Album Rating: 1.5
Tbf the visuals and editing were great. Felt both very diy and professional. If I had to rate the special itself I'd give it a 5/10, for sure. It wasn't all bad. Just the songs and the humor.
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Album Rating: 1.5
if he was poor he'd still be making lame music
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Album Rating: 1.0
Mwahahaha
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Album Rating: 1.0
I actually found this album perfect. Just being a troll with my score, but it’s actually amazing. Dark, gritty, and the bass lines flowing. Bo rides the top and is a master MC in the first and last tracks, making for a truly funky experience that will send your brain to Alpha Centauri.
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Album Rating: 1.5
Rez is a good game
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Album Rating: 4.0
Genuinely worried for the people that entered this special with the single metric of "is this funny".
Nice review.
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Album Rating: 1.5
is it really so wrong to expect comedy out of "comedy music"??
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Album Rating: 1.5
"you shouldn't expect drama out of a tragedy bro"
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
But obv this being so divisive and triggering is a good thing. I'm just glad I'm on the happy side.
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Album Rating: 4.0
key words were "single metric" btw
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"
Look at the RT ratings:
94% positive from critics
94% positive from audience
There may just be a hint here that low raters are acting on weird impulses."
how can u be on a music website for so long and still make arguments like this
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Album Rating: 1.5
"what do you guys think the purpose of the verse in White Woman’s Instagram about the girl talking to her mom is?"
The review actually addresses this pretty convincingly.
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Album Rating: 1.5
"Genuinely worried for the people that entered this special with the single metric of "is this funny"."
I find it pretty problematic that this doesn't entertain me from a comedy perspective, but I think Eg said it best when he called this genre pastiche. From a music perspective, I don't really want to listen to genre pastiche unless there's some other payoff. So for me, a fail on the music metric too.
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Album Rating: 1.5
It's a really good review, you probably won't be disappointed!
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I'm among the group of people going in expecting humor and was SORELY disappointed. Honestly didn't find this funny at all, but the more I recognize it for what it is I don't think really actually laughing was the goal at all. I was still a bit disappointed by that though.
"I keep getting White Woman’s Instagram stuck in my head" [2]
I think some of this is catchy, and I think lyrically it can be poignant and tongue in cheek, but not sure I'd call it any sort of masterpiece. it is very art-y though
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Also this:
"On the other hand, I think when Burnham tries to tackle our internet-driven dystopia in a more pointed way, it doesn’t work as well. “Welcome to the Internet” is well crafted, but is he really making a novel point in observing, in 2021, that having access to all the world’s information on demand and platforming all of our interpersonal interactions through social media perhaps hasn’t been that great for our collective psyche?"
This is what mostly rubbed me the wrong way throughout the special. In addition to not being particularly funny, the underlying points he was making aren't actually very profound at all. They are just silly/quarantine examples of looking at something now blatantly obvious to the masses in 2021.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
When I saw WWIG I just thought he was being cynical about it, like, yeah no one actually cares about your mother.
But some people like in the review says it's supposed to evoke my empathy and show that underneath labs in flower crowns this white woman has depth.
I think I preferred my initial interpretation.
Btw did yall haters like any of his previous specials?
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Album Rating: 4.0
I read it as pretty genuine. He brings it back around with the abrupt shift to "goat cheese salad", but I think the message is that something sincere can happen even in the context of a social media site like instagram. And then I think the "a ring on her finger from the person that she loves" is another glimpse of sincerity, albeit more condensed.
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The point of WWIG (to me at least) is that "performative" does not neccesarily mean "insincere", a notion that imo is pretty integral to Burnham's whole approach as a performer
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Album Rating: 2.5
I think all of his stuff is a mixed bag. I was thinking about adding an extra graf or two in this comparing the closers from previous specials ("We Think We Know You"- Good, "Can't Handle This"- Bad) to try and flesh out more how he sometimes does his *thing* very well vs when it comes off to me as overly indulgent but the review was already too long
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