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little higher and the music pulls back just enough to let these words sit there in their gloriousness and i still talk to you when i m screaming at the sky and when you can t sleep at night you hear my stolen lullabies mirrorball another antonoff casualty there s a lot of ethereal sounds with no real beat or melody it does play well into swift s light wispy voice but it lacks any forward momentum the lyrics are well crafted but no emotional impact is felt because the song stays at the same disengaged level throughout a theme that repeats itself quite regularly in most of the following tracks seven this has echoes of it s nice to have a friend from lover the strange kind of creepy song near the end of that album seven is not as successful though because once again there s almost no emotion to be drawn from the song in it s nice to have a friend there s a little bit of tongue in cheekness that feels like swift winking at the listener as though they are in on the joke this song just passes through without leaving any memorable piece for the listener to hold onto august yet again we get a dreary flat song that just exists as electronic sound with no inflection for impact if it seems like i m being repetitive in this point just listen to the album it s another fairly forgettable addition to the album with the one exception of the line august sipped away like a bottle of wine my complaints around the songs on this album will rarely be directed at the lyrics the album as a whole contains some of swift s most lyrically beautiful work this is me trying okay i m about to take back what i just said while most of the tracks on the album at least feature interesting and poignant lyrics this one does not there s nothing clever to find in it and it continues the tradition of the previous five tracks of running bland musically so this is perhaps the most forgettable song on the album illicit affairs i love the way swift pulls together words in this song but again it s lost in the mediocrity of the music she was really leaning into music that didn t push her voice beyond its lightness and for that the album suffers it hardly works if you have the emotion on just one side of the equation you need both the lyrics to hit and the music to move invisible string we get a little more musical complexity here though it still drags quite a bit i mentioned it s nice to have a friend earlier and this definitely has some of that almost ghostly whimsy coursing through it so despite it still running mostly flat there is a little spark here and there that elevates it beyond most of the other tracks mad woman i m curious why swift decided not to have melodies in the second half on the album again lyrically it s interesting telling the story of a scorned woman fighting back against those that called her crazy the issue is it just sits in its own downess never giving into the impulse to scream its anger through the music epiphany when i first heard this i was really moved by it but now i think that has more to do with the time it was released 2020 was a year of uncertainty and this track pulls from that fear and anxiety in a rather subtle but insightful way the song doesn t sustain itself past its moment but it hits better than most of the other tracks once again due to the lyrics betty finally a hook this leans much more into swift s country roots and showcases why that genre works it s a storytelling medium that relies on a call and response lyric to music structure so it ends up being something you might actually be able to dance to and sing along with swift makes it more interesting by telling it from the point of view of the boy who scorned the girl peace this is the rare case on the album where the drawn back music actually helps the emotional impact of the song the lyrics are a whispered confession of fears swift is telling her lover she can t provide the safety of a traditional relationship but promises to stick by their side if they come along with her letting her vocals drive the musical beats actually hits because you can hear the emotion in it clearly hoax the album ends on a rather lackluster note after fighting back to some semblance of rhythmically driven themes in the previous two tracks hoax is a fairly sleepy song and still has the main issue the rest of the album has of featuring forgettable music that drowns out the otherwise clever lyrics however the melancholy it sits in fits with the tone of the rest of the album and so seems a fitting end bonus track the lakes i want auroras and sad prose that about sums up this bonus song and folklore as an album it s swift sitting around in her melancholia talking about beautiful images without infusing the emotions she s written about into the actual music of the song much of this album feels like it could have been better delivered as a collection of poems better to read than listen to i m afraid this will become a theme in the review of her next two albums but we ll get to those soon enough album review eras tour folklore music swiftie taylor swift 1 comment 17 feb 2023 the luminaries by susan dennard book review posted in entertainment reading by hollywoodconsumer i read the luminaries by susan dennard and loved it check out the video below for my full thoughts book book review books luminaries reading review susan dennard leave a comment 11 feb 2023 panic at the disco a personal history and album ranking posted in entertainment music by hollywoodconsumer brendon urie recently announced that the musical project known as panic at the disco was coming to an end some outlets have been reporting it as a band breakup but that seems odd considering the band has been a solo project since the release of the fifth album in 2016 not sure how exactly urie is expected to have broken up with himself either way this feels very much like the end of an era as such i thought i would do a sort of retrospective complete with a ranking of the seven albums from worst to best though really there is no such thing as a bad panic album let s set the stage first with some background on my personal history with the group i was actually avidly anti panic when their first album came out i m definitely going to date myself here i was a senior in high school back in the days where you discovered a band either through the modern hits filled soundtrack of the latest teen flick or the local radio stations in my case it was what was then known as star 98 7 and kroq 106 7 the former played alternative songs while the latter played more rock heavy material spotify wasn t yet a thing and mp3 players were just getting to be trendy you might also have heard of a band through a friend sharing their latest musical discovery via burned cds i know i know way to really date myself then there was the way i learned about panic this was when a band became suddenly ubiquitous with their merch taking over the walls of hot topic by the way is hot topic still a thing and you couldn t escape their logos and faces all the kids in your class would be wearing their shirts and fake leather wristbands and talking about how amazingly intellectual this new band with the crazy name that had punctuation really was so when i first heard about panic i thought they were incredibly pretentious with their exclamation point and song titles that were full on sentences i hated them for the sheer attitude that exuded from their music i mean i wasn t wrong they were really pretentious but i eventually came to appreciate the often times brilliant creativity buried in what was passed off as mindless pop rock music i came to identify key moments from my personal life with their music as it became the soundtrack of so many of my memories i have had the joy of being a fan of their music for fifteen years i officially converted with the release of the second album and have had the privilege of seeing them perform live over a dozen times with that little history out of the way let s take a look at the albums of this band i have loved for the past almost two decades coming in at number seven is pray for the wicked 2018 the sixth studio album and second to come from the band in its solo enterprise days let me repeat there is no such thing as a bad panic album in my mind there are things about pray for the wicked that i absolutely adore and in fact it features my all time favorite panic song perhaps the reason i feel less enamored of this record is because it is the only one that feels like it was made for the spotify age it is a collection of singles rather than a cohesive album i am a firm believer that music tells the best stories when crafted to take the listener on a journey through complex musical experiences expressed through a strategic series of songs pray for the wicked lacks a strong through line in terms of musical themes and tone which is why its place is at the bottom of the list best song when i first heard dying in la i ended up sobbing by the end of it it came to me when i was considering moving from the los angeles area after living there my entire life i love la but there are many things about it that i find soul crushing and i really struggled with my decision the song perfectly captures the conflicting emotions of optimism and despondency that la seems to evoke in so many people it is beautiful and sad yet strangely hopeful it felt like urie was singing about my own experiences and i was overwhelmed i m sure it didn t affect many others the way it did me but dying in la still feels like the most emotionally mature panic song and it is a rare gem in an otherwise dare i say mediocre album at number six we have the fourth studio album too weird to live too rare to die 2013 complete with its own exclamation point from this point forward i feel that each album has its own musical identity fusing it together with that telltale panic vibe running along the foundation too weird definitely leans more into the electronic side of the panic sound sometimes a little too heavily for my taste but the collection of songs sound like they belong together and feel like they have a story to tell this is gospel is a strong opener and a perfect beginning link for the future albums that use its theme in their singles with lines like this is gospel for the fallen ones locked away in permanent slumber assembling their philosophies from pieces of broken memories it is one of the stronger songs lyrically on the album then there is miss jackson which just has such a killer hook and pulsing guitar rift that you can t help but want to jump up and dance i had the chance to hear vegas lights live on the strip while the casino lights were flashing and there isn t really another experience like it the energy that song brings is insane the rest of the songs run a little calm but still feel like they hold their own with the hits best song girls girls boys has become an anthem of sorts and a tradition was born for the live shows that plays on the old concert ritual of holding a lighter up during particularly emotional songs multi colored paper hearts are passed out by a fan group before the show so that during the performance the audience can hold up their own rainbow backlit with their phone flashlights the song itself starts off almost at a whisper before building to the chorus where urie finally belts out the title lyrics as though he s no longer able to contain the secret affairs of the girl who is the subject of the piece it also doesn t hurt that the music video for the song features a shirtless urie singing seductively to the camera at number five is vices virtues 2011 the third album and first to come out after the departure of founding members ryan ross and john walker this might lean a little too steampunk for some listeners but the sound of the album is one of the strongest and it begins the evolution of the band from youthful snarkiness to mature musical themes once again the album kicks off with a strong opener the ballad of mona lisa showcasing urie s signature voice right off to assure fans that despite the loss of two band members it is still the same panic well perhaps a slightly more polished panic other strong entries include let s kill tonight hurricane and trade mistakes though really each track is a contender for best on the album they all feel like their own individual piece of a bigger puzzle that fits together to form the very solid vices virtues best song ready to go get me out of my mind combines the best of the two essential elements that form a panic song the upbeat musical beats and snappy lyrics the call and response in the chorus adds to the driving bass and pulsating guitar making it near impossible to not jump up and down while shout singing the line i m ready to go get me out of my mind get me out of my mind i m ready to go oh oh oh oh oh oh number four on the list is pretty odd 2008 the second studio album this time around the pretentiousness goes up a level because while the title of the album features double punctuation the official band name has dropped its punctuation the exclamation point does return and stays with the release of the third album the confusing sentence structure of the title and name aside this album is brilliant both in terms of its music and what it proved for the band s staying power this of course is ironic considering it eventually led to the first breakup of the group and i am writing about it in a post celebrating the legacy of a soon to be disbanded entity what it proved right off was that a band could reinvent themselves musically and still be considered a success tonally this album is miles away from the first clearly influenced by the beatles and the sound of 60 s and 70 s psychedelic rock despite mixing musical genres in the span of a couple songs the album feels cohesive in its incohesiveness standout tracks include the initial single nine in the afternoon northern downpour pas de cheval and my personal favorite from the album folkin around best song one of the most beautifully written songs by the band when the day met the night tells the sweet story of the moon and sun falling in love with each other in the middle of summer at nearly five minutes in length it is the longest of any panic song and features full orchestration the original panic album a fever you can t sweat out 2005 comes in at number three i ll admit i struggled with where to place this album on the list as i mentioned before when it first came out i resisted it but like the catchy thing it is it eventually worked its way into my heart i still think some of it crosses the line between clever and irritating the introduction and intermission tracks fall into the first category providing an easing into and midpoint break of the chaotic trip the listener embarks on the long titles of tracks two three seven and twelve fall into that second category at the end of the day this is the album that started it all and eighteen years later it is still easy...