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I'm starting to agree with the reviewers who say she 'sold out' stylistically in that she didn't offer anything other artists couldn't do. I think the most both Kim and mainstream-palatable thing on here is King of Hearts, but I agree that very little stands out if you're not into Kim (and aren't bowled over by her vocals). I adore the new songs on the album but that's probably true, and it makes me sad that her team let TOTLV3 (a project nobody could EVER say was anything but Kim) go by the wayside for an attempt to 'mainstream' Kim that was never going to work. Kim on her own generated her current fanbase. Kim cosplaying other artists, or trying to be on the level of mainstream success as Katy Perry in a time when the biggest artists are people like Harry Styles and Olivia Rodrigo (i.e. club music is probably not gonna make you the biggest artist right now) is not fair to her as someone who makes good music (and has a decent, if not A-list, audience!) when she just lets herself be herself.

I will never understand why Hillside Boys never got a music video...

made a cover for Candy

I don't know, to me, the difference is that Orange Trees is one of the few songs on that album that are not try-hard deep. It doesn't take itself too seriously, it's just a fun little bop (a very basic one, admittedly). Enjoy Your Life, on the other hand... You can just tell that Marina wrote it and thought she had done something. But she hadn't. With those cringeworthy lyrics, not even the most amazing production in the world could have saved this song. 
And that's my main problem with Love + Fear. Marina just shouldn't have tried to make it seem deeper than it is. There's nothing wrong with making "just" pop music. Like, I don't mind Baby, Karma, Orange Trees, Please Don't Call Me... They're nothing special, but they're decent, catchy pop songs. But if you put out an album like Love + Fear and then act like you've written the music equivalent to Freud's Psychoanalysis, then yes, you will get dragged and it will be deserved.

That's just my personal opinion, but I think with her first three albums there's mostly hit singles + filler. Obviously there are some exceptions (I'll always be a Radio apologist, and B'Day has some pretty great album tracks as well), but I think she only really started creating bodies of work with 4. From that album onwards, I think it's probably best to just listen chronologically. 
 
As for 4, there's an "original" tracklist starting with 1+1 and an "expanded" one for digital versions of the album that opens with Love On Top; personally I think the former flows a lot better. 
 
Then, the iconic self-titled album that catapulted her to legend status. Since she released music videos for every single song on that album, I would highly recommend watching them all rather than just listening to the album on Spotify or whatever since they really add a whole extra dimension to those songs. The same goes for Lemonade, although for that album she released a short film and I'm not sure if that's actually available to watch on YouTube. And well, you already know Act I: Renaissance. 
 
She also released some side projects prior to Renaissance that might be worth checking out, although I think they're not essential. And finally, give her live albums a try too, they're worth it. Homecoming/Beychella is obviously iconic and you can watch it on Netflix, and I would also really recommend I Am... Yours for a more intimate concert experience. 

Not available for me yet (I think in the entirety of the EU actually, due to stricter privacy laws here), but since Tw*tter suspended my main account yesterday, I suppose I'll give Threads a try instead. 

We should go back to Arkansas MySpace

Not available for me yet (I think in the entirety of the EU actually, due to stricter privacy laws here), but since Tw*tter suspended my main account yesterday, I suppose I'll give Threads a try instead. 

Not available for me yet (I think in the entirety of the EU actually, due to stricter privacy laws here), but since Tw*tter suspended my main account yesterday, I suppose I'll give Threads a try instead. 

LEAK BARBIE GIRL 
 

@exo Imagery is artistic property. Please respect your fellow artists.

That's just my personal opinion, but I think with her first three albums there's mostly hit singles + filler. Obviously there are some exceptions (I'll always be a Radio apologist, and B'Day has some pretty great album tracks as well), but I think she only really started creating bodies of work with 4. From that album onwards, I think it's probably best to just listen chronologically. 
 
As for 4, there's an "original" tracklist starting with 1+1 and an "expanded" one for digital versions of the album that opens with Love On Top; personally I think the former flows a lot better. 
 
Then, the iconic self-titled album that catapulted her to legend status. Since she released music videos for every single song on that album, I would highly recommend watching them all rather than just listening to the album on Spotify or whatever since they really add a whole extra dimension to those songs. The same goes for Lemonade, although for that album she released a short film and I'm not sure if that's actually available to watch on YouTube. And well, you already know Act I: Renaissance. 
 
She also released some side projects prior to Renaissance that might be worth checking out, although I think they're not essential. And finally, give her live albums a try too, they're worth it. Homecoming/Beychella is obviously iconic and you can watch it on Netflix, and I would also really recommend I Am... Yours for a more intimate concert experience. 

Agreed. The Beyonce album is glorious.
 
Lemonade is overrated, sorry.

fixed it

definitely check out BEYONCÉ selftitled album. People always say lemonade but for me - the magnum opus will always be her selftitled album.

That's just my personal opinion, but I think with her first three albums there's mostly hit singles + filler. Obviously there are some exceptions (I'll always be a Radio apologist, and B'Day has some pretty great album tracks as well), but I think she only really started creating bodies of work with 4. From that album onwards, I think it's probably best to just listen chronologically. 
 
As for 4, there's an "original" tracklist starting with 1+1 and an "expanded" one for digital versions of the album that opens with Love On Top; personally I think the former flows a lot better. 
 
Then, the iconic self-titled album that catapulted her to legend status. Since she released music videos for every single song on that album, I would highly recommend watching them all rather than just listening to the album on Spotify or whatever since they really add a whole extra dimension to those songs. The same goes for Lemonade, although for that album she released a short film and I'm not sure if that's actually available to watch on YouTube. And well, you already know Act I: Renaissance. 
 
She also released some side projects prior to Renaissance that might be worth checking out, although I think they're not essential. And finally, give her live albums a try too, they're worth it. Homecoming/Beychella is obviously iconic and you can watch it on Netflix, and I would also really recommend I Am... Yours for a more intimate concert experience. 

Hillside Boys has a monster of a chorus

They were only semi-radio hits in Europe and n/a elsewhere, so she doesn't really perform them anymore unfortunately, but as far as I know they're both huge fan favourites. 4 In The Morning might actually be my favourite song of all time, so great taste!

They were only semi-radio hits in Europe and n/a elsewhere, so she doesn't really perform them anymore unfortunately, but as far as I know they're both huge fan favourites. 4 In The Morning might actually be my favourite song of all time, so great taste!

The earliest I can remember with certainty is 2008; before that I mostly listened to those compilation CDs of the biggest hits at the time rather than to full albums. 
 
2006: Pink – I'm Not Dead (probably; I definitely loved all the singles)
2007: Gwen Stefani – The Sweet Escape (not sure if I actually listened to the full album back then already, but I know for a fact that I loved 4 In The Morning, The Sweet Escape and Early Winter and have loved Gwen ever since)
2008: Pink – Funhouse
2009: Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown 
2010: Nelly Furtado – Loose (yes I'm aware that it came out years earlier, but that's when I discovered it and I was OBSESSED)
2011: Natalia Kills – Perfectionist (or Charlee – This Is Me; not sure which one I listened to more)
2012: Born To Die... duh!
2013: still Born To Die, but with Paradise added as well
2014: Ultraviolence and BEYONCÉ 
2015: Honeymoon
2016: Gwen Stefani – This Is What The Truth Feels Like and Troye Sivan – Blue Neighbourhood 
2017: Allie X – CollXtion II
2018: Troye Sivan – Bloom
2019: NFR
2020: Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia 
2021: Chemtrails Over The Country Club
2022: Beyoncé – Renaissance 

Someone else loving 4 in the morning and Early Winter (and obviously Sweet Escape) makes me so happy  im not in the gwen community so idk how popular they are! 

The earliest I can remember with certainty is 2008; before that I mostly listened to those compilation CDs of the biggest hits at the time rather than to full albums. 
 
2006: Pink – I'm Not Dead (probably; I definitely loved all the singles)
2007: Gwen Stefani – The Sweet Escape (not sure if I actually listened to the full album back then already, but I know for a fact that I loved 4 In The Morning, The Sweet Escape and Early Winter and have loved Gwen ever since)
2008: Pink – Funhouse
2009: Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown 
2010: Nelly Furtado – Loose (yes I'm aware that it came out years earlier, but that's when I discovered it and I was OBSESSED)
2011: Natalia Kills – Perfectionist (or Charlee – This Is Me; not sure which one I listened to more)
2012: Born To Die... duh!
2013: still Born To Die, but with Paradise added as well
2014: Ultraviolence and BEYONCÉ 
2015: Honeymoon
2016: Gwen Stefani – This Is What The Truth Feels Like and Troye Sivan – Blue Neighbourhood 
2017: Allie X – CollXtion II
2018: Troye Sivan – Bloom
2019: NFR
2020: Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia 
2021: Chemtrails Over The Country Club
2022: Beyoncé – Renaissance 

I am so convinced you are a lanaboards social experiment 

so um anyway let me just post these back covers i made awhile ago for era 1 & clarity

i might eventually make one for problematique and remake these but i don't feel like doing that so you get these for now

Try Again (my remaster)
 
https://krakenfiles.com/view/ii67iim28j/file.html