St. Vincent - Daddy's Home (May 14, 2021) Album • Page 12

that rules, fuck her reviews. treat journalists like she has done and don't be surprised if there's pushback

 

Album fucks. That's it.

 

yeah I think I enjoy this a good amount

 

It's sultry and sexy in a direction that Annie hasn't gone for in a bit. I know it's not Strange Mercy or Actor, which is what people are going to want over and over again, but I feel this has a stronger callback to those albums than S/T and Masseduction ever had.

I'm fucking here for this era.

 

I love the Sheena Easton melody reference on My Baby Wants A Baby

 

I'm getting all the same feelings I had when I first put on Marry Me, Actor, and Strange Mercy. This is the Annie that I fucking adore.

 

Final impressions: three songs i liked pretty well (Laughing Man, Somebody Like Me, and At the Office Party) and the rest i didn’t really dig. But glad for the folks who do enjoy it.

 

thought this was fine. probably my least favorite of hers in a while. don't hate it tho.

 

This has an 87 on Metacritic with a 9.4 user score but coming in here you’d think this thing was trash. Very curious to see where I land, about to toss it on.

 

To me, this sounds the same as Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins. Has a lot of the same feel across a lot of it.

 

Interesting, I didn't quite pick up on that but I love Jenny's music so I'll maybe go into my next listen with more of that mindset

 

I'm really enjoying this! Down is probably my favorite at this point. I think 43 minutes is perfect too, it's just short enough that I've been wanting to listen again as soon as I'm finished.

 

Yeah this is very good

 

I’ve been saying

the narrative and weird press is gonna over shadow a pretty good record

 

I’m really enjoying this so far.

 

Album is kind of disappointing for me. Not much really grabs me on this.

 

it's not really a narrative or press... it's straight from annie herself. I'm sure the music is good - almost all of her stuff is - but the weird taste in the mouths of people this cycle is really her fault alone

 

Well yes and no - Annie’s narrative is her father going to jail for a white collar crime and how it affected her and her family and some press turned into trying to get her to say something about prison reform and abolition and whatnot

it’s been messy on both sides tho for sure

 

i don't think that's what they're doing. they're asking very basic questions that she should have anticipated based on the narrative she crafted and she's been cagey and weird about it, like shocked anyone would dare ask about the ... entirety of the themes of the album?

 

I guess I’m just thinking about the interview that she “killed” and just how that - at least for 24 hours - overshadowed anything else

I haven’t read any other press wrt album haha

 

It's not just that, it's also all these weirdo blue tick twitters and/or journalists who suddenly were all trying to get their hit tweets by posting all kinds of "see? she's always been lame" stuff, whether it was that one tweet about The Polyphonic Spree, another about a past interview that supposedly painted her as pretentious, or others. How any of that was relevant to the actual issue regarding Annie and that particular article/writer... I'm still waiting for the answer. Twitter is weird.

Oh and I've also seen quite a few people taking advantage of that scandal to bring that "St. Vincent ruined Sleater-Kinney narrative back" as well, which... do they even think before posting something? It's embarassing.

 

I mean, I really don't care about the press or whatever, the album is just kinda a bore. It's that simple, nothing to read into.

 

Anyway

 

I don't know if it's supposed to be in response to my post but this seems defensive for no reason. To clarify, I don't care whether people love it or not, I'm just acknowleding that the controversy prematurely colored some people's views of it.

 

I've heard a couple of the singles but they didn't do much for me. I'd be surprised if I even listened to this tbh. wish I could put my finger on why I lost interest in St. Vincent in the first place but reading about this new album doesn't exactly inspire confidence that this will bring me back around