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Basically an oversaturation of female artists trying hard to serve ***** to cater to the audience. Don't have anything against it but it is starting to get somewhat overexposed. I'm also not saying every artist should be some introverted bookworm songwriter, but it feels like a trend that hasn't diversified as much.

It hits that sweet spot for me. Yes - I know that the whole "cuntslop" thing female pop stars are doing is getting a bit oversaturated but she's always been like this so it works for her. This song feels sexy and grand. It has that Doja Cat element that I like from Doja that she does so well on songs like Streets, Agora Hills and Rules. Ain't in LA captured something really special, and I think this song is continuing that run for me.

Well, yes!

Estoy Enamorado, Seducción, Piel Morena, No Me Enseñaste, and Amor a la Mexicana are some of my favs from Thalía. I also liked her cover of Alaska y Dinarama's A Quién le Importa? Arrasando is basically a history lesson packed into a pop song and it's done so well. She's got great hits, even in English, but I like her Spanish stuff better.

Belanova is far and wide better than Juanes. Juanes is just Mana with a Manu Chao wig. Belanova had a unique aesthetic to them and their first album is still one of the greatest Mexican pop albums to exist. Belanova was doing the electro pop style of Dulce Beat months before Madonna dropped Confessions and that is NOT to discredit Madonna for her reinventions but just to show how ahead of the curve Belanova was too. They are very underrated nowadays with the whole corridos tumbados wave that have infiltrated Mexican radio. Gone are the days of the balladeers and great pop musicians that dominated Mexican charts.

Perhaps the corniest **** ever… every time she manages to somehow set the bar lower for herself and her burger ass antics

If you play it without audio, it could pass as an antidepressant commercial… OT: I actually don't think it's that bad. The ones that are pure **** and devoid of actual creativity are the tour montage videos. Like why make one if you're not even going to put in the work to be artistic and give the song its own cinematic universe that it can live in? Just a cheap cash grab.

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Widespread acclaim, widespread success in her most subversive arena tour to date. The other pop girls would kill for a tour to be designed, visited and beloved like Ultrasound and her headlining festival run.

Have you seen Mexican shows? I feel this doesn't even hold a candle to the sheer absurdity and unhinged nature that tends to be present in those shows. Infarto, La rosa de Guadalupe, Como dice el dicho, Lo que la gente cuenta, the list goes on, lol.

Lorde is nearing the end of her highly successful festival run, following her widely acclaimed and sold out Ultrasound World Tour where performed at many arenas. The reviews have been overwhelmingly positive, with many critics praising the pacing, set design, art direction, technical elements, and Lorde's stage presence. I got to see her opening night in Austin and in Ciudad de Mexico and they were both quite honestly some of the loudest and most energetic crowds I've had the privilege of being a part of. Both magical nights. Hoping I can make it to weekend two of ACL for her closing night of her tour run. Some of the widespread acclaim received so far. There are more non-score reviews with overwhelming praise in the blurb and body of the articles, but only including several of the numerical scores awarded by publications. The Telegraph (2025, Ultrasound): ★★★★★ The Telegraph (2026, festival run): ★★★★★ London Evening Standard (2025, Ultrasound): ★★★★★ The Guardian (2025, Ultrasound): ★★★★★ The Independent (2026, festival run): ★★★★★ Rolling Stone Australia (2026, Ultrasound): ★★★★★ Rolling Stone UK (2026, festival run): ★★★★★ The i Paper (2025, Ultrasound): ★★★★★ Sydney Morning Herald (2025, Ultrasound): ★★★★★ Lollapalooza Brasil set ranking Biggest publications in Brasil: Estadão (No. 1), UOL (No. 1), g1 (No. 1) So… what went right?

Underrated masterpiece in her discography that gets hated in too much in my opinion.

No, she's just a poser. A lot of people keep the same beliefs with age. Those were never her actual beliefs. She just got swayed by trends and absorbed whatever her partner wanted from her to fit the idiolized version they have of her. Classic tradwife bullshit. They would rather serve their partner and change every part of themselves than actually stand for something. Edit: I say all this as someone that LOVED Gwen. I remember being a 10 year old playing Guitar Hero and Spiderwebs was probably my most played song on there along with Santeria by Sublime. To see someone that had such a cool punk persona (including Sublime, can't fault Bradley though since he passed long ago) throw it all away and pivot to Christian nationalism has been the saddest thing I've had to witness.

lol, I'm not blaming him for Gwen's decisions. She's a grown woman, she can make her own decisions. She simply doesn't have a spine to stand for a good cause and that's more on her, not Blake, for who she chooses to **** and align with. I just listed him because he has an overwhelmingly conservative fanbase and he himself has never distanced himself from being associated with this crowd. As for Blake, the last time he opened his mouth was around the 2016 election: "Shelton told Billboard in an interview published Thursday that Republican nominee Donald Trump "says what he thinks, and he has proven that you don't always have to be so afraid." He added "A lot of people are pulling for him, no matter how much Hollywood fights it." He obviously backtracked once people shat on him for this but he also doesn't have a spine or balls to come out and say anything other than vague conservative-coded statements because he'll lose majority of his fanbase. I don't sympathize with him at all when he can gladly ignore getting political while raking in millions using the "I'm a musician. I don't pick sides" bullshit argument when music is political. If you're not, you're just a corporative poser. He knows The Voice gave him more fame which is why he's too much of a coward to say what he really thinks.

Yeah, a lot more than we think. M.I.A., Grimes and Kanye being notable examples but also Gwen's peers in the spa punk movement also pivoted hard to MAGA like Sublime and Dickey Barrett. Something that doesn't get mentioned is that the forebears of the punk movement also drifted to bootlicking Republican/MAGA bullshit. Johnny Ramone (was known for being ultra conservative before his death), John Lydon, Michale Graves and even Exene Cervenka, the front woman of X. And I forget the singer Yulia Volkova from t.A.T.u. also pivoted hard towards conservatism years after debuting. All of them posers.