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That new Weeknd album reminded me I badly want Metro Boomin on the production crew of a Taylor album.

Man, the production credits for this album are a wild ride, brother got Justice, Mike Dean and Johnny Jewel to work on the same track and that's just the opening song, and three albums later, I'm still not over Oneohtrix Point Never working on a Weeknd album, if you told me that when I first listened to Replica 8 years ago, I would not have believed it for a second.

This had me smiling.

She's gone full Carly Minogue on this one and I'm absolutely delighted by it. That said, I feel like if I they took a couple tracks from the last album and removed 1 or 2 from this one they probably could've delivered an EMOTION-level LP. But great effort regardless.

Was looking through the production credits and noticed DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ credited on Happiness, cool stuff, hopefully they get more production gigs in the future.

Was looking through stuff tagged as Noise Pop on the RYM charts and saw NTMT on there (though it was a couple months away from release), I remember counting the days to the release back then even though I'd never heard of her before (mostly because there really weren't a whole lot of women making music labeled as Noise Pop, and I've always been a huge fan of this niche little subgenre), gave the album a spin the day it came out a really liked it. Wouldn't call myself a superfan but I still really do like NTMT, nearly a decade later.

The RateYourMusic charts are great if you want to discover different genres, I went through a good chunk of their top 5000 when I first really got into music, over a decade ago. Or if you just want to discover artists similar to the ones already like, you can just search by genre.

I agree, I like the production of this new song quite a bit but both the delivery of the vocals and songwriting aren't doing much for me, at least for now. Glad she's still putting out music though.

Yeah, I just assumed it would've been top 10 due to your user name. Anyway, really looking forward to Red TV, enjoyed the bonus tracks from the Red era even more than a good chunk of the actual album songs. I wonder if Battle's gonna be included... that's Red era, isn't it?

Edit: Wait... Style isn't on there?

I have to admit the Fearless re-recordings didn't do much for me, even though that's probably my favorite album of hers. Her voice sounded great to, I guess it was her delivery that felt kind of flat on those songs. That said, super excited for 1989 and Reputation and really curious to hear Red and Speak Now, wasn't big on the originals but I think the better vocals could totally win me over.

Kept waiting for Jon Hamm to show up in the video.

If only being an artist were this straightforward... I think the closest answer is yet another question; how much progress has been made in the past months?

I'd say I favor the SOPHIE demo to be honest , even if it feels a bit barebones.

That Perfume Genius remix by A.G. is crazy good.