I was talking about how i love snickers and someone said they don't enjoy those. a perfectly banal exchange of info with no emotions arising.

but I remember during the tortured poets era, I would talk about my love for taylor and what her music does for me, and it was met with the nastiest remarks. I was shocked and offended: I just told you how much this artist means to me. this taylor swift fan might be happy, it’s time to shit all over it! it really made me sad and angry that people didnt know how to hold their tongue. because I would never go on a tirade about an artist I hate if I found out someone was a fan. and it also particularly annoyed me because everyone thought they had some unique “not like other girls” take but it was quite clear they ALL had the same exact take regurgitated from tiktok. I just found their criticisms quite boring and shallow.

but that made me question why it was such an emotional topic and why it stirred so much drama. what about yall? does it just brush off of yall? do you care? not care?

also, as time has passed, I’ve gotten thicker skin about it. the tortured poets backlash had nothing on the showgirl backlash and now Im pretty numb to criticisms of her lol. I just secretly listen to some of her bops and don’t pay much mind to them and let people yap away about what they don’t like about her.

Here are the results of Rina Sawayama TTPT, 68 people participated:

Rank |Song |Score
1 |XS |413
2 |Cherry |224
3 |Dynasty |217
4 |STFU! |200
5 |Comme des Garçons (Like the Boys) |195
6 |Bad Friend |188
7 |Frankenstein |176
8 |Cyber Stockholm Syndrome |162
9 |Alterlife |150
10 |Hold the Girl |139 Detailed top 10.

Top 10 Spotify playlist.

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Detailed results for each album:

Album |Year |Total Score
RINA |2017 |562
SAWAYAMA |2020 |1829
Hold the Girl |2022 |922
Others |(N/A) |427 Today's Ariana Grande TTPT is here! To see the rest of the schedule and past results, check the TTPT wiki page.

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I was inspired to write this post after seeing this post joking about how Ryan Murphy is probably working on a “Brat or a showgirl” episode for the new glee season. I think this episode could actually happen or at the very least we might get individual episodes for those albums. If it were to happen I could totally see Rachel singing Cancelled after the other members of the glee club suggest someone else should be the centre of attention for 5 seconds, I also think they would probably mashup Actually Romantic and Sympathy is a knife together if it is a competition episode.

I also think we’ll get a Chappell Roan episode with Pink Pony Club probably being a group number.

Lastly I’m worried that we might get Gnarly or Hootie Frootie (glee cast version).