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The Future Nostalgia era already had started in November 2019 with Don't Start Now. I don't see why Future Nostalgia wouldn't have smashed either way.

How can such a blatant fraud not be filtered out for the charts?

Yeah, it'll inevitably happen, but I see the 2000s nostalgia completely taking over before that.

This isn't about claims, it is worse than ever. She needs any wake up call she can get. And her fans should try to help her wake up, not act as if any of this was healthy. I really hope she will get the help she needs.

Easily on par with her earlier works and heavily underrated.

Only listened to the first 4 tracks so far... until now, as expected, not my cup of tea. I do like HTIMYLM, but I kind of thought having this kind of sound at full album length might bore me and so far these expectations have been fulfilled. I think the art of make a sophomore album lies in making a cohesive art of work where all tracks still feel like individual arts of work. I fear this one might be the type of album where all songs almost blend into another because they are all too similar. Let's see how the rest of the album is.

It was with Ray Of Light. Not earlier, her career wasn't in the best shape throughout most of the 90s.

Well that didn't help any of the 2018 and 2022 world cup songs. Btw, the song is afrobeat.

I mean, Shakira is living proof.

As a European I gotta say the American definitions of race are weird to say the least. The other day the Tyla thread, now Shakira being considered a POC She is clearly from European descent + has libanese roots. No one, really no one ever in Europe would call her POC and they would think you must be joking if you did.

I actually grew up in Germany and can guarantee even a 95 years old granny would know who Shakira is.

FIFA became greedy and started giving the world cup to countries with very serious human right issues (Russia 2018 & Qatar 2022), which damaged the reputation of the tournament, raised many national debates about boycotting etc. Giving the 2022 World cup to Qatar was a big scandal as well, because it was obvious to everyone it was bought, playing in winter instead of summer didn't help either. That's also why for example neither 2018 or 2022 produced any successful world cup songs. Both tournaments felt very shallow and flat for football fans because of everything surrounding it. It was a very clear shift from the previous all feel-good atmosphere the tournament always had. So yeah, maybe by numbers it might be bigger now, but hardly any football fan would say it is in a good shape right now. And 2034 in Saudi-Arabia will raise the very same discussions again and overshadow the tournament.

Absolutely agree

If Dai Dai actually goes #1 in the UK it's finally time to admit that Dai Dai did absolutely replicate Waka Waka's sucess. Absolutely crazy how she's smashing like this 31 years into her career.

Nah, Underneath Your Clothes didn't go #1 in most markets