Album Rating: 3.0

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Album Rating: 3.0

What is girl core who is in the girl core gang how did they get here

Album Rating: 3.0

Right haha so I think the use of hyperbole in her music and artistic persona is almost pornographic like — a fantasy, not a real person. A huge star, not a teenager. A model, not an insecure girl. Idk, maybe I’m overthinking it — and I mean, I like the music. But to me, there’s just nothing genuine about it. Maybe I’m wrong

Album Rating: 2.5

Bad idea right? is still so so bad and I’ve been hearing it EVERYWHERE lately

Album Rating: 4.0

I hate Get Him Back a lot more lol I actually like bad idea right for the most part now

Album Rating: 4.0

@mathbla i wouldn't call it "artificial" per se but i've been thinking similarly about what makes her so extremely appealing lately.



i think she has a very attainable taylor swift-esque look in that she's attractive but not alienatingly beautiful, and similarly writes songs about love and relationships that read as universal but have enough quirks to make them feel like they could only come from olivia. her vibe is just edgy enough to be alluring while not really appalling anyone like bangerz-miley and/or coming off goofily self-serious like reputation-taylor



i think the disney background (which absolutely bleeds into everything she does) and the guitars in her music are sort of a nostalgia trigger for the generation(s) that grew up watching disney/nickelodeon in the 00s. she's like a real world gen-z icarly

Album Rating: 3.5

Vampire is fr such a banger

Album Rating: 4.5

Love Is Embarrassing is a massive bop and easily tops Vampire as the catchiest and most jammable thing here IMO

Album Rating: 5.0

One of the only albums from this year I return to

Album Rating: 4.0

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Album Rating: 4.5

"Can't Catch Me Now" is stunning

Album Rating: 2.0

Vampire is the only good song on here but it is good. Love how glam it is.

Yup album is painfully “meh” other than Vampire.

Album Rating: 2.5

all of my algorithms are flooding with this album despite having only listened to it twice when it first came out. her and taylor swift are just being shoved into everything i engage with and its annoying.



i've come around to vampire a little bit after hearing it so many times, everything else is pretty unremarkable imo. there are times where this is literally indecipherable from a taylor swift project.

Album Rating: 3.0

I don't like how theatrical it is and how it jumps around stylistically. It kind of feels like she is trying to appeal to everyone all at once. Everyone was talking about how she found a new lane with her pop punk aesthetic, and I came away feeling like she doesn't really have a coherent artistic identity yet.

Album Rating: 3.0

100%^ the most convincing sell on her appeal for me is as an excited music fan who's now making music and is essentially copypasting whatever her apparent favs (swift/williams/bridgers/lavigne) have done, with her own distinctions as a songwriter still yet to emerge outside of a handful of already overused lyrical themes

and i don't hate that at all - her enthusiasm comes off as earnest, but it puts a pretty modest ceiling on most of her output

Album Rating: 4.5

I think there's validity to all the complaints but I can't stop listening to it anyway

Album Rating: 3.0

Yeah I might have scored it harsh, I don't listen to a lot of pop. I think the alt rock and indie pop styles work on here, and her voice sounds nice. Musically, I think she has a more potential than this, but maybe not commercially.

Album Rating: 4.5

It's not too harsh if that's the score you think it deserves. She's definitely in the Taylor Swift arena of "you probably either love her or hate her". She definitely hasn't done anything new, but for me, that's fine.

Album Rating: 3.0

I heard some of the bonus tracks, and like those better than some on the album. They're more guitar oriented, and kind of feel like the bones of what this album could have been. Regardless, I'm going to up this to a 3.