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i always have to preempt this with âyeah sheâs unbearable in the most minute and therefore most infuriating ways and someone who i Do Not Fuck With broadly, butâ but this record does fully whip. do it with a rock star threatens to fall apart with every lurch and trout heart replicaâs gorgeous. feels like records that werenât predictive of post-2013 big indie have been lost in the shuffle, but so it goes.
i ended up coming back to this one after grumbling out of of the side of my mouth over chappell roan for the last little bit. iâm pulling for her because she seems talented and sincere, and as a queer midwestern former theater kid myself sheâs basically lesbian al gaib, but for me right now sheâs held back because her whole ~thing still feels a little embryonic. sheâs in that early marina + the diamonds space where sheâs still figuring out how all the pieces fit together and canât help but be a little more obvious and boring as a result. iâd love to see her go full camp, let the music match the aesthetic.
and, as it goes online, my beef is more with the fans. people roast folks for falling for a half-dozen âfirst openly gay disney characterâ plays, but donât want to see lucy holding the football with the âfuture of queer popâ girlies. the chappel stans annoy me, in other words. but then i remind myself they probably didnât have a teen+college dresden dolls/amanda palmer phase, so we all get the loud gay shit we deserve
Mar 22, 2024
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going to a show with these two in a few weeks (!!!) so i made a playlist to get excited, but have only realized how fully these two women encompass the full spectrum of emotions after someone has broken your heart. from missing them, to wanting revenge and wanting them to hurt, to loving them, to hating them, to slipping up and reaching out, to wondering where you went wrong, to changing yourself to make them want you more, to realizing you weren't enough because nothing ever will be, to knowing if you reach out you'll only lower your guard, to never knowing what you meant to them, and the interplay between all of those things. everything i've felt this month tenfold.
especially potent when you've spent a while not listening to these fun, poppy female artists you love so much because you were afraid you'd look less "cool" to some guy you like with strong music opinions. but i'm done feeling bad about what makes me feel happy and energetic. i don't care if it's cool or niche or cringe or not! i love women! i love having fun! i can only foster positive friendships and relationships going forward if i allow that for myself!
Feb 28, 2024
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literally could not be more excited for her and brat (shouldâve been aoty) but itâs always bittersweet when an artist you love blows up like that and their very intense impact on one group of ppl is stood up next to new fans/the general publicâs opinion. itâs exciting but itâs sort of awkward. i dont think we can explain what music means to us.
whatever
pop 2 rlly is so f*cking fun and cool
Feb 10, 2025
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the way i could write a world-changing 33 1/3 about this album!!! oh my goodness. (this is the kind of album you write after achieving meteoric pop success if you are a serious person, in case any inescapably famous singer-songwriters are taking notes.)
but for real -- this album is at once a perfectly-preserved late 90s time capsule (neurotic, stylish, a hint of a sneer, but real hope underwriting it all) and also secretly about us, right now, in the year of our lord 2024. it's fierce and smart and darkly hilarious. it's about going to therapy and getting your dad to go to therapy, and then feeling weird imagining the kind of dark shit your dad must be working through in therapy. itâs about trying to search for the divine while watching a bunch of idiot rich people get influenced into paying $2000 for like past life regression readings or whatever and feeling weird about the idea that theyâre searching for the same divine you are, because if theyâre looking for it too then it canât possibly be the real thing, can it? itâs about being the bright young thing who wrote jagged little pill and suddenly finding all of your interpersonal relationships totally unworkable because everybody is too blinded by the brightness of the young thing who wrote jagged little pill to let you also be a human being. itâs about feeling so old already at 24 and looking back on your teenage self at a tender distance as if those days were a lifetime ago, as if youâre actually any wiser now. itâs about wondering if anything you will ever do is ever, ever going to be good enough. alanisâs lyrics here are biting and precocious and the songs are just so chatty (witness âfront rowâ in which she layers four entire extra verses behind the chorus, effectively writing a whole bonus song because the situation is just too complicated to explain in four minutes) and theyâre talking about all the same things we talk about now, in the same way we talk about them now, except without all the self-serious posturing so many of our contemporary songwriters fall prey to. (âthe couchâ is somehow both the most earnest and the least corny song anybody has ever written about therapy.) i know this album must have hit properly when it came out because it was the only thing my mom played in our house for the entire calendar year of 1999, but it feels so preternaturally tailor-made for the moment weâre in now that i canât believe it hasnât had one of those improbable tiktok renaissances or whatever that seem to keep happening. highly recommend a revisit or a first acquaintance if you havenât made one.
Feb 6, 2024
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And then stick around for the headliner so you âget your moneyâs worthâ only to see the headliner open their set with like 25 minutes of the most âgets no hoesâ music youâve heard in a minute
Feb 17, 2024
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and you canât just jump to she/her without stopping at she/they like âno itâs this one iâm sureâ
Nov 21, 2024
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We all know airports and flying are kind of an iteration of Hell at this point, so why not make travel fun? Comes with a bunk bed and feels quintessentially American, but the good parts (traveling through the country, power of industry, pre-made food). The coffee tastes like nothing, though.
Apr 12, 2024