As Sometimes I Sit winds to its gloomy conclusion, Courtney takes this journey to the beach—and she does not like what she sees. Heavy in both its grungy sound and rather hopeless message, her environmentally-conscious epic laments how humans have exploited the Earth’s resources, with a chorus seemingly sung by a resigned Mother Nature herself. Courtney has said it’s her favorite track to perform live, and it was given an appropriately dark music video—with drowning imagery and a world-on-fire final shot—for a Record Store Day release.
Best bit: "I would wanna die, too/With people putting oil in my air/But to be fair, I’ve done my share”
The song was solid overall, but I (sit and) think sometimes that unless a song is really carefully handled, a song with lyrics like "There's a paper on the ground, it makes my headache quite profound" can come off a little heavy handed.
Carly spends much of Emotion utterly lovesick, but on this final bonus track, she gets to play the heartbreaker. Over a Casio beat that would make Debbie Gibson seethe with jealousy, she reassures the boy she just broke up with that something better will eventually come along—a self-actualized message she herself finally seems to have embraced.
Best bit: the way each line of the chorus explodes out of the previous one (“OH-pen up your to the ceiling/DON’T you know it hurts for a reason…”)
I really don't get why people think S-K made a weak/middle of the road album at all. Y'all just don't like the genre. I think it's all killer, no filler.