I know @RJF just scorned it (ddd) but there is sometimes something in just letting the work roll out before making assumptions on its intentions and generalizations over what it's trying to do.
nn sis you know I love a good faith argument with you but I'm sorry, this line of reasoning is kind of madness. It also seems inconsistent, and only applies to criticism or any question that is remotely searching. Speculation on what her overall gameplan is is unfair and premature... but comparing her to Britney Spears at her creative peak
three singles in is apparently okay and not a reach at all because they both... have worked with Swedish people? Something that never happens in pop music?
If we're not going to project and speculate, then this has to work both ways. If we're not allowed to wonder just how far this entire direction can go, blithly comparing her to the greatest popstars of all time out of desperation for an
avatar of those greatest popstars in the current day (cc: Tate McRae) should similarly not be allowed. And then we reach a point where no discussion of the future is allowed until it has happened, and we can't discuss the present because we need to see how it looks in the future, so we might as well lock the thread. It can't be, "Let her cook! ...just like Britney did with Bloodshy & Avant, the most relevant and not at all charged comparison!"
We appear to be at that point in the conversation we were at with Dua Lipa around late 2017, where the forum seemed to think that any kind of questioning or critique was going to huff and puff and blow her career down. She is making a concentrated effort to present her music and her aesthetic in a particular way. She is making a concentrated effort to communicate her influences.
She wants to be interacted with, as is the nature of someone putting work out into the public sphere. This is an interaction she's also largely surviving! This conversation has been largely harmless! What is everyone afraid of? Being wrong in six months? Who cares? You're all wrong all the time! I'm wrong sometimes! But I will happily eat my words when I get proved wrong. That’s just the name of the game.
I don't inherently think being patient with a young artist is wrong, but we can still have an opinion on what material there is. We can only all call it as we see it in the moment. I don't think there's anything wrong with casually wondering what the endgame is for someone who is
perpetually casting up how much she loves and is influenced by popstars who have had some of the most illustrious careers in the game. Big talk that is easy to make! Let's discuss how well she's walking that walk.
