Junipero

This is funny because when I first heard Rihanna in 2007, it was on Radio Disney. Yeah, Rihanna's shift into her "bad girl" image was a lot more gradual. It wasn't like she completely changed in the span of a year, and she was already singing more mature songs like "Unfaithful." Miley also had songs like Can't Be Tamed and Who Owns the Night, but I think it felt different because those songs weren't as big as Rihanna's hits, and people still saw Miley as a child star. Miley wasn't really blatant about drugs until Bangerz, whereas Rihanna's hits gradually became more blatant with their adult themes early in her career. I can't explain it, but I never really considered Rihanna a "bad girl" she was just the girl who smoked weed and hung out with the theatre kids duriing break and the drug dealers by lunch time.

Max Martin usually asks for co-writing credits. A five-second Google search shows that Max Martin and his team are credited as composers, while Ariana is credited as the lyricist (and they conveniently omitted the "songwriter" credits and seperated them as "lyricist" and "composer"). Ariana did not wrote the songs entirely by herself(as in the melody). Being the sole lyricist just means she wrote the words. Lyrics and melody are different things... the melody is what is sung, while the lyrics are the words added to it. Max Martin and his collaborators usually help create the melody and overall composition, even if Ariana wrote all the lyrics. So no, the melody probably wasn't written entirely by Ariana alone. Nothing changes.

And the iPhone still costs as much as a laptop

When they mean "english" do they mean like The Beatles and the other bands of the Mersey Beat genre of the 60's?

"Suddenly I See" reminds me of "1, 2, 3, 4" by Feist.

I think it is because you have gotten older. I assume you are around 17-22 years old? Because I rember people my age felt the same way about music in 2013. It is time to pass the baton to a younger generation to decide the fate of popular music.

RedOne just reused his formula to whatever stuck lol... He reused the Alejandro drums in another song i forgot the artist but it was a girl group. Edit: Found it The Dolly Rockers- One More

Blank Space, Welcome To New York. Katy Perry's PRISM sounds very Lana, Lorde and 2011-2013 alt-rock and indie INSPIRED, but doesn't sound like Lana or Lorde. By The Grade of God's bridge sounds Lana-inspired. Double Rainbow sounds like a Lorde-inspired insturmental. Pills N Potions by Nicki Minaj sounds Lorde-inspired. You can hear some inspiration in Hands to Myself by Selena Gomez. Practically Max Martin, Dr. Luke, Benny Blanco, etc... are known to heavily "borrow" and take inspiration from popular songs. Max implied something about "updating" his sounds... Dr.Luke has a whole mess of court cases on plagiarism... and Benny Blanco admitted that they were going for a Lana Del Rey sound for Rihanna's Diamonds. Forgot to add, this an an "indie-pop" song that came out in 2010 a few years before Lorde beduted, but it sounds VERY Lorde like. I do think Lorde popularized this sound:

I say this as a non-Ari fan. I don't think this is bad, I think it is decent. I think that this is going to do better with the GP than "Yes, and?" but I feel it will be less fan driven. I feel she is now appealing to people born in like 2011, because The Maria's seem to be popular on TikTok, and this song sounds like a The Maria's song. I blame Max and Ilya for the trenchasing.

I like Omarossa because she is more quiet and says things in a manner that can fly over peoples heads. New York obviously tries to exaggerate and play up to cameras. New York I feel is much better suited for scripted reality TV where they compress her 1 hours comversations into like 30 second segments. Omarassa is more "long form" if it makes sense? As in like she is more interesting when you understand the context of her and her job, her "resume." New Yrok feels more instant, while Omarassa does pretend like she has done nothing wrong. both are good for different reasons.

The funny thing is that Dinsey's Frozen washed out BOTH self-titled and ARTPOP. They should have been feuding with Elsa instead.

Wasn't Nicki Minaj already a republican? I heard rumord that she supported Mitt Romney in the 2012 election?

I heard he rents out property in Dubai. However, I don't think RedOne is broke because he was in charge of the music for FIFA and did the music and produced for QATAR FIFA 2022. RedOne left the US market and instead focuses on Middle East and Latin America now. I don't even think he does electropop now either, just world music. Lana Del Rey + Emilie Hayne, Cyndi Lauper + Rick Chertoff, Bjork + Nellee Hooper, Rihanna + Stargate, Katy Perry + Stargate, Katy Perry + Benny Blanco and Dr. Luke... Dr. Luke solo kinda sucks not gonna lie. It seems like he perhaps rode off the coattails of Benny Blanco for early Katy's and Kesha's stuff?

Yes. "Yes... and?" did multiple variants to debut at #1, right? Unless Billboard changed the rules. However, the main threat would be Ella in my opinion, she could perhaps pull a sales tactic as well to keep her on top for a few more weeks. Do you guys think Ari's career is slowly declining, or is she steady? she has been consistent like P!nk in a sense.

You can hear that saxophone sound and the Logic Pro ES2 Synths and the Logic Pro Auto-Filter Plugin that RedOne would later use in for the songs on Lady Gaga's "The Fame" lmfao