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Who Really Cares is produced wonderfully, but it's marked with this incel-ish quality within its lyrics that bring down the score for me because it just sounds like the singer's looking for a pity party or sympathy rather than trying to improve himself or even feeling sorrow for how he treated his ex in their relationship. I suspect that the immaturity is meant to be the point of the album, perhaps as a satire, as the ... read more
original review was made on october 4th 2022. reposting because nobody has seen it, and it's a very important album to me.
A friend one day randomly texted me a Spotify code scanner picture thing of “lovers rock”. I listened to the song and thought it was okay at most. I then got curious and decided to listen to their discography. This album really stuck out for me. The cover art, the song names, the numbers it had, I had to listen.
This album is amazing in every way for me. ... read more
It starts off absolutely BANGING with the first track, the sample is fucking awesome and it works unfathomably well with the instrumental. Lyrics are decent and the vocals while being similar to TV Girl's last album are at least a bit of fresh air compared to that album, but it ultimately falls off a bit with "Song About Me". The track doesn't really have much lyrically and I don't care for the sound too much, but it's not really that bad, just kinda forgettable. Third track picks it ... read more
i have an odd amount to say about this, despite not liking it very much. there are high highs and low lows, but these highs and lows are often in the same songs.
Cons: my biggest problem is that the singer is just unlikable. he constantly sounds like a whiney incel douchebag, and it brings down the enjoyably of the album quite a bit. all he seems to care about is sex, but he pretends like that’s not the case. another problem i have with the album is the obnoxious sampling. it can really ... read more
1 | Taking What's Not Yours 3:25 | 85 |
2 | Song About Me 4:03 | 79 |
3 | Cigarettes out the Window 3:18 | 84 |
4 | Till You Tell Me to Leave 3:26 | 70 |
5 | Not Allowed 2:47 | 90 |
6 | (Do The) Act Like You Never Met Me 4:14 | 78 |
7 | Safeword 3:36 | 79 |
8 | For You 3:35 | 75 |
9 | Loving Machine 3:47 | 79 |
10 | Heaven Is a Bedroom 4:38 | 77 |
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