I love the duality that Olivia Rodrigo and Sabrina Carpenter provide as counterparts… Olivia’s songs are like “I’m so insecure and crazy and I’m going to die” and Sabrina’s are like “every boy is in love with me and that makes complete sense”
Yall don’t understand how genius the structure of Boom Boom Pow is like the whole track is just the four peas describing the beat will I am made and how sick it is while teasing very sparse elements of it but not actually revealing the boom boom pow until Fergie gives the signal
Notice how Challengers is sexy as hell and everyone’s obsessed with it… also notice how it makes no mention of “polyamory” or “ethical non-monogamy” and just sticks to good old fashioned cheating… yeah… exactly… exactly…
#bringbackcheating
Charli becoming a massively influential pop icon over the past decade completely on her own terms with almost no charting singles is legitimately the fiercest thing and I have so many thoughts about it
Baby trans ordering cheap tacky goth clothing online before learning anything about hair, makeup, or voice training… bitch you’re worried about the wrong dollskill
Like it takes nearly a full 2 minutes before you’re actually allowed to hear the Boom Boom Pow itself and those first 2 minutes are merely them hyping it up… it’s so smart and then the way Fergie repeats her verse at the end only affirming how sickening what you just heard was…
Hunter Schafer says "I’ve gotten offered tons of trans roles, and I just don’t want to do it. I don’t want to talk about it.”
"Now I just want to be a girl and finally move on...I know for a fact that I’m one of the most famous trans people in media right now, and I do feel a
Idk which trans girl needs to read this but forming friendships and community with c!s women and learning to intuitively and casually integrate yourself amongst them is probably necessary for your well being
The fact that William is only able to drop the beat after Fergie gives him permission (and she does such an effective job at screaming at the listener to make sure they’re paying attention first) like it’s so genius
It’s crazy how there’s two entirely separate “rave” cultures and one of them takes place in dimly lit basements and warehouses and the other happens at Rainbow Road apparently
Just remembered the first time I saw a preview for Brokeback Mountain in a packed movie theater in Spokane, WA as a teenager and the crowd groaned and was like “ewww” when the cowboys kissed. If you think that’s crazy consider the movie we were about to watch was literally RENT.
something about this feels a tad too myopic for me. self-referential for people who live in 4 neighborhoods in LA/NYC. lady gaga created her own self-mythology that we could all project our delusions onto. this feels frigid, like a crass reminder that you're not on the list.
I think she has actually redefined the concept of being a Main Pop Girl for the post-monoculture age. I think Gaga was the last major Pop Star in the traditional sense and Charli was/is the first of a new archetype of sorts
I’ve said this so many times… Sex and the City is a villain of the week anime. It’s literally InuYasha it’s literally Sailor Moon. The villain is whichever boyfriend is being annoying that episode
I just don’t understand how you can watch a show like SATC and decide that there must be a villain. That’s not how actual human beings work so why are you watching a show like *that* determined to find an antagonist
Someone on here once compared Meghan Trainor to John Waters and described her music as “outsider art” and I think about it all the time and it’s the only lens through which I can process her music now. An intentionally garish reflection of culture’s worst impulses
The funniest bad scene in movie history is the end of Cruel Intentions when the principle of the boarding school takes the crucifix off Sarah Michelle Gellar’s wrist, unscrews it, and discovers her hidden stash of cocaine, all while the song Bitter Sweet Symphony plays
What’s the point of making sure your music can appeal to soccer moms in Kansas when you can curate a fanbase and impact culture so directly where it actually matters? Charli has been playing 4D chess the whole time and she’s absolutely winning
Not to be like normalize platonic affection but it really is crazy to me how people on this app perceive physical touch as this scandalous inherently sexual thing like I really think you people need to do more drugs and let love into your hearts before it’s too late
When Gaga catches wind of the other hyped up Joker movie coming out this year and decides to watch it and hears Back of the Truck and realizes she has to learn more about the woman behind this incredible song…
You don’t have to surround yourself with gay boys and drag queens and just other trans women all the time like there’s a real value to just existing as a woman and not othering yourself
It’s so funny to explicitly make a huge deal about finally being an “adult pop star” and wanting your Bangerz/Slave 4 U moment and then giving completely sexless Gene Simmons WWE drag king realness bc that’s your idea of having edge Jojo Siwa is actual camp honestly
Like when you think about Pop Music as genre and as subculture as opposed to just like a dominant radio format then if Charli XCX isn’t a Main Pop Girl who tf is? Pop music is for girls and gays, we know that, and the internet let us build our own legitimate subculture around it
Imagine thinking I “hate girls early in transition” as though I don’t have a trans daughter I’m obsessed with along with like 20 nieces and dozens of bitches I’ve convinced/encouraged to start mones lmao literally nothing warms my heart more than a bitch early in her transition!
At some point there comes a time where there is a tremendous relief in just accepting yourself as a woman first and with trans as a coincidental descriptor rather than having “trans” as the primary lens through which you understand yourself. It takes time to get there
"Latine," a gender-neutral way to describe or refer to people with Latino origins, is surging in popularity over terms like "Latinx" on university campuses, in museums, and among researchers and media.
This goes along w that other (excellent) thread about trans women being scared of just like understanding themselves as women like you’re missing out on something by othering yourself and if you assume c!s women can’t or won’t relate to your experience of the world you’re wrong!
Kesha, Nicki, Lana, Azealia, Charli, Tinashe, Ariana, Troye… among others like I like the girl and enjoy her album and I think she has amazing potential but let’s be serious for a moment…
Like monoculture stopped existing in the early 2010s so I think the idea that the main players of Pop Music have to be household names is antiquated. Charli’s is a pop stardom for the new era that has absolutely become the blueprint
I wish Dua would swing bigger, I wish the album lived up to the ways she described it/the influences she cited, and I’m waiting for her to synthesize her star power into something bolder than just being chic and lovely… but you won’t convince me that these are not great songs!
It’s so cool that Back of the Truck has the most iconic needle drop in a critically acclaimed indie film… only further cementing its status as a genuine underground transsexual classic