brenda-walsh

i can def see her getting an AOTY nom but she won't win it. won't be surprised however if she wins best Dance Pop Recording and best Dance/ Electronic Album BYL could also win best pop duo but i'm not sure who the other front runners are, so hard to say fs

a lot of the edgy critics/ bushwick gays ironically stanned at her first when she put out Diet Pepsi and Aquamarine bc everyone was expecting her to put out Katseye-level AI slop. i think subverting everyone's expectations got her lots of attention + Charli and Madonna basically co-signed her, and the ironic stanning became unironic. also add to the fact that she goes on stage in nothing but a bra and panties doing her whole dance recital routine, so ofc certain gays will automatically flock to that personally speaking, i found her album to be quite mid bar a few songs like Fame is a Gun and Headphones On. she feels more like a vessel and has no real artistic identity/ talent. but we'll see where her career goes

i'm sure they are crying that their combined 100th top ten single is out will love to see certain girls achieve this in 20 years

this sounds less like a gay thing and more specific to this friend group. trust me, there are plenty of hetero friend groups who act this same way but i'm like you, also introverted and neurodivergent, and have found that my sweet spot for hangouts is like five people max. preferably i do one-on-one hangouts because they're much more intimate and you actually get insight into someone's true personality. and as others in this thread have said, making friends as an adult has always been complicated and today's digital/ social media world has only furthered that. it takes time to find your tribe but when you do it'll have been worth the trouble

deserved! this song has been stuck in my head for the last two weeks

i don't even like Law Roach but Chloe comes off as so pretentious and try hard. maybe in the 90s people weren't doing themed red carpets but that was 30+ years ago, times have changed, and Zenday and Law are setting the standard for today's era of fashion i also feel like a lot of people in this thread are overrating Chloe's influence. sure, she was seen as a fashion icon back then but most of it was confined to the alternative scene. if you ask most in the industry, she wouldn't be at the top of the list of 90s fashion icons

5H were never really that big

OP wasn't content enough with the lashings from last time?

let this have been Britney and all of these weirdo comments would be rightfully sympathetic and calling out the predatory behavior

OP clearly misunderstanding the meaning of "cultural reset" and refusing to acknowledge this

none of the comparisons in the OP are 1-1 comparisons besides Closer to the Truth Dancing Queen is a cover album of ABBA songs tied to Mamma Mia, one of the biggest movie franchises of the 21st century. C2C is a collab album with Lady Gaga, who had just released one of the biggest pop/debut albums of all time only 5 years prior. And Elton's was a collab album with the biggest artists at the time like Dua Lipa, Ed Sheeran, Lil Nas, Young Thung, Nicki, also ft. Britney's comeback at the height of the FreeBritney movement– not to mention many of the songs are basically covers/reworks of his biggest hits only album that is a fair comparison is Closer to the Truth, and despite outcharting Confessions (only in the US), the latter has already moved a similar amount of units in its first week vs. 13 yrs later for Cher and when you look at WW numbers, Confessions obliterates it Confessions II: Australian Albums (ARIA)[165] 1 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[141] 1 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[142] 1 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[143] 1 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[132] 1 Croatian International Albums (HDU)[144] 1 Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)[166] 10 Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[167] 5 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[149] 1 Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[145] 1 French Albums (SNEP)[168] 1 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[152] 2 German Pop Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[169] 1 Greek Albums (IFPI)[146] 1 Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[147] 1 Irish Albums (Official Charts)[153] 2 Italian Albums (FIMI)[148] 1 Japanese Albums (Oricon)[170] 12 Japanese Combined Albums (Oricon)[171] 13 Japanese Hot Albums (Billboard Japan)[172] 80 Lithuanian Albums (AGATA)[173] 31 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[157] 2 Norwegian Albums (IFPI Norge)[174] 8 Polish Albums (ZPAV)[155] 2 Portuguese Albums (AFP)[150] 1 Scottish Albums (Official Charts)[175] 1 Slovak Albums (ČNS IFPI)[176] 7 Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[177] 1 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[154] 2 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[151] 1 UK Albums (Official Charts)[178] 1 UK Dance Albums (Official Charts)[179] 1 US Billboard 200[180] 1 Closer to the Truth: Australian Albums (ARIA)[70] 17 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[71] 11 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[72] 65 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[73] 59 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[74] 4 Croatian Albums (HDU)[75] 18 Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)[76] 25 Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[77] 26 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[78] 41 Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[79] 41 French Albums (SNEP)[80] 93 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[81] 6 Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[82] 20 Irish Albums (IRMA)[83] 22 Italian Albums (FIMI)[84] 19 Mexican Albums (Top 100)[85] 52 Quebec Albums (ADISQ)[86] 23 Russian Albums (2M)[87] 9 Scottish Albums (OCC)[88] 5 South Korean Albums (Gaon)[89] 40 Spanish Albums (Promusicae)[90] 32 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[91] 45 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[92] 11 UK Albums (Official Charts)[93] 4 US Billboard 200[94] 3

she is nearing 70 and has released like 25 albums over a 45-year career. what are you expecting out of her this late in the game? the fact the album was so critically acclaimed and was heavily discussed online has given Madonna her best goodwill in like two decades. not to mention her catalogue streams have dramatically risen and the insane amount of new artists that continue to cite her as a major influence

Mmm there is def revisionism with this thread. If you go back and watch any Madonna interview from the mid 90s (post Sex Book/Erotica and pre-Ray of Light) she absolutely whines about fame, criticism, and the media in virtually every interview. It wasn't until she started Kaballah that she became more accepting of her fame and less whiny

either Heated or America Has a Problem - the second half of the album is def stronger

but she's already had some sort of work done, i wouldn't be surprised if her face is botched in 20 yrs