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I have to come back on this forum after a while just because I'm genuinely so gagged at how good this is. It truly feels like she remembered who the hell she is and why her fans actually love her after a streak of questionable choices. This is sleek, cool, and artistic without being either pretentious or trendhoppy. I'll be replaying this a lot. My favorites on first listen are One Step Away, Love Without Words and My Sins Are My Savior for sure, the latter being sooooo Erotica. The 90s are my favorite Madonna decade and a lot of moments in there took me back to that era. I loved it. My only gripe is the album title, because this feels like its own different thing, but I'll get over it easily.

Everyone getting to listen and I can't until tomorrow morning. I'm claiming a I'm Actually Kinda Jesus and Old Fling$ top 2.

They were always corny, to be fair. Also this. Trying to drop a 'I'm just like you regular people and I struggle too' song in this climate is tone deaf and just makes you look stupid. No, you're not like me.

What if Sade dropped V*gina by Cupcakke?

You're more present than me in Charli threads and my username literally has XCX in it. Are you done? OT: I do agree that there's some inconsistencies in the mixing, but overall I adore this. Very fresh direction after Brat. Funny Mouth and My Reminder are favorites for sure. They're magical. Hopefully when she's done being in 400 different movies she'll explore the Funny Mouth/House sound even more. She does it well.

She's serving the best music of her career and she can't even put it on streaming. Y'all can choke @RepublicRecords @GracieAbrams.

Thank God. I can't do 500$ concert tickets. Bring back the 50$ tickets I got for the Charli Tour in 2019.

This achievement is giving this.

A lot of Björk album covers are very good at conveying the sound of their respective music, but I'll say Homogenic since other users have already mentioned Post and Vespertine. For a bit of a deeper cut, this cover just always made perfect sense to me. Sweet and very pretty but also cinematic, almost looks like a movie screengrab. The pink and purple tones fit perfectly with the music to me.

This thread is absolutely sending me. I hope Ca$hier is a surprise guest so they do Till the Lord Whens Remix together.

The thing with Hard Candy is that it does have a lot of good songs (Miles Away is a classic), but the bad moments are BAD (Incredible and Spanish Lesson). It is hated because it kinda symbolizes the decline of her material, but it's still better than the albums that followed.

PRISN is a classic. Someone also mentioned it but Fatte Female is so goddamn stupid and it makes me cackle. Shoutout to the Nekci Menij show.

Girl she's BEEN gone to that side. It's time to move on. Trust, as someone who used to adore M.I.A., it sucks, but let's face the truth a little. Horrible values aside, this is the corniest tweet I've ever seen.

I'm Gen Z and I adore this. What a random comment, lol.

True Romance stans we WON.

This obviously serves as a very cinematic intro track and is quite unconventional structure-wise, but I ADORE this direction for her. Very drastic change from the Brat sound, which I love and expected. Can't wait to hear her explore more of this sound.

No, but a song title with the word Red really foreshadowed her current political views.

Solo legacy. I'm tired and so are you all.

Delulu being a standalone single will never sit right with me. I love that song.

The planet will explode by then, so neither. The cheap Showgirl hairbrushes will be microplastics flying in space at that point.

Deeper & Deeper randomly being her coolest song ever. I'm OBSESSED. More of this direction on the next album, please. I'm mystified by the single choices. X not being the lead is a MYSTERY to me. If she was going for the crossover appeal angle, that song was right there. I would've swapped D&D and X in the tracklist. Would've been smoother, I think. Overall, the singles kinda undersold this EP (Pop Girl still being the worst song on there, lmao). I expected to enjoy this, but not as much as I did. This isn't on The Happy Star's level, but still great and has a lot of replay value.

I think we should all just die. I'm tired.

Lexie Liu coming for 5M first week sales next week. Enjoy while it lasts. (I'm very obviously kidding, do not take this too seriously Swifties, y'all scare me.)

The title track snippet sounds fun. Very 3.14159 energy. Claiming Deeper & Deeper for sure.