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QUAVO FT. LANA DEL REY - "TOUGH"

but fair...

[5.27]

Julian Axelrod: Lana hopping on a Quavo song seems random until you look through her posts from Hangout Fest in May and realize this is exactly the kind of song you'd make after spending a weekend in Alabama partying with Jelly Roll and Sexyy Red. Even more impressively, Quavo meets her on her home turf and acquits himself nicely, from the slurred-sung verses to the swampy hook to the bit on the outro where they recreate the end of the "Telephone" video. I tend to bristle when non-country artists try on the genre signifiers and half-ass the music, but everyone involved keeps a straight face without feeling too stiff. Quavo's coming off a tough year, and if he wants to make his Did you know there's a bando under ocean blvd, I'll welcome it with open arms. [7]

Leah Isobel: I mean, it’s nice to hear Lana do a song that’s attempting some kind of pop resonance. She’s so deep into her own mythology that hearing her try to reconnect with the mainstream is interesting. But while “Tough” achieves an easygoing appeal from its guitar twangs and loping rhythm, it only ever feels like an aesthetic exercise, an experiment in negative space: its attempts to accommodate both Lana and Quavo result in a flattened song that complements neither. [5]

Alfred Soto: The moment for this duet has passed -- imagine it on Lana Del Rey's Lust For Life seven years ago in conversation with the other collaborations. As an abstraction -- a distraction -- "Tough" is not much at all. [3]

Will Adams: Quavo and Lana sound good together, but so did she and A$AP Rocky and Playboi Carti on their respective Lust For Life collabs, both of which were more interesting than this bland soup of country signifiers. At times it really feels like the hook is going go to, "Tough like the new Ford F-150. Lease now with 0% APR." [5]

Harlan Talib Ockey: The chorus sounds just like the Weeknd’s “Starboy”, which I realized halfway through writing this review and now find incredibly distracting. That aside: Lana Del Rey’s previous collaborations with rappers have sounded like they’re work friends, rather than real friends. (It’s still unclear whether she and A$AP Rocky were even talking about the same thing in “Summer Bummer”.) In “Tough”, however, her chemistry with Quavo is not only existent, but genuinely moving. Quavo’s delivery alternates between soft and anguished, coming off as particularly vulnerable -- Del Rey’s sighed initial consonants do the same. Using thickly reverbed guitars to create a pensive, dreamlike feeling is a trick that doesn’t go out of style. “Tough”, for all its nostalgia, never sounds retrograde.  [8]

Nortey Dowuona: Jaxson Free, co-writer of previous Kane Brown's "I Can Feel It," is credited alongside prodigy Maddox Batson, singer/songwriter of "Tears in the River," and Elysse Yulo, whose only other credit is Dan Harrison's "Running Out of Radio." Their contributions are those of many a songwriter in the music industry: patiently and with great humor assembling a patchwork of lines, melodies, and counter melodies into a track left with each of their publishing companies, praying to the empty sky that their hard work will yield them a windfall. This song of theirs is not very compelling despite the effort poured into it by all parties involved (except Cirkut, who probably put in the terrible trap drum pattern), but it has become successful, and thus Jaxson, Maddox and Elysse live to write another day. [4]

Taylor Alatorre: The producers, led by Andrew Watt at his most sangfroid, go to great lengths to pre-empt any hint of discord or chaos to convince us that what we're hearing is natural and normal and, most of all, inevitable. This is Quavo and Lana doing a wistful country-trap duet about a Southern-fried romance, and this is what was always going to sound like, and you're a sucker if you expected or hoped for anything different. The repetitive insistence of the sixteenth-note click track seems to taunt me with its imperious sense of destiny -- the aural manifestation of There Is No Alternative. "If you come from where you come, then you were born tough." Yeah I guess. [4]

Katherine St. Asaph: I've written the same blurb on every Lana Del Rey single for years because we have a core, unchangeable musical incompatibility: I do not enjoy soporific music, which is what Lana Del Rey primarily makes. "Tough" seems custom-engineered to prove my point: the first YouTube closed caption is [TWANGY GUITAR MUSIC STARTS], and I was fully prepared to just make that my blurb because nothing else was sparking any interest. Then Quavo's part comes in, and maybe I'm just confusing quality with loudness or the presence of a beat (it's happened), but it's astounding how much dynamic the song becomes in that instant. (Someone else can unpack the morass of politics.) [5]

Jessica Doyle: There is a risk, in talking about the silver linings of a particular cloud, of being seen as endorsing the cloud. (Elif Batuman just talked about this, in relation to David Copperfield: the horrible treatment David receives in school persisted in part because his classmates, looking back, waxed nostalgic.) The signifers in "Tough" all point back to clouds: the specific horrible tragedy of Takeoff's murder, but also more general adverse childhood experiences (the "stuff in your grandpa's glass" line becomes more ominous the more you think about it). Reformers push back on the idea that treating people badly to make them "tough" has net benefits, and rightly so. But it's difficult to do this without suggesting that your listener is erring in finding the silver lining of their own adverse experiences: your rejection of their retelling of their own story. There's a political dimension here, too -- or, rather, multiple political dimensions, in that the likelihood of having lived through adverse childhood experiences is in itself a class divide. (See Charles Murray's now-outdated bubble quiz, or basically anything Rob Henderson has written.) The adult who suffered less as a child may be better equipped to estimate the damage done, but also may be driven to smug, condescending judgment; the adult who suffered more may be justly proud of what they've accomplished anyway, but may also be driven to defensive bleating nastiness. I don't know if "Tough" was conceived or written to thread this needle, with Lana, presumably on one side of the divide, offering affirmation and a sympathetic ear, and Quavo, on the other, trusting her with his story. (Sentimentalist that I am, I want to believe that someday they'll go on a road trip and she'll introduce him to her friends at the Florence Waffle House.) I'm inclined to call "Tough" not great but very good, a skilled piece of American mythmaking. Which may be exactly why others might hate it. And they might be right. But we may never have the world where it's not necessary, no matter how much we improve, and given that, we'd be worse off without it. [7]

Jonathan Bradley: Quavo and Lana Del Rey are each practiced at creating rich dramas from the artefacts and artifices of their respective worlds, but in “Tough” they struggle to find a way to mesh their outsized personalities into a coherent whole. Del Rey likes to play as a damaged all-American princess or fallen starlet who can be as plucky as she is fragile, but she doesn’t seem to know which side of herself to put forward here. Somehow she barely leaves a mark on a line pitched perfectly for her like “I’m cut like a diamond in the rough”; the only time she only does more than waft is when she giggles in the outro in response to Quavo’s charming invitation to play Atlanta tour guide. The woozy, gothic arrangement is Del Rey’s territory, and Quavo finds some smart ways to adapt himself to it, accentuating the melancholy in the icy allusion to his band’s recent past on “if you ever lost someone that you love,” but he more often sounds like he’s restraining himself from overshadowing his duet partner. The pair finds fleeting connection at “tough like the stuff in your grandpa’s glass”: for a moment, all the details sound real, the imagery interlocking in the burn of an old man’s rotgut whiskey. [5]

Ian Mathers: Two middling tastes that taste... fine together. [5]

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Lana Del Rey and Quavo single review: “Tough”

Lana Del Rey’s new single with Quavo features slivers of her greatness but fails to stand out amongst her legendary portfolio.

Review by Clove Mera 9 July 2024

Single released 3 July 2024

Track written by: Lana Del Rey, Andrew Watt, Benny Negrin, Clayton Johnson, Elysse Jane Yulo, Henry Walter, Jack Antonoff, Jaxson Free, Josh Dorr, Maddox Batson, Nick Bailey & Quavious Marshall

Quality Control Music/Motown Records/UMG Recordings, Inc

Though I can say I enjoy “Tough”, my feelings towards it are mixed. When the song released a few days ago and even now, I don’t feel quite ready to embark on a new album rollout with Del Rey. Her most recent album, Did you know there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd had not even been out in the world for a year and a half and, being that I hardly enjoyed the album, more time is needed until I develop a hunger for new music. However, when I unwittingly heard a glowing review for the song, I decided to give it a listen. 

“Tough” begins with a country sound, which is not aligned with my personal tastes. The vocals were so drenched in reverberation, could hardly make out what Del Rey was saying. I decided to roll with it and absorb the sonic soundscape. When the trap influenced accelerated cymbal or shaker kicked into gear, my interest was piqued but I wasn’t excited quite yet. The infusion of hiphop influences into country isn’t necessarily an innovation on Del Rey’s part, and without her distinctive storytelling and high register evocative of a flirtatious angel in line, “Like the smoke in the drawl of your "Y'all" and the way you talk slow”, and the bridge’s abrupt tranquillisation of the song’s pulse, then “Tough” would veer into generic territory. However, my criticisms for Del Rey never include generic. 

Eventually “Tough” reaches a point I gleefully dance along, but this only happens in its final chorus. Each of the three choruses build on themselves in layers. By the final chorus, everything comes together into a hard hitting mix which stunned me the first time and I anticipate each time going forward. The verse’s trap drums are imported, bass heavy kicks are injected into the rhythm, a distant guitar wet with reverb fills the soundscape with a cinematic quality. Together, these new elements lift the unchanged chorus vocals to a deliciously complex zenith I love from Del Rey.

With each album, Del Rey explores new sounds, genres, themes, influences, but there will always be a few songs with gloriously highly sophisticated, almost orchestral, musicality. Some of my favourites include “The Grants”, “Text Book”, “Cinnamon Girl”, “The Blackest Day”, “Shades of Cool” and “13 Beaches”. What “Tough” has in common with those songs is its complexities in its production, the carefully selected additions to fill the highs and lows between the foundational drum and guitar. I especially enjoy Del Rey’s coolly distant “Ahh, ah, ahh” background glyph which repeats throughout the song.

Another enduring element in Del Rey’s art is her poetic and complex lyricism. Lana Del Rey is a role model to me in my songwriting, and this song is another exhibition of why that is. Each album acts like a life update with new topics to muse on, often influenced by where in America she finds herself, be it “Norman Fucking Rockwell”’s California backdrop, “Born to Die”’s New York setting or various rural states like Arizona and Nevada - “West Coast” and “Fucked my Way Up to the Top.” No matter the sound or the influence, Del Rey always brings sophisticated and evocative lyricism to the table. Throughout “Tough”, Lana and Quavo reflect on love persevering through hardship and juxtaposing toughness in the self and one’s experiences with “… Scuff on a pair of old leather boots/ like the blue-collar, red dirt attitude”. As a writer, I get excited by rhyme sequences I wouldn’t have seen coming. The imagery, rhyme sequence and storytelling in chorus line, “Like a .38 made out of brass/ tough like the stuff in your grandpa’s glass” is a standout moment.

Recently the trend of billing a featured artist as an “&” has settled into the music industry’s status quo. It becomes hard to discern from a song’s credited artists whether it will be a proper duet with two singers present throughout a track or entirely one artist with the other tacked onto the bridge. To my delight, “Tough” is indeed a duet. They sing the chorus together and call-and-respond on verse two, with some sing-talking sprechgesang in the outro. Quavo’s lyrics and vocals provide a sharp juxtaposition to Del Rey’s playful softness. 

“Tough” by Lana Del Rey and Quavo meanders through numerous humdrum sections to reach its forceful final chorus. I’m doubtful of the song’s replay value and also doubtful I won’t skip it if it plays on shuffle. Even though Lana has clearly signalled she’s moving in a different direction with her incoming album, I still feel it is too soon since her previous album. It has strong moments but its shortcomings render the song good when Del Rey is known for being exceptional. 

“Tough” is available to stream and has a visualiser attached below.

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This is my favorite song by Maddox Batson he is really cute, I basically know everything about him and I kinda wish that he lived closer to where I live which is in College Corner Ohio

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Viktor / Godric

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Joanna Asher

Davina Burnham

Rosarin Saengsurin

Juno Cottrill

Maxwell Batson

Tyrone / Tarzan

Joanna Asher

Aysel Waller

Dave / Gato de Botas

Odila Morrison

Parker Taylor Zane

Dashiell Denbrough

Edward Maddox

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Empathy

Empathy is the ability to place oneself in another's position. Empathy plays a crucial role in interpersonal relationships. This allows individuals to comprehend distinct cognitive states; predisposing to the development of positive attitudes towards peers, particularly in traumatic situations (Batson, 1991; Tarrant, Dazeley, & Cottom, 2009). In the context of sexual violence, empathy is the capacity to understand the perspective and responses of the victim/perpetrator (Deitz, Blackwell, Daley, & Bentley, 1982; Smith & Frieze, 2003). This is considered a major predictor of attitude towards assault, given its influence in perceptions regarding the victim or offender (Deitz et al., 1982; Deitz, Littman, & Bentley, 1984). This concept is complex as empathy for a rape victim and perpetrator are not necessarily interdependent (Smith & Frieze, 2003). Empathy for victims is appealing, since victim responsibility has been associated negatively with victim empathy for men and women (Deitz et al., 1982; Deitz, Littman, & Bentley, 1984; Smith & Frieze, 2003). This construct is based on elements like personal experience and/or perceived similarity in regards to violent experiences (Batson & Shaw, 1991; Cialdini, Brown, Lewis, Luce, & Neuberg, 1997). Considering the key role of this cognitive response in predicting attitudes towards rape victims, the Rape-Victim Empathy Scale (REMV, Smith & Frieze, 2003) has been published.

Professionals who work as police officers are often exposed to traumatic events and traumatized people. They may undergo secondary trauma which is the effects of witnessing or hearing about another’s traumatic experiences. Police officers as well as other helping professionals who work with rape victims may experience burnout, compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress. Compassion fatigue is a term which encounters those helping people or animals in distress. It is an intense state of preoccupation or tension with those suffering to the degree where it might create negative impacts for the helper (Turgoose, D., Glover, N., Barker, C., & Maddox, L.,2017). A research study amongst police officers discovered those who worked with rape victims for greater periods of time, displayed increased compassion fatigue as well as burnout and secondary traumatic stress (Maddox, 2017). Higher degrees of burnout was also related to lower empathic traits. Increased empathy may help to guard against burnout. Further research is needed to better comprehend the correlation between empathy and compassion fatigue. Because of the potential health benefits and risks to both rape victims and police officers, individuals in this environment would benefit from further education and resources to cope with mental stressors.

Overview

        This chapter examined the literature review on feminism, sexual violence and empathy by reviewing the literature on internalized heterosexism and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, moral concerns and feminism among men, treatment of men who abuse their partners and empathy. The chapter also examined existing literature on the reaction of feminist and non-feminist women to non-sexist - female counseling, trauma related to shame, sexual assault, thwarted belongingness, and perceived burdensomeness, when domestic abuse is unnecessary. Other literature cited in this chapter includes disgust and imaginal exposure to memories of sexual trauma, alternative pathways to activism, feminism and psychology analysis of a half-century of research on women and gender, feminism and psychology critiques of methods and epistemology. This chapter has provided an overview of the theoretical debates on the issues of sexual violence, with the inclusion of the feminist disagreements concerning the notion and the different definitions of sexual violence. The rising wave of feminism in response to trauma associated with sexual violence has brought to life increased debates on the causes of sexual aggression, such as the ways in which it has been embedded into the normal forms of heterosexuality among men today. The definition of sexual violence and the ways and frequency of occurrence have been a challenging task as feminists and scholars try to justify the female experiences and validate their different ways in which women handle their experiences. The literature review further explored the increased state of trauma and the impacts it has on the victims. As more feminists and researchers forge the relationship between the two, there are also some concerns that the state of sexual violence continues to be depoliticized and medicalized in the context of trauma. Similarly, some feminist scholars have problematized the trauma of rape discourse that they see dominating contemporary mainstream understandings of sexual violence. In contemporary feminism, there is an exploration of two concepts, which entail choice and experience and how these concepts of feminism are relevant to the issue of sexual violence.

Hypothesis

My research question is as follows: What is the relationship between the level of empathy associated with sexual violence and the degree of feminist activism amongst women? For this question to be properly answered, I will look into the understanding of feminist activism according to each participant and the level of empathy for rape victims.

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Essas são as inters que devo para responder, e vou finalizar as do Ty agora. Se alguém quiser que eu inicie algo com esse char, é só comentar qualquer coisa aqui que já incluo e inicio! Isso é quase um startercall KKKKK para plots específicos é só avisar por aqui ou chat também!!! 

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