Shatter Me

Very 2014, should've been left there..

Medicore electronics pop staring a violen. Feels very catered to acrobatic live performance, no thanks outside that context

I'm sure this has been tried before a lot of times (Vanessa Mae, Mylene Klass?), but it never ever works. It just feels like someone playing a classical instrument over the most tedious and uninteresting electronica of the time, and the two end up sucking the life out of one another. This could have worked as a 30-minute album, but at an hour-plus it's completely unendurable.

As others have noted, this is pretty soulless. There's also so little variety track to track.

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This was different, became a bit repetitive after a few songs though.

Wow geez I haven't thought about Lindsey Stirling in a very long time. One of the most delightful side-effects of the 2010s dubstep craze was that a type of music that was previously mostly associated with DJs on uppers suddenly gained traction with steamers, E-Sports producers and other associated computer nerd subcultures, creating a window for absolutely buckwild fusions like this to thrive & proliferate. It's hard to overstate how big this and her previous album were in certain circles (gamer girls) when they came out.

I don't stand by it enough to call what I'm feeling "nostalgia" exactly, but this really takes me back to an extremely specific part of my college years, which I gotta imagine is how people 10-15 years older than me feel about a lot of emo and pop-punk. The production on this one sounds super dated, but it honestly wouldn't surprise me if 8 years from now the wheel keeps turning and there's renewed interest in something like this