we have exhausted the jack hate conversations. they are best friends and they make great music together. if you’re bored of it, there are endless other musicians you can listen to instead of taylor. you can stick to her other songs no problem. no one is holding the gun to your head. stop blaming jack when taylor is making the music she wants to make. if she didn’t want this style as her sound she wouldn’t work with him. and beyond that taylor takes an active involvement in the creative process so you’re kidding yourself if you think she doesn’t have a distinct vision for most of these songs going into a recording session and they would sound completely different and unrecognizable under a different producer
deeply refreshing to see someone critical of Swift who also like, genuinely likes her. Like i'm neutral to positive on her, but the online discourse has been absolutely rancid. flipping between "Taylor Swift has never done anything wrong ever and she's a fucking genius" and "Taylor Swift is the worst lyricist of all time and also a bad person" is exhausting, so thank you for like. nuance or something lmao
not to make it serious for a sec but i genuinely think that being able to like things that are bad is really important. like I think that it's an important skill to be able to look at something and see what you personally enjoy about it and then take a step back and acknowledge that objectively it's flawed. and to also be able to acknowledge that liking something isn't necessarily an identity or a moral stance. and i think that fandom space in general could really benefit from more people taking the time to learn how to do that. it's okay to like things that are bad
the way all the mania haters are preemptively rejoicing over the rumors that fob8 will be a “return to their roots” and be more classic rock/punk or whatever makes me hope that fob8 is just ten straight hours of patrick’s mysterious ska music. just to fuck with them.
it's great that enstars is taking such a clear anti-ai position and educating their players about it, but at the same time it sucks that makoto had to be the plot device to introduce the topic again
Listening to 'Legally Blonde' from the Legally Blonde soundtrack on repeat and crying because it's so stupidly sad and beautiful and I'm a weak little emotional coward
ugh it’s just like. it’s so close to being actually good but it’s just kind of meh. like “i didn’t opt in to be your odd man out” — she’s close to doing something cool there! i like the juxtaposition of in/out, but something about it just feels clunky idk!!
fascinated by conservative handwringing about janelle monáe’s age of pleasure era. “she’s flashing her chest at concerts! 😱 she’s been corrupted!“ outta my way GAYBOY I’m about to get it
I understand that vocalsynth software is pretty hard to grasp for outsiders so I hope AI covers die a very death sometimes soon because I'm getting sick of takes conflating the two.