I thought this stunk
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 11 June 2021 04:52 (two years ago) link
it's fine but it's no "green light"
― ufo, Friday, 11 June 2021 04:57 (two years ago) link
Oh forget it chorus just came on, it definitely sounds like freedom now.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, June 10, 2021 8:34 PM bookmarkflaglink
Yeah, I spent the first 2:00 thinking "yeah, I guess it's roughly the same tempo as "Freedom 90 but what are people talking about" and then the drums and bg vocal melody kicked in. Not that this fact makes me inclined to listen to it again.
I'll still fuck with Green Light tho
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 June 2021 05:00 (two years ago) link
Thought it sounded like “moving on up”. There is a weird structure to it - totally horizontal and never goes anywhere. It’s like an arty version of a late 90s CD single.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 11 June 2021 07:59 (two years ago) link
it has a pretty clear build to it? if anything i think it's too slow to get going
― ufo, Friday, 11 June 2021 08:44 (two years ago) link
I hope the new album has some Happy Mondays influences as well.
Also, in the cover art for the single, is she straight-up flashing vadge?
― peace, man, Friday, 11 June 2021 11:30 (two years ago) link
all of you except brad pls stop posting
― imago, Friday, 11 June 2021 12:11 (two years ago) link
She’s a modern girl in a deadstock bikini,
Did...did an Instagram ad write this?
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 11 June 2021 13:07 (two years ago) link
I would like this more had Olivia Rodrigo sung it
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Friday, 11 June 2021 14:00 (two years ago) link
Or Nina Sky
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Friday, 11 June 2021 14:01 (two years ago) link
NYT profile to promote Melodrama pointed out that she doesn't play an instrument as it is traditionally understood, which I thought was interesting…if there is anything that you can point to as her purely musical signature, it is surely that, initially via whatever Logic-type software she would have learned in 2011, 2012, she can do vocal arrangements without Jack antonoff or whoever… and that quality is very much evidenced here… also, there can be little doubt that BIllie E was hugely into her…
― veronica moser, Friday, 11 June 2021 14:38 (two years ago) link
The 10-year-old hated this (but her complaint was that it sounded like Olivia Rodrigo who she also hates)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 11 June 2021 14:41 (two years ago) link
Xpost: she doesn't play an instrument as it is traditionally understood, but she is very much the primary composer of her music…she's a good dancer…
― veronica moser, Friday, 11 June 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link
the eternal singer's lament, where people don't think of you as a musician because you make music entirely with your body
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Friday, 11 June 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
Do many pop singers play instruments? I wouldn’t have assumed so
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Friday, 11 June 2021 15:00 (two years ago) link
No but I think "singer/songwriter" is a different mental category for most listeners than "pop singer"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 11 June 2021 15:02 (two years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/WeD0JkeKgL— jetski🐬 (@jetski0) June 11, 2021
― Indexed, Friday, 11 June 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link
feels like the drummer was stuck in traffic until most of this is finished, and they should maybe re-record with them there from the start?
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Friday, 11 June 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
anyway this is far more Soak Up The Shine than Freedom 90... it may even be the same chord progression?
*Soak Up The Sun
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Friday, 11 June 2021 17:43 (two years ago) link
people keep naming all these songs w/ huge memorable hooks as comparison points, not really doing this song any favors
― J0rdan S., Friday, 11 June 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
Somehow reminds me of post-peak Beck.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 11 June 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
Lorde says the unconscious “blueprint” was a Primal Scream song (“Loaded”)—she even reached out for Gillespie’s “blessing” after recording it.
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Saturday, 12 June 2021 19:03 (two years ago) link
i heard "loaded" too, not "freedom" as much at first.
― treeship., Saturday, 12 June 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
i think the song is fine idk. the cover art is bad i think.
― treeship., Saturday, 12 June 2021 19:11 (two years ago) link
like too lowest common denominator, an obvious nod to "cheeky" tik tok videos which is a depressing reference point to me.
― treeship., Saturday, 12 June 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
butts are valid
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Saturday, 12 June 2021 19:18 (two years ago) link
fine i guess. it just seems like a very zeitgeisty body part.
― treeship., Saturday, 12 June 2021 19:21 (two years ago) link
you cracked the case
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Saturday, 12 June 2021 19:25 (two years ago) link
the press statement brad posted is really cringey too. i like the loaded/freedom rhythm though and the horn part that comes in near the end.
― treeship., Saturday, 12 June 2021 19:27 (two years ago) link
maybe i'm jealous that i'm not feral and free and vibrating at the highest level when summer comes around. all criticism is autobiography.
― treeship., Saturday, 12 June 2021 19:28 (two years ago) link
lmao x-post
― willem, Saturday, 12 June 2021 19:28 (two years ago) link
xp I do detect a taint of external factors in your reaction.
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Saturday, 12 June 2021 19:37 (two years ago) link
when i first saw the single art it was posted without any context and i assumed it was some rare brazilian 70s lp
― flopson, Saturday, 12 June 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
treeship if it makes you feel better, it's winter in New Zealand
― trap door to hell opens underneath (rob), Saturday, 12 June 2021 20:34 (two years ago) link
She’s allowed to be 24 ffs
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 12 June 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link
― flopson, Saturday, June 12, 2021
Me too! Especially since I've been jamming Jorge Ben lately.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 June 2021 21:42 (two years ago) link
this song sucks btw
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 June 2021 21:43 (two years ago) link
Still waiting for the hook.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 12 June 2021 21:46 (two years ago) link
saw it move
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 June 2021 21:53 (two years ago) link
not listened yet, gonna wait and see if I encounter it in the course of life, seeming doubtful?
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Saturday, 12 June 2021 21:54 (two years ago) link
the comparisons to "Freedom '90" are freaking me out, first because "Freedom '90" is one of the most buoyant songs ever written, secondly because it has a pulse.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 June 2021 21:55 (two years ago) link
xp At this point, I fear it will be difficult for you to listen without prejudice.
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Saturday, 12 June 2021 22:01 (two years ago) link
This song is neither particularly good nor memorable. I was trying to think how it compared to the new Billie Eilish, but that song was not very good or memorable, either, so I couldn't remember it.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 June 2021 22:09 (two years ago) link
The coda sounds really similar to "At the Holiday Party" from the last St. Vincent record.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Saturday, 12 June 2021 22:24 (two years ago) link
I feel like post-Fall Asleep Billie can get across a just-OK song on the strength of her performance alone, in a way that Lorde (despite being an artistic forerunner) can’t.
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Saturday, 12 June 2021 22:41 (two years ago) link
I agree w/ that
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Saturday, 12 June 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, June 12, 2021 4:55 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
it tries to do the thing that freedom does. it fails.
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Saturday, 12 June 2021 23:23 (two years ago) link
it starts a little sultry and downtempo and then the "freedom"/"loaded" section is meant to be like a moment of catharsis when it kicks in at the 2:00 mark. i don't think it's really supposed to be joyful all the way through like freedom '90.
honestly, all current music seems to have at least some trace of gloom.
― treeship., Sunday, 13 June 2021 00:13 (two years ago) link
― treeship., Saturday, June 12, 2021 8:13 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
same, or maybe it's me.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 13 June 2021 03:47 (two years ago) link