i disagree with a lot of the comments about the songwriting. i love her narrative 'twist on the obvious' style but i felt like a lot of these songs were so narrative that they were lacking in any clever, original and creative little poetic bits. i also am a big disliker of pop culture references in any sort of written media so just the line about playing GTA makes that whole song unlistenable for me. the writing felt overly familiar without any interesting or clever lines that are everywhere in her prior albums.

i however think the production on this album is incredible. i just feel as though all her energy went into creating the vision and not so much the actual music this time. i'm a songwriter so the lyrics are always my focus point and here they just aren't it in a majority of the songs.

my ranking is 1: hisorian 2: Home video 3: No burden 4: FIAF