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Actually gonna vote TTPD for both since I'm not huge on ICDIWABH or Petal and I prefer Fortnight to HTIMYLM, but both are great albums

This is definitely engineered ragebait for engagement since they saw the discourse about Inde being overexposed too quickly mainstream online journalism is dead dead atp

I've been an OSLH since day 1 but both songs have chord progressions and melodies that are so omnipresent in today's Nashville slop machine that I wouldn't really call this plagiarism, lack of creativity and corporate writer camps is more likely the culprit However the Stick Season rip-off was definitely specific enough to drag her for, especially with her having covered the song multiple times

Another year, another publication predicting based on hopedictions and vibes than actual voting patterns Lux absolutely deserves AOTY but it's fighting for a nomination at this point, let alone a win I think The Cure has a better shot in SOTY and ROTY than others are giving it credit for since it can accrue more rock and alternative votes than Olivia's previous song submissions, but I think it's an outside choice rather than frontrunner I'm a fan of Ella so this is no shade, but I think people are overestimating Texas a bit in the song categories. Country has historically not done well in ROTY and SOTY (only two to three wins ever apiece, to my knowledge, one of which was the Chicks' historic sweep with a unique narrative.) It takes a lot of crossover appeal to voting blocs that might be hostile towards country to win, and also heavy vote-splitting between pop-leaning nominees (like when Lady A won for Need You Now.) Since Texas is a pretty straightforward country song, I think that Olivia Dean is more likely to overcome votesplitting here with jazz and traditional pop voters than Ella is For right now, an Olivia Dean sweep is what makes the most sense logically, but it's hard to predict when we don't know the nominees and how the votes will split. I'm pretty certain she's winning at least one, but we'll have to see how much support people like Bruno, Taylor, and Olivia R get in nominations to have a better idea

Ya, when I see the extent to which some people are so emotionally invested in stan wars or identifying with their faves, it makes me grateful that that's becoming more of a thing of a past for me. ATRL is good for some kiis to decompress or discussion, but it's never more serious than that, I guarantee you

The very act of being selected for a listening party is going to lead to selection bias from Stans who overhype the album because of the experience, so yes. I never expect an accurate or unbiased review of the album from a listening party

SOS and Rude Boy deserve 5B streams

Ragebait ass headline, but I hope they don't pull what the show runners on 911 did and hint at building up to something only to continually edge viewers over multiple seasons

Billie looks so fine with brown hair so ready for her to deliver in The Bell Jar

Noah Drake still got it! @Rian

The fact that one's feelings on ANY pop girl could make someone side with FElon on anything.. crazy work

He's dummy hot but beyond the tired queer baiter discourse, it does make me veryuncomfortable when outwardly straight men make sexualized content meant to pander to the gays