I was going to be more even-handed about this, but I’m having the worst week of my life, so I’m going to be as mean as the name promises.
The new Lorde album is bad. She’s become a parody of herself. I feel I have perhaps outgrown her. Or if not outgrown her, outpaced her. I was hoping for something enlightening or a mirror of my own experiences, or even just a hit song. If the album were to be messy, I want a good mess. I want it to feel messy on purpose because it couldn’t be anything else. This mess could have been cleaned up.
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