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REVIEWING THE CHARTS: 11/05/2024 (The Drake & Kendrick Beef Analysed in Detail. And Dua Lipa, I guess)

Yeah, yeah, Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, whatever, we have more pressing issues. Sorry to break the format again so soon, but I don’t really know in what other context I can talk about all of these outside of just dumping it all together so… consider this a prologue, perhaps. I’m cactus, and before we get to the rest of the chart, I guess it’s time to discuss the you-know-whos and whatever impact this has. If you don’t care, skip to the rundown.

Part I: Okay, but what does J. Cole think of all of this?

content warning: language, abuse

The songs did not debut in exact chronological order, so that’s why I’m separating this into a different section - it allows for a cleaner timeline of what’s actually going on and allows me to develop some more cohesive thoughts. I assume everyone reading this already knows what’s going on and has probably heard the tracks or most likely even consumed some opinion pieces on it before, and that’s why I’m not doing a stricter, review-format lyrical analysis like I would for any other lyrical rap songs that appears on the chart. There’s already so much out there, and so many double-triple-quadruple-quintuple entendres on both sides, some vile accusations plastered onto both mens’ legacies and crews, and a concerning amount of discourse surrounding all of it. Am I here to contribute to that discourse? Yes, but even this soon, it just feels a bit tired, right? Pitchfork had Alphonse Pierre writing incessantly about how much he hated it before any woman-beating or child-endangering allegations were in the fold. Rap beef existing in the 2020s, the “thinkpiece era”, I don’t know, it’s exhausting. That doesn’t change the quality of the tracks though, and even that has been discussed to death, including by me - in the past few months, I’ve already reviewed “Like That”, “Push Ups” and “euphoria”, as well as touching upon “6:16 in LA” - so I won’t be retreading my steps, I’ll be attempting to give my unique perspective outside of a timeline or rundown of events, gathering thoughts on ideas I don’t really see brought up as often.

So, where were we? When I last released an episode, it was Friday and the latest diss was Kendrick’s cryptic Instagram posts where he claims he has a mule in OVO feeding him information about Drake and his crew. He’d just dropped “euphoria”, one of the best diss tracks of all time, and whilst “Push Ups” was good, I don’t think Drake really had it in him to respond to such an evisceration. I half-expected him not to acknowledge “euphoria” at all, but sadly, he did, and famously, “meet the grahams” was released just half an hour later to squash the potential legacy of Drake’s new track, which was titled “Family Matters”. The popular consensus seems to be that if Kendrick hadn’t swooped in with something “Story of Adidon” level, Drake’s “Family Matters” would be considered an excellent diss track… and I completely disagree, that shit is trash. Here’s why.

“Family Matters” is a clear emulation of “euphoria” - if Kendrick can release his seven-minute multiple-part diss track, why can’t Drake? He spent as many days as he needed to curate a very similar song - no, I’m not saying Kendrick created the idea of beat switches or long songs, but when the two are dropped directly in relation to each other, it’s difficult to summise from that, that Drake isn’t coming to battle in a very similar way to Kendrick purposefully, using his formula and structure. The problem here is focus. Kendrick, since he’s only focusing on Drake, can outline his issues in such a streamlined and digestible way that offhand remarks are catchy and memorable but hit hard within the context of the full song. All three beats are given room to breathe and transition very smoothly into each other, and the first beat even predicts Drake’s moves over a jazz beat to make the track appear condescending, defining the song’s mood from the start. “euphoria” is a tightly-constructed evisceration of Drake, that Drake simply cannot come back from, because he isn’t fighting one side. He could shut up about everyone else and leave the bars to Kendrick, but he simply doesn’t have enough about Kendrick to do that for a substantially long amount of time, and if he comes back to “euphoria” with just a three minute diss track, he looks like a clown, not that he doesn’t already if he doesn’t acknowledge Rick Ross, Future, Metro, Rocky… or at least he thinks he would look silly not dismissing them, even though realistically, that’s what we all want him to be: focused, not spraying shots at people who no one legitimately wants to see win or fail. Like who cares if The Weeknd wins or fails a rap beef? He’s not even a rapper.

The beats don’t have any thematic purpose, the first beat is one we’ve already heard before, and whilst there are plenty of disses to chew on, a lot of it is actually just completely substanceless garbage. When he’s not repeating himself, he’s whining about how YG or whoever is ACTUALLY gang-banging as if YG wouldn’t hop on “Not Like Us” today. Sure, there’s menace in… the intro, because the only time Drake sounds energetic and venomous is when interrupting his mother - classy - but it’s weak apart from a few lines poking fun at his conscious personality which are somewhat funny if not just… strange considering Kendrick  being private leads to Drake spreading rumours regarding women and children on the idea that well, if Drake says it, everyone will believe it’s true! Also, it’s telling that Drake, after failing in “Push Ups” to prove he was a better rapper or a harder, more authentic image, all he has on Kendrick revolves around women, children and gay jokes towards The Weeknd. He spends damn near a whole beat out of the three on the side characters, which I know must have been, in Drake’s eyes, a demonstration of how he just doesn’t care about those guys… but you still rapped about them for a whole song’s length and the tightest bars come from that section, primarily because they’re easier targets. It also is pretty telling that Drake, who sounds increasingly bored over cheap beats the whole time, attempts to switch the “white boy” insult into a “white flag” wordplay but he still ends up saying “Ross callin’ me the white boy and that shit kind of got a ring to it”, without ever negating it in the punchline. He still ends up calling himself white. What is this?

Regardless, “Family Matters” debuts at #17 on the UK Singles Chart this week. It was produced by Boi-1da, Tay Keith, Fierce, Kevin Mitchell, Dramakid, Preme, Jordan Fox and… Mark Ronson of all people, who I assume had something to do with the third beat, since it’s the only one that actually sounds good. Minutes after Drake dropped, we get “meet the grahams”, produced by The Alchemist and well, it left a lot of people speechless. Once again, Kendrick goes for being condescending and systematic instead of the unfocused slop we get from Drake, directing his disses not for Drake initially, but directly addressing each member of his family. It’s not the most replayable in terms of its beat bouncing or having much in the way of a hook, of course, but it is villainous and deceptively straightforward in ways. The beat is basically one loop from Alc with basic but eerie piano and one of my favourite details in this entire beef: that yelping scream in the distance. For drumless jazz beats like this, those atmospheric intricacies are so necessary, and the instrumental break refrain that separates verses, something Kendrick would do again on the second track, is too cold. I’m not a lyrical analyst, I’m not a sociopolitical analyst, so here’s why “meet the grahams” makes J. Cole look like a fucking idiot, actually.

Cole stepped out of the beef before it got personal, probably because ScHoolboy called him up and said it wasn’t about rap, and since then, if anything, Kendrick has been slightly defending Cole in his raps whilst Drake has been dismissive and insulting. Again, telling! This should make Cole look smart, slick and the bigger man for apologising and not getting himself involved in the personal, frankly gross allegations made by both men against each other, and whilst we’d all like to hear Cole and Kendrick go back and forth on bars alone, what we got was much more impactful and cinematic, something that just wouldn’t fit Cole’s homegrown image. Whilst this is true on the surface, I beg you to go back to Might Delete Later after all of that. After all the talk about how he doesn’t take Ls, about how he’s taking everyone’s girl, about how his bars are like clips or whatever, all of his boast talk - and then he slides out of this beef before shit gets venomous. Then consider all his talk about how he can’t get cancelled like Dave Chappelle and how it’s all politically correct these days, and that trans… “fellas” are still pussies… given what’s been addressed here, with a back-and-forth by the two ACTUAL members of the big three involved essentially TRYING to cancel each other, the mixtape becomes dated and purposeless so quickly that it gives credit to its name. Cole has always seen himself as the “middle child” of rap, but really, his dichotomy isn’t between mumble rap and oldheads, it’s between being pretentious and anti-intellectual, simultaneously. At least Drake embraces that he is an asshole, which is the one reason to root for his character - I don’t like “Family Matters”, but it pretty effectively places himself as the villain of the story, at least if we’re willing to accept this as a narrative, and “meet the grahams” does an even better job at that than Drake could! Cole decided to align himself with the anti-intellectual crowd whilst being all intellectual about that approach, and let’s just say that when Kendrick is winning a beef, it looks really idiotic to be blissfully ignorant. I’m sure Cole has written a few songs about all of this, but what’s telling is that Kendrick and Drake will never delete these records, because they’re a cemented part of history in their careers and really, hip hop culture. I don’t like “Family Matters” or really, “Like That”, but there are moments in those tracks now iconic and quotable that Cole has completely lost out on. Drake got his ass handed to him, but it would be even more of a loss for him economically and in the media to delete those diss tracks. Kendrick, I would assume, somewhat regrets some of the statements made because his last album presented him as slightly above it all, and he does face an increasing number of abuse allegations now that whilst I’m sure he doesn’t sweat too hard, really aren’t great for you to have around. And sure, whilst Drake might be bringing up the size of his penis in “Family Matters” for no reason, the most homoerotic moment in this dick-swinging context might be the fact that Kendrick’s biggest song in years is focused entirely on another man’s sex crimes. Neither come out clean, but they come out with more dignity than the guy who thought he was hot shit and ended the beef with less streams, less name-drops and less tracks on his album because I bet you forgot, but he’s actually started to back track and delete the records. The only person to see this as a genuine stain on the legacy, a genuine piercing of the armour, is Cole, which is why he can’t be in that big three. Because he cares too much to prove he’s there in the first place.

On the UK charts, “meet the grahams” debuts at #28, but it doesn’t matter because the night after, he drops “Not Like Us”, a DJ Mustard banger, beats Drake at his own game and has people all across the world in clubs singing “OV-HOE”. It debuts at #10 and is co-produced with Sounwave and Sean Momberger, but the idea that Mustard is on the beat, giving Kendrick a classic West Coast banger to end out the beef whilst Drake is stuck with a myriad of identity-less tracks (ironically, one wherein he shouts out YG), is a diss in itself. Nobody cares about how much of this is true, if any of it is, because people believe that reckoning with that fact takes us out of enjoying music, which I think it’s silly but also a story for another day. I don’t idolise either of these guys - Hell, I preferred Drake’s last record to Kendrick’s - but through sheer lyrical dexterity and chess moves, Kendrick won the beef and shattered Drake’s PR statement of a comeback, “The Heart Part 6”, into pieces before it could even be rebuilt from the fragments of Drake’s pride. You can’t release a diss track that has you defending yourself against false allegations, if 1.) you yourself made false accusations and 2.) no one cares if the accusations are true, just who says them louder and harder, which is exactly why Kendrick knew “meet the grahams” wasn’t enough and that’s why he needed to drop the Mustard joint. Drake may be calculated, and a master manipulator, but he cannot out-guess the biggest hypocrite of 2015. And 2024. And maybe forever, I don’t know, he could drop something tomorrow. Now let’s shut my hoe ass up and review some charts.

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Part II: REVIEWING THE CHARTS

content warning: The Chainsmokers

So, Kendrick has four songs in the UK Singles Chart right now as a primary artist, which shouldn’t be allowed according to OCC rules normally, but I guess even the Official Charts Company just wants to see blood. As for the songs that actually dropped out of the UK Top 75, which is what I cover, after spending five weeks in the region or a peak in the top 40, we say farewell to “II MOST WANTED” by Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus, as well as Bey’s cover of “JOLENE”, “if u think i’m pretty” by Artemas, “Wasted Youth” by goddard. and Cat Burns (shame that one didn’t reach a higher peak, I really like it), “What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish and, perhaps most vindictively for this week, “H.Y.B.” by J. Cole featuring Bas and Central Cee. Ha.

We see two kind of inexplicable but also irrelevant returns with “Whatever” by Kygo and Ava Max at #74 and “As it Was” by Harold Styles at #41, but otherwise we do have a handful of notable gains, including “Mr. Brightside” by The Killers once again at #65, now the biggest song ever to never hit #1. It just never dies. Aside from that, there are boosts for Dua Lipa’s “Training Season” at #61 thanks to the album, more on that later, “Love Me JeJe” by Tems at #52 - a little detail I missed with the debut last week is that the phrase in the title was adopted from a well-revered track in Nigeria of the same name by Seyi Sodimu, which I thought was notable enough to consider sn error of research. Whoops. Put that in the corrections column. We also see “Slow it Down” by Bento Box at #23, some boosts for Kendrick as “Like That” with Future and Metro Boomin and, Ye I guess now, is at #20 whilst “euphoria” stalls at #11, and finally, Tommy Richman gets his first top 10 with the smash hit “MILLION DOLLAR BABY”. Really can’t complain.

As for our top five, it consists of “Fortnight” by Taylor Swift featuring Post Malone at #5, “Beautiful Things” by Benny the Butcher at #4, “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” by Shaboozey at #3, “Too Sweet” by Hozier and #2, and finally, for a second week, Sabrina Carpenter is at #1 with “Espresso”. We still have five new songs debuting this week that aren’t disses, so let’s have some fun with songs that hopefully won’t be as heavy, and we start where every good night of fun starts. With the Chainsmokers.

New Entries

#75 - “Addicted” - Zerb, The Chainsmokers and Ink

Produced by Zerb and The Chainsmokers

Zerb is a Brazilian DJ who’s found his way into a collaboration with everyone’s favourite duo The Chainsmokers and smooth R&B singer Ink, with a Joel Corry remix probably helping this one end up at the bottom of the chart here. Now I do like The Chainsmokers, but not necessarily their work with other vocalists, as they’re not nearly as willing to experiment when it’s not just the two boys embarrassing themselves. Ink, who really just sounds like a BTEC The-Dream on here, doesn’t command much of the track due to that wispy tone, but Zerb being on board probably helps the squibbling synths spiral into more of an intense, detailed drop that traces bassy future house amidst some genuinely weird and oddly full percussive elements and sound effects, especially that incessant shaker in the pre-drop. You can tell these guys are professionals, as the sound design is very intricate and makes so much use of its available space whilst not being too fluid or syrupy, it goes decently hard, and whilst Zerb may not be The-Dream, he gets close. And I like The-Dream. I like this too. It’s a jam. Give it a chance, it kept growing on me like a brain parasite as I was listening.

#71 - “Right Here” - Becky Hill

Produced by Chase & Status

Whilst rap rivalries are brewing, EDM DJ duos seem to be having a good week by sticking together - with Chase & Status on board, this is pretty much confirmed to be at least decent before taking a listen and, well, obviously it’s good. At this point, I might just like Becky Hill’s output overall, at least from this upcoming album, and the decision from the boys to position an 80s pop rock melodrama with the soaring synths and plastic guitar below an absolute rolick of drum and bass feels very much like a throwback to the dancefloor DnB era from the early to mid 2010s, and I may like more atmospheric drum and bass tracks a lot of the time but I’m not above some unabashed pop, and this really has the momentum and kick to justify itself. Sure, the mix is a bit awkward, but the same can be said for a lot of drum and bass, and it’s not like that genre has ever suffered from being loud or overwhelming, especially not in festival mood, and the layering of Becky’s belting over those classic 90s hardcore pianos is an interesting touch compared to what I probably would have done, drowned her in reverb and echo like they sometimes did back in the day. The explosive approach taken here backs up an already infectious hook and results in yet another damn good track by Becky Hill, which would be a foreign idea to me throughout the rest of my time doing this show.

#68 - “The Door” - Teddy Swims

Produced by Julian Bunetta and Ammo

I didn’t even think we’d get a second song from Teddy Swims, but I was wrong about that when it came to David Kushner, Noah Kahan and  that Boonetown Rat over at #4 so maybe this is just the year of the edged-up white boy. I still think “Lose Control” is okay, and in terms of pure singing process, Teddy’s got a lot more soul and presence than them. That’s really carrying this one though, and whilst the groove’s a solid throwback, the reverb dampens its impact and it sounds like he’s recording the whole thing from a cave, but not a vintage chasm like Spector’s best stuff, just… a small cave near a river or some swampland. The songwriting also feels a bit basic, it isn’t all too compelling and goes for some very typical tropes, predictable rhymes, even if the “oh no!” is a bit of a fun inflection. Bunetta and Ammo also don’t let the song progress much, even just from verse to chorus, it feels stuck. I figured that when that soaring disco string section came in, we’d get a proper bridge that made it all feel satisfying, but it does tampers off into a post-chorus and we get a basic repetition of the chorus again. If you’re going to try and replicate a vintage sound, at least show respect to how they composed their tracks too, not just cosplay within their soundfont.

#67 - “Risk” - Gracie Abrams

Produced by Aaron Dessner and Gracie Abrams

Producing for Taylor Swift is the best idea the Dessners had ever. Now these indie folksters are going to have labels calling for them to prop up their attempts at making pop stars - I don’t like The National, like… at all, but get the bag, guys, I prefer them over The Monsters & Strangerz, or God forbid Julia Michaels. The largely-failed Gracie Abrams experiment has been an industry push for five years now, but the daughter of film director J. J. Abrams finally has a hit of her own and… okay, maybe calling her “own” hit was a misnomer, because this has O-Rod and T-Swift written all over it. You could genuinely run the whole thing through a Taylor Swift AI filter and I’d believe you, I imagine this is like hearing the track the “Heart on My Sleeve” guy recorded before he put the Drake effect on. It has Olivia’s wordy teenage anxiety and acoustic tones, but to be fair, Abrams is a lot more optimistic than her inspirations, with her breathy pleading that this relationship is going to work out over acoustic guitars that don’t feel relentless,  but do feel like they never end, just keep going, and the song keeps on adding elements that don’t stop them or alleviate the anxious playing at all. The same thing can be said about Gracie’s vocal take, or the wonky synth subtly placed into the chorus - classic Dessner - and the little lyrical details that make this feel as real as it does - if she’s invested, then damn, so am I, it feels like my friend is rambling or venting to me about the “tea” as the kids say and I’m on the edge of my seat. Surprisingly enough, of all things that sold me on this ballad, it’s the intensity, and the drums ramping up by the end into a rolick makes me forgive how derivative this feels… mostly because it’s doing a better job at this sound and concept than Swift is, statistically, half of the time, and emulates O-Rod’s youthful authenticity a bit less obnoxiously than she typically pulls. I know that’s a feature, not a bug, but I still prefer when it’s patched out. Excellent song.

#40 - “These Walls” - Dua Lipa

Produced by Danny L Harle and Andrew Wyatt

I wasn’t over the Moon with Radical Optimism the way I was with Future Nostalgia, mostly because outside of a nice vibe, the songs felt artifically short, awkwardly constructed and not nearly as adventurous or even cohesive as the people involved, or “Houdini” as a lead single, would have suggested. I wrote about her latest #1 album more at length on my RateYourMusic listening log - account name’s exclusivelytopostown, check it out if you care - but this was an obvious choice for the next single, because it’s one of the album’s tightest, with that psychedelic guitar lick blossoming amidst a mixture of trinkling keys before we slap right into an actually fittingly stiff pop rock groove, with a nice, subtle crunchy drum fill in the mix that I find a really interesting, distorted inclusion. It really helps the song feel claustrophobic and fed up, as the content is about the pre-empting of a breakup wherein both Dua and her partner are stuck in a frustratingly disappointing relationship where the love just… isn’t really there anymore, but they don’t want to face the reality of separation because that might be harder to grapple with than just keeping silent. For once on this album, the bridge doesn’t feel smashed in post-haste, Hell, it might not even need a bridge, and Harle’s attention to detail is on full display here, as the post-chorus keeps the dissonance going by making Dua just slightly off-key, it’s brilliant. A very tightly written and composed pop song, as well as possibly the record’s most vulnerable and honest moment, in an album that otherwise coasts off vibes. I definitely think this one could help a great deal with the record’s success later down the line.

Conclusion

Whoo, that was a lot, huh? Well, Best of the Week goes to Kendrick Lamar, obviously, for both “meet the grahams” and “Not Like Us”, but it was closer than you’d expect for Gracie Abrams who takes the Honourable Mention with “Risk”. This was actually a pretty great week overall for song quality, at least within the new tracks, so despite Teddy trying to hold his ship together, it still sinks and grants him the Dishonourable Mention for “The Door”. As for the Worst of the Week, I’d say I feel bad for Drake considering he got destroyed this week already but if what Kendrick is saying is true, I think I’d rather not say I feel bad for him at all. And if what Drake is saying is true… well, let’s just say “Family Matters”. Thank you for reading, rest in peace to rock engineering legend Steve Albini, Eurovision next week, and I’ll see you then.

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I hate it here (a lot less when I’m with you) | OP81 x Reader

Summary - Reader just got out of a mildly toxic relationship and released a song about what her coping mechanism was during that time, but when her new relationship gets leaked by the paparazzi, she decides to show off her new favourite person.

Warnings | Mentions of a past toxic relationship/ breakup, swearing

FaceClaim | Gracie Abrams

Requested | Yes - No

Type | SMAU

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Yourusername | Long Pond Studios has always been a place where I’ve let my emotions and feelings guide my songwriting completely, every song that I’ve written and recorded in this place has been a complete raw reflection of my feelings, and I’m forever grateful that I can trust you enough to share them all with you without the slightest moment of hesitation. That’s why, I’m surprise releasing my brand new song, ‘I hate it here’ now. This song is about a method I’ve used to cope for the past few years of my life when I wasn’t in the best situation, and I hope that it will help any of you who are or were in the same situation I was. This song was made with my soulmate of a collaborator, chosen friend, found family of mine, Aaron and were so incredibly proud of it and we can’t wait for you to hear it. Sorry for being away for so long, I love you 🤍

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User1 - OMFG SHES ALIVE !!!

User2 - ONLY TOOK FIVE MONTHS TO CONFIRM YOU’RE ALIVE AND BREATHING

AaronDessner - My favourite one together so far 🤍

Yourusername - Love you forever 🤍

User3 - WTFDYM ‘I HATE IT HERE’ EXPLAIN?

User4 - GO LISTEN TO IT ITS SOOOOOOOOOO GOOD

User5 - A SURPRISE DROP? WE’RE SPOILED

User6 - When Aarons a co-writer AND the producer, you know for a fact the song will change your life (and make the therapy bill triple)

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User7 - Girl don’t apologise

User8 - FR like she gets cheated on, takes a brake and then apologises to us 😭 like girl it’s okay

JackAntanoff - *Alexa play Traitor by Olivia Rodrigo*

Yourusername- Your times coming synth man 🤫 LOVE YOU STILL

User9 - WDYM HIS TIME IS COMING YOU CRYPTIC WOMAN

User10 - “I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind.” That’s all I have to say.

User11 - Y/n could write Romeo and Juliet but Shakespeare couldn’t write I hate it here

User11 - “I place you need a key to get to, the only one is mine” girly I hope someone makes you want to make a copy one day

Yourusername - God I love you lmao

User11 - OMFG Y/n loves me I can die happy

User12 - “tell me something awful, like you are a poet.” BC HE ALWAYS PAINTED HER BLUE SKYS THE DARKEST GREY, RUINING HER DAY BY TELLING HER AWFUL SHIT LIKE HES A TORTURED POET !!!!!! (I knew Coney Island wasn’t fictional you fucking delusional people, no one in a happy relationship writes that shit 💕💕💕)

User13 - “This man made me feel worthless.” Y/EX/N ISTG WHEN I FIND YOU. COUNT UR MINUTES

User14 - “I'm lonely but I'm good, I'm bitter but I swear I'm fine” bitch where did you find my diary

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Yourusername - I’m sorry who’s this woman debuting at no.1 on the billboard hot one hundred? My god it is me, I can’t believe this, I love you I love you I love you thank you so so much from the bottom of my heart, I mean it, I really do. MY GOD I LOVE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU. (And my baby with her first top ten entry, I love you Sabby, Go stream espresso, it is that sweet 🤍💕) OKAY ONE LAST THANK YOU. 💕🤍💕🤍💕

Okay I lied but being among names like Beyoncé, Ariana Grande, SZA and Kendrick Lamar is one of the biggest honours ever, I’m huge fans of them all and to be in the same space as them is an honour no words can express, I love you all, the most caring sweet fans on the whole planet 💕💕💕💕

(And yes, it was a reference to a physical key, this is it)

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User14 - We made the right one famous guys

User15 - I’m actually crying, when did she stop being our little secret

SabrinaCarpenter - My biggest fan 🩷

Yourusername - Your biggest fan 🩷

User16 - Oscar in the likes for what?

User17 - Who?

User18 - Oscar Piastri, he’s a 23 yr old f1 driver

User19 - What is vroom vroom boy doing here

AaronDessner - Truly blessed to work with you

Yourusername - I’m the blessed one don’t even

User20 - Only y/n could send a five minute long, slow, alt pop song with a main piano background, basically a depressing lullaby bop, to number one above all these TikTok songs

User21 - She’s actually adorable

OscarPiastri - Been on repeat!

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User22 - UM HELLO WHAT ARE U DOING HERE LITTLE ORANGE MAN?

User23 - This is all bc of me btw

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Celebrity.updates - NEW COUPLE!!! Fast upcoming pop star, Y/n Y/l/n (21) seen out late at night on the streets of London with Formula one driver, Oscar Piastri (23), according to the source of these pictures the two were laughing and running around the streets together, when Oscar caught up to her and hugged her to him and kissed her. Rumours say that Y/n met Piastri through her ex partner who’s an engineer for f1 team Alpine, the pair seem to be quite smitten and loving with each other. What’s your thoughts on this?

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User25 - WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN

User26 - Posting these photos is bad enough, but tagging them in it is crazy

User28 - Neither of them have even been hinting at a relationship at all, they clearly didn’t want anyone to know yet

User29 - Can’t these sickos just let them live, they’re people too

User30 - Whoever took these is messed up

User31 - They do look rlly happy together though

User32 - The fact that her ex is an alpine engineer makes this situation so much more funny and interesting

SabrinaCarpenter - You’re actually disgusting

User33 - TELL THEM SAB

User34 - The fact that she’s not even wrong

User35 - the fact that she defends Y/n with no hesitation

User36 - The friendship we all need in our lives

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Yourusername - I hate it here a lot less when I’m with you 🤍 my favourite polite cat xxxx

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LandoNorris- Finally. The pair of you at the paddock hiding in MY divers room bc you were scared someone would see you in Oscar’s. Sigh.

Yourusername - You love me

User37 - OH MY GOD

User38 - I need to know the bears name

OscarPiastri- She named him Gerald

Yourusername - Don’t sound so disgusted, that’s our son

OscarPiastri - Sorry baby

User39 - Hysterical

OscarPiastri - My favourite smiling dog 🤍

Yourusername- Excuse me did you just call me a bitch

OscarPiastri- NO I DIDNT MEAN IT LIKE THAT

User40 - The dynamic is already everything to me

User41 - Even his GF knows he’s a polite cat

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[marblegroves]

Lil comic redraw ft. Abalone and his impulsive thoughts

Based off of the SU comic by lamar abrams ^^

[sophiesonlinediary]

Soph | She/Her | Minor

sofia coppola enthusiast | pinterest whore | future f1 wag | taylor swifts cat | gracie abrams bow | maisie peters gf | fellow sza worshipper | sabrina carpenters unsent email | irl rom com girl | lyra kane and grayson hawthornes child | #1 melodrama girl °:

fandoms

music -> taylor swift, gracie abrams, conan gray, maisie peters, renee rapp, sabrina carpenter, lizzie mcalpine, olivia rodrigo, billie eillish, arctic monkeys, kali uchis, frank ocean, lana del rey, tyler the creator, ariana grande, madison beer, noah kahan, sza, the weeknd, paramore, tate mcrae, marina, mitski, laufey, pinkpantheress, raye, dove cameron, beabadobee, tv girl, karol g, justin bieber, fiona apple, kendrick lamar, lorde

books -> the inheritance games trilogy, once upon a broken heart trilogy, percy jackson and the olympians, gallagher girls, heist society trilogy, embassy row trilogy, the cruel prince trilogy, keeper of the lost cities, the naturals trilogy, a good girls guide to murder trilogy, the grandest game trilogy, powerless trilogy

series / movies -> mamma mia, boy meets world, la la land, tangled, how to lose a guy in 10 days, the notebook, little women, the summer i turned pretty, she's the man, the princess diaries, chronicles of narnia, obx, stranger things, the virgin suicides, priscilla, marie antoinette, gossip girl, gilmore girls, all marvel projects

currently reading: Reckless by Lauren Roberts

currently watching: How I Met Your Mother

current listen: powerless playlist

other accounts: @melodramaticatheart, @evelaughlin, @thegoodwitchcoven, @soph ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪

personal tags: #sophie's diary entry #soph’s asks ᡣ𐭩 #tofu's never ending playlist #the archive ᡣ𐭩 #soph writes 𝜗𝜚

honorary core 4 mention: jas(mine), nadsies aka oompa loompa, and emsies my flower 💘

also ofc my platonic soulmate for life the blair to my serena kaela <333

18+ dni unless i interact first. if you are rude you will be blocked.

intro and header made by me !

[wake-up-and-face-the-sun]

Yo! I was wondering and wanted to ask what your voice hc for TWS (or for any of ur Collector OCs) is?

Voice HC’s!! This was both fun and excruciating.

Aelius - Kelly Sheridan

Primus - Sean Chiplock

Primula - Arleen Sorkin

The Wailing Star - Mackenzie Foy

Nebula - Lamar Abrams

Betelgeuse - Jena Rundus

Betelgeuse - Jena Rundus

[silly-little-gooses]

the inheritance games characters most streamed artists!

not in any particular order

Avery - Lana Del Rey, Steve Lacy, Taylor Swift. I’m not sure why, I just feel.

Jameson - Arctic Monkeys, Chase Atlantic, Mitski. I have no words, he has great taste.

Grayson - Laufey, Tchaikovsky, Frank Sinatra. When he’s not listening to classical music, he’s definitely a jazz guy.

Nash - Morgan Wallen, Keith Urban, Taylor Swift. He likes the subgenre of ‘dad country music’ but is also a huge Swiftie.

Xander - Tyler The Creator, The Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar. He’s a rap guy, his brain moves too fast for anything else.

Max - Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter, Tate McRae. She’s an it girl.

Libby - Paramore, Blondie, Joan Jett. She likes a very wide range of rock and metal music. I like rock but I’m not super into metal which is why I don’t have any artists up there lol.

Rebecca - Clairo, Gracie Abrams, beabadoobee. She likes soft indie music but she also has a lot of pent up rage…

Thea - Phoebe Bridgers, Rihanna, Noah Kahan. It makes sense in my head.

if you have any song recs, pls give them! I want to know what kind of music you guys like.

byeee!

[st4rswrld]

No one can convince me my taste in music is not top tier.

Drake, PND , Tyler the Creator , Jhene Aiko , Future , Rod Wave , Kendrick Lamar , Brent Faiyaz , Bryson Tiller , Frank Ocean , Dominic Fike , Steve Lacy , Hotel Ugly , Lana Del Ray , Summer Walker, J Cole , Giveon, Kehlani, Daniel Ceaser , Artic Monkey , SZA, Gracie Abrams , Taylor Swift (some of her songs don’t come for me).

You might as well just surrender the Aux when i hop in ur car.

[marielle-heller]

since people on here are talking about rap and how it's a lot more diverse than people give it credit for, I thought I'd add that a really wonderful source of information on the genre from its formation to ~around~ present day is the book The Come Up by Jonathan Abrams. especially if you want to get a taste of just how WIDE the scope of rap can be, I actually compiled a list of every song mentioned in the book that I could find on spotify (it's about 300 songs and admittedly includes a few non-hip hop songs that influenced other songs and were sampled in them)

obviously you're not likely to enjoy every single song. I didn't, but then I made a new, shorter playlist of the songs I did like, and I suddenly had a huge wealth of hip-hop history at my fingertips that I felt like I could really connect with and enjoy. it's there, trust me! especially if you listen to the whole thing you will hear how much it changes. you will be able to identify different sub-genres that may or may not be your taste. from there you could dig more into an artist or try googling "songs like" a particular one you enjoyed

I'll also note that like. definitely this is a bit lacking in female artists. I haven't read it yet but I do have a copy of God Save the Queens: An Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop by Katy Iandoli which is a good recommendation if you're looking to focus on women within the genre.

but it is a start, and it is worth checking out to educate yourself if you've never liked hip-hop. I thought I wasn't the biggest fan for a long time, and then I realized I just didn't love what I was hearing in the current mainstream. there's a lot of older artists I really connected with, and I've even been able to find some more current songs I enjoy.

this is also by no means an exhaustive playlist! these are songs that, for whatever reason, in context, were chosen to be mentioned in this book. there are definitely other amazing ones that didn't come up for whatever reason (for example, and maybe because it is a bit more focused on the history, Kendrick Lamar actually does not appear on the playlist). but I encourage people to check it out if you think you might be interested in rap. and especially if you're interested in rap beefs, there are several highlighted here. sorry to Queens but I really enjoy "The Bridge is Over" by Boogie Down Productions which is like a diss track on the whole borough </3

anyway, just thought I'd throw this out here. hopefully someone enjoys it! thank you

[orphicdreamers-wp]

★ Meet Bea Drysdale ★

full name;

phoebe maeve drysdale

nicknames;

bea(pronounced bee), pheebs, little drysdale, ms drysdale, ballerini

birthday;

january 14th 2005(19 currently)

face claim;

candela gallo

family;

jamie drysdale(older brother) charlie drysdale (older brother) gary drysdale(father) tina drysdale(mother)

friends;

trevor zegras, luke hughes, olivia rodrigo, tate mcrae, kenzie ziegler, gianina paolantonio, xochitl gomez, jules leblanc, sturniolo triplets, madi flippwicz, lauren orlando, hali’a beamer, rylee arnold, bronny james, paige bueckers, kk arnold, azzi fudd

relationships;

connor bedard (ex boyfriend) beckett sennecke (boyfriend) luke hughes(kissed once & had a crush on) bronny james(ex boyfriend) kk arnold(ex girlfriend) landon barker(ex boyfriend/ex situationship)

birth place;

toronto, canada

occupation;

dance teacher & owner of dance studio

height;

5’7

sexuality;

pansexual

personality;

bea is extremely extroverted like trevor once lost her in target and found her on the opposite end of the store talking to an older couple. she’s the epitome of a sister needing her brother she and jamie are inseparable until he moves to philly, she’s self critical of herself, she’s a definite mom friend and she moms the girls in her dance studio.

habits;

one of her worst habits she has from her time at ALDC she still struggles with dealing with her emotions healthily. she picks her hangnails if she sees them. she can never have her nails done, she’ll bite them off within 2 days. her eyeliner has to be perfect, she’ll redo it 5 times to get it perfect.

likes;

tacos, romance novels, lemons, self care, yoga, meditation, gilmore girls, flowers, dark chocolate, sunsets, greek yogurt, indian food.

dislikes;

oranges, drawing, muscle spasms, mustard, airplanes, white chocolate, the color brown, sunburns, tomatoes, red apples, male podcasts, her old dance teacher

hobbies;

crocheting, baking, painting, surfing, doing hair, gardening

miscellaneous facts;

- she was on dance moms, she was as abby referred ‘her backup maddie’ jamie never appeared on the show(that’s how beckett never knew she was jamie’s sister)

- she can still do every single solo she had on the show.

- she opened a dance studio 5 blocks away from the ALDC studio in LA because she left in season 5.

- she can speak english, spanish, greek, latin, dutch, french, italian and she knows ASL.

- she was a dancer for taylor swift’s first US leg of the Era’s Tour. Trevor was jealous

- she’s an aspiring actress

- she taught jamie, trevor, jack and cole caufield how to line dance when she was 15.

- she did red carpet interviews at the met gala & she met dua lipa & dylan minette making jamie jealous because he loves dua & the wallows.

- she had the biggest crush on luke hughes when she was like 13-16 and luke kissed her on her 18th birthday.

- she dated connor bedard and they broke up the night of his NHL draft (he dumped her)

- she runs a secret wholesome fan account for jamie (there will be a blurb about that)

- her first concert was one direction and she refused to go to another concert until she could see zayn in concert (she failed but she was adamant about that she was 9)

- her first crush was on lorelai gilmore!

- her first kiss was with kendall from dance moms! they pecked each other on the lips.

-her name was almost rosalyn

- she broke up with Landon because he got her name tatted

- the release of hot girl summer by meg thee stallion & nicki is moved to summer of 2023 and bea’s in the music video

- she’s a total cat mom

- she has her beauticians license and occasionally does hair.

- she used to do kk and azzi’s hair

style;

aesthetic;

favorite artists;

- gracie abrams

- chappell roan

- megan moroney

- billie ellish

- lana del rey

- sabrina carpenter

- eminem

- kendrick lamar

- rihanna

- miley cyrus

- glorilla

-sza

[moncherriis]

ABOUT ME

im not AT ALL affiliated with ava (mattsneezjng on TIKTOK) i am my own person, account, etc. i have never liked or interacted with her, i don’t like her or support her in any way! i just liked her username, thank u !!

old username mattsneezing

my name is dylan!

im from the us, i live on the east coast

i’m 19

i’ve been a fan of the triplets since around nov 2022 !

my fav color is pink

i love music so so much (dominic fike, taylor swift, nessa barrett, kendrick lamar, eminem, olivia rodrigo, tyler the creator, gracie abrams, sabrina carpenter, ariana grande, and more)

my fav tv shows : shameless, obx, jessica jones (literally like all i’ve watched in the last year)

i LOVE reading too, one of my fav series is the gggtm series by holly jackson

i can’t write for shit 😭😭 so i’m sorry i won’t be writing fics!

who i read abt :

🎀 matt + chris sturniolo

🎀 nathan doe

🎀 finnick odair

🎀 peeta mellark

🎀 tom holland + his characters

🎀 vinnie hacker

🎀 ross lynch

🎀 dominic fike

🎀 dally winston

🎀 sodapop curtis

🎀 johnny cade

🎀 ponyboy curtis

🎀 timothée chalamet

🎀 jj maybank

🎀 pope heyward

🎀 rafe cameron

[blueballsracing]

thank you @ocontraire and @albonoooo for the tag <33

rules: pick a song for each letter of your url and tag that many people (my url is so long bye)

B: blowing smoke by gracie abrams L: loml by taylor swift U: us by gracie abrams and taylor swift E: euphoria by kendrick lamar B: break my heart by dua lipa A: already over by sabrina carpenter L: lacy by olivia rodrigo L: lonesome by sabrina carpenter S: skinny dipping by sabrina carpenter R: red wine supernova by chappell roan A: afterglow by taylor swift C: casual by chappell roan I: i wish i hated you by ariana grande N: not like us by kendrick lamar G: good luck babe by chappell roan

no pressure tags!! sorry if you've been tagged twice or don't wanna do it: @saviour-of-lord @wisteriagoesvroom @starlightiing @sweatyflytrap @generalsupervisionsucks @elevenvolcanoes @harvsbian

[latibvles]

FANCAM TAG

thanks @wexhappyxfew & @hesbuckcompton-baby for the tag <33 i had a whole lot of fun with this. as a video editor this was very fun to think on. also please ask me meta questions they’re so fun. will be tagging @xxluckystrike , @upontherisers , @shoshiwrites , @mercurygray & @derry-rain for this >:) ( no pressure )

Rules: Pick 5 songs you think would be used for fancam videos if your OC was canon and tag 5 people.

—

the archer - taylor swift ; the bridge but it’s viv’s stalag spiral over not being able to do much of anything in the stalag.

tough love - gracie abrams ; mouse hole girls being cute! it’s what we deserve. “no chance I waste my 20s on random men not one of them is tougher than all my friends.” :)

like that - future, metro boomin, kendrick lamar ; sexy viv edit. plot twist from buck / rosie / bucky to viv. “fuck the big three it’s just BIG ME!” for y’know . feminism.

i wanna be yours - arctic monkeys ; that edit trend but it’s june and benny and every time he’s making heart eyes at her onscreen. it’s that serious.

softly - clairo ; cute Carrie edit. BABY FAWN WHO NEEDS HER CHEEKS PINCHED!

honorable mention : willie getting back in the pilot’s seat to daddy’s home, a-la-this style

[french-toadt]

✶ ayisa | 15 | she/they | bi | ghanaian-british | tennis lover | crocheter | violinist | pianist | guitarist | photographer | travel enthusiast | humanitarian activist | graphic designer

✶ things i love: music | books | photos | rain | avocados | tennis | beaches | graphic design | fruit | my mutuals <3

✶ music: noah kahan | billie eilish | tems | cleo sol | sza | paramore | beyonce | megan thee stallion | dominic fike | sabrina carpenter | tyler, the creator | jon bellion | kendrick lamar | ayra starr | infinity song | tyla | frank ocean | gracie abrams | taylor swift | hozier | remi wolf | kanye west | kali uchis | jack harlow | little simz | central cee | sampa the great | lizzy mcalpine | victoria monet | berlioz | zach bryan | jesse ware

✶ movies + shows: spiderverse movies | little women (2019) | howl’s moving castle | heartstopper | only yesterday | 13 going on 30 | heartbreak high | don’t worry darling

✶ socials: pinterest | spotify | pronouns.page | ask for insta/discord

✶ dni: homophobes | transphobes | sexists | racists | pro ed | pro sh

send me a message anytime. love ya!

[ugotcooneycrossed]

yeahhh tell me some of ur fave songs 🫶🏻 my playlists need a refresh badly

okay so i listen to alot of music and ive got so so many playlists but id say these are my favs atm and some of my all time favs

the only exception - paramore

female energy, part 2 - willow

literally the entire 'CTRL' album by sza

taylor swift!! (folklore esp ✊) (actually the holy trinity taylor-lorde-lana del rey)

HOZIER 😩✊

FLEETWOOD MAC ✊✊😩

bags - clairo

amoeba - clairo

night shift - lucy dacus

cool about it - boygenius

japanese denim - daniel caesar

she wants my money - dominic fike

running - nicotine

i know why the caged birds sing - nicotine

sweet - cigarettes after sex

every breath you take - the police

kiss me - six pence none the richer

linger - the cranberries

lover you shouldve come over - jeff buckley

sweet disposition - the temper trap

use somebody - kings of leon

death of a phone call - whatever, dad

oh! tengo surte - masayoshi takanaka

bloom - the paper kites

for emma - bon iver

heading south - zach bryan

everywhere, everything (with gracie abrams) - noah kahan

stick season - noah kahan

northern attitude - noah kahan

homesick - noah kahan

6 weeks - beach bunny

tummy hurts - renee rapp

poison poison - renee rapp

into the blackhole - HOAX

father time (ft sampha) - kendrick lamar

count me out - kendrick lamar

duckworth - kendrick lamar

all falls down - kanye

devil in a new dress - kanye

no more parties in la - kanye

hey - pixies

mr. grieves - pixies

santeria - sublime

cherry waves - deftones

LMAO i do have classical music recs too if you want