I don't care about Nick Jonas's music
I just want his nudes
and I got pretty darn close this year with all the teases he gave us!
Nick might as well just sign with Randy Blue and call it a day, because just this year alone he's gone shirtless almost every chance he got, grabbed his B.A.D. for Flaunt Magazine, went on Ellen without pants, visited gay clubs and did a few (lackluster and with no cake-shots) sex scenes for TV.
A lot of people have dismissed Nick's liberation as pandering for sales and attention,
but whether that is or isn't the case, I am here for it. I love controversy and I love hot guys.
The fact that Nick gave me a two for one deal just makes life all the more worth living.
I did decide to give his album a listen (unlike other gays who just choked the chicken to his magazine spreads), and it wasn't half bad. I actually like the direction he's going in musically and I can't wait to see what else he has in store. Granted the album isn't a masterpiece, but it is a decent effort for an artist like Nick Jonas. If I had to score it, I'd give it a nice 7.6/10.
My favorite track at the moment, and the stand-out, is Santa Barbara.
Some of y'all might think it's boring, but I like it. It gives indie lite.
Teacher is also a bop. A nasty, funky 80s throwback.
I decided to get into BOOTS after receiving the slay that is Beyoncé's fifth solo album.
His mixtape isn't my favorite release of the year at all, but it's got some great material on it.
Atom is beautiful. Probably my favorite song.
Grand delusions of your name
Slip through me like cocaine
We waste it just the same
Like the leaves on the trees
The salt on the snow
Everyone around me will disappear
Oh I know, like the fog on the streets
The frog in my throat
Everyone, oh everyone around me would disappear...
Drop me like an atom bomb
Other faves are Howl, EST, My Heart Is A Stone Today (Unharmed) and Dreamsus (feat. Beyoncé).
One thing I didn't like about WSSF was the rapping. It works in some places, but not everywhere.
That's pretty much all I got to say on BOOTS.
I wanted to make sure I included him here, even if it was just briefly.
He's kinda low-key and doesn't have a lot of material out.
I'll be keeping an eye on him to see what the future has in store.
Brain was one of my favorite songs released this year. I had it on REPEAT all Q1.
It's beautifully written, perfectly structured and well produced.
But it's all the same
I could have foreseen
That you would act like you are
Oh so cool you seem
Blending with that scene
Wearing what you think is hard
I can see you struggling
Boy, don't hurt your brain
Thinking what you're gonna say
Cause everything's a game
Always trying to calculate
Trying to look smart but not too smart
To threaten anything they say
I connected with the lyrics on a personal level. They really hit home.
(I'm not exaggerating, this song ****ing incinerated my wig!!!!!!!!)
Since I loved Brain so much, I decided I was definitely gonna listen to her album when it dropped. I did. I didn't like it. Some of the songs were old, and the newer ones weren't all that.
It's not a bad album, it was just a little underwhelming for me personally.
*perches for people to come in and drag me saying Goddess was everything and I'm pressed*
Brain is unmatched by all the other tracks on the record. None of the other songs are as well written or have as much replay value. Plus she sings with that messy goat vibrato and I just can't.
I haven't written her off just yet tho. I have hope that whatever comes next will redeem her.
In case you couldn't already tell by my username, Latch is one of my all time favorite songs.
So of course I was gonna be perched and ready for Ms. Smith's album.
I listened to it so much at first because I kept trying to force myself to like it.
I really didn't wanna be disappointed, but ultimately I had to accept that it wasn't the record I wanted from Sam.
This album is very Adele in the sense that the songs all use that soul style instrumentation, and both her and Sam's voices have a grating, sandpaper-like texture to them (especially when they go into their upper register and start squeaking). The house instrumentals masked that better. Here, the tracks are all very stripped down so you can't help but notice.
It also gets boring after a while.
I don't hate the album. I still use a palm-full of the songs on it.
I just wish it would've been more La La La than Stay With Me.
My favorite song is Lay Me Down. These lyrics punched me right in the spleen.
I actually wept to this.
I just don't like the music. I wish he kept it like is is here, except... y'know... actually on key
I also like Restart a lot. It's the one bop on the album.
I do still go up for Sam tho and I'm rooting for my sis to take home a Grammy or two next year.