ughh I keep forgeting that exists but it always comes back to my life

the ADP talk got me back onto this masterpiece

her best song about aging?

Beauty of Speed was the highlight of my show she played few years ago

On 2/23/2026 at 1:11 AM, Démodé said:

sisters, I will be listening to that album in a couple of days, how much will I hate it? I'm scared looking at fans'/stans' takes on it

If there's on thing you can count on is that nobody can agree on the good albums/good songs post Scarlet. I tried again recently, and I don't like abnormally. It really drags for me, but I do think Give is a great song, as is Lady in Blue and Ophelia. I could love Welcome to England in a universe where Mark wasn't playing cheesy guitar on it (though I suppose it fits, since it's a song about their relationship). But still an absolute earworm.

23 hours ago, John Slayne said:

I finally listened to Tori and the Muses (in the gym, randomly) and was pleasantly surprised. The production was surprisingly fresh for a children's album, I think Building A Mountain could have replaced Spies on O2O and I wouldn't even notice. Rain Brings Change could also be a studio album song if she reworked the lyrics slightly to be less on the nose.

If everybody would just listen to what I've been saying and preaching and …

just learned Unrepentant Geraldines has a higher metacritic score than Native Invader

Imagine outwriting Charles Dickens in his own story like that … Ms Havisham whomst?

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2 hours ago, Haze said:

Imagine outwriting Charles Dickens in his own story like that … Ms Havisham whomst?

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oh this masterpiece is in my top 30 most streamed tracks ever

this morning I'm listening to From The Choir Girl Hotel in full for the first time in 2 years and wow, what an album

New performance

the negativity for this performance, people commenting how she's lost her voice and she has developed a tremor, the internet is really vile

A woman aging really gets the worst out of people. As if she doesn't know these things herself, why else would she invite backing singers for the first time … that little clip where she improvises a rendition of the rolling stones though; I could never get tired of watching that. We're so lucky a piano talent like her fell in love with pop music.

@Démodé we want your review of AATS

That implies I listened to it

9 hours ago, John Slayne said:

@Démodé we want your review of AATS

Although, I must say, Beauty of Speed hit me today like a TRUCK

11 hours ago, Démodé said:

Although, I must say, Beauty of Speed hit me today like a TRUCK

that live version posted above is like crack to me

@John Slayne AATS listenings are NOW.

Oooof, that was a hard listen. Definitely her worst album til now for me, some of the songs are unbearable. Her vocals are produced in such a cheap way, it felt like she was muffled also most of the lyrics were....choices, to be lenient. These were what I kept:

Give

Strong Black Vine

Flavor

Curtain Call

That Guy (production and melody won me over)

Abnormally Attracted to Sin

Mary Jane

Fast Horse

Ophelia

4 hours ago, Démodé said:

Oooof, that was a hard listen. Definitely her worst album til now for me, some of the songs are unbearable. Her vocals are produced in such a cheap way, it felt like she was muffled also most of the lyrics were....choices, to be lenient. These were what I kept:

Give

Strong Black Vine

Flavor

Curtain Call

That Guy (production and melody won me over)

Abnormally Attracted to Sin

Mary Jane

Fast Horse

Ophelia

You're through the worst, sis. I know, the problem with that album is really how her vocals are produced. Don't listen to Midwinter Graces till december (It makes no sense now) and make sure that if there's a song you don't like on Night of Hunters, you try its instrumental version. (I adóre my version, but the all vocals version is exhausting). And from Unrepentant Geraldines on you really get at least an amount of great tracks each release.

6 minutes ago, Haze said:

You're through the worst, sis. I know, the problem with that album is really how her vocals are produced. Don't listen to Midwinter Graces till december (It makes no sense now) and make sure that if there's a song you don't like on Night of Hunters, you try its instrumental version. (I adóre my version, but the all vocals version is exhausting). And from Unrepentant Geraldines on you really get at least an amount of great tracks each release.

you telling me this as "Annabelle" rambles on SnowBlind

Finished Night of the Hunters as well. Exhausting, but in a totally different way from AATS. Shattering Sea, Nautical Twilight, Ghost, Star Whisperer are discography highlights.

I swear I don't stan AATS for attention...

1 minute ago, John Slayne said:

I swear I don't stan AATS for attention...

sorry sis but I can see me returning only to specific songs which were from decent to very good

maybe california is such a bad song

1 minute ago, Démodé said:

sorry sis but I can see me returning only to specific songs which were from decent to very good

maybe california is such a bad song

I like Maybe California, although I know the lyrics are not amazing. The melody is so beautiful to me!

Just now, John Slayne said:

I like Maybe California, although I know the lyrics are not amazing. The melody is so beautiful to me!

the melodies are not the problem. lyrics and vocal process is so jarring

I'm doing a listen of Gold Dust (album) now (veeerrrry slow Saturday) and the way the instrumental is slaying but the voice seems to be recorded with tinfoil wrapped around her face is so weird