Pitchfork: The Age of Pleasure

[Butters Stotch 5,364]

On 6/9/2023 at 5:01 AM, Bronco said:

It's really interesting how as her music has got more explicitly political, black & queer as opposed to talking about it through more opaque coded themes that her scores with the critics have gone down...

I was thinking about this yesterday. She used to be very restricted on her lyrics, like not trying to make everything so clear, and now she's so direct. I love that because I think it shows how comfortable she feels with herself and how much she has accepted her identity.

I really liked this album, I don't understand why it has been received so negatively by people and critics. But whatever, Janelle is genuine and true to herself and that's all that matters.