Album Rating: 3.0

Pretty cynical to assume the absolute worst. This is coming from someone v cynical here!

Album Rating: 3.0

It's not like "born this way" launched her career though, what's so wrong with making songs for a demograph that already loves you, that's just fan service! No?

Album Rating: 2.5

If anyone's pandering to the gays, it's Carly.

Album Rating: 3.0

Again, big difference between setting out with the intention to prey on a specific demograph and adjusting as you go. It's just plain common sense to try to appeal to your major demograph as much as possible

Album Rating: 3.0

Pop music is a business at the end of the day. If you arent capitalizing wtf are you even doing in business in the first place

Album Rating: 3.0

I guess I'm arguing the difference between capitalizing and exploiting

i think when you're a young person trying to carve out your own identity (and i hope it's better now but when i was young it was uhh not a barrel of laughs).(someone think of the Queer children!)... i'm just wary of sexual identity being commodified, so i do think a certain amount of authenticity is important. like, at a gay bar i used to frequent there was a big daguerrotype of Lady Gaga's "Born this Way" albums cover just beneath the DJ booth, with very very few Queer artists being played on the floor. to me there was always a dissonance there: it's dope to find someone to rally around, but there are so many artists that let you - and them - explore that facet with more ingenuousness.

Album Rating: 3.0

@plane I could see the argument for that, that being said shes pretty early in her career, if she makes it as big as gaga that might change

Album Rating: 3.0

@wines I dunno I get where ur coming from but people gonna like what they like. Cant expect every marginalized group to exclusively rally behind representation, especially when gender, race, sexual orientation arent the only things that people FEEL represented by. I think you gotta kinda let people choose their heroes otherwise identity politics start to muddy their own water.

Album Rating: 3.0

My heroes are usually based on individual virtues rather than immutable characteristics

Album Rating: 3.5

shake it -> february 2017 -> 2099 is a killer sequence, wish the whole album had that momentum

Album Rating: 4.5

That's a great run, but I think the run of the first five tracks works the best for me.

As for lgbtq capitalization. she's getting artists like Pabllo Vittar, Big Freedia, Brooke Candy, Troye Sivan, Christine and the Queens - all on a regular basis. I don't understand how you could possibly be more authentic. Her queer audience is not only integral to her musical growth, it's integral to the music itself.

Album Rating: 4.0

enjoyed this album almost as much as her two recent mixtapes, my only issue is that the features are starting to either detract from the songs (see: lizzo, troye sivan in 2099, and tommy cash who almost single-handedly ruins click) or they just don't add anything exceptional apart from a cool name to see on the tracklist (see: haim, sky ferreira, yaeji).

with shake it being the exception since that song is on a whole other plane, i think gone is the one collab to truly get it right in terms of being mutually beneficial, as charli and christine really feed off each other and gel well. troye fits well in 1999 as well, but that song isn't as high quality as gone.

the highlights on this for me were the solo tracks, with the opener and the stretch from white mercedes to official being the best material on here. i hope in the future she doesn't start to use features as a crutch and has enough confidence to do more solo tracks and highlight her own voice, which shows a lot of vulnerability and maturity even behind the autotune.

Album Rating: 4.0

Tell me what chu want, what chu want daddy

Little bit of sugar little bit of Brooke Candy

Album Rating: 4.5

God I love that verse lol

Album Rating: 4.5

"ooh it's a migraine" is my favorite part of that track lmao

Album Rating: 4.5

The outro to Click gives me the impression that she listened to 100 gecs and decided to make that the outro. Song is an insane banger.

Album Rating: 4.0

"God I love that verse"



Same, it's my favorite

Album Rating: 4.5

@Fireproof, good catch, Dylan Brady of 100 gecs has a writing credit on Click

Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off

This has some of her most god awful tracks