if anything on here is as good as cut to the feeling itll be a 4.5 at worst
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Album Rating: 4.0
idk
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Album Rating: 4.0
:D
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
All That and Gimmie Love were two of my lower placed songs on here and now I love them both but I probably won't rank them any differently because of how good all of this is.
And Celeste seems great. I might get it on my Switch soon
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Its dumb simple pop music with dumb lyrics, and its a good time.
i unno if i'd call this simple or dumb. i think people underestimate how complex pop music actually is, and how hard it is to write really good pop music. these days cuz pop music is so oriented by production and electronics, every song has tons of layers and theres a fair bit goin on at each layer, esp. with respect to rhythm and timbre, and also in more unquantifiable aspects like atmosphere and texture. but i think one of the goals of the kind of pop music that carly makes is to make it sound simple: that is, to make all the parts come together into a singular, unified and consequently accessible, catchy, immediate piece of music. so its deceiving cuz as a result of its strong cohereny it sounds super simple, but when ya rlly listen to it, it aint (but then the point is kinda that you dont have to rlly listen to it super hard and focused).
as far as the melodies go, i'd say most of em aint any less simple than any of those in most other pop-oriented songs (that is most modern music that aint very technical like classical or jazz or metal). in fact, i wouldnt say they're simple at all cuz carly moves quickly thru a lot of notes and consequently her melodies play heavily on tons of different intervals. cuz of the repetition and the relationship between different intervals across the melody, the songs are catchy but they aint simple as a result. what makes a pop melody a cut above all the other top 40 mainstream radio hook of the week trash (e.g. the beatles vs i unno katy perry or some shit) is perhaps a bit unquantifiable or at least fairly technical, so i think it takes a lot of smarts to write a really killer, standout pop melody, esp. a fast one as opposed to a slow one that uses very few notes (good example of slow simple pop melody: the latest waxahatchee album). hence my conclusion: this shit aint dumb
at a glance perhaps this sounds dumb cuz its super cheesy and accessible and sounds like whats in tv ads and on all the lame radio stations 24/7 but when ya think about it for a sec (esp. in regards to what makes it better than the shit pop that kinda sounds like it), i'd say its actually pre smart stuff that just has a wide appeal
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Yeah but she write her own music?
presumably as much as any rapper. she is credited as a writer on every song but theres always a bunch of co-writers but then most mainstream pop and rap these days is the same (artist is a writer on every song with multiple co-writers on every song).
Does her music have any meaning other than "lol I like boys"
personally i put very little stock into lyrics, esp. their meaning; i kinda just listen to the music (which imo includes the sound of the lyrics, like phonetically and rhythmically). lyrics could be about the most vacuous shit possible as long as they sound good. thats just me tho cuz hell i dont even understand most of the lyrics i hear these days cuz a huge proportion of what i listen to is japanese.
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Album Rating: 4.0
why is "i like boys" a bad theme?
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cuz its been done to death and meaningless to begin with? ofc you can always do a bad theme well if you execute it right (again, i usually dont care about lyrics anyway)
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Album Rating: 4.0
there are no bad themes, just bad execution, and this ain't it
most bands that are popular on here repeat the same themes to death too, but that don't make their music bad
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Album Rating: 3.0
The lyrics are dumb and vapid, but do you really want songs about deep philosophical musings with music like this?
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Album Rating: 5.0
don't remember the lyrics here being dumb and vapid
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Album Rating: 3.0
I really really really really really really like you
Hmm, thought provoking stuff.
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"presumably as much as any rapper"
Lol wat
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Lol wat
actually she probably writes more music than your average rapper cuz rappers are necessarily about the vocals and lyrics but not necessarily about the instrumentation, whereas chords are usually embedded in pop vocal melodies and therefore inherently tied to instrumentation (assuming carly writes vocal melodies)
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Album Rating: 5.0
She does write vocal melodies. She's incredibly involved in the writing process of her material
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yea thought so. havent read up on the specifics but i remember her sayin about cuttin the songs down on emotion that "my songs are like my children" or somethin so i figured she's gotta be the director/primary writer
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Album Rating: 4.0
Her melodies rule and her lyrics serve the material, I don't expect anything else in good pop
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Album Rating: 4.0
all music is literally the same, it's all either good or bad
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imagine trynna justify your enjoyment of a subjectively viewed art form
we all critics
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Album Rating: 4.5
Album is m/
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