I don't know what that was all about, but I will say this, "We Can't Stop" is awful
― nova, Friday, 5 September 2014 04:11 (ten years ago)
If you're not planning to change, why not redefine one's compulsions as free choices, or even assertions of autonomy in the face of a hostile culture?
Because you're lying to yourself if you do.
Is honesty a virtue if it leads to wallowing?
No.
And who's really lying to herself anyway?
Both of them.
sn't there a sense in which visiting sex clubs, or seducing fathers at the playground is fun?
Not if you are compelled to do so, which implies involuntary coercion.
In her rush to define the emotional pain that lies behind her "habits," does tove lo fail to register the texture of her experiences?
No.
On the surface, Miley might seem incoherent, but isn't the paradoxical logic of her song -- we can't stop asserting our freedom, even if we wanted to -- actually pretty interesting?
Maybe in a better song.
― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Friday, 5 September 2014 04:12 (ten years ago)
so I never heard this second one before and I guess there's some faded appeal but yeahhhh idk
― nova, Friday, 5 September 2014 05:09 (ten years ago)
the remix doesn't have the verses, which are the best part.
― Treeship, Friday, 5 September 2014 12:21 (ten years ago)
also i'm not sure what "reading too much" means here. i'm not finding illuminati symbols in these songs or something, i'm just discussing the ways in which they approach their subject matter
― Treeship, Friday, 5 September 2014 12:23 (ten years ago)
remix is terrible and tove lo isn't teenpop (?)
i'm surprised "habits" has actually made it as far as it has in the us market, pretty pleased tho, it's a good song
― dyl, Friday, 5 September 2014 15:33 (ten years ago)
two weeks pass...
"Habits" is better. I should point out that technically it's also from 2013 and it even came out before "We Can't Stop". I like that first version (and video) better.
― daavid, Monday, 22 September 2014 06:08 (ten years ago)
i love "Habits (Stay High), so that.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 02:50 (ten years ago)
four months pass...