idgaf about nostalgia factor or being on trend. she's nearly the same age as me we likely have nearly the same nostalgia and nearly the same idea of what's trendy. i don't think that's even the 50th thing that makes this mixtape so good. this is genuinely just phenomenal electronic music. if you ask me the reason people are so dead set on going back to this sound is that it's simply good as hell and everyone can hear it
i can't in good conscience rate this as low as it objectively deserves solely due to the joy it has brought me in my life
the thing about usseewa is that it's clearly trying to be harder than its instrumentation is allowing for and it ruins not only the mix but the intended impact of ado's voice. i've heard a single cover of this in an actual metal style that didn't take many creative liberties, it primarily just redid the instruments. and it's fantastic, so i really do think this song could have been saved from mediocrity by just not being a syudou production
conceptually not much different from this niche of late 2017s electronic pop music but this is potentially the worst production and instrumentation i have ever in my life ever heard. genuinely appalling