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cruellesummer

And, baby, that’s show business for you

#taylor swift #the life of a showgirl

jakeperalta

favourite 2025 albums → MAN'S BEST FRIEND by Sabrina Carpenter

#sabrina carpenter #man's best friend

duallpa

SABRINA CARPENTER Man's Best Friend (August 29, 2025)

#sabrina carpenter #man’s best friend

emmaharwoods

MAN’S BEST FRIEND — Sabrina Carpenter’s new studio album out August 29, 2025

#sabrina carpenter #man’s best friend

jewelsigaveu

not to be like both sides are wrong, and only i’m right, but i have been thinking about sabrina’s album cover controversy. to me, it’s pretty evident that she is going to be exploring her own compliance in getting into relationships where she gets treated badly or well like a dog. while manchild is a tongue-in-cheek mocking song that is all about how she just keeps stumbling into bed with these loser men, woe is me, there is an obvious irony to lines like “won’t you let an innocent woman be?” “i swear they choose me, i’m not choosing them.” sabrina is hardly an innocent doe-eyed girl. she is very sharp and experienced in relationships, and no one is forcing her to date these men. the music video further emphasizes this point by showcasing her hitchhiking into increasingly more ridiculous automobiles with increasingly more ridiculous men who all let her down in various absurd and/or violent ways. and yet the closing shot of the video is her getting out of one car and immediately running over and jumping into the next, continuing the cycle. so while the song on the surface externalizes the blame for her mistreatment to basically everyone but her, the subtext is all about how sabrina is the one doing this to herself. when i see the album cover of her smiling at the camera on her knees while a man holds her hair like a leash, i see a deep and very uncomfortable self-awareness and acknowledgement happening here. it’s obviously going to be dressed up in the shiny pop music veneer and sabrina’s signature brand of dry humor, but this is a very sensitive topic that most upcoming pop girls wouldn’t touch with a ten feet pole because it is humiliating to admit that you’re complicit in your own mistreatment and degradation. that you aren’t just posing as a dog, but you actually let men treat you like one. manchild isn’t just the first single from the album but also the opening track, setting the stage for what the album will be exploring. and again while on the surface it looks like your usual my ex is a loser classic fare, in actuality it is all about how sabrina is deluding herself about her choice of partners. “manchild, why you always come running to me?” she asks, and i’m willing to bet that she is going to be answering that question in the album, eventually coming to the conclusion that these things aren’t as one-sided as she initially presented them to be. from what i’ve seen, sabrina is very smart and very deliberate when it comes to her branding. i highly doubt she chose such a sensational image just to “appeal to the male gaze.” yes the picture is meant to play into that trope, but hardly in a glorifying way.

#i’m also aware of the fact that she probably chose the cover to generate controversy cause all pr is good pr but again #she has been so intentional with her artistic choices in this past year that i really doubt there is not more to it #people seem to have a hard time believing pop music can be smart #sabrina carpenter #man’s best friend #music

a-cipher

it's a leap of faith. that's all it is, miles, a leap of faith.

#miles morales #into the spiderverse #art

tswiftupdatess

Taylor Swift announces in recent letter that she bought back the master recordings to her first six albums from Shamrock Capital 🥳:

''Hi.

I'm trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent, but right now my mind is just a slideshow. A flashback sequence of all the times I daydreamed about, wished for, and pined away for a chance to get to tell you this news. All the times I was thiiiiiiiiiiis close, reaching out for it, only for it to fall through. I almost stopped thinking it could ever happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled and then yanked away. But that's all in the past now. I've been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found out that this is really happening. I really get to say these words:

All of the music I've ever made.. now belongs… to me.

And all my music videos. All the concert films. The album art and photography. The unreleased songs. The memories. The magic. The madnes.. Every single era. My entire life's work.

To say this is my greatest dream come true is actually being pretty redeserved about it. To my fans, you know how important this has been to me- so much so that I'm meticulously re-recorded and released 4 of my albums, calling them Taylor's Version. The passionate support you showed those albums and the success story you turned The Eras Tour into is why I was able to buy back my music. I can't thank you enough for helping to reunite me with this art that I have dedicated my life to, but have never owned until now.

All I've ever wanted was the ooportunity to work hard enough to be able to one day purchase my music outright with no strings attached, no partnership, with full autonomy. I will be forever grateful to everyone at Shamrock Capital for being the first people to ever offer this to me. Theway they've handled every interaction we've had has been honest, fair, and respectful. This was a business deal to them, but I really felt like they saw it for what it was to me: My memories and my sweat and my handwriting and my decades of dreams. I am endlessly thankful. My first tattoo might just be a huge shamrock in the middle of my forehead.

I know, I know. What about Rep TV? Full transparency: I haven't even re-recorded a guarter of it. The Reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it. All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling porposely misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief. To be perfectly honest, it's the one album in those first 6 that I thought couldn't be improved upon by redoing it. Not the music, or photos, or videos. So I kept putting it off. There will be a time (if you're into the idea) for the unreleased Vault Tracks from that album to hatch. I've already completely re-recorded my entire debut album, and I really love how it sounds now. Those 2 albums can still have their moments to re-emerge when the time is right, if that would be something you guys would be excited about. But if it happens, it won't be from a place of sadness and longing for what I wish I could have. It will just be a celebration now.

I'm extremely heartened by the conversations this saga has reignited within my industry among artists and fans. Every time a new artist tells me they negotiated to own their master recordings in their record contract because of this fight, I'm reminded of how important it was for all of this to happen. Thank you for being curious about something that used to be thought of as too industry-centric for broard discussion. You'll never know how much it means to me that you cared. Every single bit of it counted, and ended us up here.

Thanks to you and your goodwill, teamwork, and encouragement, the best things that have ever been mine… Finally actually are.

Elated and amazed, Taylor''

(On May 30, 2025)

#taylor swift #taylor's version #music

taylorswift

You belong with me. 💚💛💜❤️🩵🖤

Letter on my site :)

#she owns her masters!!!#taylor swift #music

cardboard-writer

RIP Peter David (Sep 23rd 1956 - May 24th 2025)

After a long battle with illness its been reported that Peter David has passed away at the age of 68.

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Peter David was a prolific writer well known for revolutionizing Hulk in the 90's, establishing the chatacters abusive childhood as the root cause of his split persona, he revitalized Aquaman in the 90's by turning him into the King Arthur of the seas and also wrote the comedic Young Justice series of the late 90's and early 00's. The series served as both an entry point for new young readers whilst also satirizing many comic book cliches of the time.

He also co created Spider-Man 2099 aka Miguel O'Hara who made his debut in 'In to The Spider-Verse' with a bigger role in 'Across The Spider-Verse'.

Lesser known but still important work he did includes his novelization of Batman Forever, exploring some of the darker elements that were removed from the final cut in order to make the movie more merchandise friendly. He also wrote the Post Crisis origin of the Justice League of America, establishing Canary as a founding member thereby setting the stage for Alan Brennert's Secret Origins 50 retelling of the characters origin and Mark Waid's fantastic JLA: Year One.

This is just a small sampling of the many, many works done by Peter David. Suffice to say that his passing is a huge loss to the industry.

He will be missed.

My condolences to his family and loved ones.

#peter david #spiderman 2099 #spiderverse