Anticipate Miranda Lambert's "Platinum"

"platinum" revels in playing (and winning) the game but its campiness seems like a nod to the fact that the (southern belle?) game is ludicrous (if not rotten)

yeah i honestly can't tell. i like it, and sometimes it makes me cringe so much i can't listen to it.

yeah most pop, rap, r&b braggadocio songs are ultimately about winning a rotten game tho. i don't think it's any worse than the rampant corporate/business imagery around

I PRAY AS I GET READY
FOR GOD TO MAKE ME STEADY
AND I THANK HIM FOR HIS PATIENCE
AND I TAKE MY MEDICATION

oh i looked upthread

also the way she grits out "and i take my mediCAYtion" on "Bathroom Sink"

― horseshoe, Tuesday, November 4, 2014 5:12 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm, the other word like this is "rejection". i was in a weird place i guess but this song full-on physically destroyed me three separate times today; i kept putting it on to see if it would happen again and it did. song of the year, an epic in four minutes and one location.

I'm tempted to say fuck it and name it my favorite of the year.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, October 3, 2014 1:36 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the "Been Caught Stealin'" rip in "Little Red Wagon" gets me every time

on the feeling politically conflicted front i am a huge fan of the line "it's a tried-and-true equation / maintains the small-town population / and turns us all into a family"

Hah, I picked up on the Blitzkrieg Bop lift in Little Red Wagon but not the Jane's Addiction one.

i like how the make-up motifs in "two rings shy" feel like they're alluding to "bathroom sink" (which, yes, is just a killer song)

She's playing MSG this saturday and there's a promo code for four tickets in the upper tiers at $25 a ticket
anybody want in?

Is this gonna be her divorce album?

― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Saturday, May 31, 2014 3:17 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

All her albums have sounded like divorce albums.

otm

the last 4 songs on this album are so so so sooo good... alfred is too coldhearted to appreciate "holding on to you" but what a beautiful and romantic song. i like that she can write big broad songs really driven by melody when she wants to, and of course they're still written cleverly or with some sort of intimacy (the "it's cold here in michigan" part of "holding on to you"). "another sunday in the south" is a prime example of this and a 10.0 song.

love this album

I love it, way more than Weight, which seemed more stapletonianly obvious in its depth and maturity.

alfred is too coldhearted to appreciate "holding on to you"

lol what

I love it, way more than Weight, which seemed more stapletonianly obvious in its depth and maturity.

― cpl593H, Monday, August 26, 2019

Not with marvelous throwaways like "Pink Sunglasses." Stapleton believes in Artistic Statements.

as for this album, it was for a while my obvious favorite but it's fallen a bit