Mandy Moore - In Real Life (May 13, 2022) Album • Page 3

again, i specifically said dawes isn't cheesy to me. the music video basically being a slow-mo home video footage of them holding gus just seemed a little cheesy to me. the song it is for rocks and is good.

 

My post wasn’t directed at you, fyi!

 

I like genuinely wish for everyone in this thread to have a relationship that makes those lines not seem cheesy.

 

He was countering my claim that cheesy is the dumbest adjective for describing music by saying actually it was “vibey”. Nobody called this record that

 

gotcha. wasn't sure if someone I blocked said that and I missed it.

 

The last two songs on Passwords, “Never Gonna Say Goodbye” and “Time Flies Either Way,” are to me two of the most genuine and profoundly beautiful love songs I’ve ever heard. I’m sure there are things about both of them that someone else might deem “cheesy,” but they are such powerful expressions about how transformative a great love can be.

 

It's just, to me, there's a reason there's no adjectival version of "vibe." Everything has a vibe, you're just going to need more words to actually describe that vibe. It's like saying "my shirt is a color." Yeah, all shirts have a color, you've done nothing to describe your shirt.

To me, the biggest offenders of Taylor's over-sentimentality aren't even those songs, but "Feel Like a Kid" and occasionally his stage banter.

 

I gave this a full second listen walking my dog last night and I definitely didn’t appreciate the last song enough on the first go around. It’s great.

Also was pretty on the fence about “In Other Words” after first listen and that one is definitely a jam.

 

Yeah, I feel like he leans a little too heavily into the tongue-in-cheek side of his writing on that particular song, without balancing it out with a ton of depth or reflection. I don't dislike the song, but it's definitely one of their weaker tracks.

 

if any dawes song is cheesy, it’s all your favorite bands. and to the point i was making to chris yesterday, it’s an example of good cheese.

 

“Time Flies Either Way” is such a great progressive lyric. The slow build to the actual point is fantastic. He trades having a repeatable chorus for the quality of the lyric and I respect the hell out of that

 

I love this whole thing, but I’m really fixated on “In Other Words”. Mandy and Taylor’s version of late ‘00s emo is something I’d gladly take an album of

 

Absolutely. The payoff in that last chorus is immense.

 

My fav on the album

 

awww

 

This album's really damn good, some really fantastic tracks on here.

 

Her setlist for this tour has me pumped

 

Boston show was absolutely worth the wait

 

I may have been a grown man crying in public during "Gardenia"

 

Honestly it was deeply moving to watch her reclaim her old career and identity as a musician with a collaborator who believed in her and her husband at her side giving their all for her. I had a lot of feelings.

 

I love how "Every Light" feels like her answer to "Time Flies Either Way." Just a beautiful song.

 

Taylor tested positive

 

Nooooooooooooooooooo

(but I understand...)