I don’t know what the hell Jive Records did to Britney but I will never forgive them for it. Before she signed with them, she could do this:

I’m sorry...this is a record producer complaining about people producing records? Because all music is produced. I’ve never been in the studio when the producer said, “Actually we don’t need to mix this at all.” Because that is their fucking job. Not because the musicians aren’t pros and awesome; but because each…

Preach! I LOVE her Tiny Desk performance. If any of you haven’t seen it, here it is:

“You turn the radio on and it’s fluff, you are listening to 90% computerised voices. We know Adele has a great voice but it’s even questionable if that is actually her voice or how much has been manipulated. We don’t know.”

I love Adele. I am in a Adelehouse

When someone speaks of virtuoso vocalists and uses Kurt Cobain as an example of one, then everything they say is automatically discredited.

Adele might not sing songs he likes but girl can sing. I heard the tapes where it’s just her voice and it sounds so strong. There are a number of singers who use things to alter their voice only she’s not one of them.

like there’s lots of middling level vocal talent out there (and i love pop music)

Oh fuck yes. I love Adele. That piece of shit should listen to Adele’s Tiny Desk Concert on NPR (among other live recordings widely available). Adele kills it. And her response to this nontroversy is golden.

She’s gotten this far based on raw talent despite all the body shaming from both inside and outside the industry and some asshole can’t even acknowledge her talent. Really pisses me off... and I’m not a fan of hers at all. But you know you wouldn’t read an article about how Ed Sheeran’s voice isn’t his own.

it’s that they can dehumanise women, so they don’t have to feel any empathy for them to rape their unconscious bodies. some people actively chose where (and where not) to direct their empathy. it is about control, not about sex. they feel impotent in some facet of their lives and they compensate for that by targeting…

It’s not generally about having “sex with sleeping girls” because most rape is about much more than just sex. It’s about power, and the drugs are about establishing the ability to take something. Plenty of rapists and predators could find a willing partner (the classic example being Ted Bundy, who was attractive and…

It’s a power trip, I think. They don’t care if she’s active or interested; they want control of her. As absolute of control as it gets, short of outright necrophilia.

Rape is about control because it’s the domination that gets them off. It’s not about being denied a specific act, or a specific person, or sex in general. It is the forcing someone to submit to them that they like. I had literally just finished the exact same sex acts with my rapist and was leaving when he raped me.…

As I said elsewhere, rape is largely about asserting power and ego, rather than the satisfaction of the sex act itself.

Who wants to have sex with sleeping girls?

They are thinking rationally, sadly. It’s actually depressingly rational for a guy to believe that he can rape a friend and get away with it without facing any real consequences, because the overwhelming majority of the time, he can. (If anything, getting away with raping a relative stranger may well be harder, since…

Because rape is largely about asserting power and ego, rather than the pleasure of the sex itself.

Narcissism/sociopathy is considerably more widespread and in some ways even socially condoned than one might think. Heck, at this very moment such a personality is on the verge of being elected to the highest office of the United States.