#album 48

[anyways-wonderwall]

Album of the Week #48

In My Defense

(2019)

by Iggy Azalea

Overall Rating: 2.5/10

TL;DR: I gotta stop putting joke albums on the ‘to review’ list

(I don't like the font but other than that this album cover is pretty good! mysterious and edgy 7/10)

Overall Thoughts

Now this hurts to write, but I went through a pretty big Iggy Azalea phase in middle school. “Fancy” had just come out, I was at the age when swearing was the coolest thing you could do, and seeing Iggy twerk on stage made me feel like I was a grown up. While reviewing this album I went back and listened to some of her early hits, just to make sure younger me wasn’t completely deaf because god is this album terrible. 

I feel like most people reading this wasn’t expecting the album to be a masterpiece but I had hope! In her early songs the writing is pretty good, the backing track is good enough to dance along to, and she has a rags to riches story. This album falls into that ‘I’m rich, I’m hot, you’re a hater because you’re jealous’ which is fine for like, a song or two. Twelve is far beyond where I would want to tap out. 

Most of the backing tracks here sound terribly empty and confused (“Hoemita,” “Freak of the Week”) and many of them feature this terrible sound that makes it seem like your speakers have peaked. Why the hell would you do that, I literally cannot think of a single reason. It is horribly annoying, drowns out the vocals, makes me think my headphones are broken, and just makes the song unlistenable (“Clap Back,” “Hoemita,” “Big Bag,” “Freak of the Week”).

The writing also leaves a lot to be desired (to put it nicely). She constantly brags about being the first to do what she does (“Thanks I Get”) when she’s just factually not?? Like sorry Iggy but not a single person is going to believe you there. She constantly talks about how what she is doing is unique when she’s offering nothing new in a single song she does. The best sounding parts of her songs are when she repeats the same line 20 times because familiarity makes your brain like anything. The only songs with a decent flow and track are “Commes Des Garcons” and “Just Wanna” with the second sounding super similar to “Her” by Megan Thee Stallion which came out earlier this year. 

To finish this off I just wanna share some of my favorite lines, which is really the only gratifying part of reviewing albums like this. 

“Hoemita” features the line (with no punchline or build up) “turn this beat to a diabetic”. I have been analyzing this for days and still cannot figure out what it means, someone please help me out.

“Started” has “you fronting like breasts” which yes Iggy, breasts are in the front of your body

“Commes Des Garcons” has “whenever I post a pic they go nuts like semen” which honestly goes really hard

And last but not least “Pussy Pop” has the wonderful line “got green like luigi.” Thank you for defending my man Iggy, he is always stuck living in his brother’s shadow.

Final Thoughts

Just uhhh, don’t listen to this. If you like rap maybe give the two I thought were decent a shot and if you don’t like those you definitely won’t like any others. Also why does Iggy keep saying she’s gonna nut?? Is that anatomically correct?? This album leaves me with more questions than answers.

[raphaellalacognizi]

dallon weekes i owe you my life

[Image Description: a tweet by Jack Whitehall edited to read, “Ha my father just tried to put some music on that wasn't Gloom Division. I just shut his ass the f**k down. We're on 48hour Gloom Division lock down.” /end ID]

[themaybeman]

[glittergroovy]

[goatsandgangsters]

still life: I have covid and I'm staying soooo hydrated about it

[anhonest-puck]

every once in a while i’ll get a song from Wolf stuck in my head then i listen to the whole album and im like holy shit??? Wolf by tyler, the creator is a VERY underrated album. sigh.

[shiningidoll]

[the-holy-ghosted]

So funny posting about my boppy little band with Jack in my icon having one of the worst days of his life. He would not listen to Lord Huron I can tell you that much

[catilinas]

don't wanna be here all by myself in this strange house it won't let me out it's unnatural i'm a pack animal, oh-oh i need it heart to heart mouth to mouth and bones to bones

[justaboutsnapped]

suddenly in my 2pm renaissance era god i forgot how good of an album no. 5 is

[kirk]

yeah about what i expected thanks

[athymelyreply]

WHEW! Age of pleasure really is just banger after banger ain’t it. ho ly fuck !!!

[skyburger]

this really was our chemical romance

[meerkathideout]

Sladki problemi? Sladki problemi!

[emometalhead]

I refuse to apologize for the person I will become after seeing Fall Out Boy in concert and then getting Speak Now (Taylor's Version) just over 24 hours later.