I mean, the huge hype from both fans and artist, the coming-from-a-successful-era, the seeming change in artistic direction, and then a cover/photo showing the back of a jacket and a massive, tacky *** font
The déjà vu ain't even funny any more
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POP MUSIC THREAD: Taylor Swift officially joins us
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I mean, the huge hype from both fans and artist, the coming-from-a-successful-era, the seeming change in artistic direction, and then a cover/photo showing the back of a jacket and a massive, tacky *** font
The déjà vu ain't even funny any more
Blackjack the Titan
It’s been a while
I don't know if Katy's trying to create some nostalgia among older fans or doing some weird thing like that.
The cover is tacky, but I'd rather focus on her music than her visuals.
Silent Conversation
Chart obsessed wanker
But again, the song is not promoting rape or harm to women. Nobody who hears this song and wasn't already against women is suddenly going to become a woman hater or abuser because of this song. The song is sexual. Yes, it pushes it too much, but certainly not to the point where people are going to take the lyrics seriously and follow whatever advice or message everyone seems to think the song is shouting out.
I think you're really overestimating just how much the general public actually pays attention to the lyrics in any given song. Nobody is being influenced by the song, nobody listening to the song thinks that rape or objectifying women is okay and most people probably can't even tell you the lyrics outside of the chorus. There have been lots of sexual songs that have become popular in the past, and I don't know why this one of all of them is getting so much negative attention.
Seriously, S&M is literally about a woman who enjoys being abused during sex and promotes sadomasochism way more than Blurred Lines promotes rape, yet I'm willing to bet half of the Blurred Lines haters are perfectly fine with that song.
Wow, we've gone from objectifying woman to a woman hating song to a rapey song to a rape anthem to a date rape anthem. This song's list of crimes is growing every single time someone brings it up.
I literally just read the lyrics line by line and I don't see where people are assuming it's about rape. Obviously the song is coated with the degradation and objectification of women, but I don't see the rape part. That really just stems down to people taking the line "I know you want it" and totally blowing it out of proportion.
Sorry, I promise never again to point out when something seems cold and negative, because the entire thread feels the need to make it clear how nice of a comment that was.
And I'm just responding to posts that I'm seeing. If you guys want the subject to be changed, you have to be the ones to stop responding, because I have no issue continuing to discuss this.
Wow, this is, um... really not very good. Between the font, the jacket and the tiger background, the entire thing is just begging people to call it tacky. It kind of looks like a Photoshop job gone wrong.
Blackjack the Titan
It’s been a while
Sorry, I can't hear your lessers like Gaga and Katy over this flawfree album cover
This!
And………
Could I get Katy's new single without the single cover, or would I have to wait for her album to come out with a hopefully better cover.
Silent Conversation
Chart obsessed wanker
Well assuming you're downloading off of iTunes (or planning on putting it into your iTunes), you can always just delete the single cover once you've put the song into iTunes
Sorry, I can't hear your lessers like Gaga and Katy over this flawfree album cover
Man Katy's single cover looks dated. I also don't like that she's doing the whole animal thing which has been done in the past and better by Ke$ha but what ever. I'm ready for that post-divorce anthem.
Blackjack the Titan
It’s been a while
Well assuming you're downloading off of iTunes (or planning on putting it into your iTunes), you can always just delete the single cover once you've put the song into iTunes
Me too.
Man Katy's single cover looks dated. I also don't like that she's doing the whole animal thing which has been done in the past and better by Ke$ha but what ever. I'm ready for that post-divorce anthem.
Shade all you want, Janelle doesn't care. She doesn't care about being popular, she cares about making quality artistic music.
Also... did you miss:
[video=youtube;uuwfgXD8qV8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuwfgXD8qV8[/video]
Since when is Janelle Monae releasing a new album? Is that going to be a sequel to The ArchAndroid because it has 'suites' along the bottom like that one? I need to listen to The ArchAndroid come to think of it.
iirc right click on the song on iTunes, click 'get info', choose the 'album artwork' tab, click on the image and delete or upload another of your choice.
[img139]http://th696.photobucket.com/albums/vv324/TimLovesChezza/th_CherylLaugh.gif[/img139]
Fourth Roar teaser with a longer snippet and presumably a bit of the chorus. Doesn't scream smash to me right now ngl
[video=youtube;5kPRsDUyUGE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kPRsDUyUGE&feature=c4-overview&list=UU-8Q-hLdECwQmaWNwXitYDw[/video]
how
iirc right click on the song on iTunes, click 'get info', choose the 'album artwork' tab, click on the image and delete or upload another of your choice.
[img139]http://th696.photobucket.com/albums/vv324/TimLovesChezza/th_CherylLaugh.gif[/img139]
Fourth Roar teaser with a longer snippet and presumably a bit of the chorus. Doesn't scream smash to me right now ngl
[video=youtube;5kPRsDUyUGE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kPRsDUyUGE&feature=c4-overview&list=UU-8Q-hLdECwQmaWNwXitYDw[/video]
kuzronk
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She did like 4 secs on that fun. song We Are young.
Right click on the album/track and copy the artwork into where it says artwork.how
Me too.
I think she is trying to make the music looks better and not have everybody talking about the cover (Like what happened with Teenage dream (album and not single).
It got annouced ages ago and have 1 or 2 singles so far.
Silent Conversation
Chart obsessed wanker
The problem is that people are STILL talking about the cover because of how bad it is. If she had really wanted to do what you're saying, she should have just created a simple cover with a plain background and "ROAR" in the middle or something like that. Big tiger jacket photo and weird font over very tacky background is not going to make people stop talking about her covers.
Blackjack the Titan
It’s been a while
Glad people are discussing the negatives of things instead of the positive things!
First Blurred Lines, now the ROAR cover.
Thanxorus for telling me how to remove crappy -and apply better- album covers.
HoennMaster
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Lets just be glad she didn't name it Rawr.
Blackjack the Titan
It’s been a while
Well,cit would have fit the cover art if she gave it a tacky name. It'd go well with the tacky design and actually contribute to it in a more positive way imo.
ROAR LEAKED
First thoughts:
- Inferior to most of the Teenage Dream singles (in fact, far from her best)
- It's safe, I think radio will lap it up but I think the sales will underwhelm
- I can undermine Katy's writing skills all day but I can't deny that she's generally good at writing bridges. This one is terribly disappointing
I literally can't because the Kats are spazzing out and in love but I just don't see it
First thoughts:
- Inferior to most of the Teenage Dream singles (in fact, far from her best)
- It's safe, I think radio will lap it up but I think the sales will underwhelm
- I can undermine Katy's writing skills all day but I can't deny that she's generally good at writing bridges. This one is terribly disappointing
I literally can't because the Kats are spazzing out and in love but I just don't see it
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Blackjack the Titan
It’s been a while
You know, After two listens, I'm kinda warming up to it.
It's good…
enough. It's basically another strong woman song
I don't think it'll kick down Blurred Lines from #1.
Gaga, I know you won't let us down!
HoennMaster
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I really like the song, it's catchy and typical Katy. However, that's also it's problem. She "killed off" Teenage Dream but this song could have easily been on TD.
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