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robertsona
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April 25th 2020


28661 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

I mean it's a song that yokes together fifteen different ideas of what people on this site would consider vestiges of Bad Taste but it just works somehow. reminds me in a very general sense of something like billie eilish's "bad guy" in that way. shouldn't work but does. I love counterposing the sort of pseudoharshness of the verses with the pretty guitars in the chorus (and I really like that downward progression in the chorus forreal forreal) and it's just a funny great song



"XS" is amazing too. but then the rest of this is eh

rabidfish
April 25th 2020


9024 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

nice. I seriously can't get over the cheese. Also i can't get over the idea that there's not a real appretiation of the sound or the aesthetics of (ugh) nu-metal, but rather a shallow interest in le epic meme song haha remember the early 2000's and that shitty fucking music? lol epic fail, dude.

robertsona
Emeritus
April 25th 2020


28661 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

I understand that feeling but i feel like the RINA album proved that RS had a certain faith in the fundamental Goodness of derided teen-/electro-pop aesthetics (albeit ratcheted up a level of complexity/eccentricity in the production, but still: "take me as I am" is basically a britney spears song) that she's earned my trust in turning to other equally derided genres lol. but yeah nu-metal can be hard to take as a retro-reclamation project

rabidfish
April 25th 2020


9024 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

except timbaland-style production was actually good and the appretiation is getting, even if it's originaly born from milenial melancholia, is sustained by actually good, interesting production that lends itself well to a revisitation. Nu-metal was never good. That's just me, tho.

robertsona
Emeritus
April 25th 2020


28661 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

I think more max martin than timbaland but yea I feel you

Lord(e)Po)))ts
April 25th 2020


70256 Comments


[2] everything rabid said

the nu-metal pop revival thing is the cringiest development in music in 20 years

does everyone who likes stfu like that new poppy album? and that one grimes one where she replaced poppy with hana i think? i ask because im curious if you guys like the style indiscriminately or if you think stfu is special / superior

robertsona
Emeritus
April 25th 2020


28661 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

I just read a positive review of the poppy album (which doubled as a negative review for miss anthropocene) that intrigued me, I'll listen to it soon. don't think I liked "we appreciate power" very much but I'll have to listen again. (although I like miss anthropocene)

Lord(e)Po)))ts
April 25th 2020


70256 Comments



oops nvm

Lord(e)Po)))ts
April 25th 2020


70256 Comments


"(although I like miss anthropocene)"

miss anthropocene is admittedly goood for her but it has almost no 'nu-pop' as i will be calling it from now on

Lord(e)Po)))ts
April 25th 2020


70256 Comments


i think we appreciate power is only a part of the deluxe edition

Lord(e)Po)))ts
April 25th 2020


70256 Comments


just checked and yeah its a japanese cd bonus track

robertsona
Emeritus
April 25th 2020


28661 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

yeah it's not on the album per se, which as I recall is a good thing but I have to get through this pretty boring ulcerate album before I can listen to we appreciate power again lol

parksungjoon
April 25th 2020


47227 Comments


'nu-pop' as i will be calling it from now on


Lord(e)Po)))ts
April 25th 2020


70256 Comments


yeah lol that ulcerate album

Lord(e)Po)))ts
April 25th 2020


70256 Comments


problem, parks?

parksungjoon
April 25th 2020


47227 Comments


i am intrigued

what is nu pop

robertsona
Emeritus
April 25th 2020


28661 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

the juxtaposition of nu-metal loud guitars and pop cutesiness

TheBarber
April 25th 2020


4130 Comments


Did Babymetal announce nu-pop ?

robertsona
Emeritus
April 25th 2020


28661 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

I would say babymetal was a big progenitor, not sure if potsy agrees

robertsona
Emeritus
April 25th 2020


28661 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

actually "we appreciate power" isn't as bad as I remember but it's nowhere near "STFU!"'s humor and dynamism



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