album Rina Sawayama - 'Hold the Girl'

[wish]

This was absolutely disappointing

[Julia Fox]

I think my major problems with this album is that the choruses are such a letdown and waste all the potential the songs had, it happened with HTG, TH, CITA, Holy.

So far the only one with a good chorus is Forgiveness…

[mistertsa]

The 1-2-3-4 punch of Holy, Your Age, Imagining and Frankenstein

[Julia Fox]

Your Age is very interesting  maybe my fave so far 

[wish]

Your Age is definitely the best song, followed by Frankenstein, Imagining, and Hold The Girl. The rest are either mid or sleep inducing

[WildAmerican]

i like it, but Forgiveness is kinda giving movie end credit song 

[Scandalous]

Holy-Frankenstein are definitely the highlights along w the title track and SMLTJ but overall im underwhelmed 

 

it’s all just so derivative and messy, even on the few songs i like

imagining is literally a slayyyter song and SMLTJ sounds like it came from American Life

Edited September 16, 2022 by Scandalous

[Tyrion_LMG]

31 minutes ago, Julia Fox said:

I think my major problems with this album is that the choruses are such a letdown and waste all the potential the songs had, it happened with HTG, TH, CITA, Holy.

So far the only one with a good chorus is Forgiveness…

What, choruses are the best part of the album 

[LeMésTragique]

Hold The Girl

Holy

Your Age

Imagining

Frankenstein

 

An EP

[Marla Singer]

Forgiveness

Holy

Your Age

Imagining

Frankenstein

 

These songs are collectively much better than the 5 she released in advance. I do also like Hold The Girl and Catch Me In The Air though.

 

Overall it's pretty good, not as good as SAWAYAMA but that was always going to be tough to follow.

[Vespertine]

Hm. Mixed bag for me.

 

Need to listen more, but so far I’m wishing the album was more like Holy-Your Age-Imagining-Frankenstein as a whole, which manage to convey her sentiments while still being sleek, exciting, and inventive. Too much of the album feels like “Chosen Family,” which is pretty much the only skip on SAWAYAMA for me, because it’s too mawkish and generic production-wise. 

 

Overall definitely feeling underwhelmed    But I will keep listening and see if other tracks grow on me. 

[Haze]

I love reading the acclaim. The girls that get it get it. The way I still haven't grown bored of CMITA and TH even though i've played them to death already.

[Dragonfly]

the bridge of Your Age reminds me of Natalia's Perfectionist album

 

if you ignoreThis Hell and Imagining, the album is pretty solid

but I don't understand how it got an 80+ metacritic score  

[State of Grace.]

"Why are you so scared of falling? (Hold your head up high)"

 

I went through RINA and the lyric above from this masterpiece can lowkey be connected to Catch Me In The Acclaim:

 

"Mama, look at me now, I'm flying, I'm flying" / "But mama, look at us now, high above the clouds"
 

I might be reaching obv, but I'm gonna believe it is.

 

[KasioKas]

y'all were being dramatic, this is fine, it's cohesive and she didn't take any risks but it's fine. To Be Alive, Imagining & Frankestein jumps as my faves from 1st listen.

[DancingShoes]

Finally pressing play!

[MonsterJohn]

Nothing in here comes close to Love me 4 me or Bad Friend, maybe only Holy

 

She should've impersonated Utada more than BTW Gaga

[Dragonfly]

5 minutes ago, State of Grace. said:

I went through RINA and the lyric above from this masterpiece can lowkey be connected

+ "The girl inside is healing" at the end of Alterlife foreshadowing this entire album

[State of Grace.]

4 minutes ago, Dragonfly said:

+ "The girl inside is healing" at the end of Alterlife foreshadowing this entire album

Yup!  Tbh that's why I said RINA / SAWAYAMA / Hold The Girl feel like a good trilogy. 

[sweetkiss]

I love RINA so much, but what this album suffers from is her constant yelling and melodramatics with no climax.

 

Multiple songs can be blended into one and we wouldn't lose much.

 

In my opinion the highlights were Frankestein, Imagining, Holy and Catch me in the air which was single anyways.

 

Everything else was like listening to constant bridge of Let it go from Frozen  

 

Ill listen to it more, but this was such a shocker coming from classic Sawayama.

 

 

[DancingShoes]

I enjoyed this especially the middle of the album! This Hell is still my least favorite thing here but it does fit well in the context of the album. My favorites were Frankenstein, Holy and Forgiveness.

[305]

Wow. 

BTW's influence is ALL OVER this record 

[feelslikeadream]

There's no excuse in the year 2022 to confuse Dr. Frankenstein with his monster ???????

[Supervillain]

 

 

[WildAmerican]

Here's my thoughts 12hrs in:

 

GODTIER

Imagining

Send My Love to John

 

GREAT:

CMITA

Phantom

Hurricanes

Holy

 

REALLY GOOD:

Phantom

Your Age

Frankenstein

 

PRETTY GOOD:

Hold The Girl

 

MEH:

This Hell

Minor Feelings

To Be Alive