitchfork, Rolling Stone and New York Times (who don't even post a score) and a few others, when all of these publications have posted some very questionable reviews/review scores at times.

Four times so far for GSC apparently.

After the backlash, maybe it will be Tyson Trax or another name in the production team.

This is what I want to know, because Miley is signed with Crush Music for management, and they often arrange for their artists to distribute though Atlantic.

There is a common misconception that all datacenters are the same, but this is not the case. In a traditional datacenter, there might be a database and in most systems, some type of web interface where you request the data you want, a photo on Instagram, a song on Spotify, or a search result on Google. The rest is I/O, delivering the content from a disk to the user. The processing requirements are not particularly high. In an AI datacenter, you are not simply requesting data, you are asking the AI datacenter to create the content for you. This means that a ChatGPT query can use 10 times as much energy as a Google search. KanoppiSearch Engines vs AI: energy consumption comparedFind out more about the differences in energy consumption and environmental impact between search engines and AI tools.This will depend on the complexity of the query and things like image generation and other types of content creation have a much higher requirement. This not only means higher carbon emissions, but with more heat there is a higher demand for cooling, which is were some of the water usage and noise concerns come from. This is separate from some of the other IA issues, such as the shredding of out-of-print and rare books in order to feed the content into IA models.

This has been the case for many years, even for many white English speaking artists. The Grammy awards is largely about who you know in the US music industry and the Hollywood social scene. Multi-millionaires and billionaires voting for their friends, not for some random person or group from another part of the world. In most cases, non US pop artists need a huge era to win. Ed Sheeran only wins when he has a HUGE hit, such as "Thinking Out Loud", which is currently 18xRIAA Platinum and "Shape of You" which was also huge, and divide was the biggest album on Spotify for many years. Lorde was only nominated once (and won) in the pop genre, when she had a 9-week #1 hit which is currently 15× RIAA Platinum. Sam Smith was nominated for one smash era and then again when he went #1 with "Unholy". American artists are often nominated (and sometimes win) for panned and flopped albums and songs. In other genres it can be worse. To the best of my knowledge, only one UK Grime artist has won a Grammy, and that was as a featured artist in the dance/electronic genre. Perhaps BTS think they are the only ones who have a difficult time winning. Edit: I get the segregation argument, but isn't pop vs RnB a form of segregation? Is that bad too? Isn't pop vs county (and most of it is country-pop) a form of regional segregation?

Updates from the last month: Lorde released her Virgin demos as the XRAYS project Billboard CanadaLorde Celebrates One-Year 'Virgin' Anniversary With Mega-...The singer's new XRAYS site also features photos, notes and artwork ideas.https://www.lorde.co.nz/xrays https://untitled.stream/library/project/s9vE9MvCjdHzXc1QKkxEw https://www.thefader.com/2026/06/30/lorde-xrays-virgin-demos-artistic-transparency-untitled https://pitchfork.com/news/lorde-uploads-49-demos-from-virgin-for-albums-anniversary/ https://genius.com/albums/Lorde/Xrays ATRL threads here and here. Lorde on tour and calling Meta AI smart glasses "not sexy" https://www.instagram.com/p/DarEMgyRo_b/ https://www.buzzfeed.com/leylamohammed/lorde-slams-meta-ai-glasses-after-kylie-jenner-collab https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/lordes-war-cry-signals-smart-glasses-backlash-among-women/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/lorde-says-ai-glasses-are-not-sexy/ ATRL thread here. Lorde calls out Spotify's AI-powered "About the Song" feature https://pitchfork.com/story/lorde-on-spotifys-ai-song-descriptions/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-news/lorde-calls-out-spotifys-ai-about-the-song-feature-1236650571/ https://deadline.com/2026/07/lorde-calls-out-spotify-ai-about-the-song-feature-1236997350/ ATRL thread here. Lorde supporting new music platform Lume https://thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/17-07-2026/every-surprise-coming-from-lumes-launch https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/lume-streaming-platform-new-zealand-feature-98576/ https://artistallyglobal.substack.com/p/why-lorde-substacks-co-founder-are Did I misread this part of the post on substack? The date of the substack post is Jul 22, 2026. Perhaps they're calling XRAYS an upcoming album, even though it was released in June and they earlier called it "49 demos". But it reads like they are talking about an actual Lorde album later in 2026. That sounds far too soon given the amount of touring that she's doing now.

Kalshi is similar to a betting site, but is setup with a legal framework where users trade "event contracts" (derivatives) tied to future outcomes. Apparently this means it can operate under similar rules (and legal status) to the futures market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalshi People on the platform have also been betting on things such as whether these will be starvation in Gaza. The Real News NetworkCNN partners with Kalshi, a gambling app that lets you wa...The network will integrate betting odds for life-and-death issues into its coverage. What could possibly go wrong?

I don't see what she does as copying, but she does seem to be in that same lane. Emails I Can't Send = One of the Boys (breakthrough album) Short n' Sweet = Teenage Dream (smash hit album) Man's Best Friend = Prism (continued success) I'm a bit worried about the next era for Sabrina.

The audience for that sort of propaganda is older people who might be willing to write-off younger activists, and young people in general as uniformed. I wouldn't be surprised if they plant people in those rallies. How do people with google and wikipedia on their phones not know where the Mediterranean sea is?