i like this album just fine, I think she has a solid catalog
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 6 May 2024 18:23 (one month ago) link
yeah, the new album doesn't feel like a quality drop.
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Monday, 6 May 2024 18:24 (one month ago) link
hands down my favorite pop star. great voice, terrible dancer, super lovable, great songs.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 6 May 2024 20:05 (one month ago) link
This album isn't any more uneven than the last one. "End of an Era" is at least as much a banger as "Physical."
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)
I'm really hooked on End of an Era at the moment. I especially love the "I've lost all my senses, la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la" bit. It's one of my favourite songs she's done.
I'm really surprised by the negative reaction this is getting online. I saw a few people call it her Solar Power which is just cold. Maria is the only one I'm not totally sold on at the moment. Even the singles have grown on me.
I'm wondering which single will be put out next. I can't really see a big Levitating moment on here.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 01:42 (one month ago) link
she's my favorite recording artist of the past six years, and if people who fixate on whether a record hits #1 or not crow that she's fallen off? well I've never been hung up on fucking charts anyway and so this record is fantastic… like, it seems like chart obsessives really like math or sports, or beyhive or swifties or little monsters and people like that are really into "we're #1" triumphalism, which seems to me to be contrary to, like art and creativity and dancing and songs concerned with romance and pleasure.
I will say that she has a really interesting vocal —or pronounciative— quirk on this record… she pronounces "err" or "Urr" as "oyy": so you have "forev-oyy" instead of forever, or "nay-choyy" instead of nature.
― veronica moser, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 14:51 (three weeks ago) link
‘Cursive singing’ is inescapable – but is it any goyidd?
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/05/cursive-singing-vocal-trend-pop-music
― Davey D, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 15:55 (three weeks ago) link
The sudden onboarding of this technique by Ms Lipa, of whom I am normally a big fan, has made the new record a challenging listen for me.
― Davey D, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 15:59 (three weeks ago) link
thought this record was pretty all right when it came out. then the weather changed, and now i’m *loving* it
― ivy., Saturday, 8 June 2024 16:38 (one week ago) link
i like it so much more as a whole than future nostalgia, and i think the production here is the most natural home for her vocals, their total lack of subtlety just works with the production's simultaneous intricacy and breeziness, like going to the beach in the middle of a breakup. the optimal ratio of knotty funk to big feelings. walking around in the sun to this record was a freaking blast
― ivy., Saturday, 8 June 2024 17:12 (one week ago) link