u/No_Barber4339

Honestly, my reaction to the wedding discourse was mostly meh, if travis is making taylor happy, good for her and if taylor is happy that her wedding is being treated as a global event, good for her

But I just don't care for them as a couple, I'm not into American football and tloas didn't really convince me about their romance

And part of that is, i just don't care about travis kelce and I don't find anything interesting about him, he's seems like a nice guy surrounded by questionable folks, you can find like 10 of him in your average day in America

Atleast matty healy was fun to hate on, i just find travis very boring to care about

After finishing ME1 and ME2, I'm now on ME3 and it's been fun so far (tho cerberus Turning into a giant evil army was kinda lol) but my favourite aspect about the game is the combat

I was very critical of ME2's combat system due to turning ME1 RPG esque combat into a boring cover shooter one (I was playing as an infiltrator ok) but I think with ME3, I think bioware figure out how to make style of combat actually fun

I'm playing as vanguard now and I feel like space john wick

So i just finished far cry 6 and I enjoyed it (i did like it over 4, sorry) but one of the more underwhelming elements about the game was how underutlized the main villain, anton castillo was

Because on paper, he's a very good antagonist, a dictator who's dying and wants to leave a legacy behind his son who has a complicated relationship with him, their scenes together are easily the best part of the game

I just wish we had more interactions between us, Diego and anton throughtout the story, develop a small friendship between dani and Diego. I feel like FC6 gets lost in it's silly aspects (which can be fun) which puts the story in this confusing tone

I also wanted more of el tigre and jouron but alas

Been playing through the legendary edition for the first time and just finished ME2

I thought it was a great game but a part of me felt disappointed with the many things they got rid off from ME1 and how sidelined the reapers got after their set up

But despite that i still really liked the game Especially due to the cast and their stories. I do think they stepped up that element from the first game

Gameplay, I'm kinda conflicted on. Because while I do apperciate it's less janky than ME1. It's feels very simplified to be a generic cover shooter too (and I also missed the mako :( )

The ship upgrades and crafting mechanics was a fun system even if the probing process got very old

But i do think one thing ME1 easily has over ME2 is the atmosphere and vibes. Especially roaming around empty planets

Both games had rad finales tho

Look the halsey's review wasn't the best, there was some valid critiques and some that missed the point

But I think the actual problem is his recent online behaviour as I mentioned before, it makes his case worse and it's not a good look for everyone

Swifties are chronically online losers, not worth engaging with at it so fantano trying to engage bait them is really annoying

He should have just celebrated the olivia interview and ignored the backlash instead of being pissy online

For his sake, he should take a break from social media and focus on his reviews that's the best he can do

I feel like i would be empathetic to him if he wasn't very online about all of this

I imagine todd is having a sigh of relief he is no longer on twitter to be caught up in this mess due to his takes

I think fantano has good intentions behind him but sometimes I feel like he's way online and just wants to get some engagement-bait (like that weird rant about the taylor/olivia co-writing credit thing)

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I think he needs to take a break from that platform for a bit and have his team handle it, twitter just brings out the worst in us despite some of the funny shit we see in the platform and stantwt is not worth engaging with

What's a popstar do you like the idea of their music but left underwhelmed by the execution ?

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On paper, I like tate mcrae trying to reheat 2000s pop Britney/nelly furtado sound but In execution, I just wish she went deeper into her influences than just basic reheats (sports car is a banger tho) and I feel like tate is more comfortable being a singer-songwriter than your regular over the top popstar

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Conan gray and sombr have good influences behind them and songwriting ideas but their execution can be so-so, sombr is still his beginning so I'll be forgiving to him but four albums in and I'm still underwhelmed by conan gray (found heaven had bops tho)

Hey so anyone still remembers tate mcrae?

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jokes aside, I think my problem with tate mcrae compared to her peers like Olivia, sabrina or Billie is that something just feels artifical about her

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Her rebrand to 2000s pop jams seems fine on the surface but it's feels like RCA just wanted a white tinashe and Ryan tedder wanted to show off his timbaland wannabe production skills than anything artistic coming from tate

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I think todd described her the best when he said she has no main character energy and "a villain in a popstar" movie

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I think she has some bops and showed some potential in her recent album to be more than that but I won't be missing her when she goes to irrelevancy

I think it's rather obvious that the fame and glory rebrand was done so addison and her team can distance themselves from lexee smith's ideas given the fallout (imogene strauss is a genius) but there's elements i like about the fame and glory show than the addison tour

For one, I think addison herself is a lot better live , the outfits are less polarising and I do think the stage design is a lot better which also birthed the arcamarine coachella remix (drop it on streaming services now, addicaptalist)

That said, I do think the vibe and aesthetic on the addison tour is a lot better and this rather showcases how things will go with addison's career after the addison era, which may annoy some fans

2 years ago, taylor got heavy critisism for hanging out with Brittany mahomes, who around that time was liking pro-trump-JD vance post and comments, which led to many accusing taylor of being MAGA by "association"

This is not defense for taylor but I think many should realise that in the entertainment industry eventually celebrities will have to associate with something immoral or be friends with someone problematic to keep their careers upfloat

Or in taylor, charli xcx and many others cases (matty healy is like superman to many indie pop girlies lol), they just don't care and eventually, you'll have to move on with your life about this iffy detail of a celebrity you're obsessed with

And my hot take is this, people should just look at celebs as entertainers and nothing else, they're not your friends nor the politicians or the activists y'all relie on to save your country. Kamala Harris had many celebs endorsement and still lost. Being parasocially invested in a celebrity is a top 1 lamest things ever

Months ago, I used to believe that addison's songs would be a lot better if it was established by someone more established and talented in the industry. However, nowadays I do think what makes the music itself work is addison herself

Addison utilises her influences in a campy, shallow type way that isn't meant to be taken seriously (times like these aside) and I think the authenticity comes from it's ridiculousness and manifestation theme behind it (she wants that glamorous life after all) and the melodies her, elvira and luka come up with are lovely and I'm obsessed (haha) with it

And don't get me wrong, there are good covers of addison's songs out there but none of them hit for me as the original

One known critique addison gets is for her singing. At times it can be understandable and at times it can be overstated

I think with songs where she's not limited by whispering and using a falsetto she's decent (I got it bad, times like these, headphones on) but when it comes to songs requiring falsetto or a specific singing type (diet pepsi and especially fame is a gun) this is where addison strangle a bit and the cracks became apparent

So do you think addison should change her singing style or go back to AR ep type songs to assist her performing live on her sophomore?

I think one element that tends to be overlooked about both midnights and TTPD is the messy raw humanity energy in them

midnights is the falling out of love, it's taylor going through the mix of emotion that her relationship with Joe alwyn wouldn't work out as she expected, we see her anxiety, denial, narcissism and finally, acceptance with you're losing me

but nothing last forever

and with TTPD, it's taylor going through the lowest point of her life emotionally with her breakups with matty and joe, and it's her most self-destructive album. (step aside reputation, the real goth female rage album is here/s) TTPD isn't just the matty album but it's play around taylor's life as a celebrity, the highs and the lows of it, her life looks cool until you get to have it

so yeah, you'll never get me to hate those two albums