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Swift spotted in Sydney 😲

There's a good display on them at the Australian Museum, which is well worth the price of (free) admission.

@popheads@poptalk.scrubbles.tech #birds #sydney

When it comes to female artists, we really haven't learnt, have we?

2021: Yay! Britney's free! Gees, we were kinda (collectively) arseholes to her, weren't we? We'll never be so nasty and cruel to a female artist again.

2022: Did you watch the Janet documentary? The way Janet took the blame for the Superbowl incident while Justin was protected was just so racist and misogynistic. We'll never be so nasty and cruel to a female artist again.

2024: Taylor Swift plotted with the White House, the Deep State, and the NFL to rig the Superbowl! It's totally not cool to post the whereabouts of Elon's private jet, but Fox News will gladly report on the emissions from Taylor's.

#pop #music #PopMusic @popheads #PopHeads #TaylorSwift #Britney #Janet

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Taylor Swift derangement syndrome

In this satirical clip, the internet's busiest music nerd exposes the truth about TayTay:

https://youtu.be/Egrn57I-RO8?si=SWXi_Ant-tiR2D7S

#satire @popheads #news #music #politics #uspol

Completely missed this, but a great cover IMO

Ten years after the Ten tour that became a farewell, the girls are planning a tour but not new music — because the studio would feel too weird without Sarah Harding, who has been claimed by cancer.

This is way back when but kinda cool ... During my Oops Tour, I got a knock at my door. My good friend at the time was the assistant to my manager who was trying to become a manager himself. There was a knock, and then he said, “I have a girl named Taylor who wants to come in and sing for you.” I was like of course !!! He walks in, and she sings a beautiful song with her guitar 🎸 I was like wow wow she's unbelievable !!! We took a picture, and she then became the most iconic pop woman of our generation. Kinda cool she plays stadiums, and I prefer her videos over movies any day. She's stunning !!! Girl crush 💄 💄 💄 Ps mom I love you so so much, but there were 3 dolls in the cabinets when I went home 2 years ago … kinda really weird you would take them out and then put them back in … so messed up. Nope, I don't want them. Keep it all. I honestly don't care anymore … honestly though.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CzhxT_NgpRD/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Amazing cover of Jenny Silver's Melodifestivalen entry. I like the "modern ABBA" sound they went for rather than going full electro house synths like the original, it makes it sound timeless in a way.

~~could I get away with posting this on the Eurovision communities~~

every so often someone posts a link and someone else asks, where can i get a link that's on a different service? songwhip is an aggregator that provides a page with links to multiple services. obviously if you want to post the exact video or the exact remix, a direct link is what you need. but it's quite useful for 'joe bob says check it out' scenarios.

All I can say is wow! I saw her on the Clarity tour in 2019 and while she was really good then, she's even better now! Vocals are powerful and stage presence is absolutely there!

Just saw this and it's the first short concert I've seen! Worth a save

just saw katy's vegas residency. i was expecting decent, with a back-of-mind fear of cringe, but it was really an amazing show. she said she's been battling a cold and one could hear that, but the staging and production values were top-notch.

a couple of sections meant to provide her a breather were a little too long and not that engaging. her voice (barring the cold), her dance moves, and that face of a silent film star added up to a great show, a good deal better than i had expected and light years away from what i had feared as worst case.

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I like this version little more than its original. I prefer its more mellowness to its previous much pop; they're both good to me anyway.

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Ed Sheeran's new album is magically pleasant to my first hearing because of his endearing guitar gimmicks as always.

The issue with Jann Wenner goes far deeper than a sexist, racist old fossil thinking women and black people aren't articulate enough to be considered masters of rock in his new book.

Long before this book, and this latest scandal, Wenner was a co-founder of both Rolling Stone magazine and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

For the Boomer generation, Wenner and critics like him — straight, white men — set the criteria for what constitutes good music, and whose music was worthy of being celebrated as the greatest in Western music.

And, almost inevitably, they chose the artists they related to most closely — straight white men.

What were the criteria they set for what makes music great? The things that their favourite straight white male rock stars were particularly good at.

Such as playing drums, bass, and guitar in a rock style.

The greatest lyrics were those depicting the thoughts and feelings of straight white men.

Lyrics dealing with topics of interest to women or black people — including police brutality — were deemed shallow and vacuous.

Elements that were typically outside the realm of the music their favourite straight white men performed — funky bass lines, sampling, keyboards, soulful ballads, rapping, dance — were deemed frivolous and unimportant.

They created whole hierarchies of the greatest musicians of all time, consisting entirely of straight white men, based on their criteria.

The music made by queer, female, and non-white artists was deemed by them, through their arbitrary criteria, to be frivolous and unimportant.

The music enjoyed by queer, female, and non-white communities was deemed by them, through their arbitrary criteria, to be frivolous and unimportant

Oh, and they seemed to have a bad habit of "accidentally" leaving out the black artists that their favourite straight white men copied from — Chuck Berry and Big Mama Thornton didn't make the cut for greatest rock stars, but Elvis did.

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/23/1201121174/jann-wenner-rock-hall-crumbling

@popheads @music #music #PopMusic

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Celebrate still and rediscover the 30th anniversary album from a legendary and highly acclaimed "Hero" singer, Mariah Carey, including unreleased tracks before and her 1993 concert at Proctor's Theatre, NY. An amazing and favorite album to me.