Fight Song is like Roar if Roar had had any genuine sentiment behind it and had something beyond that third-rate Dr. Luke cookie cutter Since U Been Gone formula. It feels more sincere and less focus grouped, and it's just hookier. Also the pop charts are stale at the moment and compared to last year's newcomers Rachel is BASICALLY Madonna.
Mess. Roar isn't even a good song, but I'd much rather listen to that on repeat than hear Fight Song once.
And not you calling it cookie-cutter when Fight Song is just that.
i hope this rachel platoon girl goes and releases a cute urban album full of bops bc this song is a disappointment. I'm tired of these boring girls smashing. I don't care about Meghan, Rachel, or whoever else is somewhat successul
I need a Britney, Gaga, Beyoncé, SOMEONE. I need someone new who will put on a show and make me excited. I need exciting new female artists in my life
The stans were truly spoiled back in 2007-2008 when Gaga, Katy, Rihanna, Beyoncé, AND Britney either debuted or came through with exciting eras. Nowadays, the pop scene is dry as hell.
I have SUCH a bad problem rn. Like I can't spend more than 2 hours being awake even though I have nothing going on in my life rn, this is like when I had depression only I feel happy now is this serious enough to go to the doctor over?
The stans were truly spoiled back in 2007-2008 when Gaga, Katy, Rihanna, Beyoncé, AND Britney either debuted or came through with exciting eras. Nowadays, the pop scene is dry as hell.
It's so bad. And none of the veteran exciting girls are smashing so it's just so... Boring. I hate these times where everyone is between eras. Well, everyone except for Ciara but tbh she's probably gonna get knocked up or engaged and pretend this era never happened like she's done with every album immediately following the release since Fantasy Ride.
Fight Song is earnest which helps it transcend its generic roots.
Honestly I think I mostly like it because Roar did nothing for me the first time around while it knocks a lil bit this time and I also really want female singer-songwriters to come back in some form. Of the last "wave" Sara Bareilles has all but vanished and Colbie Caillat sucked soooo bad so I'm kind of rooting for that to make a comeback. Also Rachel knocked She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named off the top so<3
It's so bad. And none of the veteran exciting girls are smashing so it's just so... Boring. I hate these times where everyone is between eras. Well, everyone except for Ciara but tbh she's probably gonna get knocked up or engaged and pretend this era never happened like she's done with every album immediately following the release since Fantasy Ride.
Yeah, I'm not expecting much for the next few months. It'll be a boring summer in regards to stanning.
It's so bad. And none of the veteran exciting girls are smashing so it's just so... Boring. I hate these times where everyone is between eras. Well, everyone except for Ciara but tbh she's probably gonna get knocked up or engaged and pretend this era never happened like she's done with every album immediately following the release since Fantasy Ride.
I remember hearing "Britney on GMA" and skipping school cause it was an event. I remember booking off the Billboard and American music awards to see Rihanna and Katy perform. And even before that in the 2000s performances meant something.
Now we sit and watch tv events like its nothing. Do we have high standards or are artists just not exciting anymore?
Katherine St Asaph: Female singer-songwriters, as ever, remain ignored by critics. And none are more ignored than pop songwriters, the ones whose words the most teens — and primarily teenage girls, let’s not sugarcoat — are loving or using or needing at any given moment. The media worships the 5 per cent of teens who find solace in insert-riot-grrl-indebted-buzzband-here while laughing at those whose solace comes from pop, rewriting the high school popularity order unchanged. Rachel Platten’s first pinned tweet goes out to everyone “Fight Song” has helped. This is still pop, mind, and Platten isn’t just a singer-songwriter but a major-label songwriter, who learned the craft from syncs and branding. “Fight Song”‘s titled like a pep rally but written to some Hunger Games specification (“it’s been two years, I miss my home” — I guess the Divergent series is about there in its plot), and its words of empowerment are as much talisman as viral seed; for every teen who gets through the day by playing and replaying their “Fight Song,” another few streams’ worth go into the penny jar. The track is equal parts hyper-professional polish — that “A Hundred Years” intro, pealing out over an empty homecoming stage, that “Roar” chant-along — and everygirl unassumingness: Platten’s somewhat wan voice, left quietly undertracked on the high notes and chorus, or that front-loaded “ocean/motion” rhyme. A certain sort of critic might be inclined to dismiss it all outright. But the scenarios Platten aims to ease — losing friends, finding rock bottom, and all before a driver’s license — are starkly, brutally non-fictional. Every generation complains that the generation after them is having a uniquely terrifying school experience, and yet: I was a senior in college when the myriad anonymous college “confession” sites took off; kids and adults never lacked for hate, but all of a sudden it was panoptical, a sludge-tide of public judgment that could turn at any moment upon you, and the more you checked the more you made it stronger. But at least those stayed on the computer; these days, kids carry them in their pockets and sleep with them in bed. Boyfriends turn unfriendly fast; girlfriends can betray you, but friendlessness can do it faster. When I was 15, all I wanted to do was raise a daughter; now the thought terrifies me, because I can’t reconcile loving someone and subjecting her to Girl World and her peers, who aren’t laughable but life-sized. All you can do really is look for counterbalances. They’re not all gonna be great, but ultimately I can’t fault this little song by an artist taking care of her own.
generious queen
is this serious enough to go to the doctor over? 
