/int/ - International

>>23671 Well, I can ignore pretty much any pop star. I don't listen to radio, I have no TV and have no people in my life, that listen to this. I get no exposure to pop culture at all, if I don't want to, but that's not what you meant I guess. How do you get the impression, that average people don't know any of her songs? Some of her songs have over 3 billion views on Youtube. How can they not be known and recognized by many people?

She's the only current pop star I know other than Maggie Rogers due to that guy in the music thread. So I know more about her than other pop stars. I actually find it easy to ignore pop stars.

>>23671 Without television/radio you can be in your own musical bubble and your algorithms save you from having to listen to Pop music. I only know/like her goat song "trouble" that went viral many years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aLYvZ5sX28&list=RD-aLYvZ5sX28&start_radio=1

I think her being unremarkable is a carefully curated PR tactic. She needs to be as bland as possible so that as many people as possible can support her. All the corners and egdes need to be smoothed out for such a product.

I feel the same. By what I understand her last world tour was generating more money than a small country and she is huge. Yet I never heard a single song by her, she has no cultural penetration outside her captive public.

decline of the radio has led to unknown pop stars. similar to how talk shows went from 30m views to 750k, 75% over 60.

>>23671 when were pop/movie stars ever important?

>>23671 >everybody knows at least their current song false

>>23758 That's a silly quote. Psychology is fascinating.

>>23770 >Psychology is fascinating. The quote makes you feel uncomfortable because it contradicts your interests. You then devalued the quote by calling it silly in order to resolve the conflict. This coping mechanism is called "cognitive dissonance". Fascinating indeed.

>>23775 Ideas, events, and people are all intertwined, all are interesting, and really can't exist without each other.

>>23746 when they let them get away with pedophilia and other crimes, so probably peaking 20 years back when internet existed while supplementing their market instead of stealing from it

>>23746 Reagan, Trump and Schwarzenegger were actors and got their fame from TV.

>>23730 You have probably heard some of her songs, they are literally super ultra forgettable. You forget them even while you're listening. I checked out some songs out of curiosity a couple of months ago and I found it hard to believe that people go bonkers about something THAT boring and unremarkable. I literally cannot believe the NPCness of her fans.

>>23784 Trump was well-known way before he became a TV persona, lil zoomie friend. And Arnold Schwarzenegger was a world-famous bodybuilder even before Terminator 1.

>>23880 By the way, Hercules in New York is a great bad movie if you are into bad movies. Make sure to get the un-dubbed version, with Arnold's (at the time) THICC Austrian accent.