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Ukraine is making some significant progress, but it remains to be seen what its post-war future will look like. Russia-occupied Ukraine would obviously be extremely anti-gay. If Ukraine becomes part of the EU during the next decade, it will certainly become more gay-friendly. https://united24media.com/latest-news/ukraine-lgbtq-rights-advance-with-first-legal-recognition-of-same-sex-couple-9612

Absolutely not. Gwen has never been strongly associated with a progressive or activist identity, and her transition felt rather authentic due to her relationship with Blake Shelton. A full-on MAGA/trad wife rebrand for Katy Perry would completely kill her career since she has always been a provocative pop star who rejected her strict religious upbringing. Katy needs to bring back Prism-esque aesthetics and release a breakup anthem.

I guess the fact that it's a personal song makes it even better.

Pink is on par with Beyoncé in terms of her album stats and tour stats. Her longevity is very impressive, but gay people do not consume her music. She's your typical soccer mom singer.

Happy for You, but it's a close second.

Her music has never been popular with the gays. Her stats are impressive, but there is like one Pink song that I like.

Pretty sure that I reported "cokenika." Maybe there was a mistake.

She was definitely a MPG during The E.N.D.

You said that Rihanna, who is basically a retired legacy act at this point, is an MPG while Katy is not an MPG despite the fact that The Lifetimes Tour will be bigger than any Rihanna tour. Make it make sense.

I am in my 20s, but I heard a lot about Jessica in the 00s without actually hearing her music. I vaguely remember watching one of her reality shows on MTV (I guess it was "The Price of Beauty"). The fact that she has a sister with an actual music career genuinely comes as a surprise to me (and I don't mean to be shady). Apparently, there's also some sort of a stan feud between their fans

This is honestly the first (or second) time that I hear about Ashlee.

You cannot lose your MPG status once you achieve it since it is an all-encompassing category that requires significant achievements.

This doesn't make any sense. Rihanna is a main pop girl despite not releasing music for a decade, but Katy is not one despite the fact that she is currently on a huge tour? Katy will always be a MPG. Be serious. TD is one of the most streamed albums as of today. This shameless sneak

Miley's total EAS is almost twice as big as that of Selena. Miley will have four diamond songs, multi-platinum albums, Grammys, multiple #1s, huge pop culture moments (she was the most googled person of 2013). Why wouldn't she qualify as a MPG? I agree that she lacks a blockbuster era like TD or 1989, but she has the second most certified female song to make up for that.

No. Even Hillary Duff and Jessica Simpson are more likely to be called MPGs since they have multi-platinum albums. Selena's album stats are abysmal. Her biggest era (Revival) is at 6 million CSPC.

This is truly gross. A new low.

Again, Zelenskyy doesn't have the power to halt elections. The power to halt elections resides by extending martial law explicitly with the Ukrainian Parliament. Martial law makes elections illegal under current conditions. My initial point was that the pro-Russia far-left has to stop smearing Ukraine as an ultra-far-right state at every opportunity, leave it alone, and focus on advancing progressive issues in their beloved Palestine instead of commenting on domestic Ukrainian politics without understanding anything about it.

Around 70% of the in U.S. aid since 2022 has been spent within the U.S. And the US mainly sends old aging gear that will be replaced anyway, so these are not "handouts" per se. Also, the US disarmed Ukraine in the 90s (which included depriving Ukraine of nukes and making it vulnerable). What do you expect? If you get tired of constant "begging," give Ukraine its tactical nukes and long-range bombers back The Ukrainians are not just going to get genocided in silence.

Elections haven't been held in Ukraine due to Russia. Leftists desperately want Ukrainians to go to the polls under drone and rocket strikes, but elections (presidential, parliamentary, local) are currently unconstitutional and legally prohibited due to martial law. The martial law gets extended by Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament), not Zelenskyy. Please, familiarize yourself with some legal basics before forming your hot takes based on tweets from Jackson Hinkle and Syrian Girl.

It still became massive in the long run, so it makes little difference.

I forgot how big Sorry Not Sorry was.

This is a completely irrelevant institution no one is Ukraine has heard of. Starodubtsev, a Ukrainian Dem socialist, is an attention-seeker who is just trying to pander to Western leftists by blowing this issue out of proportion. American leftists do not support Ukraine at all, so I have no idea who he is trying to pander to. American lefitsts support Hamas-ruled Gaza, where homosexuality is explicitly illegal and women have no rights, to "oppose" genocide, but they are foaming at the mouth at the sight of Ukraine because of its "far-right problem" (despite the fact that far-right parties never had any political influence in the country). Biletsky is a fool who got like 1% of the vote during the last election.

No one said that? There's a fine line between being over and "being on the of the world" like her fans claim.

Katy is on a major tour that is expected to gross around $200 million and surpass The Prismatic Tour's average gross per show. Meanwhile, TD is hitting new streaming peaks. Her career is doing fine. The fact that even such a nuclear disaster as 143 did not kill Katy's career shows that she will be able to tour and earn money off her music for a long time just based on the strength of her catalogue that is packed with timeless classics. She might not be able to secure a major hit again, but this doesn't mean that her career is dead since touring is the main source of income. Xtina is the obvious answer. She simply cannot make money with her music career anymore. Her last tour grossed $6 million in 2019, no one is streaming her music, etc.

I think that her reputation of a "popcorn actress" will prevent her from winning one in the future. This, unfortunately, happened to Demi Moore, who totally deserved to win this year. Once an actor becomes closely tied to a particular franchise or genre (especially superhero movies) it's harder for the industry and critics to take their more "serious" work at face value. She will probably need the perfect role and a lot of momentum like Moore with The Substance, but the latter still did not manage to win.