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126 points

Good… but also I have no idea who that is 👴

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Right? Like random strangers shouldn’t be forced to real who they’d vote for, or pressured into political election related thingys…

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I know of Chappell Roan because she’s recently been ruffling people’s feathers by asserting boundaries against fans’ parasocial weirdness; I’ve never heard any of her music, but this alone is enough to make me a fan.

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She makes decent lesbian focused pop music. It’s fun to sing

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4 points

That H-O-T-T-O-G-O verse is such an earworm.

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29 points

Her music is infectious. Think 80’s Madonna if she were progressive, very lesbian, and even sadder and somehow more vengeful than Alanis Morissette

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9 points

that’s a hell of an endorsement; enough that i went and listened. not my thing. but overall seems chill.

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2 points

Did you listen to Good Luck Babe? https://youtu.be/1RKqOmSkGgM

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Here’s her NPR Tiny Desk Concert

https://youtu.be/w4WiXKGCJhg

Edit: her music video for ‘Hot To Go’ shot in her Missouri hometown https://youtu.be/xaPNR-_Cfn0

And for the Elton fans, her cover of ‘Your Song’ https://youtu.be/wslno0wDSFQ

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52 points

45 million monthly listeners on Spotify. That is 10 million more than The Beatles right now. 60th overall on the top list of plays just above Michael Jackson. Half the amount of TSwift

So they are a well known artist.

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It’s really sad to me that modern youths and others tend to only listen to streaming music services, paying subscriptions, listening to ads, not being able to choose what song they hear next.

Everyone should own some form of permanently usable media with the music they like on it. If bands were still putting out CDs I’d recommend that for long term storage, because my collection from the 90s is still working fine. But with smartphones being the king of all social control now, I’d recommend having MP3s of every song and album you enjoy. Store them in multiple places with backups. I have also been collecting those since the 90s. My music collection is awesome. I have hundreds of CDs and about 10000 MP3s that no corporation can deny me access to.

The only thing I like about streaming services is discovering new artists. But I don’t need it to do that.

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The big issue is that physical media degrades. A cassette tape wont sound the same as it did after just existing for 20 years. CD’s and Vinyl records if kept really well can last for 100 years or so but are delicate in other ways and a bad record player can cause permanent damage.

Preserving the experiences of others, art, media is important, but at the end of the day nothing we do is permanent. I know that thanks to online archives I can go and find old music if I need to. I am glad some folks preserve hard copies but a preserved collection isn’t really a functional one and a functional one isn’t really going to last 50 or 60 years at the same quality as what you can get from streaming.

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13 points

Oh, did the new Beatles album drop?

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I mean, using these spotify metrics in comparison with all time greats is kinda flawed.

For example my band sold just as many tickets as Michael Jackson and the Beatles COMBINED in 2024.

I am not in a band.

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This is why I used Spotify listeners and not plays or ticket sales or album sales. It’s a metric that doesn’t really require a band to be currently active. New hits will clearly improve the metric but we’re talking here specifically about a person’s outreach today and influence on a voting population.

The idea that more individual people listened to her music than had a single Beatles song in their playlist or a single Michael Jackson song in their playlist is pretty insane. I know I listen to at least one Beatles song a month, it doesn’t matter if it is new.

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28 points

Reminds me of when I asked who Bad Bunny was

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The only thing I know about Bad Bunny is someone responded to you about Happy Gilmore 2. Idk I’m out of all the loops so this chapel person is a non entity for me, unless one of my niblings mentions them.

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The only thing I know about Bad Bunny is that they… It? Is going to be in Happy Gilmore 2. I learned that a week ago, and this is as far as I’ve gotten. That’s more than I know about Chappell Roan, but I approve their message.

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12 points

Reminds me of when I asked who Pooborg Sea Cucumber was

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Oh thanks, NPR is really good at dumbing down pop music for me.

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