@Jonathan27 and I were just discussing this actually. These two songs in particular feel very much like her revisiting the May Jailer feeling with the added context of who she is as an artist almost 20 (god...) years later. It's interesting that for so long that album felt like an outlier next...
Yeah the general vibe that High Fashion is the weakest of the bunch is not the reality I’m living in!
High Fashion
Headphones On
Aquamarine
Diet Pepsi
But I could easily see Headphones taking the top spot once I’ve sat a bit longer with it. Obsessed.mp3 with the way each single has felt...
Not that video being how I find out it's basically a magazine. I assumed at that pricepoint we were getting like a hardcover coffee table book. Giselle sis...
She just can't miss! Headphones On has the clear Bedtime Stories era Madonna influence, but the ad lib and spoken word choices are pure 90s Janet to these ears. There's also something in that chorus that feels vaguely city pop/Y2K J-R&B adjacent? A serve. It may insist upon itself, but why would...