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Okay after 10 years now i'm ready for Blue 2.0

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17 hours ago, original_lifeline said:

ionnalee music is for rich people :coffee2:

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Does she have an audience who listens to the Swedish versions? In my head sounds like a waste of time 

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1 hour ago, campelo said:

Does she have an audience who listens to the Swedish versions? In my head sounds like a waste of time 

Probably not a huge one, but it's her native language and it'll probably do things locally for her. 

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1 hour ago, campelo said:

Does she have an audience who listens to the Swedish versions? In my head sounds like a waste of time 

another way to milk the fans who will have fomo the Swedish LP (also it has a bonus track, she's smart)

 

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1 hour ago, FlyPirate said:

another way to milk the fans who will have fomo the Swedish LP (also it has a bonus track, she's smart)

 

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Her entrepreneurial mind :jonnycat: 

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the single has a hold on me omfg

 

how tf am I going to wait until June 14 :jonny4:

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1 hour ago, original_lifeline said:

 

oh she is serious about the Swedish stuff.... alright, cute!

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sorry but as much as i like her...
what a mess.
she released her most personal album as iamamiwhoami after 8 years; giving a middle finger to all of its narrative/lore and now she's releasing a whole blue sequel as ionnalee? i don't get it. screams nostalgia bait

also giving the generate snippet, pretty sure half of the album will be reworked mouth of a river tracks (which she said gave birth to blue or something), not unlike her previous solo albums (i know she said its not mouth of a river and technically, its not. its mouth of a river recycled).
at least maybe we'll finally get avalanche?

and the video... people crowdfunded for this? another mv with no plot and beautiful nature shots we've already seen a billion times? this is the same woman who gave us a toilet paper bed, a puppet, an aluminium forest, a castle of boxes and much more on her FIRST audiovisual. 
all of it seems rushed - almost as if she has a compulsion for releasing music nonstop. i cant believe im saying this but im not even excited this time around because it feels like there's never a rest between one era and another, which is sad because her priorities over quantity instead of quality are driving fans away (but no one is brave enough to say it because of the cultlike fans and her stubbornness)

i dont know why she insists on doing everything by herself, having to take care of her baby and all. just bring robinovich back
anyways - cute song, but i dont think ill listen to it again for a while

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31 minutes ago, FantasticPlanet said:

sorry but as much as i like her...
what a mess.
she released her most personal album as iamamiwhoami after 8 years; giving a middle finger to all of its narrative/lore and now she's releasing a whole blue sequel as ionnalee? i don't get it. screams nostalgia bait

also giving the generate snippet, pretty sure half of the album will be reworked mouth of a river tracks (which she said gave birth to blue or something), not unlike her previous solo albums (i know she said its not mouth of a river and technically, its not. its mouth of a river recycled).
at least maybe we'll finally get avalanche?

and the video... people crowdfunded for this? another mv with no plot and beautiful nature shots we've already seen a billion times? this is the same woman who gave us a toilet paper bed, a puppet, an aluminium forest, a castle of boxes and much more on her FIRST audiovisual. 
all of it seems rushed - almost as if she has a compulsion for releasing music nonstop. i cant believe im saying this but im not even excited this time around because it feels like there's never a rest between one era and another, which is sad because her priorities over quantity instead of quality are driving fans away (but no one is brave enough to say it because of the cultlike fans and her stubbornness)

i dont know why she insists on doing everything by herself, having to take care of her baby and all. just bring robinovich back
anyways - cute song, but i dont think ill listen to it again for a while

your narrative is already tiring. it's time to stop 

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2 minutes ago, original_lifeline said:

your narrative is already tiring. it's time to stop 

its not coming from a place of hate - as surprising as it seems! i feel like theres a lot of people talking about it behind her back but no one expressing it in public due to reasons mentioned. i prefer to sound like a hater than to remain silent and let people shy away from her work because of that. 

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37 minutes ago, FantasticPlanet said:

sorry but as much as i like her...
what a mess.
she released her most personal album as iamamiwhoami after 8 years; giving a middle finger to all of its narrative/lore and now she's releasing a whole blue sequel as ionnalee? i don't get it. screams nostalgia bait

also giving the generate snippet, pretty sure half of the album will be reworked mouth of a river tracks (which she said gave birth to blue or something), not unlike her previous solo albums (i know she said its not mouth of a river and technically, its not. its mouth of a river recycled).
at least maybe we'll finally get avalanche?

and the video... people crowdfunded for this? another mv with no plot and beautiful nature shots we've already seen a billion times? this is the same woman who gave us a toilet paper bed, a puppet, an aluminium forest, a castle of boxes and much more on her FIRST audiovisual. 
all of it seems rushed - almost as if she has a compulsion for releasing music nonstop. i cant believe im saying this but im not even excited this time around because it feels like there's never a rest between one era and another, which is sad because her priorities over quantity instead of quality are driving fans away (but no one is brave enough to say it because of the cultlike fans and her stubbornness)

i dont know why she insists on doing everything by herself, having to take care of her baby and all. just bring robinovich back
anyways - cute song, but i dont think ill listen to it again for a while

the only thing I'll agree with is that Be Here Soon should've been an ionnalee album and this a iamamiwhoami album. she literally continued the lore in BHS so... 

also I dont see a problem with this being mouth of a river reworked considering we literally never heard it. its new music. 

her visuals haven't been that experimental since kin, she has been about using nature as a stage for most of her visual career now. is the video a bit underwhelming? yes. but it has the essence of iamamiwhomi. the outfits, the bed in the field, the gorgeous nature shots, hell, there's even possible lore here with the moss growing on her in the final look. the only difference to the BLUE visuals here is a steadicam lmao

also, talking about compulsions like this about someone who has openly said they struggle with OCD is... weird. and the stuff you said about cultlike fans... so weird. a LOT of people were not here for Be Here Soon and loudly said so. its not her fault that this era is really bringing people back but not you, nostalgia or not. and talking about her personal life and her baby.... again, weird as hell.

 

its just giving extreme party pooper vibes. like, just because you're not here for it doesn't mean you need to downtalk this era (which has literally just started). 

now let us have fun, please. 

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She has said before how intensive and expensive doing a visual for every song is. I frankly don't care if it's just nature shots of her for the visuals this time; she always serves with the music and that's what I stan. I've seen similar comments on RYM saying that she has been spamming us with music too frequently and needs to take a break, but I think she always serves quality with the music and vocals, so I don't agree. Bring on the tewns!

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what is a mouth of a river? :rip:

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2 minutes ago, Pendulum said:

what is a mouth of a river? :rip:

its iamamiwhoami lore, basically an album/project that was made after bounty/before kin.

 

a bunch of songs were registered for it and some even were reworked for EATBF and RTF. 

 

https://iamamiwhoami.fandom.com/wiki/mouth_of_a_river

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1 minute ago, Pendulum said:

what is a mouth of a river? :rip:

A scrapped iamamiwhoami album. The wiki has a list of songs from that project that have been finalized/released as part of other projects (the only one I knew off the top of my head was OPEN SEA). I would doubt that project will ever be a fully realized album itself, but I guess anything could happen. 

 

https://iamamiwhoami.fandom.com/wiki/mouth_of_a_river

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2 minutes ago, Curaga said:

A scrapped iamamiwhoami album. The wiki has a list of songs from that project that have been finalized/released as part of other projects (the only one I knew off the top of my head was OPEN SEA). I would doubt that project will ever be a fully realized album itself, but I guess anything could happen. 

 

https://iamamiwhoami.fandom.com/wiki/mouth_of_a_river

us posting the exact same link :deadbanana2:

 

i NEEEED siberia and sphere based on the titles :jonnycat:

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1 minute ago, ChapelHooker said:

the only thing I'll agree with is that Be Here Soon should've been an ionnalee album and this a iamamiwhoami album. she literally continued the lore in BHS so... 

also I dont see a problem with this being mouth of a river reworked considering we literally never heard it. its new music. 

her visuals haven't been that experimental since kin, she has been about using nature as a stage for most of her visual career now. is the video a bit underwhelming? yes. but it has the essence of iamamiwhomi. the outfits, the bed in the field, the gorgeous nature shots, hell, there's even possible lore here with the moss growing on her in the final look. the only difference to the BLUE visuals here is a steadicam lmao

also, talking about compulsions like this about someone who has openly said they struggle with OCD is... weird. and the stuff you said about cultlike fans... so weird. a LOT of people were not here for Be Here Soon and loudly said so. its not her fault that this era is really bringing people back but not you, nostalgia or not. and talking about her personal life and her baby.... again, weird as hell.

 

its just giving extreme party pooper vibes. like, just because you're not here for it doesn't mean you need to downtalk this era (which has literally just started). 

now let us have fun, please. 

its not a problem to rework songs. i even said i hope for avalanche lol.
it's how she's marketing it as a new album - how it comes off as purely nostalgia bait without any depth. and she has built high stakes around depth in her releases. it's also about how she ruined iam's narrative for god knows Y. and i might B wrong about recycled music after all
i dont want experimental visuals - thats not what i meant. what i meant was simply 'she tried so many things on her first album alone'. we've seen these exact shots SEVERAL times already. its easy to draw parallels. she could very well do something different again (not human, samaritan are good examples).
and well, there's a huge difference in plot and tone from fountain to this if im gonna be honest. im not a big fan of the narrative of blue either so.. 

if u wanna twist what i said, tying it to her OCD or whatever... do it. who made the association was you- what i said was from a marketing perspective. 

and she does have cultlike fans. why do you think she has several songs calling them out lol.

and i didnt bring her personal life up lol, i brought up what her last album was literally about, and that she insists on doing everything by herself when she already seems to have a lot going on, to a point that's affecting the quality of her newest releases.

and i really dont get this "we can only express our opinions if we like it" thing. what i made was constructive criticism. and if it seemed like i was attacking her OCD or personal life, which is what u projected upon me, i'm clarifying here. 

That's all i'm gonna say.

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7 minutes ago, FantasticPlanet said:

That's all i'm gonna say.

here's hoping

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17 minutes ago, Pendulum said:

what is a mouth of a river? :rip:

scrapped solo album between bounty and kin. prequel to blue. she reworked a lot of songs registered for future releases and filmed at least one video for it- u can see some of the footage for mouth's open sea on the the genesarets sjö video

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2 minutes ago, ChapelHooker said:

here's hoping

at least until her next release! but i hope to be surprised

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On 3/25/2024 at 3:17 PM, FantasticPlanet said:

sorry but as much as i like her...
what a mess.
she released her most personal album as iamamiwhoami after 8 years; giving a middle finger to all of its narrative/lore and now she's releasing a whole blue sequel as ionnalee? i don't get it. screams nostalgia bait

also giving the generate snippet, pretty sure half of the album will be reworked mouth of a river tracks (which she said gave birth to blue or something), not unlike her previous solo albums (i know she said its not mouth of a river and technically, its not. its mouth of a river recycled).
at least maybe we'll finally get avalanche?

and the video... people crowdfunded for this? another mv with no plot and beautiful nature shots we've already seen a billion times? this is the same woman who gave us a toilet paper bed, a puppet, an aluminium forest, a castle of boxes and much more on her FIRST audiovisual. 
all of it seems rushed - almost as if she has a compulsion for releasing music nonstop. i cant believe im saying this but im not even excited this time around because it feels like there's never a rest between one era and another, which is sad because her priorities over quantity instead of quality are driving fans away (but no one is brave enough to say it because of the cultlike fans and her stubbornness)

i dont know why she insists on doing everything by herself, having to take care of her baby and all. just bring robinovich back
anyways - cute song, but i dont think ill listen to it again for a while

I don't think you understand the concept of her last album...it was pretty much an album she had to do it because of the pregnancy feelings she had or was in the mood...and it's deeper than that. She never gave a middle finger to her synthpop albums 

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so there is the truth?

 

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had quite a morning playing my new single 'allting vill rinna ut i sand' for the first time live, taken from my first swedish album BLUND and it's english version CLOSE YOUR EYES both out june 21.

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