base talk Is it high time to admit bad beach Bebe Rexha's Expectations album is EXCELLENCE

[Nein]

 

Revisiting this album, I realised this is a pot of gold; Ferrari, Knees, Mine, Pillow alone!! Not even including the hits off the record. Whew

Get in, fellow f-words!

[NewStanner]

LOUDER for the people in the back

 

Ferrari and Self Control alone >>>

[Nein]

Just now, NewStanner said:

LOUDER for the people in the back

 

Ferrari and Self Control alone >>>

The government failed her.

 

[DuffStan]

Better Mistakes is excellence but y'all are not ready for THAT conversation

[ChrisTheLoner]

I'm a Mess, Self Control, and Knee's alone DEMOLISH careers

 

[glitch]

Ferrari and Two Souls on Fire were cute, but All Your Fault pt1 was her peak

[KatyPrismSpirit]

Better Mistakes has more bops than that album

[Galaxy]

Bebe Rexha: Expectations review – fiercely trite pop

UK audiences will know Bebe Rexha on the strength of her collaborations: with meat-headed country duo Florida Georgia Line, Dutch DJ Martin Garrix, rapper G-Eazy, and with Rita Ora, Charli XCX and Cardi B on Girls, a song about the joys of making out with women that drew condemnation from those who thought it trivialised queerness for a male gaze. These disparate hookups indicate an artist in desperate search of an identity, an impression the 28-year-old's fiercely trite debut album confirms. But then, what self-respecting modern pop star needs anything so quaint as an identity when there are genre-specific Spotify playlists to grace? Expectations ticks every box on pop's checklist in admirably perfunctory style: there are the songs about anxiety (I'm a Mess, Sad), the one that sounds like Migos (Mine), the one that features one of Migos (2 Souls on Fire), the Latin one (Shining Star), the tropical house one complete with "dolphin whine" (I Got You) and so on. The only remotely distinctive song is Ferrari, a song about how "living in the fast lane's getting kinda lonely" that lands somewhere between Maren Morris's (much better) My Church and Rag'n'Bone Man's (much worse) Human.

 

As Ferrari proves, Rexha can belt in that strained, bluesy fashion that connotes authenticity – so it's baffling trying to work out why her vocals are often lagged in Auto-Tune: she sounds like she's drowning on Self Control and malfunctioning on the horrid Mine. The songwriting – about bad girls and good boys in miserable, moneyed relationships – is precisely as deep as you'd expect. Poptimism finds its hard ceiling.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/22/bebe-rexha-expectations-review-fiercely-trite-pop

 

[Diet Pepsi]

not releasing Knees as a single is one of the biggest fumbles ever 

[Into The Void]

I prefer Better Mistakes now

[YourFavoriteWeapon]

Don't Get Any Closer is art omfg 

[crymelanie]

better mistakes supremacy but expectations also did not disappoint

[americanlife]

lemme give Self Control a stream

 

[JustHoran]

Meh. Better Mistakes is way better than this album imo.

[Bubble Tea]

Bad beaches let's go

[Katamari]

true

 

only perverts would disagree  from their jail cell

 

[BlahBlahBlah]

Expectations & Better Mistakes are good but both were ended by Self Titled

[skeeyee]

16 hours ago, Galaxy said:

Poptimism finds its hard ceiling.

[RideOrDie]

no

[pavi]

The fact it stretches this many genres is both its strength and its biggest weakness. If she'd have interwoven the genres more, instead of just doing another genre every song, the album would have made more sense as an album. But if you take the songs seperate, there are so many highlights on here. Knees, Ferrari, Self Control, Don't Get Any Closer, Grace (!!) 

 

I feel like the album is mostly brought down by songs like 2 Souls On Fire, Mine, Steady, and Sad. They are maybe the most dated? Even though Mine and Steady are kinda guilty pleasures to me

[Princess Aurora]

Because it is