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Queen. I hope she does more acapellas and live concerts in the future.

LOVE ON TOUR - Harry Styles 1. Fine Line 2. Watermelon Sugar 3. She 4. Sweet Creature 5. Two Ghosts 6. Falling 7. Lights Up 8. Steal My Girl 9. Canyon Moon 10. To Be So Lonely 11. Adore You 12. Kiwi 13. Golden 14. Cherry 15. Story of My Life 16. Treat People With Kindness 17. Sign of the Times Fine Line : 11 Harry Styles: 4 One Direction: 2

On June 9th 2017, Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson a.k.a. Katy Perry released her fifth studio album (yes, we need to count her Christian music debut album because that's a part of her history) titled 'Witness'. The album was supposed to present Perry in a much different light compared to her previous records. She called it "purposeful pop" era. The album was notably different in its sonic landscape and overall theme, also worth to be mentioned was the production that largely sounded way colder than any other records that she had ever released. I called it her Erotica era. However, unlike what was hoped, the album was criticized beyond terrors. The music was panned mainly because of the lack of tasty hooks that usually permeated her previous records. The lyrics however were praised and many critics noted the improvement of her songwriting ability. Still, the album had missed Perry's own expectations to reinvent her music and image for the public and possibly winning more critics hearts. She did gain some witnesses, but not as big as what she thought she could gain. So, what went wrong with the era? Some people had said that it's because of the stark differences of Witness compared to her other pop songs. Some others had said that it's because of the persona she chose to present to the public during this promotional period. More had even said that it's the change of her hairstyle and hair color . I can't disagree with any of those perspectives, however I believe that it was more about the promotional efforts themselves rather than those other aspects. Remember that though she performed often during this era, it was not as constant as her previous album cycles. Her performances on big notable events were largely hit-and-miss compared to the automatic success that her previous performances had made. That messy YouTube live broadcast event was also not that good in my opinion. The music is not the problem for me, but it's the singles choices that made me scratch my head in confusion. Perry opened the Witness era with "Chained to the Rhythm", a sophisticated yet fun song that perfectly articulated what she had wanted. A purposeful pop. A bipartisan, universal message to stop being ignorant and start to become more caring towards anything else in life. A message of change and progress without tearing someone's identity apart. It's a perfect purposeful pop song that only Perry knew how to make. But it stopped there. By stopped, I mean literally. She followed the lead single with a song called "Bon Appétit". This song featured a group called Migos and they were very popular rappers especially in 2017. In essence, it's a serviceable dance-pop song with fine production. However, the song is about sex....and just that. Ask yourself, did Katy not already make something like this before? And the answer is yes, she had, and it was much better. It was "Birthday". She even made a lyrics video that used food aesthetics. So, you ask yourself again, why did she release another "Birthday"? And, well, I don't have any answers for that . After that song, she released more singles such as "Swish Swish" and "Hey Hey Hey". "Save as Draft" was also sent to AC radio as a somewhat single, and I can't believe her stupidity for doing all that. Why? Here, let me explain to you what I envisioned could have happened with the Witness era. After releasing the song "Chained to the Rhythm" as a single on February 2017, what she could have done was to release the album's titular track as a second single. When? March. Release it and make a music video with a concept of an alien humanoid who crashed on Earth and had to witness what Earth people were doing in their lives. The video should have been creative, I imagine a short story where she couldn't believe how boring human lives were and nobody actually paid attention to her, the albino blonde humanoid, so she started to build a rocket ship to get back to outer space. However at the end, after everybody had become interested in what she's doing, she chose not to go back because she believed that despite the boring lives that human beings experienced, they're still beings that were alive and functioning properly. She also realized that humans have emotions that were beneath her alien intelligence but fascinated her nonetheless. Humans work because they have to, that's the way the world of Earth works and that made her genuinely curious. So, she stayed on Earth and her rocket ship became a site attraction. She adopted a human identity and adapted the way Earth women commonly behave and do, but expressed a little dissatisfaction at the end. Then, she would cut her long blonde hair short and immediately felt more confident as she looked to the mirror. It's the exact same hair as the album cover. There. Even if it wouldn't hit top 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, that music video will help her to at least get a top 5 hit. After that, she could release "Power" as the third single and promoted it as much as she could everywhere. Release it on April and create a short movie, duration about 10 minutes. A video where she starred as a daughter of a dysfunctional family. She could have siblings or just be an only child. Literally apply the songs lyrics about becoming a stronger woman as her character grew up. At one point, the family had their last dinner before the father walked away and divorced his wife. Katy's character would become hardened by this event and she became a tough as nail type of woman. She would also despise men. Gradually, she would build a movement with every women of any backgrounds to fight sexism and other negative isms that have oppressed women. However, some of the women in her movement actually have boyfriends, fiances, or husbands that support them and love them unconditionally. She realized that not every men were bastards and men also comprised of different personalities, characters, thoughts, and emotions. However, she still had clear intention to fight those who were actual jerks/bastards. The final scene would show all the women at one place where the bad men already await, and the video would end as the two sides rushed to clash. With a video like that, her purposeful pop concept would be fulfilled and it would definitely make "Power" a number one hit record. The third single could be "Tsunami". It's a song about sex much like "Bon Appétit", however the former is much more subtle lyrically and it has something that the other songs from the album truly lacked: groove. With this as a single, she could have made a very simple video. It would just be her walking at the beach and altering with shots of her inside a bedroom of a small house that she had near that same beach. If she wanted to be provocative, make the subject of desire a woman. However, it's still fine if it was a man. I don't really have strong imagery for the overall video, but I know that the final scene SHOULD BE of a huge tsunami wave that is about to hit Katy as she stands in the sea water embracing the upcoming force. Imagine that cinematography, imagine that iconic final scene as part of her videography. The single would probably stall on top 20, but it's totally alright because it's a very new GOOD sound for her. Then, as the final single, "Swish Swish" got to be released with a different, PROPER music video. A YouTube-r called Zachary Campbell had some fabulous ideas for a proper "Swish Swish" video in one of his 'Skype calls' videos that criticized Katy and what she did NOT do for the Witness era. Check it out! After all of those singles, I would say that she wouldn't have to release more singles. Maybe send "Save as Draft" as a AC radio promotional single like what she actually did, but perhaps create a video for it too. A lyrics video that would show her writing all the words by using a laptop. That could make a cute moment. "Hey Hey Hey" should have never been a single in my opinion because that song just immediately turned many people off with the 'been there, done that' Joan of Arc-inspired concept. I also think that she could have performed "Pendulum" at the Grammy Awards, make it a medley performance with "Chained to the Rhythm" as the first song and halfway through the song it turned into "Pendulum". Had she done anything like these, the era would have been much more respected. But I guess in reality her health was not in really good condition so...yeah .

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Hey everyone! I know I have a thread in the graphics section for all my artwork but it doesn't get tons of traction (thank you to the handful of members who always check out the new work, love y'all) and I'm extremely proud of this one so I figured I'd put it in Gaga's main section. All the Chromatica photoshoot pictures coming out had me extremely inspired so two days ago I started work on this. I've worked on it consistently since then and finally finished it a little while ago. It came out exactly how I had envisioned and I'm so proud of it. The amount of work combining all the images (this is comprised from three of the "rat mask" images), removing the background from her hair (not perfect but looks solid), the chromatica symbol, etc. I hope you all enjoy the artwork and I can't wait to listen to the album tonight!

Then stopped listening to ha until Lotus and Liberation. Soooo what songs are must listens from B2B and Bionic?

http://www.justjared.com/2020/05/27/bob-dylan-says-pop-music-means-nothing-to-him-but-madonna-is-good/

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail/-/art/lady-gaga-chromatica-hardcover-book/hnum/9743900

The Swifties coming through with the humor we all need right now

JUST UPLOAD YOUR HDD ON A CLOUD ALREADY

https://www.amazon.com/Taylor-Monthly-Calendar-Songwriter-Celebrity/dp/1975418514/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=taylor+swift+2021+calendar&qid=1590157134&s=books&sr=1-1 https://www.amazon.com/Taylor-Monthly-Calendar-Songwriter-Celebrity/dp/1975418336/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=taylor+swift+2021+calendar&qid=1590157297&s=books&sr=1-2 https://www.amazon.com/Taylor-Monthly-Calendar-Songwriter-Celebrity/dp/197542736X/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=taylor+swift+2021+calendar&qid=1590157297&s=books&sr=1-4

When we visit katysdaisies[dot]com, there will be all these bouquets that are available to order and stuff. However, as somebody else (which I cannot remember who was it but love ya thx so much!) had pointed out previously, could these bouquets be the tracklist of her upcoming album? It goes like this: 1. All Over Again = Never Really Over 2. Shameless Summer 3. Light in Your Life 4. The Small Town = Daisies 5. Full Flower Moment = could it be Never Worn White since it's a full flower moment like...pregnancy? The single artwork had her with a lot of flowers as her crown so...maybe. 6. What a Time to Be Alive 7. Big & Bright 8. Now We're Celebrating 9. Sweet Escape 10. Pink & Purple in the Sky = Harleys in Hawaii 11. Heart & Soul 12. The Katheryn This is just a prediction of mine. What thoughts do you have in your mind regarding this? Could this just be nothing but a flower bouquets service? Tell me .

He's clearly enjoying the attention he's been getting out of sharing these videos since he keeps on giving

I thought we could use this thread for just general discussion. Some lesser known shows + movies kinda flop when given their own thread. So, we can use this as a way to bring awareness and have a discussion on them. And so @Dennis Reynolds and I can talk without spamming another movie or tv thread rip.

When the rehearsal is as bad as the live performance. She was so not into it.

Source: Bono: 60 Songs That Saved My Life

Tracklist: 01. WHOLE LIFE 02. DESCRIBE 03. WITHOUT YOU 04. JASON 05. LEAVE 06. ON THE FLOOR 07. YOUR BODY CHANGES EVERYTHING 08. MOONBEND 09. JUST A TOUCH 10. NOTHING AT ALL 11. ONE MORE TRY 12. SOME DREAM 13. BORROWED LIGHT

For me, it is Ooh La La. It is an awesome bop and the video is so cute with the smurfs and her kids

9 years since this ICONIC bop was released!

Share your favourite lyrics from Xtina songs. (I don't mean full songs, just your fave parts)