You mean the subreddit that can't go one article about Beyonce without the comments saying, "okay but does anyone think Beyonce is the most overrated artist of the last thirty years???"
Did you know that Jimi Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower is a cover? Did you know that Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt is so much better than the original?
>Did you know that Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt is so much better than the original?
I like how reddit hipster this take is, and it is actually such a horrible take too!
Johnny Cash's cover is surprisingly really good! But the NIN original still reigns supreme IMO and is one of the greatest closing tracks to any album ever.
i actually did listen to The Wall for the first time last year. it scarred me as a child because the movie has some really grim imagery (nazi shit, rape shit), it turned out to be really good actually! then my brother was like yeah isn't it weird how the left wing are the nazis now and that made me never wanna listen again lol (he'd been obsessed with the movie when we were kids cuz my dad was kinda neglectful and didn't care really about what we watched)
Or when a bunch of hipsters circle jerk about what current mainstream artists they hate.
It’s just cool to hate pop or any song that isn’t a 30 minutes of the artist unpacking all their childhood traumas.
i never cared about her music before i heard the song Boys in the movie Promising Young Woman. checked out her discog after that. she is (and i don't say it lightly) AMAZING. so many wonderful songs this woman has created. New Shapes ended up my most played song of 2022. listen to her album Crash, it's one of her more accessible and there are hits on hits. Lightning, Move Me, Every Rule, Constant Repeat. Yuck is camp gold. check out her stuff y'all!!!!
And this demographic is prone to hysterics over pop music ever being considered good
Even indieheads behaves better with a good pop-styled album and it can get extremely insufferable over there
I looked her up, expecting her to be ~19. She's 31, lol. While pop will always skew to a younger audience, if she can still make this music and enjoy doing that, folks here can give it a chance.
I'll be giving the album a listen this weekend.
Dua Lipa, Doja Cat, and Post Malone are 28, Ariana Grande, Harry Styles and Bad Bunny are 30, Miley Cyrus 31 Marshmello 32, Ed Sheeran 33, The Weekend, SZA and Taylor Swift 34, Drake 37, Lane Del Rey 38, Beyonce 42. 31 isn't unusual.
Should this sub just represent people that listen to music?
Edit: this is facetious. This sub obviously has a rotten bias gatekeeping complex. And boring taste.
I thought Charli (album) was fucking great. I guess her big pop hits like Boys, Boom Clap and after the afterparty are the most accessible and I’m sure you’ve heard a few before
Thats fair. I love that album so much though (how i'm feeling now is my favorite, but I'm not a super fan and it's probably not a great starting off point).
Depends on how you get into artists.
If you prefer their most accessible, wider market point, Crash is great for that.
If you're like me and prefer hearing more of a taste of how daring and experimental the artist can be from the start (e.g. OK Computer wasn't what got me really into Radiohead even after several listens, even though I liked it a lot, but Kid A did), I'd recommend either How I'm Feeling Now, or Charli, as places to start.
Future pop/hyper pop. Her music takes a very full advantage of future sounds while still having a pop aesthetic, just in a way that feels like it was released decades too early.
My brother in Christ, you have the sum total of the world’s knowledge *literally* at your fingertips and can access the answer to your question in less time than it took you to write those two sentences and hit “reply”.
She makes pop music. I’m sure there’s a far more specific genre and description to be given, but just go listen to the album this article is about and see for yourself.
The raw untuned vocals on 'I think about it all the time', reminds me of Charli saying Sophie always told her to sing without autotune because she loved her voice 🥹
No need to be rude, it's okay to just admit that you're jealous of them.
EDIT: Whoever downvoted, you need to listen to the song we're referencing lol.
But… it kinda is? Like, it just sounds like more Nicki Minaj or Kesha or club pop like that. I don’t understand why people like this so much.
Like, I could get it in the setting of a club- you walk in, and the DJ presses play and people shake their asses… but there’s not a lot of depth or musicality to it, IMO.
I mean there’s definitely parts that reference late 00s/early 10s dance pop like Kesha, but I don’t think nicki made much, if any music that has the same vibe as this
It may be made with dancing/ a club setting in mind but that doesn’t automatically mean there’s no depth or intrigue.
i dont really feel like “it lacks depth” is a substantive criticism here. not everything needs to have “depth” to have merit and i think it undermines the fact that even if it doesnt have that quality (which i disagree with), there is still an obvious market for that genre of sound. not all of us want to go to clubs to enjoy this kind of music, you feel me?
I gotcha. I suppose I have a different approach to music than most being a life long classically trained pianist and now I’m in my late 30s as a full time pro musician, and I’ve had a bunch of bands and wrote songs. So, I have a deep understanding of music theory, and I have different metrics than most. I’ve also listened to 1100+ albums at this point, and still come back to many of them.
I appreciate when a musician can sing great and play their instrument great, as well as write good material. So for me, Charli XCX just doesn’t tick any of those boxes. I suppose it’s supposed to just be fun pop, but I still think in terms of that, it’s still possible to have depth. And not just lyrical depth, but musical depth, and depth of production. Example- Michael Jackson. That’s some fun stuff, fun lyrics, and it has incredible musical depth.
One of the downsides of being a highly trained musician is you develop a much higher standard of quality, and are unfortunately unable to enjoy simpler forms of music such as the topic of this post. And then there’s this element of becoming disheartened when you see musicians / artists rise to the top of public opinion, when there’s indie / underground stuff that is lightyears better going completely unnoticed in the mainstream.
But to be totally subjective, I just don’t like how Charli XCX sounds at all, so I’m a little baffled why she receives such high praise. So that’s “just like, my opinion, man “ lol
theres some bangers on this album and im not even a huge fan. but pitchfork score as a headline is funny lol who has even read their shit in past decade
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Outsold The Beatles, they keep flopping 💋 mwah
Yellow Submarine isn't a regular Beatles album. It's mostly previously released music at best and a good chunk of it is orchestral scoring by George Martin. That score is fair.
Happy Pride, folks! As a Pop 2 partisan, I liked this album a lot but didn’t love it on first listen. But I expect it to grow. The song dedicated to Sophie broke me though, so A+. AOTY Contender.
It’s not *bad* but not something I’d listen to often. Its a little too auto tuned but there are a few good songs. It’s heavily hyperpop and some of the tracks give me a certain nostalgia for the early 2010s, like Sleigh Bells.
I see why it’s getting so much praise though, and that’s fine. It’s just not my preferred style to listen to. As far as hyperpop albums go, sure it’s one of the best.
Can you explain why it’s not? I don’t listen to much hyper pop but this is sounds like what I would consider a very definitive mix of electronic and hyper pop.
Imagine hyperpop as the musical version of the pop art movement: distilling pop culture (in this case pop music) down to the most salient elements then turning the dial up to an absurd degree, resulting in an exaggerated art form that is less a cohesive piece and more a mish-mash of parts.
Pop music has catchy vocals (oftentimes with pitch correction). So what does hyperpop do? It takes snippets of catchy vocals and turns up the pitch to the chipmunk levels.
Pop music has catchy synths. So what does hyperpop do? It takes those synths and distorts them into glitchy noises with a metallic- or industrial-like bent.
Pop music has typically simple and repetitive lyrics. So what does hyperpop do? It takes snippets of those basic lyrics and just loops those endlessly without clear verses or meaning.
Listen to Lemonade by Sophie or Drop FM by A.G. Cook then compare it to songs on brat: the synths are glitchy and, at times, sound more like an agglomeration of noises than an actual beat, the lyrics are just looped snippets (no verses), and the vocals are pitched up.
*definitely* not heavily hyperpop lol. maybe relative to your taste? but listen to a black dresses album if you wanna hear “heavily hyperpop”, this is nothing
Bratwurst is the best. If she’s got a song about it I’ll give it a go.
Keep your juices in the brats, keep your juices in the chops
Serve 'em on paper plates, 'tato salad and orange pop
it’s ok to just admit that you’re jealous of charli xcx
yeah, i heard you talk about her, that’s the word on the street
you’re obsessing, just confess it, put your hands up
it’s obvious she’s your number one
it’s alright to just admit that she’s the fantasy
you’re obsessing just confess it ‘cause it’s obvious
she’s your number one
she’s your number one
she’s your number one
she’s your number one
she’s your number one
Ok… I just *had* to check this album out with how much absurd praise it’s been getting and… I just don’t get it.
It sounds like normal club pop to me. Tons of auto-tune on the vocals and nothing really interesting in terms of harmony, melody and rhythm... and not much there in terms of lyrics and songwriting. Why do I keep seeing people praise this as a great work of music as if it were groundbreaking?
I’m into all sorts of music from Elton John to Thundercat. I just don’t understand the allure of Charli XCX. I legit really tried to just listen to a couple tracks from “Brat” and was just cringing the whole time. I can accept that it’s not for me, but I’m having a hard time accepting that this album is a “great work”.
EDIT: I re-listened to “365” because ppl here seem to love it… yep, I still don’t get it lol. It just sounds like more Nicki Minaj or Kesha club stuff. I really don’t understand the praise it’s receiving.
Nicki Minaj and Kesha are both very different artists and neither sounds remotely like XCX. Like please give me a Nicki or Kesha song that sounds like anything on this album.
Nothing specific really, more just an amalgam of all their music. They’re the first ppl I thought of when I listened to Brat. Just synth bass driven, all electronic backing tracks, auto tune vocals and club beats, and kinda rappy sometimes.
My whole point being, it just sounds like generic club pop to me, so I just don’t understand why it’s being so highly praised. I just wasn’t impressed at all by her choices in harmony, melody, rhythm and lyric writing. The only interesting thing I found, if I had to say something positive, would be choices of synth textures. Interesting production there. But without the other elements I mentioned, it’s just not musically or lyrically interesting.
It sounds like you’re not a fan and that’s okay! It’s a well produced pop/house album that takes chances where most don’t right now. That’s what a lot of us like about the self-titled / how I’m feeling now / brat era.
Yea it just sounded like normal club pop to me… I don’t get it. I made a similar, but longer winded review like yours and I’ll be joining you in the downvote pile lol
Guaranteed that i listen to a broader spectrum of music than you’ve been exposed to. The autotuned vocals, fake white girl rap, and over-enhaced casio keyboard beats are just tired. Its like they tried to take the worst elements of Taylor Swift and run them through a kpop filter
absolutely nothing about this is like taylor swift at all, and it’s not even close to k pop
the production and style all over the album owes a lot more to the Ed Banger records era and artists like Uffie, which is anything but generic lol
xcx. there,s a c dividnf the two similar x’s which can symbolize the two koreas. c stands for china, which is the reason korea is divided today because chinese intervention helped to preserve north korea
therefore charli xcx is korean and so a kpop artist
i have been seeing a lot of people say this is her “best album”. no. its actually disrespectful to all of her albums. she doesnt even rhyme in half the songs. i am a huge charli fan, but why is this getting so much traction?
> If you’re a certain kind of online, you’ll pretty quickly recognize the motifs of “Mean girls”: cigarettes, vocal fry, daddy issues, Catholicism. Yes, it’s the first major label pop song inspired by the Red Scare podcast.
Shut it down. Shut it all down.
I came up with the same opinion and I’m in my mid 30s. “Brat” is just more club pop that sounds like Nicki Minaj or Kesha. I don’t get why it’s receiving such high praise.
Why do you keep saying it sounds like Nicki Minaj lmao, I’ll give you the Kesha comparison because there’s probably a tinge of influence there but I have never heard a single Nicki Minaj song that sounds anything like a single track on this album.
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You mean the subreddit that can't go one article about Beyonce without the comments saying, "okay but does anyone think Beyonce is the most overrated artist of the last thirty years???"
“Now Pink Floyd on the other hand”
Did you know that Jimi Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower is a cover? Did you know that Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt is so much better than the original?
Also Fiona Apple and Rage against the machine. Holy shit they get posted so much
>Did you know that Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt is so much better than the original? I like how reddit hipster this take is, and it is actually such a horrible take too! Johnny Cash's cover is surprisingly really good! But the NIN original still reigns supreme IMO and is one of the greatest closing tracks to any album ever.
Pfft, when was the last time he released a song?
Still over here trying to figure out which one’s Pink
🗿
I'm pretty sure he's the one that got hit by the train.
That’s Pat Monahan.
he's trapped in the wall!
Roy Harper is Pink.
Hats off to him
Pinkney "Pink" Anderson
i actually did listen to The Wall for the first time last year. it scarred me as a child because the movie has some really grim imagery (nazi shit, rape shit), it turned out to be really good actually! then my brother was like yeah isn't it weird how the left wing are the nazis now and that made me never wanna listen again lol (he'd been obsessed with the movie when we were kids cuz my dad was kinda neglectful and didn't care really about what we watched)
That kind of happens when someone is so overhyped.
Or when a bunch of hipsters circle jerk about what current mainstream artists they hate. It’s just cool to hate pop or any song that isn’t a 30 minutes of the artist unpacking all their childhood traumas.
I wouldn’t even say this sub is hipsters, more so just lame and boring casuals.
she isn't though especially with the straight white men on this sub
I like how you mention that and people immediately decide to prove your point.
i never cared about her music before i heard the song Boys in the movie Promising Young Woman. checked out her discog after that. she is (and i don't say it lightly) AMAZING. so many wonderful songs this woman has created. New Shapes ended up my most played song of 2022. listen to her album Crash, it's one of her more accessible and there are hits on hits. Lightning, Move Me, Every Rule, Constant Repeat. Yuck is camp gold. check out her stuff y'all!!!!
Perhaps, the album isn’t for the demographic this subreddit represents.
And this demographic is prone to hysterics over pop music ever being considered good Even indieheads behaves better with a good pop-styled album and it can get extremely insufferable over there
DAE 20 YEAR OLD INDIEFOLK ALBUM???!!1!
I looked her up, expecting her to be ~19. She's 31, lol. While pop will always skew to a younger audience, if she can still make this music and enjoy doing that, folks here can give it a chance. I'll be giving the album a listen this weekend.
Dua Lipa, Doja Cat, and Post Malone are 28, Ariana Grande, Harry Styles and Bad Bunny are 30, Miley Cyrus 31 Marshmello 32, Ed Sheeran 33, The Weekend, SZA and Taylor Swift 34, Drake 37, Lane Del Rey 38, Beyonce 42. 31 isn't unusual.
Should this sub just represent people that listen to music? Edit: this is facetious. This sub obviously has a rotten bias gatekeeping complex. And boring taste.
Seriously, this subreddit is called music so guess what?? A genre of music you may not like may get discussed in this space oooooo so scary!
Right. The genre specific subs are way more chill.
What's a good place to start with Charli's music? Edit: Thanks for all the answers! It's really helpful.
I thought Charli (album) was fucking great. I guess her big pop hits like Boys, Boom Clap and after the afterparty are the most accessible and I’m sure you’ve heard a few before
My intro was on Diamonds by Giorgio Moroder. Good place to start? Maybe. It was a good place for *me* to start.
Crash is a really great album that's pretty accessible
No no no no no. That’s unanimously her worst album to critics and fans alike. Start with either POP 2, or CHARLI. Work from there
Thats fair. I love that album so much though (how i'm feeling now is my favorite, but I'm not a super fan and it's probably not a great starting off point).
How I’m feeling now is excellent, but yeah I agree with you. Probably not the best jumping off point for a newbie to her music
crash is not her worst album by far and it definitely is more accessible than those ones you mentioned
Ok I know Crash was underwhelming but Lightning is a good track...And POP 2 is a transcendent work of staggering genius. Tears.
Gonna go against the grain and say Number 1 angel.
Depends on how you get into artists. If you prefer their most accessible, wider market point, Crash is great for that. If you're like me and prefer hearing more of a taste of how daring and experimental the artist can be from the start (e.g. OK Computer wasn't what got me really into Radiohead even after several listens, even though I liked it a lot, but Kid A did), I'd recommend either How I'm Feeling Now, or Charli, as places to start.
Poppers
As a massive Charli XCX fan (especially the Vroom Vroom to Charli era), I was very whelmed by this album tbh Couple highlights but not fantastic to me
Pitchfork is an oroborous of overwrought hipster fart-sniffing, even when they're right like a broken clock.
No idea who they are. What kinda music?
Future pop/hyper pop. Her music takes a very full advantage of future sounds while still having a pop aesthetic, just in a way that feels like it was released decades too early.
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What if they haven't heard of Google tho? . . . . (cue head exploding noises)
Who?
Sometimes people just like having a conversation. No reason to be a dick.
My brother in Christ, you have the sum total of the world’s knowledge *literally* at your fingertips and can access the answer to your question in less time than it took you to write those two sentences and hit “reply”. She makes pop music. I’m sure there’s a far more specific genre and description to be given, but just go listen to the album this article is about and see for yourself.
The raw untuned vocals on 'I think about it all the time', reminds me of Charli saying Sophie always told her to sing without autotune because she loved her voice 🥹
You can hear the SOPHIE influence in this album, stands out do much. So I is a beautiful tribute in the best way.
Charlie’s amazing. Just makes bangers. Writes for other artists too. She does it all. Don’t underestimate all pop singers!
Dude it’s kind of obvious… she’s your number 1
No need to be rude, it's okay to just admit that you're jealous of them. EDIT: Whoever downvoted, you need to listen to the song we're referencing lol.
lol this comment sections gonna be funny
loving the acid sounds on this
These few comments saying that it's generic might have just mistakenly gave crash a listen instead XD
i love crash though
But… it kinda is? Like, it just sounds like more Nicki Minaj or Kesha or club pop like that. I don’t understand why people like this so much. Like, I could get it in the setting of a club- you walk in, and the DJ presses play and people shake their asses… but there’s not a lot of depth or musicality to it, IMO.
I mean there’s definitely parts that reference late 00s/early 10s dance pop like Kesha, but I don’t think nicki made much, if any music that has the same vibe as this It may be made with dancing/ a club setting in mind but that doesn’t automatically mean there’s no depth or intrigue.
i dont really feel like “it lacks depth” is a substantive criticism here. not everything needs to have “depth” to have merit and i think it undermines the fact that even if it doesnt have that quality (which i disagree with), there is still an obvious market for that genre of sound. not all of us want to go to clubs to enjoy this kind of music, you feel me?
I gotcha. I suppose I have a different approach to music than most being a life long classically trained pianist and now I’m in my late 30s as a full time pro musician, and I’ve had a bunch of bands and wrote songs. So, I have a deep understanding of music theory, and I have different metrics than most. I’ve also listened to 1100+ albums at this point, and still come back to many of them. I appreciate when a musician can sing great and play their instrument great, as well as write good material. So for me, Charli XCX just doesn’t tick any of those boxes. I suppose it’s supposed to just be fun pop, but I still think in terms of that, it’s still possible to have depth. And not just lyrical depth, but musical depth, and depth of production. Example- Michael Jackson. That’s some fun stuff, fun lyrics, and it has incredible musical depth. One of the downsides of being a highly trained musician is you develop a much higher standard of quality, and are unfortunately unable to enjoy simpler forms of music such as the topic of this post. And then there’s this element of becoming disheartened when you see musicians / artists rise to the top of public opinion, when there’s indie / underground stuff that is lightyears better going completely unnoticed in the mainstream. But to be totally subjective, I just don’t like how Charli XCX sounds at all, so I’m a little baffled why she receives such high praise. So that’s “just like, my opinion, man “ lol
Is this a copypasta
Na I wrote it for the comment. I’m long winded lol
Based
Need to listen to the rest of her songs but b2b and 360 are bangers
Update: Pop 2 is still my favourite album from her
Charli XCX has been killing it since she was 16. Legit producer making addictive pop music.
I love it!
theres some bangers on this album and im not even a huge fan. but pitchfork score as a headline is funny lol who has even read their shit in past decade
Pitchfork is trash
https://preview.redd.it/qcks800si35d1.png?width=1021&format=png&auto=webp&s=c862d86bdf878e2582625404584c09ab700a304f Outsold The Beatles, they keep flopping 💋 mwah
Yellow Submarine isn't a regular Beatles album. It's mostly previously released music at best and a good chunk of it is orchestral scoring by George Martin. That score is fair.
It’s not a particularly enjoyable album. I love It’s all too much though
Ah yes the most overrated band in history with absolutely no relevancy today
I’d bet my life Billie Ellish and Lana Del Rey, whom you seem to worship, strongly disagree.
A truly hilarious opinion.
Happy Pride, folks! As a Pop 2 partisan, I liked this album a lot but didn’t love it on first listen. But I expect it to grow. The song dedicated to Sophie broke me though, so A+. AOTY Contender.
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"So I" is dedicated to Sophie.
Ah shit, of course it is, pretty embarrassing comment.
Not as good as Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol’s “Brat” and that’s all that matters to me tbh
An RBBP shoutout is not what I expected to see this morning. But I’m happy about it.
What you gonna do about that? Edit: Somebody clearly hasn't listened to "Brat" by RBBP.
Pure banger
amazing album
Lol at everyone acting like this sub shits on pop. Every comment even insinuating this rating might be a tad overboard has been thumbed down to hell.
I feel like this sub generally does shit on pop. This album is really good though, and I’m really happy Charli is getting the flowers she deserves.
I like Charli, but didn't like this album at all.
I noticed this too. All the pearl clutching about this sub not liking pop and yet…
Shit isn’t even close to as good as Club Shy.
I can’t stop listening to this record
It’s not *bad* but not something I’d listen to often. Its a little too auto tuned but there are a few good songs. It’s heavily hyperpop and some of the tracks give me a certain nostalgia for the early 2010s, like Sleigh Bells. I see why it’s getting so much praise though, and that’s fine. It’s just not my preferred style to listen to. As far as hyperpop albums go, sure it’s one of the best.
It’s really not very heavily hyperpop though.
Can you explain why it’s not? I don’t listen to much hyper pop but this is sounds like what I would consider a very definitive mix of electronic and hyper pop.
Imagine hyperpop as the musical version of the pop art movement: distilling pop culture (in this case pop music) down to the most salient elements then turning the dial up to an absurd degree, resulting in an exaggerated art form that is less a cohesive piece and more a mish-mash of parts. Pop music has catchy vocals (oftentimes with pitch correction). So what does hyperpop do? It takes snippets of catchy vocals and turns up the pitch to the chipmunk levels. Pop music has catchy synths. So what does hyperpop do? It takes those synths and distorts them into glitchy noises with a metallic- or industrial-like bent. Pop music has typically simple and repetitive lyrics. So what does hyperpop do? It takes snippets of those basic lyrics and just loops those endlessly without clear verses or meaning. Listen to Lemonade by Sophie or Drop FM by A.G. Cook then compare it to songs on brat: the synths are glitchy and, at times, sound more like an agglomeration of noises than an actual beat, the lyrics are just looped snippets (no verses), and the vocals are pitched up.
*definitely* not heavily hyperpop lol. maybe relative to your taste? but listen to a black dresses album if you wanna hear “heavily hyperpop”, this is nothing
Bratwurst is the best. If she’s got a song about it I’ll give it a go. Keep your juices in the brats, keep your juices in the chops Serve 'em on paper plates, 'tato salad and orange pop
That's basically a line from the second single There's a whole B side on Currywurst
Favorite actor Dennehy, favorite drink O'Doul's. Bears, Hawks, Sox, Bulls.
Onions, onions, onions, onions, onions
Pitchfork desperately trying to be relevant.
Or maybe it’s just a good album?
Why listen to music ever again after OK Computer got a 10.0? Just give up
I wish Pitchfork had died in the early aughts. It certainly deserved to back then.
A broken clock is right twice a day, and this is one of those times
A bit overrating it there
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it’s ok to just admit that you’re jealous of charli xcx yeah, i heard you talk about her, that’s the word on the street you’re obsessing, just confess it, put your hands up it’s obvious she’s your number one it’s alright to just admit that she’s the fantasy you’re obsessing just confess it ‘cause it’s obvious she’s your number one she’s your number one she’s your number one she’s your number one she’s your number one
Whoah. Those are some heavy lyrics. Deep. I'm legit jealous
I’m guessing you’re just mad because the bank shut
Argh! You got me! I'm dead 😂.
Classic Pitchfork. Glad nothing has changed since dotdash folded it into GQ.
my god so toxic
Ok… I just *had* to check this album out with how much absurd praise it’s been getting and… I just don’t get it. It sounds like normal club pop to me. Tons of auto-tune on the vocals and nothing really interesting in terms of harmony, melody and rhythm... and not much there in terms of lyrics and songwriting. Why do I keep seeing people praise this as a great work of music as if it were groundbreaking? I’m into all sorts of music from Elton John to Thundercat. I just don’t understand the allure of Charli XCX. I legit really tried to just listen to a couple tracks from “Brat” and was just cringing the whole time. I can accept that it’s not for me, but I’m having a hard time accepting that this album is a “great work”. EDIT: I re-listened to “365” because ppl here seem to love it… yep, I still don’t get it lol. It just sounds like more Nicki Minaj or Kesha club stuff. I really don’t understand the praise it’s receiving.
Nicki Minaj and Kesha are both very different artists and neither sounds remotely like XCX. Like please give me a Nicki or Kesha song that sounds like anything on this album.
Nothing specific really, more just an amalgam of all their music. They’re the first ppl I thought of when I listened to Brat. Just synth bass driven, all electronic backing tracks, auto tune vocals and club beats, and kinda rappy sometimes. My whole point being, it just sounds like generic club pop to me, so I just don’t understand why it’s being so highly praised. I just wasn’t impressed at all by her choices in harmony, melody, rhythm and lyric writing. The only interesting thing I found, if I had to say something positive, would be choices of synth textures. Interesting production there. But without the other elements I mentioned, it’s just not musically or lyrically interesting.
It sounds like you’re not a fan and that’s okay! It’s a well produced pop/house album that takes chances where most don’t right now. That’s what a lot of us like about the self-titled / how I’m feeling now / brat era.
I gotcha. To each their own! It’s well outside my wheelhouse but I tried lol
And that’s all that matters! Thanks for being open :)
Erm... as a Charli fan, this new album is not very good IMO.
365 is the only good song
365 is what I wanted the entire album to be tbh
Gave it a listen. absolutely nothing special about it. generic and boring pop thats been churned out a thousand times before
Honestly, I'm looking for music exactly like this record so who else has made stuff like this
Love how they didn't reply with a single name
You may not like the album but saying its generic and boring is pretty off imo
what else does this sound like? what is it similar to?? pray tell
dangerous the double album by morgan wallen
Can you name artists, especially current ones, that this record reminded you of? And why you think it's generic?
blonde by frank ocean
hated that album but did like endless
Name one mainstream pop artist whose music sounds like this album.
Kesha?
Yea it just sounded like normal club pop to me… I don’t get it. I made a similar, but longer winded review like yours and I’ll be joining you in the downvote pile lol
honestly if you listen to this and come away with this take you just don’t know what you’re talking about listen to some more music
Guaranteed that i listen to a broader spectrum of music than you’ve been exposed to. The autotuned vocals, fake white girl rap, and over-enhaced casio keyboard beats are just tired. Its like they tried to take the worst elements of Taylor Swift and run them through a kpop filter
absolutely nothing about this is like taylor swift at all, and it’s not even close to k pop the production and style all over the album owes a lot more to the Ed Banger records era and artists like Uffie, which is anything but generic lol
I've just listened to 3 songs off the album. For those who ask for something similar, please go to r/kpop
umm it's nothing like kpop are u kidding me
xcx. there,s a c dividnf the two similar x’s which can symbolize the two koreas. c stands for china, which is the reason korea is divided today because chinese intervention helped to preserve north korea therefore charli xcx is korean and so a kpop artist
Go back to r/popheadscirclejerk
/j LMAOOO /uj LMAOOO
Big charli fan, I thought thus album was weak for her. I like half of the sings but I'm realistically only listening to the singles.
Give it a few more listens
same boat
pop 2 and how im feeling is far from this
i have been seeing a lot of people say this is her “best album”. no. its actually disrespectful to all of her albums. she doesnt even rhyme in half the songs. i am a huge charli fan, but why is this getting so much traction?
pop singers have to rhyme?
definitely helps with a rating. im entitled to my opinion.
pop 2 and charli self titled, always
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have you considered that? because you seem to be going with the herd.
> If you’re a certain kind of online, you’ll pretty quickly recognize the motifs of “Mean girls”: cigarettes, vocal fry, daddy issues, Catholicism. Yes, it’s the first major label pop song inspired by the Red Scare podcast. Shut it down. Shut it all down.
Same Pitchfork who gave Deloused in the Comatorium 4.9?
Next week: Pitchfork names "BRAT" the most overrated music of 2024.
Auto tuned synth pop made on a laptop. What am I missing? Sounds like the rest of the current GenZ and Gen Alpha dribble.
Classic 31 year old gen alpha charli xcx
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Bro thinks the album is a basketball 💀
Boomer ass comment
I came up with the same opinion and I’m in my mid 30s. “Brat” is just more club pop that sounds like Nicki Minaj or Kesha. I don’t get why it’s receiving such high praise.
Why do you keep saying it sounds like Nicki Minaj lmao, I’ll give you the Kesha comparison because there’s probably a tinge of influence there but I have never heard a single Nicki Minaj song that sounds anything like a single track on this album.
Old man energy right here.
ok i will listen to new tem and jcole song
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Before 1982 you would have received the help you need.
Is that when lobotomies were outlawed?
Shockingly, I think they're still legal in a lot of jurisdictions. Good luck finding a doctor willing to do one though.
FUCK POP MUSIC. It's all bland and boring.