I Melt Away

This is pretty big news actually wow! They had mini-reunions here and there but not a legit comeback 20+ years later... Hopefully they have a concert too.

Yeah Ed is despicable for what he did but this cousin's post is not it either. He's plugging his own song at the end after going on a personal (long-winded) salty rant about Ed without acknowledging Palestine?

Yes that vocal sample loop to the lofi beat is so (early) Doja.

Not the main point of the post but she can be so vulnerable (even blunt) yet witty with the way she writes and that always shone when she participated in songwriting. Hope posting like this is a relieving outlet for her.

This era defined my childhood more than any other pop albums of the mid 2000s! Happy 20 years to an amazing era of HITS.

Autumn Goodbye is such a highlight for me so the international deluxe tracklist.

Toxic and Crazy in Love have such crazy and iconic instrumental openings that you instantly know the song from the getgo

Omg wait this is so cool! What a small world. (And omg I guess he was a Little Monster too!)

Inspired by the "Newly discovered insect species named after Taylor Swift" thread, I looked up MPGs with genus/species named after that and... Lady Gaga has the most! First up, Gaga (plant). There's 19 species of fern named after her under the genus Gaga! According to biologists, the Gaga ferns bear a close resemblance to Gaga's costume from the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards and also bear a distinct DNA sequence spelling GAGA. There's also Gagadon minimonstrum ("Gaga tooth mini monster"), an extinct genus of even-toed ungulate named after her and her fans. And 2 insects including Kaikaia gaga and Aleiodes gaga! The 1st is a treehopper with distinct horn-like exoskeleton (just like Gaga's extravagant looks) and the 2nd is a parasitic wasp (delivers eggs inside bodies of caterpillars) that was named to honor her. Why does Lady Gaga (Stefani Germanotta) have so much impact in the world of taxonomy?

Joining other main pop bugs like Beyoncé's (Scaptia beyonceae: horsefly with golden, fuzzy abdomen) and Shakira's (Aleiodes shakirae: parasitic wasp that makes its hosts wiggle)!

One tweet would have been fun. 8 tweets is obsessive omg

Turns out its a FOO Fighter that's getting this award

I'm just happy to see Rachel Dratch

People just writing their favorite albums dsadasffasd but I guess that's why 'pop bible' convo is always so divisive. I personally think pop bible has to have impact and continued success above all. Not necessarily how well received or commercially successful it was during its initial year. For example, how many artists and records has this one album influenced and continues to even years later? How successful are each single and album track years later? (Which is why I think an album has to be at least 5-10 years old to enter this debate.) In this sense, Blackout is a pop bible because it influenced many electropop songs of its time and still to this day. (For example, brat and Demi's recent (deluxe) album.) Also another case is Teenage Dream. Though not critically well-received, virtually every song on the album is still a heavily streamed hit today. In that sense, it is the perfect pop bible.

Critical reception, for sure. She has always released great body of (introspective and personal) work and poptimism is still going strong. Commercial wise, I do not know. She and her team has not done the best job maintaining her legacy, streams, etc. amongst the new generation. (If she rode on the Michael resurgence we are seeing right now though, there might be renewed interest.)

Britney's look and snake is still referenced today. In fact, if you look up "britney spears costume" on Google, the VMA Slave outfit is one of the most popular ones, alongside BOMT school uniform, Oops red catsuit, and Toxic stewardess music video outfits. That's a testament to how iconic and well-remembered a performance is.

some of the atrl members saying he's not hot but thirsting after the most mid white men #okay

So offensive knowing Japan's colonization history against Korea/other Asian countries. Why would he do this even after the event organizers told him the dress code? By the way, that's not even a formal kimono. That's literally a bathrobe.

The extended pre-chorus and bridge in the album version >>>>> Which is why I love the Dream Within A Dream tour version which is a good middle ground of the album version and the remix version

Great for Dua and BTS! Performing at Coachella would be a cherry on top after BTS' extensive, global all-stadium tour. Sad to hear about Miley though. Miley would have had a similar Justin Bieber style repeak if she did Coachella :(( Both artists of Disney/2000s-2010s childhood fame that are notorious for not touring. If Miley brought back Hannah Montana songs or early Disney-era Miley songs like Justin did whew…And even more Miley knows how to put on a proper show!

Always wanted to own this when I first saw it on Discogs YEARS ago, even before I started by vinyl this decade! There are other artists who have similar remix vinyl boxsets like Whitney but by far Mariah's feel the most complete and most sense with them actually being fleshed out re-written, re-recorded remixes.

Congrats to her! Well deserved with it going viral again this year. I hope she eats some fancy food off it next time

An actual cultural moment of the 2020s and it served as such a clever and insightful response against that other denim company's ad.

You are definitely not alone at all in this and you will eventually find other gay men out there who feel and think the same way as you. (I was able to!) I don't know if "people like us" are a "rare breed" in the "mainstream gay world" but we def exist! And it's okay not to mesh with that group. Just like in a relationship, I think there's plenty of fish out there for friendship too. Also I don't believe it's internalized homophobia at all. We would have felt the same way if it was a group of straight girls or straight guys doing the same thing.

Even if this generation of stars is not 'of the same caliber', I would love to see the same kind of creativity, aesthetics, and photoshoots in today's award show lineups. Like imagine an Oydssey themed photoshoot that incorporated Olivia, Sabrina, Harry, etc. It would be so fun to see.