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Are we too hard on Normani (probably). Should people feel bad for talking about Kate Middleton (probably not)

🕑 Added 2024-03-25 19:54:00 +0000 UTC

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Marie

Middle America discourse is truly painful to listen to. It’s the jojo siwa is gay discussions like they’re truly just behind a decade in culture

ceeitrus

The thing with male hip hop culture is a lot of these new niggas are so quick to want to be seen as a “legend” instead of making good music so they’ll throw out any song or jump on any song to see what sticks, it’ll hit and then it’ll fall off in year, hip hop as an art is literally dying as an art form, now all niggas cares about is getting a hit and making connections to secure themselves in the industry so they never have to do anything ever again, which is fine and dandy in theory but what happened to the art, like y’all know how ppl would call pop nothing but a manufactured machine, that’s what rap has become, nothing feels genuine, hardly any of them can rap on beat let alone rap at all, and they all just looks like idiots, and it’s partly these record labels fault, they not getting actual talent, they’re getting ppl that have a look to market, and then the ones that are actually talented get overlooked

ceeitrus

The normani discourse kinda speaks to a bigger issue I have with artists these days where they announce work that’s not finished, the reason normanis roll out isn’t consistent is probably bc the albums not done, which begs the question why even announce an album in the first place if we have to wait another month for a single, on top of the fact she announced the album title and the cover with no date lolll like that’s unserious

Noel Chong

Predicting that eventually Kenya will become an early riser one of these years and hyper fixate on waking up early and realizing how many extra hours you can have to get things done in the day 😂

Elias A.H.

Kenya, you’re real journalist for Googling the artists signed to QC

Stephanie Feagin

Announcing an album at the end of February to tell everyone at the end of March that one, solitary single will be released at the end of April is HIGHLY unserious 😭

J Fizzle

Lash tech music I’m screaming!!!!

J Fizzle

Going to go see Megan ATL Night 1!!!!

T.H.

Okay some QC info: So HYBE America is the American arm of BTS' label's parent company HYBE. Hybe America actually acquired the QC label in a $300M+ deal under that nasty man Scooter Braun last February. So Coach and P are now in a "partnership" with Scooter. Idk much of the specifics but could that have played a part in the downfall?

T.H.

I got my tickets to see Megan in London which is the last show so it's going to be amazing!! Mind you I've already seen her twice, her first round of worldwide shows in 2019 straight off Fever in a small club and it was CRAZY (I was front row and we were going bar for barrrr!!!! Then she came back to London in 2022 and I saw her in a theatre of up to 4,900 capacity and she killed it!! Megan has been the queen of festivals since she popped out which at first i was like girl go on tour! but i appreciate it probably wasn't her time (and who knows, her label might have been holding her hostage) she was building her audience and practising performing so it's actually great in the long run! She is an entertainer to the core, she has great audience control which is super underrated as a performance skill

Rainy Feathers

Me a whole early riser: 🌅🤸🏾‍♀️. Love and prayers to Kate and I'll leave it at that🤷🏾‍♀️🚶🏾‍♀️

Reyhan

I am a night owl, I love being up all night. I hate mornings

Shady Tyrell

Normani should’ve dropped a surprise album.

Shady Tyrell

Not me chyle. I love anything monarchy related. To an extent bc I don’t think the monarchy should exist, but its existence as a dumpster fire of pretentiousness is entertaining as hell to me. Idk I’m a flawed individual.

Eboni Haynes

We in the exact same position for the Meg concert lol. My poor man.

Kayla Sanders

Especially when that 2018-2019 album got scrapped bc she didn't believe in what she was making. Do I think she was a bit of a perfectionist to a fault yes? Is she lazy? No. She's not gonna be like a Chloe and Halle and post on sm every week on stuff shes doing.

Ayomide Akinokun

The Normani comment is odd. She’s a hard worker who happened to have label issues and two parents with cancer. Life is not linear for everyone. Implying she’s lazy is not very nice.

Deeqamohxo

skylar

But I literally just said on a creator's video about rap girls that QC is at fault for the City Girl's standing right now. The creator said that them flopping is due to their social choices, who they align with, and their attitudes and persona. I just don't know how you can engage with them in any way and not see that QC is the reason that them and the rest of their artists are in a bad way. P obviously never had any plan for longevity for anybody on their label, even Cardi and the Migos. And now their artists are suffering for it.

skylar

I think Normani's team is unserious and this rollout is proof of that but the stans are screaming saying it makes sense so if they like it I love it. I just hope Normani's music is good because I love R&B but I hope she makes actual good R&B.

Sammy J

Currently suffering and insomnia spell too and I’ve an exam on Wednesday, fml. Very good points on Kate Middleton. I thought it was Gynaecological also a miscarriage too. The Danish monarchy had similar cheating rumours / weirdness last Christmas. The then Crown Prince & Princess (who’s Australian) had cheating / divorce rumours then their Queen of 50 years stepped down (health issues) & there was similar rumours she done it to save their marriage. Except for general royal gossip or Australian media, it wasn’t reported at all in English media. The Kate & William divorce story just felt like another verison of this especially as (the now) Queen Mary & Her get so compared.

Sammy J

I think she probably tried to cover up looking sick or something and because she was sick the PR people were like “whatever”. No one is going to argue with someone who’s going through cancer. I thought it was Gyno related or a miscarriage and Kensington Palace always said she wouldn’t be back until Easter….so the speculation seemed silly to me at the time

rudi!!!

I wish Normani announced the album (with a release date or some sort of timeframe) then quietly made videos using the 1:59 snippet w/o telling us a date right away. now she's getting set up for a lot of backlash if the song sucks or isn't 10/10 right out the gate. we won't rlly know until the full song drops (in a damn month), but we're so close to the finish line for the album, so I still have hope!

rudi!!!

I personally enjoyed the Kate Middleton news *because* it was so inconsequential and not-earth-shattering, before the big reveal, obviously. it's still just weird that the palace let Kate tell the lie that she edited that photo herself??? like, you already know she's unwell, why make her the butt of a joke when it's not needed??? that being said, wishing for a recovery bc she's p young and so are the kids, but we fought a whole ass war to not care *that much* about whatever the British royalty do, so whatever, I guess!!!

Kenya Moore

this title ate 😭 #tuned #in

Lavender1495

Hating yall HARD on who got meg tickets 😭

Jevaughn Williams

I am NOT an early riser. I’m a night owl who likes to wake up at 10 am. Thank GOD I WFH so it’s possible

Lavender1495

I’m an early riser by default 😭 because of work. Those were the days when I would be able to sleep until 10am😭

C

I don’t watch the show, but I look forward to Kenya’s reaction to the RHOP news.

JT

Kenya doooooooon’t piss me off — I got tickets to see Meg at MSG and thought I was gonna get another ticket for Tampa and that hoe sold out 🙃 happy for Meg, but HATE that for me

Noni Reynolds

lash tech music is the most perfect description I’ve ever heard like oh my god

Treena Mathieu

Lowkey missing being unemployed cause those 10 hours of sleep??? Life changing!

Vanessa Carlos

I’m both an early riser and a night owl but cannot stand the afternoon

Jasmine

QC did get acquired by hybe which is a kpop company, last year so that might be a big factor into their decline.

May May

I absolutely hate waking up early but one of my two jobs is loading box trucks at UPS at 3 am. I don’t think a single person has heard my voice in the year I’ve worked there. But my evening job as a server? You gonna hear my ass clean across the restaurant.