"Lazy lyrics" on Chromatica

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4 hours ago, Vergil said:

Even though they count it as a second verse, it doesn’t sound like one at all. It’s a bridge for 99,9% of the world.

They Shallowed the song. It gors verse chorus bridge chorus. Imagine there was another verse at one point but they wanted the song to be shorter.

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4 hours ago, Vergil said:

I mean the whole album is lazy af

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I enjoy them as they are because whatever they decided that might seem lazy, it’s probably because it felt natural to them or suitable for what they wanted to do, even though that’s subjective to whoever listens if that’s what they felt comfortable with, whatever 

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3 hours ago, Bottom said:

The whole chorus of 911 is boring and lazy as hell, if she wanted to explore the whole i am my worst enemy theme it could have been written a lot smarter

It's because it's a mantra, it's what she's repeating to herself over and over again 

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3 hours ago, Bottom said:

The whole chorus of 911 is boring and lazy as hell, if she wanted to explore the whole i am my worst enemy theme it could have been written a lot smarter

 

30 minutes ago, ChromaticRaccoon said:

It's because it's a mantra, it's what she's repeating to herself over and over again 

I think she is trying to convey both what she sees as the mindlessness of the manner in which she pops pills and also her disappointment with that mindlessness.

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1 hour ago, HeavyMetalLover said:

There's a difference between personal preference and objective analysis. I like that song, but I don't think those lyrics are objectively very good.

Well, that's one interpretation. I find Chromatica to be her most effective album since TFM. I think it cuts deep and tells and full story. A lot of this has to do with the audience, though. Maybe it's an album that will grow on you, or maybe not. I do think you're not giving it nearly enough credit, though, and are looking at it on a very surface-level way.

Not really. There’s no such thing as objective analysis when it comes to art. The best we can do is try to rationalize and explain why we feel what we feel, which is what I tried to do with my post.

The album has grown on me. I really didn’t like it at first, now I do. Still, there are so many things about it I think are vastly inferior to her previous work, the lyrics being one of them.

I think the lyrics do their job, but they rarely go beyond just getting across the general idea of the emotions she’s trying to convey.

I think her previous albums have much more original, thought provoking and emotionally complex lyrics.

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I've been hurting, stuck inside a cage
So hot my heart's been in a rage
If you love me, then just set me free
And if you don't, then baby leave
Set me free (again)

 

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Stupid Love...just the whole thing...

Alice lyric wise is very simple as well but its still a bop 

Free Woman cut so much of the great demo out and the lyrics are all over the place and don't make much sense even on paper 

Sour Candy is cringe af and doesn't make ANY sense in the theme of the album...

The more lyrically clever songs are on the last half of the album...

 

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4 hours ago, Bottom said:

The whole chorus of 911 is boring and lazy as hell, if she wanted to explore the whole i am my worst enemy theme it could have been written a lot smarter

The point of the song is to sound robotic and repetitive tho 

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4 hours ago, Bottom said:

The whole chorus of 911 is boring and lazy as hell, if she wanted to explore the whole i am my worst enemy theme it could have been written a lot smarter

The repeating of "My biggest enemy is me" hits a lot deeper and harder than any 'smarter lyrics' could. It's repeating to herself something that's hard to accept but true

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5 hours ago, 21st Century Karen said:

There are two verses in Alice, actually.

Sick and tired of waking up
Screaming at the top of my lungs
Think I might've just left myself behind
Maestro, play me your symphony
I will listen to anything
Take me on a trip, DJ, free my mind

that’s the bridge ?

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Just now, Thonin Dyn said:

that’s the bridge ?

No, this is a second verse. 

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2 hours ago, HeavyMetalLover said:

The fact that you think G.U.Y. has good lyrics just because she uses some jargon says it all. Those lyrics are objectively some of her most cringe-worthy and...not great.

Chromatica's lyrics, while "generic," and "cliché," in your perspective, are actually timeless and classic. They work. She's not trying to reinvent the wheel here.

I think it comes down to maturity and...dare I say, taste?

The point of GUY and much of ARTPOP is to be campy and silly though ... like Venus, Donatella etc all have cringeworthy but it makes sense contextually. Same with GUY, it’s not like Katy Perry’s lyrics where she tries to seem serious but it ends up being cringe, it’s supposed to be cringe. 

 

For Chromatica, she could have definitely stepped out of her comfort zone and brought the camp or metaphors or better lyrics. Maybe GUY was a bad example but what about Marry The Night? Or Bloody Mary, Judas, and many songs on Born This Way that create thematic parallels between Christianity and the actual meaning of the song? I will say that SFA and Babylon are great songs lyrically, and Alice too, but some of the lyrics are borderline lazy.
 

Also, since you clearly have more mature taste, may I ask you to provide examples of the “timeless” lyrics on Chromatica that we will be praising in 5 years?  

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Repetitiveness is common way in music and poetry to convey emotions, and in pop music makes a song catchier and more memorable for the general public. It's not lazy, it's actually well thought out.

Plus, two of the three songs mentioned only repite a line only once. Let's not be too hard on her over nothing.

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