Morbidicity

Never thought about it. Let me think about it. Don't care

You are aware that children saw adults naked for millennia ,eons even, before the concept of modesty right? Even today there are tribes where clothes aren't a thing. And then you've got the Scandinavian countries, etc where communal bathing is common. Nudity is natural. It is normal. It should not be seen as a thing of shame.

I've had the opposite experience. I live in the Midwest, which has been ravaged by the opioid crisis, but I haven't really ever dealt with a guy that was doing hard drugs or offered them to me. I remember a Grindr message eons ago from a faceless profile that I think said something along the lines of "parTy". I think the closest I've gotten is this hot guy that came over high on coke, which I don't consider a hard drug. It made him an animal, all sweaty and we made out like lions. Only issue was his ***** couldn't get hard. But his feet were amazing so I don't really care about that too much. Even when I've gone to some of the seedier gay bars (like ones for the leather crowd) I don't experience that stuff. Either I come off as too clean cut (which I shouldn't, given my white trash attire and tattoos) or my gut protects me from the guys that are about that life.

I think people are just burned out. There's only so much time you can spend listening to an album or an artist before you start to feel claustrophobic. I don't seek out Taylor quite as much right now after having TTPD on near constant repeat and then Showgirl for the better part of this year. I don't skip, usually, if she comes on though. But it's nice giving other songs in my library a chance

It should. She's no more irrelevant than half the acts that get nominated

Never used it but I think I've heard of it

My take of "I've never seen gays do the **** the OP is talking about in my 20 years of being in the gay community" is ignorant? I don't think my own experience lacks knowledge or understanding.

Kinda weird how deep I got into it before I stopped recognizing anything. Either seasons or whatever were cycled quick or I watched PR for years longer than I thought. I know I was obsessed as early as 1995, as I had a megazord and our house had burned down that year and it melted. It was around the summer of 2001 that I caught an opening on tv and one of the Red Rangers tore his shirt open and I was like but I hadn't watched it in what feels like forever at that point. Cuz I remember thinking, and I was 12, "wow I haven't watched power rangers in years how are they still on?" But yeah, the earliest ones hit the hardest. Also, the mega mix of the Pokémon themes hits so hard. It's not until the Unova seasons where they start becoming flops

I'd say Look What You Made Me Do for song and petal for video

No. I have nothing against them and I used them for most of my life until 2020. I got my first pair of Bluetooth headphones in late 2016 after Apple ditched the headphone jack. I still used EarPods for a few years after that because I didn't want to always carry my cans with me. But after snagging the cord on the umpteenth door handle, I said ENOUGH. Like, the only way you're going to hear the audio quality improvements of Lossless audio over wired is if you know what to listen for. Even audiophiles and sound engineers often fail blind audio quality tests. I will say though that listening to music in the car is a different beast. When music plays through Bluetooth instead of CarPlay (which only happens to me on the rare occasion when CarPlay doesn't connect) the difference in quality is noticeable. Although I don't notice any quality difference between wired CarPlay (lossless capable) and wireless CarPlay (256kbps AAC).

Bull. ****. I've been actively gay for almost 20 years now. Never once have I seen the stuff that gay men supposedly do all the time. I was at a rather large Pride event in June and the most extreme amount of skin I saw was from lesbians or at least females walking around with nothing on their breasts except pasties. As far as men go, just a few bears in harnesses. No shirtless twinks or muscle daddies. It was so sanitized that I felt ripped off. I've heard about cruising parks but have never seen one in action. Nobody has ever said "I go there" or "meet me there". It's just been something I've heard secondhand from people that don't partake. So no, it shouldn't be shamed. It's not harming anyone. Children aren't even at the parks during the day, let alone nighttime. And if a child does happen to see non-sexual nudity, so what? Children are only here because two people put their genitals together. Like this attitude that children can't see nudity is so weird…as small children as the ones you are most likely to see naked in public. To say nothing about how nude swimming was mandated in public pools (schools and rec centers) for men as late as the 1980's and how public nudity is common in Scandinavian countries today.

The bright side for Sam Smith is that Sam Smith isn't much of a celebrity, so this lackluster showing won't be talked about all that much. Sam Smith can easily come back with better songs and get better numbers.

From the same show that made Dylan famous. And also the ex that Sam Smith sings Diamonds about

Then stop. It doesn't matter if he offs himself (which he likely wouldn't do) if you end the friendship. His problems aren't your problems. A friendship should bring good feelings the vast majority of the time. You either need to have firm words with him about how his behavior is affecting you so that he can change or if you've already done that, you need to cut ties.

Their last album really is great tho

Why he flopping? Cuz the music ain't hit material. It's been 7 years since I've liked a Sam Smith song, either Diamonds or Dancing with a Stranger, whichever was the most recent. I haven't even been able to listen to Unholy all the way through due to how bad it is.

I suppose I do. I've been doing it for years but I always just called it throwing seeds

No. The vast majority of guys do not look like that. I can't even name 1 gay man I've met in my life that looked like that. Maybe it's midwest things. Most gays I've gotten with didn't even have discernible muscle

I didn't know her by name but I recognize her face. Very tragic.

Cuz women kinda suck. Like my one female friend, who is 23 and caucasian, went to see him in concert just a couple weeks ago. And it's just like...ugh. I don't really see the appeal

Yes. Lots of fat gays date. Mostly each other. But they're still dating somebody!

It's weird cuz as a fan we view all of these people the same. They're pop stars so they have the same job so they must interact. I've never seen P!nk and Gaga pictured together either. It wasn't until like 2017 that P!nk and Kelly Clarkson were seen together. We're talking years and years of being in the same industry and even the same niche within the industry and some pop girls have never been linked together in a photograph. And we assume they don't know each other. Or they're pictured together and we assume they're friends. But we don't know what goes on. And I think that's a good reminder that we don't know ****

It doesn't affect me. I get that some people feel like these celebrities get to wear the rainbow cloak and the clout that comes with it without facing any of the dangers and prejudices of being LGBT. Harry Styles is the lowest hanging fruit and the easiest target, due to his fashion choices, statements he has made, his outright refusal to state any sexuality and the way he was lauded as being a gender bending, Bowie-esque icon. I think it's valid that some LGBT people are irritated by the fact that these celebrities get to be applauded for their queerness that is never seen whilst they go about their lives fearing for their safety, or hiding their truth from their parents or dealing with all the other **** that comes with being gay. Especially since more "actually" gay artists, barring Sam Smith and recently Chappell Roan, never get to see any kind of industry support or mainstream success.

That's hard to say. There are many ways to judge a video. How fun it is to watch, how beautiful it is, its impact on the culture, whether or not it's still talked about years after release, whether any part of the video (be it look or dance) became a subject of parody or tribute or Halloween costume.

The way you people talk about decades is crazy to me. A decade is 10 years. Taylor Swift has been around for 2 decades. Lady Gaga just shy of 2 decades. Ya'll will take 12/31/2009 - 1/1/2020 and make it sound like 30 years.