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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.

So Nasty was not a practice, simply a state of mind. She hasn't been a Nasty girl after all. Tinashe, the celibate and safe queen you are.

1st single: Drivers License x Vampire x Drop Dead 2nd single: Deja Vu x Bad Idea Right x The Cure 3rd single: Good 4 U x Get Him Back x Stupid Song Damn, this was hard, especially the second singles, which are all masterpieces. Get Him Back edged out Stupid Song somewhat due to the latter being so recent but mostly because I have a lot of fond memories that were soundtracked by that song.

Well, I think those are definitely not her peers since Clairo makes more indie-style music. It's not as polished or energetic as releases by those artists mentioned. If anything, I'd say her peers are those like Laufey, beabadoobee, The Marías, maybe girl in red.

And we did, in fact, end up forgetting!

One of our generation's most underrated performers and more people are realizing it

The Alaska y Dinarama original is way better than the Thalia version, although hers is pretty good too. I think A quién le importa was a true pioneer and led to a song like Todos me miran being as successful as it was.

Literally no one is claiming that Lana doesn't have impact. Get that through your coconut brain, Ms. LanaDelRey. That's such a ******* lie. Olivia Rodrigo Chappell Roan Conan Gray Gracie Abrams Billie Eilish and Finneas Tove Lo Sabrina Carpenter

And also Melodrama quite honestly changed the game as well. Even Jack agrees that without that project, his trajectory as a producer would look a lot different for all the projects that he would work on after that one. This was the first one he did almost entirely in full for another artist. He's mentioned it many times: People can bark all they want but the people who have worked with her have all said the same thing about her when it comes to this topic: Jack, Dev Hynes, Tove Lo, etc. The thing about the shift Pure Heroine caused was not so much the production but the lyrical content and aesthetic, though production was also a contributor: Lorde challenged what it meant to be a pop star in the digital age and a big reason why so many artists that would come after her started singing about topics she was singing about: ennui, suburban life, being a teenager, etc. It's a reason so many publications billed every pop girl (and boy) making diaristic music with a dark, edgy aesthetic as the "next Lorde". It happened with Halsey, Alessia Cara, Daya, Conan Gray, Troye Sivan, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, Gracie Abrams, Chappell Roan, etc. There's more up and coming acts doing the same that I could list who have all admitted being inspired by Lorde. She quite literally helped to shape the modern pop star handbook that people still reference to this day. She doesn't get enough credit because of her young age and small repertoire.

That is a complete lie. Olivia Rodrigo is HUGE is Mexico. She appears 4 times on the list of the highest selling songs of all time in Mexico. The only other Anglophone artists that shows up on there above her is Imagine Dragons (once) and Justin Bieber (twice; three times but the "Despacito" remix is mostly in Spanish). They play her music all the time in the radio here. For Guts World Tour, she did TWO SOLD OUT nights as Estadio GNP Seguros, which sold 114k+ tickets just from those two shows. Ariana did Palacio de los Deportes, an arena, during her second and third album cycles and then never toured in Latin America after that. Olivia also did a sold out stadium show in Brasil. Olivia is HUGE in Latin America and I'd argue, she's eclipsed Ariana in some ways here. Granted, she's about to drop her third album, and Ariana has more than double her albums so the comparison is unfair but you're downplaying Olivia's success and clearly you haven't been in Latin America enough to know she has a huge fanbase here.

Sky Ferreira. I wasn't even a big fan to begin with but I kept up with her releases, or lack thereof, on Reddit. Then after the whole Nasty Cherry thing, I dropped her for good. Quite honestly a very emotional and wannabe tortured genius artist who was being carried by her producers. I saw through the veil just how much of the her actual work and artistry was fabricated. She's been independent for 2.5 years now. There's a reason she's burned bridges with people and become quite forgettable in reappraisal discussions. It's obvious she wants to keep her mysterious "socialite" aura in check but frankly there's just nothing cool or interesting about her to begin with. If she really was an artist, she would've been releasing music by now instead of blueballing her 5 fans and acting like she owns the chords and production elements she had no hand in developing. It's loser behavior.