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Aaliyah would've been done with Beysus her wipeout of all those R&B skanks.
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Originally posted by lancelovesgaga
i swear.
i used to get left eye and Aaliyah confused. My mother would talk about Aaliyah and play TLC. I thought Aaliyah's nick name was Left Eye...like her rapper name
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No, I'm talking about the part where you said you've never ever heard a song by her, even as a black person.
I just don't take people here seriously when they say "I've never heard this song before so it wasn't important or known!," especially when people here pretend to be pop/music enthusiasts. 
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I feel like Godliyah was literally just starting to really blow up/expand/crossover when she passed. I don't think she would have faded out like Brandy or Monica, she was already beginning to branch out/slay the movie scene and had way more white people appeal than Monica and Bran.
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Member Since: 3/4/2012
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Yeah, it's unclear whether Aaliyah would survive the Beypocalypse.
No doubt that she had better music than the rest, though.
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Member Since: 1/25/2012
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Am pretty sure Aaliyah's last album before she died was flopping until reports of her death.
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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Originally posted by FAME.
Reported for insensitive and trolling on this ever so serious site about generic pop music that nobody takes seriously!!!!!1!!!
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Reported for having an avi featuring walking homophobia and misogyny
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Member Since: 6/25/2012
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Originally posted by MrPeanut
Beyonce's not an ATRL member (I assume hehe).
Plus Miguel got banned for awhile after that, I thought.
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wait. thats warnable??  can we ban Cheers too
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Member Since: 2/16/2010
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I hope Rude isn't #1 on BB's Hot Summer Songs list. Fancy deserves it. It was THE song of Summer 2014 and that's what the GP will think too.
Rude will not have the lasting power that Fancy will.
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Member Since: 9/9/2012
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N @ Beyonce finishing Aaliyah.
Aaliyah was in the game 7 years. Don't confuse her with your Ashanti, Ciara, and Mya who just debuted. She was established a decade in.
& I think she would've done very well in 2000s, liking her aside.
2002-2005 was very Urban controlled. 2006-2009 was very Timbaland controlled.
She was an Urban artist who worked with Timbaland. If she stayed with her blueprint she could've had success the whole decade easily. Like if Tim gave her them Nelly hits it woulda been a WRAP. >
Lemme sleep tho.
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Member Since: 8/26/2011
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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
No, I'm talking about the part where you said you've never ever heard a song by her, even as a black person.
I just don't take people here seriously when they say "I've never heard this song before so it wasn't important or known!," especially when people here pretend to be pop/music enthusiasts. |
ive probably heard of one but cant remember how it sounds/goes smh
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I can't believe the "If Aaliyah were alive, Beyonce wouldn't be slaying" thing is still a thing. I was reading this back in like the 9th grade, and I still don't know how it started.
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Member Since: 9/9/2012
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Originally posted by BabyCantYouSee
Am pretty sure Aaliyah's last album before she died was flopping until reports of her death.
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Am pretty sure despite a lead single that didn't even make Top 40 it did 200k first week, and went Gold before her death after 1 month of release.
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Member Since: 6/1/2010
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Originally posted by lancelovesgaga
ive probably heard of one but cant remember how it sounds/goes smh
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You've heard "Try Again," "One in a Million," "Are You That Somebody?," "Back & Forth" - each at least three times in your life.
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Originally posted by BabyCantYouSee
Am pretty sure Aaliyah's last album before she died was flopping until reports of her death.
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OMG I'm pretty sure this is true. Can someone confirm/deny?
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Member Since: 9/18/2010
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Originally posted by BobBertran1992
Reported for having an avi featuring walking homophobia and misogyny
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My avi is of the current King of R&B though and of talent, flawlessness and pure slayage. Am not sure what else you're referring to.
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Who sings this Rude song? ive never heard of it til now
iggy still is queen of 2014 bye
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Originally posted by Willy.
But I never understood why it was alright for is to talk **** about celeb's but it's such a problem to insult other members.
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same.
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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
You've heard "Try Again," "One in a Million," "Are You That Somebody?," "Back & Forth" - each at least three times in your life.
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i'll listen to these later today and tell you if they sound familiar good nigt
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Lefsetz on Taylor Swift (I consider the video also quite good)
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Is this progress?
Once upon a time Taylor Swift became the biggest star in the world by testifying from the depths of her soul.
And now she’s soulless.
Shake it off? Isn’t this one step away from the rappers boasting how much better they are than us? I’d say this is tone deaf, but then the Swifties would bring up that song she wrote about me, how I excoriated Ms. Swift for her duet with Stevie Nicks on the Grammys.
But the truth is Taylor Swift was our best and our brightest, our cutting edge star. You don’t become the biggest star in the world by being phony, but honest.
You remember honesty, don’t you? It comes right after despair and right before laughter.
When Taylor Swift sang about being a geek, about having crushes, about being mistreated, we could all relate, because that’s the human condition. We’re all terrorized by intimacy, but there’s nothing we want more.
Now the video is excellent. Ms. Swift has put in her 10,000 hours, or at least 6k, she’s no longer geeky, she seems comfortable in front of the camera, she radiates charisma.
But what is her message here? That she’s untouchable?
Every day people e-mail me that I’m a shithead, believe me it gets to you, but that’s the price for playing. And if you play to the haters, you’re never gonna be embraced by the lovers. Because the lovers know life is hard and it’s easier to stay in the shadows and judge as opposed to play.
And Taylor Swift was most famous for playing. Not only music, but life.
That’s right, she became a national punch line for dating and writing about it, but isn’t the truth that she was living out the rock star fantasy? How come it’s all right for guys to become famous and utilize this to screw their fantasies but for some reason it was not cool for Taylor Swift?
She earned it. As for writing about it, she was young, and inexperienced in life, but that’s what her fans loved about her, her honesty.
And now she blinked.
She was working in that bastion of truth known as country music, now she’s just another faceless pop singer, boosted by Max Martin and Shellback. There’s no difference between her and Katy Perry and the rest of those young women backed up by the old men. They bought insurance. It’s as if your parents hired someone to take your SATs for you, so you could get into an Ivy. Sure, you achieved your goal, but don’t you feel crummy inside, isn’t there a telltale heart?
Then again, Taylor Swift never went to college, she never got to grow up outside the spotlight. She’s been stunted by her fame. Despite our Facebook/social media economy, the truth is most people are anonymous.
But the biggest stars are bigger than ever, like Taylor Swift.
Sure, she’s allowed to make her pop album. But if you consider 1989 to be a good year, you had to be born in it.
I’d prefer Taylor had gone into the studio with the late Gus Dudgeon, someone who could produce a sound to match her lyrics.
But those were the old days, when we bought an album to hear what the artist had to say, when the artists were clueless and didn’t even know if they had a hit, and the label couldn’t force them to record one.
It doesn’t matter. She’s got her deal with Keds, she’s winning at the only game America cares about, money.
But the truth is America is about its underbelly, the loneliness and heartbreak of being a number in this overwhelming world. Taylor Swift used to write about this. She was our best exponent. She was a hero.
Now she’s just a usual suspect.
And that’s sad.
We need hope.
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Member Since: 1/25/2012
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Am pretty sure despite a lead single that didn't even make Top 40 it did 200k first week, and went Gold before her death after 1 month of release. |
Exactly, she was flopping.  No point of getting catty.
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