Sabrina Carpenter: "I don’t think pop music would exist if it wasn’t for the queer community"

Don't forget "Boy, you've been a naughty girl You let your knickers down"

Bukkake Anthem

"with a little help from my friends"

Strawberry Fields is a little fruity.

And according to him when they were all nearing climax Lennon would start bringing up Winston Churchill to kill the mood.

A real circlejerk

Likely thing for Ringo to be into

can’t wait to see that in the upcoming biopics

Well, to be fair, who hasn’t sat around with three pals and pulled it to the queen of England?

Drugs make people do a lot of weird things.

That’s actually more common than you think for older generations, when they were young. Masturbation material wasn’t so private on your personal device. It was limited to one magazine or VHS and often viewed with a group of friends.

Now the name the “beat”les makes sense.

No wonder they’ve got blisters on their fingers

Homies need hand jobs sometimes.

He wore a rhinestone outfit with a cape and platform boots.

Elton here...go back over your yellow brick rainbow

I read a John biography that heavily theorized he was in love with Stuart Sutcliffe

And according to my grandfather "they had those lady short haircuts...".

It was the 60s

Out of the 100+ replies I got, yours is my favorite.

I was gonna say, I’ve always understood most of the linguistic pipeline starting with black people, then adopted by queer people, then white women, and finally white men who inevitably ruin it for everyone.

Exactly. So much black American dialect is adopted by queer communities and white people. I can’t take American linguistics conversations seriously if they don’t immediately note the African American origins of so much of modern language.

She was asked a question directly about the influence of queer people in pop music 🙄

There would be no modern pop without The Beatles and acts around or before their time. 

Disco was black as hell - not gay as hell. Black artists were producing a shit ton of disco and funk. Also - most slang is just AAVE being gentrified pretending they invented it. Unc Bye Felicia Woke Fucked around and found out Unc, never meant “uncool” its literally short of uncle. Bye Felicia - a line from a classic BLACK movie Woke - it never meant DEI, it was about being aware of social injustices FAFO - was usually an old person letting you know bad choices were made. Specifically old men letting you know something stupid was done. Young white people are really good at erasing people of color from the art they created. Madonna’s first hit was produced by Nile Rogers from Chic - a black dude! Pop music wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for white people with ears apparently.

Yeah but if we broaden it up like that, then it can apply to pretty much any group you can think of. It’s just the statement a bit vapid and meaningless. Just using the right words to get the goal. I really don’t want to call it virtue signaling (not you, the OG statement) becuase that’s a whole can of worms, but it kinda is?

>techno had influences that came outside of Detroit Like Berlin?

Fuel and Heat are the other parts of the combustion triangle.

Not really as a catchy on the Coachella main stage.

that's the thing that's weird about people that still insist "pop" just means popular, there are people that make music that sounds like Sabrina or Charli or Gaga or whatever that no one has ever heard of, that probably only have a couple thousand monthly listeners on spotify or something, they are objectively not popular yet if you play their music for someone, they would probably call it pop music. Conversely you have things like The Black Album being one of the best selling albums of the 90s, it was objectively wildly popular but is anyone seriously going to argue that The Black Album by Metallica is a pop album? Not to mention even now there are hip hop and country artists that are just as big as people like Sabrina but they're treated as country and hip hop while Sabrina is treated as pop. The fact that there are certain stylistic and structural features to music that are recognizable as pop regardless of actual popularity and that things that lack those features can also be very popular suggests that pop has evolved into its own thing and it's frankly been that way since at least the 80s.

Well yeah if you just use the word pop for everything it's confusing. But there's synth-pop, pop rock, dance-pop, K-Pop, pop-punk and a hundred other subgenres if you want to be specific.

Objecting to someone's outburst during her set.

Telling a fan she didn't like her 'yodelling'

Yes it has… whatever the most popular music is with the general public is the current pop music… that’s why it’s called “pop” music.