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tagged by the gorgeous and fabulous @cordiallyfuturedwight and @aprylynn for february's roundup:
tagging the usual music favs: @jiminsproof @thvinyl @jimin-gaon @visionsofgideontheninth @spicyclematis @kimchokejin @jihopesjoint @monismochi plus @kimtaegis for the amy macdonald of it all 💜 and also you, dear reader. MWAH
#heads up! here comes the director's commentary:#16 Carriages - now listen. i love texas hold 'em as much as the next daddy lessons supremacist#but holy shit. it doesn't hold so much as a candle to this track.#just unbelievably stunning. i'm begging you to give it another chance if you skipped over it the first time#Don't Forget Me - me and kayla and apryl all having ms rogers in this month's list... i think we might be better than everyone else actuall#End Of Beginning - good GOD we couldn't gatekeep djo any longer but it's worth it if only for all the bear tiktok edits.#and thus i have fallen for this track all over again. yes CHEF#Showtime - now if you've known me long enough you'll know i'm an absolute sucker for british indie rock bands#especially if their frontman looks like they might not make it through another winter#so you can imagine catfish has had an inexplicable hold on me. anyway their comeback single is actually pretty good#This Is The Life - fantastic tune. 2007 if you can believe it?#what a time to be alive and at the school disco and you're singing the songs and thinking this is the life and so on and so forth#Loving You Will Be The Death Of Me - tom odell can do no wrong in my eyes (ears?) anyway. lovely lovely new album#Never Need Me - been loving rachel for a while now and this single is brilliant. highly recommended.#plus the video features florence pugh and if that doesn't sweeten the deal then christ i don't know what will#Baby Now That I've Found You - i didn't even realise this was a cover of the foundations until hearing it again recently#because alison krauss just has an incredible way of making them her own and thus it's been on repeat.#Deeper Well - okay so now i'm seeing the country thread through this month's picks.#this is another lovely new one. hearing it on the radio and the fact that they have to censor “i used to wake and bake” is hilarious to me#shoutout kayla again because great minds..#Stay For Something - CMAT is phenomenal and if you haven't listened to her yet i can't recommend her entire discography enough.#she had her arsecrack out at the brits last night and well. i would die for her#(speaking of the brits. raye... i literally cried for her. go find the recording of her live at the royal albert hall.#-watch it twice and then come back and thank me)#artists-wise - most of these guys are consistently up there.#katie melua is a new feature this time because all my amy macdonald-ing put me back onto nine million bicycles.#used to get that one mixed up with 99 luftballoons but they're really very different. i'm a fool#so tl;dr: fantastic tunes. do listen#tag#receiptify
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HALSEY - BADLAND
This album I ADORE. I probably like HFK better than this, but it holds such an important place in my heart.
Castle is a good song. The ironic revolutionary vibe that "New Americana" tries to achieve is captured here beautifully and that's because of the overall darker sound of this song. It feels grand, and grand things feel revolutionary.
Hold Me Down is an standard pop song that I don't have a lot to say about.
Now, New Americana is an interesting song for me. I don't care AT ALL for the lyrics. It's almost comical at points how bad it is, even if it's ironic which I really doubt it is. This also says a lot about the rebel-tumblr culture of the time, case study material. The song itself, as in if you substract the lyrics, sounds nice. Again, this song tries to achieve that "grand" sound Castle does so effortlessly, but I don't think the chant-y chorus and the cheesy lyrics do it. Also, high on legal marijuana?
Drive is a good fucking song. I didn't appreciate this song enough back then, wasn't "fast" enough for my taste, but now that I focus more on the song, I see why it's such a beloved song in their fanbase. Not only the song matches perfectly with the lyrics, the vibe throughout is very cozy and cool and "luxury". The white-trash luxury sound, that I find very underrated in Tumblr culture.
Hurricane is a mega-song. I never really liked this song, find it very rudimentary and run of the mill. IMO doesn't hold a candle to other "pop" songs of the album like Roman Holiday, or the masterpiece that is Haunting. "I'm a violence in the pouring rain" is a good line though.
Roman Holiday does what Hurricane wants to do better. It's a catchy, straight-forward, sentimental pop song with a nice melody. I don't really want to talk about tumblr culture here as I think it's not really needed, but this is a tumblrcore song if there is any.
Ghost is a calmer song. I like the calmer songs on this album, they feel more meaningful, although this is one of Halsey's biggest songs. Their vibe is also more structured. I love the chorus, love the lyrics, love the song.
Colors is beautiful. Another "tumblrcore" song that can define the genre. I'm having flashbacks rn as im writing this holy fuck my stomach feels funny of all the nostalgia holy shit. I can't describe why I love it, or why it's a good song just take my word for it lolll. im too much in love to write coherently.
Strange Love was my favorite song four years ago and I don't know why. Maybe because of the earwormy chorus? Looking back, it is one of the weaker songs on the album. I still like it, but I'd rather listen to Colors, or Ghost, than this.
Coming Down is another "calm" song. Almost as if these are interludes to hits, as Ghost is to Colors and Drive is to Hurricane. "I've got a lover a love like religion, I'm such a fool for sacrifice". I love it. Love it love it love it. Sounds cute. Sounds "rich". I love the melody. It isn't trying to be a hit, it's a Halsey song. It is though, a little bit long. If it was under 3, it would've been one of the perfect songs on the album.
Haunting is absolutely, ... haunting!!!... fuck me. This is it. The best song on the album. One thing that I always notice about it, is the pacing. It starts so perfectly, and moves effortlessly through the whole thing. The chorus is mesmerizing. Their songwriting is so good that it compensates for the atrocity that is New Americana. "I'm begging you to keep on haunting me" haunts me to this day ayyyooo!! fuck. It's also 4:20 mins long, but absolutely owns every second of it. What a song, wow.
Gasoline is also a rich song. After Haunting, it's a proper breathing track. It definitely has less going for it, which for the overall pacing of the record is a good thing. The lyrics are also really good on this. In general, lyrics are really better on the second half.
Don't have much to say about Control. I like Gasoline better, but the chorus is something to think about.
YOUNG FUCKING GOD. Wow. Again, I can feel the song move in this one. Move through its phases. That's how you should do pacing, it plays really nice when you are a good songwriter who knows how to pace their songs. This is probably the most "HFK" song on this album in terms of lyrics and the theme. Do you feel like a young god? what a song.
In the end, this is a really really good album. A really really really good one. Of all the vibes it tries to capture, the slower-paced songs do it better than the radio-hits.
Haunting, Colors, Ghost, Young God and Gasoline are my top 5 songs from this album.
Hurricane, and New Americana are also the weaker tracks of this record.
I dont fucking know what im even writing.
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