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Getting in my feelings about pop girls again and I'm so sad and angry for Britney... thinking about all the things she wanted to do in her career and all the little things about being a MOTHER she had taken away from her. All she did was work and work and work and make great art and for that she was punished with misogyny, stalking, and control. I get so mad thinking about how someone who affected so many people so beautifully, who is so loving and caring, was so manipulated and hurt for no reason. They ruined her ability to trust, they ruined her relationships with her friends, and it sounds like a lot of her problems with her sons now are also from the conservatorship (whether directly or indirectly through the trauma it caused her). A living legend who could be someone like Madonna or Nelly Furtado as a legacy act making music for herself and nobody else... or you know who else? Kelly Clarkson, Christina Aguilera, Paris Hilton, The Devil Man Who I Still Want Poisoned For His Shitty Guitar Playing @ Britney While She Had A Home Abortion On The Bathroom Floor, BEYONCE are the same age as Britney. Some of these people have their own shows, some are doing comebacks and anniversaries, some are doing... whatever Paris just did, and obviously Beyonce has been Beyonce'ing all over the place for the last two decades nonstop. Sometimes I think about how badly Britney just wanted to perform and do her thing and I get so angry about all the years wasted on forcing her to literally dance for others' amusement and others' wealth. She has lost precious time for her career, her family, her fucking ART to this shit. I think all the time about what Britney would be doing right now-- movies? features? fashion?-- and how she is probably retired forever, from everything, because of how shit everybody was to her for just EXISTING in the public eye. I just can't believe we're here in 2024 and one of our greatest stars is not only alive but really very young, and she will probably never do the thing she loves most in the world again because it was spoiled for her by assholes who will never know real consequences. Fuck all of them and I hope Britney experiences full love, appreciation, and healing in her lifetime.

My god I'm so happy to have this. I've actually had the chorus stuck in my head for the longest time and I can't believe we finally get to hear it in full Her voice is so beautiful and her vibrato is so clear... her harmonies... really reminding me why I fell in love with KP in the first place This got me to go back and relisten to my tracklist reorder of Feed the Beast with just the new songs on it and IDK why I ever doubted her. She has the lyricism, the persona, the vision, and of course the VOCALS!! She is such a talent, a true pop girl. Thank you!!

HOLY SHIT EDIT: Now can anyone agree on what this song is called

I mean literally this is exactly how he got Kesha. "Everyone signs bad contracts at first, you renegotiate later" etc. I've been saying that if she was stuck in contract, she certainly wouldn't be able to be open about it. We shouldn't assume she's not being hurt (or couldn't be hurt), or that she deserves it... for obvious reasons. (from this article)

I know I'm not the only one who simply doesn't listen to the official releases of Feed the Beast and Problematique. I love her and that's why I listen to those albums as she intended! ...with just the tracks made FOR each era. <3

I never could have imagined a worse cultural reception for her than Witness. This is Witness x 1000.

OK we're on the same page then! I really struggle with the instrumentals on both of those songs. Gorgeous has this weird squeaky sound that repeats throughout the whole thing which makes it unlistenable to me, and Gimme Gimme similarly is just really repetitive and "sharp" (I don't know how else to put it). I see why people like both but I just can't do it...

I won't shut up about how nice it would be if she used the TOTL scraps (especially recent slower darker stuff like Time for a Crime) and turned it into a Dark Mother femme fatale era with more mature music to usher in a new style... ugh Kim as a vampire queen would EAT

Is the album really growing on anybody else?? A few days later and several songs are actually getting stuck in my head, even ones I didn't initially like... I'm particularly finding myself coming back to the last half of the album. I'm listening to it the way I sometimes loop mindless Ava Max bops. Just me?

Now why are the sandals catching strays

Just going to quote myself I hope that man dies

The way I've been thinking about this all day

Went to the listening party! Still gathering my thoughts Meanwhile someone already leaked the whole thing so probably it doesn't even matter what I think but here's my review of the new tracks!! Honestly if I worked in an H&M I'd be pretty thrilled. It's a totally listenable album, just not even close to holding its own against everything else this year. If I want dancepop or house or electronic music, I can go so many other places, especially this year. I'll definitely play the album once or twice, but I already know I'm not going to think of it when I want to dance-- I'll think of Tove Lo or Charli or Chappell or even Camila Cabello. Katy Perry is capable of so much more than "slightly above mid" or "danceable when somebody else plays it in full out of good speakers." Also somebody tried to take a phone call (I was in a record store) and I felt bad for them. Hope you guys like the album though!!

Consider me intrigued!! I think her lyrics can be super clunky and the style is a little all over the place, but it's all over the place in a very promising way-- kind of like she's saying "I can do anything." And vocally wow she sure can Where was all this hiding?! Sad I can't make it to her tour now. Still waiting for an album that really gives us WHO Sabrina is, but this is a nice starter for sure. Anyone feeling kind of a One of the Boys pinup girl possibility here...?

What's really crazy is the sheer amount of directions she had to go in. I saw at least three different things called for by large groups of fans-- pop rock from her early days (this was me. still grieving the Olivia Rodrigo collab rumor ), big 2010s pop, and the retro direction of NRO/HiH. She chose 2010s pop, which is totally fine, but for some reason she didn't make good music?? That's what really boggles me. There are tons of people doing a good job with the sound right now! Not saying that Bonnie McKee is topping charts or anything, but the music itself is good, and that's all Katy needed. Her name pretty much takes care of promo by itself. Why couldn't KATY PERRY make good 2010s music????? With Dr. Luke? Were they asleep or something? Problematique is a no-skips masterpiece, but somehow with six times the producers Katy still couldn't produce two good songs. I feel fucking crazy

I'm torn. She just had a health crisis, so I feel like she's going to be on hiatus all year. But maybe she does have something she's working on anyway, because Kim is always working on something...

OK now that we know Lifetimes tanked I have to say this somewhere... I don't really understand the claim that "Katy gets more shit for working with Luke than anyone else." Rant incoming. Aaaaaaaaand I'm done. Not saying this about everyone here because it seems like we're on the same page, but it's annoying as hell to have to field this in every other discussion about Katy as if there isn't good (or at least obvious) reason for how people are acting. inb4 comment on my icon/signature... yeah I know I suffer more than Jesus

I love that we're all ignoring the Katy x Kim collab

Update... Kesha's back in the title. Still no confirmation of what happened. I'm guessing they're going to try to sweep whatever it is under the rug because it's fixed now, but this whole thing is shady as hell.

So what do the lanaboards girlies think of this Pitbull/Kesha mess? (Kesha getting removed from the title of Timber as a featured artist.) Pitbull seems confused about it which is weird because it's his account(s) with the uploads? It's not that I don't believe Luke would be vindictive and controlling enough to get Kesha removed (and if so I REALLY hope people will stop excusing and supporting Katy & others working with him) but it seems so blatant I'm not sure. Did Kesha not want to be associated?

So what do we think of the rumors that Kim is collabing with Katy Perry? Personally I've been waiting for it for a LONGGGG time; feels like Kim is so inspired by Katy in her early musical style & aesthetics, but at the same time they're obviously such different artists and have each had so many transformations over their careers. Really hoping it's true

I'm kind of on the opposite end in that I feel like I have and I'm glad there's more! I don't follow JoJo and was pleasantly surprised by how overtly lesbian the whole video was. The majority of hate I've seen has been overtly homophobic-- whether saying she's using her gayness for clout (makes me think of that post about using transness as a shield that goes "oh awesome look at me using my shield that automatically attracts every bullet within a 100 mile radius"), insulting her for humping a woman in a music video (deeply normal and expected in straight videos), etc. I'm honestly shocked; clearly none of these people have ever seen a Hayley Kiyoko or Janelle Monae video if they think this level of sexuality is somehow unique and bad. And, like you said, it's a really cookie-cutter 2010s pop star song. I'd argue it's even a cookie-cutter "I'm a child star trying to break out of my image" song. I'm not surprised it turned out to be a Miley song! I honestly thought it reminded me of some early Selena Gomez or Demi Lovato. It's certainly no more cringe than some of the stuff Katy Perry did on Prism, which I have been relentlessly stanning. If people hate the song (or her), go ahead and hate the song (or her!), but don't make up things that aren't true about how uniquely bad it is. That's just my two cents! ...As for me, I have it on loop.

I know it's too early but what do we think the next era will be like? I'm really feeling the Drug From God, Time for a Crime, Girl Of My Dreams vibe with these more toned-down tracks... I feel like she could really pull off a mature, darker-themed album, kind of like a grown-up version of the Feed the Beast aesthetic. Something like slightly less campy Elvira?? Like if Kesha did Turn Off The Light. I'm honestly surprised how much I like these tracks given that usually my favorites of Kim's are the really uptempo ones, but we know Kim rocks a ballad, too.

Circumstances are terrible

Someone made a full AI version and honestly given the circumstances it eats... But these aren't great circumstances https://pillowcase.zip/f/3de0e12c0af7031394375954a6ce31c9