Melodrama midkey one of the most dated albums of its time
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Album Rating: 4.5
damn I disagree. I think it holds up
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Album Rating: 5.0
Melodrama holds up for me, one of the best mainstream albums of the 2010's imo.
The less said about Solar Power, the better
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Album Rating: 3.0
I really REALLY like 360 and Sympathy is a knife.
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Album Rating: 4.5
SP is her weakest agreed, but it's grown into a fun summer album for me.
also 365 is a fucking bangerrrrrrr
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Album Rating: 5.0
@Dibizzles
welcome to the "I think about it all the time" supremacy club
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Album Rating: 1.0
Melodrama ain't all that. Her debut is something special tho.
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Album Rating: 4.5
a 1 on this is insane
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Album Rating: 4.5
Lorde so boring ):
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Album Rating: 1.0
omg its clefary a real pokemon
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Album Rating: 5.0
Genuinely pity the folks 1'ing this
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Album Rating: 4.5
no fun in their lives
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Album Rating: 5.0
i think the legs that pure heroine and melodrama have had is seriously impressive tho. regular people still jam them like they dropped last week. every year seems like a random deep cut from one of them is suddenly a hit.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Pure Heroine sounds very of its time, but in a way that's more so a time capsule. Melodrama is pretty timeless tho. Both absolutely rip
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Album Rating: 4.5
based take
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exactly what in the 2013 mainstream sounded like Pure Heroine lol? that album's spartan palette and unglamorous subject matter were a real curveball for that era, and gave had much greater influence than Melodrama (even if most of it was second hand by way of Billie Eilish's debut)
Melodrama was *the* album of its time in terms of how it played into all the right trends and glossed up all the right earworms, but its endless breakup anthems have much less of their own to them than PH's hometown parables, and having heard the best part of a decade of diminishing returns on its aesthetic has soured me on the prospect of it having much of a wider legacy. don't think it's timeless on any level rly, doesn't hit half as well as it did when it landed as the tip of the poptimist iceberg
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Album Rating: 3.5
Johnny, gonna have to push back on that. Production of the era sounds very much like Pure Heroine. The pared back, almost gloomy beats which almost no actual instruments was everywhere in the 2010s. We got a year or two of Kesha and LMFAO and then it was dull shit for the rest of the decade.
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Album Rating: 4.6
"Pure Heroine sounds very of its time, but in a way that's more so a time capsule."
Pure Heroine didn't sound of its time; rather, it's the other way around. Other albums of the era sounded that way because of Pure Heroine
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Album Rating: 4.5
May need to give Lorde another chance. That vocally low key pop style that her, Lana, Billie, etc popularized never seemed to click w me
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Album Rating: 5.0
a fair point, lemme clarify a bit
I think that melodrama is incredible for less distinct reasons than Pure Heroine.
Pure Heroine was a complete game changer, and almost singlehandedly ushered in a pendulum swing from overly-glitzy and colorful synthpop to more muted, minimalistic tones that go for a darker aesthetic. To me, it's easier to earmark Pure Heroine as being the sound of 2013/14 when all the copycats came out of the woodwork for part of the goldrush (the BROODS review on this very site comes to mind). I am in no way trying to say that PH doesn't hold up or wasn't the game-changer that it was, it's just easier to anchor down in time for me than Melodrama.
Melodrama definitely benefits from having a few years of the new pop meta under its belt to build off of, but it could conceivably come out at basically any time after 2015 and I think there are less gimmicks at play that make it stand out, leaving only the quality of its writing as the main feature.
Both are 5's, or damn close to it, for me
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