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[Chorli Xbox 8,834]

i love how the first 8 songs of Serpentina are pretty good (like Fuck Love and Burn), but then it all goes to shit with the last 5 songs 

 

honestly, should’ve been an EP 

[AKASAKA SAWAYAMA 7,885]

1 hour ago, Chorli Xbox said:

i love how the first 8 songs of Serpentina are pretty good (like Fuck Love and Burn), but then it all goes to shit with the last 5 songs 

 

honestly, should’ve been an EP 

make it make sense love

[DinahLee 6,193]

honestly I took "Holding Back" from Serpentina and ran. I kinda warmed up to The Devil but it took sort of a long time. There are maybe 2 others songs I quite like but not enough to remember the names and I feel like that says a lot...but I'm also not a huge fan of III.

 

 

Now The Altar & Goddess... a mastermind.

[Glitter Boy 16,557]

Serpentina - EP

1. Misunderstood
2. Holding Back
3. The Devil
4. Skinnydipped
5. Meteorite
6. Burn
7. Deadend
8. I Still Love You
9. Birds By the Sea Japanese bonus track

 

[Chorli Xbox 8,834]

1 hour ago, AKASAKA SAWAYAMA said:

make it make sense love

it’s catchy and fun, maybe not here typical sound but it’s a nice song 

[stompinggroundstan 65]

I don’t understand the Serpentina hate. Honestly every song is typical Banks style (just a bit more auto tune and distortion than III). 

My only complaint is Holding Back has that pitched section that replays like 4 times that I wish wasn’t pitched but whatever. Spirit is on the lower end as well of overall Banks tracks but it still fits with the project.

 

idk I’d love to hear what others think

 

Also it’s is a crime that Misunderstood is so short when it clearly is one of her best tracks ever

[Glitter Boy 16,557]

7 minutes ago, stompinggroundstan said:

I don’t understand the Serpentina hate. Honestly every song is typical Banks style (just a bit more auto tune and distortion than III). 

My only complaint is Holding Back has that pitched section that replays like 4 times that I wish wasn’t pitched but whatever. Spirit is on the lower end as well of overall Banks tracks but it still fits with the project.

 

idk I’d love to hear what others think

 

Also it’s is a crime that Misunderstood is so short when it clearly is one of her best tracks ever

I think I've said this before but the only two songs I don't really enjoy from that album are Fuck Love and Spirit. I also find Anything 4 U very skippable, but the other 10 I actually enjoy, and Meteorite, Holding Back and Deadend I really love.

It's not like I don't skip tracks on other albums (Stick, Fuck with Myself, Look What You're Doing to Me are mandatory skips to me).

[landeath 598]

8 hours ago, Glitter Boy said:

Serpentina - EP

1. Misunderstood
2. Holding Back
3. The Devil
4. Skinnydipped
5. Meteorite
6. Burn
7. Deadend
8. I Still Love You
9. Birds By the Sea Japanese bonus track

 

a 4 track ep would be more than fair to me

 

my truth about serpentina is: the songs have a very poor production, her voice in most of them sucks (i really don't like when she makes this nasal voice all the time) and the lyrics are not so interesting like in the old songs. i was really happy when she released the devil, because somehow it reminded me how good the ''fuck with myself'' days were. i didn't like skinnydipped at first, but everything went worse aftrer ''i still love you''. even iii wasn't so good to me, to be honest - the mastering is one of the worst i've ever heard, sometimes i feel like my headphones/speakers are going to explode lol but the album is good btw. anyway, that is my opinion. i'm a goddess/the altar girl and i really miss how incredible and creative she was back then and you can call me stucked because it's true.

[Ultra Violet 18,961]

8 hours ago, Glitter Boy said:

Serpentina - EP

1. Misunderstood
2. Holding Back
3. The Devil
4. Skinnydipped
5. Meteorite
6. Burn
7. Deadend
8. I Still Love You
9. Birds By the Sea Japanese bonus track

 

This would definitely work for me (minus Holding back lol)

I'd take I Still Love You as a good album closer too. It could be my favourite Banks piano ballad. 

 

[Chorli Xbox 8,834]

me watching all the holding back and fuck love hate when it’s the best of serpentina to me 

[Ultra Violet 18,961]

1 hour ago, landeath said:

iii wasn't so good to me, to be honest - the mastering is one of the worst i've ever heard, sometimes i feel like my headphones/speakers are going to explode lol but the album is good btw. anyway, that is my opinion. i'm a goddess/the altar girl and i really miss how incredible and creative she was back then and you can call me stucked because it's true.

 

I agree with III being a mess with the mastering. It's totally possible to have rough sounds without adjusting them to make my ears bleed (Till Now I'm looking at you!). The album really didn't need to do that. Even in parts of some of the better sounding songs, like Gimme, it still hurts my ears a bit. 

I always think of Goddess as so smooth, while the Altar introduced the roughness perfectly. So even tho iii is a great album, it really still doesn't compare to how good the first two were in every way. Vocals on iii are a bit messed up as well.

[viktoria 3,176]

i guess i'm one of the only people who likes fuck love nnnn

[American Whore 51,314]

Skinnydipped sounds too short for me. It should've been a longer track. Holding Back is kind of a fun song, but it builds up for no reason. Idk, i don't think it does much or goes anywhere. The Devil seems randomly placed. It doesn't really belong with this album at all imo. I don't care for the beginning of Meteorite. it sounds like it should've been kept for finer tuning or something. Fuck Love is fine, I guess. It isn't bad, it's not great. Kinda middle of the road. Deadend... I like her ballads, idc. Unleavable is good, I like that song. Anything 4 U sounds like she's trying to scratch the same itch Fuck With Myself did with it's instrumental? I think? Idk, the instrumental is just weird. It has this weird scratchy guitar pluck sound and then a random beat comes in. It isn't bad but I just don't understand what she was trying to do with it. Spirit could've been scrapped. i just don't care for collabs with her and it isn't his voice, it's just a weird track. I didn't like her earlier collabs either, like Look What You're Doing To Me. I hope a solo version of that leaks

[Kurt 2,342]

I just feel sorry for all the Serpentina haters who aren’t aware that three of her best ballads/mid-tempos are on there (Burn / Birds By The Sea / Unleavable)  

 

Burn in particular is without a doubt one of her best songs ever

[EXODUS 9,914]

10 hours ago, Glitter Boy said:

Serpentina - EP

1. Misunderstood
2. Holding Back
3. The Devil
4. Skinnydipped
5. Meteorite
6. Burn
7. Deadend
8. I Still Love You
9. Birds By the Sea Japanese bonus track

 

 

This is very solid. 

 

Or a 9 track album with that tracklist and then a deluxe version with the rest of the tracks. I'm sure most people won't get that upset if the worst tracks of the album were bonus tracks. 

[sweetener 4,158]

Skinnydipped is actually amazing, one of her best for me idk. 

 

The Devil should've never left her computer 

[AKASAKA SAWAYAMA 7,885]

9 hours ago, Kurt said:

I just feel sorry for all the Serpentina haters who aren’t aware that three of her best ballads/mid-tempos are on there (Burn / Birds By The Sea / Unleavable)  

 

Burn in particular is without a doubt one of her best songs ever

i so agree with this... burn is giving og banks

[Kurt 2,342]

45 minutes ago, AKASAKA SAWAYAMA said:

i so agree with this... burn is giving og banks

It’s the lyrical and spiritual successor to Drowning 

[Divey 23]

Not seeing enough people rate Anything 4 U, best song on Serpentina for me personally

[Glitter Boy 16,557]

The way Serpentina reception is VERY polarising  at least we all agree it's her least interesting album. Lemme replay it cause I wanna relisten though