I agree w the mixing comments and I don’t like either songs that much too
but I think this is a great example of why how an artist describes their music before it comes out as important, she said it’ll be less revealing and american song book adjacent and that’s what I went in hearing it with
yeah I didn’t like it but I wasn’t expecting anything bigger than the way she described it
the way his work (drew or whatever his name is) has always sounded like this.. it just sounds so unintentional, random, and boring…
it almost feels like he tries working up a instrumental piece not a song with vocals on top of it
if they were a toxic asshole they probably wouldn’t have cared enough to clear things up… things that literally came out of thin air w nothing creditable