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As a longtime stan, I'm very happy for her, but also kind of confused. Popstar is a very good album, but almost every one of her projects is just as solid. I don't see how you go from relegating her to 7.something for a decade to a whole 9.0 (pretty rare in Pitchfork). I guess it's more of a "her time is due" situation than anything... Anyways, DESERVED!!! The wigs were secured and she still snatched them harder than ever.

The album that popularized the use of excellent music. I'll always be grateful to her for that

This will be a huge sleeper hit. People will fall asleep when they hit the play button.

Wow... When you put them all together like that, you really see the quality And these aren't even their "experimental"/alternative records, these were mainstream albums back then! The girls today could never.

That's why Broke With Expensive Taste is one of the best debut albums ever. If you listened only to the instrumentals, you'd think it's impossible to get a catchy rap/pop song out of most of them. But she somehow makes it work. The Competition demo/Luxury combo is the best example. Same beat, two completely different songs.

LOVE this. I think I like the verses even more than the chorus. The (immaculate) production is serving this: + this:

Exactly. There would be no PC Music without CAPSULE or Perfume, it's one of their most obvious influences. Just listen to Kim Petras' new song, it sounds taken straight from JPN.

I feel like their visuals are also heavily inspired by 2000s Kylie, in a subtle way. The Can't Get You Outta My Head, Love At First Sight and In Your Eyes videos all look very Perfume-esque with the sleek, digital backdrops and the quirky styling of the dancers, and Sweet Refrain is basically a remake of Come Into My World. Although, when it comes to the music itself, I would argue that Yasutaka Nakata ended up taking all that futuristic aesthetic to the next level. Fever has great melodies and visuals, but the production is much less daring and out-there than what you can find in GAME and in general in his early work for Perfume.

I think it's intentional... As in this album represents a particular time in her life, so it "starts" in the middle of her life and it continues beyond what she's singing about here. Otherwise it would make no sense because there are no actual interludes in the album, it's just the intro and the outro.

Dance For You's outro>>>>>

This is a grower... The focus is not on making instant hits (I really can't see any song here smashing in the future) but on offering a solid, consistent album. It's more different from Short n' Sweet than I expected, but it still sounds like her. She's building a really personal sound and image, yeah it's full of 70s references and retro vibes (which no one is doing right now anyway) but they don't sound/look like a cliché; it ends up being surprisingly atemporal (kinda like the first Lana albums). I don't particularly like Jack Antonoff, but I don't get why everybody is hating on him... The production is great. I love the use of strings and horns! It sounds lush. Even if there are more mid tempo songs than on Short n' Sweet, there's also always a lot more going on in every track compared to the slower songs there (Dumb & Poetic, Slim Pickins). I think a lot of the unfavorable opinions come from people who just listened once at midnight and labeled it immediately as boring because they didn't fall in love with any song. Everything starts to click in the next listens. Even if it's hated right now, the reception will get better with time.

I just need another Don't Smile. I remember listening to the album for the first time, thinking it was cute, and then Don't Smile came on and made me stan immediately. Hope Goodbye is as good of a closer.

Ugh they're so underrated... Some of the best production and melodies of pop history and they're barely acknowledged in online spaces. I'm mad!!! Talking about non-album B-side masterpieces, let me add one of my favorites: Best song ever... they were serving even during their worst era!