Beauty King

The Kill, Eyes Closed, Impossible and Ooh La La are Jessie Ware songs. Did you get these on Last.fm or something? If so, it’s probably just a faulty scrobble.

It's 11 new songs that leaked today. The 4 previous singles would also be included, making it 15 total songs.

Rick's website had a section that was theoretically not publicly accessible, which he used as a server for file storage. Basically all the final cuts of songs he'd done work on, going back 5-ish years were uploaded there. There was a song player on the public-facing portion of his website which streamed songs from that server, so people just followed the URL from the files in the player and ended up on the "private" section of his website. There was no password protecting the server itself. He did eventually individually password protect some of the files there (all the Lana and Lykke Li tracks he'd uploaded), but the damage was already done, as people had been watching the site for months before he put the passwords on. He also only had "Black Beauty" posted for a few days before removing it, so he clearly knew people had access. Someone eventually posted a link to the server publicly and all 5 songs were leaked, in short order. There's also other random tidbits, like the fact that "I Don't Wanna Go" was under the heading "Black Leather Moonlight" in his files and the file itself was labeled "Tonight", which is where we learned about both of those alt titles for it. Tons of other artists' work was there too, completely free to download if you had access. No passwords on anything but Lana and Lykke Li files.

Hence why I said it was in the eyes of the voters, not objectively. It’s the air of “high art” that a lot of them look for.

Had a great summer, actually, without resorting to clubbing my problems away. Sobriety is wonderful and I highly recommend it!

Again, doesn’t matter. You guys have a horse in this race. The Grammys didn’t agree. 99.9999999% of the engagement the album received outside of Charli’s hyper-parasocial fanbase was from people taking the concept at face value and using it as an excuse to have a crazy party and act stupid while wearing green.

I have and I stand by my opinion. “Emotionally complicated” music about doing cocaine, beefing with people in the industry, fantasizing about bombing the Grammys and mourning a dead friend, among other things. Big whoop. It was never a contender. Ever. Critics are soft on pop music now because of crazy fanbases and Charli’s is one of the craziest.

Genuinely, you guys are crazy if you thought Charli was ever a contender in AOTY. The Grammys were never going to give a cocaine-centric party album that prize. It’s a slot considered to be reserved for only “high art” (i.e. serious, intentional, mindful, representational work) amongst a lot of the voting base and Brat does not clear that bar. Doesn’t matter what the cultural impact of the art was like outside of the voters’ bubble.

Encourages people to listen to figure out the features, because it’s publicly stated that there are “secret features”. It gives a little extra boost to all the tracks.

If those two are your favorite songs, I'd definitely recommend listening to their respective albums, Wounded Rhymes and I Never Learn. Lots more in the same style on each one. As for getting into the rest of her discography, I'd say continue with the singles on her debut album, Youth Novels, then do the rest of the album, if those appealed to you. The later parts of her discography are tougher to crack. So Sad, So Sexy is a bit more commercial and conventional and its accompanying Still Sad, Still Sexy EP doesn't add a whole lot to the experience. Her latest album, Eyeye, is very heavy, sonically spare and vocally soft. Can be a bit tough to enjoy, as it's not nearly as melodically driven and serves more as a tonal work.

Part of it is depersonalization. They view immigrants as subhuman and unworthy of fundamental human dignity and respect.

Two songs written for the Godfather of Harlem Season 4 soundtrack were registered. Season 4 premieres sometime during spring of 2025, so the soundtrack should drop around then.

Untouched files will have intact metadata, which can reveal information not previously known. For example, certain producers have used particular exporter versions when bouncing a file, so all their songs with Lana might have the same metadata, meaning that if we know a song is confirmed to be produced by one producer and a song with an unknown producer has the same metadata, it can potentially tell us the unknown song's producer is the same person. Exporter versions can also help us approximate the dates when songs were made. There's a lot of data to be gleaned. There can also be quality differences. Back in the day, songs often leaked through Youtube or Soundcloud, so the files were compressed and all rips from the streaming platform would be of worse quality than the original file.

Incorrect, actually. Those songs leaked because Rick Nowels' personal website was not secure. He uploaded dozens of songs from various artists onto a server linked to his website, for his personal use, but it was not password protected. It wasn't linked directly on his site, but if you poked around in the source code a bit, you could easily find a link to the file-hosting area of the site. It was trivial to do; five minutes of work, if that. Once you were there, it was basically just a detailed list of downloadable files sorted by year. He eventually went in and did some individual password protection of files for only two artists: Lykke Li and Lana. The damage had already been done by the time that happened, though, as people had known about this security flaw for months prior and the files had been heavily spread. With regard to the rest of your post, though, it's mostly correct, but it misses the context that her email accounts were compromised around the same time as the laptop hack and material from both circulated heavily. As far as I'm aware, we have the vast majority of what was found by the hackers from both of those sources and most of what's left is just barely distinct alternate versions and demos. Edit: Also, the theft of her laptop in the 2020s hasn't resulted in any leaked material. It wasn't stolen to get any music files, but rather because it was left in a car and it had intrinsic value. We know for a fact that she was able to remotely wipe it, too.

She was just extremely arrogant and assumed nobody would care about the thefts, since so many other hackers are actively stealing material every day and rarely get caught. Case in point: she was obsessed with the artist Upsahl and used to go into Upsahl’s Instagram livestreams to terrorize her by talking about her unreleased songs. It was actually psychotic behavior.