Nick

Leaving this here http://precumming.tumblr.com/post/133632931847/the-clear-winner-for-pop-album-of-the-year-not

Let's see -- no particular order here: Halcyon - Ellie Goulding Goddess - Banks How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful - Florence + The Machine 21 - Adele (although I overplayed it to a point that I can't listen to it anymore) Born This Way - Lady Gaga (Overplayed this one, too) The Fool - Ryn Weaver Siberia - Lights The Golden Echo - Kimbra E•MO•TION - Carly Rae Jepsen Born To Die - Lana Del Rey

It's another "scroll," and then I think the "scrolls" will all constitute the album at some point.

https://twitter.com/carlyraejepsen/status/666995140876193794 FAM

Again, really no corrollation. It's like comparing Lana Del Rey with Lady Gaga. Different vocal styles, different writing styles. Trying to shade one of my favorite artists doesn't change my opinion that this album just feels like business as usual for Adele. She doesn't show much (if any) growth and wallows in the same themes and tones.

There is no corrolation between Adele and Ellie Goulding's albums, but at least Ellie's album doesn't carry itself at the pace of a funeral procession. Nice try tho bb

The snippets may not do the album justice, but just judging off those, the album is sorely underwhelming. The song produced by Max Martin doesn't fit Adele's voice at all. She's too big (vocally ) for the production style. And she tries to serve lowkey Florence + The Machine teas on some of these tracks.

Re-release already? The 7-disc Delirium: The Acute Confusional State Edition is coming sooner than we thought

Just 4,000 equivalent units away from #2 Still, good job, queen

That's so weird that they don't ship to the US. That'd be a really cool item to have. If only I had a passport...

Okay, so HOLYCHILD was kind of gaudy, but like, on purpose. Idk how I feel about them just yet haha. Their equiptment got lost between Chicago and Columbus, so they played an abridged set stripped with drums, a keyboard, and a vocal sampler. Definitely some respect for that. ASTR was surprisingly amazing. The singer relied a lot of playback, but the music was actually really good. I gotta look into them now haha. And then Ryn came in and blew everyone away. Her set was a lot louder than the first two, so I think I sustained some hearing damage from Pierre and OctaHate She played every song from the album -- which totally enhanced my love for the material. Runaway WAS one of my least favorites... until I saw it live. She brings a whole new life to the material live. Her vocals are, as you imagine, amazing And she does a lot of wild dancing/jerking/jolting like Florence does when she's in the moment on stage. Right before she closed with OctaHate and New Constellations, she asked us to put away our phones for a minute, turn around, and make two new friends in the crowd by introducing ourselves to one another. It was cute. The meet and greet was a single-file, one-by-one sort of thing. She hugged me like six times and kept telling me I'm cute. She tried on my glasses and we had a small chat about college, my adult braces, and how she failed out of the Invsalign program. Then we took our Polaroid -- the scenario she came up with was "husband and wife" for the picture lol -- she took a million selfies with me and kissed me goodbye. She was the sweetest thing ever oh my gosh.

The deluxe edition got bumped to a Target exclusive. Just picked it up.

TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT, FAM. I SEE/MEET HER I'll post pictures and stuff tomorrow!

Youth premiere: http://www.josepvinaixa.com/blog/troye-sivan-youth/

plus the power of our new fave Fred

Oh my gosh, I know. I don't know why the woman couldn't have just stood there and let her voice amaze the crowd instead of trying to distract them with this karate girl with some sort of epilepsy problem. The vocals, as always, were flawless. And the vocal ensemble added a nice touch to Alive ugh yas.

Brown and Bieber both had massive amounts of fans and success before they blew it all up and had to pick up the pieces. When you have millions of fans, you can stand to lose half of them, knowing that they'll come back eventually if you start to clean up your act. Azealia had no more than a mixtape and an EP out and limited online success before she started ruining everything for herself. And like Heartcore said, AB is at a disadvantage of being a female raunchy rapper here. Bieber especially can attract impressionable young girls just simply by being cute, and he has them manipulated into thinking that his outbursts are caused by their actions. Like the other day when he stormed off stage after one song and left: his fans were on Twitter attacking the fans who attended that show for their "awful" behavior towards the king of pop and how they shouldn't have set him off and so on and so forth. So with this power, Bieber is untouchable. He's cute, he's young, he makes digestible Top 40 music, and he has his fans thinking that he's never in the wrong. Azealia may have the young and beautiful thing down, but that doesn't really help her all that much with a super gay audience that can only respond to her sex appeal by saying "yas queen" or "slay" -- the gay audience, may I add, that she already alienates with the use a gay slur, which she justifies by hiding behind some bullshit claim that her mother associated the word with a different connotation. She never had the GP to begin with because the only impressions she made were when she was plaguing her own career by creating headlines about petty drama instead of her music -- she made herself out to be the provoker and the villian in nearly every situation possible. She has a few dedicated little Twitter stans convinced that she is untouchable (a la the Bieber / Bieber relationship), but they stand no match against sea of people that know her as only that 212 girl who starts shit.

I came into an Adele thread yet every other post is about Taylor Swift? I'm confused

how awkward considering California is a subtweet @ Pitchfork

inb4 "I was confronted only because I'm a black woman!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!"

using her body to CONSUME and DESTROY fresh oxygen by converting it carbon dioxide??? Not surprised. That oxygenophobic trash bitch.

didn't you hear? apparently Halsey is actually the antichrist, here to take attention away from the world's one and only true gift Lana Del Rey. Halsey marks the second physical manifestation of the devil on earth, just after Lorde.

Delirium is turning out okay critically. A few points above Lights and one point below Halcyon on Metacritic. Would be a bit better without that pesky Clash Music review. http://www.metacritic.com/music/delirium/ellie-goulding

Thanks -- glad to hear!

I reviewed Art Angels. 4.5/5. http://auralfixationreviews.blogspot.com/2015/11/art-angels-grimes.html