Tama

Listening to the entirety of Like a Prayer by Madonna after going through a rather shameful public outing without my consent feels empowering.

Being outed by an evil person feels insane. But that's what's happening to me now.

I honestly think that Tate McRae's upcoming album's cover would have been better if it's just the side-head portrait a la Olivia Newton-John's Physical and Madonna's True Blue.

It's fascinating how revisionism works. Katy's Teenage Dream album has only 6 good songs, 7 at a stretch, and used to be degraded and hated by anyone who wasn't teenage girls. Now, it's the "perfect pop album" of all time?

I don't like her that much, but gotta admit that Katy's album covers are some of the most, at least, coherent of all pop girls. They may not all be good, but every single one of 'em actually makes for a surprisingly aesthetically satisfying collection. Each one has element continuation(s) to the next one whether it's in term of color inclusion, certain object found in one image that can also be found in the next one, etc.

It's not fun to assess our popstars with longform think pieces all the time. I mean I'm disgusted by Katy Perry's recent character development of working back with Luke, and there's no but. I am disgusted.

You know what. I like Sweetener actually. I know I keep switching but... hey. Anyway blazed and the light is coming can choke though. The transition from raindrops to blazed is still so bizarre while the light is coming has Minaj. No.

You know what? Witness could have been a much tighter album if Katy had just kept around 10 songs for the standard version. Something like this:

1. Witness

2. Swish Swish or Roulette

3. Deja Vu

4. Power

5. Mind Maze

6. Miss You More

7. Chained to the Rhythm

8. Tsunami

9. Pendulum or Save as Draft

10. Into Me You See or Pendulum

That would've ate a bit. Hey Hey Hey is tragic, Bon Appetit is fun but not fitting the "purposeful pop" aim especially when it features Migos, others are deluxe material at best and should've been left unreleased at worst. I mean, what was Bigger Than Me even about? The Hilary Clinton loss situation? Wasn't that Rise, though?

Illusion by Dua Lipa is a fine song although it borrows a bit more elements than necessary from Hallucinate. Interestingly, it makes an admirable effort to evolve from the latter's initial hazy-eyed sickly in love lyrical content into that of realization about how men ain't shit sometimes. Another thing to note, does that breakdown remind you of something? Cuz it totally sounds like La Perry's own instrumental breakdown from her song International Smile. Relevant queen!

POSITIONS IS GREAT! I NEVER SAID ANYTHING BAD ABOUT POSITIONS!! POSITIONS MY BESTIE!!! 

Does anyone hear the similarities between The Cardigans' Lovefool and Lady Gaga's Summerboy? I just noticed.

It's 12:10 AM where I'm at. Therefore, Happy New Year everyone! 🎊 ✨ 🎉

Reading reviews of Mariah's albums from the '90s is so funny. Most of them are basically just "hey, she sings so well it can't be real, therefore she must be a terrible singer actually." Like, what kind of professional criticism is that?

Atrl is still hell on Earth.

I don't know why I find myself listening to Artpop right now, but I am. The second half is where it gets truly helpless. As the composition is mostly fine if not a little too top 40 of 2013-sounding (although I'm not sure if top 40 songs back in 2013 actually sound like that) while the production just feels like copy paste of each other. It's so different to the bulk of production of the first half which was quite pristine. I mean, her 'artpop' did mean anything. Just a shame that it includes redundancy.

It's 2023 and Adorn by Miguel is still one of the greatest songs I've ever heard.

Elon Musk is a prick.

Editing a blog entry that no one even reads. What a way to live my life.

Kylie's Tension sounds like a club remix of a different sounding original song. It's good, but again sounds like a remix.

Listening to music feels not so fun now. Maybe it'll pass, but I don't like this feeling.

My brother is studying in different province. The same province I had studied in years ago. I hope he'll have better future than me.

You know what? I'm being too bitter. If Padam Padam works for any of you, good. It just won't ever work with me, and I think that's ok. 

What I really don't like about Padam Padam is the fact that it sounds like a very reductive spin on Can't Get You Out of My Head. Which is ridiculous because the latter is the far simpler song!

Life is very puzzling. One second you're feeling the highest peak of your life, the next you're left confused how the hell did you end up on the floor sobbing like a  5 year old again. 

I know that music reception is completely subjective, but one must be questioned thoroughly whether they're on their right mind or not if they happen to like Born Pink than Renaissance.