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Creyk

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  1. Oh that's a good one. I want to re-watch.
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    Lady Gaga

    Some people believe it will leak on the 10th. It will be interesting to see if it happens.
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    Lady Gaga

    If you included the jazz one shouldn't you also include ASIB
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    Lady Gaga

    The fact that we were supposed to get it on March 27.... Corona is such a bitch
  5. I watched Amélie (2001). My name is Creyk and I’m a hopeless romantic. I’ve tried to hide it and keep it a secret but the truth is that there’s nothing better than getting swept away in a romance and cinema is the best medium for capturing that intoxicating feeling. From the grand gesture of A Matter of Life and Death to the tentative delights of Before Sunrise, film has captured love in its many shapes and sizes. One of the finest love stories this century is Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Parisian fairy tale, Amelie. It possesses so many elements that I would normally hate - the quirky characters, sugary-sweet whimsy and soppy protagonist - but I fall under its spell each and every time I watch it. It’s hard to express why it works for me when so many films of this kind do not (although the presence of Audrey Tautou undoubtedly helps) but Jeunet has created that rare and beautiful thing - cinematic magic. Amelie, for the handful of people who still haven’t sampled its delights, is a thoroughly charming film about the eponymous ingénue - a waitress working in Montmartre who helps friends and strangers find the love and happiness she denies herself. She’s a dreamer living in her own world and too scared to make the leap until she meets a man almost as peculiar as she is. It’s easy to be critical of a film like Amelie. It’s a twee confection that bears no relation to reality whether in its depiction of an all-white Montmartre or the oddballs and misfits each living in their own obsessive worlds. I understand why it has its detractors and if you aren’t beguiled by its nostalgic whimsy and naive eccentricities I imagine it could be a quite torturous experience. It’s a film that transports me to a fantastical world filled with improbable characters and elaborate romantic gestures. Perhaps Jeunet’s methods are manipulative but the film shares the protagonist’s innocence and sense of wide-eyed wonder. As exaggerated and distorted as this Parisian depiction is you buy wholeheartedly into the world and the travails of its eccentric inhabitants. Jeunet has created a heavily stylised world bursting with warm reds and golds. It’s a romanticised view vividly brought to life and filled with beautiful touches and flights of fantasy. Every frame is exquisitely rendered and although stripped of the director’s earlier macabre embellishments (perhaps because of Marc Caro’s departure) this is perhaps his most visually striking work to date. The characters that orbit Amelie’s world are a collection of sad sacks and obsessives from a downtrodden grocer’s assistant to a man locked away in his apartment due to his brittle bones. Just like the audience, each one is enriched by the presence of Amelie as she helps them find happiness and new meaning in their lives. Her own story - the would-be romance with Mathieu Kassovitz’s mysterious collector of discarded booth photos - possesses an endearing innocence as she finds the courage to look for love herself. It’s not particularly sophisticated, and the object of her affection remains an indistinct presence, but you get swept up into her romantic viewpoint (which is made all the more impressive when they never even share a single line of dialogue together). The film’s episodic structure would normally be problematic yet it’s just a joy to spend time in this meticulously crafted storybook world. Like the unconventional characters that populate the film, Amelie isn’t perfect but it’s the quirks and peculiarities that ultimately make it such a magical experience.
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    Björk

    Karvel is her best song. And that's that on that.
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    Kim Petras

    All she said it was coming "soon".
  8. And I will never sing again And you won't work another day I will never sing again With just one wave, it goes away It will be our swan song It will be our swan song Be our swan song It will be our swan song
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    ALLIE X

    The analog version really helps this song. It's beautiful.
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    Lady Gaga

    It decreased by 7% There were still 24 BILLION streams generated last week. That is quite a lot.
  11. The parts with Rooster / at the farm were the best. I wish we got more of that and less of the white tiger rescue plot. I watched Where'd you go Bernadette. It was really good, a lovely story of finding your lust for life.mp3
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    Lady Gaga

    Several countries made the law that if you go out you will get fines (pretty big sums, too), there are several places where you are forbidden from going out at all.
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    Lady Gaga

    She said in her post that SHE doesn't feel it's appropriate to release the album
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    Lady Gaga

    I have to say corona is THAT girl, keeping her feet on the neck of these coward bitches fearing for their profit when they are already millionaires. The real main virus girl of the century did that.
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    Dua Lipa

    This album is lovely. But cool is just the worst.
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    Troye Sivan

    Can't wait give it to us king.
  17. She probably has a personality that is hard to get along with long term like I love love her but by her own account she is very controlling plus she travels a lot so that makes it difficult too unless her man is also a celebrity. But celeb relationships in general are more unstable.
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    Lady Gaga

    OMG your post made me think an announcement was made and I had a stroke
  19. Sure you will survive but the issue is we don't know what kind of lasting effects it can have. There are unconfirmed rumours that it can leave permanent lung damage and even if you recover from it once it can come back and infect you again. That is the worrysome part.
  20. It was just for attention and likes on TikTok she wanted to get lots of views and she succeeded.
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