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I'll never understand the hate for The Cure

that can't be their IQ... 43 is moderate mental disbility

Larsson says that Midnight Sun’s cultural moment is a happy accident. It was a fan who paired her and Clean Bandit’s 2017 hit Symphony with kaleidoscopic dolphin art for a viral TikTok in 2024; Larsson just leaned into her marketing savvy to bring Y2K mermaid-core style to Midnight Sun. After fans started creating DIY versions of her airbrushed baby tees, she introduced a moment in her show where she spray-paints one for a lucky fan. Has she learned that her instincts are better than a record label’s? “Yes,” she replies instantly. “I get this weekly data update of my chart positions and monthly listeners from my label. And it’s not interesting to me to look at because that’s last week’s data. It’s already old. I want to ask, ‘What are we creating, what are we doing now?’” She is putting the finishing touches to a Midnight Sun deluxe edition with all-women guest stars. Her label, Epic, “want me to release a new song before it drops to tease it”, she says. “And I’m like: it ruins the project and the specific rollout that I have planned.” It’s all a play for stats, which she finds depressing: “Playing the chart game is so dead to me. No one’s looking at the charts but industry people and maybe Taylor Swift fans.” Sometimes fame can feel like a Faustian bargain, with scrutiny, sexism and presidential subtweets coming as part of the package. As her star has kept rising, Larsson has been wondering if there are limits to how much fame she can take. Could she handle it if she was as famous as, say, Chappell Roan, now in regular standoffs with the paparazzi? “The more people hate her, the more I love her,” says Larsson. “I don’t like how she’s being treated at all. When a woman has boundaries, I think people freak out. Men can do violent criminal things and people applaud them, but when a woman says, ‘Stop following me,’ it’s controversial? It’s like: you guys just hate women, actually. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/apr/03/zara-larsson-popstar-interview-on-fame-fun-fighting-the-power-lush-life

next album 33.143

and if you say you’re okay I’m gonna kill you anyway

That’s what Montreal deserved 😂 after the broken hip in 2011

Your footer being contextualized by this thread title

They are just being so cute and normal, and she seems happy. I would do and post something like this with my bf. Bless them, if it works it works.

explains katy's behaviour

Elizabeth Taylor departs the global Spotify chart after re-entering at #115 yesterday

they at the chop ho gala 😍😍

Correct. It is.

Right. It's generic but still a cute bop.

I would have crashed out omg SO many absolutely iconic GAGA bops and then she plays that??? Playing literally anything else from the ASIB born record mom Hell I'll even take "father, son and house of Gucci" on repeat over it

43 the number of times he did the dishes and 33.1 is the number of time she honored the agreement.

I still don’t like her music but I still love her as a person. More every day.

Of course she’d be pictured smiling next to someone like him, birds of a feather lol

Falling Forever <3

and if you say you’re ok I’m gonna play this song anyway

I mean, based on her retelling of the story though, it sounds like his advice was “trust your gut and don’t throw out what you’ve already done.” She wrote PC later in the process and considered reworking the whole album in that vein and was stressed about making it cohere and he basically told her she didn’t have to second guess herself.

AND IF YOU SAY YOU'RE OK IM GOiNG TO KILL YOU ANYWAY

That small push for being used as the anti-BTS anthem on Twitter is cute. +13% streams in weekly performance

BTW has higher highs MAYHEM is more consistently good

Idk. Why are we posting our genitals on instagram?

Id say Born This Way, Chromatica and Joanne. Maybe The Fame as well ARTPOP and Mayhem definitely feel more random to me

Chromatica because it really is nearly the same song 13 times with some interludes. Just goes to show that cohesion is a poor quality to use when you're judging an album. Though special shout out to Mayhem for managing to sound cohesive while still putting so many different incredible sounds on display

100% Chromatica, then The Fame.

Its not any different.

I remember when we got Joanne and some fans said that there were no "radio friendly" songs that could be released as singles because it was a very chill album. Then we got The Cure as a gift and yes it's kinda generic but very radio friendly and was a good way to test Gaga's streaming numbers and fans were still not happy because it wasn't their Bad Romance 3.0 daRK poP they wanted.

I think what they’re saying, and I agree to an extent, is that the “high art” narrative has always been a bit contrived. The answer has always been that Gaga deliberately blends elements of highbrow and lowbrow, but I think sometimes she would conceptualize herself into corners. ARTPOP is actually a great example of this: the whole era is, to a large extent, her rebelling against and deconstructing the initial iteration of her persona so she could create more space to branch out into different fields without always being pigeonholed as a shock jockey performance artist. Part of the brilliance of the way her image and persona have evolved over the years is that she effectively foreshadowed a lot of her future endeavors and transformed many facets of her life and talents into a dynamic and multifaceted persona and that shouldn’t work on paper, but does. For example, her jazzy renditions of Poker Face, her doing jazz covers in 2010 in a sense foreshadowed C2C and her later jazz work, ASIB in a way reflects and mirrors the most vulnerable sides of pre-fame Gaga (the center of the Gaga Russian nesting doll in a way), BR + BTW + Applause MVs foreshadow a lot of what Gaga finally elevates and integrates in the MAYHEM era (being the eye in the storm of her creativity, being both the artist and the creation etc.) in a way that I actually think layers really nicely ontop of each other if you understand the iterations of her persona (as she seems to now) as pieces of a sprawling and interwoven puzzle where all of her creative visions (both avant garde and conventional) are possible, permissible, and believable. That being said, I think she was right to acknowledge that frontloading with concept can be more of a creative block than it is an asset because, had she not deconstructed the original iteration of her persona during the ARTPOP era, she would’ve restricted her ability to evolve in an organic and multifaceted way because she would always be thinking about “how does this track onto the previous narrative arc I’ve assigned to my heavily curated persona and the world in which that persona lives?” By removing that as a block, she can allow herself to create and then integrate her projects into an overarching narrative, which allows for her to create without over editing upfront, but still exercising editorial discretion when finalizing.

Good Lord. It's a penis on the internet. There are millions out there. It isn't the first on insta. I remember Jack Donoghue posting his there and the conversation didn't turn into a days long debate about morality. Why is this any different?

promise I'll always be there promise I'll be 𝓑𝓐𝓒𝓚𝓨𝓐𝓐𝓐𝓐𝓐𝓐𝓡𝓡𝓡𝓡𝓡𝓡𝓡𝓓𝓓𝓓𝓓𝓓𝓓𝓓𝓓𝓓𝓓

I tuned in to the Coachella livestream when she performed this song. It was like 6 am my local time and I thought, still tired, "Nah, she's just performing a cover of a song you don't know at the moment, might as well go back to slepp". And later I realized I switched off the surprise debut performance of a new song it's great to see that songs like these also get their flowers. Now Happy Mistake would be great to hear!

no no no no NO you CANNOT and WILL NOT make me 𝓬 𝓱 𝓸 𝓸 𝓼 𝓮 :ǝpnlɔuᴉ sǝʇᴉɹnoʌɐɟ ʎɯ ɟo ǝɯos Future Nostalgia Pretty Please Hallucinate Love Again Break My Heart Good In Bed Training Season Houdini Whatcha Doing Illusion María Actually i take that back i choose ILLU U U U U U U U U U U U U U USION

i will never forget seeing a comment that said they were happy to see kylie was still a "horny goat"

Most people don't see the meaning behind this one tbh It was 100% about Sonja's cancer

The ageism Kylie received for this song was disgusting, this is a banger and also she looked amazing in the music video.

Turns out I’m psychic If y’all don’t mind like the vid to help my Tiktok page out

I would say they are better than Chapelle. Sorry about it.

I'm obsessed with slayyyter rn don't have space for anyone else. Shame on me

Listening rn bc I loved the snippet she danced to and WOW… Their album has that Chappell Roan/80s Lauper magic that’s super experimental 80s, super queer pop and hooky, and dancy! It 100% makes sense Gaga loves them both. Definitely having this on repeat the next lil while + their tour tix mighhtttt tempt me. Never expected Mother to introduce me to my new fave indie artist but here we are! Please check em out I know many here will like their new album ✨

Well, expected from someone with allegedly IQ of 33.1

I do like this song but I forgot about it for a moment and I thought you meant she brought out the band The Cure, I was expecting to see Robert Smith on stage

Kiss Me Once is an underrated album overall... it was the first album that got released after I became a fan of her. There are many good songs on this album!

Love BTW with all my heart and soul but gotta say Mayhem (because it’s her best album)

I KINDA HATE YOU BUT IT DOESNT MATTER LET ME DAAAAANCE