It's obvious her primary function in pop music isn't intended to be the "woke" answer to Ariana, but as the female replacement for X.
Yes, she had a ton of payola and a great PR machine very early on in her career, but she didn't *really* start getting pushed on us via high-profile interviews and her songs showing up unexpectedly on Spotify playlists until shortly after X's death. Her image as well seems to be very, very close to an archetypal "SoundCloud sadboi" thing, which is exactly how X was being marketed before he died (i.e. anime-coloured hair, fake depression, fake deep lyrics about mental health and wanting to die, illusion of being in-tune with the world and aware of social issues).
She even bragged about how he was her "special friend" and how he had a "huge impact" on her life: youtube.com/watch?v=vo5JXupZTK8
Adds up. I'd have to see a chain of individuals in decision-making positions to buy it though.
Jordan Morgan
I mean, it's not hard to determine just by looking at how her hype didn't go into overdrive until summer 2018.
Oh bloody hell, why on earth is she going on tour with Denzel Curry, a close friend of X's whose loud trap/industrial/mental-influenced music is like day and night compared to hers?
Or the way she dresses and talks, you have to admit there's some marketing exec behind that. For comparison, her mom and bro sound like regular white suburbanites.
Anthony Turner
Should mention, after Curry is done with her he's going right back on tour with City Morgue and a bunch of other artists in the same genre, so there's that.
Ryder Murphy
Dont like the cut of her gib. Have not listened to her, and will not listen to her. She looks like an evil Grimes. Like the shadow to grimes sonic.
Isaac Robinson
>Like the shadow to grimes sonic. LOL. Much more descriptive than "the SoundCloud version of Lorde".
Jeremiah Mitchell
lol Yea Forums so jelly
Aaron Sanders
>the "woke" answer to Ariana jesus fucking christ i hate this. who the fuck is claiming she's woke? i swear the only time i see mention of this is on Yea Forums.
Christopher Brown
they're playing it safe with that aspect, the label just set her up with the LA mayor to do some "you better vote" and then she gave the usual "dude young people"
so nothing "woke" more like pretending to care and be deep
