KMO

He waxes his pubes, there will be no topping here

She needs to quit horsing around and back into the studio omg

Now show the audience

Since when was it X-Tina vs Ga-Ga? Is the from the Perez days?

I wonder if Ga-Ga is aware of the whole "needs a collab or will flop" image she inadvertently cultivated over the last 10 years lol

I'm not sure how that would sound.

A more benevolent reading is that everyone who wanted to listen to it already did, and it didn't have much replay value for the majority. Most likely to be reality? The automated/bot streams are being filtered out. The label could also be pulling back on funding streaming farms given the album has been out for a while.

Why do you think she tacked that boring ballad onto the throwback electropop dance album

Deluxes are usually planned along with the original album, almost like a variant. I suspect she will either scrap it or just drop it silently - it's the poor reception, plus the entire world telling her she looks unwell and needs to stop working.

Nope. Positions had a similarly poor reception, and I remember a while ago she was on a podcast and admitted she scrapped the rest of the Positions era solely because of its lukewarm reception. That combined with the entire world basically shouting at her to stop working and heal/recover because she's genuinely unwell. I don't think any critic could, in good conscience, receive anything from her going forward without saying "encouraging you to work at the moment is unethical and immoral".

Her farts must be nasty af

She's very unwell. I'd be surprised if she could get insurance. And combined with the poor reception to the album, I think she just needs to step away for a few years, recover, and do whatever. I think it was obvious that she was going to halt further promo of the album given how poorly it was received, she did the same with Positions.

Ok

I don't think the millionth person to say "you look sick and you need to get help" is going to make Ariana do so

I thought you were talking about 5ive for a moment and was so confused

Ariana was on a trajectory to end up here, not sure what's going on with her but I think she needs a break and to recover/heal. Taylor's record has some fantastic songs but yes, as a body of work it didn't live up to the presentation or claims she made. Since it's so short there really isn't much opportunity to chop and change it like you could with Lover.

Given she scrapped a heap of stuff for Positions because of its lukewarm reception, I doubt it. She probably won't invest much more into the album, outside of what she'd already created or paid for prior to today. She seems really sensitive to how albums are received and does pull back a lot if the reception doesn't meet her expectations.

This is such a fantastic pop song but, like everything on Smile, it suffered from really bad packaging in the whole clown/circus aesthetic (and a weird title track/lead single)

That was my issue with hate that I made you love me. It starts off very strong, but by the middle of the first chorus it loses momentum and I don't want to keep listening. It also just feels like another reduction of the music she first started making with sweetener, like this particular sound of hers has been filtered and reduced so many times in almost 10 years that it's now anaemic.

I'm not clicking play on it.

It does work kinda. Sometimes I don't want that much noot so I stop for a bit

Let's stop fighting and pitting two pop icons against one another and focus on the real enemy: Gracie Abrams

Yes

It's a good song but I don't think it would've worked as a single

I'm afraid Ms. F IS X-Tina