Achilles. Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 I wrote out album rankings yesterday and decided that my top 5 from each album is my overall top 10… just did the sorter and those exact 10 songs were my top 10. I know my taste too well. Spoiler 1 Clara Bow 2 I Hate It Here 3 Guilty as Sin? 4 I Look in People's Windows 5 I Can Do It With a Broken Heart 6 Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus 7 The Prophecy 8 How Did It End? 9 So Long, London 10 Fresh Out the Slammer 11 I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) 12 Peter 13 The Manuscript 14 Cassandra 15 Florida!!! 16 The Alchemy 17 Down Bad 18 The Albatross 19 loml 20 Fortnight 21 The Bolter 22 The Black Dog 23 Who's Afraid of Little Old Me? 24 So High School 25 Robin 26 The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived 27 But Daddy I Love Him 28 My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys 29 imgonnagetyouback 30 thanK you aIMee 31 The Tortured Poets Department 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkbowvintage Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 oh and the alien metaphor COMES BACK in the second verse when she's left "naked in a field and alone in a field of her hometown" god this song is good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achilles. Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 Spoiler I don't really like the alien metaphor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChapelHooker Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 2 minutes ago, Achilles. said: I wrote out album rankings yesterday and decided that my top 5 from each album is my overall top 10… just did the sorter and those exact 10 songs were my top 10. I know my taste too well. Reveal hidden contents 1 Clara Bow 2 I Hate It Here 3 Guilty as Sin? 4 I Look in People's Windows 5 I Can Do It With a Broken Heart 6 Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus 7 The Prophecy 8 How Did It End? 9 So Long, London 10 Fresh Out the Slammer 11 I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) 12 Peter 13 The Manuscript 14 Cassandra 15 Florida!!! 16 The Alchemy 17 Down Bad 18 The Albatross 19 loml 20 Fortnight 21 The Bolter 22 The Black Dog 23 Who's Afraid of Little Old Me? 24 So High School 25 Robin 26 The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived 27 But Daddy I Love Him 28 My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys 29 imgonnagetyouback 30 thanK you aIMee 31 The Tortured Poets Department both of us having Clara Bow at number 1 ooooh the taste the taste Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintlor Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 2 minutes ago, Achilles. said: I wrote out album rankings yesterday and decided that my top 5 from each album is my overall top 10… just did the sorter and those exact 10 songs were my top 10. I know my taste too well. Reveal hidden contents 1 Clara Bow 2 I Hate It Here 3 Guilty as Sin? 4 I Look in People's Windows 5 I Can Do It With a Broken Heart 6 Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus 7 The Prophecy 8 How Did It End? 9 So Long, London 10 Fresh Out the Slammer 11 I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) 12 Peter 13 The Manuscript 14 Cassandra 15 Florida!!! 16 The Alchemy 17 Down Bad 18 The Albatross 19 loml 20 Fortnight 21 The Bolter 22 The Black Dog 23 Who's Afraid of Little Old Me? 24 So High School 25 Robin 26 The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived 27 But Daddy I Love Him 28 My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys 29 imgonnagetyouback 30 thanK you aIMee 31 The Tortured Poets Department Clara and ICDIWABH being in your top 5 You look like Taylor Swift is probably her best line ever to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkbowvintage Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 I'm convinced people claiming these lyrics are "bad" and "juvenile" don't understand sarcasm and irony like....she's making fun of herself in so many of these songs and the wordplay is way more clever than so many reviewers are noticing on initial listens. It took me a bit to "get" the alien sound (like the glittering creepy beginning and ending, OHHH) and metaphors in Down Bad, but once I did, HOLY ISH. I was like OHHHHH. It's kind of crazy-making how critics are trying to gaslight us into thinking we have poor or limited reading comprehension 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magickarp Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 How Did It End. Now THAT is a Track 5. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nein Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 1. The Black Dog 2. So Long, London 3. loml 4. Fortnight 5. Fresh Out the Slammer Ranking so far; I Can Do It With a Broken Heart has fell a little... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChapelHooker Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 YOU HAD STOPPED AND TILTED YOUR HEAD I STILL PONDER WHAT IT MEANT NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW!!! I TRIED SEARCHING FACES ON STREETS WHAT ARE THE CHANCES YOU'D BE DOWNTOWN DOWNTOWN DOWNTOWN!!! DOES IT FEEL ALRIGHT TO NOT KNOW ME IM ADDICTED TO THE "IF ONLY"! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walk_Away21 Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 (edited) 13 minutes ago, pinkbowvintage said: can we show a little love for the super clever wordplay in the first verse of Down Bad where she experiences "cosmic love" after being beamed up by metaphorical aliens and experimented on...only to be sent DOWN back to earth. to the mundane gym. it's too good. Oh sweetie let me get on my soap box. TLDR version @Taylor fanboy: Both Down Bad meanings are used simultaneously. She's Down Bad sad about it ending, BUT still Down Bad for that experience and wants it back. Emily Dickinson is shaking. The alien theme is GIVING the whole song. Beam me up, sparkling dust, experiments on me, chosen one, cosmic love, etc are the obvious ones. "Staring at the sky, come back and pick me up" aka she wants her UFO back. "Just to leave me here naked and alone? In a field in my same old town that somehow seems so hollow now" is giving Signs crop circles. "They'll say I'm nuts if I talk about the existence of you" alien conspiracy theorists "hostile takeovers" is a common alien theme where they abduct you and mind control you "Encounters" Close Encounters of the Third Kind She echos "waving at the ship" at the end aka waving goodbye to the UFO and accepting it She ******* ate this extraterrestrial concept down. Chats and Reacts you are bones. Edited April 23 by Walk_Away21 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkbowvintage Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 okay now I think you need to be kind of stoned or high to fully "get" this album because I'm fully hearing all kinds of subtle stuff I didn't notice before. she is a genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achilles. Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 2 minutes ago, Saintlor said: Clara and ICDIWABH being in your top 5 You look like Taylor Swift is probably her best line ever to me 2 minutes ago, ChapelHooker said: both of us having Clara Bow at number 1 ooooh the taste the taste The verses of Clara were the first part of the album I memorized so I have a soft spot for it, even without the way the actual subject matter HITS. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkbowvintage Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 1 minute ago, Walk_Away21 said: Oh sweetie let me get on my soap box. TLDR version: Both Down Bad meanings are used simultaneous. She's Down Bad sad, BUT still Down Bad for that experience and wants it back. The alien theme is GIVING the whole song. Beam me up, sparkling dust, experiments on me, chosen one, cosmic love, etc are the obvious ones. "Staring at the sky, come back and pick me up" aka she wants her UFO back. "Just to leave me here naked and alone? In a field in my same old town that somehow seems so hollow now" is giving Signs crop circles. "They'll say I'm nuts if I talk about the existence of you" alien conspiracy theorists "hostile takeovers" "Encounters" Encounters of the Third Kind She echos "waving at the ship" at the end aka waving goodbye to the UFO and accepting it She ******* ate this extraterrestrial concept down. Chats and Reacts you are bones. omg you are brilliant. the way every song has SO MUCH of this stuff and why it's making me kind of MAD AT THE INTERNET that so many reviewers and critics are NOT GETTING IT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChapelHooker Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 you know how people are like "SHE WROTE THIS FOR ME!!!" and I never quite got that like I would relate and imagine my own life listening to her lyrics but mostly I just love listening to her tell a story well... she ******* wrote The Prophecy for me like... its the first time I felt like she looked in my brain and made a song for me lmao I love it so much 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1989 Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 I do fear I have a new top 3 in my album rankings, it is true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChapelHooker Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 3 minutes ago, pinkbowvintage said: okay now I think you need to be kind of stoned or high to fully "get" this album because I'm fully hearing all kinds of subtle stuff I didn't notice before. she is a genius. I didn't want to say it before but the album, especially Side A, fully clicked for me when I listened to it stoned for the first time 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkbowvintage Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 1 minute ago, ChapelHooker said: you know how people are like "SHE WROTE THIS FOR ME!!!" and I never quite got that like I would relate and imagine my own life listening to her lyrics but mostly I just love listening to her tell a story well... she ******* wrote The Prophecy for me like... its the first time I felt like she looked in my brain and made a song for me lmao I love it so much she definitely wrote Guilty as Sin, The Smallest Man and Down Bad for me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walk_Away21 Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 1 minute ago, pinkbowvintage said: omg you are brilliant. the way every song has SO MUCH of this stuff and why it's making me kind of MAD AT THE INTERNET that so many reviewers and critics are NOT GETTING IT. Guilty as Sin was my other main fathoming tonight. I mean it's kinda obvious what it's about, but the devil is in the details in these new songs. The replay value on these tracks is crazy. It's no wonder the reviewers hate it. They are too dumb to decode the songs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TROPICUM Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 12 minutes ago, kyoshi said: But it has a higher score? (not that it matters) Aaron is now one of her elite employees for evermore it still says 69 to me but we move oh Hack was ENDED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALA Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 Oh at Fantano not giving the album a score I'm guessing hes gonna review the Anthology too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achilles. Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 1 minute ago, ChapelHooker said: you know how people are like "SHE WROTE THIS FOR ME!!!" and I never quite got that like I would relate and imagine my own life listening to her lyrics but mostly I just love listening to her tell a story well... she ******* wrote The Prophecy for me like... its the first time I felt like she looked in my brain and made a song for me lmao I love it so much Yeah, I don't relate to the vast majority of her songs because I've never really done the relationship thing but her songs where she branches out tend to hit pretty hard. It was I Hate It Here for me right on first listen. That delulu I hate my life so I just go to other places in my mind. Yeah, that's my whole life. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle-x Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 The lyric "but she's too young to know this song that was intertwined in the magic fabric of our dreaming" in The Black Dog kills me especially if you frame it against the lyric "and I'm pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free" in So Long, London. The recurring theme of time wasted / fleeting youth / nature of men and the media to replace women with the shinier new upgrade that's been interwoven into her work lately is so brutally honest. But then there's an even more sinister parallel of that The Black Dog lyric to the one in The Manuscript where she says "she thought how he said since she was so wise beyond her years everything had been above board, she wasn't sure." Speaking to the character of the subject in TBD, preying upon the youth of a young woman like had been done to her years ago and knowing what a piece of **** that makes him. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magickarp Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 2 minutes ago, ALA said: Oh at Fantano not giving the album a score I'm guessing hes gonna review the Anthology too How was the review cuz im not giving that man a view Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mocha Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 imgonnagetyouback is the Dress of this album and i'm totally obsessed with it 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkbowvintage Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 3 minutes ago, Walk_Away21 said: Guilty as Sin was my other main fathoming tonight. I mean it's kinda obvious what it's about, but the devil is in the details in these new songs. The replay value on these tracks is crazy. It's no wonder the reviewers hate it. They are too dumb to decode the songs. When I realized she was talking about masturbating I was like....oh my. Maybe you need to be a bit of a stoner/benzo/depressed/soft grunge/dreamcore girlie to get this album idk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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