Kurt Hummel

The sex book was absolutely tacky Setting aside the positive elements w/ sex positivity, a lot of the material was definitely just shock value, especially the texts (one of which being outright pedophilic). Her mid-late 2010s behavior with the various instances of black cultural appropriation was also extremely tacky and "how do you do, fellow kids?"-like

At this point she should make a new album where every song has the same title as one of her older hits in hopes that people get confused

Grande's break from the public eye will not prevent her from standing in the public eye

Everybody keeps saying "Olivia donated, why didn't Taylor?" and it's driving me ******* crazy That $10m was from a fundraiser with over 14 artists, not including guests. It is heroic and worth commending, but it's factually not a personal donation from Olivia herself, it was a group effort. And this same year, Taylor celebrated her wedding by donating $26m to food banks, educational/literacy programs, and children's hospitals in one fell swoop.

Translation: there are too many non-white holidays (2) and it frightens him.

I keep seeing random people claim that this record is an identity crisis and that Miley has one with every album. I don't get it though. I feel like her identity as an artist has been a lot more consistent and smooth than a lot of her peers, especially since Plastic Hearts I swear, people will not let go of the Dead Petz -> Younger Now rebrand and will generalize every new era as being similar to that.

No, but judging by Eli's inclusion this year, I'm sure the next artist to use Taylor hate for attention will be getting an invite from Ms. Rodrigo!

Frankly only a part of the gay community knew & cared about the (still evil) Dr. Luke situation, and the dumb Blue Origin spaceflight happened later. People hated Woman's World because of its assumed-AI lyrical content and being at least a decade late with its approach to feminism. The other music was also extremely bland. The only songs that anyone remotely enjoyed were I'm His and Wonder, and not enough for them to be hits.

I think it was interesting when Taylor did it the first couple times, when it was a whole event with fans literally going to her house. Obviously that's an insane security risk that she & other artists will probably never do again, but it's cool to think about. Nowadays you just see a tweet that's like "Grace McLady held a listening party for her album last week" accompanied by extreme praise & vague sound descriptions that don't end up being true in the slightest. And then everyone moves on

Why are some of the replies dunking on this lady though She's doing her job & you can see 2 other people walking up the steps for their turn.

That's So Raven is like the one show of that genre & era that this argument doesn't apply to She was very much written as a black character, using AAVE, listening to (legally distinct) Beyonce, being discriminated against by a business for her race, and having a dad who makes soul food. I really do think her wife is a bad influence and intentionally diminishes Raven's success and what she meant to families at the time, whether it's to make them feel equal or whatever else. You can see that here with how she's inserting herself and restating that "it's white men!" that were responsible for the show. She's also very proud that she didn't grow up with That's So Raven, but did grow up with Even Stevens, implying she changed the channel whenever Raven came on.

Not true. Red Hill Records & Java Records both dissolved completely while she was on their rosters, and they lacked the means to promote her anyways. Columbia had that exact issue I mentioned, sitting on her because they didn't know how to market her as an artist, and after they gave up, one of their execs still believed in her enough to recommend her album to Capitol Records.

It's not that they rejected her, but she didn't have a clear image and they didn't know how to present/market her, so they just sat and waited. The eventual rebrand with the pinup girl/Katy Keene-adjacent aesthetic for One of the Boys-onward was really smart

I always felt like BTW and Express Yourself weren't that similar and the whole thing was constructed by bitter Madonna fans It's different enough that a plagiarism lawsuit would get thrown out immediately. Meanwhile everyone swings in the complete opposite direction when it comes to stuff like the Dua Lipa cases, where the similarities are audible on first listen, or the Taylor/Olivia situation, where the similarity was confirmed intentional and Olivia did a livestream where she said "great artists steal" and used copying Taylor as the sole example.