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How do you fuck it up TWICE oh my god her team is incompetent. This was her last chance. I’m done with her. Why go through the effort of remaking the song and then not doing the ONE thing we asked

It feels so random lmaooo  I wonder if her art director is bipolar or something 
 
I do like the album aesthetic though! And she looks beautiful on the artwork.

i just don’t rlly get the whole theme/concept of the album?
 
what beast are we feeding? dr luke?

Weirdo

FTB is the most obvious slap and dash cash grab of all time like-
Added Unholy to inflate streams, added Coconuts since it was a small tik tok hit 
Kim obviously doesn't give a shit about this record cause it feels like Republic is making all the decisions for the tracklist and everything
But at the end of the day we can just forget about this record and wait for the true debut Problematique to arrive later this year

i’m not even gonna fake an outrage because we’ve know pretty much the whole tracklist for weeks now
 
since kim decided to release a playlist instead of an actual album, i’ll be moving the songs around in my library in different albums

It’s kinda depressing that we went from a solid body of work to what feels like a mish mash of tracks slapped together to form a record… 
 
Like I adore Kim to bits, but it’s clear that all republic care about are streams and numbers and they’ve cucked her every chance they can get if it means they can push for more streams.
 
(E.g. scrapping Problematique, teasing Alone for 6 weeks to mixed reception, trying to release Coconuts a month and a half away from its initial tease, slapping on unholy at the end of the FTB track list as a clear attempt to inflate streams.)
 
She honestly deserves better 

Rest in peace All She Wants  I actually love that song

Got bored and decided to compile a list of songs that potentially exist for the album, strictly based on information and snippets from Ms. Weaver herself.
 
On Odin Street (we know is lead single)
The Orchard
Rush Hour
Godmaker
Alexei
Secret
XIII
Night Vision
Rorschach Baby
FINALBOSS
Regina
MAMAN
Roots
Simple
Goldfish (?)
Stop
You Think You Know Lonely (?)
Punishing Yourself/What’s In It For You (?)
Plus two more snippets she posted via Insta/Twitter
 
Sad that not all of these will make the cut 😢 I’m expecting 15 tracks minimum though

spirit in the dark would've changed the course of history if it was released

the new music video is awkward and uncomfortable as fuck, her music went to complete shit in 2021 after future starts now, she looks tired, her tiktok is embarrassing, her sense of humor is unbearable, her personality only gets worse with time, her lyrics have absolutely no depth or charisma whatsoever, her label has no clue what to do with her, her outfits are always questionable, and she constantly works with the most disgusting people in the industry in a pathetic attempt to boost her fame when in reality the bunhead era will always be her most likable and i doubt she’ll ever be able to top it because she completely sold out for notoriety

I’m sorry but this is where it started going downhill. She very well could’ve dropped that on SoundCloud along with 105 but she wanted a hit… this is where it all began I think 

and you always let me copy your homework and i'll never i'll never forget that

The All She Wants slander makes me sick for a moment

Problematique is a masterpiece compared to shit pop but it’s horrible compared to her older work tbh 

Sex Talk is so… nothing 
 
Just listened to Revelations which y’all hyped to the high heavens  basic ass song 

where is she....
 
 

Can some of you leak Problématique in lossless or at least All She Wants since its scrapped? We tired already

all she wants is classic kim at her ABSOLUTE FUCKING BEST….honestly can’t believe the song is scrapped so sad

Wtf is wrong with her? Why would she scrap All She Wants… it better be on the Barbie soundtrack or something 

Zero budget trash, she really signed a record deal to get shelved & shitty visuals like Coconuts & Alone.. sad 

I think it's frustration and desperation, though desperation might not be the right word. Maybe desire? Determination?

She's *so close* to a breakthrough. She's *so close* to setting some records. She's *so close* to moving into the center lane and off the shoulder in her career. She's been working at this for over a decade now, and just *now* we've had a spark hit with the 'Unholy' feature. I can understand the push to turn that into a fire.
 
Now, *none* of us fans, stans, and h8rs know what's going through an artists mind - short of an explicit "Hi, I'm X, and this is EXACTLY what I think and why I think it" statement - but if I had to guess, I just think there's a level of tiredness, mixed with a desire to "make it", over everything she's done thus far. She's had how many cancelled projects now? She's had how many PR flubs and Twitter oopsies? (that seem to have come from frustration at criticism?) If it was me, I'd be putting myself on a lil autopilot here and there just to get by and keep grinding.

She signed her career to someone who is subsequently a poison pill (Puke), and is constantly getting beat over the head for it. She's got those shame bells ringing all the time. She's got fans clamoring for music and leaks and snips and scraps of projects. She's got pressure there on both the supply side/demand side to handle. To veer into the political - she's a visible (if she wasn't before, she sure is now after 'Unholy') transwoman, with her story and her transition being very publicized and talked about from an early age. There's a lot of pressure and focus on that aspect of her - that minority stress isn't ever going to go away.

Next part I'm putting behind a spoiler/TW just because it's a sensitive topic (physical appearance/body critiques)
 
What mainstream, have hit the radio, in the public eye trans artists are there? None to come to *my* mind, save Petras. And when Queer artists do hit the mainstream, or get close to it, there's always this risk of them being a novelty factor, just a flash-in-the-pan moment in pop culture, where they're everywhere for a beat, and then it's diminishing returns and then a fade out to being the LGBTQ+ locals favorite. Nobody wants that life, I wouldn't think? But how do you avoid that? There's pressure there, too.

Like I said - she's been at this for a decade. She's had how many cancelled projects and flopped rollouts during that time? She's signed to/with someone who historically (like it or not) has been a hitmaker, but the hits are...where? She's not getting any younger. There's a degree of stress on urgency there. There's a degree of stress unique to her by being an international (from Germany, remember) transwoman, on top of music industry stress as a baseline. Label wants this, label wants that, etc. etc.

I can see were, reasonably, someone would start to wear thin from frustration from the industry, frustration from choices that were made, frustration from getting recognition (Unholy) and then it going nowhere, or not going anywhere as fast as anticipated or promised, and I can see where that would start to reflect back into our quality of work. And I say frustration specifically as a root note for all of it, because of her basically saying "w/e yolo listen to Problematique leaks I'm fucked and not allowed to release shit anyway". That sounds very "frustrated and giving in" to me.

It's like - do you double down and commit to the grind, even if it means you have to sacrifice some parts of yourself, if there's a chance you come out ahead in the end? Or do you just throw up your hands and change course/level expectations and go a different route/approach? Not an easy decision when you have so many factors at play, and your work and public image is going to suffer no matter which route you take.

Not trying to defend anything, or promote anything - just my thoughts on where the perceived quality drop could be coming from and what could be feeding into it.

she started independent releasing a lot of singles ( with the rainbow colored single art), which was super exciting. She then follows up with her halloween album (Turn Off The Light) and Clarity. her concerts were so much fun, the music was good with very original lyrics, exciting collabs (for example Charli XCX), she seemed very genuine and funny. she honestly felt like the next big pop star that was “selfmade” for most people. 
 
i feel like it went downhill after malibu/future starts now and especially with slut pop 

honestly i get it but i dont want to get it 

she honestly doesn’t come across “genuine” anymore if that makes sense?
 
like the kim i saw at her concert seems like a different person idk how to explain…
 
the music is worse, lyrics are so much worse, she seems different 
 
i can’t put it into words well someone help me out