Haze

Nothing says turning over a new leaf like making another attention seeking thread

Much more standard fair for Carly as opposed to the other singles, but the vocal production on this is so good and beautifully layered, like a long lost ABBA track. Never a bad thing.

Just read the album is based on the works of the mystic Julian of Norwich, whose visions I have been reading this year. Funny how mysticism is back in full swing in music for the past years (Florence, Rosalia, Tori, ...) Blomi was stellar to me, but her decision to bookend the album with those spoken word tracks did prevent me from listening to the full album a lot. She really does whatever (complimentary)

Sonically, Ravers feels very much part of her musical DNA. If you had told me in 2010 this is where Ellie's sound would evolve to I would have believed it. Swap out the house piano for guitars and you're not that far removed from something that could've been on Bright Lights. I like it! Lyrically I don't buy it. Not that songwriting should be autobiographical for me, but it's a surface level take on something that I just don't think she has experienced in a while dd. I'm a bit befuddled at what this album is turning out to be, just sticking ten songs on an album without connective tissue?

Kylie is so effortlessly puss. She sounds really sensual on this, and it is the perfect backdrop for Madonna's more stern vocal style. this album campaign is such a knock out

We will be boosting all of Innamoramento I will participate but I already dread choosing my elevens. There's definitely some music of Mylène I don't particularly care for, but not in this part of her career, and half of the included songs are stone cold classics. My twelve is already locked in though

I was just thinking to myself I needed a new Susanne album. Cannot wait.

Immigration on this scale in a single day is of course geopolitically motivated, and that makes it even more disheartening to see half of the responses in this thread. 'Dangerous, violent men from the third world' how is that not far right rhetoric? And all of the western economies depend on the presence of 'illegal' immigration, in essence we just want their labour power without having to take responsibility for their right to live a decent life -- not to mention we outsource production of our labour intensive goods to the third world because of the cheaper wages there, a sort of modern day colonial exploitation. You can blame structures, blame political actors but why would you direct your ire to people who dream of living the life you have?

Feels like she properly nerded out: the vocal layering and the little flourishes present everywhere are exquisite. The songs feel like little dioramas, and I think they'll only fully reveal themselves with repeated listens. I do somewhat lament that the current crop of pop girls are almost teen stars turned major pop stars, because the world that they inhabit in their lyrics feels so small. In Ariana's case I don't mind too much because they are most of the time surface dressing for gorgeous melodies and vocal stylings, but it just feels like she's retreading the same ground time and time again.

KPOP is really the apex of capitalism meets culture isn't it. Feel like Adorno would've had an aneurysm if he had had to live through this. It's partly interesting though: all the insidious market logic just laid bare, no pretense whatsoever that you're consuming a product rather than an artist.

It's fine. It seems to belong to the same soundscape as Destiny, but the latter felt lush and unhurried, this feels a bit too much like it follows the pop template. I'm okay with it, but I'm starting to get the feeling she wasn't particularly inspired when recording this album.

Massive, whew. An onslaught of sound, chorus upon chorus. Fantastic.

I think I was in an uncharitable mood, because all my issues have sort of disappeared with further listening. It was never the universality of the feeling that was the issue for me though, I loved Kali Uchis' last album and that spoke of motherhood in near platitudes of universal love, but I think I could just easily drift away in the music there, while here there were some lyrics that made me annoyed at first (the Sodom and Gomorrah lyric made me almost weary: motherhood as leaving a sinful life behind? in this economy? But as I said, I wasn't feeling charitable and that's on me). This is a wonderful listen in bed in completely darkness, like a divine mother singing her love to you.

If you bleach, go platinum, otherwise use highlights.

She's just like me fr Unfortunately