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MoM
September 18th 2023


5994 Comments


Very strong generalization that i wasn’t expecting 😦

Gyromania
September 18th 2023


37091 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

their stuff sounds so uninspired for the last 3-4 albums, like 80-90% filler bs and washed out prod, with the occasionally couple good tracks worth keeping.

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
September 18th 2023


60446 Comments

Album Rating: 2.8

Her goth-lite aesthetic and dissociated lyricism both have such obvious depressive overtones that I don't rly see the argument there (and let's not even start on the fanbase cvlt of sadcore bollocks). I also get it from the heavy blend of disaffection and pain in her vocal style, but that's a listener-received deal

MoM
September 18th 2023


5994 Comments


Just that you generalised the whole fanbase. Is it going to apply to some people? Yeah, sure. Could say that about a lot of stereotypes. Just not sure why you’re on this hill. If anything, you don’t have an argument for why it applies to everyone. If you don’t mean it that way, why not just say that?

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
September 18th 2023


60446 Comments

Album Rating: 2.8

You're now gonna have to point out where I referenced the whole fanbase? Saying that a certain demographic is an obvious (potentially chief) target audience for her sound or pointing out one visible pattern of behaviour among her fans are quite different things and, uh, I felt no need to clarify that I wasn't referring to Every Single Person Who Enjoys Phoebe Bridgers because that implication ain't there to begin with

MoM
September 18th 2023


5994 Comments


“ Phoebe Bridgers songwriting is just slacker indie refitted for depressives who find consolation in absolutely nothing happening ever.”

True that you don’t specify the whole fanbase, but if you can’t see how it’s easy to misinterpret this as saying her music is for the type you said, then that’s on you. If I’m wrong, i apologize. If you don’t want to see where I’m coming from, your loss, not mine.

Gyromania
September 18th 2023


37091 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

"depressives who find consolation in absolutely nothing happening ever"



idk man this sounds like the whole fanbase to me

Faraudo
September 18th 2023


4632 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Album is pretty good tbh, the band has somehow become this "hateable" entity in recent years

MeatSalad
September 18th 2023


18585 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

That's a mighty aggressive rating for something that's "pretty good"

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
September 18th 2023


60446 Comments

Album Rating: 2.8

"her music is for the type you said"

...well, it is - doesn't mean that type is exhaustive. i listen to a ton of stuff for which I'm plainly not the target audience as do you apparently, and I don't see the issue splitting ends there

"If you don’t want to see where I’m coming from, your loss, not mine"

this is a sputnik thread for the new national, we are losers here m/

rc239
September 18th 2023


402 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

"Album is pretty good tbh, the band has somehow become this "hateable" entity in recent years"



still love this band but 90% of the songs on their most recent albums are the aural equivalent to watching paint dry

Tunaboy45
September 18th 2023


18429 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

significantly better than Frankenstein

Odal
Staff Reviewer
September 18th 2023


2074 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Phoebe's stuff is good -I just don't think it's worthy of shifting the genre nearly as much as it has. What should be a collection of pretty good albums has paved the way for an onslaught of underwritten copycats making me hesitant of anyone who describes themselves as indie singer-songwriter.



Her fanbase is pretty bad, too

DocSportello
September 18th 2023


3376 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Lies of Pb

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
September 18th 2023


60446 Comments

Album Rating: 2.8

^lmfao

Gyromania
September 18th 2023


37091 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

who else is actually gonna get that game besides me? looks sick

Pikazilla
September 18th 2023


29772 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

I will and it sure af gonna be a better pastime than listening to punisher

RangerTaffles
September 18th 2023


319 Comments


Kinda taken aback by Smoke Detector, sticks out so much from the rest.

Tunaboy45
September 18th 2023


18429 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Really loving the jammy, more free-form feel of a lot of this, it feels like a natural progression of SWB (especially tracks like Turn off the House and Space Invader). I was always hoping they'd build off that sound and they're finally starting to do it.

Trebor.
Emeritus
September 18th 2023


59860 Comments


I love Bridgers and am very much depressed




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