If Sowing doesn't 5 an album on first listen he never will, that's the rule

Album Rating: 3.5

I think the new album is honestly pretty comparable to Joji's album Nectar, more low key etc. definitely not a instant gratification type of album, more a mellow vibe, I dig it

Album Rating: 3.5

"and all she was doing before that was following different trends"



I do think her older material where industry plant type of albums, and I bet there was a lot of suits pulling strings in the sidelines, but Ari managed to somehow keep it authentic even though there may be more to it beneath the surface, so many pop anthems in that era. I do think the newer albums are her more authentic self, a key would be the abundant use of vulgarity in the new album, industry wouldn't let that slide if they had more control lol

yeah word to that

Album Rating: 3.5

I unironically love the skrrrrrt skrrrrrt six thirty yuhhhh part lmao, safety net sounds like a melody she used before in the chorus... or am I wrong? lol

Album Rating: 4.0

to me in my humble unexamined onion Sweetener is like the opposite of trend chasing. I could be in error here though

DW has big choruses but the style of songwriting is already so dated

Sweetener wasn’t trend chasing, but it also wasn’t very good. Kind of getting “sweetener if it was good” vibes from the new one.

can't think of a single thing about sweetener that isn't trend chasey off the top of my head

"I unironically love the skrrrrrt skrrrrrt six thirty yuhhhh part lmao"

also the uhyuhyuhyuh in positions

"safety net sounds like a melody she used before in the chorus... or am I wrong? lol"

it's definitely a familiar sounding song

Album Rating: 4.0

"be alright" makes me feel hapy. just want to say

Album Rating: 4.0

I disagree that Sweetener chases trends--it chases something, and maybe even a trend, but not a 2010s trend--but I think I'd be adducing pharrell's genius all over again if I tried to explain it. that half of the album feels sorta unique to me though

"-it chases something, and maybe even a trend, but not a 2010s trend--"

chasing trends from not the 2010s is like the biggest trend chase of the late 2010s

Album Rating: 4.0

still tho: what other stuff sounds like "sweetener"? "successful"? "get well soon"? I'm not denying the possibility but that sound certainly doesn't ring any trend bells to me

Album Rating: 3.5

“sweetener if it was good”



yeah I get that vibe as well

"still tho: what other stuff sounds like "sweetener"? "successful"? "get well soon"? "

aside from the other seventy billion trapified renditions of the 00s r&b style this decade?

Album Rating: 4.0

i don't hear it. maybe nominally in genre terms you could describe it as similar to other stuff but my ears definitely aren't telling me that that's the truth. what would you name in particular?

Album Rating: 4.0

it might just be that I think it's really good though, I'll admit that much. those four or five songs are my favorite pop music of the 2010s (as far as stuff found in the space of one album goes) so I'm probably biased

Is new one better than Thanks Next? idk. More consistent, less highlights.

Album Rating: 3.5

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being good doesn't make something not derivative or reflective of whats hip

im not out here saying Nasty reinvents the wheel but it does fuck