RokanPohan

Stupidly good track

Opps wanted some initiative / I blew up their whole quadrant / I'm movin like Oppenheimer

The original was always a pretty bizarre album. Some of the strongest pop she's ever made alongside a peppering of organic, first-rate cringe. Shake It Off sounds cheap as hell. Bad Blood makes me hate music. All You Had To Do Was Stay could be her best non-Red track. It's weird. Easily more of a triumph than failure, anyhow.

As for this version specifically, Taylor had already shed her Southern drawl by 2014 so the vocals sound pretty much identical. Any production changes I noticed might ... read more

Paint my bedroom beige.

Or grey, but, like, a sterile yellowy grey that doesn't nicely match much of the furniture.

Holly was on a hot streak of singles after her most recent (proper) EP in 2021, and at some point last year I probably would've listed a potential Humberstone album among my most anticipated releases, period. The girl knows a hook, what can I say? Fast-forward to June and she announced exactly that, alongside two singles and a pretty gaudy new visual direction. These tracks ... read more