I’m with you. I always thought she was pretty and talented, but the ferocity of her fan base is incredibly off-putting. The week after Lemonade came out I was ready to toss my laptop in a fire over the inability to escape Beyonce related things on any corner of the internet.

I don’t find hordes of abusive “superfans” relentlessly calling people thirsty hoes and more particularly comical or “slightly nasty” but I guess that’s just me.

I have always LOVED Hole and Courtney. I saw them in concert in 1998 (1999? Good lord I’m getting old and forgetting everything) and it was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. They really were amazing. I’d love to catch them live again, but I would settle for some new (or new to the public) material.

If she doesn’t have any tattoos, no one (no one who is halfway decent at least) will tattoo hands, neck or face. Those are extremely hard areas to get any artist to ink, and they usually only do it for people already covered elsewhere. I’m sure Bieber can get it by the power of celebrity.

I got a mug that says Angry Liberal Feminist Killjoy and an adult coloring book entitled Calm the Fuck Down, so I still think I win.

I think it’s the folk influence in both of them that attracts me. I like The Civil Wars for the same reason. Agreed on the Dixie Chicks’ harmonizing- it’s amazing.

Mine tries to jump in my lap. I love you, Junie, but that’s a bridge too far.

I kind of feel like we already achieved peak pretentious sex advice with Sting and Trudie.

No it was Gina! (that was Hope’s alter ego, right? I didn’t just hallucinate that?)

Oh I ADORE Mary Chapin Carpenter. He Thinks He’ll Keep Her and Down at the Twist and Shout are two of my all time favorite songs. I don’t care much for country music, but I will ALWAYS make an exception for her and for The Dixie Chicks. Just a fabulous songwriter.

No, it’s a super fun album.

“She also hauled in $7.2 million in album sales, probably with no small amount of help from Ryan Adams”

Samantha Ronson gets me.

THAT IS NOT HOW PREGNANCY WORKS, IDIOTS!

I think starting out life with a blanket constantly over your head, not to mention that blanket became your name because it is so ubiquitous, has to affect you somehow. I wish he’d be left alone, too.

Exactly. I think people look back and just remember her shaving her head and swinging an umbrella around. No, she clearly went through something very serious that put her life and the lives of her sons at risk at one point. We don’t need to know the exact nature of her mental health to know that it is likely fragile.

I’ve seen some of the clothes she wears. She is definitely making some of her own choices.

I’ve always suspected she was doing so much better because of the conservatorship. People like to toss around “mental breakdown” and “crazy” and what have you with celebrities who seem to go off the rails, but it seems pretty clear that Spears had some serious, serious mental health issues. If having other people take…

I round up but only when I’m about a month out. If I start rounding up any earlier I’m likely to round up again because I’ve completely forgotten my actual age.