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COLOR. ENERGY. YELPING. SHRIEKING. NEW WAVE.
Yeah man I don’t hate it, some songs on here are too catchy to deny. “Antmusic” is super fun with its to the point message of trying something fucking new for once. Then “Jolly Roger” also had me swinging my arms while I walked, while yapping threats about taking your money. Maybe it’s an anticapitalist sentiment and you know I can always get behind those.

I think it’s worthy of being on the list: not a very popular album, it holds its weight with some catchy hooks and very colorful moments, it keeps you guessing about its next move, and it might inspire you to abandon that shit that has lost its taste…so try another flavor.

okay trip hop from the dude from massive attack. I've never really endulged a trip hop album front to back so this is my first time

ehhhh it's super UK. I can hear it. The trip hop influences that spawned out of that island are always talked about, and it's evident that this is their shit. Like a punk rebellion flinging it's fists around, trip hop is an answer to electronic pop, new wave pop, UK pop, and it's very subdued and colorful in it's colorlessness. It's very intoxicating, with vocals here and vocals there, sonic loops and snares everywhere. Simple bass grooves and simple synth manipulations. I think this is a great starting point for me, but I'm looking forward to what the best of trip hop has to offer. For now, I'll give this a respectable 3/5. It's great for locking in, but it doesn't make me want to go running back to it. RESPECT.

ABSOLUTELY COLORLESS.

British pop vocalist music really hit a high with television didn't it? It was TV programs that birthed these british pop stars that are still making money today. Adele definitely has the voice to back it. For that reason I respect her work. I never loved the singles on this album, and I was busy listening to music that animated and inspired me more than stuff like this: Pop singer songwriter stuff with majority Slow tempo, minimalist instrumentation that opens the center for the vocals to do what they want.

Back to those instrumentations - 2015 onward prior to covid was fiiiiilled with shitty pop minimalism, or is it just me? Some 808 hits, guitar plucks, and not much else? Claps and fucking trap beats lmao. Send My Love commits this trap beat crime very blatantly...and I hate it. It was like watching real life cultural appropriation in full force LMAO.

There are some moments where Adele is not really making the best artistic choices. On "I Miss You" there are some really rough shrieky and frantic background vocals that I think the producers should've left on the cutting room floor.

Also, the human body can only take so much piano...piano fucking ballad after piano fucking ballad and then a little trap type shit.

A special "fuck you" type shout out to "River Lea". Wow, I hate that song. That fucking chorus sucks donkey cock. It sounds like she's saying Rirer Leaaa Rirer Leaaa Rirer Leaaaaa. Fuck.

Man I'm torn because this is not hot dog shit, this doesn't deserve a 1, this is somewhere around a 3/10 and I will be rounding to a 2/5. I don't think you have to go running to hear the shittiest instrumentation pop had to offer in the 2010s. The most colorless shit I've ever heard.

Am I being too harsh on this? I just didn't really like it. There's a lot of talk behind it that this album is very political, that it was groundbreaking...but it really lyrically pales today. Today's political isn't the 80's version of "political". Today it means much more, and maybe through rose tinted glasses you can point and this and say, "you're wrong dude! look at these specific lyrics"...nothing made me turn my head, nothing made me double check the lyric I just heard. A lot of the 2nd disc is about love and relationships. Idk man...it's not enough. I have to be consistent and I don't think this one was enough.

Instrumentally, I also found myself bored at times. I thought Prince was through and through a dense creative, but honestly, this is what probably happens when you pump a fucking 1 hour album out every year. 40 or so albums under his belt right? Cmon man...quality over quantity always.

Anywho, some of the singing on this is not it either. It's somewhere between the 4-6 range, but for now, I have to be consistent. I did not enjoy this joint.

Great start, the first four songs are great, and then it kind of just devolves into a mess of electronic passages with very melancholic and nostalgia bait melodies behind some whiny 2000s white lead singer vocals. It's okay. I don't hate it but I don't want to hear it again. I think the Do You Realize song was like made popular by Guardians of the Galaxy or something? I don't like that song either. This is fine and I don't think it should be on the list but it's not absolute basura.