Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA

i think it's like a solid 7/10 but i was hoping for better, certainly with the reviews it's been getting

OMG I love this album.

"Chosen Family" sounds exactly like the moment during the support act that you're enjoying that you decide you need another drink and it's faster to go now than when the music stops.

I like this album a lot more than I expected to - this is what I wanted the recent Grimes and Poppy ones to actually sound like. It sounds like so many different things but precisely like the era its nostalgic for, even though nothing actually existed at this intersection of chart-pop, r&b and nu-metal at the time.

Wow this is some bullshit:

I was shocked when @rinasawayama reached out and said she'd been barred from the Mercury Prize – all because she wasn't *British* enough.

Please read my interview with her and ask yourself: why are our cultural gatekeepers behaving like border control? https://t.co/tLoAMBxek6

— Zing Tsjeng (@misszing) July 29, 2020

I linked to it in the Mercury thread, hadn't seen you already posted it. Grade A bullshit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85_uFm1R5TA

Also, she recently released a duet with Elton John on Chosen Family, her sappy ballad from the album.

new song is pretty good imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vapT7WBkBdY

this feels like it was designed for a lip-synch in Rupaul's Drag Race

*whispers* everything i've heard from her sounds like it's made for Drag Race

And now that I'm listening to the new album in full, it's essentially a collection of solid Eurovision bangers. This is not a complaint.

Only got around to listening now. Agreed, first thing that Hold The Girl yelled in my ear was EUROVISION!
This Hell is too Shania Twain for me to be comfortable with....