If anyone isn't familiar with Mara or her writing, I highly recommend her autobiography Where Am I Now? It's a really interesting read, especially if you watched Mara's films as a kid and were indeed wondering where she is now.
Have we talked about how iheartradio reported this was a song with Charli XCX because of a /r/popheadscirclejerk post? I'm dying.
Edit: A link to the cj post
Final tracklist from Amazon:
1. In My Blood
2. Nervous
3. Lost In Japan
4. Where Were You In The Morning
5. Like To Be You (feat. Julia Michaels)
6. Fallin’ All In You
7. Particular Taste
8. Why
9. Because I Had You
10. Queen
11. Youth (feat. Industry Plant)
12. Mutual
13. Perfectly Wrong
14. When You’re Ready
Taking a page off Taylor & Camila’s books and not making a deluxe version ugh we love a generous mans��
Free money for some person at your expense. You do you, but beware: cybersecurity apathy is a dangerous precedent.
Ads can mine your data, track you without your consent, compromise your security, spread malware, and use excessive resources, which makes pages load slowly or even crash.
Like I said before: there are plenty of free or open source ad blockers that let you safely support who you want. There's even one that <em>only</em> blocks the bad ads.
It's like unsafe sex. You don't have to use a condom, but you should. And maybe you'll be fine without it, but why take the risk at all?
Going to plug one of my favorite podcasts You're Wrong About and their most recent episode about this whole saga. Really interesting history and fits into a bigger series they are doing on who complains about cancel culture/political correctness vs. who actually gets cancelled.
I shamelessly read "Taylor Swift: The rise of the Nashville teen" at a library once, tho I wasn't really a fan before hand. But after just reading about her childhood (before the age of 16ish) with her doing theater, struggle during school days, getting into the industry, made me think very differently of her in a good way and many of my preconceptions of her vanished. I think she was very smart with her opportunities (despite her privileges), she's obviously very talented, and i can understand her competitiveness better.
I think of her as more human now, though still a little bit SNEKkkK.
She has a very interesting story that'd be great for a doc!!
Listening to secret snippets and the two tracks already released that are the most characteristic of the album are Julien and No Drug Like Me. Some tracks are more experimental a la Warm Blood. She's definitely throwing all pretenses of commercialism out.
Unclear what's going to happen on Windows.
The preview page for the new macOS version notes that the iTunes Store isn't going away with the new app:
>For users who still like to own their music, the iTunes Store is just a click away.
I recently read "Everybody Loves Our Town", an oral history of grunge. It was interesting to hear people talk about how driven and ambitious certain artists from this scene were. I lived through it and I clearly remember Kurt Cobain, Eddie Vedder, et all complaining about fame (and even lambasting Courtney Love for her clear thirst for it). Anyway, Chris Cornell coming out with a pop album was surprising but not entirely shocking. At some point, artists will chase that coin.
There's an app for Android and iOS called Crabhands that does exactly this. It syncs with your Spotify account and lets you know when artists you follow release new music. You can then change these artists, of course. You can even filter out certain words so they're not included (I added the word 'remix' because I just want to know about original songs).
The first song (21:25) she played tonight at Radio 1 was amazing. It had the same vibe as Hasley's new song and all for that luv
Not like, tea per se but I didn't know where to post this but in my never ending quest to find bad music from former television stars I found out that Schatar Sapphira Collier (Hottie from Flavor Of Love season one, the one who reminded people of Beyoncé) wrote/produced/directed a musical short film called <em>Amulet Of Love</em> that feels like it came from another dimension.
It doesn't have a budget (soooo much green screen), the writing is bizarre, the acting is terrible (no one ever stops smiling), the music is tuneless... I don't want to be too hard on it because it seems like a passion project but I can't believe someone looked at this and released it. For some reason it's streaming on Amazon.
Almost, but not quite: https://www.discogs.com/Grimes-Art-Angels/release/7997446 (mix & mastering by men- Tom Coyne is a heavy hitter for #1 albums). Grimes is a big exception here, she's like the Trent Reznor of 2010's art pop. She's done several interviews where she talks about how uninviting the studio environment is for women who want to exert more control over their engineering.
Katy Perry and Mariah Carey are generally well-regarded by the general public and diehard pop music fans, as well as publications that cover exclusively pop music (Billboard, etc). However, music reviewers tend like to edgier, more groundbreaking music (unless you're Rolling Stone, who still prefer aging rock acts playing the same tired songs). Katy and Mariah make enjoyable music, but they are admittedly generic and safe, and until recently, critics have shied away from giving strong reviews to anything considered too "pop" and mainstream (rockism is a thing). Artists like Madonna and Janet Jackson usually receive better reviews because they are more experimental and forward-thinking artists, that try something new with each album they released.
> Erotica was her using her power to make an uncompromising album about sex and AIDS and freaky shit but telling you it’s not freaky to be into freaky shit. It wasn’t her best album, but it was a brave one!
It was an incredibly risky move for her, especially given the period. To give some context, pop culture was considerably less-sexual in the very beginning of the 1990s in the wake of the AIDS crisis, which was impacting not only queer and POC communities on the fringe but also mainstream society. The explicitly exuberant sexuality of Madonna’s Erotica era was a world away from the chaste female-led soft pop and adult contemporary of the Wilson Phillips, Amy Grants and Roxettes that had been dominating the cultural conversation for the early years of the decade; and as you said, it was really brave of her to do so. To make such a sex-positive and queer-positive album in the days of “No glove no love” was groundbreaking, and certainly influential.
(For more information about what queer life was like in the early 1990s, I’d recommend Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life In America for an incredible analysis of what life was like for already-marginalized communities living in the shadow of an epidemic.)
Edit: grammar
I didn't actually use to have one but I bought a blue tooth vibrator that vibrates to the music meaning I can essentially twerk to whatevers playing while it vibrates in my bussy
(heres a link: https://www.amazon.com/OhMiBod-Naughtibod-Bubblegum-Vibrator-Personal/dp/B001EHF95O)
Kream - Iggy Azalea
Anaconda - Nicki Minaj
Pound the Alarm - Nicki Minaj
Boss ass bitch - PTAF
I like it - Cardi B
Mi gente - J Balvin & willy william version, beyonce one isn't bad but it interrupts the booty twerkin flow for her verse.
Toxic - Britney spears
Twerk it V.I.C.
Massive attack - Nicki Minaj
Birthday cake remix - Rihanna and Chris Brown
Where them girls at - David Guetta
GDFR - Flo ride and Sage the Gemini
Man Like that - Gin Wigmore
Liquid Lunch remix - Caro emerald
Black Betty - Carvan Palace version
Booty Swing - Parov Stelar
Libella Swing - Parov Stelar
Booty - Jlo and pitbull. I don't hate the iggy version but I like being told to twerk for daddy pitbull. (I mean duh)
Black Skinhead - Kanye West
Country girl shake it - Luke Bryan (look Luke bryan tellin me to twerk is reason enough to have this)
Mo Bounce - Iggy Azalea
Bodak Yellow - Cardi B
Fuck u betta - Mister Chase
and I also swap in and out songs when I feel like it.
According to Shazam it's called "Bitter Rhymes". though nothing is annouced yet it could be for an upcoming album or just a single soundtrack song.
Shawn Mendes self-titled album confirmed. Wig!!! Woo! This is brining me back to the Frank Ocean - Endless livestream.��
He’s sharing the tracklist in the live chat section:
- Lost In Japan
- Because I Had You
- Perfectly Wrong
- Like To Be You
- Mutual
- Queen
- Nervous
- In My Blood
- Particular Taste
- In The Morning
- When You Are Ready
- Youth
- Fallin' All in You
- Why
Final tracklist from Amazon:
1. In My Blood
2. Nervous
3. Lost In Japan
4. Where Were You In The Morning
5. Like To Be You (feat. Julia Michaels)
6. Fallin’ All In You
7. Particular Taste
8. Why
9. Because I Had You
10. Queen
11. Youth (feat. Industry Plant)
12. Mutual
13. Perfectly Wrong
14. When You’re Ready
Truffle Butter's a really interesting one because the original's rhythm is totally different then in Nicki's song.
Racial prejudice is racism. That's literally how multiple dictionaries define it. I really don't get why people can't accept that systematic racism is just a form of racism.
Join the Beatsense room! Until the start of the reveal, some notes:
I'm sorry in advance.
Hey just so you know, if you got your account back, you can recover playlists even if they were deleted ages ago https://www.spotify.com/us/account/recover-playlists/
I would also highly recommend exporting playlists to other platforms just in-case (loads of websites for that, like soundizz).
The Twitter beef with Louis was pretty wild and childish but fortunately the 2 did reconnect after Louis' mom passed away and I think they're good now.
The not touring thing isn't his fault, he has anxiety. He does want to tour - he even has a chapter/page in his book where he explains "I want to play live. I <em>will</em> play live and he has shared in the past how sick he felt before performances when he started out performing solo. I'm sure he'll tour in support of his upcoming album (whatever it's titled and whenever its coming) and he has been rehearsing, so I still have faith in him lol. Hopefully he does start out with smaller venues like he suggested in the book, and eventually be able to confidently do bigger shows/tours.
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand E•MO•TION. The lyrical dissonance is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of Wertherian literature most of the nuance will go over a GP listener’s head. There’s also Carly’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into her lyricism - her personal philosophy draws heavily from Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time”, for instance. The homosexuals understand this stuff; they have the in•tel•lectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these issues, to realise that they’re not just boy problems - they say something deep about LIMERENCE. As a consequence people who dislike Carly Rae Jepsen truly ARE idiots - of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Carly’s existential catchphrase “I’m just going to the store, to the store” which itself is a cryptic reference to Adam Smith’s magnum opus “The Wealth of Nations”. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Carly Rae Jepsen’s genius lyricism unfolds itself on their Spotify playlists. What sweaties.. how I pity them. ��
And yes, by the way, i DO have a saxophone tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for popheads’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. If you know what I mean, do you know what I mean? ��
come jump in whenever time we'll probably be in there for like close to two hours :))
/r/listentothis I've found some great stuff there. Also they always include genres in titles so you can use the search bar to find stuff you like.
http://www.gnoosic.com/ Put in 3 bands or people you like and it'll give you the name of someone you may or may not have heard of. Most cases I get someone I don't know.
Wander on youtube and soundcloud. Also last.fm, browse spotify playlists, hypem.com.
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/kero-kero-bonito/time-n-place/
I like RYM for trying to really pinpoint genres. They aren't perfect, but as someone who is really anal about metadata'ing my music, they're the best resource I've found so far. Personally, I'd call it Noise Pop, the "Life Grips" comment up top is really accurate imo
Here's her explaining it. She really related to the story as a whole of two very different people finding true love in one another. The story is what inspired her to write the song. But she wanted it be hopeful and have a happy ending, so she changed it.
>Swift expanded on this song's invocation of the story of Romeo and Juliet in an interview with the Los Angeles Times October 26, 2008. Said Swift: "I was going through a situation like that where I could relate. I used to be in high school where you see [a boyfriend] every day. Then I was in a situation where it wasn't so easy for me, and I wrote this song because I could relate to the whole Romeo and Juliet thing. I was really inspired by that story. Except for the ending. I feel like they had such promise and they were so crazy for each other. And if that had just gone a little bit differently, it could have been the best love story ever told. And it is one of the best love stories ever told, but it's a tragedy. I thought, why can't you... make it a happy ending and put a key change in the song and turn it into a marriage proposal?"
But limited to early access in the U.S., Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea for now. You can sign up here and YouTube will notify you when it's available in your country.
Also, the promo video for YouTube Music includes what looks like a short teaser for Cardi's I Like It video that's supposed to drop later this month: https://youtu.be/HCLehj1B38M?t=21
Apparently it's this and I've seen ads for it on social media but tbh I just turn my keyboard/laptop upside down and bang it a few times and it works pretty well for me
There's an app called Run to Pee that let's you know when the best time to leave a movie to go pee is so you don't miss anything important plot wise. It's available for iOS as well.
Hi everyone!
There's a beatsense listening party of Teenage Dream (Katy Perry) and LOUD (Rihanna) at 7:30 PM EST tonight (sorry, Europeans). It will last about 2 hours.
This is the same as:
9:30 PM Argentina/Brazil Time
12:30 AM GMT (UK Time)
11:30 AM Sydney Australia Time
These are a lot of of fun, in my experience - a good way to meet some popheads and talk about some fun music! This is obviously partially for people who want to complete the 2010 Ultimate Rate that's due this Saturday Nov. 13th, but it may be fun for anyone who just wants to come chat, chill, and listen to some throwback tunes. :D
Hope I might see one or two of your there!
Yeah, but isn't that systemic racism? I get how that form of racism doesn't apply to white people, I just don't get why all of a sudden racism and systemic racism is the same thing when systemic racism is just a form of racism. And prejudice based on race is racism, that's literally one of the definitions.
Here’s a cool podcast ep called “Manufacturing the Song Of the Summer” going into detail about the writing camps and economics behind one of Rihanna’s attempts to get the song of the summer.
Yeah groups and nonbinary, and for men it's around 3.3 female and 2.5 mixed groups/nonbinary
Also, I couldn't find the original source, and the popdust article didn't link anything, so here's a website with up to date info, which is better than the stats I wrote earlier: everynoise.com/gender_tldr.html
<em>The New Mutants</em> is officially skipping theatres and was up for pre-order on Amazon until yesterday.👀 It’ll probably be back up after Disney/Twentieth Century officially announce what’s going to happen to the movie.
has anyone else thought of maybe buying a one-way to ticket somewhere and maybe start anew and maybe only tell 1 or 2 people about it?
i think i've been so obsessed with the idea of disappearing that i even ordered this book from my bookstore
The first verse is definitely about Ed Sheeran. If you didn’t know, Ed wrote a song for his album x where he talks about his relationship with (allegedly) Ellie Goulding.
There are a few details from “On My Mind” that reference Ed Sheeran or his song “Don’t”:
> Next thing that I know I'm in a hotel with you / You were talking deep like it was mad love to you
Ed sings about staying at a hotel in 2013 with her.
> You wanted my heart but I just liked your tattoos
If you asked someone for his most distinctive feature they would say his hair or his tatoos.
> You don't mess with love, you mess with the truth
The chorus on “Don’t" is “don’t fuck with my love” (although the swearing is deleted from the studio version of the song). Ellie uses a clean version of that same line.
flac is lossless, so it is equivalent to CD quality, which is the highest quality available to consumers. While 320k mp3s are objectively worse in quality than flac, very few people can actually hear the difference! Your equipment and ears matter a lot, and you can take a test here or on a ton of other sites.
However flac, being lossless, is great for mixing and for archival purposes. You can freely convert flac to any lossy format out there with no additional distortion, while if you convert an mp3 (or any other lossy format really) you're going to lose audio data. But for regular listening purposes, 320k mp3 is genedally way more than enough :)
Celebrate by streaming Queen Janelle's latest release!
Thank you to the hosts! So glad I made time to do this one, I had a blast with it.
I sleep with these:
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I will always stan Notion. It's an extremely flexible productivity tool. Everything is either a page (for flexibility and custom layouts) or a table (for systematic organization). So I have a table of my courses, linked to my table of tasks (every task is part of a course), and each task has a type (HW, Exam, etc.) I then have a page to see this clearly in different ways with different filters. Also pages are highly formattable, so they're great for note-taking if you want that. There's a Desktop and mobile app so you can take it anywhere.
Honestly you can use Notion for everything in your life, from your daily journal to a weekly budget sheet. There are a bunch of templates ready-to-use so you don't have to worry about designing your own pages and tables. Also it's completely free.
I'm going to try to revive the 2017 Pop/Rock idea as one of my submissions (it was left out of voting for May-August iirc) but I'm not sure if I want to put in The Killers - Wonderful Wonderful or Foster The People - Sacred Hearts Club. The Killers had more hype at release but I feel like the success of "Sit Next To Me" has given FTP some slow burn momentum. I don't have a preference so please answer this strawpoll
edit: the other albums in the rate are Paramore - After Laughter, Bleachers - Gone Now and Haim - Something To Tell You
Hi everyone! I told many of you this but not everyone - the 2010 Ultimate Rate Reveal will be tonight at 6:00 PM EST (again, sorry Europeans - tomorrow and Sunday will be at more standard times)
Hope to see you then! The post will go up about an hour earlier. Link for 6:00 PM: https://www.beatsense.com/ripplugdj
EDIT: It will also be sort of long (~2h50m by my calculations) so if you can't make it right at the start, maybe come by later!
So the article says that what would be perceived as racism toward white people is actually racial prejudice, but racial prejudice is literally one of the definitions of racism. And i'm not trying to argue that systemic racism doesn't exist, it definitely does, but systemic racism is just a form of racism, and one that is obviously not applicable to white people. I don't see what's wrong with looking at things that way.
Yes! I've been using it since 2005
http://www.last.fm/user/eightiesSpandex
And try Scroball on Android for Apple music. I think it works. I have no idea why it messes up for you when using iTunes. The official last.fm application worked for me when I listened on it.
If you're looking into the production process of a "classically" produced pop song, I recommend you reading this article, it goes in depth what it takes to produce a hit pop song and takes Rihanna's Man Down as an example.
Janet Jackson's Rhythm nation 1814 affected politics & social justice at the time.
Madonna completely changed how people's reactions to seeing nudity in mainstream music/TV, back in the Erotica Era, she is responsible for so much change in the music industry alone.
Let's not forget Britney Spears and her pirate repelling music, truly phenomenal.
don't forget to join our Beatsense baby!!!
while we wait... we can all agree that Tkay Maidza EASILY had the best album art here right lol
I feel like a lot of the greats have they're fair number of embarrassing songs or hits that don't really hold up. The biggest exception for me is definitely Kylie Minogue. After the late 90's, everything she's released has been really solid. Just looking at her singles since '98, I see so many anthems that have held up really well like "Can't Get You Outta My Head" or "In My Arms". She's always updating herself and unlike other artists *cough*Madonna*cough*, she's always done it really successfully.
And I know they aren't exactly popheads material, but Victoria Legrand and Hope Sandoval have never done wrong. They're such beautiful, idiosyncratic vocalists and their bands, Beach House and Mazzy Star respectively, have such solid discographies.
Hype!! I think they gonna premiere the new song too, not only talking about Shrines 5 year anniversary. because according to Shazam the snippet is from a new song called "Asido".
Non-premium Spotify users - Nina Nesbitt has some kind of promotion to get premium free for 3 months, the link is here. She said on her Instagram story that it ends today but the website says it ends on the 24th, either way you should probably get it soon. You can't get it if you've already had a premium free trial. I already have premium so I thought to post it here, hopefully some of you guys can take advantage of it!
These are my absolute favorite sub-$100 plug in headphones, the Final Audio Design High Resolution Headphone by a Japanese company called Final Audio. They usually make more high-end IEMs but these budget-friendly options sound incredibly clear, with high quality stainless steel construction and a stylishly minimalistic yet comfortable design. As a side bonus, they’re on sale on amazon at forty bucks.
I've been doing lists of my favorite songs from each year on rateyourmusic and I did my 1998 list not too long ago, there might be some songs on my list you can add to your playlist. https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Dustinhaltom/best-singles-of-1998/
well maybe not but they do have some reason behind it.
this review mostly sums up the growing popularity of the genre, and plus the fact the record label PC Music has a deal with Columbia now and the recent Charli XCX collab probably means a decent future for the style.
as for vaporwave, they have no chance asides from maybe the visual aesthetic of some music video
My buddies and I created a site where you can rate and review albums. As pop culture obsessives, we love keeping track of the movies we watched and the books we read, but we were never able to find anything for music that we actually liked using. We created Listnd, a site where you can easily log, rate, and review the music you listen to. Here’s a GIF to show you what the site is about. It’s still very much a work in progress, so we welcome any feedback you care to give.
You can check it out right now at Listnd.com. Happy reviewing!
The Dark Alt Pop Rate is having a listening party today! We're most likely going to be in the rate beatsense at 3 PM EST (8 PM UK time, 12 PM PST). This is a good way to get started with the rate, to talk through opinions, and to just hang out with the hosts and other raters, so join us when you can! I'll post another reminder when it's almost time to start
OK I am trying to be a suppppper responsible adult and I'm trying to buy caulk for my bathtub to re-seal the grout... but THIS does not make it easy to be an adult... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075B32YR9
I think it's fine here! What kind of turntable are you spinning on? Also, you're going to want to keep track of your collection as it grows through Discogs. Here's my list so you can judge my music taste (+: https://www.discogs.com/user/JayKnicks/collection
Funny you mentioned that. Meek Mill actually sampled Mozart once.
Idk why but some languages have really big trees (like German) and some are like two times smaller (Spanish). I should go back and go through the tree again. Right now I try to read Harry Potter in Spanish and I sometimes use clozemaster.
Okay guys, I need some help!
The 11th is the rate idea submission day. As a lot of you know, I've been planning to submit the alternative electropop girls rate for quite a while, since the last submission where it was denied. However, now I'm having doubts about the third album to include in the rate. The first two albums are 100% included: Queen of the Clouds and Halcyon Days. The problem is that the third album was originally Froot, but on another listen, I don't really like the album much at all, and it seems like it'd get overshadowed by the other two albums. So, I have 3 distinct options:
Just do Froot, regardless
Do the Family Jewels. I listened to it and it was a bit better but it doesn't quite seem like electropop.
Give up on Marinara and do No Mythologies to Follow by MØ. I enjoy this album and it's more similar to the other two albums then the Marinara albums are. This is the option I'm leaning towards.
gimme another idea for an album (The Altar is NOT an option. It doesn't fit well at all. It's alternative R&B and the other albums are alternative electropop.)
So, please submit what option you think is the best in this poll! thank you!
e: should actually put the poll in I suppose: https://www.strawpoll.me/12494350
Who else is on the popheads fitocracy group aside from my boos /u/cloudbustingmp3 and /u/scherbesdfs and I think /u/batmanji?? I'm obsessed with it now even though its UI is soooeewerrr bad
Fitocracy Theme Song of the Week: Motivationnnnn
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Hey all! This is your reminder that the Indie Pop Rock Rate is due in just over two weeks!
If you need an extension, or have any questions, feel free to ask!
We'll also be hosting a listening party in a few hours (4PM ET, or 6 hours from now) over on Beatsense if you'd like to join!
We're doing a listening party for the kpop boygroup rate! if you haven't listened to the songs yet or want to discuss the songs with others or just want to hang join the beatsense!
In addition to what everyone else has said, Rate Your Music is a fantastic website for discovering new music. If you create an account, you can get recommendations based on music that you rate. You don't even need an account though to look at their custom charts which allow you to browse through the top albums in their database and even refine the list if you are looking for a particular year and/or genre.
I know how it can be intimidating to listen to new artists. One of the things that really helped me to get over this and discover new music was to find a list of highly acclaimed albums, say the /r/indieheads essentials or the /mu/core list or the top 50 on the RYM chart or anything similar, and then stick to that list. It makes the goal of discovering new music seem more reachable and allows you to measure your progress, there's also more structure to it than just listening to random recommended artists. This might not be for you, but it helped me a lot.
Also, it's a shame that you don't have access to Spotify but most albums that have been out for a bit can still be streamed through youtube.
In my case, the official last.fm app apparently does not save my offline scrobbles so I decided to switch to this app that actually does save and upload offline scrobbles.
In order for this to work, you need to log-in (duh), play music on the music players you use on your phone and tick them back in the app so that the app can detect scrobbles and you're done!
Also, ayyyyy I use Phonograph as well!
honestly a weak year so far in terms of albums, but mine are:
my song list, which i enjoy much more, is:
(full songs list is here!!! i'd love for you to check it out!!)
This is the 68th best album of the year.
I think CupcakKe gets a lot of undeserved derision from people too concerned about the seriousness of hip hop. It doesn't help that her career was launched off of cheap-sounding sex tracks that were primarily a meme to most people, or that her entire image is tied to pop stan culture. For CupcakKe to be recognized by critics recently as less of a meme rapper and more like a rapper unafraid to have fun with her music has thus been really satisfying. "Duck Duck Goose" is a typical CupcakKe sex song, but compared to "Deepthroat" and "Vagina" feels much more polished. CupcakKe's vocals are excellent, rapidly delivering hilarious lines one after another. There's a really fascinating metallic texture to the synths on this track, and they add a very menacing edge to CupcakKe's voice. "Duck Duck Goose"'s best moments are in the outro, where CupcakKe changes up her flow and has the best line of the song with "Turn it into a Yeezy shirt when you rip off my top" which is just hilarious. "Duck Duck Goose" shows there's a merit to vapid songs about sex that have little to say. With a confident feminine aura, CupcakKe pushes ahead of nearly every vapid sex track that your favorite rapper's put out.
9.5/10 get off my dick it's more fun than any track on DAMN.
he should just pillage from my list on RYM
no I am not shamelessly plugging myself why do you ask
In a more literal sense: in the Netherlands we have our own rock chick.
Her name is Anouk, has released 11 studio albums, has 6 children with 3 different fathers, is immensely respected in the Netherlands (except for some areas but they'll hate anybody), has won over 40 awards until she announced that she would withdraw from some of the award shows "to give other people a chance" (along with a fellow singer.) , competed in eurovision and got us in the finals for the first time in forever...
Oh btw she mostly sings in english so check her out. greatest hits playlist (25 songs)
I haven't tried it out, but I've been watching uncarley on yt a lot (if you don't know her, she's usually doing various book related videos) and she was once sponsored by Likewise and she often links her account on Story Graph. Both are apps that track your reading history and recommend you a book. Both look cool, but like I said, haven't tried them out.
If you're interested in doing the Dark Alt Pop Rate (featuring I Disagree by Poppy, Cape God by Allie X, and Miss Anthropocene by Grimes), I'm holding a listening party for it starting in just under 10 minutes! Hop in and hang out with me in the beatsense room and listen to the albums! We'll start with Poppy, then move into Allie, then Grimes. Hope to see some of you here!
Edit: Here's a copy of the ballot if you want to work on it as we go along!
If you have the time today, I highly recommend joining the <strong>BEATSENSE</strong> room today, we kind of went nuts and made OC shitposts for a lot of the songs. We'll be starting in a few minutes with our first song!!!
Ja! Seriously, queer life did not begin at Stonewall, people with same-sex desires or attractions have always existed and depending on the time there was often enough leeway so that they could express themselves. There’s an interesting book about sex amongst soldiers during the American Civil war called The Stories the Soldiers Won’t Tell that has a lot of information about gay sex between soldiers on both the Union and Confederate sides of the war, including a chapter on all-males dances in which the youngest and prettiest men would don old and tattered women’s ballgowns and dance with other men, often having sex with them afterwards. A Massachusetts infantrymen named Oscar Cram wrote to his wife (!) in 1864 that: > “We had boys in ladies’ clothes, and some of them looked almost good enough to lay with. I guess some did get layed [sic] with. I know I slept with mine.”
I have these and they work fine. I'm not picky about headphones so long as they don't sound like absolute shit. They're very durable, I've thrown them around a bunch of times after accidentally catching the cord on something lmao. Comfortable, adjustable, and they fold up for storage as well. I had the older model for years before getting these (they were so old the foam was flaking away and I only stopped using them because the cord began to fray - they're actually still in a closet somewhere because they literally still work fine otherwise) and I did notice a marked difference in the sound quality
last book I bought was a picture book lol but it's so fucking trippy to see it irl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiDN-kkCVcQ
For that price I could hop on Amazon and buy both original cartoons on DVD, watch them until the DVDs wore out without ever paying for Disney+, and still have saved 3 dollars.
On an Android, yes. Just get a file manager app. I recommend Solid Explorer. If you download a zip/rar file, you will be able to use this app to extract it to a folder within your Download directory.
If it is an iPhone, you won't be able to extract the zip/rar.
I don't think it's possible to regenerate them once they're gone but for Discover Weekly I use this or something similar. For release radar I actually was copying and saving them myself, intending to listen but never actually doing it because it became too daunting to catch up lol. The only thing similar to the auto-save one that I've found is this but I haven't tried it.
I posted my best songs of 1980 list last week, but I just finished my 1981 list now! I feel like I got a good mix of genres for this year.
I'm going back and updating my RateYourMusic "end of year" lists. Here is 1980. I recently did most of the 90s and 2000s, but some of my 70s and 80s lists haven't been updated in years.
I do! It's a good tool to keep track of what I've been listening to and comes in handy for making playlists. those weekly 4x4s you can do are pretty cool too. I use rateyourmusic more often lately, especially since the last major update to Last fm made it a pain to use sometimes.
OMG. Yes.
For anyone who couldn't find it, I finally found it on tumblr, it's the best for leaked tracks especially if the artist has a crazy fanbase. https://www.tumblr.com/search/charli+xcx+vroom+vroom
I mean ionnalee clearly stole inspiration from this woman. So who is the unoriginal one???
In all seriousness, this stuff is always a stretch. Everyone is inspired by something and coincidences happen. No one is truly original like they think they are.
Definitely Captain America: The Winter Soldier but Spider-Man: Homecoming came close.
I did a ranked list of MCU movies actually. Let me know what you think. :P
[https://www.npr.org/event/music/562326939/now-now-simulates-the-heady-rush-of-an-all-consuming-crush](also as a bonus this article from npr confirming their next LP is due out next year)
> It's been five years since the Minneapolis band Now, Now broke through with Threads, one of NPR Music's favorite albums of 2012. When KC Dalager and Bradley Hale returned with "SGL" this past spring, any sense of introversion that may have characterized their earlier material had vanished, leaving behind a confident pop sound.
The band's Tiny Desk concert comes out next week, but in the meantime, Now, Now has just released a video for the irresistibly full-throttle single "Yours." Directed by Alexa San Román, the clip glides between Dalager stumbling on a beach at twilight and smoldering in shades of neon.
In many ways, the video looks like what having a crush feels like. Dalager says was the precise intention: "This video embodies the exact emotions I was experiencing while we were writing the song — feelings of longing, devotion and persistence. The energy of falling in love and being in love."
Now, Now's third full-length album is due out in 2018 via Trans-.
If you have Mubi please consider watching The Legend of the Stardust Brothers, it's a Japanese musical from the 80's (!!!!!!) and I would describe it like if the Looney Tunes made A Star is Born. It's camp, it's kitsch, the songs are BOPS, and it's just gorgeous to look at.
It leaves the site tonight!!! don't miss it.
The last Dark Alt Pop Rate listening party is starting in about 10 minutes!
today, we'll be doing another listening party for the k-pop boys rate at the Beatsense room at 4pm EST!
we did one for the first half of the rate yesterday, so from the start till nct u - the 7th sense, and today we will be listening to the rest of our playlist, including bonuses if everyone is up for it! JOIN US!!
>makes me appreciate Kesha more because at least she was good at sing-talking.
Ke$ha could, when she wanted, make kind of good rap songs. I wish she'd stop doing it in her electropop songs though, because it doesn't really fit there.
Also, I wouldn't say you're a freak of nature. RYM despises it. Personally, I'm kinda split - the bass is awesome and I kind of genuinely enjoyed the second verse, but the hook is horrible and the guy who delivered the first verse simply cannot rap. On the whole I think I dislike it, but there are salvageable bits. Also, it doesn't help that I get the unmistakeable impression that fans of this are the type who vocally hate most other pop music but consider these guys "different"
That is quite literally the definition of fallible.
Used in a sentence: Mariah is fallible. The Chainsmokers are fallible. Trump is fallible. David Bowie is fallible.
I love how this Grammys thing really got people going into a full blown cognitive dissonance, trying to literally disregard an actual word's definition in an effort to deride an award show. lmao
I mean like, Lauryn Hill and Mariah won Grammys the same night Milli Vanilli won. Yeah okay?
It's Reddit Enhancement Suite.
It's an extension that improves your Reddit experience. You can even set up custom tag flairs on users to easily identify them. Switch accounts without typing log in details. Honestly there is so much more to RES that you have to find out yourself lol. But I recommend this so much!
Their website: https://redditenhancementsuite.com/
By the way, you're at +41 in mines! :3
My friends started a podcast where they pick one album per episode and discuss the content, context, and overall impact of the album. The first episode is out today and it discusses The Weeknd’s After Hours!
You can check it out here and discuss your thoughts if you’ve listened!
I use it all the time. It’s just me and it works fine.
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