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For me, it's definitely, "Everyone here is a work of art". That line itself just feels so refreshing and truly embodies what the underground dance scene was all about: inclusivity. I keep going back to that line and also thinking about how it's a nice moment of existentialism while on the dance floor. The realization that we all have our unique stories, features and dreams and all of that makes us beautiful and connected to each other. I can picture it. It's probably one of my favourite lines of the year so far.

They both look so good together. Glad she finally upgraded someone closer to her age.

Why does she look like she's gonna recreate her infamous picture with him

The fact that no straight male ATRLer has responded, ijbol

Okay and they also talked about talent, next question.

Hasn't there been producers and others in the industry saying the same things for so many years now? I stopped believing it a long time ago. I won't believe anything until it's midnight EST and the album appears on Apple Music ready for streaming.

What the **** goes on at a Noah Kahan concert to get to that point…

Notice how the three pressed people with that woman's avi only talk about sales, never talent. OT: These demos actually sound good, diverse and real, not like other artists who release a fake acoustic version with the vocals copy pasted to an acoustic guitar or vocal demos that are full of nothingburgers.

Her referencing Lorde's Met Gala outfit in the teaser and honestly the overall aesthetic kind of fits in line with the silver and plain colors of Virgin too. I'm actually excited for this. She dropped a banger with Justice earlier this year.

The fact my friend at one point in her life was gonna call him her stepfather. It's crazy how close that was to happening. Anyways, he's one of the better male performers of his peers and I'll listen to anything he puts out. Imploding the Mirage has some great songs and kept me sane during Covid. His solo stuff is pretty good too.

I hope she gets a hit with these bops she's releasing. Louder, Please was on repeat for several months and I still find myself returning back to it. She just fills a place in pop that I feel hasn't been represented as much and I hope more acts follow in her lead. She's up there with Jade and Adéla making cool alternative electropop music.

If I said TTPD was the better album… Billie really watered down her sound on HMHAS compared to HTE, which I felt had more character. The title track, Your Power, NDA. There were interesting concepts she was exploring. Nothing felt memorable on her latest release, besides the first single and I wish she had experimented with that sound more because it would distract from her subpar songwriting skills. I only listened once and never went back to it. TTPD is very bloated, no doubt she could've used someone other than her yes-man Jack Antonoff to challenge her to make the project more succinct, but I'd argue songs like Florida!!!, But Daddy I Love Him, Guilty as Sin and So High School felt interesting and Chloe has some of her best lyrics. Billie is not a particularly strong songwriter, her lyrics are quite bland, and truthfully, she's a brand before she's an artist as her brother is the one carrying the production and majority of the songwriting and nothing she has done so far has changed my mind on this. Obviously, TTPD benefits from having a long tracklist boosting its chart placements but it speaks to the consistency of the album's longevity if it still holds up in the top 50 two years later. And you can copy paste many examples of Taylor having weak penmanship, especially on TLOAS, but there's several highlights on TTPD that HMHAS simply doesn't have. I still don't understand why that album it's ranked highly among releases of her peers like Sabrina, Chappell, and Olivia when they're making far more interesting music than her.

A key thing to add about straight woman is that straight male artists are, sometimes, singing to the female listener. It's a reason so many women wet themselves over the most superficial, generic boy groups out there: 1D, 5SOS, BTS, the list goes on. I remember my teenage girl friends in high school would swear that the music from these artists was deep and emotional. That and they would **** on female artists and girl groups for being plastic and inauthentic, when the boy groups and male artists were exactly what they criticized they women for. A lot of internalized misogyny imo. I genuinely believe Little Mix were supremely better than their male peers and they had a more interesting vision and were far better performers on stage. I will die on that hill.

The supremely better album. That's why.

If it sounds like Houdini and Happy for You, then yes.