AtomicMess

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.

I will say this of it all; it was ambitious. And, if I'm going to be human, not all projects and ideas pan out in reality to their concepts, and not all projects are going to get universal acclaim from critics or fans, so. I'm happy to chalk that up to the 'Sophomore Slump', and see what she does now that she's lifted Grimes's aesthetic for this next album cover.

Hate is literally the weakest word in existence for my take on that album. And I say that as someone who was hyped for it. Waiting for it. Had popcorn and everything for the whole long-ass debut of the album-movie on YouTube. After sitting through it, I suddenly understood why every single review and news article for it from that time kept mentioning the 6 mil price tag attached to it; they were trying to justify that it was good because of what it cost. I have nothing constructive to say on that album. This comment is as civil as I can be. Everything else is a primordial surge of frustration and anger riding on the expectations I had of her on Crybaby. I want this next album to recoup some of that energy I had for her and grow it into something warm and adoring again. Desperately wanting it.

This is me. I have PTSD from K-12 still. In my head she's only ever had 1 album still.

Sliding into the thread wondering if there's a masterpost of stuff cause it seems that there's been some stuff leaked/demos floating and I'd like to sample some before I preorder any album material please and thank you.

JOT saw Block and said "Oh you think you've got VERSIONS?"

You just come out and say it bestie. Depending on the artist and the song, I enjoy a rough draft, or even a stripped down "here's just vocals and a basic beat" versions. To me, greatness comes from range, and range comes from contrast, and seeing it in a finished collection of work is wonderful, but seeing it happen in the creation process within a single track over time is also neat. Difference for me though is that if I'm throwing one of my regular house parties, I'm not throwing on that Nokia-quality music in the playlist. I want that HQ polish so I can goop the girlies with the "wait who TF is this and what TF is that song?" when they drop.

It's also only two albums; that seems short compared to what I usually hear artists signing?