MatiRod
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They're playing "Sweet Nothings" on the loudspeakers on my Aeromexico flight while the plane waits to take off, the promo! Midnights (Deluxe The Re-Up) they will never make me hate you
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Autoplay responds to streams and save rates and whatnot. If you could just fix it then no high profile songs would ever flop (remember Harry Styles' album?)
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It's clearly her more comfortable register. I hate that people said she couldn't sing. She obviously could from a young age, that's a God given talent, she was just pushed to use a very particular register that became her trademark and that is much harder to control live. She was literally straining her voice.
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Britney really could've had a whole different career if she had sung in her lower register
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She takes Hot AC-friendly pop rock, soft rock and country pop as a template but imbues it with such an intensity of feeling, vivid detail and melodic perfection that it registers as closer to Blue (Joni) than P!nk.
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Booked ✅ Busy ✅
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Musically I get what you mean but I think thematically there's something that's at least very timely here. She's basically fantasizing about living like a rich bachelor dude and treating her bf/husband like an accessory. It's a very 21st century version of womanhood, aggressively capitalistic for the influencer age in a way that we haven't heard in a while from a female pop star. There's definitely something that speaks to young women's anxiety over settling down and how family might limit their freedom, that single cover is a very striking image. When you pair that with the ostensible MAGA vibes~ between the Alberta girl, sports gear, Morgan Wallen, Victoria's Secret of it all, that's kind of interesting and unexpected because this song (and it's indelible single artwork, the most provocative piece of pop music imagery this year) is at its core the opposite of a MAGA message, a total rejection of modern conservative values for women and family. I think Miss Tate might be hinting at some pretty meaningful fissures in our culture wars here!
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Honestly you might assume that but from my brief stint in label world I'm not so sure, I have a sneaking suspicion the algorithm is almost out of control just like the TikTok one, it's so complicated that no one actually understands how it works anymore aside from maybe two software engineers somewhere in a concrete building in Sweden and they don't panic as long as the revenue continues to climb. When I was on a Warner-distributed indie label they literally told me that the algorithm was definitely favouring me for release radar and stuff like that because "we're on Warner" and the major labels own a portion of Spotify and yet it really didn't lol, I did not notice any difference vs my friends releasing music fully independently and I really looked into it. Even in labels people are clueless, it seems to me some people just assume that's how it works. What you CAN control is something called 'Discover mode' which will pump the song out more in exchange for a lower royalty rate, and 'Showcase' which is where you see a song promoted on the front page, those are two easy things they can basically pay for streams with.
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I'm Latino but it's undoubtedly Taylor, she is truly global now in a way that Benito is not. He is HUGE, don't get me wrong, but his penetration among non-Spanish speaking audiences, or audiences in close contact with them (you'll hear his music in NY even if you're not Latino because there's so many of us there) is much more limited. English is still the lingua franca of the world and the American ideal Taylor represents is still the world's aspirational goal (problematic as that may be, though no fault of hers, she is not responsible for the last 150 years of history) so she has an advantage there of course. But if you're just asking who's a bigger deal overall, she has many songs the entire world knows now, and could've sold out a stadium five times over literally anywhere in her last tour. Her profile as a celebrity is much bigger as well. Her concert movie did over $250M. If she really leaned into product endorsements she could easily become a new Martha Stewart type tycoon. Taylor is a megastar now everywhere on the planet. Bad Bunny is simply not on that level and that's OK. It doesn't take away from what he's achieved.
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The pram full of dollar bills is one of the most striking and concise visual hooks of a pop star in ages. Her team is great
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I feel like he was probably too terrified of her to be his usual self and the song just wasn't amazing. Would love to be wrong again though and hear it one day.
