2021

Yet another one. Yet another godforsaken song from/about 2021. Imagine being a mediocre pop artist, then falling from grace even further that your a shell of your old self, but not to mention the fact that you're also making some of the most unprofessional and downright earrapey songs that have graced the radio in a while. I was never a devout fan of this dude but man he went down the drain even further to the point where he doesn't deserve relevancy. I'd take any song from Justin Bieber's awful Changes LP over this because at least that shit was mixed and mastered decently, the vocals didn't sound like Walmart whiteboy Travis Scott, and the stuff sounded like it came from a place of love despite the various attempts at a chart placement.

The writing on this thing is the most surface level ever, and Lauv sounds like he put the amount of effort into making this as much as he did for the album cover. If that's a bathroom, I'm convinced he used a toilet seat lid as a pop-filter and mixed this on a piss-induced water-damaged 2013 Macbook Pro or that iPhone in the picture. But I could make something better in ten minutes with an iPhone 6, so tell me a valid reason as to why this dude is famous? Like we live in an era where an amateur with 30 Instagram followers can make my favorite album of the year so far, so why is a mainstreamer using minimal resources to make gutter trash.

Sure, it could be a loose-end or a snippet, but quality control-wise, I don't think he even cares because that Conan Gray joint was just about tolerable, yet simultaneously vanilla as fuck. This song personifies everything I despise about trap-pop and it's very visible existence in the mainstream at the moment, Oh, and don't forget, the appropriation of R&B to the point where anyone making pop music on a melodic rap instrumental is dubbed R&B.

This must be a loose-end, but either way, it's a downward spiral for this guy as he hits like 3/3 for bland and derivative singles. He could sit in the studio for a few months and come up with the next big thing in pop yet he squanders all his resources on making music for 12-year-old white girls, TikTokers, kids who make Bart Simpson edits, and spam Tumblr with these so-called aesthetics.

Oh, don't forget that people who listen to this probably think doing drugs when your 14 is cool and that the Benadryl challenge is good fun, after all the only thing they're at risk of losing is their life isn't it? The world would be so much better if we ransacked Twitter HQ and set the radios to solely bubblegum bass, city-pop, and hyperpop. Reject Lauv embrace Dorian Electra 😼