We Can't Stop vs. Habits (Stay High)

I don't know what that was all about, but I will say this, "We Can't Stop" is awful

If you're not planning to change, why not redefine one's compulsions as free choices, or even assertions of autonomy in the face of a hostile culture?

Because you're lying to yourself if you do.

Is honesty a virtue if it leads to wallowing?

No.

And who's really lying to herself anyway?

Both of them.

sn't there a sense in which visiting sex clubs, or seducing fathers at the playground is fun?

Not if you are compelled to do so, which implies involuntary coercion.

In her rush to define the emotional pain that lies behind her "habits," does tove lo fail to register the texture of her experiences?

No.

On the surface, Miley might seem incoherent, but isn't the paradoxical logic of her song -- we can't stop asserting our freedom, even if we wanted to -- actually pretty interesting?

Maybe in a better song.

reading too much into bullshit teen pop that's that shit I don't like

OK harsh except not

so I never heard this second one before and I guess there's some faded appeal but yeahhhh idk

the remix is better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYM-RJwSGQ8

the remix doesn't have the verses, which are the best part.

also i'm not sure what "reading too much" means here. i'm not finding illuminati symbols in these songs or something, i'm just discussing the ways in which they approach their subject matter

remix is terrible and tove lo isn't teenpop (?)

i'm surprised "habits" has actually made it as far as it has in the us market, pretty pleased tho, it's a good song

http://denpubs.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2014/02/05/Vote_t670.jpg?b3f6a5d7692ccc373d56e40cf708e3fa67d9af9d

"Habits" is better. I should point out that technically it's also from 2013 and it even came out before "We Can't Stop". I like that first version (and video) better.

Vermillion vs Habits would be more apt.

i love "Habits (Stay High), so that.

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