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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.
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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.
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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?
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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!
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Does anyone hear the similarities between The Cardigans' Lovefool and Lady Gaga's Summerboy? I just noticed.
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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?
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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.
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Editing a blog entry that no one even reads. What a way to live my life.