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[Koodo]

Speaking of Xtina, watch The Queen's critically acclaimed tribute to BB King.

Skip to this part if you want to see where she eviscerates her fellow judges and even your faves.

She's singing a lot more these days, and you can hear it in her voice. She legit slayed this.

I skipped to this part.

 

[<+)O Robido O(+>]

Speaking of Xtina, watch The Queen's critically acclaimed tribute to BB King.

At this point I think she is physically unable to just sing a fucking song. Like... is all that shit necessary?

 

[royalan]

At this point I think she is physically unable to just sing a fucking song. Like... is all that shit necessary?

Again, it's a BB King tribute. You know his music, right? He was a "shouting, growling mess" too by the standards y'all are applying to Xtina.

 

[3phemeral]

Tell Me was such a memorable collab. Still sounds good today.

Decent, but she was outshined by:

https://youtu.be/vmUfZjuqr2w
https://youtu.be/q3yHhiqQaEU

Infinitely more usable.

At this point I think she is physically unable to just sing a fucking song. Like... is all that shit necessary?

I swear, if I hear one more "oh yeah, yeah, yeah, hee"

That's like her go-to run for everything she does these days.

 

[royalan]

Decent, but she was outshined by:

https://youtu.be/vmUfZjuqr2w
https://youtu.be/q3yHhiqQaEU

Infinitely more usable.

Fleashia Cole? LOL. That song is wack.

Nicole's song is hot. I'll give her that. But Xtina is more heavily featured in her song.

I always liked how dark and seductive Tell Me is.

 

[Touchdown]

The housewives love Xtina again.

I am slayedT

 

[royalan]

I swear, if I hear one more "oh yeah, yeah, yeah, hee"

That's like her go-to run for everything she does these days.

How dare you have the audacity to critique anyone's vocals and then use a Mariah gif as a highlight to your point, seeing as her vocals these days are more reminiscent of the echo a power bottom's ass makes while it's ejecting the creamy white remnants of a Saturday night at the bathhouse into a toilet?

What is your fave's go-to runs these days? This?

Remaining seats are available at the back of the venue.

 

[<+)O Robido O(+>]

Again, it's a BB King tribute. You know his music, right?

Do you?

He was a "shouting, growling mess" too by the standards y'all are applying to Xtina.

You sure about that? If you think that minstrelsy is close to the restrained and tasteful vocals of the original... you've got issues. Christina singin voice is edging ever closer to sounding like any adult in a Charlie Brown cartoon these days.

 

[royalan]

Do you?


You sure about that? If you think that minstrelsy is close to the restrained and tasteful vocals of the original... you've got issues. Christina singin voice is edging ever closer to sounding like any adult in a Charlie Brown cartoon these days.

Yes, I am very aware of BB King's music. And he spends the majority of the catalogue doing the same shouting/growling that people scream "OVERSINGING!" when Xtina does it.

 

[You Know Nothing]

How dare you have the audacity to critique anyone's vocals and then use a Mariah gif as a highlight to your point, seeing as her vocals these days are more reminiscent of the echo a power bottom's ass makes while it's eschewing the creamy white remnants of a Saturday night at the bathhouse into a toilet?

You know what.

 

[3phemeral]

How dare you have the audacity to critique anyone's vocals and then use a Mariah gif as a highlight to your point, seeing as her vocals these days are more reminiscent of the echo a power bottom's ass makes while it's ejecting the creamy white remnants of a Saturday night at the bathhouse into a toilet?

What is your fave's go-to runs these days? This?

Remaining seats are available at the back of the venue.

It seems I struck a nerve.

 

[<+)O Robido O(+>]

Yes, I am very aware of BB King's music. And he spends the majority of the catalogue doing the same shouting/growling that people scream "OVERSINGING!" when Xtina does it.

Maybe it goes back to old argument of AUTHENTICITY. Christina sounds like she's faking the funk. Guess that's what you're into.

 

[Touchdown]

How dare you have the audacity to critique anyone's vocals and then use a Mariah gif as a highlight to your point, seeing as her vocals these days are more reminiscent of the echo a power bottom's ass makes while it's ejecting the creamy white remnants of a Saturday night at the bathhouse into a toilet?

What is your fave's go-to runs these days? This?

Remaining seats are available at the back of the venue.

First of all...

 

[royalan]

Maybe it goes back to old argument of AUTHENTICITY. Christina sounds like she's faking the funk. Guess that's what you're into.

Hmmm, you're so concerned about Authenticity, yet you have nothing to say when you're Houston Suburb fave tries to act like a 'round-the-way girl?

 

[Mumei]

Yes, I am very aware of BB King's music. And he spends the majority of the catalogue doing the same shouting/growling that people scream "OVERSINGING!" when Xtina does it.

Perhaps Christina is criticized for those elements in her vocals because she is not doing them for stylistic effect, but because she is incapable of doing anything else. If you listen to this vocal range video for someone like James Brown, just for example, there's a wide range where he is capable of hitting the notes cleanly - belting up to F5 and head voice up to B5 - but he often screams, shrieks, growls, or strains for effect.

I don't know that this makes her inauthentic, but I do think there's a difference between doing something wrong because you want to get that particular sound, and doing it wrong because you can't do it right.

 

[ZombiePlatypus]

Maybe it goes back to old argument of AUTHENTICITY. Christina sounds like she's faking the funk. Guess that's what you're into.

This seems really arbitrary though. How would you even measure that? I guess you can say you don't feel like Christina's truly emoting the feelings of the songs in her vocals, but that's subjective at most.

 

[royalan]

Perhaps Christina is criticized for those elements in her vocals because she is not doing them for stylistic effect, but because she is incapable of doing anything else. If you listen to this vocal range video for someone like James Brown, just for example, there's a wide range where he is capable of hitting the notes cleanly - belting up to F5 and head voice up to B5 - but he often screams, shrieks, growls, or strains for effect.

I don't know that this makes her inauthentic, but I do think there's a difference between doing something wrong because you want to get that particular sound, and doing it wrong because you can't do it right.

Not my posts heralding Mumei's return to PopGAF. My ImpacT.

 

[Touchdown]

That mariah run you linked sounded more on point and less strained than the Xtina run tho...

To be fair to Xtina she can still sound great when she doesn't try so hard to go for those big runs. She needs to take her own advice.

 

[3phemeral]

but I do think there's a difference between doing something wrong because you want to get that particular sound, and doing it wrong because you can't do it right.

Brutal.

 

[Mumei]

Not my posts heralding Mumei's return to PopGAF. My ImpacT.

I hadn't left; I've just been lurking. This place is a kiii whether you post or not.

 

[Touchdown]

I hadn't left; I've just been lurking.

<3

 

[<+)O Robido O(+>]

Hmmm, you're so concerned about Authenticity, yet you have nothing to say when you're Houston Suburb fave tries to act like a 'round-the-way girl?

I don't know why you wouldn't assume that the opposite wouldn't true for Bey. We have clip after clip of Beyonce in the early DC days acting like a banji ghetto mess. I think that as Beyonce has aged, she has learned how to keep that side of herself to herself, while she's up there trying to get this pop money. I know that while I'm at work interfacing with the powers that be, that I don't bring street vernacular into the workplace. I thought this was common among black people, I guess you wouldn't know anything about that.

Not every popstar gets the benefit of doubt that say, a Miley Cyrus gets. Miley can invent twerking one day and open a youth hostel for troubled gays the next and no one blinks an eye. Some girls get to "express themselves" without it defining their career. Others get to make one

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slip, and then have to fade to obscurity for a decade before the country "forgives" them and they can start building that comeback buzz.

Beyonce not conforming to type, and you having a problem with it is more your problem than it is hers. You should examine why you clock Beyonce for things you embrace in other "stars."

Off the top I can think of a few inconsistencies in your criticisms of Beyonce:

• Sings in a fake soulful voice, stans Christina Aguilera.
• Is fake ghetto, stans or has stanned Iggy and Miley.
• Is "bad" for/to/representation of the black community, stans every ghetto soundcloud heffa rapping about her pussy.

I'm sure there's more, but I can't think of them. Are some of your criticisms valid? Doubt it, but its hard to tell when you

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and now Cory64

complain about everything she does.

 

[royalan]

I don't know why you wouldn't assume that the opposite wouldn't true for Bey. We have clip after clip of Beyonce in the early DC days acting like a banji ghetto mess. I think that as Beyonce has aged, she has learned how to keep that side of herself to herself, while she's up there trying to get this pop money. I know that while I'm at work interfacing with the powers that be, that I don't bring street vernacular into the workplace. I thought this was common among black people, I guess you wouldn't know anything about that.

Not every popstar gets the benefit of doubt that say, a Miley Cyrus gets. Miley can invent twerking one day and open a youth hostel for troubled gays the next and no one blinks an eye. Some girls get to "express themselves" without it defining their career. Others get to make one

Spoiler

titty

slip, and then have to fade to obscurity for a decade before the country "forgives" them and they can start building that comeback buzz.

Beyonce not conforming to type, and you having a problem with it is more your problem than it is hers. You should examine why you clock Beyonce for things you embrace in other "stars."

Off the top I can think of a few inconsistencies in your criticisms of Beyonce:

• Sings in a fake soulful voice, stans Christina Aguilera.
• Is fake ghetto, stans or has stanned Iggy and Miley.
• Is "bad" for/to/representation of the black community, stans every ghetto soundcloud heffa rapping about her pussy.

I'm sure there's more, but I can't think of them. Are some of your criticisms valid? Doubt it, but its hard to tell when you

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and now Cory64

complain about everything she does.

Correction: We have footage of a DC era Beyonce acting like a spoiled brat who possessed no greater than a 3rd grade reading level. That's not the same as acting hood. You're getting offensive, sis.

 

[<+)O Robido O(+>]

I don't know that this makes her inauthentic, but I do think there's a difference between doing something wrong because you want to get that particular sound, and doing it wrong because you can't do it right.

Gather her, Mumei.

Correction: We have footage of a DC era Beyonce acting like a spoiled brat who possessed no greater than a 3rd grade reading level. That's not the same as acting hood. You're getting offensive, sis.

I guess, if that's all you've got, it will have to do. Goodnight Roy.

 

[royalan]

I guess, if that's all you've got, it will have to do. Goodnight Roy.

It's not all I got, but do you have a response? You're equating Beyonce acting less than intelligent as her being "hood", which could really be offensive to a lot of people. I'm more talking about her throwing up signs like she's lived a life she really knows nothing about.

 

[<+)O Robido O(+>]

It's not all I got, but do you have a response? You're equating Beyonce acting less than intelligent as her being "hood", which could really be offensive to a lot of people.

Why would I have a response to this obfuscating bait? You tried it though.

I'm more talking about her throwing up signs like she's lived a life she really knows nothing about.

And you've never cheered for a person with the same perceived background doing the same thing? Never? Ever?

 

[Floridian]

 

[Blood Diamonds]

Gangsters don&#8217;t cry
Therefore, therefore I&#8217;m
Mr. Misty-eye, therefore I&#8217;m

Can you save
Can you save my
Can you save my heavy dirty soul?
Can you save
Can you save my
Can you save my heavy dirty soul?
For me, for me, oh
Can you save my heavy dirty soul?
For me, for me, oh
Can you save my heavy dirty soul?


a good song from Twenty One Pilots, but god damn most of the lyrics in their new album make me roll my eyes so damn hard.

this is me listening to Blurryface:

 

[Frodo]

While you guys gurls decide who is flopping harder I'll leave this here as an inspiration for this sunny pre-bank-holiday Sunday in the UK

Get into the classic to be "My Friend Has a Swimming Pool"

 

[bidguy]

not on drugs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Qkx9TAM10

i like this song from tove lo but who is justin love ? she keeps saying im justin love

 

[Mumei]

not on drugs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Qkx9TAM10

i like this song from tove lo but who is justin love ? she keeps saying im justin love

Well, that might be the song title, but it doesn't describe your current mental state.

 

[Matt_]

Big Weekend is this weekend

Can catch up on all the sets here or watch live here
Rita Ora and Taylor are on soon
Watching Charli's set right now, hope she goes in when she does fancy

 

[Frodo]

Talking about ha can we take a moment to appreciate how perfect this remix of Habits is? It has more views than the original...

 

[Matt_]

the remix is the only version that got air play in the UK
it is indeed a slay

 

[Frodo]

the remix is the only version that got air play in the UK
it is indeed a slay

Was it? Never knew that. It should be the only version that exists, in all honesty.

 

[Matt_]

YASSSS FANCY GO IN CHARLI
starts at 24 mins ish

 

[twobear]

charli is sf good, can't wait for ha glasto set

 

[Vazra]

Rita set started and already looking good

 

[Vazra]

Slay Black Widow solo version Rita!!!

 

[Vazra]

Slay Doing It a bit!

 

[Vazra]

IWNLYD!
New York Raining!
Play all those slays Rita!

 

[royalan]

 

[Vazra]

So much slayage by Rita confusing you since you have not seen your fave slay over more than a decade ago?

 

[Floridian]

Pray4#RO2

 

[Vazra]

Pray4#RO2

Since R8 is a lost cause might as well support the bop provider.

 

[royalan]

So much slayage by Rita confusing you since you have not seen your fave slay more than a decade ago?

Sis, my fave headlined a fest that's literally 6 times bigger than this thing just last year.

 

[Vazra]

Sis, my fave headlined a fest that's literally 6 times bigger than this thing just last year.

But only you remember this.

 

[royalan]

But only you remember this.

Better than nobody ever remembering who Rita Ora even is.

 

[Vazra]

Better than nobody ever remembering who Rita Ora even is.

Fast and The Furious
50 Shades
The Voice UK
Empire

Meanwhile your fave is only a warming her chair on whatever singing show she is. (Gwen is better judge btw)

 

[royalan]

Fast and The Furious
50 Shades
The Voice UK
Empire

Meanwhile your fave is only a warming her chair on whatever singing show she is. (Gwen is better judge btw)

And isn't that sad? That she's done all this and people STILL don't know who she is or care? The utter lack of presence and memorable talent. Your fave will only ever be a pop community joke. But I suspect you know this and this is exactly why you stan her.