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Old 02-14-2018, 11:32 AM   #1881 (permalink)
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Album title: You Should Be Happy
Artist: The Goo Goo Dolls
Genre: Rock
Nationality: American
Release date: May 12
Position in Discography: Forty-second EP; fifty-third overall
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Familiar with this artist? Heard one song
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? Yes
Average RYM Score: 3.39
Good start to this short EP with a powerful emotional rocker (also the title track) followed by an anthemic half-ballad, and basically every track here (five only) is gold. Need to hear more of these guys.

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Old 02-14-2018, 01:15 PM   #1882 (permalink)
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Album title: Harry Styles
Artist: Harry Styles
Genre: BritPop/Soft Rock/Rock
Nationality: English
Release date: May 12
Position in Discography: Debut solo
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Familiar with this artist? Of course I've heard of him
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? Yes
Average RYM Score: 2.94
Sigh. What a day. Some mostly below-average albums, a Swedish boyband and now a solo album from my least favourite boyband of all time. Sigh, I say. Well at least it doesn't sound like a pop album, with some acoustic guitar and then a nice piano ballad kicking it off, folky feel to “Sweet Creature” and an attempt at hard rock in “Only Angel”. Not sure what market our Harry is shooting for here: I imagine One Direction fans will hate this, as it's a far more “mature” record than they'd expect, and genuine rock fans are likely to sneer at it as the boyband member tries to play “real” music and, it must be said, fails on pretty much every front. I guess his name sold the album by itself, but I find myself wondering how many of his devoted fans bought it and were disappointed with it? Pretty blatant attempt to cash in on the audience beyond the teenybopper set, but you don't fool me, Harry: you're still a ****.
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Old 02-14-2018, 01:22 PM   #1883 (permalink)
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Kinda phat tbh.
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Old 02-14-2018, 01:22 PM   #1884 (permalink)
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I imagine One Direction fans will hate this, as it's a far more “mature” record than they'd expect, and genuine rock fans are likely to sneer at it as the boyband member tries to play “real” music and, it must be said, fails on pretty much every front. I guess his name sold the album by itself, but I find myself wondering how many of his devoted fans bought it and were disappointed with it?
that's a pretty generous amount of logical music taste that you're applying to 1D fans. It's Harry Styles. They love it, doesn't matter how it sounds.
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Old 02-14-2018, 02:01 PM   #1885 (permalink)
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that's a pretty generous amount of logical music taste that you're applying to 1D fans. It's Harry Styles. They love it, doesn't matter how it sounds.
Good point. Actually, I addressed that in the next sentence, but yeah, you're probably right.
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Old 02-14-2018, 03:29 PM   #1886 (permalink)
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Album title: Alter Egos
Artist: Ingrid Michaelson
Genre: Pop (?)
Nationality: American
Release date: May 12
Position in Discography: Ninth EP; sixteenth overall
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Average RYM Score: 2.77
Another five-track EP, this time from American singer/songwriter Ingrid Michaelson. Starts off well, with a nice piano ballad and a yearning vocal*, very soulful. She seems to have a very impressive voice I must say; I could see her doing soul, folk or gospel, and at the moment I'd very much contest the genre tag here. Singer/songwriter (I know that's not a genre, but it's the most accurate description for this music I can come up with) or folk, maybe even a little on the soul side? Pop is way too generic though for this. Tinges of country in there too. Very very impressive.

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Old 02-14-2018, 04:24 PM   #1887 (permalink)
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Album title: Common Sense
Artist: J Hus
Genre: Afrobeat/Hip-hop/Dance hall/R&B
Nationality: American
Release date: May 12
Position in Discography: Debut
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Familiar with this artist? No
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Average RYM Score: 2.93
Impressive from the off; soul melodies with a decent rap behind them, a lot of different styles too. “Plottin” is a good if slightly ominous track, though the happy, upbeat rhythms on “Sweet Cheeks” counterpoint this, “Spirit” and “Mash Up” are two good tracks too. I can respect what he's doing here, and can see how it'll appeal to a lot of people, but I'm just a little bored now (track 14 of 17) and I don't think this is for me.

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Old 02-14-2018, 05:56 PM   #1888 (permalink)
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* **** off Batty.
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Old 02-14-2018, 08:04 PM   #1889 (permalink)
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What did I do?
Just in general.

Nah, I was waiting for you to start jeering at my use of the phrase "yearning vocal". There, you can do so now. I'm just telling you to **** off in advance. No offence.
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Nah, I was waiting for you to start jeering at my use of the phrase "yearning vocal". There, you can do so now. I'm just telling you to **** off in advance. No offence.
When I notice that my writing is bad, I either double down on it or try to make it better. Lashing out at people seems counterproductive.
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