I think they're actually f*cking stupid or something

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Why do yall caaareeee

Not M.A.G.A. outacclaiming

Just now, Heldenzeit said:

Why do yall caaareeee

there's a part of me that doesn't, cause ultimately this will not affect how much I will continue to be in love with this album, but there's a part of me that thinks about how their hype, respectively, for both What's Your Pleasure? and That! Feels Good! made Jessie gain many new fans and earn more new respect. putting this score and this review on the third of a trilogy, as in she'll likely go to other avenues in her music in the future, makes it feel like a lowblow. genuinely just a bit unfair-seeming to me

she's kinda repeating herself on this one ngl

It was a snooze and I usually love wine mom music

She needs to make a Mariah - Daydream type of album or go the rock route like she did on that one track that sounds like something from Beth Ditto's Gossip

Edited April 20Apr 20 by playboi

The writing making it seem like she was solely a torch-song balladeer and that the dance side of it her is somehow inauthentic is so frustrating when dance/electronic has been weaved into her career from the jump. If anything the pivot to the AC/ballads on Tough Love/Glasshouse was a direct response to Wildest Moments taking off the most from Devotion and the UK culture at the time being so Adele centric.

Edited April 20Apr 20 by That Bad Eartha

Superbomb

pitchfork always turns on the artists they hype up. this album was an easy target, so i expected this. luckily for her, she may get her first #1 in the UK with it.

8 minutes ago, JEWRJEWR said:

she's kinda repeating herself on this one ngl

I don't get that at all, personally. sure, there's disco on here, much like there was on the two albums which preceded it, but when you look at this album it's a different tone entirely. What's Your Pleasure? flirted with a lot of darker vibes like a dungeon in a bathhouse, That! Feels Good! was pure euphoria penthouse party, this time around though… Superbloom is earthier and a bit more rejuvenated-sounding. it's truly the garden party counterpart to the more sultry What's Your Pleasure? or the campy That! Feels Good!

Superbloom is quainter, a bit more in touch with worldly emotionality. I think it's fair to say that the highs here stand up to the highs on the previous two albums, and that she's truly done it again. to me, she's 3 for 3 when it comes to this trilogy

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Edited April 20Apr 20 by shookspeare

I agree with the score

this isn't really a random pan/contrarian take is it? feel like the semi-consensus is that this mode for her has gotten stale.

Pitchfork reviews are so wordy wtf. pure word salad

it doesn't seem as strong as her previous albums but idk is a 6.3 even that low for B*tchfork?

12 minutes ago, jeauseph said:

I don't get that at all, personally. sure, there's disco on here, much like there was on the two albums which preceded it, but when you look at this album it's a different tone entirely. What's Your Pleasure? flirted with a lot of darker vibes like a dungeon in a bathhouse, That! Feels Good! was pure euphoria penthouse party, this time around though… Superbloom is earthier and a bit more rejuvenated-sounding. it's truly the garden party counterpart to the more sultry What's Your Pleasure? or the campy That! Feels Good!

Superbloom is quainter, a bit more in touch with worldly emotionality. I think it's fair to say that the highs here stand up to the highs on the previous two albums, and that she's truly done it again. to me, she's 3 for 3 when it comes to this trilogy

That's all fine, and I feel the review kinda hints at the theme difference you mentioned

The point is that this sound has run its course for her. Plus I dont think they completely trashed the album or anything like that, it's an ok review.

24 minutes ago, jeauseph said:

Superbloom is quainter, a bit more in touch with worldly emotionality. I think it's fair to say that the highs here stand up to the highs on the previous two albums, and that she's truly done it again. to me, she's 3 for 3 when it comes to this trilogy

Ehh I think you're also highlighting the problem, which is that no one really asked for a three-album trilogy. I'd rather she gave us two new sonically different albums over a longer period of time than two quick albums that tried to recreate the magic of the first. I don't blame her for trying, as What's Your Pleasure is one of the best albums released this decade.

3 minutes ago, Archetype said:

Ehh I think you're also highlighting the problem, which is that no one really asked for a three-album trilogy. I'd rather she gave us two new sonically different albums over a longer period of time than two quick albums that tried to recreate the magic of the first. I don't blame her for trying, as What's Your Pleasure is one of the best albums released this decade.

I personally was very down for the trilogy idk. I think Superbloom is almost as good as What's Your Pleasure? atm and I feel like I could see it surpassing it for me as time goes on

31 minutes ago, jeauseph said:

I don't get that at all, personally. sure, there's disco on here, much like there was on the two albums which preceded it, but when you look at this album it's a different tone entirely. What's Your Pleasure? flirted with a lot of darker vibes like a dungeon in a bathhouse, That! Feels Good! was pure euphoria penthouse party, this time around though… Superbloom is earthier and a bit more rejuvenated-sounding. it's truly the garden party counterpart to the more sultry What's Your Pleasure? or the campy That! Feels Good!

Superbloom is quainter, a bit more in touch with worldly emotionality. I think it's fair to say that the highs here stand up to the highs on the previous two albums, and that she's truly done it again. to me, she's 3 for 3 when it comes to this trilogy

You cannot explain this to people who dont know difference between pop, disco, funk and blues

There is nothing on this album that stands out. It's very lowkey. Maybe for some people it works but not for me

superbloom is kinda jessie at peak form and i really love the album! this review on the other hand is actually not readable, it reads as if the swiftologist got a job at pitchfork

Edited April 20Apr 20 by Merryem

40 minutes ago, Angelshark said:

There is nothing on this album that stands out. It's very lowkey. Maybe for some people it works but not for me

You gotta be kidding? She's absolutely belting and hollering on half of them.

The irritating part about the reception of the album is that critics (and audiences) are not even engaging with the songs themselves on lyrical or compositional level, and don't even try to understand or see the point, because they hear certain genre characteristics and pigeonhole her. Instead of expecting some wild reinvention and gimmick each go-around, why not meet it where it's coming from? I disagree that they're sonically very similar, but apparently somehow "it's the same picture" for people hearing Save A Kiss and I Could Get Used To This.

This almost exclusively happens with female pop artists btw. You don't need to reinvent the wheel, shake the cultural table, or change your whole personality to justify releasing an album, if you're making excellent songs like Jessie is then it's just asinine criticism. NO journalists should be judging by what's hip or in.

Edited April 20Apr 20 by HonourableVomit

39 minutes ago, HonourableVomit said:

You gotta be kidding? She's absolutely belting and hollering on half of them.

Sorry sis but I will stand my ground. I liked WYP? a lot for the production and here I can't find anything for me