Fucking hell, this is great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrMAfMbZOmg
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
Sivan is the weakest part of this song
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
His voice is too wan.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
man do I dig "Bloom."
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
Yeah, that song really grew on me.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
Also in me, etc.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
HO
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
Just for you.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
Dance To This is really excellent, would have been right at home on the last xx album
My My My is the weakest of the tracks released so far and it's still pretty good so I've got very high hopes for this album
― ufo, Thursday, 19 July 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
The video was released today -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhxhNIQBKJI
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 19 July 2018 23:19 (five years ago) link
I find the song to be very slight -- pleasant, but barely there -- but guess it's just not my style
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 19 July 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
"bloom" almost made me feel bad about the thread title. almost.
― dyl, Friday, 20 July 2018 01:40 (five years ago) link
"Bloom" is his best single.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 July 2018 05:51 (five years ago) link
the whole album is pretty good, doesn't blow me away but a very solid and enjoyable pop album
― ufo, Thursday, 30 August 2018 14:43 (five years ago) link
"animal" is a good song but it's a little hard to buy it coming from him
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
He's better singing about plums and quoting Smiths songs
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
I am an animal with you
a chinchilla
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
I still don't understand how "Dance to This" got such a tepid reception
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 31 August 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
I...like this album a lot.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 August 2018 21:47 (five years ago) link
Dance to This is one of my favourite singles this year and I love its "Pass This On"-rip video too
― ufo, Saturday, 1 September 2018 03:39 (five years ago) link
plot twist
this album is good
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 1 September 2018 05:39 (five years ago) link
the singles really don't stand out as singles to me but w/in the context of the album they work much better... the final 3 songs are pretty killer
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 1 September 2018 05:40 (five years ago) link
not a dud-free album but definitely good! i like "seventeen" a lot and "bloom" is reaching that territory for me where it can plunge me right into bliss or melancholy alike (cf "teenage dream" the song)
― dyl, Sunday, 2 September 2018 02:58 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LniYWYmNXiM
new single isn't a big pop banger or anything but i really like it
― ufo, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:43 (four years ago) link
I like it a lot too, works very well in these times, in a (thankfully) roundabout way.Also, it’s tempting to hear this as “take your cellphone”.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 3 April 2020 11:37 (four years ago) link
the outro switchup is great
― ufo, Friday, 3 April 2020 11:46 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it could go on for much longer. I’m almost hearing an amapiano remix in my head.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 3 April 2020 12:11 (four years ago) link
this song is weird and great
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 3 April 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
troye sivan "my my my!take yourself home" -- 'one of the first great songs of this young-ish year' or overpraised twink mediocritywhat??
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:20 (four years ago) link
New EP out yesterday, it's pretty good all the way through but I must highlight the follow-up single to the video posted above
"Easy" is so good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCHqIhiFmEY
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Saturday, 22 August 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link
That's good.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 22 August 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
i love this whole EP
― ufo, Saturday, 22 August 2020 22:57 (three years ago) link
that yelp after "this house is on fire", man
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Sunday, 23 August 2020 00:32 (three years ago) link
wait this is really good. probably more consistent than his album was, perhaps even better overall
― dyl, Monday, 24 August 2020 06:46 (three years ago) link
it's a decent step up from the album which was solid enough
― ufo, Monday, 24 August 2020 06:49 (three years ago) link
this is a really good record... last two songs especially
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 27 August 2020 23:46 (three years ago) link
Yup. "STUD" is marvelous.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 August 2020 00:03 (three years ago) link
it's all delightfully slightly-left-of-centre
― ufo, Friday, 28 August 2020 00:57 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn4XQ9WweRY
new remix of "easy" featuring kacey musgraves & mark ronson. it's really good. the EP is still one of my favourite pop releases this year too
― ufo, Thursday, 10 December 2020 06:07 (three years ago) link
^^late entry into my EOY ballot, maybe. I already liked "Easy" but Kacey's voice is just so lovely on this.
― Roz, Sunday, 13 December 2020 04:36 (three years ago) link
Great video, I like the original version of the song more w/o Musgraves/Ronson tho
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Sunday, 13 December 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
pretty much my thoughts also
― dyl, Monday, 14 December 2020 06:01 (three years ago) link
Either I am becoming less resistant to twink mediocrity, or this is really good. I can't claim that it is remarkable in any way, but I find it rather graceful and pretty, and he sounds more invested, as a vocalist, than he's sounded to me on on other songs I've heard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Z6w1D6zs0
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Friday, 4 March 2022 22:41 (two years ago) link
It doesn't have much pizzazz but it's pleasant enough. I do admit that Twink mediocrity is one of my things, tho, so I am not the best judge
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Saturday, 5 March 2022 14:09 (two years ago) link
new single “Rush” is out today. video very NSFW. i admit that i like this twink more and more— there’s enough Zoomer swagger and earnestness mixed in with the referentiality to older pop and cultural movements to make it palatable to me.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 13 July 2023 12:39 (ten months ago) link
it starts off very promising but the chorus vocals are a very odd choice that completely throws it off
video is very suggestive but doesn't actually cross the line and so avoids being marked 18+ on youtube or anything
― ufo, Thursday, 13 July 2023 12:51 (ten months ago) link
I will have to listen on a good system
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 13 July 2023 14:47 (ten months ago) link
the chorus vocals are a very odd choice that completely throws it off
After a few more listens, I disagree. I think that the husky male chorus vocals work as a sort of foil to the slickness of Sivan's tenor and falsetto in the rest of the track. Given the track's cultural connotations— poppers, glory holes, orgies, basement raves, etc— it makes perfect sense to have a sort of huskier vocal thing going on in one part of the song. One thing I started to think about was whether the chorus without the verses and bridge would be a dope track, and I concluded yes. Would love to hear remixes tbh, I bet in the right hands it could be something really explosive.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 13 July 2023 19:15 (ten months ago) link
Video is reasonably spicy--lots of jock-strapped bums and (mediocre?) twinks making out--but probably no more so than "Justify My Love" or "Dirrty" or anything like that. For me, that St. Vincent gay orgy video from a few years back nailed this whole vibe more evocatively, but I get why this might be a bigger deal.
I didn't really pay attention to the song.
― niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Thursday, 13 July 2023 19:57 (ten months ago) link
love this song the more i listen to it
― Roz, Friday, 14 July 2023 03:14 (ten months ago) link