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In Pure Faith is beyond euphoria. Another career highlight tucked away on the deluxe. Near Or Far's more bubbly, effervescent sister. The 90s trance-y descending pianos on both these sings is such a good look for her.

Back of the cab, the city lights are spinning halos 'round your head They're calling it the sing of her career

Sixteen And Rising a magnum opus. So cinematic and wistful! But if I'm honest, babe Don't think of you all that often You're just another door I had to close before I could open I remember what you said The world can chew you up And then it's gonna spit you right out But if I'm honest, babe, that's exactly what I was hoping And the gorgeous bridge. Love the way the sing resolves like she's narrating a western film. Feels like a perfecting of the sound she's been building towards from "Western Winds"/"Go Find Yourself Or Whatever".

And in the night I can get by Think about your face Think about the way your hands would search me We stood in the country with your flashlight You turned it off Showed me the night sky This sing is so brooding and smooth

The BTS from the MV… Every BTS of Lord directing is Her giving the most simplistic directions and over-explaining Her banal 'concepts'. And all Her coworkers looking at Her with barely-disguised derision, like She is a little kid play-directing. Someone please put a stop to the humiliation.

Is it bad I need this to be a mega smash

You're using nostalgia as a weapon to hurt yourself But darling you end up hurting everybody else The self-harm of never being where you are It's bedtime but you're sitting in your car You're missing all the best parts Career highlight bridge 😭 Lord I wish She had rewritten the 1st verse and prechorus so that this could be a true all time classic hymn

She captured your attention So free of all pretension It stopped you cold Because she loved you so Pretty as a picture that you didn't post Looking at you like you're made of solid gold Never official - you mention you're single to the girls at the bar You hate this song But you wake up on a train with your headphones gone And then that melody is all you want You never knew that it was Babylon Til it was gone Karlie whyyyyyyyyyy @Vespertine

Cleveland! going straight into a sing all about the "temporary phase of intense euphoria, extreme optimism, and overconfidence experienced during the early stages of addiction recovery" She's too funny 😭 Pink Clouding being the secret breakup sing for Travis that everyone can look back on in 3 years like the Folkmore/Midnights Joe sings oh yup

When the fever turns a dreamer into a pathetic ghost <3 Oh this classic hit single

I bet he burst into your life like fireworks I bet he even said "I love you" first And when you saw another woman coming out of his place I bet he kissed the rain off your face Sooooo good ❤️ Such a satisfying verse

Combined with the melodies, production and phrasing, it doesn't sound clunky no. Possibly why She chose to release this as a song rather than as a poem or novel.

Overall we have a very infectious cute bop, albeit a Honey redux, in 'Patient Zero'; we have a typically tiresome people think I can't dance, and I'm self-aware about how annoying I am "clap-back" in 'Cleveland!' with some melodies that range between fun and irritating; we have a sing that no one would blink twice at if it was on the back-half of Lover or 1989 TV in 'Pink Clouding'; and a very affecting, pretty country-pop ballad in 'Babylon'. These are mid-to-good bonus tracks, and anyone acting like it's world war 3 has lost themselves in some desperately sad AI-generated ragebaiting vortex. You're missing all the best parts indeed!

She fumbles the 1st verse on Babylon too with some random, unevocative nonsense ('a liberated libertine' is awful), but She rights the ship after that. The self-harm of never being where you are an all-timer gutpunch And the way She brings the 'Aunt Virginia with her church dress on / no elbows on the table and the neighbour's lawn always looked better" section back near the end and adds the 'it's almost gone' over it Oh Scott Swift you are bones. The power of the Lord

Pink Clouding is the most egregious of the 4 sings to me. So anonymous. The concept is uninteresting, it feels irrelevant to the ablum, the lyrics are nonsense, the production is nothing. It sounds like Suburban Legends meets Afterglow. Not a combination we should be aspiring to. Met the magenta sunrise Fuchsia forever intertwined Threw the rosewood on the fire Neither of us knew at the time That I was a liar Lord where is the storytelling here. Evokes nothing. We need 'and the tennis court was covered up with some tent-like thing / and you asked me to dance, but I said dancing is a dangerous game'