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My 360 picture disc, the blue version and the pvc with 7" just shipped. 

 

I also got the indie exclusive splatter vinyl and currently playing it at the record store I work at :jonnycat:

 

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1 minute ago, Daddy said:

My 360 picture disc, the blue version and the pvc with 7" just shipped. 

 

I also got the indie exclusive splatter vinyl and currently playing it at the record store I work at :jonnycat:

 

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is the PVC the transparent black or a regular black record? (I don't need a 5th copy :jonny: but what if I do :jonny:)

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3 minutes ago, sbenci said:

is the PVC the transparent black or a regular black record? (I don't need a 5th copy :jonny: but what if I do :jonny:)

Didn't receive that yet but it's classic black vinyl. 

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3 hours ago, RideOrDie said:

it's about Lorde, not Marina. :skull:

 

"We talk about making music
But I don't know if it's honest"

 

she revealed last year on 360 brat that she and lorde always talk about making music but it never happens and she feels insecure about that.

 

"People say we're alike
They say we've got the same hair"

 

no one says charli and marina are alike or have the same hair, everyone knows about the charli x lorde memes. :skull: 
 

the part about lorde wanting charli to fall over and fail is more about charli's insecurities and projections rather than what lorde would actually want. (Charli XCX just spoke out saying she was initially jealous of Lorde following the success of "Royals.") 

Also the poem part. Marina's not know as a songwriter type at all (the whole Love album basically bombed in the lyrical camp). Not a poet type. Lorde on the other hand has really emphasized her lyrical work around Solar Power as part of her brand. 
 

I don't think Charli has issues with Lorde. She knew it would cause some buzz in the gay internet scene lol I believe it's old news for her and the song is a bop 

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Do we know who the friend with the baby she sings about on think about it all the time? Is it noonie bao not heard from her in ages

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3 minutes ago, atrlxcx said:

Do we know who the friend with the baby she sings about on think about it all the time? Is it noonie bao not heard from her in ages

it is :heart:

 

from RS:

An alternative reality, one in which she would be the supporting character, was presented to her when she went to Stockholm to visit her songwriting collaborator Noonie Bao, her first close friend to have a child. "It was crazy seeing her standing in the same clothes she's always worn, but now she has this completely different perspective on life than I do. She's not enforcing that on me; it's just a fact. She's not alive for the same reasons that I am now," reflects Charli. It seemed like Bao understood some mysterious truth, accessible only through motherhood. It made Charli wonder if she'll ever be privy to that secret. Maybe she'll say, "**** it, I don't want to conform to centuries of indoctrination." If she does fold and become a mother, will she be fine with it — or will she crave the freedom she once had?

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Just now, sbenci said:

it is :heart:

Omg so happy for her and her baby that's so cute :heart2:

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3 hours ago, HonourableVomit said:

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This pretty much confirms it's lorde then lol as a fan I wouldn't have known unless I was on twitter 24/7 or followed 360_brat within the few seconds that it was public

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91 on Metacritic… wow

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for those who listened already...what your top five? 

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2 minutes ago, Gold said:

for those who listened already...what your top five? 

Club classics 

Everything is romantic 

Girl, so confusing 

B2B

365

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4 minutes ago, Gold said:

for those who listened already...what your top five? 

Sympathy is a knife

Mean girls

The apple

Girl, so confusing

So I

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3 minutes ago, Gold said:

for those who listened already...what your top five? 

sympathy 

apple 

romantic 

mean girls 

365

 

all 10's, she ate that 

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Von dutch

Sympathy is a knife

Everything is romantic

Apple

B2b

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7 minutes ago, Gold said:

for those who listened already...what your top five? 

mean girls

von dutch

club classics

B2B

romantic

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The way it just slides into different club music genres. I know the girls are jealous. :jonny5:

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So I :jonny:

 

I need a dj to end with this after a heavy tech house set

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GORL .....

It's so confusing sometimes to be a GORL .....

 

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They're playlisting Talk talk for the NMF.

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22 minutes ago, Gold said:

for those who listened already...what your top five? 

…romantic

Apple

Rewind

360

CC / B2b

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something stupid is growing on me :toofunny3:

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i'm so excited to hear it tonight omg

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This is a really great album. I'm glad because as a long time fans since VV, I despised how bland Crash felt. My initial (unsolicited) thoughts:

 

First, the not-so-great

 

- George's production skills are just.. not great. You can immediately tell which tracks he produced (CC, Apple) by how round (?) they sound due to unnecessary, muddy mid-low end from his kick drums which should have been cut out and lack of skill in making synth's sharp enough in upper frequencies. What ends up happening is there isn't enough space in the mix for the sonic elements to sound impactful texture-wise... it makes the result sound mushy (see Apple for example, and compare the production quality to something like Talk Talk or Rewind). This was my same issue with In The City - the mix was just very rudimentary sounding. Glad he's only been involved on a couple tracks. :dies:

 

- Not a bad thing but she definitely released the most digestible cuts as singles (bar Talk Talk) which set my expectations sort of low. I liked them (bar B2B which I'm still trying to get into) and they've since grown on me but I was pleasantly surprised by how much more interesting the rest of the album is. Tbh tho even with her best work her single choices are not what I would have chosen (OOMH for example) 

 

The GREAT

 

- Pretty much everything else lol :heart:

- Production wise, this thing is excellent. So glad daddy Cook is still the main contributor as I mainly listen to Charli for his production.

- LOVE how she incorporated El Guincho's signature sound to EIR. Same with Hudson Mohawke's work on Mean Girls (I think he did this one, right?)

- My favs are Rewind, Mean Girls, EIR, 360, 365, IMSSS, and SIAK. :hippo:

- I always liked ITAIATT and G,SC so I'm glad to see them here in finished form. I do think though that ITAIATT could have been replaced with Spring Breakers and that it should have been saved for the deluxe/remix album instead.

- She mentioned being inspired by Lou Reed's writing and although this is an entirely different world sonically, I can totally see where  he inspired her. The candidness and no-need-to-sugarcoat style is his signature. "I wanna buy a gun, I wanna shoot myself" for example is SO him.

 

Overall, this is like a 8.5-9 for me right now. Loveeeee it. :WAP:

 

 

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WAIT... So if she signed a two album deal with Atlantic, and she's released Brat, and there's a full on remix album coming out, that means her record deal will be over again?

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33 minutes ago, Gold said:

for those who listened already...what your top five? 

Club classics

Apple

Mean Girls

365

Von dutch

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