Burn was so good, this is too quality for a shit post
I’m sad to not even see Lights’ A6 included ☹
No Lilly Allen? West end girl is album of the year IMO.
sales =/= quality
Hence why taylor swift is a billionaire.
Her father, Scott Swift, was a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch and notably purchased a 3% stake in Big Machine Records, the label that first signed Taylor, contributing to her initial success.
Like all billionaires she inherited everything.
I don’t listen to music with a calculator
TOOL fans in shambles
Made me think of the KMFDM line ‘our music is sampled, its totally fake. its done my machines Cause they dont make mistakes!’
Mathcore: Am I a joke to you?
I was sharing music with a friend and their reaction upon being shown an artist (not even listening) was "ew less than 100k monthly listens”
bro? is this your metric for good music ? how many people listen to it on Spotify ?
if this is how avg ppl see music it explains a lot about top 40 charts
The world starts make a lot more sense when you realize the vast majority of people are just trying to be part of a herd and are either scared to think for themselves or completely incapable. It explains all the gargling of corporate nuts we see at every turn.
Funny, cuz lots of the ones who say “ew less than 100k listens” will also say they’re not into pop music. Wondering what they think “pop” is short for lmao
Pop is a genre, and does not necessarily stand for popular music
You’re right and also wrong. It’s a genre defined by being meant for an audience as wide as possible. It evolves over time like any genre, but in this case specifically what defines pop in an era is whatever is popular in some era. Trying to be popular is like the entire point of pop.
Yes, it is a genre. And that genre is “popular music.”
It literally does stand for popular music.
It doesn’t have to. Both can be used interchangeably but one doesn’t always necessarily mean the other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music has a really good outline on the history and why “pop music” is a sub genre of “popular music”.
I’m not saying that all pop music is actually popular, I’m saying that the origin of the term “pop music” is “popular music”.
That’s very different from what you stated early. Because “pop music” doesn’t stand for “popular music”. They are different things in the way the OP stated.
It’s sadly a very common thing and applies to just about everything. “It’s not popular so it’s automatically bad”, I’m just glad I’m not forced to be around people like that too often.
My mother in law used to refuse to eat in an empty or nearly empty restaurant. On the logic that if it’s empty it must be bad. Never mind that the reason a restaurant is empty often has more to do with location than quality, or that it’s packed for dinner and empty at lunch or vice versa.
Wild, I refuse to go to packed restaurants because my experience will be markedly worse… my favorite time is between 2-4, because everywhere is dead then.
To each their own, I guess.
this is also why vote manipulation is a thing. people are prejudiced by the appearance of a consensus.
Oddly enough, I’m on the opposite side. Popularity ruins good things. I’m probably just bitter and cynical though. And that’s also not to say that there aren’t things with massive popularity that are also good.
You could make an argument that if a song is listened a lot, it means a lot of people find it good and thus is could not be bad. But then again, Suicide Squad was a successful movie if you were to base your judgement on popularity.
I remember getting made fun of in middle school for listening to Nevermind, you know just a landmark in rock music because it was at the time almost 10 years old. Sigh.
How do you know an album’s gender?
Woman albums cost 12% less.
It’s easier to find on vinyl
What makes an album “female”?
Lead vocalist sings somewhere in the soprano-countertenor range
As the one person that seems to be taking the question seriously, why not just “Albums by Women”?
Also, I don’t know shit about music, but countertenor seems to explicitly refer to men singing at a higher register, so it doesn’t seem like it would be included.
You’re right, I got confused because I went to high school with a girl who sang countertenor, but it’s usually guys
Interesting. Do you know if that was like a voice quality/tambre thing, or just pitch?
Alternatively I suppose it’s not unlikely that there weren’t boys in the group that could sing that part
Pitch. There weren’t countertenor parts we needed to fill, the teacher was just determining everyone’s native range and that’s where she fell.
When the album identifies as one.
This was easier to figure out with CDs /s
Yeah, but then they tried going all woke in the late 90s with the CD-RW stuff and data reassignment procedures.
Wait until you hear what they did to serial cables.
RadioShack needed to be shut down for providing so many male-to-female adapters
Too much cable affirming care.
“The drives! They’re making the CDs gay!”
All CDs have holes. None of them have penises.
rude
If she covers her CD case when you talk to her, she’s a female album.
So what are the names of the albums for those who want to verify?
Man, I don’t know shit about modern music evidently.
I too, am old now.
Putting Man’s Best Friend and Life of a Showgirl on the same level is slander
Yeah! Sabrina is way better than Taylor!
~ I don’t actually hold this opinion. I don’t actually give a fuck at all. But I do like them both just fine ~
Which is supposed to be the better album?
I don’t listen to either artist and don’t care for either of them from what I’ve heard on the radio and at malls so I’m not the best person to judge. I’m curious what your thoughts are though (and what the general consensus is).
I mean It is just a matter of opinion if course, but I think the common consensus was that this was not Taylor’s greatest work, and Manchild is one of if not Sabrina Carpenter’s biggest song right now.
I personally was never the biggest fan of modern pop music but it’s been starting to grow on me.
Ah, good to know, thanks. Not sure I’ll ever need the info but I’m always curious on what’s popular, even if it’s not something I’m interested in. I know of both artists but don’t know much music from either and don’t care to. But it’s cool to see what’s seen as better or worse by the general fanbase.
No Wet Leg?
Came here to say this. moisturizer is great!
They are not a female-only band, tho.
Aw man, I loved their last album. I never realized they released another. I was listening to The Scholars by Car Seat Headrest for a good portion of last year.
Everyone tastes like something
Aw, I like Laufey 😭😭
Personally the more popular an artist or band is, the less likely I’ll enjoy their music.
This is broadly speaking and not universal, there are big exceptions like radiohead, massive attack, aphex twin, BICEP and tool, but for the most part, if something is in the charts, I’m probably going to hate it
