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Wheat Loaf posted:Taylor Swift always seems like she's slightly out of tune when she does live performances. She used to be a lot worse (I remember that one show where she was singing an old Fleetwood Mac song with Stevie Nicks, who was visibly unimpressed) but I think it's still noticeable. I don't know, I guess I've never really rated her as a singer. You straight up don't need to be a good singer to be a pop star. That's not an indictment of pop music, it's just a fact of the industry. Looking good on stage and in music videos is way more important than voice talent, and they can autotune, pitch correct, merge takes, auto-harmonize, and straight up replace your voice before the video releases. Some pop stars are amazing singers who compose their own songs, but others are just products, and it's not like you can tell the difference by the quality of their albums. Timby posted:Oh my loving God, chemo sucks. I watched my sperm donor go through it like 15 years ago, but I didn't grasp how brutal it is. Hang in there. 
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Further exacerbating things is the fact that a stunning amount of people who have the power who simply don't loving care about the mentally ill. And then manage to talk their supporters into thinking likewise. I think there’s a story we’re missing here, and it seems to be a sad one.
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Oct 27, 2018 22:42
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Lurdiak posted:You straight up don't need to be a good singer to be a pop star. That's not an indictment of pop music, it's just a fact of the industry. Looking good on stage and in music videos is way more important than voice talent, and they can autotune, pitch correct, merge takes, auto-harmonize, and straight up replace your voice before the video releases. Some pop stars are amazing singers who compose their own songs, but others are just products, and it's not like you can tell the difference by the quality of their albums. Katy Perry has long been a source of confusion to me because for years I've read people praising her for having a really strong, powerful voice, but then I remember this mess and I have no idea where they got the idea from. I'll rate personality ahead of technical proficiency any day of the week (which I think is why I eventually went off show tunes, but still enjoy old Mel Tormé and Tony Bennett albums) but there comes a point where a deficiency in the latter is severe enough that it undercuts any compensation you might derive from the former.
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Oct 27, 2018 22:46
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I swear I've seen a couple moments where Swift isn't even matching the lip sync in her own videos. It's crazy how much she coasts.
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Oct 27, 2018 22:52
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She's a delight in concert.
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Oct 27, 2018 22:55
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This is the first time in a few years where I'm not voting at this time of year. Somehow the current Government has made it more than a year without collapsing. Is this political stability?
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Oct 27, 2018 23:13
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therattle posted:I think there’s a story we’re missing here, and it seems to be a sad one. A friend and I fell in love back in 2015, started house hunting and I started looking at rings. Then she died in a snowboarding accident about 10 months after we became an item. It made everything I struggle with except the learning disability worse, and I tried to commit suicide. I've tried 7 different types of anti-depressants, I can't seem to find a career that allows me to work around my disability effectively. I live at home with my mom because I simply don't make enough to support myself at my job. And the Premier (think Governor if you're American) of my province recently implied that if those who are complaining about him axing Basic Income want more stability, they should get a job. That Premier, by the way, is the brother of the infamous crackhead ex-Mayor of Toronto Rob Ford. His name's Doug Ford and he himself is a former drug dealer. El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Oct 27, 2018 |
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Oct 27, 2018 23:19
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We barely even have a government where I live, never mind a functioning one.
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Oct 27, 2018 23:20
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FreudianSlippers posted:It sucks but I'm told it's a lot less unpleasant than the alternative. Very Freudian of you.
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Oct 27, 2018 23:38
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bushisms.txt posted:Never seen a taylor Swift music video before today, restaurant I'm at has a playlist of them going, and now I can see why she's not on any shows or movies. She can't act for poo poo, its mind blowing how bad, kind of ruining my meal. Her Delicate video is extremely beautiful. The filming, colors, atmosphere, cinematography is great. Even her goofy performance. Also her video for Blank Space was good.
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Oct 28, 2018 00:49
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I used to not really understand how acting could be considered a job since I thought anyone could do it to an acceptable degree. Then I had the misfortune of seeing Valentine’s Day and Taylor Swift in that movie immediately showed me why I was wrong.
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Oct 28, 2018 00:57
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I’m not one to judge, I loving suck at acting. I dig her continuing partnership with Joseph Kahn. Which reminds me, I have to watch Detention again soon.
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Oct 28, 2018 01:27
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Stop saying mean words about my seventeen foot tall girlfriend Tay Tay you fucks
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Oct 28, 2018 01:57
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Taylor Swift is like the evil Jet Li in The One and Robyn is the good Jet Li
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Oct 28, 2018 02:01
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Gatts posted:Her Delicate video is extremely beautiful. The filming, colors, atmosphere, cinematography is great. Even her goofy performance. Directed by Joseph Khan! That's why!
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Oct 28, 2018 02:03
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I Before E posted:Taylor Swift is like the evil Jet Li in The One and Robyn is the good Jet Li I don't know who Robyn is but please stop or I'm going to start doing mountain goats songs about Tay Tay
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Oct 28, 2018 02:04
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Mountain Goats, how about man-tain goats And it's for the fellas
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Oct 28, 2018 02:04
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:I don't know who Robyn is but please stop or I'm going to start doing mountain goats songs about Tay Tay Dickeye you ignorant slut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcNo07Xp8aQ
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Oct 28, 2018 02:06
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I Before E posted:Dickeye you ignorant slut Full disclosure I didn't hear a Taylor Swift song until 2015 when I was living in Charlotte, the power went out one night and my roommate and I sat on our balcony abd drank and listened to Tay Tay on her phone because she wanted me to hear blank space Not knowing who these people are is kinda my default mode
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Oct 28, 2018 02:07
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People: the new Suspiria loving rules.
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Oct 28, 2018 02:10
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Rihanna turned down the Super Bowl because of her support for Colin Kaepernick. That's my pop star story.
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Oct 28, 2018 02:16
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Delicate is a really good video for a strangely astonishing song that transcends basically Swift’s whole career. It’s really different from anything else she’s written, lyrically, and it’s a shame the album surrounding it is so horrendous. That’s my Swift take. Thanks for listening. Budgie Jumping posted:People: the new Suspiria loving rules.
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Oct 28, 2018 02:31
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you know what Hollywood's missing nowadays? giant roided-out muscle-monster actors, like we used to have a billion of like, you've basically got The Rock and Batista and that's it
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Oct 28, 2018 02:42
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EMA is better than all of them Edit: meaning Swift, Rihanna, etc
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Oct 28, 2018 03:01
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precision posted:EMA is better than all of them The European Medicines Agency?
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Oct 28, 2018 03:05
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I Before E posted:The European Medicines Agency? Erika M Anderson, formerly of Gowns and a solo artist since about 10 years ago. Gowns' Red State is a top 10 album of all time and her solo stuff is roughly just as good.
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Oct 28, 2018 03:08
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precision posted:Erika M Anderson, formerly of Gowns and a solo artist since about 10 years ago. Gowns' Red State is a top 10 album of all time and her solo stuff is roughly just as good. I'll check her stuff out
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Oct 28, 2018 03:09
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oneforthevine posted:I love the original, but I hear this one’s *really* gruesome. Assuming Argento’s about as much as I can handle, I assume I should steer clear? I don't remember the original so well, but this new one had some absolutely state-of-the-art body horror. Sickening stuff. But there's this relevance and urgency to it that makes it hard for me to tell you not to see it. Especially if you dug on the mythology of the original. Sorry if that's unhelpful!
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Oct 28, 2018 03:27
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Oct 28, 2018 03:28
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I Before E posted:There was a mythology in the original? Based on reading wikipedia, I think so. What this new one does is it treats Argento's three mothers trilogy (which I didn't know was a thing until now) as its baseline mythology. It's some wild poo poo!
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Gatts posted:
precision posted:EMA is better than all of them Can't agree with Rhianna. All of her recent videos have been of her in classic male roles. It rules.
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bushisms.txt posted:Can't agree with Rhianna. All of her recent videos have been of her in classic male roles. It rules. Search "ema red star live" and tell me with a straight face it doesn't destroy you
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oneforthevine posted:Delicate is a really good video for a strangely astonishing song that transcends basically Swift’s whole career. It’s really different from anything else she’s written, lyrically, and it’s a shame the album surrounding it is so horrendous. Shouting “one two three let’s go bitch” during that makes me extremely happy. I wasn’t crazy about Red because it came out at a lovely time in my life, but All Too Well is an all-timer as well. Also I would die for Rihanna, and most likely will die at her hand.
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Yes and yes, we w nt upstairs from the jump I did a reading there once and one of the writing gods of Philly was seated lordly in one of the bumper cars, solemnlly eating cheese fries.
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Archyduke posted:seated lordly in one of the bumper cars, solemnlly eating cheese fries. New thread title right here
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Oct 28, 2018 05:25
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I have loved taylor swift since I was a 14 year old girl listening to her with all my friends on the way to school camp, but I will readily admit her videos are pretty poo poo. I love her whole persona though, she's so funny. And her songs are good. Red ruled.
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Gluten Freeman posted:I have loved taylor swift since I was a 14 year old girl listening to her with all my friends on the way to school camp, but I will readily admit her videos are pretty poo poo. I love her whole persona though, she's so funny. Speak Now > Red IMO. she wrote all the songs and it shows. actually I don't like most of the slower songs on Speak Now like Innocent and Speak Now, but also Long Live and Mine and Speak Now and Sparks Fly and Mean are all stellar and Enchanted is arguably her single best song (although Style is right up there too). The thing about Swift is that she is capable of really great, beautiful, empathetic songwriting (see: Enchanted, Mean, All Too Well, Fifteen) and also really, truly embarrassing songs that don't hold up after 5 minutes let alone 5 years (Innocent, I Did Something Bad/This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things). And then also she's good for one or two nearly perfect pop song(s) per album (Style, We Are Never Getting Back Together/I Knew You Were Trouble, You Belong To Me, Don't Blame Me). T-Swizz Album Ranking: Speak Now Red/1989 (these two switch depending on the day) Fearless (she's really young and it shows but the singles Reputation (the good songs are good but there are fewer of them and the bad songs are embarrassing) also my favorite completely made up but incredibly plausible theory about Swift is that she sings about sensuality like someone who is either terrified of sex or terrible at it.
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Skwirl posted:Rihanna turned down the Super Bowl because of her support for Colin Kaepernick. That's my pop star story. And now she appears on XXXTentacion's album.
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