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Friday Fun Thread for November 8, 2024

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Earlier this week, I said that everything I've learnt about Chappell Roan was against my will. But after repeated exposure to her single "Good Luck, Babe!" I must confess that it's grown on me and the hype might be warranted: this didn't top the singles chart here for no reason.

I could take or leave the music, but I do have to admit that PowerPoint-97-looking music video is amusing.

She seems to have some impressive vocal control, though. Flipping through other videos, it sounds like this one is way above her usual register, and yet she's still doing smooth glissandos up to the highest notes?

One of the comments on the video:

Video: Graphic Design is my Passion

Lyrics: Sapphic Desire is my Passion

That’s the only one of her hits I don’t find obnoxious. I mostly can’t stand the new crop of pop girls. Olivia Rodrigo and Sabrina Carpenter have some okay singles but their most popular songs are annoying, Espresso has some of the worst rhymes I’ve heard in a while. On the other hand, I’ve liked Charli XCX since 2013 and she’s only gotten better since.

I don't even know who a single of these people is.

How does one even get exposure to pop girls?

Listen to the radio. The only reason I've heard Chappell Roan's music is because I recently started a new job in which the office has a radio tuned to a local station playing chart music all day.

Alternatively, join a gym and don't bring your own Airpods. You will hear a lot of chart and dance music.

Olivia Rodrigo

I thought that song "Vampire" was alright, if a bit melodramatic. Can't imagine getting that bent out of shape about some dude you probably didn't even have sex with.

I’ve liked Charli XCX since 2013 and she’s only gotten better since

There were a few songs off the How I'm Feeling Now album I enjoyed, but I found the marketing campaign surrounding brat so annoying and inescapable (not least of which the "Kamala is brat" "endorsement") that I'm refusing to listen to her as an act of protest.

I like the Sabrina Carpenter cover of it.