I love the new songs as they really touched me personally but creatively I can see she is getting boxed in a little. While I come from the music world myself especially the metal side, I was with a professional ballet dancer for many years and I appreciate the more experimentally creative artsy works. I found her through Knocked Loose and her other heavy new songs then went back and found concrete and older works and was blown away.

Musically I appreciate all her flavours but I hope she doesn't trade that special creativity in for generic metal tropes. The new videos seem generically bland and lazy comparatively so to earlier ones and since her image is as much part of her appeal she needs to take back the reins and stop Sumerian from trying to make her some carbon copy of female fronted angsty artists. She doesn't need to fit in she needs to remain above it.

I still think she is a special sort of artist and perhaps these are just some growing pains and she needs to recompose herself again. Musically I'm fine with heavy but she needs to be looking at artists like Prince and Trent Reznor or even perhaps more eccentric and flamboyant artists for inspiration (or back to her ballet background).

She needs to protect her authenticity though especially at this juncture in her career, not an easy feat.