WhereAreMahDragonz
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ddddd not too much on them
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ddddd not too much on them
Im making a statement of my own opinion
Just a brief little reminder to help myself remember
I no longer live in your dominion no, no, no, no, no whoowhoo
Youre just trifling, nothing more than a liability
Got a bundle of your possession outside the kitchen window right now:
Letting go oh oo oooh,
Letting go aint easy, oh its just exceedingly hurtful
Somebody you used to know is flinging your world around
And they watch as youre falling down, down down, falling down, baby.
Evidently your words were merely lies, reverberating in my ears and the echo wont subside
Theres a deep deep loss of hope and the anger burns in me
I hope you dont get no ideas bout reuniting baby cause thats the last thing I truly need
Your audacity is too much to be believed, so oooh so ooo
Go to Mimi on your contacts <sigh> press delete.
Letting go aint easy, oh its just exceedingly hurtful
Cause somebody you used to know is flinging your world around
And they watch as youre falling down, down, down, down (haaah)
Baby letting go, (baby letting go) aint easy (aint easy),
Baby letting go (baby letting go) whoa-ooo (whoa-oooh) aint easy (aint easy) Nooooo-
ohhhh-ooooo-oooh
Baby letting go, it aint easy Oh, cause somebody you used to know
Is flinging your world around, And you know what? (what?)
They watch, as youre falling (falling), as youre falling (falling) down, oooh-ahhh, whoa-ahhhh fall
<Big sigh> It aint easy Baby
What kind of masterclass in being a female recording artist. She turned a wordy rant into an amazing ballad.
WhereAreMahDragonz
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I don't get his stanning either
You Know Nothing
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Can the Ariana Grundy stan not tonight.
She sounds fine on the song. It's just boring.
She sounds fine on the song. It's just boring.
Seethe.
Crumpet Trumpet
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Girl please. I've heard cleaner vocals from Rihanna.
WhereAreMahDragonz
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Seriously tho.
I'm just concerned for you, sis
WhereAreMahDragonz
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I'm HOWLING
The singer with the song of the decade? The solo artist with the most number one single's in Rihistory? I don't know tbh.
You Know Nothing
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Ariana Grundy,
Discovered on a Monday,
Got a Twitter following on Tuesday,
Released an album on Wednesday,
Flopped on Thursday,
Bargain binned on Friday,
Career ended on Saturday,
Buried on Sunday.
That was the end,
Of Ariana Grundy.
We should all be dragging Grundy instead.
Discovered on a Monday,
Got a Twitter following on Tuesday,
Released an album on Wednesday,
Flopped on Thursday,
Bargain binned on Friday,
Career ended on Saturday,
Buried on Sunday.
That was the end,
Of Ariana Grundy.
We should all be dragging Grundy instead.
Nemesis_
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Wafflecakes
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The singer with the song of the decade? The solo artist with the most number one single's in Rihistory? I don't know tbh.
Not saying WBT wasn't huge, and obviously its run on the Hot 100 was massive.
...but she wasn't even the #1 radio artist that year. Nor was her song the best selling song of the year. Nor was her album the best selling album of the period. (Kelly Clarkson beats her in all 3 categories btw as far as pop artists go.)
The song benefited greatly from that fact that it was a more urban direction for her during a time when the Hot 100 was stacked to favor urban songs.
RobotChant
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Art of Letting Go is Ariana tier. Vision of Love it is not. Can't believe they would even evoke that song.
eh, the "they" was Jermaine Dupris. I just hope now that he's managing MC he's not on every other song saying random crap on her next album. Please lordT.
Wafflecakes
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I believe you did not read/comprehend my post.
My point was that Billboard unfairly favored urban songs during that era.
The actual sales of the songs/albums did not reflect the supposed domination. We Belong Together did not even make top 10 on the end of year sales charts.
Showing that its domination was a figment of Billboards imagination more than anything.
Kelly's album which was released around the same time (6 months apart) outsold EOM by 3 million copies world wide. That doesn't seem all that dominating.
Overhyped era was overhyped.
tali'zorah84
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not a gaggle of gays though
a murder
a flock
a school
(a coven?)
a murder
a flock
a school
(a coven?)
Wafflecakes
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Not you thinking WBT was "urban"...
It is urban influenced. Don't deflect.
Far more urban than the other major pop acts of the day.
No matter how you cut it. WBT was not #1 in sales for ONE DAY in the entire 16 weeks that she topped the hot 100.
Today she would be laughed off the charts.
Do you know what song was #1 in sales during the middle of its run? Pon de Replay.
You Know Nothing
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Ooooh so Billboard should have followed your standards for their decision, K. I guess being number 1 for 16 weeks and it breaking several airplay records, gathering both the largest one-day and one-week audiences in history at the time didn't mean anything. It's all about sales, got ya. Does anybody even remember what Clarkson song "outsold" WBT?
Wafflecakes
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At the time the formula was based virtually 100% around radio and PHYSICAL (rofl) single sales. Radio was determined by arbitrary formula's. May as well have chosen your #1's by committee. It was a mess. Everyone knew it was a mess. Which is why they changed it only a year or two later.
No one can take her weeks at #1 away, but it was far from the most popular song of the decade.
Cling to your arbitrary and admittedly biased airplay numbers if that makes you feel better though.
Supermanisdead
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nnnnnot ariana grundy. what kind of n64 throwback shade?
RobotChant
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So you don't disagree her singing isn't Mariah level either. I'm worried for her. She singing bout some past lover, and she been married for how long.
Jermaine was behind number 1 song of the decade. She needs him in her life.
Yes, stan this imacculate collection of bops.Modern Vampires of the City has officially fully punched me out the game.
What a perfect album.
I'm seeing them tomorrow !!
Stefan™;89489425 said:Lord with false Lorde today in NY:
why is Bandwagone dressed like a damn witch covered in bird poop
[edit] IT'S SO SIMPLE GET TO THE FLOOR
IT'S SO SIMPLE GET TO THE FLOOR
DO YOU WANT MORE?
DO YOU WANT MORE?
DO YOU KNOW WHAT I GOT IN STORE?
[edit 2] and it's kind of ridiculous how much more the album version of Bring the Noize shits than the single version
Nemesis_
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I mean yes this is true but isn't this also very sensitive to timing and cultural context?
Matt_
World's #1 One Direction Fan: Everyone else in the room can see it, everyone else but you~~~
Look at Gaga utterly SLAY Gypsy live
Why does anyone else even bother?
The American Music Awards are set to slay tbh
Performers[edit]
Pre-show
Jesse McCartney
Fifth Harmony
Main show
Lady Gaga[4] and R.Kelly[5]
Kelly Clarkson[6]
Miley Cyrus[2]
Imagine Dragons[2]
One Direction[7]
Florida Georgia Line[7]
Pitbull and Ke$ha
Luke Bryan[8]
Kendrick Lamar[9]
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis[10]
Justin Timberlake[11]
Here for nearly all of them tbh
Why does anyone else even bother?
The American Music Awards are set to slay tbh
Performers[edit]
Pre-show
Jesse McCartney
Fifth Harmony
Main show
Lady Gaga[4] and R.Kelly[5]
Kelly Clarkson[6]
Miley Cyrus[2]
Imagine Dragons[2]
One Direction[7]
Florida Georgia Line[7]
Pitbull and Ke$ha
Luke Bryan[8]
Kendrick Lamar[9]
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis[10]
Justin Timberlake[11]
Here for nearly all of them tbh
... But any formula would ultimately arbitrary. Arbitration of what counts, for how much, and on what charts is what Billboard, you know, does. It sometimes hurts artists, it sometimes helps them. Mariah's WBT chart performance wouldn't have been as impressive on a chart that emphasized sales over radio play; she did only peak at #2 in sales. But that's a counterfactual argument about what could have been.
It wasn't much more than a month ago that three different songs - Roar, Wrecking Ball, and Royals - were number one in radio play, streaming, and digital downloads. You could probably have had any of those songs be number one by adjusting the ultimately arbitrary formula Billboard uses to decide which song is number one on the Hot 100; that doesn't change the fact that Royals was number one under the existing formula.
Rihanna's second best video of her carihr "Only Girl" (In Pop) has crossed 300M views.
Watch the masterpiece once again here
Only Gal joins Her other 300m+ videos:
Diamonds
What's My Name
We Found Love
Watch the masterpiece once again here
Only Gal joins Her other 300m+ videos:
Diamonds
What's My Name
We Found Love
Soulscribe
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What's My Name tho?
Isn't she just roaming a Walgreens in that video?
Isn't she just roaming a Walgreens in that video?
Roaming Walgreens with her future husband Drake.
Their chemistry alone makes the video.
I don't have strong feelings about this article, but I am interested in seeing Soulscribe's reaction.
'scribe, where are you?
'scribe, where are you?
Soulscribe
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I will never understand 80% of her appeal :/
Meh, another reviewer saying this album is what they expected from her (i.e. pop music that's catchy, go figure) but didn't have the fire of Born This Way, an album that was so fiery that that same reviewer probably hated it when it came out too. She's going to get the catch-22 treatment this era at the end of the day; when she establishes her style as straight up pop, she's criticised for establishing versus treading new grounds. Except she's never treaded new grounds. All her music has been a similar style (Born This Way strafed a few times but generally still in the same tableau) but I think the title of album insinuated something more transformative than what we actually got. This person complains that "ARTPOP" is exactly what she's been doing up til now, then criticizes the album for being exactly what she's been doing up til now. Isn't that point? "ARTPOP" is exactly what she's been doing and this album exemplifies it. It's not meant to be a transformative album so much as an establishing album... at the end of the day Gaga is about catchy pop music, you've all complained that she strayed away from that in the last era, so this time she'll give you what you asked for: music similar to my first album + EP. It's classic Gaga. What moniker describes Gaga's essence more than "ARTPOP"?
It's like "why is this album JUST a bunch of pop songs?".... well, because that's what she was asked to make. Everyone shat on her for trying to do more, so she listened. I think there are too many people who want drastically different things from her, and in misunderstanding her ambitions assumed that her brand of music was some sort of revolutionary medium. It isn't. She's a well-spoken artist with catchy pop music.
Meh, another reviewer saying this album is what they expected from her (i.e. pop music that's catchy, go figure) but didn't have the fire of Born This Way, an album that was so fiery that that same reviewer probably hated it when it came out too. She's going to get the catch-22 treatment this era at the end of the day; when she establishes her style as straight up pop, she's criticised for establishing versus treading new grounds. Except she's never treaded new grounds. All her music has been a similar style (Born This Way strafed a few times but generally still in the same tableau) but I think the title of album insinuated something more transformative than what we actually got. This person complains that "ARTPOP" is exactly what she's been doing up til now, then criticizes the album for being exactly what she's been doing up til now. Isn't that point? "ARTPOP" is exactly what she's been doing and this album exemplifies it. It's not meant to be a transformative album so much as an establishing album... at the end of the day Gaga is about catchy pop music, you've all complained that she strayed away from that in the last era, so this time she'll give you what you asked for: music similar to my first album + EP. It's classic Gaga. What moniker describes Gaga's essence more than "ARTPOP"?
It's like "why is this album JUST a bunch of pop songs?".... well, because that's what she was asked to make. Everyone shat on her for trying to do more, so she listened. I think there are too many people who want drastically different things from her, and in misunderstanding her ambitions assumed that her brand of music was some sort of revolutionary medium. It isn't. She's a well-spoken artist with catchy pop music.
And it still has more views than any Beyoncé or Gaga video save for Bad Romance
What's the 20% you do understand?
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