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also not her teasing a flashdance finale choreo scene and then just doing some more mj impressions

she could audition to play britney when she's in the white blazer and hat doing the mj moves. her lower face is v similar, especially w that hair and the blue bikini outfit. the resemblance goes when she takes the hat off tho so no biopic stardom for her song is a bop, body is unreal, but she's at risk of suffering from madison beer syndrome (looks too much like an influencer turned musician, even if she's not) if she doesn't establish a a more singular visual identity than very pretty blonde girl. and the bleached brows have got to go.

bad romance and the fame monster changed my life and my entire attitude to music. the music video for br genuinely lives in my head, rent free, to this day

ok to be fair he was/is also extremely famous in australia (and probably nz) and i imagine a lot of the other commonwealth countries. so technically he'd be more global (especially if india/pakistan stanned) than local but again, i'm just guessing. still can't believe that somebody invested that much money into a movie about him as a monkey tho like... that's wild. edit to add: and he can still do crazy big tours because, like most men who were heart throbs at one point or another, he can still draw on all those female fans who are still lowkey in love with him. also he was super famous for a long time - first in a boyband and then as a solo act (have none of you seen derry girls jfc educate yourselves!)

i feel like this is going to be heavily influenced by age. crazy in love was already an established classic to me when poker face came out, so to me it's always going to feel more... classic. on top of that, while poker face may have been her biggest hit by the numbers, i feel like bad romance was really the song (and tfm the era) that pushed gaga to the next level in terms of relevance. it would also beat cil on the music video front, just barely. anyway, let's all hold hands and agree that telephone is a classic in every category!

wish they gave this much respect and consideration to other alt-pop girlies but i get it, it's a really good album and she's had a consistent, highly respectable discography since her debut. the actual reviewer was doing way too much tho, calling 24hr dog a bottoming anthem? and perfect stranger suddenly = gay cruising? like girl perfect stranger is a universal club experience (also clearly influenced by twigs' own experiences/interpersonal relationships and also possibly a reflection on fame and how we idolise strangers) and if 24hr dog is about anything specific it's bdsm which is definitely not exclusive to the gays(TM)

ngl i was worried about how hard she was committing to this whole acting thing with no actual acting projects out, but a whole production company? that feels like a real easy way to squander whatever $$$ she made from brat :/ fingers crossed she turns out to be a great (or at least good actress) and a24 come through for her on this solo project.

the albums are similar in that they are overhyped for what they are and both artists have way stronger releases in their catalogue. also many lyrical similarities between the two, not to mention the initial and totally misleading marketing of them both as throwback rave albums (like wtf was that all about? anyways...) ANYWAY eusexua unfortunately loses by default for: a) wanderlust which bffr sounds like a b-side from hold the girl and y'all ripped rina to SHREDS for exactly this kind of cornball balladry. b) the decision to include a super controversial high profile child star (would have thought twigs would be all over the f'd up power dynamics involved in child stardom but apparently not) when she absolutely did not need to. and i actually loved north's part but the criticism still stands. eusexua also loses points for referencing 'lights on' which just reminds the listener of the infinitely superior lp1. so yeah, it's a great album and i'm really enjoying it but so far brat>

this is quite possibly the dumbest way to compare the relative success of albums i have ever seen. literally why would they publish a list like this (for clicks is the depressing answer i guess) when all it's going to do is confuse people? like yes it makes sense that a weekly music chart ranks albums #1 #2 etc without caring how big the gap is between those two or what the overall market looks like. but to collate all that data and pretend that a billboard ranking from 2024 = a billboard ranking from 2014 = a billboard ranking from 2004? when every one of those data points is influenced by an entirely different market (streaming vs itunes vs cds) and an entirely different number of relative sales/streams??? they honestly couldn't have introduced more confounding variables if they tried. Anyway Adele #1 forever in our hearts and BTD honorary runner up morgan wallen flop wouldn't recognise him on the street wouldn't know his song if i heard it

carly rae ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

well every (semi-sensible) rich person under the sun will have increased their personal security ten-thousand fold and will be limiting their public appearances rn for obvious reasons... but the muskrat is not a semi-sensible person so who even knows atp?

it's america. it's not about convincing people to vote for the other side, it's about subtly encouraging them not to vote at all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ worked amazing for the anti-kamala campaign~

yeah would love to see these numbers adjusted for inflation (ofc not that that would change the ultimate outcome ). would be so interesting to know how many people attended also but i doubt that kind of data is out there.

just popping in to say it's crazy impressive that madonna held the record that long, especially for a tour held during a recession

i imagine it's harder for established singers to change the habits of a lifetime compared to kids who have turned up to learn. one of my favourite artists had to completely relearn how to sing 10 years into his career after developing nodes on his vocal chords (required surgery). he got a vocal coach and the improvement was insane. & i swear i didn't mean to come for katy two comments in a row but it does sound like this lady could help her with her yaaaaaaas~

always thought people making the plastic love comparisons were just flexing their (relatively) obscure music knowledge... the songs don't sound that alike beyond both being contemporary takes on the 70s funk/soul sound. the song's success and ongoing influence does help put in perspective why some people would still wanna work w dr tho. no excuse obviously, but still, if you're desperate enough...

ariana aside - marrying and having a child with the woman who has provided both the financial and emotional support for you to pursue your acting dreams for YEARS, then getting your big break and immediately asking for a divorce is... so unbelievably disgusting. i'm literally gobsmacked at the audacity. to be clear, idgaf that they were a bad match or whatever. the fact that he only figured that out once he was cast in a major motion picture and not when he was marrying her or having a baby with her is 100% deadbeat leech behaviour. for him to then immediately pursue what would inevitably be a high profile relationship with a celebrity coworker is just the cherry on top of the sht cake

thanks for the link, his book on the album art and rollout looks really interesting. but i do have to break it to you that the $100 million donation is in fact not real. most fans seem to be using the screenshot below as the source... but this leaves out several important facts, namely that the blog is a 'satirical publication' and that the end of the article actually reads: "Nicki Minaj is one of the most outspoken advocates of secondary education in the entire Western world. It is estimated that her fans make up 78% of all college students in the United States. She has personally mentored 15 out of the last 17 Rhodes scholars, including current Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. Some speculate that Nicki is gunning for Amy Gutmann's job, though Nicki has yet to back up these claims." personally i feel like the scholarship being named the nicki minaj monster brain baddie fund should have tipped more people off that it was a joke but ah well.

fair enough. was the same true for the bigfoot cover/promo images? couldn't see any credit on those :/

it seems like a lot of musicians from this era just aren't interested in suing over this stuff. i mean elvis costello could probably (definitely) have sued olivia rodrigo for credits on brutal and this was his response mind you, neither depeche mode nor elvis costello need the money so that might be a factor

why do people think that just because she posed for the pics that ai wasn't involved? THIS is truly crazy. how do you have writing credits on this many hits and no money????

talking points: tate mcrae mumble sings w crazy vocal fry and charli's like "autotune but make it artistic" (while also writing to her strengths and working with producers who see the vision) the real question is why is britney here?

not to say i always thought he was a creep but i always thought he was a creep - his creepiness in interviews was only interpreted as earnestness because he was being compared to blake, who was conducting one of the most tone deaf press tours in living memory. i do think it bears pointing out tho that we do have a tendency to assume that, in situations like this where two people are fighting, that one of them is a good person who was wronged and that the other person is a bad person who did wrong. in reality they can both be pieces of sht who wronged each other and everyone around them. mostly i'm just annoyed that this whole trainwreck is gonna be all over the news for the foreseeable future edit to be clear: not saying they're equally bad, just that we don't have to recast blake as an angel in order to recognise that baldoni was/is a terrible person.

the music, the visuals, the CONTROVERSY of it all... god i remember it like it was yesterday. I feel so blessed to have experienced gaga's imperial era in my formative years but yeah i can understand why the kids who weren't there when it happened would assume the meat dress wasn't real meat. if an mpg tried that today she'd been DOA, eaten alive by twitter hot takes and youtube commentary channels

this is so sad, I hate that fans create this market for unreleased material that drives people to commit such a terrible invasion of privacy. imagine not only having unfinished material released, but super private info like medical stuff. i would feel so violated.