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"August" is my favourite as well, and "This is me trying". Other than that I'm not too hyped about the music – for me the songs are okay, nice, surely the first Taylor album I could listen to in its entirety, but something is missing, some "inner tension" which would make it more interesting. But it's the kind of album which will tick a lot of boxes for a lot of music critics, so AOTY is pretty safe.

I've just listened to "Cardigan" and the song sounds like if Taylor tries to emulate NFR! She obviously likes Lana, we all know that, and it shows in this song imho. Can't say anything about the album yet (but I'm no TS fan so I probably won't be too euphoric...).

Most entertaining live band probably ever:

Yeah, social media is all about self-staging. It's just madness.

YES! Exactly my thoughts. I stopped looking at Twitter and IG some time ago and only use FB for private things (not news or stalking celebreties .

It's days like these that make me think the invention of social media wasn't that good of an idea... It produced this kind of "culture" where showing off or blaming other people in the internet has become important for one's image.

Haven't watched it and it's probably not worth it anyway...

Okay, I misread that, so what happened is even less terrifying. Btw I don't know if this has already been posted her but it's a nice summarization (of the first IG post & the reactions):

Maybe I'm getting to old for all of this but I really can't see why it's such a big deal? Lana's obviously fuming and posted some strange text again, and she unfollowed some fans and Ariane G., and AG unfollowed her... oh wow... and now...? What's going to happen? Is doomsday dawning upon on us? Will the apocalypse kill us all? (Well, of course it will, but probably not now, not because of Lana I don't know – Lana's always been weird and some kind of "problematic" person, and that's why she's doing and saying unpredictable (and often debatable) things. But that's also why she's making awesome art for 15 years now, I guess. This IG/Twitter uproar will fizzle out and life will go on (at least mine will. I hope EDIT: So AG didn't unfollow her. Sorry, my mistake.

I'm just ignoring all that crap - it's better for the mental health to not dive into those kind of "discussions" on IG/Twitter.

I've lost count of the number of times Lana had been "cancelled" according to some jerks on Twitter or IG because Lana wrote something supposedly weirdly worded, so I'm not worried about the effect of her latest post.

Okay, wow, that was unexpected! I still can't fully believe we will (might) be getting an new Lana album this year but at least there's something to talk about and to look forward to right now.

This is very soothing:

Haven't seen this Poppy/Grimes video before: https://twitter.com/Poppy4President/status/1258097125575057408

Sent!

Maybe the japanese KawaiiMetal band BABYMETAL. It's pretty obvious where Poppy got some of her inspiration from, especially for songs like "Concrete" and "X". BM's mix of J-Pop and Metal is really infectious and their live performances are mindblowing (usually the live versions of their songs are even better than the studio ones - and those girls put on an incredible show).

It says "Video unavailable" when I click on the play button.

That's one of the reasons why I hate Eventim. I bought my tickets at Ticketmaster.de and they refunded me automatically within a few hours; no need to send back the tickets. (Although they deducted the handling fee but at least I got 93 % of my money back.)

Wow, I'm so depressed right now.

Oh no.

I'm watching the last episode of season 2 atm and really like the show - it's very entertaining (although the 2nd season seems a bit "over the top" sometimes – too much going on for my liking).

It's not completely bad but somehow forgettable... I REALLY hope Marina will find her spark again in the future!

The first time I listened to Lana was in May 2010 - a music blog recommended the demo version of Diet Mtn Dew and I checked it out on YouTube and really liked it though I wasn't instantly hooked; her voice kind of "irritated" me at that time (in a good way). But Lana startet to really make an impact on my music listening habits in 2011 with "Kinda outta luck" (and several other songs that were around at that time). Then "Video Games" was released and I followed her ever since.

Insulting Billie for winning "too many" awards is dumb – it's not her fault. The c***s are the guys who run the Grammys...