I feel like Kesha is so much more diverse than Adele. Kesha does sad ballads about how heartbroken she is like Adele does but she does so much other stuff too: rock, country, blues, indie pop, dance, etc. I don’t think Adele has done anything that’s even half as good or interesting as Kesha’s Past Lives, which is one…

Kesha’s signed to Luke’s personal label Kemosabe. His label owes millions to Sony because all his artists have flopped besides Kesha. Kesha’s the one money for Kemosabe, so it seems they’re keeping her trapped in the hope things can turn around financially.

She’ll still make money from music after the pop scene forgets her. There are plenty of artists making a good living selling albums and touring who don’t have top 40 hits. There’s really no excuse for this.

The thing is they held her under contract for years even though they weren’t releasing her music. Rita Ora just sued her label for the same reason. Record labels need far more regulation because this kind of nonsense just keeps happening.

I wonder if the point of a defamation suit is to intimidate an accuser who’s already filed their own suit into dropping the case. If the burden of proof is on the accuser wouldn’t it make more sense to just defend himself against the current lawsuits they’ve filed against him. When he sues for defamation doesn’t that…

She willingly came forward and talked to the media after the verdict so the media can use her name now.

The problem is women can rarely get a foot in the door in rock music so it’s not shocking few women can make a best of list. I think it was Jack White who said it’s sad that women who play an instrument are still seen as a novelty. It’s weird because I have two daughters who play both piano and guitar and in my…

And she’s friends with Terry Richardson. I can’t take her seriously for the same reason.

The problem is you can do well financially and still be mistreated due to the power imbalance between the execs and the people they have trapped in exploitative contracts.

Gaga is taken very seriously and is very respected. I think she’s referring to the business side. It’s hard to get the guys in suits to take her seriously because the industry is a boy’s club and they don’t think women can make the right decisions for themselves.

It always irks me when people write female pop stars off as having zero talent while seemingly have no concerns about all the male rock acts that can barely play their instruments. A lot of these women actually do have talent. I’ve watched K-pop performance (purely out of curiosity, it’s not my thing) and these women…

They got through immigration though. It seems odd to me that immigration had no concerns about them being trafficked but customs did. US immigration officers are tough to get past if things aren’t in order.

The article says they’d cleared immigration already. Immigration officials are very tough, so their visas must have been in order. I also can’t imagine the management for a K-pop group would mess something so basic up.

Historically white juries wouldn’t convict white people accused of crimes against black people. It’s hard to know in recent years how common that’s been though. Football player Aaron Herandez was convicted of murdering a black man by an all white jury. I think few all white juries today would fail to convict an…

Sexual predators are known for being self sympathizing and making their victims look like the bad guys. They’re very manipulative and good at making others feel sorry for them. That’s why so many get support from others when they get caught.

I read an article on sociopaths or psychopaths (I always get them mixed up) a while back that said many actually do have great parents. Some kids do seem to be born with a lack of empathy or never properly develop it. But parenting doesn’t always seem to be at fault.

I just bought a book called The Republican Brain by Chris Mooney that makes the case that conservatives are much more fearful than liberals.

I was stunned too. I love Jane the Virgin and always assumed she was mid 20’s.

Very few mass shooters in the US are even Muslim. I always find it odd that when the shooters are Muslims it’s a big crisis that must be dealt with using any means necessary. But when it’s non-muslims, who make up the vast majority of killers, all we get is prayers and calls for more guns from conservatives. It’s like…

That movie was slammed for not being like the cartoon but it’s a pretty good movie for tweens.