Reflektor

I haven't listened to rap heavily in some time as I find the overt materialism and hyper sexuality to be tiresome. That being said: "Spend Dat" is particularly egregious because Caresha is soooo untalented (not even taking into account the Diddy of it all). So I understand the particular frustration here.

Nurse! Come quick, she got out again!

I feel like not saying Nas at least on aesthetics is racist, because my God! ☠️

Walk right tf back out!

I just saw her (incredible) festival set at All Things Go and it was packed. That she has been continually able to sell out 20,000 person arenas and amphitheaters while staunchly standing up for human rights in every avenue, and even removing her music from streaming in Israel to protest the genocide, really makes you aware of how gross it is that other, bigger artists with even less to lose have been silent.

Imagine all the people that had to take this seriously personally and professionally for this to get made and released. How did they keep a straight face?

Kylie. Pharrell copied + pasted the chorus from "Green Light" and it's still excellence.

Despite the insistence of our world leaders and multinational corporations, enabling genocide is extremely unpopular!

I was surprised at how much I liked the album (having given it a spin only because of how impressed I was with her performance in Smile 2), and it's a perfect pop record built on real talent and a point of view. It reminds me of 90's adult contemporary, but with a modern coolness that stops it from being reductive. It's perfect for a sunny morning.

At this point she's become a true icon of mess. It's camp.

Like, wasn't he supposed to be playing a nerdy scientist in this movie? That movie was was so bad even my AMC A-list technically free ticket was a mistake and I walked out about an hour into it.

Really enjoying this. It's like a rave in the jungle, but in a non-colonialist way.

I've been listening to this a lot and at the moment my favorite part is the run from Famous Last Words - Future Fear - So Happy I Could Die, I think it melds the best of my favorite works of her's (I Never Learn and EYEYE) so gloriously; melodic power ballads that operate in their own dream reality. Speaking of dreamy, the western disco strings are A+ and help to give a joyous abandon to the work. Overall, this album continues to prove Lykke Li is painfully underrated. The way she is able to create soundscapes so deliberately across each of her works is almost unparalleled in the modern (alt) pop landscape. It's obvious why album-making is so difficult for her as an artist: she painfully works to get the ideas in her head down in an album format and I don't know if any true artist ever feels as understood in their head as they do in their work. Hoping this isn't her last album and that her next she'll be able to release all at once, as if there is any "album" artist working today, it's her.

True. It's in fact been excellent!

Proving sometimes even deranged stans CAN draw a line at genocide support (if not racism, homophobia, general awfulness, etc.).

Can't tell me nothing for the rest of the night after this one. There ain't a thing that can keep me staying home 2nite!

Is this the first time she's said or done anything in this regard, genuinely asking as I don't follow her, but that would be absolutely disgraceful if so!

Show's how integral Autumn De Wilde's eye was to the "Everybody Scream" album campaign.

Just what we need: a CIA-op president. But at least she's willing to call balls and strikes!

I think I only listened to the one single at the time and found it so reductive that I got second hand embarrassment and have never gotten into Hasley since.

Yeah, it's crazy that we had TWO fantastic songs drop on the same day though! Very hyped for The Afterparty! AOTY vibes if these three tracks are any indication.

Ari Aster was definitely responsible for that needle drop!

"No ethical consumption under capitalism" shouldn't give us license to participate in the worst and most exploitative aspects of the system. Also, I only wear organic fabrics. So, no. Never.

Iconic. Actual art. etc.

That anyone would be surprised the satellite company CEO wouldn't be evil capitalist trash would be more concerning to me. Let's read some political theory and keep up on current events, ATRLers!