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Kate Solomon
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lead music critic | Guardian, GQ, Metro, Evening Standard, Time Out, whenever, wherever | book out now | she/her
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please enjoy this picture of my dog struggling to understand what tf was going on at this point
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how far down the list of options did they have to go to get to nicole scherzinger do you think
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imagine being able to construct a simple sentence without messing it up 8 million times
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always found ed sheeran's music quite dead behind the eyes but this album changes all that (recommend hitting STOP before you hit the hobbit song at the end though)
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just because a few people have asked recently: i'm not under contract with the i and am free to write whatever i want for whoever i want
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the jessie ware album is so good, i cannot get enough of it
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pls pray for your old pal me trying to get one of the 400 tickets to see blur in colchester
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if anyone needs to send me to New York for the Jai Paul shows all I’m saying is: I’m available
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can jai paul just make a normal website so i can buy my silly little vinyl please!!!
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loved talking to about what felt like absolutely everything from crippling anxiety to tipsily @-ing people on social media and the escapist power of pop. she wants to solve all the world's problems and, tbh, she's giving it a decent go
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UK allies, please sign and share this petition voicing opposition to the gov's transphobic reform of the Equality Act. Especially cis women – this campaign is being waged in our name, it's vital that we speak up and stand with the trans community
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i am sick to death of important things so the new ellie goulding album was a balm and a salve and a really nice time
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Are you one of the men hiding behind incompetence to get out of chores at home? realised he is, but is determined to put it right. #GQModernLovers
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painfully earnest love letters to your friends? lfg
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sometimes you think, you know what, i've been doing this a long time, i sort of do know what i'm doing now and then sometimes you read the transcript and you're just like oh no
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So this happened….They made me wait 50 minutes to speak so by the time I got there…
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“When that rainbow's shining over you / That's when your dreams will all come true” Reach For The Stars is out NOW! Today! In the shops! 🥹
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I’ve been advised to not talk about this. I’ve been threatened as well. But I don’t care any more
In the Spring of 2022 about half of my yearly income went into the pocket of a guy called Marley Dennis who trades under the names , Essential Merch & Hoxton Music Group
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Caught up with to discuss Reach For The Stars, his excellent dive into the world of late 90s/early 2000s pop stardom.
The campaign to get him to leak the original, 25,000-word Sugababes chapter starts here. #ReleaseTheCraggcCut
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also i am all for therapy for yourself, for healthy friendships, for relationships of all types ✨
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these pics! this interview!! this record!!!
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Indie supergroup Boygenius: ‘Anything that starts a fire in you is the stuff of life’ theguardian.com/music/2023/mar
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still waiting for the deposit from the flat i moved out of in august to be returned 🙃 love to be a renter, just non stop good times imo!!
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(i do not include my work under the heading of serious criticism btw, i'm mainly in it to make jokes and annoy the three old men who keep messaging me to tell me i suck)
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anyway all the best to him, i hope he is feeling ok, but it's just a frustrating misunderstanding about what criticism is and is for. it's not the same thing as 150 million people wanting to play your song at their wedding.
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so to then turn around and be all 'ugh what if critics actually like this one, nightmare' is rude actually
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plus he has talked about writing for commercial success and not for, like, a five star review in the guardian (pls see popular abomination galway girl) - there's nothing inherently WRONG with that but it's a v different thing and at violent odds with what critics are in it for
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i don't think anyone is saying he can't write a good song, but something can be popular and not very good. and quite a few of his songs are popular and not very good.
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i have absolutely nothing against ed sheeran and i wish him well but this attitude of "well critics say it's shit but can 150 million people be wrong" is really annoying. yes 150 million people can be wrong! 150 million people are often wrong!
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having recently come off them I wonder if part of the problem is that so many gen z and millennial daters have been on SSRIs for years and are too emotionally numb to recognise some of their behaviour as bad or a genuine healthy connection as good
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wrote about what the hell is going on with dating at the moment, for @Independent
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★★★★★
This album is the musical equivalent of a strobe light. It is a sugar rush, the caffeine jitters, the peak of a panic attack. 10,000 gecs is chaos and it is stupid and it is brilliant
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wanted to give this 5000 stars but was not allowed so I guess 5 will do
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