First, the band have gotten flack for some of their lyrics and also for their perceived pandering to Gen Z as a queer, feminist punk band — an identity many have called out as not being authentic. The second, and this appears to have stemmed from research done following the lyrics backlash, accuses them of being industry plants. Some internet sleuths have connected them to producer Lukasz Gottwald, known professionally as Tyson Trax or Dr. Gottwald is a controversial figure in the music industry — he was embroiled in a long legal battle against pop singer Kesha where she accused him of rape and emotional abuse and he countersued for defamation and breach of contract.
This story begins on TikTok where a new band began to gain a following doing covers of pop-punk classics by everyone from Avril Lavigne and Blink to Good Charlotte and Paramore. The group features three women with brightly colored hair and an obviously rock aesthetic.
Last week a video promoting their single, "I'd Rather Die" began popping up for TikTok users with an interest in alternative music, but rather than gain them fans, this may have been their downfall. Some TikTok users found the song's lyrics such as " I'd rather die than hook up with another straight white guy " to be problematic and began diving deeper into who the band were.
That's when many users began to notice the band's website, social media and marketing seemed too polished for an upstart "punk" band, uncovered the three members' past work in music and started labeling them industry plants. One positive note is this encouraged music fans to lift up other alternative bands that you should follow instead of Tramp Stamps — including this clip by TikTok influencer and Loudwire contributor Yasmine Summan, which you can see below.
It wasn't long before Reddit sleuths discovered that both Baker and singer Marisa Maino signed publishing deals as solo artists with Prescription Songs, which as stated earlier is owned by Gottwald, aka Dr. Made up of singer Marisa Maino, guitarist Caroline Baker, and drummer Paige Blue , according the the band's bio they are based in Nashville. Both Maino and Baker have released pop music on their own recently and Blue appears to have done more work behind the scenes as a producer and songwriter.
Please tell us your name, age and the city where you live. Portsmouth Climate Festival — Portsmouth, Portsmouth. Edition: Available editions United Kingdom. Become an author Sign up as a reader Sign in. McAndrew , Knox College. Author Frank T. McAndrew Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology, Knox College. I'm hardly alone: the single most widely-hated song of the last twenty years at least among respondents with pretensions to youth and cool is "My Heart Will Go On" The answer is maybe - if you're willing to call "Ms.
Jackson" and "Gangsta's Paradise" ballads "Fast Car"? But basically no, and whichever nonballad wins this year will come from a long line of previous nonballads. None of the strong contenders is a ballad, though I suppose "Stay Fly" is something of a crypto ballad, which is why I didn't vote for it. Occasionally a ballad makes my list for what it's worth, Hilary Duff's "Fly" - which is something of a power ballad, if "power" is a word that's usable in connection with small-voiced Hilary - would have been my number one in , if I'd been paying attention to Hilary , but in general I don't vote for them, and in general I don't like them.
This isn't just about ballads. I mean, most ballads are sentimental shit, and they're deadening to listen to. That's why I don't vote for them. It can't. My ballot doesn't even represent my year in music, much less pop's.
It wasn't designed to. It isn't that we vote only for people like ourselves, but that we vote for the sort of thing that people like us vote for - which is a tautology. But, among other things, by liking what we like and writing about it in the way we do, we turn some of the readers into people like us. You can't really address this unless you're willing to ask why people like us don't like the things we don't like. Did they always hate ballads - most teenybopper girls like ballads - or did they learn to hate ballads?
If the former, why don't girls who like ballads become critics?
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