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basically the only piece of art from the 2010s aa tennis skirt era that has aged tastefully which is a testament to skys talent and ability. drunk as fuck just put on youre not the one and started crying like it really is that deep idgaf what anyone says â¤ď¸â¤ď¸â¤ď¸
one of the greatest pop records of all time (imo! which is heavily biased but DEFINITELY one of the greatest pop records of the 2010s). sky has yet to follow this up cuz she knows yall aint ready. tired of ppl joking about her being a âhas-beenâ when sheâs literally worked with the jesus and mary chain david lynch and primal scream. shes an artists artist <3
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the way i could write a world-changing 33 1/3 about this album!!! oh my goodness. (this is the kind of album you write after achieving meteoric pop success if you are a serious person, in case any inescapably famous singer-songwriters are taking notes.)
but for real -- this album is at once a perfectly-preserved late 90s time capsule (neurotic, stylish, a hint of a sneer, but real hope underwriting it all) and also secretly about us, right now, in the year of our lord 2024. it's fierce and smart and darkly hilarious. it's about going to therapy and getting your dad to go to therapy, and then feeling weird imagining the kind of dark shit your dad must be working through in therapy. itâs about trying to search for the divine while watching a bunch of idiot rich people get influenced into paying $2000 for like past life regression readings or whatever and feeling weird about the idea that theyâre searching for the same divine you are, because if theyâre looking for it too then it canât possibly be the real thing, can it? itâs about being the bright young thing who wrote jagged little pill and suddenly finding all of your interpersonal relationships totally unworkable because everybody is too blinded by the brightness of the young thing who wrote jagged little pill to let you also be a human being. itâs about feeling so old already at 24 and looking back on your teenage self at a tender distance as if those days were a lifetime ago, as if youâre actually any wiser now. itâs about wondering if anything you will ever do is ever, ever going to be good enough. alanisâs lyrics here are biting and precocious and the songs are just so chatty (witness âfront rowâ in which she layers four entire extra verses behind the chorus, effectively writing a whole bonus song because the situation is just too complicated to explain in four minutes) and theyâre talking about all the same things we talk about now, in the same way we talk about them now, except without all the self-serious posturing so many of our contemporary songwriters fall prey to. (âthe couchâ is somehow both the most earnest and the least corny song anybody has ever written about therapy.) i know this album must have hit properly when it came out because it was the only thing my mom played in our house for the entire calendar year of 1999, but it feels so preternaturally tailor-made for the moment weâre in now that i canât believe it hasnât had one of those improbable tiktok renaissances or whatever that seem to keep happening. highly recommend a revisit or a first acquaintance if you havenât made one.
Feb 6, 2024
good god if you canât hear the last ten years of pop music blossoming so perfectly by her will. my ipod hated to see me coming for the digital drop. i do think the pop auteur thing continues to be such a wonderful look on her - she made the most perfect collection of contemporary pop music videos ever and now everything feels comparatively postmodern. and of course thereâs lemonade... which i know fewer of you have watched than iâd care to admit. please go do that! itâs a totally different form, excellent in a distinct and singular way. alas. here lie the hits! a whole other language and one she breathes so effortlessly. do you have this in your itunes library? do you have history with this record?
Jan 18, 2025
courtney love is so fucking talented. itâs not a hot take but it needs saying a lot more. this album got shit for leaving some edge behind, but truly I think it maintains all the lyricism & intent of live through this (1994) with an masterful pop sheen, which complements all of its hollywood underbelly vibes. it has its grimier moments and its whispering moments too. i been on this lately
âhe hit so hard i saw godâ???
âmiles and miles of perfect skin, i swear i do, i fit right inâ?????
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was so so sad last night and found myself at the movies. started sobbing the moment i sat in the chair for reasons entirely unrelated to the film (although it was very sad). kind of relished in it though bc the cinema unlike buses/trains/cafes is like the only public space where you wont be scorned for crying. its the only acceptable place outside of the comfort of your home for you to sit down and have a good wail because everyone will think ur crying about the movie and no one will judge u.
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a punk rock road movie by gregg araki about a couple that pick up a drifter. weirdness and chaos ensue. impeccable soundtrack and the costuming was waaaay ahead of its time. its like challengers on crack. one of my favourite flicks and was my teenage gateway into cool girl underground films. be warned though it gets pretty violent at times!
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