The Chain Smokers - I want something called Setting Fires to be something different than this is. It is very protectionist about something, but I am still mad and depressed about things and stuff. I want a
Bombtrack instead.
Sirenia - I preferred this way better when it was Death Stars - All the Devil's Toys, because it was essentially the same riffs with a bigger range (vocal harmonies in the same range as the instruments is kind of boring?). It is fine, just a bit underwhelming.
L2M - I started listening to this and was going to make a joke about Ke$ha or Taylor Swift doing a Kids Bop album. It is actually just like literally that though so I won't criticise the fact that it is pretty soft on the songwriting. It um is ? A thing that exists that I am literally not and never have been the target market for? I dunno.
Diablus in Musica - I was pretty into this the first time I listened to it because at this point I had started watching the clips a bit (because well after the last one I kind of had to). I dig the film clip. I think it is ridiculous (they are playing like... in a movie theater? Or a super tiny venue stage). I could easilly be convinced that the light setup is literally exactly what they use at a concert, but I dig it. I really enjoy the highly edited quick cuts and jerky motion of the break downof the titular invisible dude. There isn't much to it, but it does a lot with the not much that it is.
Melanie Martinez - But then this came on and I worked out pretty quick it probably had to be my pick. I think I liked the last time she was on but struggled to grasp it? It seems like she might play to type really hard, but this one works as a video and song. It hits a lot of the right points between weird, creepy and fucked. Delivery is a bit like some other stuff? I can't place it. Lana Del Rey? Her singing is more breath heavy than hers. The heavy breath reminded me of that Korean song where there was a camping table on a raft or something that I thought was rad, but the start of the chorus at 54 seconds where she says "Pacify her. She's getting on my nerves" is delivered nearly pitch perfect for it. I would guess its another one of her tracks but I am sure it is something else I know from like the late 90s that just doesn't come to mind.
Anyway I love how desperate and frantic it is at times. It is so evocative. Broken songs about broken people etcetcetc. I also enjoy the story and theme of the film clip. Desperate pleas for love and affection from the boy/man someone else is with. You don't love her, stop lying with those words. Then ultimately he is distracted by the other woman's open offer of her body. Broken film clips for broken people.
Also I guess with the release of Suicide Squad and the positive response to Margot Robbie's portrayal of Harley Quinn gives us a bit of a revival of the Suicide Girl trend? I guess I am not one to complain.
Melinda Kathleen Reese - Well I don't like Disney stuff generally, so yeah a parody might speak to me in theory, but when you just do it delivered of Disney songwriting its meh. Also a concept that I think has way less legs to it than the clip does. I like it better in the much shorter
Angus and Julia Stone - Hollywood.
They all would have been killed
In the sound of music,
They would have found out that
Pinocchio could never tell the truth.
She wouldn't made it to shore,
The little mermaid. He would have married a whore
From a wealthy family, after all he was royalty.
Cinderella would have scrubbed those floors
Till her hands grew old and tired,
And nobody would look her way,
That's the way it goes today.
More direct and punchier and less just doom and glooming and more just "normal people and relationships are good". You know, normal songs for normal people. That's what I say I always like right?
Melanie Martinez is the pick out of the 4 I am honestly comfortable really voting on (Melanie Martinez > Diabulus Musica > CHain Smokers > Sirenia), but I kind of abstain from L2M and Melinda Kathleen Reese in that if you have anything on them you want to say I think you should pick them to say it.
