Communion

These were also registered the same time as Tipsy, also written with Jo Blaq and Harmony Samuels. Though we know that Ariana was recording Yours Truly at the same time Jordin was working with Harmony Samuels so some stuff may have bene more an "pitched to either/or" situation outside of The Way, which Jordin helped to write on.

There really should be a way to ban states from having primaries so close to general elections. This quirky queen could have gotten more momentum if NH didn't wait to ******* September to hold primaries. Same for:

The guy who Our Revolution endorsed in NH-01 over Heath endorsing Shaheen's daughter. Heath had endorsed Carleigh Beriont when he dropped out: But she's polling in 3rd.

Many singers have incongruent politics (see: MIA), but I believe she's always been a Democrat or supported the Democratic nominee for president. A lot of American liberals during Trump's presidencies embraced or said they had open arms for Republicans who could reject Donald Trump. So those types of accounts (ex: "Republicans Against Trump") get a lot of retweets and support from liberal Democrats. A lot of these liberals after Israel's actions in Gaza and Trump winning again, though, came to the view that establishment politics doesn't works. It seems like her own personal biases with regards to Israel have essentially made her at odds with progressive politics she'd normally align with.

Not to harbor on it but it really is extremely disappointing and upsetting as someone who was a big fan for like two decades. It feels like a betrayal when pop stars who garner their following from being progressive and outspoken reveal themselves to be so hateful. I get 'how' someone can be something as right-wing as a Zionist. I don't get 'how' someone who has, for all of their career, rejected homophobia and militarism and conservatism, can then not understand how their Zionism is just as hateful as what they claim to reject. She has had moments that didn't age well like Stupid Girls, but I can't just imagine what drives someone who wrote "How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?" to think that sentiment doesn't get to also apply to Palestinian parents who watch Israeli missiles fall on Palestinian schools and hospitals. There's a real sense of betrayal and of being lied to for years for her to pivot like this after claiming all she once stood for.

This is a bit... oh wow.

As someone who loves my lesbian sisters and has more lesbian friends than gay male friends as a gay man, I am thus saying this without it being a negative, but this shock or confusion people have over the WNBA having a large number of lesbians is.... ???. Yes, many of them are lesbians!! Why are you shocked?! This idea conservatives had that they could walk into a sport with a very large gay demographic of players and turn it into a new conservative cultural product is??? All they're doing is make people roll their eyes at that annoying white girl jknknkj.

A fan can correct me but her Zionism is a recent phenomenon and her over-compensating that she hasn't meaningfully identified as Jewish for most of her life. As someone who was a long-time fan, I only remember her identifying a spiritual and mostly being close with her Catholic father. It seems she reconciled with her mother when finding out her dad was getting sick and her "reconnecting" with being Jewish was a product of that. There's nothing wrong with wanting to reconnect with your parent's religion, etc. but it exposes how silly the concept of "birthright" is because we're asked to think this random white Irish-Lithuanian woman from a suburb of Philadelphia who just remembered she's Jewish somehow has a religious, ethnic right to steal the home of a Palestinian living in the West Bank.

I mean, her tirade was clearly aimed at what she perceives as "black music" and that's probably the best way to examine it instead of the individual people. Ariana's tanning and whether her place as a white woman in certain genres was problematic is a different conversation but this was literally also a huge hit on US radio at the time (as well as Camila's biggest hit having Young Thug on it with her at-the-time single being with Da Baby): The issue with her feelings was 1) in her juxtaposing herself and her music as at odds with the music she was calling out and 2) her hostility to the music she was calling out when there was a significant part of her mainstream debut that was pulling from hip hop for aesthetics. Her tone always read as though she felt she was being unfairly scrutinized for romanticizing harmful relationships because she was a white woman. And that she felt there were another group of people (black women) making much more ~vulgar~ pop music than her that weren't getting the same heat. People get weird cause they'll think you're calling her specifically a Trump supporter even if you acknowledge she isn't, but there is an interesting conversation about how much of her feelings and pop cultural moments do kind of capture the general early 2020s anxieties seemingly many white people had around the pop culture during COIVD, police brutality, and the return of Trumpism (and how it manifested in MAGA Country being such a prominent genre).

I just noticed Ariana now has 11 Top 10's on Hot AC (going by Billboard's Adult Pop Airplay chart). Is she the first female to have at least a double-digit number of Top 10 hits on Pop, Hot AC, and Rhythmic? When trying to look at the Pop Airplay, Adult Pop Airplay, and Rhythmic Airplay charts for Billboard, it seems.. so? She'd be the first woman, while both Bruno Mars and Justin Bieber have done it, as well. The Weeknd was close (18 Top 10s on pop, 27 Top 10s on Rhythmic, but only 8 Top 10s on adult pop), as well as Katy Perry (17 Top 10s on pop, 16 Top 10s on adult pop, and 8 Top 10s on Rhythmic.

"This is all backlash to the decades of socialism in Germany!!!!" this website is too priceless to be free to use.

It's actually cynical how voting against progressive policies is basically the audition process for Congressional Dems looking for the DSCC or the broader party mechanics to pick them for a future in the party, be it running for the Senate, running for a governorship, etc. You just have to see who in the 2020-2022 session of the House and what they stood for to see who gets rewarded by the party. House Democrats ranked by progressive score leading into the year of their race: 2022: 215/220 - Conor Lamb - DSCC throws support behind him for PA Senate primary (Loses Primary) 204/220 - Charlie Crist - FL state party throws support behind him for FL governor primary (Loses General) 194/220 - Val Demings - DSCC clears the field for her FL Senate primary (Loses General) 169/220 - Tim Ryan - DSCC throws support behind him for OH Senate primary (Loses General) 2024 (+2025 Off Cycle): 196/211 - Abigail Spanberger - VA state party clears the field for her VA governor primary (Wins General) 195/211 - Colin Allred - DSCC throws support behind him for TX Senate primary (Loses General) 194/211 - Elissa Slotkin - DSCC clears the field for her MI Senate primary (Wins General) 182/211* - Ruben Gallego - DSCC clears the field for his AZ Senate primary (Wins General) 178/211** - Mikie Sherrill - NJ state party throws support behind her for NJ governor primary (Wins General) 117/211** - Andy Kim - DSCC clears the field for his NJ Senate primary (Wins General) *- Started voting more conservatively in the cycle he planned to run for Senate. Entered House as a center-left Dem. **- Started voting more progressively in the cycle they planned to run for Senate or governor. Entered House as conservative Dems. 2026: 209/212 - Jared Golden - DSCC calls on him to run for 2026 ME Senate primary but says he respects his former boss Susan Collins (lol!) too much 203/212 - Chris Pappas - DSCC clears the field for his 2026 NH Senate primary (TBD) 196/212 - Angie Craig - DSCC throws support behind her for 2026 MN Senate primary (Loses Primary) 163/212 - Haley Stevens - DSCC throws support behind her for 2026 MI Senate primary (Loses Primary) The easiest path to being rewarded is to be an anti-progressive Dem, even as we see this type reliably lose important races.

I don't particularly get the point of asking bad faith questions? 1) Fetterman was elected in 2022. Some progressives were willing to overlook him being a pro-Israel Dem given his record as a progressive Lt. Governor. 2) Conor Lamb was one of the most conservative Democrats in the House in the cycle he ran for Senate. Going off archived data, he was the 6th most conservative Democrat in the House and campaigned on being a partner to Joe Manchin. He had to reverse course In Spring 2022 when it was clear that voters in PA were not looking for that kind of senator. 3) Fetterman won his primary with a full majority. You can remove every progressive voter and he still wins the primary.

https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/ariana-grande-hate-that-i-made-you-love-me-number-1-pop-airplay-1236334350/ (thank you to @Ger for catching) Ariana Grande's Pop Airplay #1's since 2014: My Everything "Problem" - 2014 (x2) Dangerous Woman "Side to Side" - 2016 (x5) Sweetener "No Tears Left To Cry" - 2018 "God Is A Woman" - 2018 Thank U, Next "Thank U, Next" - 2019 "7 Rings" - 2019 (x6) Positions "Positions" - 2020 (x7) "34+35" - 2021 (x3) Eternal Sunshine "We Can't Be Friends" - 2024 (x2) Petal "Hate That I Made You Love Me" - 2026 Note: Her pop radio #1s also include "Die For You" with the Weeknd, that spent two weeks at #1 in 2023.

When this ends up being the Senate map because Dems rallied around Buttigieg's Wario and then Fettemran flips...

I think someone like Ayanna Pressley has also commented on it, to be fair, because it seems that Rula believed being a black Palestinian meant her citing such usually inflammatory names - that she's shown as being critical of when white conservatives use them about black people - meant that Black Americans should understand what type of anger she has over Jeffries, but it is going to fail to land due to Black American history with said language. I think that's a reasonable position for Black Americans take or, at least, a reasonable sensitivity to acknowledge and be aware of. But it does speak to how, in a broader context, such understandings about contextual language should be universal. In the same way anyone should speak of and about Black Americans within the context of the language Black Americans use, people should judge the language that Palestinians use in the context that Palestinians understand. Ex: American Zionists trying to claim Palestinians using the word "Jew" and not "Israeli" to mean Palestinians are antisemitic, despite that, for all intents and purposes, Palestinians live under the repression of a "Jewish State", where they are ethnically cleansed to ensure the artificial "Jewish majority", to where foreigners can come from all across the world on the basis of "Jewish Birthright" and steal their houses, commit pogroms against them, etc. The Palestinian belief that their people are being slaughtered and killed in the name of acheiving "Jewish Supremacy" is materially correct and factual. There's a very specific "black liberal" type of account on social media (many of these people probably not even real black people!) that would rightfully take offense at Rula's comments yet then claim American Jews' feelings matter more when Palestinians speak of the people burning down their homes, killing their children, etc.

Black people can obviously be anti-black or promote anti-blackness themselves, but just to make note of it, apparently Rula Jebereal is Nigerian and Palestinian and identifies as a black woman. She is obviously tone deaf to how racism impacts black Americans and thus was ignorant with her words but the idea of now countless US politicians condemning maybe the most well known Afro-Palestinian - who is well known today for speaking on her life as an orphan in an apartheid state as now a journalist - feels all a bit circular.

Not to sound like a pressed fan but the very intentional aim to erase Ariana from any discussion within pop music journalism circles is so ????

A major political party calling to kill a country pop group and an iconic piece of political history: Jojo getting her highest charting single to date: Genuinely an iconic year.

Wait this tea. 2006 in particular feels like it's packed with songs like this, especially the way MTV tried to cover as many genres as possible. This peaking at #64: I'm not linking to Regina Spektor in the year 2026 but "Fidelity" also fitting this.

The power of the Pop Bible

For the GP, yes, but for pre-teen homosexuals? There are iconic hits here. (There are indeed some cases where TRL / MTV's music video rotation made some songs seem like huge hits but weren't actually. See: MTV playing the "Nothing In This World" video all the time but it apparently not even charting at all on the Hot 100?) But the sheer hits in this house.. Me & U Ain't No Other Man Stars Are Blind Do It To It Bossy Show Stopper Deja Vu London Bridge Ring The Alarm Long Way To Go Unappreciated Irreplaceable Whew... and even if it flopped, the image of Jessica Simpson's I Belong To Me video premiering live on TRL is burned into my head.

The B'Day anniversary made me remember first realizing in 2006 that, instead of downloading a single song one at a time over Limewire, there were entire sites on Blogspot where people uploaded full albums for download and you could even find downloads for regional bonus tracks (the gag of finding out songs existed that weren't on CD you bought ). When I think of B'Day, I also think of albums like Back to Basics, Danity Kane's debut album, etc. and really never realized just how back-to-back these albums were being released. August: September: The TRL girlies know how the above ravished the daily countdown after school.

People saying "KFC" like as though the ad isn't BURGER KING. Don't erase the ancient texts.

If a university has to certify it is not boycotting Israel, how is this shown outside of the inherent pressure for universities to maximize investments in Israel?