A vastly overrated nothing of a track that will be remembered far less fondly than it is currently being enjoyed. There are solid hooks there, but it gets into earworm territory and effectively dies there for me.
one of those situations where the tracks from the deluxe reissue both *make sense to add* and don't feel like cashgrabs (ms swift, take notes!)
i'm happy. spring breakers is a *banger* and maybe even the best track on the whole album, but it's still competition.
See: My TVs review of this album, with the caveat that this version is, unfortunately, the better one of the two.
I loved this album at the time, loved this album a little bit less, but I cannot honestly say that it doesn't hold up. The hits, hit (though I'm less a fan of Shake It Off than most) and the deep cuts are all remarkably consistent, too.
I listened to this the moment it came out, because of all the hype surrounding it, in the UK in the wee hours of the morning.
And imagine my joy at discovering, after slogging through an hour of some of the dribbliest, nothing-tracks in this woman's discography, with only one or two highlights, that there was a whole *extra* hour of tracks that were only marginally better (you'd think Swift would have the sense to *lead* with them, but I guess nobody's got the nerve in her circle to tell her ... read more
A fantastic album that polarized less because of it's quality and more because of a borderline fake set of music awards everyone gets whiny about all the time.
Great debut LP. I'm still into it.
The denigration this album received upon its US release always confused me, though I suspect it was not helped by the nature of its release - desperate to capitalise on B2B's success, and without any new material, they simply rushed this out instead, with little time in between.
The production was very solid, she channels very effectively her clear influences - the imprint jazz standards and 90s R&B have on this record are hardly subtle - and puts with them the kind of lyrical sharpness ... read more
Deeply enjoyed this album, and really displays Eilish's continued maturity and development as an artist and as a lyricist.
Everything on it, with the exception of The Diner, which was a touch questionable, is worth the listen.
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