This comment reeks of "le wrong generation"

I was super hyped for her album after I heard "Youth" and "Let Go For Tonight" and was super bummed out when her album turned out to be a complete dud.

She's barely even a thing now. Her last album in the UK tanked. Really the only reason she's even got a modicum of relevance now is that she's riding the coattails of Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande on "Bang Bang," which is faring fairly well on the charts right now.

so edgy!!!!11!

According to her suit, Luke referred to them as "get sober pills" or something, meaning not only did he lie about what they were, but he misled her while she was already in a compromised state (drunk)

Hah. If there's anyone who shouldn't be getting this lecture, it's me. I like plenty of doofy, youthful pop music, both past and present, and have defended it on this site many times. It's just that, to me, "Royals" is just so…pompous and pretentious. My dislike of the song has nothing to do with my age (which I'm…

Oh. You're right. I got two different parts mixed up. Fixed.

Really? "We aren't caught up in your love affair" in particular screams derision. She's calling it a "love affair," for christ's sake.

By definition, wouldn't scoring a second Top 5 (or Top 10, which I think is the generally accepted watermark) hit free her of the "one-hit wonder" label? One which she seems poised to pass, seeing as "Team" entered the Top 10 in the US this week and is posting significant weekly gains both in radio play and sales?

Eh. To me, lines like "we aren't caught up in your love affair" and "we crave a different kind of lux" imply a certain level of derision toward and dismissal of the things she's talking about.

She literally just scored another Top 10 hit in the US, though. I think she'll have some staying power.

"Technically, all that Lorde did is position herself as the latest riff on the pop music type that gave us Avril Lavigne 12 years ago. She’s the pop princess who’s better than all the other, manufactured pop princesses."

She's still absolutely huge there. It's kind of difficult to overstate just how big Pink is and has been in Australia (and New Zealand, I think) for the past ten years or so.

I find it fairly easy to hate Katy Perry when she puts out blatantly offensive shit like "I Kissed a Girl" and "E.T." or songs with just face-smackingly bad lyrics like "do you ever feel like a plastic bag?," "I wanna walk on your wavelength and be there when you vibrate," "I went from zero to my own hero," and "you…

Yeah, rewatching the show on Netflix the last few weeks has made me appreciate Dreama Walker's performance a lot more. Really, all the main cast (the aforementioned plus Ray Ford) was really awesome.

Except she's not so much "criticizing" materialism as she is complaining about being too poor to indulge in it and veiling it as criticism. And even then, she really doesn't cite anything nearly objectionable enough to be worthy of criticism.

Way to completely ignore my point and go straight for the ad hominem.

Her "diss" toward Selena Gomez was pretty baseless, though. I fail to see how "Come & Get It" is even remotely anti-feminist. Gomez still has sexual agency and she's freely giving consent. I mean, I guess you could make a case that she's objectifying herself by calling herself "it," but it's always been my…

I mean, in theory you should be right, but when it got down to it and I tried getting into to almost anything this year, I felt nothing but boredom and disappointment. Maybe I just forgot how to enjoy music.

I had the same problem last year. It ended up eating up a huge portion of my music-listening time and I knew it completely fucking sucked (that bridge, good god) but somehow the utterly sucky parts just made the chorus all the more enjoyable.