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So she's replacing Gaga in the Festival game mode? Her skin looks so good! The fact she's releasing new music at the same time as her Fortnite collab while Gaga and her team literally did nothing with the exposure

https://www.vogue.fr/article/interview-celine-dion-vogue-france-mai-2024-beaute

a look into the future

Anthology got a 6

“I’m so ready to be tour-mates” oh the paycheck was on the LINE, henny!

She’s entitled to her wrong opinion.

Reparations for bringing Camila

Cowboy Carter got 8.4 which of course means TTPD will win AOTY.

In standard and extended editions, Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album races to fill the gap between her intimate songwriting and her increasingly outsized persona. It’s unruly, unedited, and even a little tortured. The Tortured Poets Department, Swift’s 11th studio album, senses that widening gap between Taylor Swift the artist and Taylor Swift the phenomenon, and wants to fill it with a firehose of material. The burden of expectation is substantial: This is Swift’s first body of new work since the end of a years-long relationship and a pair of high-profile, whirlwind romances—one of which, with the 1975’s Matty Healy, appears to have provided much of the inspiration here. Fans came to Tortured Poetsseeking emotional catharsis, or at least the salacious details. Swift, it seems, wanted the comfort of familiarity. Returning to Jack Antonoff and the National’s Aaron Dessner, her primary songwriting and producing partners of the last several years, Swift picks up threads from Folk-more and Midnights without quite pulling anything loose. Tortured Poets’ extended Anthology edition runs over two hours, and even in the abridged version, its sense of sprawl creeps down to the song level, where Swift’s writing is, at best, playfully unbridled and, at worst, conspicuously wanting for an editor. The winking title track—a joke about its subjects’ self-seriousness—makes fun of the performance of creative labor, which is funny, given the show that Swift is putting on herself. She piles the metaphors on thick, throws stuff at the wall even after something has stuck, picks up the things that didn’t stick and uses them anyway. There is a clear emphasis here on vulnerability; it’s an effort to rub some of the varnish off of Taylor Swift the commercial product and focus on Taylor Swift the tender, unlucky romantic with whom we fell in love so many years ago. No matter her stature, Swift can still reach the everywoman. She is versed in memespeak: “Down Bad” works because of the juxtaposition between its banal hook and its description of “cosmic love”; the corporate girlies will go feral for “I cry a lot but I am so productive” (“I Can Do It With a Broken Heart”). I can even get on board with the outlaw machinations of “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can),” if mostly for the lyrical backflip of its chorus: “They shook their heads saying, ‘God help her’ when I told ’em he’s my man/But your good Lord didn’t need to lift a finger/I can fix him, no really I can.” If Swift believes that output for its own sake is what she has to offer, she underestimates her gift. Listeners who believe that her every ounce of experience is inherently interesting—because she was the one to have it—misunderstand her as well. Taylor Swift doesn’t need a whole album to tell the story of a relationship; she only needs one song, sometimes even one line. She almost has it in Tortured Poets’ title track, with the tossed-off brilliance of “We’re modern idiots.” She’s nearly there with the vignette, which needs a bit more burnishing, about her man slipping a ring from her middle to her eager left ring finger at dinner. You can see what she’s chasing here: the moment in time that triggers a flash of feeling that lasts forever—the sort of thing people call Swiftian. We’ve been students of Swift’s poetry for years. The lesson of The Tortured Poets Department is not to push through the pain—it’s to take the time to process it. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/taylor-swift-the-tortured-poets-department-the-anthology/

American businesswoman Taylor Swift has just released her new album called "The Tortured Poets Department" breaking records left and right, the 34-year-old queen of multiple album variants has received mixed to positive reviews and Pitchfork decided to give the album 6.0 points on their review, this places it below the pediatric icon "Peppa Pig" This did not go unnoticed by the 4 year old pork; the pink swine decided to post a picture comparing both reviews. It seems that the battle between these two to reach the children's audience with their lyrics has barely begun. Which album do you think is better?

It is new and currently still on her IG Story

the way her praise of TTPD is so generic is very telling

This feels like one of these friends who never make it to meet up with you but every here and then you see them posting stories having fun with Haus Labs and having Nurtecs

Here:

I feel like it's constantly talked about here lol. It's just not that special and y'all refuse to accept that.

1:55

Seriously, it's such an epic mv and it's hardly talked about or appreciated within the Gaga fandom. On TikTok there's like no HQ stills or edits using JW. Closest is her runway walk from 2016 which gained a bit of traction in 2023. Hell, you have better chance of finding higher quality "DWUW" footage and that didn't even get released officially. And yes, im aware its her lowest viewed mv to date, but still Major Acid/Harley hybrid vibes too. Thank you Jonas!

I worked hard on myself and my mental health to be able to be optimistic and trusting again, and for what.

You can tell she paid Pitchfork because this album is a 4.0 at best and still will win AOTY

I travelled into the future and took the photo with my Polaroid camera glasses then travelled back to post it <3

i know the Gaga x fortnite delay was out of Gaga's hands but i wish they kept it for LG7 so it didn't feel like the last drop of piss from the chromatica era, it would have been way more hype with the new LG7 aesthetic

Because Billie has a good team in terms of music promo.

Looks gooooooood

Shallow has now reached 2.4b streams on Spotify! Gaga's top 20 most-streamed tracks on Spotify (for 21.04.24) : 01. Shallow 2.400b (2,400,721,438) 02. Poker Face 1.234b (1,234,489,827) 03. ARUTW 1.229b (1,229,750,799) 04. Bad Romance 1.188b (1,188,090,482) 05. Rain On Me 1.045b (1,045,304,196) 06. Just Dance 1.022b (1,022,854,482) 07. Million Reasons 812m (812,383,467) 08. Telephone 682m (682,606,031) 09. Born This Way 596m (596,738,307) 10. Paparazzi 565m (565,456,683) 11. Applause 535m (535,491,924) 12. Bloody Mary 496m (496,456,161) 13. Judas 457m (457,996,204) 14. Alejandro 447m (447,506,886) 15. LoveGame 379m (379,666,567) 16. Stupid Love 373m (373,729,879) 17. The Cure 370m (370,909,400) 18. Sour Candy 358m (358,020,082) 19. INLA (Film V) 357m (357,121,225) 20. Hold My Hand 306m (306,209,585)

Saw a few swifties on twitter saying her and her team are probably scrambling trying to soften the blow, and that Taylor usually doesn’t share reviews on her stories but started to after the mixed/bad reviews started to come in.

Too generous.

Stupid Love. In my religion, we aren't allowed to watch music videos, so I never watched them. Then, one day, God let me down so I finally decided to watch a video and it was Stupid Love. I can't believe I'm going to hell for that iPhone filmed video where she really just glued fridge magnets to her face. Btw, my religion is lying and I think it was actually Just Dance or Poker Face but I can't remember.

LG7: Lady Gaga Presents: The Tortured Little Monsters Department

It's a 5... self indulgent, meandering, and it's just not fun to listen to. This is a one and done album for me. I'll return to her once she decides to start making music that's a PLEASURE to listen to again. This was a CHORE to listen to.

To be fair, the sheer level of incompetence Gaga’s team is somehow able to achieve is quite astounding and revolutionary. It’s a business mystery that should be studied for decades to come; everything NOT to do when it comes to taking advantage of good opportunities. It’s shocking, unbelievable, sad, and iconic.

Honestly I'd be so mad if I was an audience member who only attended this weekend because wdym last week she sang Ocean Eyes and Video Games with Billie Eilish and this week they get... her

The fact that I expected LG7 to be released in 2022

This sucks I hate it here

The screenshot is fake, was debunked yesterday

It's the ultimate, acid adrenaline rush. Kind of shocked it never leaked or anything too. She proved here she's still the unhinged-GA even when she ventures off into different genres outside pop. @monketsharona @Tinnitus15

DO NOT POST ANY LINKS OR REQUEST TO DM YOU. There's a rumor floating around that a gay fan made his way to DJWS' stolen laptop using Gr*ndr and there's stuff leaking soon. ARTPOP sessions, Act II unreleased and Born This Way stems. Most likely fake of course BUT there's an audio out there with Gaga talking about the recording of the title track and singing. You know where Two lookX!

Lana Del Rey's epic Coachella set has landed the festival organizers a whopping $28,000 fine after it overran. The Summertime Sadness hitmaker, 38, wowed during the 19-song set amid weekend two - which featured a surprise appearance from Camila Cabello to sing her new single, I Luv It - but landed the fine during to going 13 minutes over.source

SPOTIFY ACHIEVEMENTS TODAY (for 21.04.24) : Shallow crosses 2.400b streams (2,400,721,438) Poker Face crosses 1.234b streams (1,234,489,827) Bad Romance crosses 1.188b streams (1,188,090,482) Sour Candy crosses 358m streams (358,020,082) Hey Girl crosses 43m streams (43,000,820) Scheisse is now Gaga's 54th (+1) most-streamed song, surpassing Sine From Above. Justice is restored.

Céline Dion makes her big comeback on the cover of the May 2024 issue of Vogue France Read her interview —» https://www.vogue.fr/article/celine-dion-may-cover-vogue-france-interview — Pascal

We tried to warn you

How I'd love to know what's going on behind the scenes in the Kardashian household right now after thanK you aIMee and Cassandra. If I were Kim, I'd be hitting the roof. Not only did Taylor say that her mum wished her dead (even though Kris had said that she likes Taylor, her team and her mother and that she was interested in contacting her for peace talks some years ago) but she brings her kids into it by saying they'll one day be seeing along to these tracks that Kim will never know about her. Her kids are 10 and under, that is bang out of order to bring them up. I don't know if there are phone calls happening but Kim's trying to take the "don't feed the trolls" take by not giving Taylor the attention she so clearly craves by speaking out about it. Seriously, Taylor - Kim and Kanye are divorced and Kanye's going through a mental health crisis. Oh, yeah, and neither of them have gone after you in years. Why are you bringing this up now? Get. Over. It. And this nonsense about putting out the extended version a mere 2 hours after the standard version despite telling her fans to buy all 4 variants to get an exclusive bonus track on each and here comes this version with all the exclusive tracks plus an additional 11 so they just could have bought one version...and putting a free-standing vinyl holder case with the TTPD logo on it suggesting it's not for general vinyls but for TTPD variants specifically...I have no words. Fans really need to wake up to how they're being used. If they'd buy just one version, she'd soon stop doing it. Billboard isn't doing enough to counteract this ludicrousness and severe overconsumption.

Gutted. Her team never changes, huh.

This is her second lowest review by Pitchfork to date, the lowest is Reputation with 6.0 Her highest is orginal RED with a 9.00 & second highest is Red (TV) with 8.5

Pitchfork gave TTPD a 6.6 and The Anthology a 6

I don't think this mindset should be allowed

Came here to say that I had a feeling she'll announce her lead this week or the next one, but the theory about the tick tick ending in June posted BlingNotTheMusic seems very plausible, expecially since she did the same with PI.

Amanda, is that you?