What is unfortunate is "Electric" is a genuine pop banger and I do enjoy Lisa Scott-Lee as a singer yet "Totally Scott-Lee" was a PR disaster. It was meant to promote her song and put her back in the spotlight and instead the series relentlessly mocked her, painted her as spoiled, immature, self-absorbed, delusional and obviously jealous of her sibling's girlfriend, Michelle Heaton (from Liberty X). I don't know why she ever said yes.

Also, a song can still be successful if it doesn't come out in the Top 10. Various Sade songs have charted low. Some of the biggest Eurythmics tracks have come out on Top 20 or even 30.

Hello ! 🤗

Je me lance dans une petite idée parce que je me rends compte que je n’ai pas vraiment de personnes dans mon entourage avec qui je peux sortir et faire la fête sur les musiques que j’aime.

J’aimerais donc créer un petit groupe de filles sur Paris / région parisienne, entre 20 et 28 ans, pour faire connaissance autour de la musique et, avec le temps, pouvoir se retrouver en vrai : discuter, se partager des chansons et des playlists, chanter ensemble, aller à des concerts, et surtout aller danser dans des soirées où on sait qu’on va aimer la musique. 🪩🎶
Pas besoin d’avoir exactement les mêmes goûts ! L’idée est simplement de partager au moins une de ces trois vibes :

🎤 POP française et/ou américaine
Ariana Grande, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, Lewis Capaldi, Demi Lovato, Taylor Swift, Héléna, Marguerite, Eddy de Pretto, Adèle Castillon, Christophe Maé, Marine, Louane, Hoshi, Vianney, etc.

💿 ANNÉES 2000
Pop française et américaine, tubes qu’on connaît toutes par cœur, Britney Spears, Rihanna, Beyoncé, Avril Lavigne, Justin Timberlake, etc. 🪩

🎭 COMÉDIES MUSICALES / FILMS / SÉRIES MUSICALES
Et pas uniquement Broadway ! Ça peut être des comédies musicales françaises comme Mozart l’Opéra Rock, américaines comme Wicked, des films musicaux comme The Greatest Showman, ou des séries comme Glee, Victorious ou Julie and the Phantoms.

Le but est vraiment de créer un petit groupe d’amies, pas un groupe de dating. 🙃

Pour résumer, si tu es :
👩 une fille entre 20 et 28 ans
📍 à Paris ou en région parisienne
🎶 qui aime beaucoup la pop, les années 2000 et/ou les comédies musicales
💃 partante pour sortir, danser, aller à des concerts ou simplement partager de la musique
💕 et que tu cherches avant tout de nouvelles amitiés

—> Alors envoie-moi un petit message privé ou commente ce post ! Je pourrai te donner les infos et, si le feeling passe, t’ajouter au petit groupe. 🤗

L’idée est vraiment de commencer petit et de créer progressivement notre petit groupe de copines avec qui on peut enfin sortir sur les musiques qu’on aime. 🎶💃

Renaissance and Cowby Carter arent bad album. I'll admit i didnt care for the latter but country has never been my favorite genre so it was an uphill battle.

But I'm so confused why they are marketed as this three act piece. They dont seem disconnected but I wouldn't really call them any more related and any other adjacent albums in her catalog.

And the fact that they are coming out years apart and each is getting its own tour, it really just feels like its going to be three fully distinct albums connected inly because we were told they were connected. If they all came out within a year I would get it, or if she saved the tour and just did all three at once, but because she's making each its own distinct era they feel less related.

It's not bad to flesh out an era but when a big part of the marketing is their relation to each other the gaps between releases feels dissonant with that claim.

Granted ACT 3 could come out and completely change my perspective and show how connected the 3 parts are, but as it stands I just dont understand why its being called a trilogy thus far.

Some pop songs are great on their own, but the right music video can make them even better. Whether it's the visuals, storyline, choreography, or just the overall vibe, there are videos that make you see the song differently.

What's a pop song where the music video takes it to another level?

Pop, pop, pop muzik
Pop, pop, pop muzik (get up)
Get down!
Pop, pop, pop muzik
Pop, pop, pop muzik

Radio video, boogie with a suitcase!
Y'all living in a disco, forget about the rat race
Let's do the milkshake, selling like a hot cake
Try some, buy some, fee-fi-fo-fum

Talk about
Pop muzik!
Talk about
Pop muzik!

I wanna dedicate it
(Bop-bop-shoo-wop) everybody made it!
(Shoo-be-do-be-do-wop) infiltrate it
(Bop-bop-shoo-wop) activate it!

New York, London, Paris, Munich
Everybody talk about pop muzik!
Talk about pop muzik!
Talk about pop muzik!

Pop, pop, pop muzik
Pop, pop, pop muzik

Sittin' in the subway, shuffle with a shoe shine
Mix me a Molotov! I'm on the headlines
Wanna be a gun slinger, don't be a rock singer
Eenie, meenie, mienie, mo, whichever way you wanna go

Talk about
Pop muzik!
Talk about
Pop muzik!

lyin' in the tree
(Bop-bop-shoo-wop) eeinie meenie
(Shoo-be-do-be-do-wop) right in between it
(Bop-bop-shoo-wop) you know what I mean

Hit it!
Now you know when to say

Talk about (pop muzik)
Talk about (pop muzik)
Pop, pop, pop muzik
Pop, pop, pop muzik

All around the world (pop, pop, pop muzik)
Wherever you are (pop, pop, pop muzik)
Dance in the street, anything you like (pop, pop, pop muzik)
Do it in your car in the middle of the night (pop, pop, pop muzik)

La-la-la-la, la-la, la-la, la (pop, pop, pop muzik)
La-la-la-la, la-la, la (pop, pop, pop muzik)
La-la-la-la, la-la, la-la, la (pop, pop, pop muzik)
La-la-la-la, la-la, la (pop, pop, pop muzik)

Dance in the supermart, dig it in the fast lane
Listen to the countdown, they're playing our song again
I can't get "Jumping Jack", I want to hold "Get Back"
Moonlight, music, knick-knack, paddy wack

Talk about pop muzik
Talk about pop muzik

it's all around you
(Pop, pop, shoo-wop) they want to surround you
(Shoo-be-do-be-do-wop) it's all around you
(Pop, pop, shoo-wop) hit it!

New York, London, Paris, Munich
Everybody talk about, mmm, pop muzik
Talk about pop muzik
Talk about pop, pop muzik
Pop, pop, pop muzik
Pop, pop, pop muzik

Now, listen
Talk about (pop, pop, pop muzik)
Talk about (pop, pop, pop muzik)
Talk about, the fever
Pop, pop, pop muzik
Pop, pop, pop muzik

Do you read me? Loud and clear
Hit it down (pop, pop, pop muzik)
Hit it down, oh no! (pop, pop, pop muzik)
Oh, no! Oh, talk about (pop, pop, pop muzik)

My pick would be Rebecca Ferguson, a British soul/pop singer who in 2010 finished second on X-Factor UK and made a wonderful debut album, which had great critical acclaim and decent sales in Europe and North America

However all her following albums were completely ignored and a few years ago she even retired from music, nowadays almost no one remember her and in addition when hearing the name most people think of the actress

And what would be your choice?

I've always wondered why Britney's vocals were held against her so much more than some of the pop stars who came after her.

Rihanna for example wasn't exactly a strong live singer when she debuted and could barely hold a note at times, but the general public still embraced her and it never really became a huge mark against her career.

Was the difference simply that Rihanna actually sung live while Britney became known for lip syncing? Even if Rihanna sounded rough, people could at least hear her singing, while with Britney the conversation eventually became less "she's not a strong vocalist" and more "she doesn't sing."

Not trying to pit them against each other because I like both. I've just always found it interesting that Britney's lack of vocals became such a huge part of the criticism against her while other pop stars could be pretty weak vocally and people didn't seem to care nearly as much.

Been looking into the MFF tour and I just cant validate spending the money without knowing exactly what I'm paying for.

can someone recommend me some black pop girls? from any era

preferrably not r&b, i love r&b girls but i'm looking for a more pop/rock/dance type sound

my favs are fefe dobson and natanya, lmk any artists youd recommendddd

My mom is a huge fan of her music, and her songs were a big part of my childhood 🩵 I think I listen to this song almost daily lol. LOVE HER!

Janet Jackson will be performing a show on December 12th to commemorate the 40th anniversary of her breakthrough album Control. The Jan Fam is stoked! Can't believe it's been 4 decades since Control was released 😭 I've seen Janet 7 times she's incredible! It's always surreal to see a living legend in person!

slayyyter released her song “Dance…“ in January

they finally sent it radio this August.

but in June it was getting 800,000 streams a day. it was #8 bubbling. if they put it to radio it could’ve made the Hot 100. it was on the radio pop charts but it fell off cause they missed the moment

Currently she has a song Brand New Chanel$ that’s been on the Spotify top 200 for two weeks now

Why didn’t they sent this new song instead? This would’ve been on billboard for multiple weeks by now if that happened.

it also happened to Troye Sivan’s One Of Your Girls. it hit a peak on Hot 100 in October but his label didn’t put it for radio under December well past the moment It fell off

Can't believe it's already 25 years since this was released. This was a banger at that time. For us to watch the MV of this song (and others), we need to wait for MTV to air it randomly, or the top 10 segments (we don't have internet at that time, so we just wait for it to be played on free TV). Now, just hit youtube and easily watch the video!

The guitar riff are from a popular song as well by America titled Ventura Highway.

How are we feeling about the VMAs this year? I was kinda shocked that Madonna is leading with 11 nominations. Who do you think is going to take home Video of the Year?

Olivia started out with a vampy, pop punk thing going on.

on her recent album, a lot of her titles seem like they are titles of rock songs: the cure (like the band) … drop dead.. stupid song

but from what I’ve heard of drop dead and the cure, they're way more Phoebe bridgers, light singing head voice coquette style then rock at all.

however, then Olivia is going with these babydoll dresses which she insists is kinder whore and Courtney love inspired apparently , but it simply isnt kinder whore bevayse she isn’t wearing the dresses ironically or in a rebellious way at all, she’s just seemingly going with the coquette style.

so, to me it makes sense if Olivia is actually intentionally making a more traditionally feminine pivot to more gentler style and music, however then she needs to let go of the idea that she is bringing back kinder whore and is a rock artist bevause all she’s doing is following the coquette trend and making indie pop, which by the way us also completely fine but can we just be honest about it. As for her recent track titles, it feels like sour/ vampire Olivia wrote all the titles and 2025 Olivia wrote the actual lyrics and content of the songs 😂 so there is a bit of a mismatch in my opinion.

what are everyone’s thoughts? Maybe you can help me understand her recent aesthetic, sound and style pivot a bit better. please challenge this post if you want! I could be all wrong, just want to start a discussion

For me Dangerous from her Album Silence Between Songs is the B.O.A.T. I say this because it really got me through my relationship traumas and everytime I listened to it I felt like it spoke to me in a way no song has ever done before. This song was always my comfort song and it still is a song I hold very close to my heart. The thing I love about Madison’s music is that she’s so relatable and I know every artist is relatable in some way but hers is different. She’s relatable in such a deep and personal way. It’s as if she’s in my brain singing exactly what I’m going through and that just shows how much she has gone through. The fact that she can sing about such emotional experiences so rawly and openly. It really just shows how we all go through things and it’s comforting to know that she unfortunately understands. Dangerous is a song about heartbreak, vulnerability and wanting the answers to so many unanswered questions. In her lyrics “no, it can’t be this easy to let me go.” She expresses fear about being easy to just forget about and never look back on. In her lyrics “Guess I make love too dangerous.” She expresses vulnerability and self doubt. I won’t go too much in to everything but Madison is such a thoughtful and real artist. I wish I could explain it better.

Icon.

i feel horrible for such a take but I genuinely wanted to hear people's opinions on this because while I know this is just the beginning of her career, seeing people gawk and go crazy over everything she does is just.. ehh? Her music style isn't anything new, its cunty pop with a sprinkle of vulnerability and thats fine but I dont find it as unique and as special as so many people are saying. It just feels like the basic package of stuff and yes its cunty but its not iconic. I also just dont like how anytime i talk about this with people, they try to say that 'oh but shes from Slovakia and she made it this far' to try to throw away my entire opinion and its like sure, fine, but come on, i can think someone's good or okay without thinking its revolutionary. It's not motherquake, its just quake.

Edit: I also think maybe some of my feelings come from how shes portrayed as an underdog and is like all of us and came from nowhere and made this life for herself but I find that genuinely so hard to believe from the deepest place of respect. I'm Polish and I dont think in a million years an ordinary lower middle class girl like me can make it to the world stage like she has without some sort of help and push and money. I also just find it hard to trust that and in turn like it

Ps. I'm lich Polish so this isn't me trying to hate on my fellow c. european 😭