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Here’s a weird one. Britney Jean Spears has instantly identifiable pop classics for days, but only a few of her songs went all the way to #1. One of those #1 hits is a bonus track from her second greatest-hits collection. It’s an uptempo dance-pop jam that was co-written by the same guy who was primarily responsible for most of Britney’s biggest early hits. The song in question is deeply horny and knowingly provocative. Maybe a little kid could hear that song without knowing what’s going on, but anyone older than 10 had to know that “3” is a song all about threesomes. Evidently, this did not p
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Lightning crackles through the clouds as Lady Gaga rises, in slow motion, from a swimming pool. Gaga’s face is covered by a mask made from crushed-up disco balls. There’s a spiky black-metallic shoulderpad on her vinyl bodysuit. In front of her, two Great Danes sit at attention, like Egyptian statues. Gaga looks like Gozer appearing on the rooftop at the end of Ghostbusters, if Gozer was ready to party. She’s a dance-music wraith from another dimension, and the world is not ready for her. The opening shots of the “Poker Face” video were disorienting for any music snobs who heard “Just Dan
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Amid ongoing legal struggles, the singer’s fifth LP is some of her most intense music yet FOR ALMOST A decade, Kesha’s career and life have been in a state of purgatory as she’s been locked in a legal battle that has at times left her with a precarious future. On the two albums she released in the midst of endless court hearings, she put up an empowered front, searching for hope in the face of uncertainty. Gag Order — a brilliant name for her latest album — says “screw that.” On her fifth LP, Kesha is tired, angry, and vicious. There’s a lot she still can’t say, but she unspools as m -
I wrote a whole book about #1 hits that served as cultural turning points, but not every trend can be encapsulated in a single track. You can point to a specific historical moment when disco became a cultural force, for instance, but there’s no equivalent moment for the EDM boom of the late ’00s and early ’10s. Instead, the electro-pop takeover was a gradual thing. You could hear the early seeds in tracks like Nelly Furtado’s “Promiscuous” and Justin Timberlake’s “SexyBack.” You can see it in Kanye West sampling Daft Punk on “Stronger,” in Flo Rida rapping over a house-adjacent beat on “Low,”
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Don’t call it a comeback. The word “comeback” is simply insufficient to describe what was happening with Britney Spears in 2008. Britney’s whole saga is a wild, twisty, depressing ordeal that indicts all of Bush-era American culture. Britney Spears, Miss American Dream since she was 17, was idolized, demonized, and broken by the celebrity-industrial complex when that whole machine was operating at its dehumanizing peak. She never had a chance. When Britney returned to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time since her epoch-defining 1999 smash “Baby One More Time,” she was already o
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The Number Ones: Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl” (stereogum.com) Katy Perry was not the first woman to record a hit song called “I Kissed A Girl.” In 1995, Jill Sobule, a singer-songwriter from Denver, came out with a shy and vulnerable story-song with that same title. Sobule’s “I Kissed A Girl” is all about personal discovery, about finding something in life that might actually make you happy. That song’s kiss is a private moment, and the memory seems to make Sobule’s voice glow. Jill Sobule’s “I Kissed A Girl” started out on alt-rock radio and eventually crossed over to the Hot 100, wher
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Review Rolling Stone names Wrecking Ball Miley Cyrus’ Greatest Song
Slasher posted a topic in Miley Cyrus
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If the tracklist was like this: 1. Girl Gone Wild- Great start, very energetic! 2. Bang Bang- She def gone WILD!!! 3. I'm Addicted- Great quirky build up to next track! MDNA *repeat*!!! 4. Give Me All Your Luvin- Fun eruption of Pop and electronica! 5. Some Girls- Very unfinished and "scratchy", bitchy but enjoyable nonetheless! 6. Masterpiece - The "Nothing Fails" of MDNA. Smooth it out after 5 upbeat tracks. 7. Love Spent- The "Intervention" of MDNA. Very pleading and the fading out at the end resembles the mentioned track. Very emotional. 8. I F*
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Hello ladies, gays and non-binaries! 🌟 Welcome to my list of Top 50 Albums of 2022 that no one asked about! This year in music was quite eventful with some really great releases, especially in a first half of the year. I'd be even willing to say that some of the records dropped this year are definitely contenders to the best albums of the decade list (so far). With that being said let's get it rolling: first 30 albums will include only an artist/band, album title, cover, best three songs and ''for the fans of'' section where I will include who should find this record enjoyable/up t
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Mariah Carey was cooked. This was the popular perception, to the point that there even was a popular perception. Mariah had dominated the pop charts for all of the ’90s, and she’d quietly reinvented herself a few times over the course of the decade. In the first few years of the new century, though, Mariah had flamed out in a very visible way. Back-to-back albums had flopped resoundingly. I don’t remember Mariah’s downfall being especially shocking. Mariah was a pop singer, and pop singers’ careers have a tendency to end. But when Mariah came back, that was notable. Mariah Carey spent a f
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When it was released, Rebel Heart was considered a "good" but bloated album. Many said it could've been better if she cut out some of the filler/fat out. I would agree because after listening to the album many times, I came to a conclusion that these 12 tracks certainly made it flow more smoothly without rummaging through all the unecessary excess. Here's the tracklist: 1. Living For Love- what the title says 2. Devil Pray- need for religion/God, looking for love in unhealthy places 3. Ghosttown- need for unity to stay together 4. Iconic- need to get up and keep on trying
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Review Discography Review: Katy Perry's Albums
B L U E posted a blog entry in My Thoughts at Present.
In 2020, I had created a thread meant to rank Katy's discography prior to Smile's arrival. However, since Smile is officially here, I'm going to make a rank listing all of her albums so far. I'll also add her Katy Hudson album at the end for a simple kii. Enjoy! *Note: I fixed this list. This revision is final. - sometime, 2022 **Extra note: I fixed it again. Turns out I am a Katy Clown. - Dec, 2022 1. Welcome to her best album! Teenage Dream a.k.a. The Album of La Perry. This album had produced her biggest and arguably most memorable hits to date -
Here's mine: 1. Aura- a strange, if bizarre, opening. Very heavenly chorus and aggressive robotic verses. Disjointed but very Gaga indeed! 2. Venus- this is real bollocks! Very messy and disjointed but enjoyable nonetheless! Gaga's baby and the "You And I" of ARTPOP!!! 3. G.U.Y.- Gaga ain't playing, she's coming for EVERYONE'S weaves on this track! A perfect blend of Pop and EDM that the basics WISH they could come up with! 4. Sexxx Dreams- oh my... Whatever she had while making this track I WANT IT!!! Feelings of shame, joy, and ecstasy surround this track up to the joy
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Madonna is a survivor. That’s true in the most obvious and literal sense; she’s the only member of the Holy Trinity of ’80s pop who’s still alive today. It’s also true in every other way. When Madonna scored her 12th and final #1 hit in 2000, her former peers Michael Jackson and Prince had been absent from the chart’s upper reaches for years. That doesn’t make Madonna better than Michael Jackson or Prince; you would strain all bounds of credulity if you tried to argue that she’s somehow a superior musician to Prince. But that long string of chart-toppers is a true testament to Madonna’s drive,
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In September 2000, just before “Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)” became her third #1 hit, Christina Aguilera’s first headlining tour took her to the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse. The opening act was Destiny’s Child, a group that’s been in this column a couple of times already. The night before the show, Christina’s tour bus was parked at a hotel near Syracuse University, where I was just starting my junior year. Apparently, a couple of college students got onto that tour bus and spent the evening partying with Christina’s crew. I don’t know how something like that happens, but -
The chosen one. The princess who was promised. The child of destiny who was not in Destiny’s Child. It’s Britney, bitch. The rise of Britney Spears was a product of its moment. It came out of the convergence of certain trends and decisions and lucky breaks. But her arrival, smashing into public consciousness like a comet into the earth, felt inevitable at the time. Today, looking back, it feels just as inevitable — as though Britney Jean Spears could’ve been born anywhere, in any circumstance, and she still would’ve become one of the most famous people on the planet before reaching adulth
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From a certain perspective, “Always Be My Baby” is one of the sweetest, prettiest, most effortless songs that’s come out of Mariah Carey’s long career. The song isn’t exactly Mariah working within her comfort zone. Instead, it’s her finding a new comfort zone, twirling her wildly virtuosic dip-divy vocal ululations around an easy lope of a hip-hop beat and just letting her voice flow. Much of Mariah’s early success had come from using that voice on relatively traditional adult-contempo ballads, but this kind of breezy midtempo jam was where she really excelled, and there’s joy in hearing her l
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So, this is it. This is the moment that nobody's been waiting for. This is my review, my explanation, my confession, my revelation. I hate this album. I despise it. Why? This was the album that produced one of Mariah's more recent hit singles. "Touch My Body" hitting number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart was historic. It was difficult to get and not everybody can have that. But that's exactly the problem. There's nothing remarkable about this album other than adding another accolade on top of her already stacked accolades. It's really good to show numbers and stats, but when the mu
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