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  1. clementines liked a post in a topic by rockwellfckingnorman in Taylor Swift   
    OH MY GOD IM GLAD IM NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT NOTICED THIS!!! MY FRIENDS CALLED ME CRAZY FOR HEARING IT
    i could really only hear it in my car over Bluetooth though
  2. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by bluechemtrails in Taylor Swift   
    I think she did a good job with this re-recording, but I miss something special like the ten minute version of All to Well on Red or a surprising collab... 
     
    The whole album feels more like a routine job than something truly extraordinary, unlike Red
  3. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by Embach in Taylor Swift   
    So, just now I finished listening to 1989 TV for the very first time and I'm dropping my first thoughts here:
     
    • Out Of The Woods TV is her best re-recorded song. Masterclass, perfection, brilliant. Definitely million times better than the original, the details in production are more clear and the vocals are super strong too! Blank Space TV was amazing too, the second best one off the record.
     
    • The Vault Tracks were so boring. Like they didn't bring nothing new to the table, like sonically and lyrically nothing new or exciting. I find the standard songs more exciting than The Vault Tracks. And I agree with others that The Vault Tracks were quite Midnights-y. I kind of hoped for them to be louder. But my favorite Vault Track is "Is It Over Now", it's super catchy and powerful with the word play and the melodies are super reminiscent to Out Of The Woods. It had the intense which I hoped and wanted the other Vault Tracks had. The bridge was also so fucking epic!!!!!
     
    • Other songs were nicely re-recorded the quality in production seems to be a lot more crisp and clearer which I liked.
     
    • Style and Shake It Off were the weakest re-recordings on the album. I agree with others that Style seemed to be quite rushed, like the production quality was not as clear as the others and seemed like made by karaoke Youtube channels. Vocals were still good. But with Shake It Off, the vocal performance was so weird, like the vocals were quite pitched? But it didn't the ruin the vibe of her other vocal performances on the album.
     
    • Clean aka my favorite song from 1989 - the TV version needs to grow a bit more because it also seems it was kinda too loud instrumentally for me but I was also so used to the original version, so I understand why it needs time for me to grow.
     
    • I adored New Romantics TV. The chorus was kinda too loud and messy instrumentally maybe but I wasn't that into the original version at first place because the song was already "screaming" to much. But TV one has better power effect for me. I also can relate to the song somehow.
     
    • The other songs that were my other favorites or songs that weren't my favorites (but which I liked) in the original version soundes the same for me in TV and my opinon didn't change about them at all.
     
    • I really loved the lyric videos and the reuse of 1989 Tour's visuals. The other visuals were cute too! I loved that in some parts they used her handwriting as a font for lyric videos.
     
    • Her vocals were super strong in this overall, perhaps her best vocals performance in her career. She hit high vocals and she hit the low vocals. Superb amazing! The reason why the original 1989 wasn't my biggest favorite was that her vocals were too screechy for me to listen to, kinda like Halsey's vocals. But with TV the vocals improved 10000%
     
    • LET'S FAST FORWARD TO 300 AWKWARD BLIND DATES LATER, IF SHE'S GOT BLUE EYES, I WILL SURMISE THAT YOU'LL PROBABLY DATE HER, YOU DREAM OF MY MOUTH BEFORE IT CALLED YOU A "LYING TRAITOR", YOU SEARCH IN EVERY MODEL'S BED FOR SOMETHING GREATER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  4. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by CoochieSwirlC in Melanie Martinez   
    Maybe she should put less effort into being all artsy fartsy and spend more time learning how to manage her finances and investing her money properly. It’s like you can tell she doesn’t know how to market herself anymore. She’s way to stubborn and over ambitious; yet, it’s gotten her nowhere sadly. 
  5. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by Pop The Balloons in Melanie Martinez   
    Ok I lied I'm over this lmao 
    How she talks to fans is not ok, she's so controversial anymore I'm so sick of it. 
    I love you Mel but the is getting ridiculous
  6. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by fathercain in Melanie Martinez   
    the fucking nfts bye that bitch has literally been getting worse and worse everyday since k-12 came out
  7. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by Gravitate in Melanie Martinez   
    Everything she does ends in controversy can we ever win with her 
  8. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by Veinsineon in Melanie Martinez   
    i know shes been through it, but she really needs to work on how she talks to fans.
  9. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by ButterflyBones in Melanie Martinez   
    Oh and I almost forgot to mention the part where this bitch just bought a $2M house in the Hills. 
     
    If she's not a millionaire maybe she should be more responsible with her money and stop spending the millions of fucking dollars she saved.
  10. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by ButterflyBones in Melanie Martinez   
    Wow, BYE lol. She may not literally make millions at once, but she is/was a millionaire, and if she's going into debt that's probably her fault for not making better decisions after Cry Baby(K-12 was a $6M failure) and spending so much money on weird shit.
    All the clothes, vacations, accessories worth thousands of dollars that she's bought over the past few years cannot have all been gifted to her, and she just made over 18K from her fans on Depop alone. She's not fucking broke.
    She seems to whine a lot about money though, even when Cry Baby boosted her onto the top charts and made millions when she was just a teenager. I had a lot of respect for her but this era has tanked that entirely.
  11. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by ButterflyBones in Melanie Martinez   
    Who wore it better?
     
  12. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by love divine in Melanie Martinez   
    new perfumes? yesss she is good at making them. i still have a full bottle of the one from years ago
  13. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by evalionisameme in Artists caught lying about songwriting credits   
    I mean you have to check for samples aswell like drums etc because even that can lead a songwriting credit- bizarrely even though it’s moreso production and drums wouldn’t get you a writing credit on the actual main song. 
    Not defending her though because I doubt she writes very much 
  14. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by love divine in Artists caught lying about songwriting credits   
    ariana is just not a writer, through and through. but it's okay because she makes up for it with her incredible voice. her lyrics are very weak, and it's weird how she seems to brag about her writing in 7 rings
  15. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by williamprb in Artists caught lying about songwriting credits   
    Okay so I’m being attacked because I said Ariana barely wrote on yours truly and I’m getting ppl saying “she wrote tattooed heart alone in her bedroom” but like I didn’t know alone in her bedroom meant with 5 other writers as well 
  16. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by dyktatuob in Artists caught lying about songwriting credits   
    the way this thread was about artists lying about writing their songs and it turned into a discourse about singers vs writers 
     
    imo being a singer is just as important as being a songwriter it's just that songwriters are so undervalued in the industry and don't get as much credit as the artist which is sad 
  17. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by Liz Taylor Blues in Artists caught lying about songwriting credits   
    Lana Del Rey keeps poor Lizzy Grant and May Jailer in her basement writing all her endless songs while she gets all the money and the credit......
  18. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by williamprb in Artists caught lying about songwriting credits   
    To think that avril literally had most of her hit songs given to her and her emo style artificially created by stylists is rlly sad 
  19. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by Orville Peck in Artists caught lying about songwriting credits   
    Lana Del Rey claims that she wrote Yayo, but this is a complete lie because demos written by Lizzy Grant already existed since 2007. 
  20. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by Coloringbooks in Artists caught lying about songwriting credits   
    having co-writers ≠ being an industry plant. Ava was born to a low-income family and has been working on her career/releasing music since she was literally 12 years old, she's incredibly talented and a hard worker. 
  21. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by SlowGinFizzzz in Artists caught lying about songwriting credits   
    Future Queen of Pop made some points:
     
    On a serious note... I disagree with people who say singers who don't write (all of) their own music are less of an artist than, say, Taylor Swift who I personally think is very overrated as a writer, but that's a different discussion. Art comes in many forms and shapes, and in my opinion, someone like Beyoncé curating an album out of all the songs her A&R presents to her, recording her flawless vocals that are leagues above any of those songwriters, and ultimately creating one cohesive body of work out of them that really can be admired and enjoyed as one big whole rather than just a collection of songs – I don't think there's anything wrong with that? In fact, I would argue that no other artist out there would be capable of making Renaissance. And yet, when Renaissance came out, people ridiculed Bey for crediting every co-songwriter, every sample, every voice memo that she used on it, which obviously led to dozens of different writers in the credits. (Not gonna comment on the earlier Beyoncé cases because I honestly don't know enough about them.)
     
    This being said, I do hate it when artists contribute very little or only change a few words and still act like they wrote the whole thing. I don't get where this obsession with artists having to write everything themselves comes from? I mean, did the fact that she didn't write her own music make Whitney Houston any less of a legend? No! Similarly (because he's an artist I know a lot about and thus can actually comment on), Troye Sivan was very open about the fact that Rush was presented to him in almost finished form and he then only re-wrote the verses and the bridge, and yet his performance made that song 100 % his own.
     
    If we're gonna expect every artist to be a prolific solo writer, an amazing vocalist and a competent live performer, then I'm afraid there's not gonna be any artists left that actually fit that criteria. 
  22. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by Surf Noir in Artists caught lying about songwriting credits   
    obviously there's room in the industry for everybody... it would be unrealistic to expect every singer to be a genius songwriter who can craft intricate masterpieces from scratch and to write masterful, intriguing lyrics... but i believe singers/musicians who do write their own music have more artistic merit, there's a difference between somebody who put their own creativity and soul into a song and somebody who sings over a demo created by somebody who actually has the skill to craft a song... i'm not saying artists who simply sing over demos have no talent or creativity, but let's not act like they're on the same level artistically as people who actually put in the effort to compose and write their music lol
  23. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by Honeytrails in Artists caught lying about songwriting credits   
    You listen to singers I listen to artists... There's no artistry involved in picking demos and singing on top of them. You can be the greatest singer out there but if all your music sounds soulless, manufactured and formulated for a hit then your simply put a boring musician. 
  24. rockwellfckingnorman liked a post in a topic by cranekiss in Artists caught lying about songwriting credits   
    titanic sinclair stating he wrote every single song of the mars argo project AFTER the breakup and disband despite there being literal video and audio evidence of him saying mars wrote songs
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