These tweets with 5 likes are really selling this to me!

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Just because they have a smaller fanbase doesn't mean there isn't merit to the comparisons. I've listened to Paramore for years but as a ionnalee fan it's hard not to see the inspiration between it all imo.

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the aesthetic is not that original anyway

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for real.

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Mte like. At least 5 film students have done something like this in a project they turned in this week.

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Agreed. Although, Hayley made it really fucking cool.

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feels like a reach to me. lots of videos use that ultra white lighting to give it a hazy, almost foggy and otherworldly feel. their interlude pieces especially, are entirely different.



do they both need to go back to annie lennox and give credit for the use of lighting?



when your fav is known only to you and 5 other people, so you try and start some shit with a name to get some press.





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Pretty sure they didn't originate this style either sooooooooo

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Nothing is original anymore. Good artists borrow, great artists steal.

The first thing I thought of when I looked at these is 'Bad Romance'.

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i just wished Hayley's songs were catchier. I love a good depressing song but these just kinda meander and go nowhere.

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mte I like her voice so much but these songs are duds

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I thought I was the only one who thought this, thank you. Everyone always says how good her solo music and "After Laughter" are but they are so boring and bleh.

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Her tens of fans sound pissed.

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Some of it is similar but it's not identical. This aesthetic has been around for a long time.



Anyways I really like fountain and play

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There is no originality left in everything.

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Similar, but not identical imo. And this aesthetic has been around forever.

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it was such an exciting time when those first iamamiwhoami videos started dropping and she's been delivering for 10 years now... love her

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Thinking back on it, how the hell did we ever think it could really be Xtina? Lol

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when she started releasing songs with one letter titles and people though it was spelling out BIONIC lol

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i think people just really wanted xtina to rise as an alternative artsy musician, especially after the comparisons with lady gaga and bionic having a ~different sound

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Lmao those posts were so fucking fun!

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the first two hw solo music vids made me think of bjork tbh.



did she just release cinnamon? i think it's my favorite of the solo songs i've heard so far, kinda reminds me of kimbra.

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Yeah I actually enjoy Cinnamon a lot better than the other songs.

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yeah she dropped cinnamon and 2 other songs today. i think she's releasing them as 2 eps.

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i looked it up after i commented, haven't listened to it yet though.



i'm kinda over all these artists releasing eps (or 6mil singles) instead of full-lengths, but i guess it's just how it is now. /shrug

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lmao i was going to say they look like budget matthew barney visuals



aka bjork’s ex lol

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literally thought "oh is that that girl we hoped was pre-bionic christina aguilera" when I saw the Hayley stuff on my timeline so... those tweets might only have a few likes, but I cosign LOL

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Oh man I remember those posts, lol. But that was back when a lot of ONTD hated Christina. I distinctly remember so many comments like “nah, Christina is not smart enough to pull off something like this.”

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