MatiRod

My first reaction upon hearing Wor$t Girl was that she had put female grunge and punk energy into electro-pop. She's Courtney's daughter for the 21st century.

It's really ******* depressing what's happening with the music industry. It didn't use to be THAT blatant. When I was growing up in Peru there was a girl in my school who also wanted to be a singer. Her family owns 80% of all media in the country lol. Uber nepo. The only reason I went to the same school is because my mom was a teacher there and I got a big tuition discount. She tried, recorded some stuff, it went absolutely nowhere and she abandoned it, now she's a lawyer or something. This was in the late 2000s/early 2010s. But now with how social media and streaming works, it's easier than ever to buy a career. If you can dump $20,000 into playlisting services, another $20,000 into bots, $50,000 into ads, $100,000 for a $20,000-a-month PR firm, voila, you are suddenly a "rising artist" and labels will start circling.

Yes. She's one of those people that was just born to do this and be a superstar. Vocals, writing, vision, stage presence, she has it all.

Madonna's Die Another Day should've been in there

Really enjoying this, Heaven Baby (and her Peggy Gou collab) sound like and deserve to be hits, where is the payola when someone actually deserves it

My Spotify autoplay going from Coldplay The Scientist to Hootie Frootie

2020s one hit wonder ("That's So True")

Oh this means another surprise bank holiday soon

I do think Showgirl is a biiit concerning in that it's her first album ever to actually be straight up bad and to be recognized as bad by the public and even her own fans. The reason she became and stayed so huge is because the quality never truly faltered. Until now. So she will almost certainly still do huge numbers but it is a tiny crack in the foundation. Artists can survive a lot of scandals, changes in public opinion, drama, Taylor has survived all of that. But artists can't really survive bad music. If her next album is great then it's back to business as usual. And she will still probably sell enough pure sales to be a success no matter what. But Taylor Swift does not want to just be successful, she wants to remain the undisputed #1 HBIC supreme overlord of the music industry. And I'm not 100% sure she will remain that way if the next album is also bad.

"If you're down maybe we could do something later" **** does that mean? I don't get it, straight up She truly ended noncommittal wishy washy fuckboys with this song Girls never ever settle for a man who's not excited to spend time with you

It's actually Charli, for both

Not this being the first Ophelia performance

All of those are either extremely successful and/or released by Grammy darlings a lot of whom have won AOTY recently. Grammys don't care about critical acclaim, just look at the winners. They're mostly working musicians who have their faves and biases and are separate from music critics.

The Art of Loving, The Great Divide, Lost Weekend, Lux, The Life of a Showgirl, The Romantic, Dandelion, Kiss All the Time, Oh Yeah?, Deadbeat. It's a very competitive year.

If she wanted to be shady she would just post her own latest Pitchfork score with no commentary