AtomicMess

Okay but who gonna be seeing her @ her DC concert here in a few weeks?

I think I've literally only ever listened to the single version - never played the album version b/c I didn't wanna split the song play counts in iTunes. Now I'mma have to listen to the album version to make the comparison oop

That's the other thing. Either be blunt, be straight, be perfectly crystal clear, or, instead, wrap everything up in euphemism and double talk in metaphor. It's the dancing back and forth within a song that is killing it for me, because it's comes off like she's pausing the song to explain the joke to the audience. "All the boys want a taste of the strawberry shortcake! (Ha ha! That means they want my vagina! )" "He bit the cherry down! (Ha ha! This means he ate me out while I was bleeding! )" Either talk around a topic and let that layer of metaphor be something your audience gets to unwrap for themselves and discover and develop their own meaning and connection with and to, or be direct with your words and imagery and instead let others who share the exact same sentiment and emotion have a body of work to resonate with unambiguously. Idk.

It's giving CupcakKe quality lyrics in terms of cheap visceral imagery and sexual bluntness. If we were serving those with the same kind of CupcakKe energy and camp, I would be 100% down for it. Narrator: She is not, in fact, serving the cheap on-the-nose lyrics with the same kind of energy as other artists who have made it their brand.

im sorry whAT THE HELL IS MOON CYCLE I LOG ON AFTER WORK TO THIS MALIGNANT LYRICAL NOISE I CANNOT When this album comes out I am hate listening it at this point. Pin me or something for follow up because I am primed and ready to write a detailed and highly objective 110% in-arguable "Haters Guide to Every Track on Portals by Maladaptive Barftinez." That screenshot about being disconnected from the energy of transformation or whatever - I am embodying that disconnect mind body and SOUL. ....I am never having standards or expectations for artists ever again.

Every day I wake up and have unread work emails.

I am waiting for the thing to fully release before I give my opinion. Some of the snips are already serving a healthy dose of cringe to me, but some are also serving a healthy dose of possibility. I wanna be wrong in the hesitation and negativity, but like, full disclosure: if it releases and it's basically giving K-12, the LSD Edition..... I may utter sounds only able to be heard by other fellow Eldritch Horrors.

It definitely gives insight into her and her personality and why she sometimes reacts the way she does.

Ooo. That's news to me. I recall downloading a lot of her early Mixtapes and such off Soundcloud. I assumed HBH was just another one that got yoinked like the others.

It's real-ish. It was released on her Soundcloud, but very, very briefly, before being pulled down. Alleged a leak, or material that wasn't officially sanctioned for release. Here's one of the articles written about it at the time it came out. https://popdose.com/download-now-charli-xcx-drops-a-free-ep/

Mia Rodriguez is just Melanie Martinez's lab clone.

Listening to the snippet of Battle of the Larynx - it's giving me this, tbh. I get what she's going for, but the second I heard "I'll wreck you if you chase me but I'll be silent till you cross a line" I cringed. It's giving High School Sweethearts Pt. 2 a la it's "If you fuck me over I will rip your face apart" and "If you cheat, you will die" bits. She seems to really love placing herself in these fantastical "moments of victory" bits where she's rather violently clawing at something or someone or some kind of ideal, and always the victor despite the circumstance. The writing puts me in a place where I can't tell if she's trying to manufacture a specific image that just keeps coming off as disingenuous and try-hard, or if she's actually serious and in which case it then her lyrics just read to me as emotionally immature and underdeveloped.

You can still have baby creatures and diaper fantasy, come on now. We can still snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Hello why is this wiping my memory of all bad things surrounding her and replacing them with a longing desire for a successful album rollout hello?

Burning my braincells trying to finish a project before a presentation at work and Charli is the playlist currently and Tables comes on and now I have to stop work to come and complain that I need a full 4 minute and 38 second complete chorus refrain pre-chorus bridge second verse extended vocal outro version of this damn thing. Manifesting whatever universe that exists in to just pull me into it, thanks.

That's my worry too - not enough marbling. I've got some records that are gorgeous, and others where it's like....there's a 1inch circle where there's vaguely some marbling and it's just otherwise opaque. I could just be a crackhead and buy multiple variants. Idk.

I've moved past my K-12 PTSD and am ready to embrace this ho again and I'm looking at all the stupid vinyl variants and I cannot decide for the life in my gay body which one to get. UO Green and Target Red are out of the running. But I cannot decide on any of the rest. B&N Pink is cute and safe, Walmart is ok, and the two webstore ones are nice, but I'm hesitant on the one because that page says "swirl" on the vinyl when it is in fact more a "splatter" mock up (like is the final actually gonna be like the picture, or is gonna bait and switch on us), and the 'bloodshot translucent' has the potential to be cool....or it has the potential to look like magenta mud. How it looks spinning on the turntable has a very palpable impact on my enjoyment ok.

Carbie XCX (I'll see myself out)

....Puke was behind this album what?????????????? Sacre bleu! Say it ain't so

Pinning this in the back of my mind when she releases "35" and takes Adele's spot as Brit Ballad Queen

I'm still mad she was playing 20 minutes from my apartment and I just....didn't go.

Okay but Thick not making a debut on the deluxe? Release her from jail!

I've loved this track since it was released. Ugh.

Ty, but it's all good now. That was turn of the 2000's (I'm old ), they got divorced, shit got worse, shit got better, and I moved out and on my own. Personal philosophy is that the past was perfect - shit happens the way it happens because given the factors of life and universe at the time; there was no other way things could have gone. If it didn't go that way, maybe I wouldn't be vibing here on Analboards.

You know, it's funny you say that - tangental *it's about me* moment - that's part of why Cry Baby hit me hard. VERY specifically Dollhouse. That was my family, on a surface level. I had the parents covering shit up. I had the cheating Dad. I had the sibling who was dabbling in drugs. I had to be the "role model" child. Parents went from being literal millionaires to not being able to pay the light bill and using the laundromat because of their own dumbassery, but whipping us kids to "keep up appearances" and just swallow our issues. Like that song just *got* me, and the albums concept of a troubled childhood just sunk right in like lotion on dry skin.