"Wrecking Ball" is one of those rare pop songs where I enjoy everything but the chorus. That pre-chorus melody is infectious but the actual chorus is just boring.

This was a pretty terrible year in music for me, as I pretty much hated almost everything everyone else was raving about ("Royals," "Mirrors," anything by Daft Punk, and anything featuring Pharrell Williams) and said "meh" to most of the rest. Here are the few exceptions:
> Annie - "Back Together"
> Carly Rae Jepsen…

Foxes' "Youth" has apparently been making the rounds as early as March of 2012, but I just discovered it a couple months ago. Also, as has been mentioned elsewhere: Chvrches' "The Mother We Share"

Seasons 21-24 are available on Amazon Prime. Unfortunately, those four are among my least favorite seasons.

I didn't see the commercials, so I didn't know it was going to come to rocks, but when I was watching it I was skeptical that it was as cut-and-dried as they were making it seem. If Survivor can mislead you when going into the vote, they will. And as it turns out, they did.

Interestingly, I was going to say the opposite: Nate Ruess is a pretty terrible vocalist but his band is far from being "hipster" or "pretentious." Or, at the very least, they're much farther from either of those things than like 90% of what's popular on this site.

Yes, why is the AV Club reviewing a major album release? Who knows.

I didn't get a The Killing notification for this?

I am genuinely pleased by this news seeing as I absolutely loved the third season.

The third season was great, though. In the uppermost echelon of television crime dramas, easily.

I think most people here know by now, but I do too. She's easily one of the better pop stars today, but I think too many people take her music at face value and don't realize that she's a pretty decent songwriter and not nearly as pretentious as most of her contemporaries. Also, she has a personality, which is another…

Pretty sure both the title track and "The Edge of Glory" were bigger hits off her last album, the latter of which is, in my opinion, her best song.

Eh, she's always been a bit more experimental (I use the term very loosely) than most of her contemporaries, but the degree to which she experiments and the quality of her music relative to the rest of the current pop scene has been immensely overstated. I'm glad this album has been getting mixed reviews so that maybe…

The claims of her having a "genius-level IQ" are pretty dubious, but it is apparently known that she got accepted to numerous colleges (including Columbia University) before dropping out of high school at the behest of Dr. Luke.

To my knowledge Max and Luke rarely if ever actually write lyrics. The only songs I know Max has written lyrics for are "Since U Been Gone" and "I Want It That Way." Aside from those I think he mostly just composes the melodies and produces the tracks. And as for Luke, I know he sometimes has input on lyrics (e.g.…

To be fair to her management I do think Ke$ha was complicit in her "molding" for at least her first album and I don't think the persona that she adopted was all that far off from how she is in real life.

No, the downvote button is for refuting your refutation of the Wayans' greatness.

I dunno, either time Vytas would have been a very easy boot and much better to get rid of strategically. At this point it seems like they they're just looking for reasons to keep Vytas, since they like him so much. There's no way Laura would've proven to be a viable threat and I imagine the girls knew that.

I dunno, I thought "American Girl" was decent. Not among her best work ("Turn Me Up" and "Teenage Dream" are definitely better examples of her abilities), but it had its bright spots.

Eh, there's definitely a lot of cynicism that's gone into her rise to popularity, mostly in how her "breakthrough" has come from her criticizing her contemporaries all the while not particularly setting herself all that far apart from them (in a similar way that Marina & the Diamonds did with her execrable 'Electra…