purplelacebra
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wor$t man in america brand new chanel$ nekromantik! i think he's got a girl hillbilly jfc jfk real rich ***** new tech crank 2 lemonade stand buzzin' my life's on fire hail maryyy hymn big man
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the hell do u mean experimental it was her first ever project…for it to be experimental there has to be something to go away from, if anything it was just uncohesive.
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another single….Normani 2.0
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imo artists/teams view them as more of a merch item and not an actual format of the album to listen to which is being made incredibly obvious with the recent trend of several variants of the same album along with different versions being tied to different stores for promotional deals (Target, HMV, Urban Outfitters, Amazon, Spotify and more), along with the "limited time" releases Taylor, an extremely influential woman, has been doing. and that's not to mention the insane prices. for example, the new Beyonce B'Day vinyl is nothing short of outrageous. a good example to show the change in this sort of thing is Red (Taylor's Version) [2021] and THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY [2024] being $20 apart from each other despite containing the same amount of discs, and the latter not coming with any additional items. or Olivia's new album vinyl averaging $40 for most versions, when it was nothing besides the jacket and the disc, and the songs on the disc were unfinished versions, and there wasn't even an accurate tracklisting given to any version of the album. that situation is what really solidified the industry now seeing vinyl as merch and not music for me, because on streaming, she wouldn't have released an unfinished album where we couldn't look at the song titles. in fan culture, most people collect the variants to look at them and just play the album on their phone. that's a hundred percent fine, do whatever you want with their money, but i don't think vinyl selling is centered around wanting fans to have this way of listening to an album. it's wanting to push them to complete their merch collection, so that they can then post online about how they've completed their merch collection, so that the mindless followers of the artist will then go buy the "dirt in my eye brown splatter h&m exclusive" vinyl with the 3x3 poster! got sort of off topic but in conclusion, you could go either way about this. is it a scam when you're looking at it for its original intended use (to listen to an album)? probably. is it a scam when you're looking at it for its more modern use (to expand your collection of merch)? i would say no.
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it would be funny of her to drop the album or at least this on 9/11 cuz of the America in the title but she probably wont
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maggots for brains but evil and on crack
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how is it fraudulent to pay for promotion? that's literally just business
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if anything this just proves she's not fraudulent😭don't you think if she was gonna be a fraud for one she would be a fraud for both?
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wow! a song by the biggest artist in the world funded by one of the most successful companies ever has a lot of money being used for its radio deals…THIS CANT BE HAPPENING
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Normani's ender is coming.
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actually expected this to be for poor security or something before reading the post
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this is a huge letdown personally. extremely boring and the lyrics are mostly not good. only 4 or 5 songs actually stood out anyway Punisher still exists so idgaf
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awful title awful cover probably awful music just like the last one
