Thread. This Is The Pop Music Thread... The Elusive Chanteuse

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Qwezz: Dec 19, 2010; I'm feeling some good vibrations!

The Lakes is my #1 swift song ever since I heard it. The whole album is magnificent, and my aoty as well, but The Lakes takes it to a whole other level for me. A level so high it dwarfs everything else. Tomorrow is gonna be good day I am sure. :boom:

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# ¿ May 8, 2024 08:44

Qwezz: Dec 19, 2010; I'm feeling some good vibrations!

Here is the opinion of a random guy on the internet you don't even know listening to Evermore for the first time.

Using

posted here earlier in the thread to listen to the random order uploaded on youtube.

1. Willow: Sounds good but not as good as the best of Folklore.
2. Champagne problems: This is more like it here we go.
3. Gold Rush: At first it was ok. After the end part I was "I'm in this song and I ~~dont~~ like it"
4. �Tis the drat season: gently caress. This gave me back memories. Goddamn.
5. Tolerate it: gently caress. this is the best one yet. Really laying the table with the fancy poo poo. ngl repeated this one a bit before going on.
6. No body, no crime: kind of a emotional whiplash after the last 2 but it really jams. Good song. Think this one is gonna get even better over time and without album order.
7. Happiness: And we're back on the previous trainride. This one feels double. Remorseful and accepting. Quite human in its' approach of duality in emotions I think.
8. Dorothea: Not a single bad word about it. Love it.
9. Coney Island: They both sound great. Alone and together. "Sorry for not winning you an arcade ring....over and over."
10. Ivy: Saying Evermore is a sister/brother/related album to Folklore is NOT an exaggeration. More of this please. This is really really good.
11. Cowboy like me: The leather seats and background fits perfect as a setting. This is a kind of song I like to listen to with a 'this many' glass of whiskey in one hand and doing some weird airpiano/conductor stuff with the other. Good song.
12. long story short: This is just a derail. Pull up Album.
13. Marjorie: It really feels like a perfect companion piece to Epihany which was part about her grandfather. Cementing the intertwining of the two albums. Respect your elders 10/10.
*insert small wikipedia/internet search on Marjorie Finlay* Yeah knowing more and seeing the video, this one is the best. I miss my old folks :smith:

14. Closure: This sounds like I got 2 tabs in Chrome playing audio at the same time. That's the best way for me to describe it.
15: Evermore: Back to Folklore quality, this last part of the album was a rollercoaster of sensations/taste. It feels like a good titular song to present the album. And end it as well.

I can't find good (or any) upload for the 2 bonus songs.

Marjorie and Tolerate it are the best.
I like Folklore more. But Evermore is truly a companion piece and really lives up to it. Long Story short and Closure are two bad songs which drag the whole album down though.

e; The Lakes remains #1

Qwezz fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Dec 11, 2020

# ¿ Dec 11, 2020 23:32

Qwezz: Dec 19, 2010; I'm feeling some good vibrations!

"My very own" Transscript from Long Pond Studio Sessions on Disney+

quote:

Taylor: I think The Lakes sort of sounds like a testament of what I wanted to escape from and where I saw myself escaping. We've gone to the Lake District in England a couple years ago.
Interviewer; What is the lake district?
T: It's in England and it's you know in the 19th century you had a lot of poets like William Wordsworth and John Keats who would spend a lot of time there. There was a poet district, these artists that moved there and they were kind of heckled for it and made fun of for it as being these excentrics and these kind of odd artists who just decided to live there. And I remembered when we went I thought; 'Man, I could see this. You live in a cottage and you got Wisteria growing up the outside of it and you just...of course they'd escape like that. Ofcourse they would do that and then they would have their own community with other artists who would do the same thing. I've always in my career, since I was probably about 20, written about this cottage, this cottage backup plan that I have,
I: You've been writing about getting out forever
T: Yes. So The Lakes is really talking a lot about relating to people who hundreds of years ago had the same exit plan and did it. And they went and did it. I went to William Wordsworth's grave and just sat there and I was like 'Wow, you went and did it.' 'You just went away and kept writing but you didn't subscribe to the things that kept killing you."
I: You left those things behind in a real way
T: And that's really the overarching thing that I felt when I was writing Folkore is; I maybe not be able to go to the lakes right now, or to go anywhere, but I'm going there in my head. And this escape plan is working.
I: That to me is the hope in this body of work is that it's not "I can't do this I'm out"...It's "I found something worth escaping with".
T: And a person to escape with.
I: Personally to me thats a huge sincere statement of hope. Everything I'm naming is completely small compared to this love.
T: Yeah it's the perfect...I thought it would be the perfect way to slot the last puzzle piece in right when people least expected it. Because Hoax as the ending song for the record I thought was interesting for a couple of weeks but then I wanted to actually come in with the real last song of the record which is this song the lakes. Which is kind of the overarching theme of the whole album. Of trying to escape, having something you want to protect, trying to protect your own sanity, and say "look they did this hundreds of years ago. I'm not the first person who felt this way. They did this."

TLDR; It's serious and sincere.

# ¿ Dec 29, 2020 20:31

Qwezz: Dec 19, 2010; I'm feeling some good vibrations!

Sing Along posted:

where do I go for synthpop?

My Immediate thought is The Midnight or FM-84.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-sM_PLqzgktdUcW2LEKKkQ

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9jWC3VlwuV7JfDfsIerPXA

# ¿ Dec 29, 2020 20:32

Qwezz: Dec 19, 2010; I'm feeling some good vibrations!

Rarity posted:

Been listening to SOUR all morning and I'm going to express my full opinion in the only valid form of critical review: a list

11. Favourite Crime

That's gotta be higher. Way up there.

# ¿ May 21, 2021 20:00

Qwezz: Dec 19, 2010; I'm feeling some good vibrations!

Qwezz posted:

That's gotta be higher. Way up there.

1. Favorite crime
2. Good 4 u
3. Enough for you
4. Drivers license
5. 1 step forward, 3 steps back
6. Deja vu
7.Hope ur ok
8. Traitor
9. Jealousy, Jealousy
10. Happier
11. Brutal

Favorite crime just... :unsmith:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyX_LL9nWSE

# ¿ May 21, 2021 20:33

Qwezz: Dec 19, 2010; I'm feeling some good vibrations!

I'm not an audiophile or expert in certain terms but here's my experience; with Favorite Crime and why I rated it #1;
The start of the song sounds hollow, high treble with no bass, and has no subwoofer soundwaves coming out of my woofer. Over the course of the song it builds up and up gaining bass/depth until it goes full throttle at 1:55 and sends it all into overdrive in perfect rythm with the lyrics. Emphazising the important parts, highlighting the cadence, like it was all planned from the beginning. A proper subwoofer test. All this is giving more importance to the text . This song playing over my surround set almost triggers the neighbours. It gives a depth to the song which fits perfectly and is one of the reasons I put it so high on my list. The way my subwoofer goes nuts to its full potential with this song.

# ¿ May 22, 2021 22:31