Shitty Zionist propaganda movie mentioned, automatic zero for being reminded of its existence.
Seriously though.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but Robyn has released one of the worst songs this decade. And mind you, Katseye just released Internet Girl about a week ago. The worst lyrics even though Taylor Swift just released her latest travesty of an album a few months ago. Her latest single Sexistential is really that bad.
The first song, Talk To Me is fine. Standard Robyn ... read more
Life got me at a point where I either gotta start rapping like this or start smoking crack.
A Chore of An Album.
The biggest issue is the reverb. There's just so much damn reverb. My first thoughts as I entered this album and final ones as I left it.
I love the main theme of this album. The identities of Man and Woman are ultimately interlinked chains forged by the fires of the system of labour exploitation that is gender identity, performance of which ultimately leads to the death of shared human connection and nurturing. It delivers the message with a lot of subtlety and ... read more
Edit 75 --> 60 : Unfortunately, adding this to a playlist of Cranberries songs really makes you hear the deficiencies and how it pales in comparison. It's pretty, pretty dry unfortunate. While I do appreciate that Daniel Nigro's production here was much more restrained as I found her debut to be horribly overproduced, moments of pulling away really made it good. However, it just makes how dry and clean this song is only stand out more. There's just too much here that is ... read more
Before you criticise this song for being too sleepy to be played at a party, remember that it's for a Drake party where the drinks are most likely spiked.
Lost in a Sea of Indulgence.
Verdict: Quadeca's Vanisher is full of emotionally poignant truths about being lost in your period of young adulthood as a man experiencing the world today, but all of it is waterlogged by a flood of instrumental indulgence and unfitting vocal production choices.
There's this indescribable feeling of aimlessness and stagnation everyone encounters in their early 20s, which has been made infinitely worse by the culture of over consumption, comparison, ... read more
I know that there's a kid out there who turned the radio on and heard a core truth, one they have wanted to shout out loud from the depths of their soul, but are afraid to do so for fear of abandonment and antagonisation, being triumphantly played to millions all over the world. And that would be the moment of catharsis and profound self discovery that sets them free to live their truth.
Taking these complex human truths, distilling them into the most primal human emotions and setting ... read more
Tyler's Homage to The Roots of Hip-Hop
Main Review: Tyler The Creator channels the dance and funk sounds formative to Hip-Hop and P-Funk to create a concise album that centres its focus on the physical release music brings while dropping all the conceptual baggage of his previous releases. Bursting with banging grooves and fizzing with sweet synths, the album succeeds to move you but fails to provide any memorable songs or moments and expeditiously loses momentum in its breeziness ... read more
[Updated Review]
Worst of 2025:
Initially my feelings regarding this album were more neutral. 3 of my favourite alt pop singers who broke through in the early 2010s recommended it, and a pop icon like Charli XCX taking her under her wing must mean something right?
But the more I listen to it, the more I'm irked by how devoid it is of anything. The music, the lyrics, the singing, the visuals, the live performances..... There's absolutely nothing to be offered. On this record, ... read more
Sweet, Charming and Soulful.
Clairo and El Michaels Affair manage to successfully recapture the calm and whimsical charm of her third album of the same name. Sweet and innocent piano chords lead the song, with flourishes of playful synths and piano arpeggios, backed by a soulful drum beats.
The instrumental is lush and intimate, vocals are gentle and full of character, and the lyrics are perfectly subtle in their emotionality, talking about the anticipation to finally get closer in love. ... read more
Growing up is so beautiful.
I have always had a weird relationship with the music of Big Thief and Adrienne Lenker. It has this weird quality which gets me bawling and reflecting on all my memories, but also makes me feel so happy to face life as it comes and enjoy the joy of all the little moments in my life.
Incomprehensible is the most apt word to describe the beauty of life as portrayed in this song. Every line is so hyper-specific to one person's life and experiences, yet can ... read more
Basking in the Twilight of Love.
This 7 song EP is enough to solidify Solange as one of the best popstars of this generation, even though she hasn't done pop since. It's a vision executed to perfection on all fronts, so concise and clear yet has enough emotion and heart for you to drown in and never feel the urge to come to surface. I could spend my entire life awash with the bright hues of purple and orange this collection of songs colours in the mind.
Supported throughout by Blood ... read more
Lorde's Most Transgressive Moment As An Artist.
How it feels.
This is a really intense intense song. Quite confusing in its contradictions. Scary at points. Hard to describe, so I'll start by giving an abstract idea of the sensations in my body and images in my mind that flash as I listened to it.
It crawls through your flesh. At first it started out as a slight tingling sensation on your skin. Goosebumps when you were in a reality slipping away from you. Sometimes you would see ... read more
The Contradictions of Masculinity.
I think a lot of Ethel Cain's music is an exploration of the violence intrinsic to masculinity and the contradictions inherent to gender hierarchies in general. From the inwards violence of her lover, the violence that built the country she lives in, the violence imposed upon her by her community right up to her gruesome demise.
Nettles seeks to explore the dynamics of a co-dependent relationship and how the internalised violence of men can plant the ... read more
Euphoria without commitment is a one way trip to Hell. The reality of life happens in the mundane, not the memorable.
The sentiment of the song:
This is one of Lorde's most depressing songs, for the sadness she speaks of here is an unavoidable reality no matter how you live your life. To understand where the magic of this song lies, I would like to take you all through the train of thought it inspires. The cycles of highs and lows that it represents.
I believe that ever since ... read more
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On ethernalboy's review of Robyn - Sexistential / Talk to Me
"It's more a consequence of Stan Twitter humour imo."
On Robyn - Sexistential / Talk to Me
"@dmndjubilee What do you want me to say here, "No You?" Im sorry but once I see someone give a 100 rating to a song like Sexistential, i stop considering you a person with any worthwhile criteria for art in general. Blocking you for my peace."
On browneyesblue's review of Addison Rae - Addison
""I'm truly and deeply convinced that everybody fawning over this record is simply over the novelty of a tiktoker's album not sounding like complete ear torture. " Exactly."
On Gregisdead121's review of Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl
"Frivolous is the perfect word for her artistic approach now."
On rbbaddie's review of Ava Max - Don't Click Play
"Eh..... H&M playlists these days are more Mac DeMarco, indie pop-slacker rock, lofi these days."
On Ethel Cain - Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You
"@Gregisdead121 Thanks! I need to finish my listen but so far I like it mostly."
On OKcato's review of Lorde - Virgin
"I've said my piece and no longer see any validity with your argument and since you have failed to counter my critiques of your logic, I doubt there's a point in arguing further so I'll block you for both our sakes.
My only advice would be, that the people you talk to the internet are indeed real people and if they express a traumatic experience, best not to make fun of that because then you absolutely destroy your own perceived moral high ground by assigning levity to sexual assault.
This is where I urge you to grow up. Adolescents can be stubborn, but being stubborn till the point of being insensitive to real SA experiences to critique a celebrity does ultimately make you worse than them here. If you were an adult,ni would have flipped."
On OKcato's review of Lorde - Virgin
"But your biggest issue is that you're detached from the weight of the accusations, as evidenced by your comedic tone, which allows you to throw these accusations so lightly. Also leads me to believe that you don't really believe in your own points and throw them around to feel better about yourself and how you finally exposed a bad person, the basis for most of the hundred cancellation campaigns out of which only 50 necessitate social exclusion. Cause y'all feel better that something horrible happened and would rather expose it and feel good about it, than rather bad things not have happened."
On OKcato's review of Lorde - Virgin
"Cont.
The person who takes a video to comment on the internet, "This is why I am scared of dressing rooms" is also sharing my body without consent, but I wouldn't consider them criminal because they didn't force their way to it nor are they trying to sexualise it or use my body in a way I didn't want. This is why intent and impact are important. And it's not like Lorde is even spreading this tape on that level. There's no intent to harm, and basically negligible harm done, if anything people with basic comprehension skills will gain empathy for celebrities and the violation of their privacy."
On OKcato's review of Lorde - Virgin
"Re: Current Affairs: If I were to be in a dressing room trying clothes and a person were to come in and tear down the curtains rendering me visible to everyone, my autonomy has definitely been violated. In this scenario, there will be some who stare at me because of perversion, some that click pictures and upload em to the internet to jerk off, and some would just click pictures to show the world what happened. Ultimately, the person that did the worst crime is the one that tore it off. Then, the people who view for perversion and view them for personal pleasure because they objectify and sexualise me without consent for pleasure."
On OKcato's review of Lorde - Virgin
"It references Maslow's quote for that specific reason. To say that when you are in a particular state of mind, you might go into all situations with the same approach even if they are inappropriate for finding a resolution or fulfilling a purpose.
Also, Man Of The Year, a song about your perceived gender identity differing from the gender identity attributed to your biology is pretty much the opposite of biological essentialism."
On OKcato's review of Lorde - Virgin
"A simple example of biological essentialism being used for predatory purposes is the saying "girls mature faster than boys," as it is something men use to justify sleeping with minors.
However, this is an actual proven truth being bastardised. Yes, girls are generally mature faster than boys, but what the people who misuse it do is that they obscure the fact that an adolescent doesn't compare to an adult in terms of maturity, the comparison is between only adolescents. And the immortality of the act is due to the predatory power dynamics not the maturity.
In Hammer, Lorde never implies or says anything that could be taken as "having a biological urge justifies committing immoral acts for their fulfilment or that women are defined by them"
On OKcato's review of Lorde - Virgin
"To break it down into simplest of terms:
1) Re: Hammer: Urge and action are completely different. Replacing horniness with hunger, I will say that uncontrollable is the wrong word and a mistake of engaging with your logic. The first verse only implies an extremely strong urge, because ultimately she makes it clear that she enjoys texting the guy.
Bioessentialism in its simplest terms means that your nature is defined by your biology and is a theory often used by misogynists, racists, etc. to reduce people and their actions to biology. Lorde isn't reducing her horniness to biology.
Here she's simply saying that her sex drive has increased because of ovulation. Which if you pick up a Biology textbook, is true."
On OKcato's review of Lorde - Virgin
"And you continue to talk about a traumatising and triggering topic with jokes, emojis and poorly appropriated AAVE which confirms that you really don't care about the topic or the people who have actually experienced it, you just wanna have your call out moment. Relish it then.
But if you really wanna get your point across, then take it beyond taking something common between two actions to equate them. Severity, context and effect are used in every court all over the world to judge crimes for a reason."
On OKcato's review of Lorde - Virgin
"I'm going to disconnect from your false equivalence, Whataboutism and bad faith interpretation. In the simplest of terms, watching that 20 year old tape that everyone has seen does zero material harm to anyone. The people who released it, the ones who distribute and hold it are definitely committing a crime, but right now it's like witnessing an unfortunate incident. Talking about it is insensitive yes, but it's not a sex crime or any kind of crime. Especially since it portrays it as a tragedy (the " pure and true " is the content not the release ) and putting it in the context of fear of exposure makes that plenty clear. There is zero abstraction that you can do to reasonably make this a sex crime or harassment. Simple as that."
On OKcato's review of Lorde - Virgin
"Also, the 9/11 argument has a coherent logical througline. The "She says she has uncontrollable sexual urges as a woman because of ovulation? What about when men say they rape because of uncontrollable sexual urges that arise due to hormones?" That, my adolescent crusader, is the epitome of Whataboutism as a logical fallacy."
On OKcato's review of Lorde - Virgin
"Also funny to call my arguments illogical when you refuse to engage in logic. And don't you think it's funny to suggest that I need to Google stuff proof that I don't know what I'm talking about, when my entire argument hinges on the notion that you lack a proper logical framework to process information. If you had any critical thinking skills, you would recognise that and instead of defining terms and citing information would try to prove the strength of your logical framework, but you don't do that."
On OKcato's review of Lorde - Virgin
"Dude, I'm done. Any word pointed towards you will be used to create a false equivalence. Go on your crusade."
On OKcato's review of Lorde - Virgin
"This is why I refuse to engage with your demand for detail until you consider your own logical framework. Anything I give would be wasted on false equivalence. You aren't the first person I have discussed sensitive topics online, but you aren't someone who beckons actual academic perspective."
On OKcato's review of Lorde - Virgin
"@OKcato "ok so it’s not that complex, the ideas are shallow, and the language over-exaggerates the actual content of what she’s saying?" Again, another case of false equivalence and why it's fruitless to argue with you. I never said the ideas are shallow, rather they are going in an entirely different direction. You can have depth while being simple and expressive about common experiences, in fact that's the hallmark of her writing style. There's also zero over-exaggeration. If anything, she overly simplifies things to create beautiful imagery, such as by refering to mobiles as liquid crystal ( it literally is that) or makeup as painted faces and news as current affairs."
On OKcato's review of Lorde - Virgin
"@OKcato however engaging in your field of logic and argument style has led me to consider some of the most ridiculous equivalences and you made light of a serious topic, and until I remembered my own experiences I was actually engaging in this stupidity.
Please grow up."
On OKcato's review of Lorde - Virgin
"@OKcato I don't think you are either bad or really stupid, but you have this thirst for exacting justice online which social media has cultivated, instead of actually holding someone accountable or raise awareness about any actual issue. And since I use your logic to draw examples and ask if you think they are valid, and since you call it Whataboutism which is another words for false equivalence, something I pointed out in your arguments, at least we are in agreement about something here."
On OKcato's review of Lorde - Virgin
""Lorde explained the context behind writing Hammer as well as what ovulation meant to her in an ABC interview with Zane Rowe."
More context you miss: "The liquid crystal is in my grip, anyone with a snake tongue I show them the chambers of my heart." Basically, she's texting a fuckboy because she needs someone to fulfill her needs and being vulnerable. That's not even close to a man saying they raped someone because they wanted to fulfill their needs. More false equivalence. Saying I have uncontrollable urges is far from I couldn't control my urges.
As for your bio essentialism analysis, the song Man Of The Year is enough to disprove that."
On OKcato's review of Lorde - Virgin
"Ultimately, please don't expect me to be convinced that the person who traumatised me and gives me vomit inducing nightmares did something on the same level as watching a celebrity sextape out to find something that relates to her situation as a celebrity.
This is your biggest issue in your logical framework.
Making false equivalences without consideration of severity or intent.
I also don't know if you have experience, I hope you don't and I wish you never do, but it's important to think about what you are really accusing someone of.
I don't think you are a bad person, but it's a common occurrence amongst teenagers that they are so stubborn and prone to cognitive biases and false equivalences because of group think on social media."
On OKcato's review of Lorde - Virgin
""you openly denied Anderson the right to condemn the distribution and watching of her own sex-tape, you have spent this whole time making judgement’s on other people’s experiences with patriarchy as well as mine, so what changed?" So you are willing to do something you view as morally wrong and feel that it's justified when the other person does it first?"
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