Kurt Hummel

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.

And you just know that if Nicki switched sides and endorsed a left-wing candidate, those same fans would be posting like "Waitttt she's right actually. Trump is weird. Thanks for opening our eyes Nicki!!! 😍"

Nicki is genuinely a cult leader, the way she intentionally fosters this parasocial (paid) fan community with herself as the leader, with no regard for how her influence will make the world a worse place to live in. Truly the Donald Trump of pop/rap

I think every fanbase exaggerates their fave's position to an extent. Like why are Madonna fans always throwing stones at her younger peers, when she hasn't been a GP artist since 2008, and her 'return to form' was a reboot project specifically catered towards & marketed on Grindr

The constant cutting away from the song & lowering the volume of the song in favor of the ad The audacity to call this a music video

I think it would've been better if it were animated the whole way through. The glamour shots & exaggerated scenes of her playing a video game were completely unnecessary

I think she mentioned at some point that she was depressed as **** & in a bad relationship this entire era, and that she made songs like Orange Trees and Enjoy Your Life as a coping mechanism, trying to force herself to seem/be happy So it makes sense that it doesn't sound like her and doesn't feel natural whatsoever

She doesn't have the material, but she's having a lot of stars align in her favor. Lush Life re-emerging, her hopping that remix during PinkPantheress's breakthrough moment, and so on. Midnight Sun, Crush, Pretty Ugly were literally destined to be forgotten about, and then Stan Twitter started spamming them as a joke until they accidentally became viral hits, just like with Gracie Abrams and Audrey Hobert

She was on a major label & making sex songs for the clubs. I think she gets a pass

I have been seeing way too many idiots comparing Olivia & Taylor, commending Olivia for donating $10 million of "her own money" (AKA the total proceeds from a 14-artist event) and insulting Taylor for not doing the same (even though she's always donating and just doesn't gloat about it) The mass hysteria whenever Olivia's active again and the Sabrina/Paramore/Taylor conversations get revived is unreal

I wonder if something is going to ruin the tour, the world tour

I love both artists, both albums, both songs, but I have to give it to The Fear

The way I see it, Chromatica wasn't really true to what Gaga wanted to make. She mentioned in the past that she was recording a different album initially & that BloodPop told her it was bad and to start from scratch, and at least some songs (namely 1000 Doves) have a totally sound than Gaga desired when she recorded them. Imo, the visual concept with the neon colors also wasn't very true to Gaga's personal style, and felt more like self-parody, like Gaga had lost touch with what "Lady Gaga" means to her after ARTPOP. The more serious rebranding of Chromatica with 911 and the tour feels a lot more like Gaga to me, and a lot more cohesive with earlier stuff like TFM/BTW & now MAYHEM.