Kurt Hummel

Like 90% of the discourse around Miley for the past 2 days, both here and on Twitter, has been people calling her a flop and saying she should retire

I feel like nobody who's ever tied or surpassed Mariah's record has actually had an MPG-level career from it They just represent a sound that was trending at the time. We aren't still talking about Luis Fonsi or Lil Nas X.

This might be the first time I've seen a zionist accusation where the person actually directly referred to themselves as one christ

Overly serious answer: On Gaga's side: The song was leaked for a month & was being overplayed before release. when it came out, there was fatigue and audience reception was worse than when it leaked (and still is) The video was notoriously a disappointment #ThankYouApple The song still peaked at #5 & then it got eclipsed by Rain On Me, which was a much bigger hit On Beyonce's side: Also an old leak, but old enough for the average person to either not know or not remember It's her first single in 2 years & she hasn't released another It (+ B'day 20) is being marketed in a way that matches the Acts, playing on people's impatience for Act 3

Maybe you'd better listen to somebody else then. Sabrina's not an electropop artist. She's clearly positioning herself as more of a zillennial Dolly Parton with the girly country/synth vibe, and Jack's production is working for that

Hannah Montana has childhood nostalgia bias for most pop fans, and Miley growing up was subject to a lot of public scrutiny and alienated a lot of people. It's really that simple There's no reason that Meet Miley Cyrus should have a lower user score than the early Hannah albums, other than it being obscure enough that people don't have the same nostalgia bias for it

Because someone making a hyperbolic insult on Stan Twitter is not news Thread only existed as bait to complain about Swifties anyway

She looks very pretty here. I will pretend her date and the event subject don't exist

The one made by a renowned musician and not just a TikTokker with hyperpop cred

Yeah, I do believe the Debutation pairing means something, but I don't think it means same day release. She was also hinting at Speak Now and 1989 as a pair for a long time, and the outcome was them being released 3 months apart with identical announcements on the same tour

I love Taylor, but it has REALLY become a pet peeve for me whenever people rewrite history to associate "era" with Taylor, say that Swifties originated it, or even say that she's the definitive example of having them. (I would personally argue that Gaga has the most distinct eras.) Even in a recent lawsuit (which Taylor deserved to win, don't get me wrong), her attorney pointed out the use of the word "era" as an example of something distinctly related to Taylor Pop fans have been using that word in that way for 1-2 decades at least

Love Me Right is one of the most generic songs on the album though I feel like it'd be ignored by fans if not for the bonus track exclusivity

This collab makes sense, but also why Danceteria specifically The lyrics of that song are extremely specific to an era & scene that Charli wasn't around for. Unless we're about to get a Charli verse about PC Music associates or something

Poptimism doesn't really interact with how Olivia is perceived I feel like she actually appeals more to people who hate girly popstars i.e. Taylor, Sabrina. She gets more credibility because of rock/alternative associations, in addition to rivalries with those exact 2 artists.

Can Roc Nation's contract with the NFL please end already? I'm tired

All she's saying is that there's no animosity between them and Manon/Sophia. I doubt they're allowed to address HxG mistreating Manon or anything of that nature

I think he actually started as a singer and then he became a YouTuber for attention before his career took off

I don't really care for either right now (I drastically prefer the more grounded non-club music that Troye was doing earlier in his career) That said, why do some of you think an artist is automatically superior, or more worthy of success, if they have vocal talent? That doesn't really say anything about the music they make, and most of us listen to acts who don't have particularly impressive vocals, like Britney, Taylor, Charli, etc.

"these new girls" mind you Miley was on the same grind as Gaga, at the same time as Gaga, as a minor because of her obligations as Hannah Montana I think she's earned being lazy

Her fans desperately want you to believe that she's healthy, looks exactly the same as she used to, and doesn't infantilize herself. But the pictures don't lie

Part of me wants to doubt this, but at the same time, what are the chances that you'd be able to decode a confirmed[?] easter egg to this exact phrase, with the only remaining letters being Taylor laughing at us It just might be true

In its original context (video making fun of EDs, revenge p***, etc.) absolutely But the song's narrative has never really gone away, only shifted focus. People used this exact same rhetoric to criticize stuff like Barbie and the Disney Princesses in the 2010s, coinciding with the push for women in STEM. And now people say stuff like this about the likes of Sabrina Carpenter and tradwives. This type of misogyny marketed as feminism is alive and well, which is why "pick-me" has become common slang

Those 5 nominees are some of the most important albums of 2017, and I can't think of a white male album that was quite on that same level. And even if there were a white male slot, I'd sooner give it to something like Harry Styles' debut than Ed Sheeran AC slop

Why does everyone and their mother have an "HQ" page on social media these days? A lot of these acts are not busy & important enough that they need a bootlicking team Instagram page, no shade