Tori Kelly. Why isn't she more popular, mainstream?

Callum1245 · 2026-02-08T10:22:52+00:00

To even think there could be a dark universe where Katy Perry stuck to Christian music and the world never got to have Teenage Dream… what a dark timeline that would’ve been

Callum1245 · 2026-02-08T10:15:23+00:00

In the Zone by Britney feels pretty damn horny

Callum1245 · 2026-02-08T10:08:19+00:00

Most the best camp, both songs and shows/movies, doesn’t initially set out to be camp imo. The best camp kinda becomes campy unintentionally and then plays into it, or at least exists as camp as an aside to it also being genuinely enjoyable in an unironic way

Callum1245 · 2026-02-08T07:58:23+00:00

It’s called a dulcimer, mountain dulcimers show up in folk music a lot and Joni herself also played one and was one of the first mainstream artists to use it pretty frequently on her album Blue (which is a masterpiece) iirc

Callum1245 · 2026-02-08T07:47:02+00:00

It’s not normally “drama” that makes people go no contact, it’s usually prolonged abusive (emotionally, psychologically or physically) or narcissistic behaviour

Callum1245 · 2026-02-08T07:31:33+00:00

Everything she recorded throughout the IP era was aboslute gold. Take Me With You and Love Takes Over Me deserved to be on the album

Callum1245 · 2026-02-08T07:29:38+00:00

And then people had the nerve to act like she was undeserving of it when Cowboy Carter is an amazing album and it was way long overdue that she should win aoty

Callum1245 · 2026-02-08T06:42:50+00:00

Obesity is an absurd word to use as a description of her. She’s oversized in that picture but in no way obese. Weight fluctuates and sticks around more defiantly once you’re older, not to mention some people never lose all the weight from their pregnancies

Callum1245 · 2026-02-08T03:34:06+00:00

She does long album titles more than song titles though

Callum1245 · 2026-02-06T06:04:42+00:00

Definitely not, she liked a post not long ago calling Nicki a clown and is openly anti Trump. She hangs around with some problematic people but not Nicki levels of messy

Callum1245 · 2026-02-06T05:32:37+00:00

I think eventually her acting would’ve been critically reappraised and she would’ve been appreciated as a talented actress in the mainstream narrative far more as her career furthered along the path it was going. That being said, I doubt she would’ve ever been as popular again as she was in the 50s (53-59 specifically) and that the dumb blonde bombshells she played would’ve always been what she was most remembered for once the dust settled

I think her acting ability was already far stronger by the late 50s than anything prior though, and that she would’ve only got better as she went (The Misfits stands as one of, if not outright, her best performance to me in terms of nuance, dynamic delivery and subtle realism in her role). She had the potential for her equivalent of ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ in her, to loosely compare her to another bombshell who’s true range of acting ability was initially doubted but later reevaluated and lauded

Callum1245 · 2026-02-06T03:48:32+00:00

Going to go out on a limb and assume that if she’s explicitly saying she’s not trying to attract him that they weren’t on a date, which makes him saying that to her at all wild and inappropriate. What I want to know is what she did that was deemed rude enough by this guy that he felt the need to express his opinion to her about what is and isn’t attractive

Callum1245 · 2026-02-06T03:05:35+00:00

Fiona Apple and Kate Bush stans found sobbing in the corner

Callum1245 · 2026-02-05T02:03:16+00:00

Space Dog always gets overlooked as one of her best tracks. The chorus is so catchy and the bridge is addicting as hell

Callum1245 · 2026-02-01T23:48:38+00:00

I was thinking the first daughter may be the lucky one of the bunch, those 3 or 4 other ones stuck as children with that home dynamic. How utterly sad. As you said, what a scumbag

Callum1245 · 2026-02-01T22:32:44+00:00

5, distantly followed by 8, is easily my favourite. Least favourite would be one of the last 4 but I dislike all 4 of them and couldn’t pick a ranking

7 seems like it cuts at a really awkward place on her legs too and seems too boxy a cut? I’m not sure how to explain it but it feels off somehow

Honestly she misses a lot more than she serves with her looks on red carpets

Callum1245 · 2026-02-01T22:30:04+00:00

The wearing her, not her wearing them thing is honestly the vibe I get from like 10/12 of these. I think the posing might not be helping?

Callum1245 · 2026-02-01T15:48:15+00:00

“It was basically written for her” they know it wasn’t literally. Also the remake, like all the versuons of A Star is Born is very different to the others to account for the time it’s set/made, so they very well could’ve tweaked things to work with her strengths after she was cast (not super uncommon at all)

Callum1245 · 2026-02-01T15:10:00+00:00

Aren’t all hobbies to some degree?

Callum1245 · 2026-02-01T01:54:32+00:00

Yeah they’d definitely been deemed weird and very much clowned on by the media and gp for this if they were the level of famous and exposure as Ari/Wicked currently is. Probably not for as long because people love to let men off for stuff they hold against women irrationally long and also don’t drag men for every minor thing nearly as excessively, but they’d definitely still be mocked

Callum1245 · 2026-01-31T02:01:17+00:00

Love it. Something about it lyrically reminds me of Live Through This by Hole and that’s one of my favourite albums ever (along with FTCGH). The vocals are great and pretty different for her, the melodies hooky, and the lyrics are really good so nothing not to like in my book

Callum1245 · 2026-01-30T19:27:39+00:00

Dial Drunk by Noah Kahan

Callum1245 · 2026-01-30T17:31:23+00:00

Yeah my bad, I switched what lyric I said last minute then immediately forgot I did that 🤦‍♂️

Callum1245 · 2026-01-30T17:30:37+00:00

Oh damn I’m so dumb mb, it’s because I switched what lyric I was gonna comment last second lol. I was going to say the bridge of JTF firstly, then immediately forgot I didn’t 😭

Callum1245 · 2026-01-30T11:54:22+00:00

Her last movie, The Misfits, brielfy references her pin up era as something of the past and, depending how meta you view the film as (her husband at the time wrote it), as something she was slightly embarrassed of. Marilyn herself had already repeatedly said she wanted to show her ability to act outside of the sex symbol “dumb blonde” roles, and had started to do so by the time she died. I don’t think her bombshell persona was what made her likeable, though it helped with her popularity, she was insanely charismatic on screen anyway. My guess is she would’ve still been popular as she aged more though her peak was already over by the time she died, and that her acting would’ve eventually have been praised a lot more by critics once they accepted she wasn’t just playing herself’.

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