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But Bouquet plays out a scenario where happiness—or the projection of it—saps one's creative vitality, leaving the artist with very little to say. Every relationship has its challenges, and one would hope that those details could make for stories worth sharing. Instead, Stefani wants us to believe that she's found the simple kind of life that she sang so longingly about. Bouquet is as odd as boring gets—an album inspired by her real life that nonetheless comes off as lifeless.

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Is the writer's love life currently as boring as they say this album is? 

The review reads a lot worse than the score tbh 

Lamb only got 5.1 so I consider this a win 

Yeah, LAMB got 5.1 so I am not taking this seriously

Deserves better

I love Gwen but Bouquet is boring tbh.

This will only help this album crack the top 90. #ThankYouPitchfork

I get where they're coming from (although personally I quite enjoy Bouquet), but that review just sounds unnecessarily bitter. 

Edited December 2, 20241 yr by SlowGinFizzzz

So because the writers love life is bad that means everyone's has to be?

I really can't stand that Pitchfork cannot just listen to an album objectively and ALWAYS has to find some way to criticize an artist's personal life/public perception and build their entire review upon it. There's plenty to critique sonically of this (yes, somewhat bland) album that we don't need to go dragging Gwen's marriage or create some weird narrative that she's obsessed with heteronormativity or in some trad wife era. 

I'm still thinking I might give this a first listen… even though the only album of hers i've ever listened to in full was L.A.M.B. lol

1 hour ago, SlowGinFizzzz said:

I get where they're coming from (although personally I quite enjoy Bouquet), but that review just sounds unnecessarily bitter. 

 

1 minute ago, BlahBlahBlah said:

I really can't stand that Pitchfork cannot just listen to an album objectively and ALWAYS has to find some way to criticize an artist's personal life/public perception and build their entire review upon it. There's plenty to critique sonically of this (yes, somewhat bland) album that we don't need to go dragging Gwen's marriage or create some weird narrative that she's obsessed with heteronormativity or in some trad wife era. 

This is nothing new as of late. The same thing they did with Halsey. It's so try hard lol

2 minutes ago, BlahBlahBlah said:

I really can't stand that Pitchfork cannot just listen to an album objectively and ALWAYS has to find some way to criticize an artist's personal life/public perception and build their entire review upon it. There's plenty to critique sonically of this (yes, somewhat bland) album that we don't need to go dragging Gwen's marriage or create some weird narrative that she's obsessed with heteronormativity or in some trad wife era. 

oh this spill though… I was thinking about this during the Halsey review debacle  it still confuses the f*ck out of me how they nearly praised her in one album after that infamous tweet of hers, but then they dig in the archives and bring it on up to drag her for in a review for an album AFTER that… it's so weird and petty and feels like dragging just for the sake of f*cking dragging

I didn't even know know this was out, I thought she merely announced it a few months ago

LMFAO the irony of this MAN telling us Gwen isn't doing a good job of being an interesting woman