whereas I want a billion more examples of chart pop that is structured like Yes circa Close To The Edge.
Hi
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 2 January 2017 12:01 (seven years ago) link
as hymns to busting a nut go i'd have thought side 2 side was the ctte tribute
― r|t|c, Monday, 2 January 2017 12:52 (seven years ago) link
wrist icicle ride dick bicycle / i get up, i get down
all these bitches flows is my minimoog
― r|t|c, Monday, 2 January 2017 12:56 (seven years ago) link
Lol the only reason I was scrolling thru this thread was in search for some clue as to why S2S hadnt been nominated for tracks poll yet
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 2 January 2017 17:33 (seven years ago) link
"bad decisions," "touch it," and "thinking bout you" are like the three best pop songs i heard this year. all bonus tracks
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, December 12, 2016 12:29 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
someone pointed this out to me a few years ago but technically "bad decisions" and "thinking bout you" aren't bonus tracks. "sometimes," "i don't care," and "touch it" are though! (as well as the perfect "knew better/forever boy," tim otm upthread). it's weird. amazing record though, her best and it's not close, wish someone had made an actual thread for it
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
"Sometimes," "I Don't Care," and "Touch It" are all included on the "North American standard edition" (they're omitted from the "International standard edition").
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
(Same w "Knew Better / Forever Boy")
so the north american standard edition is the international deluxe? literally none of these distinctions have made any sense wrt to this record. whatever it's a 55 minute pop prog masterpiece
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
Seems that way -- yeah it's weird. (I have the Target Edition, which adds "Step on Up" and "Jason's Song"; which are both good, but very much feel like "bonus tracks").
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
and of course "focus" is a bonus track in japan
completely agree with brad that dangerous woman is easily her best album, "into you", "greedy", and then that amazing run at the end of "bad decisions", "touch it", "knew better/forever boy" and "thinking bout you" are all incredible. the only moment i don't really like on the album is that weird "la-la-la" bit at the start of "sometimes"
― ufo, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 01:20 (four years ago) link
"be alright" and "let me love you" are two of my fav songs of hers
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 2 October 2019 02:03 (four years ago) link
the transition into "forever boy" and that song is amazing
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 2 October 2019 02:13 (four years ago) link
yeah, I think it’s the best “musically” of all her albums. but it’s also the weakest lyrically – a lot of basic lyrics around the same, one-dimensional bedroom theme (“Greedy” probably worst offender)
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 02:17 (four years ago) link
i would rank her albums
1. thank u next2. yours truly 3. my everything4. dangerous woman5. sweetener
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 2 October 2019 02:24 (four years ago) link
"Knew Better / Forever Boy" -> “Thinking Bout You” are an astonishingly great album closer pair. “Thinking Bout You” sounds like the 1980s exploding in the distant past, and the event horizon suddenly washing over 2016 in a beautiful, melancholy rush of incandescent fractals.
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 02:25 (four years ago) link
dangerous womanthank u nextyours trulysweetenermy everything
― ufo, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 02:28 (four years ago) link
a lot of basic lyrics around the same, one-dimensional bedroom theme (“Greedy” probably worst offender)
nah i love that this record is extremely horny
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 02:36 (four years ago) link
It’s not so much the “good girl gets ‘dangerous’” theme in itself (although that does get old) as that the lyrics of those songs are kinda corny, and sound like Max Martin at his Max Martin–est.Like I love “Bad Decisions,” but the line You've become my favorite sin — it’s distractingly “songwriter-y,” no one talks like that outside a Swedish recording studio.
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:31 (four years ago) link
...of course, the same song also features That Bridge, which perfectly sums up / restates the album’s theme in one killer verse:
Don't you know I ain't fuckin' with them good boys?Know you love me like ain't nobody could, boyIf you want it, boy, you got itAin’t you ever seen a princess be a bad bitch?
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:52 (four years ago) link
(AG has a credit on the track, and I’d love to think she wrote those bridge lyrics herself — it sounds like her “voice” — but that may be too good to be true.)
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 04:02 (four years ago) link
thank u nextdangerous womanyours trulysweetenermy everything
― bunny slopes, Thursday, 3 October 2019 09:06 (four years ago) link