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Yeah she was booked for an interview segment for Masked Singer US promo.

Happy for Meg, but it’s a disservice to truly independent artists to call artists who have deals with major labels independent. And this doesn’t just apply to Meg, I’ve seen it with a number of artists recently. If you have access to a major label’s budget, promotion, and marketing…you’re not an independent artist. There are plenty of artists who have creative control that are signed to majors, and we don’t call them independent. This also seems like the same kind of deal Beyoncé has for her Parkwood imprint with Sony, for example, and I don’t think we call Beyoncé independent? Major label deal structures are changing, hopefully for the better…master ownership, distribution & marketing deals, etc, are more and more common….but that certainly doesn’t make the artists independent.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C20HcEHtFjd/?igsh=N2V1bWdqOHRxaG5w

This is a solid debut for me. Liking it more the more I listen to it. Aside from the title track, “The Wedding Song”, “Pretty Girls”, “Tummy Hurts”, and “Gemini Moon” are favorites. I was worried after the EP that the label was going to writing camp her to death, and I’m glad that didn’t happen. Renee is super talented, both as a songwriter and vocalist. Expecting great things from her in the future.

It’s just a pitched vocal to my ears. I’m not sure if you know what Sam sounds like, but she was the vocalist on “Friday” (and I don’t think sounds far off from Zara) and likely sang the demo for this since she wrote the song, so it makes sense the additional vocals would be her, on either version.

So exactly what you’d expect from Joel and sounding like a UK top 10.

Yeah, thanks, it was a mistake. I literally thought this week was the 25th.

Next single/focus track from the album Snow Angel, releasing 8/18. Music video, directed by Cara Delevingne, out 8/18.

Did not expect this

Summer might be nearly over but college parties are about to be back.

Rita said it’s out next week. https://instagram.com/stories/ritaora/3170791176943043535?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Hope we’re getting a TikTok clip as well

They owe people refunds period because they failed to verify at the time and have no proof. These should all come with COAs or there’s really no point. That being said, per “research”, not all appeared to be fake so we’ve no idea what happened here. And “research”, aka Tweets, in fact indicated that there were unsatisfactory responses to fans regarding Raye’s and Sophie Ellis Bextor’s, and no explanation on differing Ellie signatures. (Claiming they were there, or even the artist saying they were, does not explain why handwriting/signatures are different).

The way everyone will switch if this is a bop

Tracklist

UK shows update

It’s their one year anniversary. Vogue Piece https://www.instagram.com/p/CvhgzQjuOlA/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== https://www.instagram.com/p/CvhhHj7tU2j/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== https://www.instagram.com/p/CvhiV6nt5_R/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvhjhzYIJNy/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

PR is PR. She’s definitely not delusional. I think judging by what she’s said in interviews and how emotional she’s been on stage, she’s probably not coping well and I imagine having the media and social media pile on making fun of her (ie Bebe’s “I’m not giving up”) for underperforming wouldn’t be helpful.

Then the fans saying they heard otherwise from her team are lying? Or her team lied to them? Sure Ellie confirmed, but that doesn’t explain the discrepancy in her signature? My point still is…this is a flawed process. No signed merchandise like this should be sold/bought without authentication. But her team already responded to Banquet… If people don’t believe it…I’m not sure what else there is to do but get a refund.

TTH is an American based playlist. Idk why stans of other pop girls always expect them to get on TTH, or why that should be a standard for effective playlisting. Like we know “Kylie can’t break America” has been a thing for a really long time. Rita had an issue with streaming before she even left Atlantic so I don’t see how we can say it’s BMG. Yes, major labels control the majority of positions, but Rita is not some unknown artist. She has connections and the ability to personally appeal to these curators and judging by the posts she did from their offices, she did that. So if they’re not playlisting her, it’s because they don’t want to and not because of BMG. We know she did get on auto play for YOLM. Aside from that, like I said in another post, TikTok has taken power away from the streamers as main curators. And with the launch of their streaming app pending…they’re set to chip away at it even more. Focusing on blaming BMG for a lack of Spotify streaming playlisting (even though the peak got to what, 90M in reach?) is a waste of time and behind the trends imo…the focus should be on the need for a TikTok strategy, as well as other social media platforms. Personally, I’m far more dismayed at the lack of videos using her sounds from this era than at the streaming playlisting. She needs a better strategy, and better music. I think we can all see the difference in reaction to the music from this era in comparison to Bang, and of course Phoenix.

Huh? Not sure where I was making an excuse for anything. I'm genuinely just shocked at how low album sales are. I've never said that this era is some type of success. It's obviously not. I did think the album was going to sell even less than it did, and I'm actually surprised she even sold another 1K this week. And I have felt for a minute that where it seemed for awhile like we were moving back into people caring about albums, it seems like we're moving backward again, and that was the basis of my comment.