Top songs were also rejigged a bit...

Spotify’s top artists if taking the Jan-Oct timeframe to be true so that confirms for me that the top albums list was falsified by Spotify if taking that timeframe to be the correct one for all list…

And the last 365 days on last.fm looks like this (hence why I mentioned Hayley initially). Either way, Lily did not actually make my top 5 this year regardless of the timeframe…

Changing the date range to January-October and Lily still isn’t beating Hayley. Seriously what is this, Spotify? I only have Spotify scrobbling to last.fm and nothing else and no there’s no duplicate scrobbles either.

I spotted this carry on with last years wrapped but it’s really looking like certain labels are paying Spotify to push artists onto peoples wrapped.

Could the whole thing have been executed better? Sure, but I think most of that boils down to not using Ticketmaster in the first place and I’m not sure how viable that is for a tour this international.

Because they didn’t and anyone claiming to is a most likely a scammer trying to make money out of your desperation to see Hayley on tour. That’s it. Don’t fall for the “I’ve got 3 tickets because my plans have suddenly changed and I can’t go (in one day??!) DM me” bullshit, lads.

Just because a resale site has listings up for tickets doesn’t mean those tickets actually exist. A lot of those listings were put up before the presale before anyone at all had tickets. And why would anyone waste their time/money buying tickets to resell knowing they’re untransferable?

Only got our first washing line this week (yes after two years of living here - we were drying stuff on a clothes horse inside until now) and I was today years old when I learned that there were laundry drying timer apps that gives info based the current weather in your area. ☺️

If you’re wondering if I got tickets, I was 12k in the queue starting off and it took the bulk of 40 minutes just to get to the top just for the page to refresh to say this…I only joined the queue on one device…no one talk to me…

But then there’s a big NIN influence in there too which I appreciate and the 2000s pop influence (I do think there’s nods to Maneater on Garden of Eden and Hollaback Girl on Zombieboy for example). So it’s old Gaga but other stuff mixed in that she hasn’t explored much of before.

She said that Perfect Celebrity was inspired by the Cure, there’s a Siouxsie sample on Abracadabra and she definitely references Depeche (Just Can’t Get Enough) on How Bad Do You Want Me? and no one can tell me otherwise! That’s just some of what I’ve caught on the first few listens.

Speaking of Gaga, I think the reason her new album feels like a return to Fame Monster/BTW is because she’s back to referencing 80s goth and synth bands. She stopped that mostly after BTW