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PopGAF |OT6| Beyonic is never coming out.

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3phemeral

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Yado said:
Calvin Harris' NSFW video for Thinking About You.

I love this song.
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As previously stated, where are the "artful" representations of male nudity?

*yawn*
 
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cory64

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SilentSoldier said:
I'm gonna say this right now, I didn't really like B'Day. With the exceptions of Green Light, Upgrade U, and Freakum Dress, I think it was her worst album. Sasha Fierce remains her opus.

Make of that what you will.
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Honestly haven't met anyone that prefers SF to B'Day, can you explain your preference?
 
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DMeisterJ

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SilentSoldier said:
I'm gonna say this right now, I didn't really like B'Day. With the exceptions of Green Light, Upgrade U, and Freakum Dress, I think it was her worst album. Sasha Fierce remains her opus.

Make of that what you will.
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... B'Day is one of the only two good albums she has (The other obviously being DiL). She's been on a downward slope of relevance, success, and artistry since then.
 
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Yado

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SilentSoldier said:
I'm gonna say this right now, I didn't really like B'Day. With the exceptions of Green Light, Upgrade U, and Freakum Dress, I think it was her worst album. Sasha Fierce remains her opus.

Make of that what you will.
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I was disappointed by Sasha Fierce. It's her worst album.
 
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cory64 said:
Honestly haven't met anyone that prefers SF to B'Day, can you explain your preference?
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Its hard to explain really, I just didn't really care for much of the songs on the B'Day album. Deja Vu seemed like a retread of Crazy in Love, I can't stand Irreplaceable, Ring the Alarm didn't really do much either, and there weren't any other ballads that I could really get behind (think Signs, DiL, Be with You, If I were a Boy, 1+1, Dance for You etc). Both of the follow up albums, Sasha Fierce and 4 seemed like much better musical efforts to me personally.

Like I said, Upgrade U, Greenlight, and Freakum Dress were great though. If only the rest of the album went like those songs
 
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Trigger

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SilentSoldier said:
I'm gonna say this right now, I didn't really like B'Day. With the exceptions of Green Light, Upgrade U, and Freakum Dress, I think it was her worst album. Sasha Fierce remains her opus.

Make of that what you will.
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I have more songs that I like from Sasha Fierce than B'Day so this statement doesn't quite puzzle me as much as others. It also gave us one of Bey's most iconic songs in Single Ladies.
 
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Soulscribe

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DMeisterJ said:
... B'Day is one of the only two good albums she has (The other obviously being DiL). She's been on a downward slope of relevance, success, and artistry since then.
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.....lol

SilentSoldier said:
Its hard to explain really, I just didn't really care for much of the songs on the B'Day album. Deja Vu seemed like a retread of Crazy in Love, I can't stand Irreplaceable, Ring the Alarm didn't really do much either, and there weren't any other ballads that I could really get behind (think Signs, DiL, Be with You, If I were a Boy, 1+1, Dance for You etc). Both of the follow up albums, Sasha Fierce and 4 seemed like much better musical efforts to me personally.

Like I said, Upgrade U, Greenlight, and Freakum Dress were great though. If only the rest of the album went like those songs
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I sort of agree when you break it down like that... people are partial to B'Day because it came at a time when her flavor of R&B was more fresh and new to the ears, even though the songs themselves aren't all that spectacular. Sasha Fierce I think has the more systematically GOOD songs but I think the entire album was so inflated and it didn't give people what they wanted after B'Day's signature sound. And while 4 didn't give the general public what they wanted, it remains her magnum opus among the real Bey stans. But I tend to listen to Sasha Fierce a lot more than B'Day on the reg.
 
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SilentSoldier

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DMeisterJ said:
... B'Day is one of the only two good albums she has (The other obviously being DiL). She's been on a downward slope of relevance, success, and artistry since then.
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Come on now, Single Ladies is like her most iconic song and it won her like 6 grammy's. I would say its her most iconic album.
 
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Soulscribe

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DMeisterJ said:
I Am... was such a tryhard mess. Her trying to make Halo into some sort of iconic song was an absolute joke.

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The problem with Sasha Fierce wasn't that it was tryhard, it's that it didn't try hard enough. lol

If you wanna throw shade make it accuraTe.


SilentSoldier said:
Come on now, Single Ladies is like her most iconic song and it won her like 6 grammy's. I would say its her most iconic album.
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Yeah, that album is her most signature for sure. People here will put it down but it doesn't change that fact.
 
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I like Halo
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EDIT: Gaga heading into the studio today.

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And apparently handing out invites to an ARTPOP pre-release listening party.

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Dr. Malik

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The invites are for the ARTRave which takes place on Nov 10 I believe

Also someone said that instead of the ARTPOP Ball the tour should be called The ARTRave and now I will be disappointed if it isn't
 
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Kyon

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So that's her real hair that no one gets to see

Also I love how her and Britney have been a wall apart from each other for these album recordings. I wonder if they visit
 
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Matt_

World's #1 One Direction Fan: Everyone else in the room can see it, everyone else but you~~~
Selena Gomez's album is floating about youtube for those that are interested

oh, I guess it means that it has leaked as its not out till next week
 
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Partition

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Matt_ said:
Selena Gomez's album is floating about youtube for those that are interested

oh, I guess it means that it has leaked as its not out till next week
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It leaked, I gave it a listen and wasnt really impressed (not that I expected to be)

"Music Feels Better" is definitely the standout tbh
 
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Matt_

World's #1 One Direction Fan: Everyone else in the room can see it, everyone else but you~~~
ARTPOP said:
It leaked, I gave it a listen and wasnt really impressed (not that I expected to be)

"Music Feels Better" is definitely the standout tbh
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I've only listened to two tracks because I want to watch true blood, but Stars Dance was pretty good

edit; I have just read some SCATHING reviews of Rihanna's t in the park performance
 
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Matt_

World's #1 One Direction Fan: Everyone else in the room can see it, everyone else but you~~~
so I'm watching mdna tour and she sounds like she has some kind of nasally autotune over her

It's really odd
 
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Kyon

Banned
Relevant and Kii @ the ones who still say " BU BU BUT SPOTIFER MAKES PEOPLE NOT BUY SHIT BUT MAKES US BUY QUALITY"

smdh you should all be ashamed.

Spotify could face a backlash from artists after high-profile Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke pulled his solo songs and those with his group Atoms For Peace from the music streaming service, complaining that "new artists get paid fuck all with this model".

Yorke and producer Nigel Godrich took to Twitter to express their annoyance at the business model for new artists, and explain their reasoning. "The numbers don't even add up for Spotify yet. But it's not about that. It's about establishing the model which will be extremely valuable," Godrich, whose production credits include albums for Radiohead and Paul McCartney, tweeted. "Meanwhile small labels and new artists can't even keep their lights on. It's just not right."

He continued: "Streaming suits [back] catalogue. But [it] cannot work as a way of supporting new artists' work. Spotify and the like either have to address that fact and change the model for new releases or else all new music producers should be bold and vote with their feet. [Streaming services] have no power without new music."

Spotify offers a limited free streaming service, and an unlimited service at tiers of £5 and £10 a month. But some artists have complained that it is less effective for them to make music available there than to sells CDs and digital downloads because the per-stream payments are comparatively tiny.

The industry average offers slightly less than 0.4p per stream – meaning that 1m streams of a song would generate about £3,800. Most songs receive far fewer streams.

The row highlights the collision between new models of listening to music created by streaming as the industry tries to find methods of dissuading fans from using illicit services to download songs for free without repaying artists.

Godrich insisted that the point was not about gaining more money for himself or Yorke, whose work with Radiohead sold millions of CDs in the past two decades. "The music industry is being taken over by the back door. And if we don't try and make it fair for new music producers and artists, then the art will suffer. Make no mistake. These are all the same old industry bods trying to get a stranglehold on the delivery system."

Yorke pitched in to the debate. "Make no mistake, new artists you discover on Spotify will not get paid. Meanwhile shareholders will shortly be rolling in it. Simples," he tweeted, and added as a riposte to critics that the suggestion his move was pointless missed its purpose: "'Your small meaningless rebellion is only hurting your fans ... a drop in the bucket really.' No, we're standing up for our fellow musicians."

Spotify has been having notable success with some established bands to make their music available on its service: Daft Punk's Get Lucky rapidly became one of the most-streamed songs ever.

And last month, Pink Floyd made its back catalogue available on Spotify after fans streamed the song Wish You Were Here more than 1m times.

But Godrich said: "Making new recorded music needs funding. Some records can be made in a laptop, but some need musician and skilled technicians. Pink Floyd's catalogue has already generated billions of dollars for someone (not necessarily the band) so now putting it on a streaming site makes total sense. But if people had been listening to Spotify instead of buying records in 1973 I doubt very much if Dark Side [of the Moon, Pink Floyd's record-breaking album released that year which sold hundreds of millions of copies] would have been made. It would just be too expensive."

The move has won support on Twitter from a number of artists, including Four Tet's Kieran Hebden, who tweeted: "I had everything on my label taken off [Spotify]. Don't want to be part of this crap." He added "I don't get why [it's] such a big deal to not do Spotify. My music [is] easy to get elsewhere. I'm just not into it."

The Beatles and rockers AC/DC are not available on Spotify.

Other big names from the past such as Led Zeppelin and King Crimson have refused to put their music on streaming services. King Crimson frontman Robert Fripp has been a vocal critic of the amounts that artists signed to labels are paid for their music – and has not acceded to putting any music on them, nor on services such as iTunes.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jul/15/thom-yorke-spotify-twitter

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THANK RIHANNA that she doesnt let that shit go on Spotify right away, also would like to thank Squints. They know what they're doing

And my prophetic and KNOWLEDGEABLE tea has been CLOCKED AND SERVED

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