spiceoflife

Holy shit, these demos sound great. Especially compelling are The Parasite, Ebbing, The Memorious, Michael Is Done, and No More of This. Very excited for the full album.

Shakira - Waka Waka (This Time For White Girlbosses)

Bored out of my skull. Singles are like B-side Jewel tracks from 20 years ago and the album tracks are mostly just pretentious New Agey ramblings over murky nothings of folk pop arrangements.

Many reviews will assess this album as weaker than EMOTION and they are absolutely correct about that.
Some of the production collabs don't work as well as those on EMOTION did and I'm disappointed with the track lengths, some songs feel truncated - others less fully realized. That being said, what's written is still top-notch and Carly's performances are still great.