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[botty]

Happy Halloween Pop Gaf

 

[Trigger]

lol, that's a boring way to spend your day, but it makes for a funny story for the grandchildren.

I can't with Botty's gif.

 

[Dr. Malik]

Miley is stanning for Nicki on Halloween

@NICKIMINAJ you a stupppppiddddd hoe #stupittttstupitttt

 

[DMeisterJ]

snip

What kind of similar story?

Not ER similar, but went out this weekend, and it was so much DRAMA. Seriously could have been an episode of a reality show. You would think that since the whole point of going out is to have fun that people wouldn't have any drama, but there it was. I just don't get it. And at that, it was grown men. All the females were fine. #icouldnt.

 

[Mau ®]

The Rih promo begins
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"777 Tour" Press release:

RIHANNA READIES NOVEMBER TAKEOVER!

“777 TOUR” PREPARES TO LAUNCH ON NOVEMBER 14: ‘RIHANNA NAVY’ SUPERFANS AND MEDIA REPRESENTING 82 COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE TO BOARD 777 JET TO 7 SHOWS IN 7 DAYS IN 7 COUNTRIES

UNAPOLOGETIC, RIHANNA’s 7th ALBUM IN JUST 7 YEARS RELEASED ON MONDAY, NOV. 19; DELUXE PRE-ORDERS ON SALE TODAY AT RIHANNANOW.COM; iTUNES PREORDER LAUNCHES NOV. 6

PLATINUM FIRST SINGLE “DIAMONDS” IS TOP 5 AT RADIO

Worldwide superstar Rihanna, currently dominating global charts with "Diamonds," the fastest-rising single of her career to date, and the first single from UNAPOLOGETIC, her upcoming 7th studio album for Island Def Jam in just seven years - arriving in stores worldwide on Monday, November 19th - now announces the launch of her unprecedented "777" tour on Nov. 14th.

A group of die-hard fans from the Rihanna Navy fan club and a traveling international press corps of over 150 journalists representing 82 countries will be taken aboard a chartered Boeing 777 twinjet to 7 shows in 7 days in 7 countries. Working with global sponsor, HTC Corporation, the "777 Tour" will host an intimate gig in each of 7 cities—including one in the UK co-sponsored by River Island — marching toward the November 19th release date of UNAPOLOGETIC.

To commemorate the arrival of UNAPOLOGETIC, two different Limited Edition D2C deluxe box sets are up for pre-sale to members of the Rihanna Navy, exclusively at the RihannaNow.com website: the DIAMONDS BOX and the DIAMONDS EXECUTIVE PLATINUM BOX, carrying amazing never-before-released Rihanna images, art and custom-made accessories. UNAPOLOGETIC will go up for pre-order at iTunes on November 6th.

Meanwhile, "Diamonds," with 94 million combined radio audience in the U.S. (Greatest Gainer/Streaming & Airplay), jumps to #5 on the Hot 100, to become Rihanna's 23rd Top 10 hit on the chart. "Diamonds" debuted four weeks ago with #1 postings at iTunes in 27 countries, and Top 5 iTunes in 55 countries. On November 10th, Rihanna will perform 'Diamonds' on the Saturday Night Live stage, her fourth time as musical guest.

Rihanna – the "#1 Person On Facebook" with over 62 million Likes – has sold over 37 million albums and 146 million digital tracks worldwide, and currently holds the record as the top-selling digital artist of all time. The recipient of six Grammy Awards® and seven Billboard Music Awards, she was named the world's #1 social media star by Forbes, with over 2.9 billion views on YouTube/VEVO, the most ever for any female artist, and over 26 million Twitter followers. In addition to her 11 Hot 100 #1 singles and [now] 23 Top 10 singles, she also has 18 #1 singles on the Billboard Dance Club Song Charts.

_______

Brought to you by the #NuNavy

 

[Bladenic]

I wanted to go out tonight but it's super cold and snowing. RIP.

 

[Wafflecakes]

For those unaware. X Factor episode was moved from thur night to tonight. 2 hours.

 

[Trigger]

Yes, I'm ready for all the mess and Britney tonight.

The Rih promo begins
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Brought to you by the #NuNavy

I hope the album slays me.

 

[CRS]

Learning T flip-flops (aka flops) in my digital design class today. Pop-GAF was the first thing that came to mind.

 

[xxczx]

Yes, I'm ready for all the mess and Britney tonight.



I hope the album slays me.

i hope so too, if Diamonds is anything to go by

 

[Aguila]

Versace Photoshoot:

FLAWFREE GODDESS

 

[Supermanisdead]

RT

Versace Photoshoot:



FLAWFREE GODDESS

 

[Bladenic]

i hope so too, if Diamonds is anything to go by

If Diamonds is anything to go by its gonna be basic as fuck.

Also Lana is gorgeous but I hate when she does that pouty look. With her fake lips it looks really weird.

 

[Trigger]

I honestly can't telll when Lana intends to pout or not now. Music is still good tho.

Learning T flip-flops (aka flops) in my digital design class today. Pop-GAF was the first thing that came to mind.

#2012POP-GAFMentalDomination

 

[bort]

Miley is stanning for Nicki on Halloween

http://ryanseacrest.com/2012/10/31/nicki-minaj-says-she-is-going-as-miley-cyrus-for-halloween/?wt=2

On Her Halloween Costume:
“I think going to probably go as Miley Cyrus. Because she is going as me and I just saw her picture on Twitter. I could do the short blonde buzz-cut like Miley,” Nicki tells us.

 

[Kyon]

Miley's costume is amazing

 

[royalan]

is the girl next to her Lil Kim?

 

[Wilsongt]

Speaking of Carly "Where'd my popularity go" Rae Jepsen.

She and those Owl Hew? people are being sued.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uySNTFJMec

That is the song they are believed to have copied.

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/carly-rae-jepsen-owl-citys-adam-young-sued-064413845.html

 

[Trigger]

Only the "oh oh oh" parts sounds similar. I think she's stretching.

Poor brave Carlysus.

 

[botty]

is the girl next to her Lil Kim?

Roy, have you seen this interview?

Xtina is so real.

Spoiler

and so shady

 

[Tomodachi]

Versace Photoshoot:



FLAWFREE GODDESS

Yes.

 

[Crumpet Trumpet]

New Charli XCX:

"Cloud Aura (feat. Brooke Candy)"

Why is everyone up on Brooke Candy's robodick nowadays?

 

[botty]

Rolling Stone drags Gaga and Madonna for filth.

Show made its debut with 1.322 million in sales. Red actually beat expectations, selling 1.208 million copies, without any sales tricks such as Lady Gaga's 99-cent Amazon deal or Madonna's bundling of albums and concert tickets.

My theory is that today's record industry contains exactly two stars who can sell millions of albums at a time – Taylor Swift and Adele. Which may be the ultimate legacy of the crippling MP3 revolution – that the world can have only a couple of Britney-circa-2000 stars at a time. My alternate theory is that for all the whining about the Internet, maybe there just haven't been that many great, culture-dominating, giant-pop-star records over the past decade.

sauce.


Did they lie?

 

[SaintZ]

Versace Photoshoot:



FLAWFREE GODDESS

My kweeeen ;____; she's so gorge I can't.

 

[Trigger]

Rolling Stone drags Gaga and Madonna for filth.



sauce.


Did they lie?

Ch....


























































Not a damn lie detected tho.

 

[Aguila]

With her fake lips it looks really weird.

I want to address this belief:

Lana has always said that her lips are real. In an old interview, she said that she always put Cayenne pepper on her lips when she's nervous. Cayenne pepper can swell your lips.

I believe ha and I believe the Cayenne pepper theory.

 

[B-Dex]

GURLS!

ICONA POP is in the new Need for Speed. When will your favs?

 

[SaintZ]

I want to address this belief:

Lana has always said that her lips are real. In an old interview, she said that she always put Cayenne pepper on her lips when she's nervous. Cayenne pepper can swell your lips.

I believe ha and I believe the Cayenne pepper theory.

I luv ha but I'm not sure she hasn't done anything to her lips tbh. In interviews they do look more normal but idk, she barely had any upper lip during the Lizzy Grant days.

 

[Sai-kun]

For Halloween, I'm going as an unironic Rihanna fan. I'm just gonna play We Found Love on repeat all day. Have a good one, y'all!

 

[royalan]

Roy, have you seen this interview?

Xtina is so real.

Spoiler

and so shady

Girl, watching now tbh. She's so cute in interviews.

Speaking of Xtina, tho. The first review of Lotus is out. From Entertainment Weekly. C-

You say you want a revolution? Good news! Christina Aguilera has already armed the battle-clones for war on ''Army of Me,'' one of many thundering self-empowerment anthems on her fifth studio album, Lotus. ''There's a thousand faces of me,'' she hollers. ''And we're gonna rise up.../For every time you wronged me/Well, you're gonna face an army, army of me.'' Which begs the question: Rise up against whom? Is the whole world really out to get her, or is this just an excuse to wear camouflage hot pants?

If it sounds like Aguilera is in self-defense mode, that's not a surprise. Since she released her 2010 clunker, Bionic, she's gotten divorced, dodged tomatoes for her big-screen performance in Burlesque, and rebounded as a coach on NBC's The Voice. But her mixed messages are too often unintentionally funny. After inviting America to ''turn down the hate'' on ''Make the World Move,'' an electro-soul duet with Voice costar Cee Lo Green, she spends the sassy kiss-off ''Circles' telling her enemies to ''spin around in circles on my middle, middle finger.'' And getting behind the bouncy peace-flag-waver ''Let There Be Love'' is difficult when there's a bonus track called ''Shut Up'' that invites the haters to ''suck my d---.''

Backed by megaproducers Max Martin, Shellback, and Lucas Secon, and boosted by The Voice, Lotus should have been Aguilera's mainstream pop comeback. Occasionally she can still power through a chorus like a Russian weight lifter (see: ''Sing for Me''). Too bad most of these tracks digitally smother her voice, draining all the emotion until she just sounds bitter. It's unclear whom she's mad at here. But somehow Lotus makes you want to root for the other guy. C-

I hate this review. Not because the writer gave Lotus a bad score (not everyone's going to like Lotus, whatevs). But this review spends so much time talking about everything BUT the actual music that it comes off as more of a criticism of Xtina than her music. It reminds me of some of the Stripped-era reviews that were just frankly nasty opinion pieces about Xtina's image with maybe one sentence spent on the actual content of the album.

Oh well...

 

[Aguila]

I luv ha but I'm not sure she hasn't done anything to her lips tbh. In interviews they do look more normal but idk, she barely had any upper lip during the Lizzy Grant days.

Maybe the time between her Lizzy Grant and Lana Del Rey days was so stressful the she put on more Cayenne pepper than usual

 

[Crumpet Trumpet]

Critical reviews for mainstream pop albums are almost always terribly written. With that said, I think my favorite review outlet for pop albums is Slant. Their analysis of Kelly's All I Ever Wanted was equal parts vicious and true.

 

[Trigger]

Girl, watching now tbh. She's so cute in interviews.

Speaking of Xtina, tho. The first review of Lotus is out. From Entertainment Weekly. C-



I hate this review. Not because the writer gave Lotus a bad score (not everyone's going to like Lotus, whatevs). But this review spends so much time talking about everything BUT the actual music that it comes off as more of a criticism of Xtina than her music. It reminds me of some of the Stripped-era reviews that were just frankly nasty opinion pieces about Xtina's image with maybe one sentence spent on the actual content of the album.

Oh well...

It's a problem a lot of reviewers have. They try to start the review by writing in the context of the artist's career and life but fail to connect that to the music.

 

[Majmun]

Lol at the Frank Ocean hate again. Botty seems to be more pressed than Rihanna's pillow.

Talking about Rihanna...what's this #NuNavy thing? A newly formed group that's going to contribue to the CarterTax?

I like it

 

[Wafflecakes]

Rolling Stone drags Gaga and Madonna for filth.



sauce.


Did they lie?

Its legit....but for different reasons.

Adele and Taylors success in album sales has a lot to do with their demographics. Adele appeals to many older people who would not be downloading individual songs so buy the album. Taylor still has country roots and the sales of county albums have not fallen nearly as rapidly as pop album sales.

I wouldn't call either significantly bigger than Gaga.


Of course Madonna is irrelevant in today's industry so not sure why she is brought up other than her absurd bundling tricks with the tickets.

 

[Kyon]

Lol at the Frank Ocean hate again. Botty seems to be more pressed than Rihanna's pillow.

Talking about Rihanna...what's this #NuNavy thing? A newly formed group that's going to contribue to the CarterTax?

I like it

Sis the point of NuNavy is to Stan for sales and success. Not BUYING anything. Non Profitable cause/Pro Bono.

Abort

 

[Mau ®]

Sis the point of NuNavy is to Stan for sales and success. Not BUYING anything. Non Profitable cause/Pro Bono.

Abort

On the contrary the #NuNavy will deepen The Carter Family's pockets in a way the old, lesser #Navy never could.

And since the lesser #Navy pupulation in POP GAF has decreased to about 1... I can say we're a far more profitable group tbh.

 

[Crumpet Trumpet]

DMJ is better off without all the ironic Rih stans tainting his stanbase, tbh.

 

[Soulscribe]

Girl, watching now tbh. She's so cute in interviews.

Speaking of Xtina, tho. The first review of Lotus is out. From Entertainment Weekly. C-



I hate this review. Not because the writer gave Lotus a bad score (not everyone's going to like Lotus, whatevs). But this review spends so much time talking about everything BUT the actual music that it comes off as more of a criticism of Xtina than her music. It reminds me of some of the Stripped-era reviews that were just frankly nasty opinion pieces about Xtina's image with maybe one sentence spent on the actual content of the album.

Oh well...

It doesn't come off like the writer is out to get her personally with nothing under the context of having listened to the album though. It sounds like the songs on the album give off a vibe that she's angry or stuck on a single message. Having not heard it though, I can't speak for how true the criticism is. Though I can understand how someone who isn't a POP-GAF member might listen to a slew of songs with Christina talking about how she's a victim and think "this bitch is self-absorbed." *shrug*

Just let me at Lotus, hunties. My review will be SCATHINGLY objective.

 

[Majmun]

That sounds horrible

edit

responding to kyon's post

#onmobile

 

[Mau ®]

Xtina's "Army of Me" PREVIEW is here Fighters.

 

[botty]

The LOTUS INTRO IS EVERYTHING.

Xtina's "Army of Me" PREVIEW is here Fighters.

doesn't work.

 

[Mau ®]

doesn't work.

Um works for me right now

P.S. Doesnt anymore... but it was it!! The lyrics were something like "I've been standing where you left me...second skin etc etc". It was a bit trippy at the beggining.

 

[Mau ®]

So Im guessing Lotus will leak in the next couple of days.

RCA is ON IT tho. They're taking down the snippets ASAP.

 

[botty]

So Im guessing Lotus will leak in the next couple of days.

RCA is ON IT tho. They're taking down the snippets ASAP.

Someone better upload that snippet for Army of Me. I only managed to catch the Lotus intro.

 

[royalan]

It doesn't come off like the writer is out to get her personally with nothing under the context of having listened to the album though. It sounds like the songs on the album give off a vibe that she's angry or stuck on a single message. Having not heard it though, I can't speak for how true the criticism is. Though I can understand how someone who isn't a POP-GAF member might listen to a slew of songs with Christina talking about how she's a victim and think "this bitch is self-absorbed." *shrug*

Just let me at Lotus, hunties. My review will be SCATHINGLY objective.

It does though.

For starters she tells us very little about what the album actually sounds like (outside of that "electro-soul" descriptor for "Make The World Move"), which is the biggest failure of this review.

She only mentions 5 of the songs (conveniently the ones that suit her point about Christina being bitter) and makes no mention of the other 12 songs on this 17 track album.

She also falsely credits this album to Max Martin and his production team. But Max Martin only produced two of the tracks from Lotus. If you're to credit the overall tone of Lotus to anyone, it would have to be Alex Da Kid (and Candice Pilay), who is behind seven tracks on the album (including the heavily rumored, practically confirmed at this point second single "Red Hot Kinda Love"). But this flop review makes absolutely no mention of him or RHKL.

Perhaps the most telling indicator of the laziness behind this review is the fact that this writer USUALLY ends her reviews with a pick for best and worst song. She doesn't here.

To me, it sounds like this reviewer listened to the tracks played at the listening party they had a few days ago, and wrote this review in the cab on the way to work this morning.

 

[Crumpet Trumpet]

Army of Me Snippet

???

 

[Mau ®]

Someone better upload that snippet for Army of Me. I only managed to catch the Lotus intro.

ARMY OF ME SIS

http://soundcloud.com/redlipsroom/army-of-me

GET IT!

 

[Trigger]

Army of Me Snippet

???

Too short.

 

[royalan]

Army of Me snippet.....

Spoiler

It's giving me Kelly Clarkson teas, but slightly clubbier...