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PaperclipPerfector  14hr ago (text post)   620 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for April 24, 2026

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I really can't come up with a clear answer to this. Pretty much anything by Tate McCrae or Sabrina Carpenter or virtually anybody else in this new generation of pop artists is about as aggressively painful as it gets, to be honest. After a while everything melts away into the same homogenised corpus of liquidised shit that is modern pop music. It's virtually all irredeemable, there's no sense talking about "worse" or "better" in such a context.

At least stuff that's unintentionally but parodically bad such as Liz Phair's lyrical and musical masterpieces (Bollywood, U Hate It) are fun to listen to, these songs can't even aspire to that.

Tate McRae's voice is so annoying. She's lucky she's hot.

I watched one video, and I'm still not sure how much of that is her voice. I know I should have gotten inured to modern over-AutoTuned production over the decades, but 𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮 I really don't think I'm strong enough! 𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮

She's got great taste in underwear, though.

She's got great taste in underwear, though.

Citation requested.

(I apologise, that was rather Reddit of me.)

My second YouTube search came up with the same top result, and far be it from me to refuse a polite request.

But I'm not making a third search. My kids occasionally use my YouTube account on our living room computer, and at some point I'd worry about the algorithm deciding that my current math/science/art balance needs more "art" and that my "artists" need fewer clothes.

If I turn the sound off this video could be very useful.

She's got that "heavy" kind of face that I'm really not a fan of.

I know what you mean by saying "heavy," but it's strange to look at photos of her face and be unable to identify what exactly the "heavy" is describing, or what a better description for it would be. Something about her jawline, nose, eyelids...?

Yeah, it's hard to define. I see this type most often among Jewish and Armenian women. I would define it as bored eyes, a long (vertical projection, not necessarily protruding) nose and a slightly slack jaw on a face that doesn't narrow perceptibly towards the chin.

She can look very different from photo to photo and I haven't seen her in motion, but she has a face like this on at least half of them.

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