Emo Trinity Deep Dive [#18/19] - 500th Review Special
Well, hello again. My existential crisis. My world shaker. My reason to have a phobic fear to death.
My first musical love and addiction.
Disclaimer: I'm going to talk a lot about some dark topics in detail.
Trigger warning for: suicide, death, war, cancer, SA, afterlife and lack thereof, self-harm, breakup, family issues, mental problems, and many others I’m forgetting.
Regarding structure: [ ] implies a new section, { } ... read more
This slaps so hard, but my dad still slapped harder.
It feels like they grabbed everything from the Fe304 trilogy of EPs to make an album that doubled down on all of their quirks and personality. And they were extremely successful!
Is it better than Stick Out? Yes that would be really easy considering how unusually average that project was.
Is it better than FORWARD or BREAK? No, but it is solidly behind these two EPs.
The one problem with making an album is making everything coherent and ... read more
Albums to show to your conservative parents if you want to get their will sooner.
Like expected from funk, there's a lot of talk and lyricism about fucking, which is not something that I enjoy a lot, but for some reason I didn't mind it here. Alongside the sound, it just made the whole album "Music to listen to while you're having sex" and I am not gonna complain about it. For once, a woman is singing about more than just having a fat ass, big boobs and wanting to get ... read more
Nice to see another person from Portugal trying to do something that isn't the same trendy sound of the month with production from early 2010's in this forsaken country.
Even then, the best part is the production. The rapping is fine enough, but the lyrics... It might be the standard for trap since everyone in the genre does it, but it's also incredibly generic and expected. "Fucking, money, bitches" makes this project nothing different lyrically from everything else ... read more
I wanted to stop listening midway through. It's just the same thing over and over and it sounds straight out of a band's first project, not a 30 year old one. It's bad, really bad. Are they out of ideas? Because it sounds like it. It sounds like it came out of a band that is running out of ideas and is questioning what their identity is now, so they turn to make the most generic, standard and predictable metalcore possible.
Hell, BMTH gets a lot of complaints for not even ... read more
This would've been a high 30 low 40 score if it wasn't for the solos. "Bang Bang" is the group highlight track of the album (explains why it was the only single), while the rest sounds like it could be performed by any other kpop women group. It sounds like they over processed the energy that made them popular so they could sound and feel more "badass". It works, but it makes the whole project sound generic and boring.
Solo wise, it starts strong with ... read more