3 minutes ago, Swiftie In Red said:

Anyone else getting kinda emotional at Walk of Fame? Like **** yes, Miley. From being a little kid at 12 finding his feet listening to Liberty Walk. And fast track 15 years later and FEELING that freedom. In the way we live our lives. Our revolt against hate and all that is evil in this world. I walk the concrete. 

Yes bc tell me why I had flashbacks to Miley telling my 10 year old self to not live a lie this is my one life and now I'm about to be 25

Just now, YourFavoriteWeapon said:

Yes bc tell me why I had flashbacks to Miley telling my 10 year old self to not live a lie this is my one life and now I'm about to be 25

Literally!! Don't live a lie. This is your one life. Just walk. Just walk. And now to I walk the concrete. The walk continues. So so powerful 

My rate of Something Beautiful:

1. Prelude 1/5
2. Something Beautiful 1/5
3. End of the World 5/5
4. More to Lose 3/5
5. Interlude 1 1/5
6. Easy Lover 3/5
7. Interlude 2 1/5
8. Golden Burning Sun 5/5
9. Walk of Fame 5/5
10. Pretend You're God 5/5
11. Every Girl You've Ever Loved 5/5
12. Reborn 5/5
13. Give Me Love 3/5

The overall score is 3/5

The album is good, but I don't know, it's so heavily Euro-inspired: disco, 80s, and synths. Nothing I couldn't live without. I don't get the Walk Of Fame praise though. Perhaps it's because the song's so obviously Modern Talking coded. 

 

Pretend You're God is QUALITY and lowkey the sound I was hoping she would've explored deeper with this album (along with Prelude and Something Beautiful).

Literally her BEST album.

But the mixing, girl... 

the only problem i have with the album is that some tracks drag way too long... like Reborn could be 1min shorter and etc

 

i love longer tracks but not every track needs a long outro miss Destiny

Honestly, this is amazing. BY FAR her best album.

 

I agree with the mixing critiques here, that's something I noticed would be a problem for me from the pre-release singles.

19 minutes ago, Swiftie In Red said:

Anyone else getting kinda emotional at Walk of Fame? Like **** yes, Miley. From being a little kid at 12 finding his feet listening to Liberty Walk. And fast track 15 years later and FEELING that freedom. In the way we live our lives. Our revolt against hate and all that is evil in this world. I walk the concrete. 

As soon as I heard Walk of Fame I instantly got thrown back to Liberty Walk. The same freedom feeling 

"Every Girl You've Ever Loved" is my favorite. I like "Walk of Fame" but I find the chorus to be a little lackluster so it will have to grow on me.

1 hour ago, folklovermore said:

Ended Mayhem

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I'm glad I'm not the only one who notices the awful mixing. It's just so negligent and frustrating because this is easily her best work to date and it's ruined by something that should be so paramount and obvious. Nobody on her team heard the mixing and thought to say "I literally can't hear a word you're saying?". And not just that but the instrumentation is so cool and sounds almost live but every instrument morphs together and you can't hear any of the interesting details in the production.

 

I know I've heard albums suddenly have their mixing changed and serviced to streaming (West Coast by Lana, CTRL by SZA). Maybe if we make this known they'll re-mix the entire album and get that 90+ metacritic score 

Oh @ all the other Taylor x Miley hybrids in here  truly the two best girls of our generation

the sound texture on this album is 100% intentional, you're absolutely free not to like it but it's not the result of a technical flaw.

18 minutes ago, CottageHore said:

I'm glad I'm not the only one who notices the awful mixing. It's just so negligent and frustrating because this is easily her best work to date and it's ruined by something that should be so paramount and obvious. Nobody on her team heard the mixing and thought to say "I literally can't hear a word you're saying?". And not just that but the instrumentation is so cool and sounds almost live but every instrument morphs together and you can't hear any of the interesting details in the production.

 

I know I've heard albums suddenly have their mixing changed and serviced to streaming (West Coast by Lana, CTRL by SZA). Maybe if we make this known they'll re-mix the entire album and get that 90+ metacritic score 

Please, cause now I'm scared to listen to it

4 minutes ago, enchanted0 said:

the sound texture on this album is 100% intentional, you're absolutely free not to like it but it's not the result of a technical flaw.

Okay but then it may as well be an instrumental album  

"Walk Of Fame" is giving Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat

 

The fact it was not released as single since it is the song with the most commercial potential was a choice

Enjoyed evrything but Walk of Shame

Edited May 30, 20251 yr by Mocha

Y'all having all these complaints about mixing meanwhile all the producers and harsh critics I've seen video reactions of are saying the sounds are incredible; it's definitely a matter of taste and I think a past criticism before ESV was that the fine-tuned mixing would strip the unique qualities of her voice so either way she can't win 

5 minutes ago, smilervoticat said:

Y'all having all these complaints about mixing meanwhile all the producers and harsh critics I've seen video reactions of are saying the sounds are incredible; it's definitely a matter of taste and I think a past criticism before ESV was that the fine-tuned mixing would strip the unique qualities of her voice so either way she can't win 

I vividly remember people complaining PH was too polished for a rock album 

 

She truly can *never* win it's kinda hilarious. Guess that comes with being one of the most versatile artists of our time 

Edited May 30, 20251 yr by FlyOnTheWall

"She speaks the perfect French" is giving

 

people claiming endless summer deportation is better than this are just p*ssing me off….leave this thread with that trolling pls

 

Just started my first listening experience and the prelude is such a fantastic introduction to the album.

The space theme that is going throughout the whole track is incredible and feels very cinematic. 

 

 

 

 

30 minutes ago, enchanted0 said:

the sound texture on this album is 100% intentional, you're absolutely free not to like it but it's not the result of a technical flaw.

THANK YOU for this, it needed to be written.

On 5/29/2025 at 3:27 PM, KatyPrismSpirit said:

Golden Burning Sun sounds like Kim Carnes 

!!!!! exactly

 

23 hours ago, ThousandMiles said:

she deserves AOTY alone for this 

the way the Grammys gave ESV a nom for that... she better recieve another one for this and win ackshulee

19 hours ago, mar said:

Reborn outro into Give Me Love guitars 

eargasmic transition wbk

1 hour ago, YourFavoriteWeapon said:

Pretend You're God is that girl

from "i'm haunted... he's missing" onwards is just another level of gaggery she truly ended Dead Petz there

I almost stopped listening to the album after interlude 2 and I'm so glad I didn't

This album sounds so expensive, explosive, fresh, and liberating all at once. Truly one of the greatest artists of her generation