Betty Who "Somebody Loves You"

maybe won't have the same command over my emotional and listening life but this sure feels like the 1975 record of 2014

she has mentioned she's a fan of the 1975 before fyi.

is this available to hear for plebs?

Comes out tuesday, but the pre-ordered cds were mailed a couple days ago.

I imagine it will be on the internet within half an hour if it's not already.

Rats. It didn't get delivered today.:'(

oh good, my promo stream was exclusive for only about 12 hours, it's out there now

So I've played the album through about three times now...

1. I wish some of these songs weren't so melodically boring. I mean, they're okay, but it's just kind of stock pop circa 2014 in places.

2. Glory Days needs to be killed with fire.

3. I'm going to work on resequencing it to see if I can make it work better for me.

4. The first step in point 3 is removing Glory Days and adding Lovin' Start (which is inexcusably absent).

In case I didn't stress it enough, Glory Days is ass.

Didn't really expect the pop singer with the personality of a Swiffer mop to put out anything other than stock pop

Well that's just wrong.

i like "glory days"

the one i hate is "better"

i think it's less melodically boring than aesthetically narrow. and badly sequenced but i'm not sure there's a good way to sequence this set of songs

totally 100 percent love "missing you," "california rain"

Better, Glory Days and All of Me are the ones I'd ditch. Then I'd throw on Lovin' Start. From there, I'd probably front-load the sequence with older familiar songs and make the second act all new material for me to get to know over an extended period of time.

(I realize I've gone on record as hating it when Perpetua tries to do this with albums in the process of reviewing them, but I had a lot—probably too much—invested in this being better than it currently is.)

I wondered at Brad's 1975 ref until I heard "Glory Days".

100% agree with Brad. Better is pretty bad, the pitch shifting sounds amateurish. Glory Days is so luxuriously laden with 80s clichés that I can't really hate it. & I love "All Of You" - it reminds me of crappy australian pop acts like tim & jean that i was into as an undergraduate.

However the slower songs are the real revelation. "Missing You" is a fkn knockout.

This album is a joy.

if she's given the chance to do another album, i hope it all sounds like "california rain".

New album on the way.

New song today, but actually an old Donna Lewis song from 1996 (actually, I have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact this song is 20 years old).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9E8nBJWfSY

omg

jeez she should tour with the 1975 already

imo this is a great cover, gentle in ways her debut failed to me

Talking about knowing what cover to pick. It's like this song was written for her.

Apart from Somebody Loves You, which will probably always always be the best BW song, my other favorite is Lovin' Start which was left off the standard version of the album (and added on to the deluxe version). Gentle and dreamy in all the best ways.

Hey thats good.

I like Missing You off the the debut

i kinda forgot this album existed until recently when i heard "Heartbreak Dream" in the closing credits of Pitch Perfect 2, that's a really good song.

oh yeah that ones great

This cover is fine, but I never thought the original was all that. Like, every song on Take Me When You Go (as perfect a pop album as any that has been released this decade) is better than it.

I've always liked the original, but the production on the BW version is fuller and sweepier in just the right amount.

This is coming Friday. It's probably a single and not an album, but who knows...Also, DAYUM.

http://i.imgur.com/rzkhRsH.jpg

new single sounds like chainsmokers

GODDAMMIT THIS IS JUNK

ugh

honestly i got a little worried by that promo image

Acoustic version is nice. Promo image was alarming.

her second single (on spotify) is also bad, worse than "human touch" i would venture. oh well we'll always have "somebody loves you" i guess

might be ok but there's what feels like an interpolation of the chorus melody from fergie's "london bridge" that keeps popping up and ruining everything

she's been charli xcx'd :(

My life would probably be better if I don't listen, but I'm going to anyway...

Okay, so, at its core, I don't find this as offensively bad as Human Touch was, but my god there are so many things going on over the top of it that it's just a car crash. Also, when it comes to melody writing, she's got a very tiny bag of tricks. This doesn't just sound like other people's songs. It sounds like other (better) Betty Who songs.

She really had something going for a while.... but so much for that

Finally, one of these new songs isn't trash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7mIK4fqZf0

What song are those "Whoaaahs" reminding me of?

Figured it out. It was Treasure by Bruno Mars.

Oh, good call.

album is not as horrible as singles implied

Has the label contacted you about making that a sticker quote yet?

lol

It's not, but it's in the same zip code.

Pretty bad.

warren g feature is so random, it kinda works i think. album is alright!

Loved Human Touch, surprised by frosty reception above

Based on the timestamp of my most recent post in this thread, I haven't listened to this shitpile since March 30th.

lol. maybe try again?

I hit play on the You Can Cry Tomorrow video upthread because I mentioned it wasn't bad.

Objectively, it may not be, but I think I'm only madder now at how she's squandered the best qualities from her initial blast of songs.

(fwiw my praise for her first LP was rather muted as well, even though I started the thread)

The EP she put out recently (she's back to being independent) has a few gems: "Ignore Me" and "Just Thought You Should Know" particularly.

new album is pretty good! kind of patchy in the middle but "just thought you should know" is the best song she's ever done imo

Solid album, nothing to dislike, but equally I can't get that excited about much of it. I picked out "Old Me" and "All This Woman" in addition to "Just Thought…".

I saw her a week ago playing a private event at a hotel in Boston with less than fifty people. I thought she was great, but I was pretty drunk. Closed with Somebody Loves You.