Although she does have good music that is typically pop based, something feels so off with her. I want to like her as a person but I just can’t based off of how condescending and ignorant she is. She claims to be someone who has their third eye completely opened but is using all her “differences” to market to teenagers which is hypocritical and goes against everything she stands for. She is basically a walking contradiction and almost everyone can see through it because she isn’t good at hiding it.
She thinks she’s the best thing to ever happen since sliced beard
Watch her talk on any interview, she thinks she is the second coming of Christ because she is bisexual. How different and creative, girlfriend. She says things out of her ass that come back to bite her. Then she has to make public statements that what she said isn’t what she meant. Really because it seems like you’re only making a statement because of the negative backlash. So condescending.
“TRI-BI”
Speaking of talking out of your ass, in an interview she claimed to be “tri-bi” because she is biracial, bisexual and has bipolar disorder. How ignorant. First of all, she is not special for being bisexual, which annoys the crap out of me. No one is more interesting for liking the same sex and the people who believe that they are probably have nothing else interesting about themselves. Not only does she think she’s cool, she uses her sexuality to market herself by appealing to a gay crowd to the point where I think she’s literally lying about her sexuality. Then contradicts herself by saying that she would never do that, and then has multiple videos of her half naked kissing girls.
Then she goes and wants to label herself as bi-polar like it is something to be proud of. She shouldn’t be romanticizing mental illness because that is extremely toxic and makes people actually want to have a disorder in order to be “cool.” Also, you shouldn’t let your struggle become your identity- HALSEY. Then she is biracial like ok cool, I’m here for the music. She now claims to hate that label because it makes her look stupid, which she is for even saying it in the first place.
She claims to be alternative?
Halsey constantly claims to be alternative or alt-rock based on her looks but every single song she puts out is pop. Also not only is it pop, but it’s generic pop. She is trying to be different and convince us she is, but she isn’t. Yes, the way she dresses can be seen as alternative but that does not correlate to her music style. You can’t just claim you are alternative when you put out trash songs like this:
She is Tumblr vomit
Her look and attitude are ripped off from Tumblr to the point where you can point out that her whole stage persona is completely manufactured. She wants to appeal to the social justice warrior side of Tumblr that is open about sexuality, politics, and feminism. It almost seems like she is reading from a script to create this stage persona.
It doesn’t seem genuine at all and it is just pathetic to see her trying this hard and still fail. She thinks she is going to be the next pop icon but I am sure she is going to fade out soon, and hopefully fast. I can’t stand this condescending poser and I want to listen to a singer who isn’t going to blatantly lie to their fans for publicity.
Check out this Youtube video that explains perfectly why Halsey is so unlikeable:
We need someone like Kali in the game. She is paving her way with a unique style and is not afraid to dive into topics that don’t include typical cliches. I am marking my calendar for April 6th and except a full album review coming up!
The law was passed to stop people from smoking but what it did was destroy businesses, cause people to go out of their way to buy tobacco and make a bunch of smokers get extremely bad headaches from going cold turkey so suddenly.
A lot of parents are happy that their kids can’t smoke at 19 anymore but when has that ever stopped someone from purchasing something they are addicted to? You can’t just change a law and make people who have been smoking for years to quit. The worst part is that they weren’t even grandfathered in, which is usually the procedure when the law changes when you are in between ages.
Not only that but it is destroying businesses. Many vape store owners, who rely on their customers to come back and buy their products saw an extreme decrease in profit since they can no longer sell nicotine products to people who are 19 and 20. That may seem small but the amount of people who smoke at that age is extremely large. Can you imagine losing all those customers?
Also, stores in North Jersey are facing a lot of heat. Since they are only a fifteen/ twenty-minute drive from New York, they are seeing their customers go to New York to purchase their tobacco products since the age to legally buy it is 18 in New York. Broad Smoke Shop in New Milford is facing this problem since the main age group they sell to is college kids because they are near two major universities.
Not only can they not sell products to their most faithful and frequent customers, the cops are starting to crack down even harder on these businesses as if they weren’t suffering enough. Some customers come in with fake IDs that scan, which is hard to tell for even the owners. Due to their inability to notice a fake, which can be very hard that times, they are facing fines that could ruin their business. Multiple store owners have gone to court due to fake IDs that they could not have prevented. To minimize this issue they are not accepting any licenses that are out of state, which can be a huge blow to business. If they don’t abide by these rules they can face major fines, ranging to up to 5,000 dollars and can get their stores closed down. So not only are they losing business they are being fined for issues that they could have not even prevented.
Another issue they face is that they cannot sell any products that people underage can inhale. Even products with no nicotine cannot be sold to minors. This includes vape juice without nicotine content, which is clearly outrageous. They can’t buy water pipes either which is a major source of income to these stores.
Overall this law was unnecessary and is only causing damage to store owners who are struggling not to get fined. People who have quit cigarettes and transferred to the vape are even going back to smoking cigarettes since it is much easier not to get carded for a pack than at a vape store. It was Christie’s last attempt at putting another bogus law into effect before his time ran out. There is a reason we voted you out Christie, have fun at the beach while you still can.
Remember when he closed all New Jersey’s beaches just so his family could use it?
People claim that the new generation of rap doesn’t make sense or that it is cheap but people don’t realize that these artists can actually indeed rap. One has to have the talent to make it big in the industry and if you think that these people didn’t put in any work to get to their level of fame you are wrong. Most of these artists know what people want to hear and take full advantage of it to make a name for themselves.
Lil Uzi Vert has been said to be someone with no talent and just someone who got famous for no reason with the help of mumble rap. But there is talent behind his stage persona.
Just check out him in 2013:
Watch his music evolution here for further proof:
Mumble rap is defined as a catch-all term to describe any young rapper whose appeal lies in melody and mood rather than traditional lyricism. But the thing is that Lil Uzi Vert does know how to write lyrics and rap. He saw the trend in rap and jumped right on the boat. He could tailor his voice to become a huge name in rap so why wouldn’t he? I actually think that it adds so much to him and fits his voice better. If he stayed in the traditional style he wouldn’t have gotten as big as he did. Isn’t hip-hop all about innovation?
Can you imagine a world where XO Tour Llif3 didn’t exist?
Lil Uzi Vert used mumble rap to define his certain style and to get big within the scene. He became a character and that shot him to stardom. In 2015 you can clearly see that he had a change in his style that it suited him nicely to bring out his greatest assets. And he carefully constructed a gothic rapper image who apparently “worshiped the devil.” He made a name for himself in the game, even though at first everyone was questioning what it was all about. Everyone was talking about him, and for the good or the bad- it made him an instant celebrity. Haters say that he can’t rap but the evidence is there that he can certainly do it, and do it well. I wouldn’t say he tricked us but he certainly is intelligent.
I would expect him to come out with an “actual” rap album later on in his career. He has this hidden talent that he has been waiting to let out. He is riding the wave of how popular this new style is, and it really works for him. I think he is a much better entertainer with mumble rap and his stage persona. He is a well-rounded artist who is interesting and someone you want to listen to. I wouldn’t say it’s all an act but a really carefully constructed way to get attention so he can let out his true talent. There is only a hand full of people who make it in the industry, and he certainly has. Many people would say that he isn’t intelligent but clearly, he is smarter than all of us. I can’t wait for him to display different styles of rap in the future and continue to keep us on our toes.
Snapchat has made an ass of itself in the past month. Not only did they create a ridiculous update that made them lose $1.3 billion of the company’s market value, they have been messing with the wrong people.
The creators of Snapchat are acting like a victim but they are doing everything in their power to deserve the backlash they are getting. How could you possibly turn something as serious as domestic violence into a joke? That is just horrible and distasteful. It wasn’t funny at all and makes fun of victims of this horrible crime. Rihanna is a strong person for coming out of this situation alive and probably feels horrible that Chris Brown somehow still has a career. On top of this Snapchat put out the worst update in the history of updates to confuse users across all platforms. This company is giving me a headache and I am thinking of deleting the app. You can’t just make fun of domestic violence and expect your company not to lose millions of dollars. Like Rihanna said, “shame on you.”
While millions of fans around the world, including Beyonce and Jay Z are screaming free Meek, an investigative piece for Rolling Stone published by Paul Solotaroff includes comments from the Philly native Meek Mill who was harshly sentenced 2-4 years in state prison for a failed drug test.
“I won’t let [my family] come”, Meek says, “if they see me like this–fucked up beard, hair all yanked–then it’s like I’m really here. Which I’m not.”
Meek only lets family, a few close friends and his legal team visit him in prison
A Philadelphia attorney who chose to speak anonymously called Brinkley, the judge who sentenced Meek, a “sadist” and claims that he has a pattern of sending young black men to jail for trivial reasons.
According to Meek the probation officer that was appointed to him “hated” him and from the beginning was speaking to Meek like he was “some kind of rapist.”
Meek plans on directly addressing these injustices to prevent situations like these happening to more young innocent black men. “I want to speak on this system and what it does to black people,” he said. “On both fucking sides of the fence.”
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