Originally posted by katara View Post
Funny how Hitler is more iconic and remembered than Beetles, MJ, Elvis Penis, CuMadonna, and basically all out faves combined.
There are so many explanations to why this is tragic
Am I really looking a few pages back right now and see a Britney stan trying to convince people Kanye is not in control of his career?Are my eyes deceiving me or what?
In what should have been the lead single for her critically beloved but relatively inert third album E•MO•TION, Carly Rae Jepsen shot another Cupid’s arrow right at her sweet spot of transcendent genericism and got something explosively romantic as a result. "Run Away With Me", like Annie’s "Heartbeat" or Robyn’s "Dancing On My Own", is purified and paradigmatic; Jepsen goes so breathless with longing that the object of her affection begins to seem less like a person and more like pop music proper, its solitary and universal embrace. The track begins with a blistering riff—some bagpipe-***-saxophone-***-trumpet monster, woozy with rainbows and a slight kazoo fizz—and then kicks into Jepsen’s babydoll verses, as triplets beat softly underneath. The drums build, fill, metastasize, and by the chorus, "Run Away With Me" is racing.
It’s a Gravitron of the genre—neon, dizzying, and ruinous, built with factory precision. Embedded deep within the machinery are six Swedish sorcerers pulling the biggest levers in their possession. The track’s centrifugal yearning pins you fully, blasts glitter into the sky. —Jia Tolentino
