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Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

https://twitter.com/abc15/status/1425929990344830976?s=19

# ? Aug 12, 2021 22:24

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# ? Apr 28, 2024 21:12

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

Good, now

# ? Aug 12, 2021 22:35

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Lorde newest single, Mood Ring

https://youtu.be/P103bWMdvtA

Mr Ice Cream Glove fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Aug 17, 2021

# ? Aug 17, 2021 18:56

BigFactory: Sep 17, 2002

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Lorde newest single, Mood Ring

https://youtu.be/P103bWMdvtA

Not as great as nail salon but it�s a good tune.

# ? Aug 17, 2021 19:39

Gaius Marius: Oct 9, 2012

I don't think I'm gonna like Lordes new album.

To be positive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAakpl8u6OQ
CHVRCHES covering one of my favorites

# ? Aug 20, 2021 01:47

LionArcher: Mar 29, 2010

I thought the first two Lorde were 10�s�. This is like a 6 or 7. Mood ring is my favorite song on the album lol. We don�t need every pop girl doing the I�m now on drugs album for the whole album this summer gently caress. To be fair to Olivia Rodriguez at least she went with stuck on one dude album.

Save us Coldplay and OneRepublic

# ? Aug 20, 2021 18:40

Junpei: Oct 4, 2015; Can't post for 11 years!

I'm just looking forward to If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power because Industrial Metal Halsey intrigues me so much

# ? Aug 20, 2021 18:54

LionArcher: Mar 29, 2010

Junpei posted:

I'm just looking forward to If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power because Industrial Metal Halsey intrigues me so much

I forgot about that. That will help. Also more Taylor is always good. 10 minute version of all too well yes please.

# ? Aug 20, 2021 18:57

Queering Wheel: Jun 18, 2011

I think Solar Power has more good songs than not, but I just don't think it's as good as her first two albums. Which is okay because that was always going to be hard af to accomplish

# ? Aug 20, 2021 21:08

BigFactory: Sep 17, 2002

Queering Wheel posted:

I think Solar Power has more good songs than not, but I just don't think it's as good as her first two albums. Which is okay because that was always going to be hard af to accomplish

All the songs are good but the album is too one note. I�m sure that was a decision to make it laid back but I wonder if she had other songs that could have made the cut and mixed it up. Production is great though.

# ? Aug 20, 2021 21:49

DC Murderverse: Nov 10, 2016; "Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

https://youtu.be/OGUy2UmRxJ0

Best song now has best video

# ? Aug 23, 2021 20:53

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

DC Murderverse posted:

https://youtu.be/OGUy2UmRxJ0

Best song now has best video

gently caress yes

# ? Aug 24, 2021 05:19

Paperback Writer: May 1, 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLqt_6W2JXU
new album/film coming soon!

# ? Aug 24, 2021 05:46

Escobarbarian: Jun 18, 2004; Grimey Drawer

I actually fell asleep listening to Solar Power lmao, not on purpose

Brutal vid owns

# ? Aug 24, 2021 14:02

The REAL Goobusters: Apr 25, 2008

New Lorde album somehow more boring than the new Billie album!

# ? Aug 24, 2021 14:24

BigFactory: Sep 17, 2002

The REAL Goobusters posted:

New Lorde album somehow more boring than the new Billie album!

I like it better on relisten but you wonder how it could have been different. Big Star is a really good song but antonoff�s boring guitar accompaniment just feels like it has been done before. Even if you wanted to keep it simple there are other choices that would have been more interesting. There�s a lot of really nice songwriting though.

# ? Aug 24, 2021 16:05

^burtle: Jul 17, 2001; God of Boomin'

Paperback Writer posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLqt_6W2JXU
new album/film coming soon!

Kill Wild Bill

# ? Aug 24, 2021 22:41

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Friday!!

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/halsey-if-i-cant-have-love-i-want-power/

quote:

On the surface, Halsey’s latest album, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, fits this tradition of grand gestures. The singer, who uses she/they pronouns, is releasing the record alongside an IMAX film of the same name; there have been no singles, only increasingly gory, fantastical trailers and a theatrical unveiling of the album art at the Met. But the record itself has a tight, internal focus: It’s about walking the line between self-preservation and self-destruction, control and compulsion, the thrill and terror of getting what you want. Instead of sieving these themes through an elaborate architecture, Halsey lets horror—of the body, of the mind, of mortality—radiate outward. The result is alluring and spectral. It’s their best work yet.

Largely that’s because they sound so good: clear and cool and lilting. Nine Inch Nails members and film score mainstays Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross produced the record, and the pair seem eager to announce their unlikely place in pop music. On the opening tracks, they create a psychedelic Gothic fairytale—wisps of wind, icy piano, panoramic synth blur, a churning undercurrent listed in the credits as a “menacing beat”—while Halsey sings about loneliness and crowns and Judas (“Jesus needed a three-day weekend/To sort out all his bullshit”), but mostly about a pervasive sense of doom. “Don’t wait for me,” they cry over the chaos, “it’s not a happy ending.” Reznor and Ross spend most of the album experimenting, careening through genres and hinting at a danger that’s never fully realized. They cram songs with texture, reverberating screams and screeching sirens; the busyness can feel like a distraction.

The sound is sometimes abrasive, but rarely shocking. The rollicking “honey” oscillates between frenetic drums and guitar, with Dave Grohl behind the kit and a cyborg inflection that leaks in from hyperpop. “I’ve been corrupted,” Halsey sings on “Lilith,” and a spasm of glitch submerges the last note.If there’s an organizing framework to the album, it’s dissonance. Halsey wrote the album as they fell in love and navigated pregnancy; the writing zigzags between stability and self-sabotage. Every bit of sweetness is anchored in devastation. “Only you have shown me how to love being alive,” they hum on “Darling.” On “Ya’aburnee,” the delicate closing song and the conclusion to all this examination, they can only express commitment in the direst terms: “You will bury me before I bury you.”

With no features, the atmosphere of the album becomes unsettlingly claustrophobic. The effect is intoxicating on “Whispers,” where Halsey actualizes and criticizes their innermost thoughts. The premise might be hokey or campy from a lesser writer, but Halsey is so good at parsing their competing impulses, so brutal in their self-assessment: “This is the glimmer of light that you’re keeping alive when you tell yourself, ‘I bet I could gently caress him,’” they murmur. It’s a line that feels ripped from their first album, a further reiteration of what Halsey has been telling us since the beginning; though its sound is varied and its production heady, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power rarely offers a new dimension. But for a pop star who has tried to write sweeping anthems about being young in today’s America, this is the song, and the album, that seems most likely to resonate: scrolling through a screen at night and surveying the wreckage, looking for a way to slow your own sacrifice.

# ? Aug 26, 2021 05:06

DC Murderverse: Nov 10, 2016; "Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

This sounds like the most Goth thing made by a pop artist in quite some time, I�m very excited to give it a listen. Everyone has spent all week talking about how out of place the calm serenity and happiness of Solar Power is that Halsey coming and saying �alright you depressed motherfuckers I have what you want� is kind of exciting. Every time a pop artist puts something this idiosyncratic out into the world it�s cool even if it ends up being too out there

# ? Aug 26, 2021 05:56

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_wr-9X47ao

# ? Aug 26, 2021 09:58

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

https://twitter.com/LilNasX/status/1430710366078574595

I'm not prepared

# ? Aug 26, 2021 12:56

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Rarity posted:

https://twitter.com/LilNasX/status/1430710366078574595

I'm not prepared

15 tracks!

Edit:

Amazing

Edit

Holy poo poo

https://youtu.be/ZXrjYA0Elgs

Edit

Rina Sawayama Enter Sandman

https://youtu.be/JfxRzUg0Sg0

Mr Ice Cream Glove fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Aug 26, 2021

# ? Aug 26, 2021 13:14

DC Murderverse: Nov 10, 2016; "Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

15 tracks!

Edit:

Amazing

Edit

Holy poo poo

https://youtu.be/ZXrjYA0Elgs

Edit

Rina Sawayama Enter Sandman

https://youtu.be/JfxRzUg0Sg0

gently caress hot girl summer Hot Goth Fall has begun

# ? Aug 26, 2021 22:44

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Great day for album releases tomorrow

Big Red Machine, How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?
Chvrches, Screen Violence
Halsey, If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
Madi Diaz, History of a Feeling
Maisie Peters, You Signed Up for This

# ? Aug 26, 2021 23:31

LionArcher: Mar 29, 2010

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Great day for album releases tomorrow

Big Red Machine,�How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?
Chvrches,�Screen Violence
Halsey,�If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
Madi Diaz,�History of a Feeling
Maisie Peters, You Signed Up for This

And one republic.

# ? Aug 27, 2021 01:13

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

LionArcher posted:

And one republic.

Oh poo poo! Super excited for that one

# ? Aug 27, 2021 02:02

LionArcher: Mar 29, 2010

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Oh poo poo! Super excited for that one

Like every single teaser they�ve dropped this week sound like utter fire gym songs. Kinda love it. And Ryan is a straight up song making genius.

# ? Aug 27, 2021 02:36

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

New Halsey is the most unorthodox pop album I've heard in a long time. I dig it!

edit: New CHVRCHES is real good too

Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Aug 27, 2021

# ? Aug 27, 2021 05:36

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

Screen Violence absolutely slaps, best CHVRCHES album yet imo. I don't think anything beats How Not To Drown but Final Girl comes drat close. Asking For A Friend and Nightmares are also standout tracks. Gonna be listening to this a lot.

# ? Aug 27, 2021 08:54

BigFactory: Sep 17, 2002

Rageaholic posted:

New Halsey is the most unorthodox pop album I've heard in a long time. I dig it!

Yeah it�s pretty good. Trent�s good at what he does and it works well in this context. I�ve never been a big fan of Halsey�s voice I guess but this is definitely the most interesting thing she�s done.

# ? Aug 27, 2021 12:08

Deformed Church: May 12, 2012; 5'5", IQ 81

Maisie Peters has really delivered with You Signed Up For This, there isnt a dud to be found. She's shaping up to be a really excellent songwriter.

Really digging the new CHVRCHES and Halsey albums as well, it's a good day in pop music.

Also it's not really country at this point and I know shes got a lot of fans in the pop sphere so here's a new Kacey Musgraves track, which I also like.

https://youtu.be/i-0PaQanGBc

Deformed Church fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Aug 27, 2021

# ? Aug 27, 2021 16:10

Escobarbarian: Jun 18, 2004; Grimey Drawer

YSUFT is so sick

https://youtu.be/EZStqjXe3Y4

this one is Taylor as hell: https://youtu.be/AKEgdEp7dxw

# ? Aug 27, 2021 19:55

Junpei: Oct 4, 2015; Can't post for 11 years!

How much does Halsey roast G-Eazy on IICHLIWP?

# ? Aug 28, 2021 01:52

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

https://twitter.com/fckyeahcharliHD/status/1433098560371892229?s=20

Tomorrow

# ? Sep 1, 2021 18:53

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

New Charli XCX era has begun

https://youtu.be/kjAuUXdSFaM

# ? Sep 2, 2021 21:18

Buffis: Apr 29, 2006; I paid for this; Fallen Rib

Well, that was not the comeback I expected

https://youtu.be/uHU48c-dtqk

https://youtu.be/pAzEY1MfXrQ

# ? Sep 2, 2021 21:50

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

New Charli XCX era has begun

https://youtu.be/kjAuUXdSFaM

Yo this rips

# ? Sep 2, 2021 22:47

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Rarity posted:

Yo this rips

This is completely new sound from her and I love it

# ? Sep 2, 2021 23:01

Danger - Octopus!: Apr 20, 2008; Nap Ghost

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

New Charli XCX era has begun

https://youtu.be/kjAuUXdSFaM

This reminds me of Robyn, and I am super down with that.

# ? Sep 2, 2021 23:11

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# ? Apr 28, 2024 21:12

DC Murderverse: Nov 10, 2016; "Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

Buffis posted:

Well, that was not the comeback I expected

https://youtu.be/uHU48c-dtqk

https://youtu.be/pAzEY1MfXrQ

If you had asked me a month ago what new ABBA music should sound like I don�t think I could up with this because it�s just too perfect

It�s straight from 1978 and god bless them for coming back

# ? Sep 2, 2021 23:20

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