Album Rating: 3.0

i love lighght's posi vibes, listening to it just gives me the stupidest smile



super stoked for this! will give it a listen later today

that song about god or whatever is fucking cringe and godawful, fuck that shit.
i hate that kind of religious music that's not about elevating people but making people feel like they need faith in a higher power because "well, you never know when something fucked up is gonna happen... AND THEN YOU'LL NEED GOD, YOU HEATHEN"

Fuck that shit, 1'ing this crap just for that track alone.

Album Rating: 3.0

damn this is the first time that kishi bashi is not connecting to me

i love twee and ultra-happy shit but lighght is just...way too much for me

Album Rating: 4.0

Rabid, you should like this part:



"God could be funny

When told he'll give you money

If you just pray the right way

And when presented like a genie

Who does magic like Houdini

Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket

And Santa Claus

God could be so hilarious"

Album Rating: 3.5

Laughing With is satire (and a cover of the original by the always amazing Regina Spektor).

Album Rating: 4.0

I was hoping to bring him down gently.

it's dumb as shit. the whole song is dumb as fuck. rubs me the wrong way and gives off that "cool christian" vibe i've grown to identify a mile away. I've lived among very religious people for most of my childhood and early adulthood, and i've grown to respect even the most orthodox of people, most of them will actually just keep to themselves because they rather close off the world and if you aren't confrontational and leave them alone they'll leave you alone as well.
but these guys that wanna be cool, new age-y, spiritual "my religion is love, man" are the most obnoxious and insidious people i've ever met. Usually a sign of being into some weird sex-cult or some deranged shit like that.

Album Rating: 4.0

Wow. Ok this is gonna be a tough case, Veldin.

> Laughing With is satire (and a cover of the original by the always amazing Regina Spektor)

Like i said, reads more like a cult-y new-wave shit rather than satire.

Album Rating: 4.0

Anger from previous trauma has blurred your vision

to be clear: I'm 100% in favor or religious music. In a way, all music is religious and has religious origins.
But this shit about needing faith when bad shit happens is downright insidious and 100% how cults get to vulnerable people.
It's also insulting for actually religious people. Talk with some of them and they'll tell you that religious people don't pray because they expect anything in return. It's an act of selflessness and love for God, not to ask but to give thanks. It's a moment of reflection, a way to become closer with the eternal nature of the world by means of respecting ritual (giving structure to their lives and reflecting the micro into the macro), even it can be considered a way to think about the mystery of the nature of God.
These sort of surface-level spiritualists are usually weak-minded and shallow people that can't even comprehend the idea of belief as anything other than a give-take relationship.

Album Rating: 4.0

To be clear: You are misunderstanding the point of the song and you are approaching a point where you can't go back because you are emotionally invested in this and so your well-intended anti-christian points are wasted here, because you were being too hasty to judge.

Album Rating: 2.5

ok i am now excited to hear this

thanks gang < 3

not anti-christian at all lol. I am against the shallowness of the understanding of "faith" and "belief" as nothing more than a relationship in which god makes good things happen to you if you do good things. That's not how it works, anyone with a basic education in theology can tell you that's childish. People who think that way are usually exploited by cults and people who encourage that understanding of faith usually profit from cults or cult-like corporation.

the song is clear in its message: it's about how people need faith when bad things happen to then or around them, but laugh in the face of God whenever these situations are not going on. The song doesn't question the reality of God. It doesn't tell you that you don't need god, either. It's criticism of organized religion is surface level and simplistic.
This all reads very very similar to how cults operate. Cults won't question your need for faith, for that surface level faith. They'll feed on it, they'll tell you that you are smart, youv'e seen through the lies of organized dogmatic religion, you "get the joke". That's when they give you, the smart, spiritual you, the chance to join others like you.

Album Rating: 3.5

Lol wtf is happening

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/regina-spektor/laughing-with

Surface.level.spirituality.
Same as "Imagine" is surface level pacifism.
both are shit songs.

Album Rating: 4.0

I'm lost/too lazy to read, what the hell are we arguing about now lol

Album Rating: 4.0

I don't know what it is about these soft serve folk albums drawing all the drama lately. Between this and Fleet Foxes it's getting kind of hilarious.