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Lonely is the Muse is still one of the best songs of the year.
Halsey - The Great Impersonator
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Just listened to this and it was... a full on listen, a heartbreaking album and I think it's my new go-to record for when I'm feeling a certain way. I really like it, Lucky is my favourite song from it though don't judge me.
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Holy shit. I really liked the other bonus tracks, but this is the only one I would have wanted on the main album.
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I have only heard Lucky and now listening to Darwinism - oh this album is gonna eat this winter.
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Pitchfork is a nothing more than tumbledown jalopy of masturbatory attention-seeking, and I say that from personal experience; game recognises game.
Anyway, Hurt Feelings... does a better a song exist? Probably yes, but not presently. Not for me, at least, the Sole Observer. It, Only Living Girl in LA and the Great Impersonator comprise an immaculate and untouchable triptych.
Is everything... going okay? Well, I don't really see how that's any of your business.
Anyway, Hurt Feelings... does a better a song exist? Probably yes, but not presently. Not for me, at least, the Sole Observer. It, Only Living Girl in LA and the Great Impersonator comprise an immaculate and untouchable triptych.
Is everything... going okay? Well, I don't really see how that's any of your business.
The way this was the best advertisement for listening to the alberm for me.
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I've been obsessed with Hometown since yesterday. Love the contrast between the breezy guitar-driven production and the morbid lyricism about a high school football prodigy who dies at 17 with a needle in his arm. Like it's dark but not suffocatingly so. If it wasn't for the lyrics I'd say it would be a great radio single actually dd.
Biggest injustice and should have been Top 10 since it's release.
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By the way, during the Stationhead streaming party yesterday, Halsey did say they want to do a full on rock album in the vein of "Lonely Is the Muse". But she needed to get this one out of their system first.
I do still find value in Pitchfork but that was absolutely savage. Why did they (and half of twitter) take her Instagram posts so seriously? The songs on this album obviously aren’t actually meant to sound like the artists she said they’re loosely channelling. Losers on social media getting weird about it is one thing but that reviewer focussing only on that screams “how dare she?”.
Honestly large swathes of the negative reaction to this feels adjacent to what Ethel was speaking on recently. It's like people refuse to give some art/artists any good faith at all? It's immediately a joke/dismissed flippantly. Pitchfork questioning an artist's eligibility to channel on their suffering into art in the same timeline where said artist had a baby while discovering they had leukemia and lupus feels like a particular nadir to the relationship between art and criticism.
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Back up to 81 kii. Pitchfork remains the lone mixed/negative review
https://www.metacritic.com/music/the-great-impersonator/halsey
Yeah, it’s something I felt for a minute (going back to Hold The Girl, two years ago), but it’s only gotten worse lately and it’s extremely disheartening. The way people were treating this album with complete mockery when the streaming numbers came in was especially cruel, but naturally they flipped again when it proved to be more of a physical seller and that Halsey wasn’t the joke she was being made out to be. She still has an audience.
And as far as the criticism goes, I don’t care if someone doesn’t like something. But I hope they put in the time to listen and engage with it first and are able to at least try to articulate why it didn’t connect with them. The Pitchfork review did none of that, and it just went right in spewing bad faith takes. Thankfully it seems this album is overall being received really well.
Pitchfork came for her unfairly. I'm normally here for dissecting an album, but that type of low score belongs to an album that feels vacant of memorability or effort, not an album where she very thoroughly poured her heart out. Especially lyrically. It's all of course subjective, but they're genuinely erasing aspects of the album with this one.