This is exactly how I feel, and I think some of my disappointment comes from discovering Suite I and being so impressed and excited at what was to come. I appreciate her decision to genre hop, but in doing so she doesn't really master any of them. This was a problem with her "Emotion Picture," too, which just felt so cheap and poorly executed in comparison to similar projects by other musicians. I thought Dirty Computer would be a turning point, but it was overlong and suffered from the same lack of cohesion, which is odd when each of her albums strive for a unifying concept.
I've really loved her as an actor, though, so I'm glad she's been taking more serious roles there. She's forced to commit in a way that focuses her talents. I do like "PYNK" tho.
all this press has me listening to his first two albums again. i really forgot how beautiful they are—i'd remembered them as much less accessible.
i hope he finds a way to marry his old+new sound, though maybe that happens on this record. when i saw his No Shape tour, the songs from the first two albums kinda killed the momentum of the show, which hurts for me to say, because i do love hearing them.
also, i had no idea songs from No Shape had overtaken "Queen" in streams, which makes me super happy. there are few artists that i actively root for, and Mike is one of them.
i totally forgot it was PG week, and here i am wearing my feminem shirt! he's probably the only artist i fanboy over anymore, so excited to listen. PSA the remix of "on the floor" is such a jam.
i would like to hear him talk about when the president talks to god on leno. one of the great late night performances. bush was a punching bag but damn it took balls
curious to see what her next album is like. meme pop only seems to succeed when it comes with a new/unknown personality. she's got talent but i don't necessarily think that talent is songwriting...
you'd think with the reunion happening people would be picking up on Conor's politics, which have always been super progressive. (he sang about the Socialist Review!) glad someone else remembers this performance. it was huge to me when it happened.
I've heard a lot of not good things about his mental health, and given those things, the cheesy innocence of "Intentions" really won me over? It's not good, but, IDK. I want him to be OK and to stop listening to Tool
i love the strokes and i love bernie but unless he enlists like, blake shelton, he's not gonna get out more votes. strokes, VW, and bon iver fans are already voting for him. anyway. joke about Julian's politics here.
this comment section feels like home.
i was a senior in high school when Digital Ash/Wide Awake came out, and those albums ushered me into not-quite-adulthood. i spent a lot of nights driving back roads, wishing i had someone with a place out west to tell me "hey, any time." i walked, headphones in, around my middle-of-nowhere campus at 4 AM wishing i could write something that felt as true as Conor's songs. it was a bad ghost to chase and i wrote some pained essays, but that's being young. that's also being 31, i guess, because i still sometimes throw those albums on and stare out at the city and aspire to... something.
there is a magic he makes by pairing the melodrama of emo with an unadorned rock/folk sound, i still can't quite wrap it in a bow and pin a word to it, but i'm happy he's surviving and still writing in that way. he seemed to know life before he'd really lived and it's nice that now that life has done a bit of a number on him he's still able to see.
He also was a fat kid and lost a lot of weight. I was just watching some live vids from the Killjoy days and he looked weirdly skinny. As a former fat kid with body image issues that take up so much brain space every day, I'm happy to hear he's doing OK.
there are a lot of nominated things that i genuinely love yet i would be happy if Lil Nas X won everything because, let's be honest, he'll probably never be back here again and his was the most exciting story in music this year. also i love "panini" (been years since i ate one tho)
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