Before MŲ got tricked into working for Igloo Australia as a bootleg Charli XCX, she was more of a bootleg Purity Ring than anything + doing a pretty good job with it. Par for the course Scandinavian pop music with lyrics maybe more abstract than they need to be, but it adds to the charm.
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CATTY NOIR @AZEALIABANKS · 15h 15 hours ago
I wish i had an African Accent and a huge house with giraffes and gazelles and roosters and ****
I hate "Happy" now if I didn't before. I got so ****ing sick of that song. **** a positive uplifting message and that ********. Very lucky then that Pharrell's cashout grab bag to check in on the success of that song ended up being 8 parts out of 9 a whole level above in terms of quality. It feels concise and snappy even though the average track run time is almost five minutes; maybe time flies when you come across fun new ways to express your happiness instead of just telling it straight.
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CATTY NOIR @AZEALIABANKS · 17h 17 hours ago
I love Blacks And Jews but I Stan for the Dominicans
~hihi
49. One Direction FOUR
Well I got around to listening in the last 2 weeks or so, and who knew One Direction would come through with a cute full-length album? 'Cute' being the operative word. I semi-joked last year about my babies finally growing up with Story of My Life, but that's essentially what I see here: mature pop music that feels appropriate for their young audience without pandering or watering itself down. Love the boys' BIG, THROBBING power choruses that they have on display here as always, but some really nice moments also come when they just strip things down and get their Fleet Foxes on. Their harmonies are really pretty as well, something I never noticed w/ them before.
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AZEALIA BANKS @AZEALIABANKS · Jan 3
Azealia SLAMS, Azealia BEEFS, Azealia banks, In a series of explosive tweets..... Blah blah blah
Hazy, TBT cinematic vibe is ace. Points for sounding expensive in totally different ways than the masterpieces that were Teflon Don & Rich Forever. For real, eat your ****ing heart out man after pulling all your strings just right and emerging with 'Sanctified.'
Who else got Kanye on an album in 2014? Hmmm.
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CATTY NOIR @AZEALIABANKS · Dec 14
Omg, guys... YOU HAVE TO SHAVE UR BUSSIES BEFORE U TAKE PIC OF IT. I just seen a hairy buss in my inbox and my eyes just fell out of my head
Messy. Distraught. WEAK SINGLES. There are negatives to throw out here, and I've spent little enough time with this album that maybe worse ones than these will come to pop out at me, but right now the biggest of the issues here stem from the fact that Nicki Minaj is a real person going through real problems, some of which she might just be starting to figure out. Yeah there's ways to make this **** boring and she does that every so often, but for the most part I hear an interesting person just trying to work things out firsthand. And 'Anaconda' the bop of the year. Throwing back to when I claimed her Boss Ass Bitch remix should have been straight up lead single...that song is better than everything here, of course, but there's something to be said for her own sense of unification and quality control. Maybe My Beautiful Dark Twisted Harajuku is not a lost hope.
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CATTY NOIR @AZEALIABANKS · Dec 14
Lucifer will not let me be spiritual!!... he ALWAYS jumps on the altar and starts drinking the water out the glasses and licking the cakes
Quaint lil brief indie pop record. Prob the second album that my bitch ass housemate and I would now be able to I agree on. It's an easy listen with this classic kinda lo-fi sound, but at the same time you'll hear the singer mix in a line about her boyfriend's student loans up against the very traditional-seeming request to marry her she has going on, so it's timely in a way. I'm thinking fans of Best Coast and Sky Ferreira and that sonic crew would enjoy.
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CATTY NOIR @AZEALIABANKS · Dec 14
Yooooo, why do my videos always end up on ****hub?!?! LOL @KREAYSHAWN this is all your fault !!!! LOOOOL