I don’t know if it’s fair to blame him- I really love Melodrama but it’s clear from this Solar Power album that Lorde is in a different place and mood, and sometimes those places and moods aren’t as ripe for great songwriting as others. That’s cool. Maybe her next album will be a return to form. Maybe it won’t. It’s…

Tony Blair would like a word with your categorization of this as an american fuck up

I continue to be massively mystified that pundits, politicians, and the general public, on both sides of the aisle, appear to be totally surprised that pulling out of a losing war is messy. Everyone said for years that if we left Afghanistan, the Taliban would take over again. And they did. Did people really think we…

I thought the same. Any minute now, Putin will weigh in on how America fucked up Afghanistan.

I will not be satisfied until they find someone who was literally born on Ganymede and is capable of growing facial hair across his cheekbones to play Jet Black.

the irony of a brit trying to castigate an american for afghanistan is rich. Go ask durand about how afghanistan got where it is today john

so she “pulled herself up by her bootstraps”?  LOL

Who cares? Aside from hyperventilating incels, that is?

One thing we can be sure is that he’s not racist, because he loudly and insistently reports on all topics about black people in media that he’s not racist, and you can’t prove that he is. And he wouldn’t say that sort of stuff —again, on all topics about black people— if he actually was racist.

It must be fun for you to be this angry at diversity. You should tell this to Samuel L Jackson for playing Nick Fury or Jason Mamoa for playing Aquaman. In person to their faces.

The article is a bad hot take is all. The author posits that Dessner should get more work but the response is that he doesn’t get much work because he isn’t liked, which is fair.

Yeah, this is a weird, forced narrative. You can’t tell me that Solar Power has the same kinds of problems as Reputation did. The latter (while having a couple decent songs buried in it) was mostly the result of Taylor herself losing the plot a little bit, forgetting what her strengths as an artist were.

Chemtrails could have been Lana’s 2nd greatest album and it still would have been considered a let-down after NFR, which was universally praised & immediately recognized as an all-time classic that cemented her Rock HOF bonafides.

Chemtrails is acknowledged as an album of leftovers. Comparing it to more intentional albums is a false premise in the context of an article like this. Of course NFR’s b-sides are going to be worse than NFR. 

I think he’s done amazing work with Lana. He got her off that wall-to-wall production that drowned out her voice so that we could hear it finally and discover that it may not be the strongest, but it’s lovely. And we can hear the emotions she’s communicating. There’s a purity and simplicity to both albums he produced…

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Jack Anton Off.

Come on, Antonoff produced all of the best songs on Reputation like Getaway Car or Call It What You Want (same with Lover, the bad songs were produced by Joel Little). All of folklore songs produced by him are great too. He’s a talented producer who does what the artists want him to do, that’s why they keep working…

Where would I place the space in Jack Antonoff to describe a sex act?