Chappell is amazing as usual

I still need more time with it to firm an opinion on some songs, but i already can say i love it! Marianne and Where Is Gone? are my favourites so far

i think it’s the first song of her i listened and thought “she’s cool!”

Would say the same, maybe because of the age gap. Yet many of her songs are earworms which I enjoy. And I love this collab with Robert Smith from her recent album: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=8cXUpBguRTA

Olivia Rodrigo is more metal than Metallica

W family

ah sorry, i misread it and thought you’re not familiar with their music

They have cool metal albums as well: Infect the Rat’s Nest and Petrodragonic Apocalypse. Also Omonium Gaetherium is hard to describe but it has metal elements

I got recommended them to start with, and they’re really the most accessible imo

As people mentioned here, most pop artists are solo now (even if they play with a band, like Billie Eilish with her brother Finneas). But there are some exceptions. From the ones I love:

• Magdalena Bay — amazing synthpop duo, heavy influenced by progressive rock.
• Chairlift — also a duo, were active in 10s, and unfortunately broke up, and Caroline Polachek started solo career.
• Florence + The Machine — do I even need to introduce them? Fantastic folk leaning pop legends.
• Femtanyl — hyperpop duo creating wildest music.
• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — very versatile Australian collective making music in many genres from psychedelic/progressive rock to trance and rap. They have lots of albums, but sounds on Microtonal Flying Banana, K.G., L.W., and Butterfly 3000 are pop I’d say.
• Turnstile — amazing hardcore/emo band with fire live shows. Pop in the wide sense.
• Gorillaz — yep, they are still alive and well. Making music in many genres, collabing with wide range artists. They dropped album The Mountain this year, with heavy influence of Indian and Arabic music.
• Geese — psychedelic rock band with funny catchy tunes.

I’m from Eastern Europe, 34 y.o., and i recognise Robbie Williams

that’s completely fucked up… it’s like in the most patriarchal societies

in the initial post that’s said “he confessed in rape”. that’s misleading, he didn’t. there might actually be the rape, yes. or he might take advantage of a young girl who fell in love with a rockstar. both disgusting but there are levels of shock you have while reading this: is the guy complete piece of shit or literal monster? i don’t think no one defends this guy here, people just got tired of clickbaits, they sound unmotivational. if someone stabbed another person, that’s already a problem, no need to use the word “butchered”. here using the term “statuary rape” would be perfect. i believe anyone in the community is already aware that there’s no such thing as “child consent”

Wait, in California it’s legal for an adult to marry a child now?

Legally, yes, but it paints a different picture. When you say “he raped a girl” first thing that people imagine is that he violently forced her to have sex with him. And that feels like clickbait. I’m not defending him, he’s a piece of shit. I just tired of clickbaits when they are not needed. It’s already terrible and there’s no need to exaggerate stuff

maybe it’s controversial, but i think people are tired of so many fucked up shit that’s happening now. and this behaviour (old people dating 18+ teenagers) doesn’t seem worthy to spend your resources to fight against. and i think it’s reasonable. ofc if there’s a close person who experienced that and suffered from such relationships, you need to support them. but if it’s like in the article, the girl says she actually prefers 2x old men, then i don’t think it makes sense to spend your energy to prove her wrong

again, i agree with what you’re implying but in the context of that comment “confessed that he raped 14 years old girl” sounds like a clickbait. it’s a difference between disgustingly terrible and even more disgustingly terrible but there is a difference

i understand what you mean, but “molested” is more correct term for that

To find new music I mostly look up charts at rateyourmusic.com and tops on bandcamp. To listen to more popular staff i use YT music because i share family yt subscription (you cannot say yt is ethical, but services like deezer or qobuz are better and also have popular stuff in their catalogue). To support smaller artists i buy their stuff on bandcamp, but actually you can listen to couple of times to an album before the website asks you to buy it. Some artists like King Gizzard and The Lizzard Wizzard have all their music there for free tho! Also, bandcamp disallow all AI music on the platform so exploring is safe. And i heard deezer marks AI content explicitly

Thanks, i was unclear in my wording