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Pixelante posted:Enjoy! He's got some absolute bangers out. He always seems to find a way to do something unexpectedly beautiful on a track. you/DC/Volcano have done me quite the solid, this day  hamilton leithauser to top the page, since i've been obsessively listening to him in recent weeks and MIKA's about to derail that train (sorry hammy). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izlomj2EM-k LITERALLY A BIRD fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Nov 6, 2025 |
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Mika's Love EP from I think 2 years ago was great and Talk About Love was probably his best song in a while.
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With no disrespect to Adam Lambert (who I have followed since his Idol days and still love a lot of his music), Mika has always felt like the most natural successor to Freddie Mercury because he’s got that weird Euro-Lebanese artistry that very few Americans are able to harness that fits right in with Freddie’s oeuvre, even though they harnessed it to very different ends. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF_w7oaBHNo This one is my favorite, it’s remarkable (read: incredibly depressing) how relevant it is in our current climate
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First time I've thought of Mika in over a decade, that was a moment huh
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DC Murderverse posted:With no disrespect to Adam Lambert (who I have followed since his Idol days and still love a lot of his music), Mika has always felt like the most natural successor to Freddie Mercury because he’s got that weird Euro-Lebanese artistry that very few Americans are able to harness that fits right in with Freddie’s oeuvre, even though they harnessed it to very different ends. straight bangers from this person itt my opinion on starting a new artist's albums is often LITERALLY A BIRD posted:you should start in the middle actually so i've put on "no place in heaven" and yes: it's true: the verdict: obsessed njsykora posted:Mika's Love EP from I think 2 years ago was great and Talk About Love was probably his best song in a while. this one will be next
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I think Life In Cartoon Motion was the first album I ever bought myself. I spent a long time being embarrassed about it but today I'm vindicated.
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Deformed Church posted:I think Life In Cartoon Motion was the first album I ever bought myself. I spent a long time being embarrassed about it but today I'm vindicated. Mine was Astro Lounge by Smash Mouth. I immediately got so much buyer's remorse that I didn't listen to it for a year. It eventually paid off when I saw them for free in like 2019 and could sing along to every song while all the Smash Mouth casuals had to wait for "All Star". I'm not sure exactly counts as vindication though
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I absolutely despised Grace Kelly through raw overplay (I think it was #1 in the UK chart for 2 months) but Love Today got into my head enough to get me to buy the album and so I heard stuff like Any Other World and Relax (Take It Easy) and realised oh this guy is more than an irritating falsetto. I think you could release Big Girl (You Are Beautiful) today and it'd be a megahit. Also if we're doing first albums, mine was Who Killed The Zutons by The Zutons. Their latest album was pretty decent too.
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njsykora posted:I absolutely despised Grace Kelly through raw overplay (I think it was #1 in the UK chart for 2 months) but Love Today got into my head enough to get me to buy the album and so I heard stuff like Any Other World and Relax (Take It Easy) and realised oh this guy is more than an irritating falsetto. I think you could release Big Girl (You Are Beautiful) today and it'd be a megahit. Hah yeah I was working retail when "Grace Kelly" came out and it definitely wore out its welcome after hearing it that many times a day. I think it's been long enough now that I can enjoy it though. Who Killed The Zutons is a respectable choice. I ran that album into the ground.
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Yeah so did I, I think it's the only album I have where the case notches to hold the disc in have all been completely worn away. Also being on the Zutons bandwagon early meant I could do cool things like get increasingly irritated whenever people called Valerie an Amy Winehouse song.
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njsykora posted:Yeah so did I, I think it's the only album I have where the case notches to hold the disc in have all been completely worn away. Also being on the Zutons bandwagon early meant I could do cool things like get increasingly irritated whenever people called Valerie an Amy Winehouse song. I was very annoying about the "Valerie" thing but I have since made peace with it. This is unrelated but I was halfway through writing the post anyway so – I watched a BBC programme about 90s/00s UK girl groups recently and I've basically just had "Pure Shores" by All Saints on loop ever since: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVNdTXEJv1A One of the best pop songs ever??? That William Orbit dreampop production is just 
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Pure Shores is one of the best songs ever for sure. RE UK girls I have a soft spot for that and early Sugababes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqZMWzFPQHQ I think Mel C was easily the best solo spice girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nEzfa43VF8
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My favourite Mika track is probably Relax. First time I heard it I was standing on a freezing cold ferry dock watching the world slip away from me. My life was in utter freefall after my mom unexpectedly died and left me to take care my father and brother. Don't scream! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVmG_d3HKBA
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The funniest thing about the Sugababes (besides all the jokes Simon Amstell made about them when presenting Never Mind The Buzzcocks) is that they wrote their own songs and didn't know this wasn't common in pop music until they started getting asked about it in interviews.
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1.0.1.0.1.0.1 posted:Pure Shores is one of the best songs ever for sure. Haha I was this close to posting "Overload" as well. Absolute all-timer, still sounds so incredible. njsykora posted:The funniest thing about the Sugababes (besides all the jokes Simon Amstell made about them when presenting Never Mind The Buzzcocks) is that they wrote their own songs and didn't know this wasn't common in pop music until they started getting asked about it in interviews. Shaznay Lewis from All Saints wrote a lot of their songs as well. Apparently there was some friction in the group because it meant she was getting paid a lot more than the others thanks to songwriting royalites.
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1.0.1.0.1.0.1 posted:I think Mel C was easily the best solo spice girl Northern Star is the best solo Spice album by a significant margin. It rules LUX is out on streaming now, can’t wait to find some time to listen to this one
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Nov 6, 2025 23:49
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New Katy Perry song & MV out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kelRnwRA4w It's not blowing me away, but I like it. The gag at the end with Woman's World was funny imo.
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Speaking of both first albums and albums that have become more well-regarded with time, I got a discman and Hanson’s debut for my 6th birthday. You can probably draw a direct line from that to my continued love of power pop to this day, although I haven’t kept up with them specifically in a while (probably since their beer, Mmmhops). When I think about them I can’t help thinking of my freshman year RA who was obsessed with them and had seen them on basically every tour since she was a kid.
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Who had a pretty kickass Hilary Duff song on their bingo card? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOEklH8Eyw4 Also Mika's discography is full of bangers. His debut album was overplayed but so many of his singles have been awesome and I absolutely LOVED so much of The Origin of Love. I might be alone in that regard but I'm all about choruses and big production (the EDM inspired pop of the early 2010s was perfect to me) and it released at the perfect time to get in on that style of pop. I love all of these songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doTFLtQ-cXc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOqcevSI9nU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebEAXiGoriU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fucz-g6uSOM Superrodan fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Nov 7, 2025 |
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kurona_bright posted:New Katy Perry song & MV out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kelRnwRA4w Posting Katy Perry in this thread should be a probe-worthy offence imo
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I was a serious anti-culture hipster in my teenage years, and Lady Gaga's The Fame super broke me out of the weird cynical spiral I was in, and as a result I started looking at a lot of pop music under a serious critical eye and thinking about what goes into pop music and pop culture and it dovetailed really neatly into a lot of elective classes I was taking in college and I ended up writing super detailed (and dumb as gently caress) essays about such as the cultural significance of Katy Perry's American Girls as viewed through the lens of a feminist critique of French folk tales circa 1400 But in all of that, and as my repertoire for music I was interested in listening to expanded, I always sort of viewed Katy Perry as the purest metric for if music was good or bad. Katy Perry was the absolute zero. She was a competent vocalist and performer, working with competent writers and producers, and producing totally fine and adequate music for mass consumption. Katy Perry's catalogue was the absolute minimum for pop music worth listening to. If something was breaking the top 40, it needed to be above the Katy Perry average to really take it seriously as a piece of art worth investigating. It's been a real trip the past few years watching Katy Perry routinely fall under the Katy Perry line
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Here's some new stuff I liked today. There are also about a million Christmas songs I'm not posting because I am merciful. This is a pretty dumb song but I've been waiting for it since I saw her play it live, she wore Shrek ears so it must be quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDzE-ZzMeOM Allie X album dropped, is good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmMnGPG8sBk Dove Cameron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf6GXalQX7k Peach PRC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2lLT-SkNmY Holly Humberstone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPrc3PVtMuY
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The new Danny Brown album (which is really good btw) has multiple features from underscores that I really liked, so I figured I should check out her latest single as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd0j0xnhWFw It immediately got stuck in my head, so I should probably apologise to my hyperpop nerd sister whose recommendation I completely ignored last year. I saw someone compare the song to f(x) and they're totally right, it's very "Chu~♡".
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Do It is so loving good, I posted it in the Indie thread instead of this one but it got immediately buried under discussion of what instrumental music to listen to while reading Cormac McCarthy (not a joke) so ty for bringing it back lots of really great hyperpop people on the Danny album, I’m still listening but the beats are just insane
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Rarity posted:Posting Katy Perry in this thread should be a probe-worthy offence imo ur so gay
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Yeah no poo poo why else would someone be posting in this thread.
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cumpantry posted:ur so gay Thank you for the compliment 
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Sorry I heard this was the gay thread? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixi1tA4_HEY
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i am straight
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tristeham posted:i am straight Mods?
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Rarity posted:Sorry I heard this was the gay thread? hell yeah tinie tempah
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Volcano posted:Mine was Astro Lounge by Smash Mouth. I immediately got so much buyer's remorse that I didn't listen to it for a year.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9LeLA9RTkU idk her but she popped up as a recommended video while i was catching up on some of the videos y'all have linked.
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Saw 15 new posts and was expecting everyone excitedly discussing Justin Bieber’s Grammy noms instead of boring ol’ exciting new music from interesting artists
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I didn't even know Justin Bieber had released anything this Grammy-year. Addison Rae up for BNA so I guess we all have to apologise to that one guy.
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I like the instrumentals on Bieber's hit song Daisies. The lyrics and vocals are Not It, and also is the album titled Swag ironically or
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Those are some weakass noms on the pop side of things. Guess I'm all in on Kendrick this year
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I know all these award show committees are deeply out-of-touch but the Grammys are almost parodic every year.
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