I pretend "Automatic" and the Underwood duet don't exist. The other dud: "Holding On to You."― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 June 2014 21:37 (ten years ago) link
Why does everyone dislike Automatic?
― JacobSanders, Thursday, 5 June 2014 22:07 (ten years ago) link
boring music + dog-whistling reactionary bullshirt
― katherine, Thursday, 5 June 2014 22:29 (ten years ago) link
(make that "bullshit," which is plentiful)
― katherine, Thursday, 5 June 2014 22:31 (ten years ago) link
fetishization of a time when women's domestic labor was compulsory and devalued tbh
― it's about equality, ladies (reddening), Thursday, 5 June 2014 22:32 (ten years ago) link
just boring
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 June 2014 23:09 (ten years ago) link
The lyrics are bad on "Automatic", but musically I think it's ok (albeit no "Bathroom Sink" or "Smokin' and Drinkin")
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 June 2014 13:52 (ten years ago) link
i.e. it has a reactionary streak that may or may not be inevitable when working with boys.
i think for the most part on this record miranda is v aware that her success and power has derived from playing the game demanded by a shitty patriarchal system well
― lex pretend, Monday, 9 June 2014 14:10 (ten years ago) link
WHY YA THINK THE WORLD DRINKS
― lex pretend, Monday, 9 June 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
i don't really get why everyone hates "somethin' bad", it's lots of fun
the one i really want to like (and lyrically it's one of the best) is "bathroom sink", the melody doesn't cut quite as hard as the words
― lex pretend, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:08 (ten years ago) link
yeah agree there.i think i may have overlistened to this album now; want to put it away and return in october.
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 June 2014 15:10 (ten years ago) link
i've barely started overlistening (have had severely curtailed listening time for a few weeks, which makes me treasure repeated listening to it right now)
― lex pretend, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link
After a couple of weeks, I think my favorite performance choice on an album full of choices and details I love is the Elvis-y way she throws that second "a home" into the final chorus of "Priscilla."
Still would cut the two singles from this, but there really aren't any other tracks I routinely skip. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is still her best overall album, but it's just one hell of a run she's on.
― jon_oh, Saturday, 14 June 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
she's just a really incredible singer, i mean what delivery she's got. the title track A+ is this regard. also love the runaways-gone-country of "little red wagon" going right into some super chill summery vibes on "smokin and drinkin".
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 00:51 (nine years ago) link
this album really really holds up. so into "two rings shy" right now
― lex pretend, Friday, 3 October 2014 15:20 (nine years ago) link
she's touring the u.s. in 2015 with various opening acts, i was hoping she'd swing through l.a. with ashley monroe but it doesn't look like that's happening yet.
http://www.mirandalambert.com/news/321/miranda-announces-her-certified-platinum-tour/
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 3 October 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
I'm tempted to say fuck it and name it my favorite of the year.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 October 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
the album this most reminds me of in a lot of ways for whatever reason is 'beyonce'
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 3 October 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
in a year where no default AOTY has really shown itself, probably same here
beyoncé isn't a bad comparison: musings and braggings about being a woman on top of a world that's judging you...
― lex pretend, Saturday, 4 October 2014 09:47 (nine years ago) link
"bathroom sink" : "pretty hurts""priscilla" : "drunk in love" x "jealous""platinum" : "***flawless""xo" : "holding on to you"
― lex pretend, Saturday, 4 October 2014 09:52 (nine years ago) link
finally i can look forward to hearing a miranda lambert song on the radio that i actually like... this article sez the next single is "smokin' and drinkin'" <3 http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-615/6304442/miranda-lambert-pedigree-shelter-dogs
― dyl, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 05:30 (nine years ago) link
half this album sounds like huge singles
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 11:31 (nine years ago) link
"smokin and drinkin""priscilla""3 rings shy""bathroom sink"
these songs rule. i love this album even though it is uncomfortably reactionary at times.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 00:55 (nine years ago) link
TWO rings shy, excuse me
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
I can't think of a great recent album whose first two singles are so bleh
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 00:58 (nine years ago) link
haha can i take this belated moment to o_O at the lyric "Staying married was the only way to work your problems out"
wtf
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 01:08 (nine years ago) link
― lex pretend, Monday, June 9, 2014 10:57 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 01:11 (nine years ago) link
also the way she grits out "and i take my mediCAYtion" on "Bathroom Sink"
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 01:12 (nine years ago) link
"automatic" is the only really reactionary one, isn't it? "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), and "girls" and "bathroom sink" support that.
title track of the angaleena presley album is pretty uncomfortably reactionary butttt it's also an incredible song informed by her dad's experiences so....
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 09:25 (nine years ago) link
― horseshoe, Tuesday, November 4, 2014 8:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that line always makes me think of Blake Shelton leaving his first wife for her
― some dude, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 10:42 (nine years ago) link
"old shit" is p reactionary, if more charming than "automatic," barring the "Red Man Tobacco" line.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 9 November 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link
"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.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 9 November 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Monday, 10 November 2014 10:00 (nine years ago) link
I PRAY AS I GET READYFOR GOD TO MAKE ME STEADYAND I THANK HIM FOR HIS PATIENCEAND I TAKE MY MEDICATION
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 16 November 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link
oh i looked upthread
― 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.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 17 November 2014 06:36 (nine years ago) link
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, October 3, 2014 1:36 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 17 November 2014 06:41 (nine years ago) link
the "Been Caught Stealin'" rip in "Little Red Wagon" gets me every time
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 17 November 2014 06:43 (nine years ago) link
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"
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 17 November 2014 06:49 (nine years ago) link
Hah, I picked up on the Blitzkrieg Bop lift in Little Red Wagon but not the Jane's Addiction one.
― Matt DC, Monday, 17 November 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
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)
― lex pretend, Monday, 17 November 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link
She's playing MSG this saturday and there's a promo code for four tickets in the upper tiers at $25 a ticketanybody want in?
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:53 (nine years ago) link
Is this gonna be her divorce album?
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Saturday, May 31, 2014 3:17 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― nomar, Monday, 20 July 2015 18:39 (eight years ago) link
All her albums have sounded like divorce albums.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 July 2015 18:54 (eight years ago) link
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 20 July 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link
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.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 26 August 2019 03:00 (four years ago) link
love this album
― dyl, Monday, 26 August 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
I love it, way more than Weight, which seemed more stapletonianly obvious in its depth and maturity.
― cpl593H, Monday, 26 August 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
alfred is too coldhearted to appreciate "holding on to you"
lol what
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 August 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
― cpl593H, Monday, August 26, 2019
Not with marvelous throwaways like "Pink Sunglasses." Stapleton believes in Artistic Statements.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 August 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link
as for this album, it was for a while my obvious favorite but it's fallen a bit
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 August 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link