Louie
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Noddin’ my head like “yeah”, movin’ my hips like “yeah”. Inquiries: info @louiexiv .com. Listen to my podcast Pop Pantheon ⬇️
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she really went there and said the only pop star greater than rihanna is, of course, sky ferreira
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Beyoncé’s inexhaustible horniness for Shawn Carter has continually generated some of the greatest art of the 21st Century
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Charli, who hasn't had an actual hit in the US in a decade, doing numbers in the same ballpark as Dua, who has had at least 4 of the biggest hits of the last 5 years, feels like a major plot point.
Hits matter less than ever in pop. Building a rabid cult fanbase is everything.
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I have a theory that straight girls love the kind of gay men that every queer person dislikes does that make sense
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I feel like nobody likes this song as much they love doing it together
Charli xcx makes a guest appearance during “1999” at Troye Sivan’s show in London.
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Not Alyssa Milano saying this while AOC describes being nearly murdered....
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The level of success this song experienced remains one of the greatest mysteries of the century
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@MileyCyrus
' "Flowers" departs this week's Hot 100.
It debuted at
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We need a new psychological term for a contemporary form of narcissism that is somehow not refracted internally onto the self but rather onto the object of a standom.
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I want to do an piece of investigative journalism as to when the entire world suddenly and inexplicably decided to turn on this woman
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ok go off comrade pop tingz
Happy 39th birthday to co-creator of Facebook and capitalist pig Mark Zuckerberg.
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It's a goth-punk moment of female rage at being gaslit by an entire social structure.
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Bebe Rexha could have the most top ten songs in the history of recorded music and still, no one would know who she is. Completely fascinating phenomenon.
What’s your favorite song in the top 10 on this week’s Hot 100?
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I love this album but it is some unhinged egomania to say that a thoughtful music critic having a less than perfect assessment to your work is the product of an agenda as opposed to their literal opinion
Finneas reacts to Pitchfork’s 6.8 review of ‘HIT ME HARD AND SOFT’:
“Nothing cool about writing a positive review of an album everyone likes - they’ve gotta have an angle. They gave ‘Born To Die’ a 5.5 - it’s their whole hater-ass bag.”
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Brat pulling the curtain back on the fact that no matter how rich, famous and fierce you are, you never stop being a petty, insecure bitch with crippling comparativitis is a public service in the late stage capitalism / celebrity industrial complex under which we all toil.
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completely obsessed with her throwing her own boyfriend and bff under the bus for rihanna but not sky lmaoooooooooooo
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Completely irregardless of my own opinions on Cowboy Carter, I'm genuinely curious if there is a space in our cultural discourse for a thoughtful critic to write a review of this record that is anything other than pure, unfettered adoration.....
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Insane that Charli and Robyn dropped a song together and it was so bad but we all just love our mothers so much we collectively decided to pretend it didn't happen
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Wrote about The Tortured Poets Department for Stereogum, a website that thankfully does not affix numerical grades to its album reviews:
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OK wait so... there's a song called "Spaghetti".... which could be a reference to Spaghetti Westerns... which were westerns that were shot in Italy.... and there's this famous Italian-American singer.......
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There seems to be this fundamental misunderstanding that all Pitchfork reviews are written by a single writer, Frederick J. Pitchfork....
"decade of borderline unlistenable music" the same music you loved few years back. this revisionism is so funny all because of THAT memoir we tryna discredit that mans talent now??
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underrated: her absolute drag of harry styles. charli has always known wtf is up when it comes to other pop stars.
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When Pop Tingz tweets, you gotta take it with a giant boulder of salt. Pop BASE? Now we really *might* be dealing with facts. But what PopCrave says it, that’s carved in the stone tablet of history.
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Rihanna from 2009-2012
Shakespeare in his prime.
How can any one mind achieve so much over a span of time so brief?
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And yet “Welcome to New York” still made the cut….
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I somehow feel like if E•MO•TION dropped in 2024, Carly might be experiencing something like Chappell Roan is right now. Somehow there wasn't a suitable cultural space carved out yet for that record to thrive and proliferate in 2014 like it would today.
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It’s like we have Jesus to thank for inspiring the masterworks of the actual Renaissance. And for this Renaissance, it’s Jay-Z’s dick game
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The conversation around Olivia “stealing” sounds, ideas or melodies from other artists is ludicrous and belies a lack of understanding of how pop music works. It’s always been an art form centered around simplicity and familiarity where artists build on one another’s stuff.
The song that stood out to me from guts turns out has the same chords progression as wanegbt
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One conversation we may be afraid to have is how much Sabrina Carpenter makes evident the long-tail musical innovations and influence of Selena Gomez
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Just four years ago, her legacy was being celebrated for crushing the Super Bowl-the biggest stage in pop music- and she nearly got an Oscar Nom for Hustlers. Now she’s the internet’s fav punching bag. Literally what happened….
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still trying to process how "get him back" wasn't the biggest hit of the decade
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This moment for Tinashe is truly a testament to perseverance, ingenuity and the resilience of the human spirit and I'm not even being hyperbolic
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I simply cannot get over how ruthless these stans are about two people they don’t and will never personally know
🚨 Joe Alwyn becomes the FIRST “actor” to talk more about his ex-girlfriend (Taylor Swift) after their breakup than during the relationship.
Congratulations to the loser.
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I truly believe one of the most terrifying and ominous element of stan culture is the willingness of vulnerable young people to deprioritize themselves— their wishes, tastes, desires, opinions, free thought— and form their entire identities and well-beings around another person.
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There’s a changing of the pop star guard afoot. Titans like Taylor & Beyoncé remain too big to fail but a number of last gen stars released albums that came and went this year. Meanwhile, a new class of main pop girls- Sabrina, Chappell, etc- are completely dominating the convo
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Who are these people fr
Ed Sheeran breaks the all-time attendance record at MetLife Stadium with a reported crowd of 89,000 people.
It is his biggest US show to date.
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What the world did to Janet's career after the Super Bowl continues to reverberate today. Her legacy has never fully recovered. It's one of the great pop cultural travesties of century.
Janet Jackson is playing MSG at 8 tonight and the cheap seats are $37 after fees. PSA!
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This movie is like Ed Sheeran to me like I know it exists and is huge but it simply does not enter my worldview
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this gets funnier with each passing day...
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I feel like the hit singles are almost entirely divorced from actual pop stardom at this point. Pop stars can still have hits and that's nice. But if they can develop a deep and abiding connection to their core fans, they really don't need them.
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Conversely, the Bebe Rexha of it all: a pop artist can consistently have giant radio hits but no cult and no matter how many top tens they stack up, it feels like their career is nowhere.
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I love how this season of drag race all stars boldly asks “what if the show had absolutely no stakes”
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I know we haven't seen the reviews of this album yet but assuming it goes exactly like every single other Beyoncé album review cycle of the last 11 years, do we just accept that not a single of our best and brightest cultural critics has a single dissenting opinion or critique
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Interesting watching an entire generation of gays who had to endure the insufferable "Gaga is a shitty Madonna copycat" discourse now inflicting the same idiocy on Chappell Roan...
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I feel like we need a term for when you can’t tell if the tweet is PopCrave or PooCrave
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I believe writing the Pitchfork review of a Taylor album should earn you the medal of freedom for your courage
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Bebe Rexha has the same amount of top ten singles as Lizzo and Olivia Rodrigo. She has just one less than Billie Eilish.
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Again, this has literally nothing to do with my own opinions on the record. I'm as close to being BeyHive as I am to any stan group. But I would be so curious to read a great piece of writing on this record that doesn't feel blindly sycophantic.
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The modern music journalism community stanning Taylor Swift is actually a pretty pervasive issue at the moment that’s undermining the credibility of the entire establishment imo
The problem with the Taylor Swift reporter hire is that Gannet hired a full stan, rather than someone who is capable of being critical of one of the most powerful people in pop culture.
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Especially cuz they don’t build statues of niche gay cult pop stars either
This is kinda one of the most embarrassing things any current artist has done in the past few years
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An interesting facet of Swiftieism I'm discovering this week is their notion of the "General Public" i.e. anyone who is not a Swiftie and this sense that any consumer of her music who isn't indoctrinated in Taylor Lore and thus doesn't understand its insularity is at fault.
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One of the coolest things about the streaming ecosystem is the way Billie's team was like "the single is 'Lunch'" and her fans were like "actually, no. it's 'Birds of a Feather'"
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Few small tweaks and this could be coming straight from the former / future president
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The massive failure of Chloe's solo endeavor feels tied to a bigger trend as our culture rejects old-school pop values. This is connected to Normani's struggle as well. Artists who center classical showmanship can't find audiences in the "authenticity" economy of contemporary pop
Update: “In Pieces” is now aiming for 4.5-5.4K SEA units in its first week (6-7M streams), no album pure sales considered.
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If I told you last summer that Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan and even Madison freakin Beer all have red hot singles going on and Dua couldn’t get one off the ground from her FN follow-up, you woulda punched me in the face !!!
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Mariah Carey in 2005 listening to Bobby Womack on the radio, changing the station trying to catch a break, then hearing Babyface:
So I’m listening to music right. Then i burst into tears
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We should go back to a time where artists openly caring about albums sales and chart positions was seen as profoundly uncool
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Society if “Cut to the Feeling” had been the lead single from E•MO•TION instead of “I Really Like You”
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The Grammys voting body has a serious problem with acknowledging pop’s most innovative Black women as album artists.
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The more I’ve lived with it, the more the “Cuff It” - “Energy” - “Break My Soul” sequence on Renaissance astounds. Beyoncé somehow whips 50 years of Black diasporic dance traditions- disco, afrobeat, diva house, bounce- into one seamless, thrilling ten minute whirlwind. Masterful
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It's honestly comforting to be reminded just how much can change in a year
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to be fair, the bible's been out for a while
#TheWomanInMe
sold more copies than the Holy Bible in the U.S. last week
Britney: 1.1 million
The Bible: 384,615
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Timberlake album just highlights how incredibly rare it is for a pop star to still churn out vital music in the third decade of their career. It takes incredible skill, real shrewdness and wise self-awareness. It’s why the last ten years of Beyoncé is her most impressive run.
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Luckily the field is still wide open for a hit song called “Houdini”
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Is it that as you age, these moves feel more and more cynical? Or is that, after decades of watching this Madonna / Janet playbook get recycled, the facsimile of the facsimile of the facsimile of the facsimile just isn't exciting or provocative anymore?
JoJo Siwa compares her rebrand to Britney's "I'm a Slave 4 U"…
"Honestly, I wanted to make art that made people go what? Similar to Miley Cyrus' Bangerz, Britney Spears' Slave 4 U. That for me was very important that I brought back crazy."
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It’s my daddy and Nebraska and Jesus Christ
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There is no greater collective identity shattering for mid-late millennials than the creeping, decade-long revelation that we were actually brainwashed into thinking Justin Timberlake was hot and cool.
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Not beating the every song sounds the same allegations with this one I fear
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Music aside, one thing I’m enjoying about this Camila Cabello era is that she seems to genuinely be having fun with pop music and stardom and not taking it all too seriously. In late-stage poptimism, I feel like we’ve maybe lost that pop can and should be silly and ridiculous.
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My question is why they booked her in arenas to begin with ? Seems ambitious !
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Music aside, how the hell is she doing a 328428 date world tour, re-recording her old albums w bonus tracks, making a new 31 song NEW album, falling in love, going to every football game, single-handedly destroying the atmosphere, eating @ Via Carota with Blake Lively like.......
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Well said. To actually love an artist IS to be able to criticize them. If you're tapped into what makes someone great, it should make the less good stuff MORE glaring. No artist is perfect and it's important for growth— both ours & the creators we love— to think critically ab art
This is about Taylor Swift’s new album, but it’s also applicable to maybe all standoms. It is actually okay to have taste and critique your faves!!
#keepit
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Wesley Morris calling This is Me... Now "Lululemonade"... nothing else needs to be said about this thing.
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The other wild twist is that some working class stars who’ve had trouble breaking through but relentlessly cultivated niche fandoms over the last decade- Charli, Tinashe- are finally baring fruit: Tinashe’s got a real hit & Charli sold as many records first week as Dua and Doja.
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I’m 2011, Lindsay Lohan barged into the DJ booth at Boom Boom Room- where the music format was strictly ‘70s and ‘80s- and commanded in no uncertain terms that I play Talk That Talk in full and if I didn’t, she would do it off her phone.
What’s your favorite interaction you’ve had with a celebrity?
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Well, we’ll always have “Teenage Dream” so let’s just continue to celebrate that and move on
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One of the coolest tricks of Beyoncé's song-by-massive-committee approach is that, once you pass a certain number of credited collaborators, we have no choice but to view them all as tiny pieces in an auteurist symphony orchestra with Bey as conductor.
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Omg we have a new descriptor
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Huge moment for people who consistently chart at
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Meghan Trainor reveals she and Charlie Puth made out in the studio when they recorded their 2015 duet “Marvin Gaye.”
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@niggaolas
@whoweekly
I was present for the dress rehearsal of this and every single one of them was there… Besides Mariah, who sent a stand in.
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How is it possible to be sick of an album I haven’t even heard yet
Taylor Swift announces new bonus track ‘The Black Dog’ for her upcoming album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, Out April 19th.
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There’s something kinda gloriously meta about a pop star performing a song on tour that she wrote about her miserable state of mind performing songs earlier on that very same tour
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Me dealing with a family drama and then having to jump on a zoom to talk about Tate McRae for an hour
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I just know I’m gonna learn about my imminent death from a nuclear warhead from PopCrave
Tim Scott has officially dropped out of the Republican primary race.
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I think SZA is an instructive counter-example. An artist who makes insular, extraordinarily personal and idiosyncratic music that, in 2003 for instance, would never have found this kind of mainstream embrace, is the biggest pop star of the moment.
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The only thing more annoying than the S*ifties is condescending old white rock singers peddling this exhausting, played-ass line of argument against pop artists.
Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters told his London concert crowd that Taylor Swift doesn’t play live:
“I tell you, man, you don’t want to suffer the wrath of Taylor Swift. So we like to call our tour the ‘Errors Tour.’ We’ve had more than a few eras, and more than a few fucking errors
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watching this stan account breathlessly cover every single alteration to the eras tour european leg as if it's an marine corp spy reporting vital details from the battlefield instead of doing my actual mountain of work
🚨| TAYLOR SWIFT HAS WALKED OVER TO THE EVERMORE PIANO AFTER PERFORMING BETTY
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