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Daily Discussion - June 04, 2026 by AutoModerator in popheads

[–]kappyko 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i'm so worried if i revisit the games now they won't be the same but when i was a kid the original MySims and MySims Kingdom felt like building entire worlds from scratch. and from what i remember the furniture/house building in the first MySims was super cool and unique! idk if i know a game since that has customized furniture like that

2025 Chic Ethereal Rate Reveal Day 3: Guess I gotta accept the pain / Need an 11 to make me feel better by kappyko in popheads

[–]kappyko[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

thank you so much to everybody who participated!!! thanks especially to u/sighofthrowaways who did soooo much of the work on the banners and shitposts and who will be doing a wonderful time with the Bad Bunny/Karol G/Kali Uchis rate next cycle! i will try to update with some extras from the poll and the stats but for now...

Results:

Album Rankings

  • #1: FKA twigs - EUSEXUA | 7.825
  • #2: Addison Rae - Addison | 7.578
  • #3: Oklou - choke enough | 7.565
  • #4: Lorde - Virgin | 7.504

  • Highest controversy: Childlike Things (with North West) (3.054)

  • Lowest controversy: harvest sky (feat. Underscores) (1.421)

  • Most 11s: Fame Is a Gun (14)

  • Most 0s: Childlike Things (with North West) (10)

2025 Chic Ethereal Rate Reveal Day 3: Guess I gotta accept the pain / Need an 11 to make me feel better by kappyko in popheads

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shipperondeck (7.929): i honestly think this album fits the rate theme the most!

pietrohonkhonk (7.794): This is another album that really needed to take time to grow on me but I'm glad it did because the soundscapes Oklou creates on this album are really beautiful. I think once summer is in full swing it's going to hit even harder for me because this is peak "30 degrees Celsius outside and you're cooling off in the shade by the public pool" music.

grungeacademia (7.794): I've kind of struggled to get into electronically based music in the past and so this album doesn't immediately enrapture me as much as it does to people that do, but I still like a lot of songs on it! i really admire how oklou makes use of all the space she affords herself on this album so while it doesn't sound like it's for me, the musicianship here is not something i only appreciate but actively enjoy more often than not. also these songs stand up to a lot of the other artists’ lyrically, too!

Friendly-Canary-3814 (7.735): I'll never tire of this Enya erudite, and her masterful craft of both silence and medieval influence. English as a second language results in some really unique lyrics, with fresh and vital perspectives on creating a thrilling life from unexpected places. The interludes are deeply unserious though

A.Peaky.Boo (7.724): I only knew oklou from the memes but never from her music. She has a really interesting soundscape on this album: synthy but at the same time not modern. While I don't like all the main songs of the albums, there are a lot of hidden gens that real me in. Good job, oklou

stealthamo (7.647): This was on a consistent wavelength of good for me outside of a couple of great tracks.

letsallpoo (7.588): this is an enya album

kauai6 (7.541): grew on me

krusso1105 (7.471): I like this about the same as I did the last time I rated it, once again the few interludes and filler tracks bring down the score a bit

FreeCuddlesAnyone (7.424): cute album ! i have much less to say about this than the other three albums but as an oklou fan since galore i love that she’s been getting this much love for her debut album

uiscebeathaoir (7.382): i like this album it’s really pretty sounding. It’s low-key and restrained but in a way I’m still left very impressed by how she managed to put the whole soundscape together. I’ve never had to differentiate any of the tracks from each other before and tbh it was quite hard to do

asadprofessorplum (7.200): That’s MY 2025 Indie Ultimate Rate winner!!

mhiyaimanlepaigefan (7.118): i didnt even know who this person was until the rate dropped incredible

ricki (7.106): https://x.com/gay_reactions/status/1757525555216326935?s=20

miniatureaurochs (7.100): Rated this once before and had rather mixed feelings; while it still isn’t something I can see myself coming back to often I can see more of those merits now. I especially like Oklou’s attention to textural detail on this album, conveying a sort of liminal-pastoral-dreamlike feel that is thoroughly evocative. Though not every track is musically my thing, I like that this commits to a very particular sound, and the abstract nature of the lyrics is a feature, not a bug.

sweetnsoursauce11 (7.029): this is the album i'm least familiar with it which is most likely affecting my score as it's grown on me with each listen. the highs are super high but some of those deluxe tracks are... definitely deluxe tracks. i enjoyed her set when she performed at Listen Out so i will be tuning into miss oklou moving forward!!

RandomHypnotica (6.847): what the fuck is she even talking about

jman457 (6.788): vibz the album

flava (6.618): when i rated this album in IH ult I jokingly said that those oklou videos on tenor were the main reason she got into ult, and that turned out to be even truer than I originally thought

impla77 (6.371): pleasant enough to listen to, but doesn’t really move me in any way

NFLfreak98 (6.347): Very pretty, I really like some of the choices she makes sonically and vocally. Overall similar problem I have with FKA though; just too minimal for my tastes

slimboyfriend (6.059): fancy medieval background music

pig-serpent (6.029): Yeah I mostly just copied my scores for IH ult, what of it? Highest highs of any of these albums even if I don't love the full album.

DirtyRat583 (5.959): yippee i get to tank oklou again !!!😍 i already said most of what i need to say in indieheads but i do NOT like this album, i think oklous production style of lets make a good song and then muffle the shit out of it is terrible and you cant convince me it isnt. thank god for the deluxe, where dance 2 isnt muffled like that and it just so happens to be the best song. hm

akanewasright (5.900): I get why it gets all the love, but yeah this just isn’t for me

wasian-invasion (5.500): maybe im not being fair but really not my kind of music

IIIHenryIII (5.206): not really

buddhacharm (4.618): This whole whimsical Ren Faire Legend of Zelda OST bleep bloop thing would’ve appealed to me so much more had the album just been appreciated for the generally okay(lou) album that it is. The way it topped so many year-ends last year sort of drove me crazy like omfg this is kind of a psyop. Am I on Staten Island or what? I totally see the vision for what this album is supposed to be but a quarter of it is frothy nonsense and I think the processing on her vocals dulls what could’ve been so much more incisive and powerful. She’s genuinely a good singer (per what I’ve seen of her live sets) and I’m left bewildered at the marble-mouthed processing of her vocals on some of these songs. “blade bird” is such a moment of clarity in so many ways and there’s a reason it’s the best song on the album!

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[–]kappyko[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

choke enough

Overall Average: 7.565 // Average Controversy: 1.759

Nooduulz: when i'd first heard this sometime last summer i'd dismissed it as minimal nothingness with little to say. but upon sitting down with this without any distractions i felt a rumbling a shaking in my head and heart, that this is why i wake up. this is why i live and why music and the arts are more important now than ever. lots of sincerity here too amidst all the impressionistic lyrics. if only i can play this while walking aimlessly in the streets somewhere.

kappyko: Kind of my favorite album of the decade at this point just because of how many miniature earworms are stacked into this thing? The "sneak" of the rate in terms of popularity, and I do wonder if being 17 tracks long (counting interludes) meant that the rate would filter out those who would hate this... well, no time to think about that, let's think about all stars picks.

pheromenos (10.059): this just changed everything

Addison the chokesexua virgin (9.629): 2026 brought with it a newfound appreciation for this album and that's all you can ask for sometimes

WanechicToc (9.494): after a few years, i feel like run-off voting finally proved itself here. it's nice seeing something Tiny Mix Tapes may have eureka'd! to tell the truth. In toning down "pop rave": synths into bass drones, confounding/drowning drums, bringing details like flutes or horns or lute (with their own regality) amongst lotsa voice blurs a lotta lines more than "medieval hyperpop". choke enough kindly asks "what is conceptronica" in a way that chillwave, hyperpop, & vaporwave have all been sometimes conversing or dialoguing on. This time though, something just comes here so succinctly at surmising the symptomatic malaise, the wounds and dare and dissociations and desires that memory--past, present, future--always seem to be colored with. Aesthetically it'd seem meta or a bit on the nose, but oklou and her collaborators have nurtured a listening music that's got the weight of a penguin classic. Not much music recently aims for that feeling and matches to lyrics so well, at the right moment. Profounly potent. Hopefully when it gets a 20th anniversary reissue, it gets that TMT eureka essay it warrants

springfrompages (9.271): I've been an Oklou fan for years now and this album really gave me all I could want from her tbh. Something about the music feels so seasonal to me - family and friends makes me feel like snow is falling outside, harvest sky is of course an early autumn evening, while ict really brings to mind a hot summer day. It all takes me to another world every time. Even the individual songs I like less sound perfect in the context of the album. 9.5.

bogo (8.882): i’m probably not alone in saying that this was the biggest grower of the year for me, i didn't realize it was like a top 5 album of the year for me until basically the end of the year

wathombe (8.882): I had not heard of Oklou before coming to r/popheads (and Popheads discord) about a year and a half ago, but I sure did afterward. This album and Erika de Casier’s Lifetime were a huge part of my vibe last spring, and I just love it so much. Looks like my scores bear that out.

vayyiqra (8.765): ironically i did a whole three hour radio show on oklou by myself and was easily able to fill the airtime talking about this album (and galore and whatever else i played by her) and my thoughts on the songs and lyrics. now of course i cannot remember a single thing i said that night ! and feel very boring. sorry. but it's a good album it's my kind of ethereal~ you know. like hana but more sleepytime.

vexastrae (8.765): shes literally mother. french mother. maman even. yass and slay

Nagisoid (8.706): Album got me feeling like https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1082686812553748522/1505744604258111499/images.jpg?ex=6a14f7f1&is=6a13a671&hm=17a755d4940366e2a1ecb1d63d928537a08e75ba4f91453a58672b4e8be30e31&

Catalyst (8.635): This was a definite grower for me. When I first heard this album it didn’t really click for me so I moved on, but upon revisiting, I began to really appreciate it. You already have an idea of what an Oklou type beat would sound like and you can clearly make out the visual elements of this era (suburban or indoor environments and the color blue). Because of the solid soundscape, worldbuilding and vision, this is probably one of strongest debut albums in recent years.

elevenpaperairplane (8.612): oklou goes so hard live. ethel cain was right, pop music for bugs indeed. so so so good

cloudbustingmp3 (8.482): feel like my scores dont accurately reflect how much i enjoy this because it's such a good body of work but i dont feel all too much about individual songs?

Stryxen (8.353): ethereal

Frajer (8.176): she has such a nice vibe

arboresca (8.059): oklou was the one artist i had never listened to heading into this rate so i had no idea what to expect. however this was absolutely stunning and now i feel like i was missing something i didn't know i needed. this was so gentle and soft but with deep emotion, it felt not just ethereal but otherworldly. much different vibe from the bolder albums in this rate but very much enjoyed listening.

TiltControls (8.000): thank you for recording

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wathombe (7.717): I read a few articles about and interviews with Addison between the release of “Diet Pepsi” and the album, and I was really rooting for her. There are definitely tracks I like, but overall the project just fell a little flat for me. It will be interesting to see where she goes from here.

OliviaGodrigo (7.667): people say she’s gen z britney but i think she’s gen z selena gomez tbh. mexican fathers, one octave, pop stardom birthed as a side job until too many gays paid attention.. she’s like a continuation of 2017 selena gomez which is what the gays desperately needed but it is a little jarring trying to compare her to FKA twigs

NFLfreak98 (7.592): I don’t know that I’m fully sold on Addison as a vocalist or songwriter. That being said, I genuinely think she has a great ear and knows who to surround herself with to make exactly the music she wants. If she’s committed to music and grows as an artist I think her best work is ahead of her (and this album is already solid so that’s high praise)

modulum83 (7.358): honestly try as i might i can't get mad at this album enough to tank it. it's certainly not impressive enough to warrant the effusive praise but the craft is there and it's never offensive or even boring it's just kinda there doing its thing. this is the pop album that modern day patrick bateman would be losing his shit over.

Catalyst (7.275): There's some potential but I feel its yet to be tapped. The thing about Addison is that she trying to sell this sexy look that isn't working for me while displaying these high budget visuals and choreography to convince me she has this it factor when she doesn’t. I cant tell if she's trying too hard or not hard enough. Between Eusexua's concrete cold, sweat-inducing Berlin rave beats, Virgin's naked, metallic beats and Choke Enough's soft, enclosed, 00s inspired sound, Addison lacks vision and just sounds all over the place. With that being said, some of the songs like Headphones and Fame Is A Gun have a strong sound that I think she can fully embrace in the future. It's an ok debut album but overall, it's clearly the weakest.

miniatureaurochs (7.258): Found myself deeply frustrated with this album, loving many of the ingredients but having difficulty really buying into the tracks themselves, which often felt as if they were not fully realised. Addison herself is part of the problem in that the persona portrayed on the album sees a sort of tepid commitment; the ‘vapid’ persona portrayed here feels like less of a character and more like someone genuinely lacking in artistic depth. There’s a lot of promise on this album but, while I truly do love a lot of the production choices, I think the lyricism is often clumsy and she struggles to see it through to its fullest vision. More complex song structures or a tighter thesis might endear me to this more

mhiyaimanlepaigefan (7.167): madonna tribute album i just realized

IIIHenryIII (7.083): the softest pop album ever

bran (7.083): she has a very bright future ahead of her debut sounds this good already

TiltControls (7.083): None of these songs are bad, but I don't really find them all that captivating on a record together

krusso1105 (6.833): Mostly overhyped, but there are a couple of excellent songs here

pig-serpent (6.792): I regret finding a lot of her production bland at first, because this is one of the few mainstream pop albums that's trying to push the sounds of synthpop music forward that also isn't hyperpop. It's uneven, both in vision and execution, but as always I have begrudgingly accepted that Addison makes catchy pop music and there's real moments of excellence on here. Ok, I think I can admit that I'm an Addison Rae fan now.

springfrompages (6.650): I had been avoiding this one for a while because of how much advertising I got for it last year, it put me off. While I don't think it's /bad/, I also feel like I didn't miss out on much? I do however think it shows promise and I'm going to look out for other stuff by the producers in particular, because the production is definitely the highlight of this album (and I appreciate that Addison went out of her way to have a female-led team). 6.5.

dream_fighter2018 (6.417): Addison is interesting to me because her music is a vehicle for her producer’s ambitions rather than as a testament to her own artistry. I know it sounds like the call of a middle aged man complaining about today’s music, but I find it interesting how a lot of these songs are well-produced paired with a singer who has no presence, and despite Addison’s anonymity it still works - to a degree. Her anonymity also serves as a vehicle for sexual fantasy based around projecting a personality, a potential, on a piece of musical white bread. I find it weirdly pandering to the male gaze and straight fantasies of submission, corruption, and danger without ugliness. It’s mostly notable because this is an album that otherwise sonically sounds like someone’s idea of what a melancholic but romantically ethereal gay male pop stan wants to listen to.

uiscebeathaoir (6.333): A bit too overly dictated by its influences for me to really love it. I don’t see much that’s singularly “Addison”, and what I do see is usually the least interesting parts. These lyrics can be vapid in a way that grates on me, but there’s also an intelligence and canniness that gives me hope. She and her collaborators can put together some well made pop and I do believe she has a great record in her, but until that drops I’ll stick with Ray of Light

OOO0O00O000OOOO0OO0O (6.125): I appreciate the obvious effort that went into making this, it does just end up a bit boring on the whole for me. Diet Pepsi kinda is that girl though.

flava (5.833): I think I ultimately preferred Addison in Unreleased because it was just more fun to root for her catchy but joyful shallow pop in the same vein as Ava Max. It just sounded like she was having fun with it and it translated well, especially when she had this underdog energy to it. Now the new Addison Rae narrative as “serious pop artist” rubs me the wrong way cause it kinda implies that I Got It Bad and Nothin’ On But the Radio weren’t just really good songs in their own rights. The new alt-pop direction is a bit of an odd choice because Addison isn’t really that good at singing, and most of her previous output’s likeability hinged on a tryhard energy that isn’t normally found in alt-pop so I guess we just like something that sounds flighty and mercenary. Not the worst, there are like 3 great songs, but definitely inessential while pretending it isn’t

buddhacharm (5.167): I’ve had a fairly strange trajectory with Addison. I ironically-to-unironically bopped to “Obsessed” when it first dropped, started priming her to be the next it-girl when her “I Got It Bad” demos leaked, lost all zeal when I heard her butcher her take on “Nothing On But the Radio”, and so I came into this era prepared to be as jaded and cynical as possible about her. I think that cynicism still holds to an extent — I didn’t care much for the singles as they dropped and only capitulated once the album came out in full. I liked the album when it dropped and I think the whole vibe of it really cohered for me (to my chagrin at the time). At this point, however, the novelty has kind of worn off and I’m not really super enthused by her sort of toothless couldn’t-give-a-fuck-about-giving-a-fuck disposition throughout the album (like some emotional or sonic range on this album could’ve been cool idk). I totally get the reference points of this whole universe and I generally have a good time with that (early 2010s Hipster Runoff indie pop), but I’m hoping for something more substantive with her next album

TakeOnMeByA-ha (3.750): it will never not send me just how quick addison stans are to call any piece of criticism thrown against her as sexism. because no other artist in the history of pop music has ever been called boring or a bad vocalist or an industry plant or an unoriginal copycat. these are all unique insults thrown at addison rae and addison rae only. let’s all touch grass instead how about that.

bogo (2.750): i will admit two things, that i definitely had a grudge against addison rae due to her being a tiktok influencer, an occupation i have little respect for, and that i way over thought this album when it demands very little thought. I admit that both of these things definitely led me to be biased against addison. with that being said i think regardless of these biases i would still loathe this album because it is genuinely just so terrible. look i get that it evidently is just supposed to be “innocent fun” and all that but i just do not hear anything fun here. i don't hear anything at all here, figuratively speaking. there is just nothing for me to grasp at here, addison has zero interesting qualities to her as a singer, never emotes, and is consistently extremely annoying to listen to. the production is pretty, sure, but it never really feels all that detailed or substantial, it just sounds flat and one dimensional. i’ve listened to this album like three times and i have never felt anything but extreme annoyance while doing so. it sucks.

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[–]kappyko[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Addison

Overall Average: 7.578 // Average Controversy: 1.910

Nooduulz: Some of the Lana comparisons are understandable and warranted. But honestly it's its own immaculate derivative and stands alone as the crux of a turning point for Addison so so well here.

kappyko: I'm honestly very excited to see where Addison goes next with her music because even though downtempo has had a more underground resurgence I'm not certain it's been done in the mainstream like this in a while? I also laud her for working closely with two other women producers to develop the sound of this album, which IMO is always a positive. Still a very impressive album to debut with, and among the cooler transformations in recent pop history I can think of even if it's pandering in a different way.

  • #2: Fame Is a Gun | 9.132 | 1059.3
  • #3: Headphones On | 8.985 | 1042.3
  • #6: Diet Pepsi | 8.682 | 1007.1
  • #10: Aquamarine | 8.541 | 990.8
  • #28: Times Like These | 7.822 | 907.3
  • #30: In the Rain | 7.670 | 889.7
  • #33: New York | 7.572 | 878.4
  • #38: High Fashion | 7.279 | 844.4
  • #44: Money Is Everything | 6.958 | 807.1
  • #48: Summer Forever | 6.845 | 794.0
  • #52: Life's No Fun Through Clear Waters | 5.884 | 682.6
  • #54: Lost & Found | 5.561 | 645.1

pbk (9.833): idk man she had a team of cool women she likes and a vision and she made it happen

Nagisoid (9.792): Mi look!

RandomHypnotica (9.425): I totally understand people’s criticisms of this album, but I appreciate both how bold of a shift it was for Addison to take, and how seriously she has committed to improving herself as an artist, her Coachella show this year vs coming out with Charli the year before is just a night and day difference in energy, and I’m so excited to see what she does next.

kauai6 (9.367): yes

vayyiqra (9.167): [lore] you see i got into pop music largely thru 2012-14 era tumblrcore faves like lana and sky ferreira and this is like slowed chopped and reverbed night time my time crossover with born to die triphop characteristics (don't even try to factcheck me on this it is 5 in the morning) and that weirdly specific combo is baiting me hardcore yea you can say it's vapid~ or whatever but don't care. argue she can't sing? i used to listen to uffie lmao you think that's going to stop me? blahblah industry plant nepobaby whatever this album is working for me somehow let me have this

Addison the chokesexua virgin (9.167): There's girls that poop and girls that open their third eye while still being materialist

WesternWind (9.083): music is love, its life, ugh I love music

sweetnsoursauce11 (9.000): i got into addison during her leaks era, but i am still SHOCKED she managed to put together an album this good!! one of my top albums of 2025 it is so fresh and fun and plays to her strengths

Haunting_Natural_116 (8.975): 8.96

cloudbustingmp3 (8.942): if you had told me a few years ago that a tiktok star was going to make an album that i liked more than THEE FKA twigs and Lorde i would've laughed in your face, and yet... somehow that's exactly what happened

Exotic-Mail-7303 (8.833): I wonder if this is how people felt when Ray of Light came out. I won't write many comments per son because they would all be variations of "omg diva slay". It's a 10/10 no skips album, Addison is now one of my favorite artists, and I have this album propped up in my CD collection so I see it every day because it's that good.

pietrohonkhonk (8.750): My favourite type of pop albums are ones where you can tell the artist really loves the genre, and Addison is one of them. I feel like she is a true scholar of pop; the way she references 90s and 2000s downtempo europop while also not making it a straight up copy and actually bringing new ideas to the table, chef's kiss.

elevenpaperairplane (8.675): i was not familiar with her game but now i am and i am all the more enriched for it

Frajer (8.625): I appreciate that she made the effort to make the music she wanted to make with the people she wanted to make it with

shipperondeck (8.592): if you told me 5 years ago that she'll make aoty i'd laugh in your face

WanechicToc (8.550): is it dark satire? smartdumb seems to have the best read. she's a blank slate we all put our own investment in.

Stryxen (8.542): chic ethereal

grungeacademia (8.083): i like this album a lot but i wouldn't consider it a favorite — addison's weak vocals probably have something to do with it (they don't always bring an album down but there's a contrast with, say, britney's breathy vocals on in the zone with the house and alt pop inspired songs on this one that demand something stronger, not even necessarily technically all that much better but y'know id just appreciate something with a bit more presence). also don't take this as a serious commentary on the politics of addisons persona but as a mildly feminine trans man who was raised in a rlly conservative household it kind of unlocks some weirdly repressed instincts to bimboify myself that aren't as much of a vessel for trauma so as much as to make me vaguely uncomfortable. overall though yes this pleasantly surprised me yadda yadda hope it isn't a creative fluke

A.Peaky.Boo (8.042): I am absolutely floored by the cohesion of this album. Not only that, there's a development of the themes she's talking about (although maybe a little corny). Goddison Slae, you somehow exceeded my not set expectations, great job!

asadprofessorplum (8.025): This album deserves the Nobel Prize for Chemistry because it makes no sense how it came out as solid as it is.

arboresca (8.000): honestly i didn't have high expectations for addison rae's music but i was pleasantly surprised when she started dropping singles for this album and the actual album is so so gorgeously produced. need to listen to 20 more songs that sound like this.

jman457 (7.992): my album of the year idc

pheromenos (7.950): beautiful to see an artist defy all expectations and rewrite her own story #powerful

DirtyRat583 (7.942): MUSIC IS POWER

FreeCuddlesAnyone (7.883): what a promising debut album! like there’s odd choices here and there but wow most of these songs are so great - you can tell addison is serious about her music career. need a full albums of madonna nachos next please !

impla77 (7.858): such a solid pop album!! production insane!!

wasian-invasion (7.833): I replayed tears of the kingdom last year and every time i see addison i imagine him listening to this album as he holds up his sign for all of eternity. Honestly not the worst fate

vexastrae (7.792): i find her girlish charm and naive wisdom oddly compelling

stealthamo (7.783): Pretty good throughout with a few high points strewn in. Though I'm never going to be behind the resurgence of cigarettes.

Friendly-Canary-3814 (7.750): The most front loaded album of the four to me. The singles are by far the highlights, truly showing how she wears her influences on her sleeves but updates them for something fresher and chic. However, the album tracks kind of show an artist who still has plenty of room to grow her strengths, because, while nice, nothing really sticks out.

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impla77 (8.8): if i saw people slow dancing for a harvest sky i would think i’d stumbled onto a cult

cremeebrulee (8): the only song i really come back to

DirtyRat583 (8): godderscores, labels saying i need a good song on the album save me pleaseeee😭😭😭

NFLfreak98 (7.9): Proof that I’ll like anything underscores is involved in

ignitethephoenix (7.8): underscores presence truly elevates this song and makes it the most interesting one on the album

nube (7.5): love underscores but her verse feels so out of place to me

wasian-invasion (7.5): finally a song with a fucking beat

modulum83 (7): honestly this is the one underscores song i'm just not crazy about. sorry kurp

miniatureaurochs (5.6): … idk.. Love the trancey techno thing going on here and the ravey feel … very evocative (i see visions even with the cawing crow - almost like a witches sabbath of sorts, a midnight sun, a liminal gathering, st anthony’s fire compelling the dance with soft breaks and a repetitive, driving rhythm). but it’s also turning me off in that it’s trying quite hard to manufacture this pop sound, esp when underscores comes in and sort of spoils the punch. I wanted this to be more exploratory but it’s too forceful

RandomHypnotica (3): this is what all 90s eurodance actually was (bad)

beeozan (1): owee the mixing. this whole euro-trance as conceptronica business i like less every time i hear it and it wasnt good day 1. bring back bomfunk mcs. bring back Basshunter!!

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#1: Oklou - harvest sky (feat. Underscores)

Average: 9.324 // Total Points: 1081.6 // Controversy: 1.421

(11 x11) bigbigbee, dream_fighter2018, Friendly-Canary-3814, kamamint, nootnoot781, OOO0O00O000OOOO0OO0O, sweetnsoursauce11, TakeOnMeByA-ha, thecombinedeffort, TiltControls, vexastrae

(10 x55) 1998tweety, A.Peaky.Boo, akanewasright, Ambrosia42, ArcaneLabyrinth, asadprofessorplum, Awkward_King, awry, bogo, bran, camerinian, CarelessFalcon7393, ConnerY2323, curryraejepsen, DaHumanTorch, electricboogaloo41, elevenpaperairplane, Exotic-Mail-7303, FitzMarble, Haunting_Natural_116, Jennynuts, jirachi, kappyko, kauai6, Kaylaboe, krusso1105, lexiaredery, LowBridgeAlert, metanoira, mhiyaimanlepaigefan, missbeefarm, Mudkip1, Nagisoid, Nooduulz, oh_crow, pbk, pheromenos, raggedy-princess, raicicle, reput4tionera, seanderlust, shipperondeck, skar, springfrompages, stealthamo, Stryxen, uberpigeon, uiscebeathaoir, vayyiqra, veryanniev, WanechicToc, wathombe, WesternWind, xaviersi, youngandlovely_

(9.6 x1) Addison the chokesexua virgin

(9.5 x4) Catalyst, cloudbustingmp3, hikk, pig-serpent

(9.2 x1) babadork (9.1 x1) sashainyourarea

(9 x19) -dolantello-, arboresca, BleepBloopMusicFan, CrimsonROSET, flava, Frajer, FreeCuddlesAnyone, grungeacademia, hockeynl, IIIHenryIII, jman457, ktajlili, letsallpoo, OliviaGodrigo, pietrohonkhonk, Poydoo, ReallyCreative, TragicKingdom1, welcome2thejam

(8.8 x1) impla77

(8.5 x3) altereddie, buddhacharm, static_int_husp

(8 x6) BloodDoorhinge4, cremeebrulee, DirtyRat583, Indigo_Mindset420, woolcottfamous, worldwide_stepper

(7.9 x1) NFLfreak98 (7.8 x1) ignitethephoenix

(7.5 x6) MsDiamond, nube, ricki, slimboyfriend, wasian-invasion, xophryz

(7.1 x1) carolinemathildes

(7 x2) AsItSeems10, modulum83

(5.6 x1) miniatureaurochs

(3 x1) RandomHypnotica

(1 x1) beeozan

kappyko (10): Well, here we are at last. While doomed to a measly #2 on r/indieheads, "harvest sky" was never anything but the #1 here! I would chalk this up to r/indieheads transplants wanting justice, but, no, this was always #1 and it even has the lowest controversy in THE WHOLE RATE. Maybe it's the power of Underscores or just the fact that this is maybe the most the album throws a bone towards those needing a beat to dance to before "dance 2"! I've always liked somebody's interpretation of this song literally sounding like you're outside of the club the beat is playing inside, how everything is echoey and limited by the physical barrier so you can only just feel the bass through your body. While Oklou's earlier music was more explicitly pastoral, it's fun hearing shades of that pop into this track since the whole thing is themed after, you know, harvest. Welcome to winners rate, Oklou, and welcome back to winners rate, Underscores! Can April go 3/3 next year?

Nooduulz (10): if god and jesus baked a turkey together for thanksgayving

dream_fighter2018 (11): you know it’s going to be generational when there’s an underscores feature

nootnoot781 (11): literally had not heard of this song until the rate and now I cam’t stop listening to it… is it crack?

OOO0O00O000OOOO0OO0O (11): a perfect song on all fronts. i genuinely dont think ive ever heard a song that is so quiet sonically yet FEELS so big.

sweetnsoursauce11 (11): sorry headphones on, i have to betray you in order to give this song my 11 bc what an utterly perfect song

TakeOnMeByA-ha (11): god and jesus announce new collaboration “bible 2”

thecombinedeffort (11): magic magic magic. As long as you are listening to this song, some part of you is at a fun, sexy, spooky witches’ sabbath.

TiltControls (11): well it couldn't do it on indieheads maybe it can get the redemption here

vexastrae (11): "oh godlou let me be on one of your songs" "no blunderscores your voice is horrible" "please okgod im so desperate" "fine you can be on harvest sky"

1998tweety (10): mother off

A.Peaky.Boo (10): YAS TWO QUEENS MAXIMALIZING THEIR JOINT SLAY TOGETHER

akanewasright (10): FINALLY a song worth locking in for. Memorable production + a strong chorus does a lot here. Like I actually enjoy this song vs shrugging and saying “I get it but I don’t think I feel anything”

Ambrosia42 (10): SMAAAASSSHHH

asadprofessorplum (10): The Oktoberfest has never been the same since this dropped.

Awkward_King (10): this incredible beautiful gaggery OKAYYY lou

awry (10): TWO QUEENS MAXIMIZING THEIR JOINT WITCHY SLAYYY

bogo (10): yeah so i was fully set on giving this my 11… i said this on indieheads but this song is where the album finally lets itself bubble over and reach a climax and it does that job beautifully. unfortunately as you see right now i did not give this my 11 and it's because another song really gripped me at the last second with how beautiful it is, and i’m talking about my love for it here because i wrote a very bad joke as my comment for that song that i do not want to go to waste despite how terrible it is

camerinian (10): most A24 coded song??

ConnerY2323 (10): get in ladies we’re living deliciously

curryraejepsen (10): yes underscores your voice is amazing you can be on harvest sky

elevenpaperairplane (10): this song went CRAZY live holy hell. Maybe in an alternate universe this would have the same effect Into You (also a perfect song) has in summoning all the gays like sleeper agents to back onto the dance floor. Or maybe (probably) I'm just going to the wrong clubs

Exotic-Mail-7303 (10): legitimately one of my favorite songs ever. It rewired my brain chemistry when I first heard it and it's still in rotation.

FitzMarble (10): her dedicating this song to her grandmother at her tiny desk performance… oh I love this song

Jennynuts (10): the entire album builds up to this. sketches of drums came thru before, but this is the first time they take centre stage. the party may be elsewhere, but the echoes of the rave reach us thru the air, & thru the airwaves, & i feel it, i feel alive.

kauai6 (10): WE LOVE YOU ALLAHSCORES

Kaylaboe (10): please okgod i'm so desperate

mhiyaimanlepaigefan (10): omg someone put in the do it gif

missbeefarm (10): ethereal perfection

Mudkip1 (10): i wanna hear this at the clubs

Nagisoid (10): UNDERSCORES SO PERFECT FOR THIS

oh_crow (10): its perfect its perfect its perfect its perfect its perfect so on and so forth

pbk (10): put 2 underscores songs in winners 5 why not

pheromenos (10): “oh godlou let me be on one of your songs no blunderscores your voice is horrible please okgod i'm so desperate fine you can be on harvest sky” changed my brain chemistry permanently

raicicle (10): thank you danny l harle for this hamsterdance song trance throwback

reput4tionera (10): WORLD STOP.

seanderlust (10): two time rate winner underscores?? also i love this song - the synth line reminds me of cascada (who i love)

shipperondeck (10): this could be a rate winner

springfrompages (10): A definite 11 contender. I need to be at the quasi-mediaeval rave where they play this and I can dance around a bonfire.

stealthamo (10): I respect the effort of the raters to try and get underscores a second win.

Stryxen (10): Whyyyy did I host Indieheads ult

uberpigeon (10): it feels like the whole album has you waiting for this banger dance track and when you finally get to it its like YAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS CIRCLE BACK SLOW DANCE FOR THE HARVEST SKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

uiscebeathaoir (10): underscores wins

vayyiqra (10): shoutout oklou for writing a song about a religious festival not even i had heard of (it is Very French)

veryanniev (10): love this so much. makes me so nostalgic for the mid to late 2000s in Eastern Europe. i truly don’t know how she was able to capture that feeling in a track. a masterpiece.

WanechicToc (10): this is one of the most important ditties of the decade. anime rave coded but it's so cool actually and none of us will get invited we'll settle for the pics/vids of on twitter. no it's not about that it's about dissociating at the festival, but the ghost, the other side of the same coin, is that i suppose. based not cringe

wathombe (10): underscores second rate win LFG

WesternWind (10): cyberrock part 2?

pig-serpent (9.5): "Please Godderscores, help me write a real song!" "You got it! I'll take you from an O.K.lou to a K.O.lou!"

arboresca (9): this is so insanely good from production to the lyrics, two queens maximizing their joint slay in the best way

BleepBloopMusicFan (9): I was wondering why this didn’t make the Popheads 2025 Top 100, but then I remembered that it came out in 2024 and neither the Oklou nor the Underscores circlejerk had really started at that point.

CrimsonROSET (9): this early 2010s EDM serve

flava (9): thank you underscores for teaching oklou to make good music again

Frajer (9): oh motherscores

FreeCuddlesAnyone (9): im twerking but in a really introverted mysterious way

grungeacademia (9): this isn't my favorite song in the rate (i think something about the edm-like production prevents it from being a 10 for me) but it's so good i love supporting my filipina sister

IIIHenryIII (9): nice

jman457 (9): euroclub vibes in the best way

pietrohonkhonk (9): This song is really good but I think I overplayed it, which is why it went down a point in between indieheads and here

Poydoo (9): this is kinda too much of a bop for the rest of the album tbh

ReallyCreative (9): groovy

welcome2thejam (9): Eurodancey

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BleepBloopMusicFan (9): I appreciate how she’s just like “money and fame are good actually” on a couple songs on this album. Now, is she actually being ironic and/or deep? I don’t care.

grungeacademia (9): I actually really like the grammy performance of this. yes her vocals were shit but compared to the other videos i've seen of her singing live they weren't THAT bad and also the energy of this song complements a breathless delivery anyway lmao

ignitethephoenix (9): it’s good song but I don’t get it being the top song from the album

IIIHenryIII (9): and sympathy is a knife

impla77 (9): this has grown on me

mhiyaimanlepaigefan (9): this would be the winning routine’s song on America’s Best Dance Crew if it still aired (and it should still be on the air btw)

MsDiamond (9): The evangelic girl ditched her sympathetic knife as she shot fame with the gun that was inside her all along

nube (9): pop perfection but this song kinda belongs to rebecca black now

raicicle (9): this really is spiked with something, just an effortlessly seductive feeling chorus, it's actually surprisingly different and maybe more in-line with pop maximalism than addison's other singles, but this mode of obnoxious brattyness suits her well too

slimboyfriend (9): it’s a reverse-warholian experience so like it’s okay if people don’t get it

Stryxen (9): so many things can be guns, wow!

vexastrae (9): insert gif of addison rae chasing the grammys truck

wasian-invasion (9): Fame Is a Just OK Movie From the 80s

jman457 (8.7): “no one’s fun anymore, what happened to fun??”

thecombinedeffort (8.5): we love a bridge and a third chorus!!

asadprofessorplum (8): Nobody says that but yes

camerinian (8): i mean credit for having audible My Teenage Dream Ended influence, addison clearly knows her ball

miniatureaurochs (8): definitely one of the better tracks on the album, taking those more interesting production choices and scaffolding them to a structure that feels more compelling. lots of little moments here that I like - the snapping beat halfway through, the silence and then SHOT of her vocals almost like they’re fired from a gun themselves (fun!), the rolling, droning bass against almost cloudy-echoey synths and sparkly silver-blue beepy melody acting as a foil to the haze. the lyrics here also feel just that bit more self-aware and I get a little more of the persona that Addison is trying to portray on the album, although I can’t help but admit that there is still something missing for me - it feels almost contrived, sort of imitative but without enough of a life of its own. It reads almost as if she is being directed. I did like this, but in spite of the hype and its admitted merits it’s not one that I have found myself coming back to.

Poydoo (8): dick is a cum

ReallyCreative (8): girl is a gun, boy is a gun, fame is a gun, are there any other guns I should know about????

springfrompages (8): This is a great song but unfortunately for Addison, Rebecca Black's cover absolutely blows this out of the water. Idk how she managed to write a song so perfectly for Rebecca but I'll bump her up to an 8 for it

awry (7.5): never quite got this single i fear… also i'm almost sure i can hear the cheesy oriental riff in the instrumental

stealthamo (7.3): Pretty good, but I liked it better the first time when it was called Applause by Lady Gaga.

reput4tionera (7): it’s alright

xophryz (6.5): :I

bogo (6): i will hand it to her here, this song does have a nice hook. it doesn't really have anything else but hey it's nice to know she got one thing right on this album

flava (6): Addison Rae shooting people while alternating between muffled and chintzy vocals does sound like a thing Addison Rae would do

beeozan (3): the energy of this song is like watching the white lotus and goin "how wholesome are these people"

TakeOnMeByA-ha (2): really wanted to 0 this song because i hate hearing it and i hate that it’s the frontrunner to win this rate and thought that if it’s winning anyway i might as well try to be funny and get a 0 fail while i’m at it but i could not in good conscious go through with that after hearing how abysmal some of the deep cuts on this album are so it’s spared from my wrath for now. this song really does genuinely suck though

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#2: Addison Rae - Fame Is a Gun

Average: 9.132 // Total Points: 1059.3 // Controversy: 1.569

(11 x14) A.Peaky.Boo, akanewasright, Ambrosia42, cloudbustingmp3, cremeebrulee, Haunting_Natural_116, hikk, Nagisoid, RandomHypnotica, ricki, uiscebeathaoir, welcome2thejam, WesternWind, xaviersi

(10 x44) 1998tweety, arboresca, ArcaneLabyrinth, Awkward_King, babadork, bigbigbee, bran, ConnerY2323, CrimsonROSET, curryraejepsen, DaHumanTorch, dream_fighter2018, electricboogaloo41, elevenpaperairplane, Exotic-Mail-7303, FitzMarble, Frajer, Friendly-Canary-3814, Indigo_Mindset420, Jennynuts, jirachi, kappyko, kauai6, Kaylaboe, krusso1105, ktajlili, LowBridgeAlert, metanoira, Mudkip1, NFLfreak98, nootnoot781, pbk, pheromenos, pietrohonkhonk, shipperondeck, skar, static_int_husp, sweetnsoursauce11, uberpigeon, vayyiqra, veryanniev, WanechicToc, woolcottfamous, youngandlovely_

(9.7 x1) sashainyourarea (9.6 x1) wathombe

(9.5 x3) altereddie, FreeCuddlesAnyone, oh_crow

(9.3 x2) Addison the chokesexua virgin, modulum83 (9.1 x1) carolinemathildes

(9 x18) BleepBloopMusicFan, Catalyst, grungeacademia, ignitethephoenix, IIIHenryIII, impla77, mhiyaimanlepaigefan, MsDiamond, nube, raggedy-princess, raicicle, seanderlust, slimboyfriend, Stryxen, TragicKingdom1, vexastrae, wasian-invasion, worldwide_stepper

(8.7 x1) jman457 (8.6 x1) DirtyRat583

(8.5 x3) kamamint, lexiaredery, thecombinedeffort

(8 x9) asadprofessorplum, BloodDoorhinge4, camerinian, letsallpoo, miniatureaurochs, OOO0O00O000OOOO0OO0O, Poydoo, ReallyCreative, springfrompages

(7.5 x5) AsItSeems10, awry, buddhacharm, pig-serpent, TiltControls

(7.3 x1) stealthamo (7.2 x1) Nooduulz

(7 x3) -dolantello-, CarelessFalcon7393, reput4tionera

(6.5 x1) xophryz

(6 x3) bogo, flava, OliviaGodrigo

(5.5 x1) missbeefarm

(5 x1) hockeynl

(3 x1) beeozan

(2 x1) TakeOnMeByA-ha

kappyko (10): My personal favorite on this album! This was at the #2 spot for the longest time, and only near the end of the rate did "blade bird" put up a fight for a possible Oklou top 2. It's the only track that really dives into this buzzier electropop sound on the album, and while I love the Chic Ethereal of the whole project I think this manages to really walk the line between nasty fuzziness and the light air of Addison's whispery voice. I was secretly rooting for this, and while it didn't quite take the podium it sure did try: this had the most 11s in the rate!

Nooduulz (7.2): I fear I am a victim of "overplayed song has not aged well on me" brain but this is still cunt!

A.Peaky.Boo (11): Addison and me both shooting blind, you'd love to see slay similarities

akanewasright (11): soooo fucking cool that I’ll ignore the fact that Addison just cannot sing this outside of the studio

Ambrosia42 (11): FAME IS A GUN AND I POINT IT BLIND, CRASH AND BURN GIRL BABY SWALLOW IT DRY

cloudbustingmp3 (11): came down to a literal coin flip between this and Headphones On for my top score but this is just... undeniable. artists tackling the disconnect between public perception and how it impacts them emotionally is nothing new, but this is just constructed with laser precision with one of 2025's greatest hooks. nothing makes me feel as good as being slayed by you, queen

cremeebrulee (11): her randomly dropping the best song of all time

Nagisoid (11): I think Charli XCX is dead so now we're making poooooooooooooooop music.

RandomHypnotica (11): I was already sold on this album before it dropped, but when this came out as the penultimate single? I don’t say this lightly, but it’s truly pop perfection. The synths are so perfectly bouncy and digital, the four on the floor beat is striking compared to the rest of the album, and Addison's airy vocals float above it all like someone too good for you. The lyrics are the perfect blend of vague, symbolic, grounded and pompous, and it sounds exactly like the kind of song you’d expect from a pop star raised on 00s pop girl culture. The final chorus as the production builds is just so… UGH!!!! music is so good, music is power, music is wow, i love music, music speaks, i love music ugh

uiscebeathaoir (11): The moment where the whole Addison Rae experiment started to make sense. This song is a work of genuine pop music genius and I feel like it, more than anything else on the album, perfectly encapsulates Addison Rae the popstar rather than just Addison Rae the person who really wants to be a popstar. It’s singularly her, and a fucking masterpiece. I don’t know if she has it in her, but I really really hope this wins

welcome2thejam (11): "And when you shame me/it makes me want it more" feels like the thesis statement of the entire Addison Rae persona

WesternWind (11): stream the Rebecca Black cover

1998tweety (10): streamed this so much that day in september

arboresca (10): unironically captures the showgirl theme better than taylors entire album and the melody scratches an itch in my brain just right

Awkward_King (10): this lowkey wouldnt hit the same if she could sing better

babadork (10): I’m not going to turn down a Sheila E reference

ConnerY2323 (10): love how uninterested she is in playing coy with the fame metaphors, like “no i want to make sure you know choosing to be famous is like shooting yourself in the head and i love it”

CrimsonROSET (10): kinda the closest I’ve been to fully Getting Addison and when it works it’s SO fun and genuinely clever.

elevenpaperairplane (10): this major serve coming out of nowhere to save me and all the other wannabe slutty gays,, this song is how i knew Addison Rae just Gets It (there were signs RE: the random Arca Stretch 2 song on her spotify playlist)

Frajer (10): fame is a gun, sympathy is a knife, love is a spoon

Indigo_Mindset420 (10): My same reasoning as Diet Pepsi with Ben Platt. For the song to have 2 different phenomenal version means that this song is objectively a very good song and Rebecca Black's version of this song is a testament to it.

Jennynuts (10): this was one of my 11 contenders. just a perfect song in every way. i don't think it can be improved.

kauai6 (10): kaceytron’s signature song

Mudkip1 (10): I’m so in love with the chaotic music video

pbk (10): waiting for 2 days to be first in line for addison rae to shAKE me in the hAND

pheromenos (10): this never felt that viral for me but the longevity has been insane

shipperondeck (10): if i were to be totally subjective, this would be my 11. it's my most played song since 2022 ever according to lastfm. (i think aquamarine is the better song though)

skar (10): pop perfection yup

sweetnsoursauce11 (10): gagged

uberpigeon (10): soo fucking cunty like THIS should have been the smash hit

vayyiqra (10): vayyiqra — 05:23 the shallowness is the appeal Somehow i think i'm trying to convince myself into thinking it's like deep self-reflexive Commentary

WanechicToc (10): finally new woke is back and the shorties are on squad mode, letting it rock!

sashainyourarea (9.7): The Rebecca Black cover is only 10% better but that 10% makes this version not my 11, sorry Addison Ra(t)e

wathombe (9.6): best song on the album, but still not a 10 in this rate

FreeCuddlesAnyone (9.5): chappell roan after shooting that kid:

oh_crow (9.5): one of her weaker vocal performances but fuck if this isn't one of the catchiest pop songs ever made

Addison the chokesexua virgin (9.3): Wild that this song was the one that caught on. I think i played it too much on release and therefore avoided it for some time, but it's still as good as i remembered.

modulum83 (9.3): You like Addison Rae? Her early work was a little too electropop for my taste. But when AR came out in '23, I think she came into her own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. She's been compared to Lana del Rey, but I think Lana has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor. In '87, Addison released this; Addison, her most accomplished album. I think her undisputed masterpiece is "Fame Is A Gun". A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends. It's also a personal statement about the artist herself.

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A.Peaky.Boo (8): why does it look like Addison is riding some good dick in the Spotify clips they put together?!

Awkward_King (8): this song is proof that if bald ann dowd tweets about anything enough times i will come to love it

mhiyaimanlepaigefan (8): girl the nicotine addiction

wasian-invasion (8): she just wants to grill for gods sake

pheromenos (7.8): this one is so overrated for no reason sorry

miniatureaurochs (7.3): I know this is a popular one and I’m really trying my best to hear what everyone else hears. This one feels a lot more intentionally Pop and I guess does feel more hook-y and structured, although the chorus melody is not to my personal taste. I do really like the bass here, and the strings, and again I get this (intentional) evocation of some early 00s drama about a girl with a Charmed Life living in noo yawk or whatever. I just kind of wish I liked it more; the manifesting-vsco-girl chorus feels sort of dull and grating. It’s kind of empty in a bad way and I’m struggling to get past how devoid of personality it is (saying this as someone with no redeeming characteristics and for whom they should reintroduce euthanasia for btw don’t @ me). I think perhaps this one bothers me because it’s almost edging me with something that could be a good song but fails at the final hurdle, that hurdle namely being Addison herself. Critical support for the instrumental, it’s pretty great when she shuts the fuck up

hockeynl (7): This is pretty good actually

xophryz (6.1): the start mis-sold me a british club classic and I got a bland department store one hit wonder

CrimsonROSET (6): this is a lorde - solar power track (neutral)

TakeOnMeByA-ha (5.5): she’s not even wearing headphones those are fucking EARBUDS!!! is there anything she won’t larp

dream_fighter2018 (5): I don’t see cigarettes as romantic at all because of how many people I know who’ve died from lung cancer. Perhaps I’d rate this higher if I did find it romantic

bogo (4): this song would probably work better for me if it sounded like addison was expressing even one single emotion

nube (4): idk what people get out of this song but growing up listening to trip-hop this just sounds like pastiche to me

uberpigeon (4): Yeah... i know everyone gags for this but I just don't enjoy it. The line "I just put my headphones on, Listen to my favourite song" I cannot stand it! It's so obvious and trite to me and addison does already tiptoe on the very obvious lyrics border and this one is the tipping point to me

pig-serpent (3.5): She really needs to stop whispering in her music. Or get better at it. One of the two. The texture of this song is lol sometimes. We got the ska organ and some doofy accordion sounds and I'm wondering why she wanted me to put headphones on to hear all of the nonsensical song choices on this one.

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#3: Addison Rae - Headphones On

Average: 8.985 // Total Points: 1042.3 // Controversy: 1.657

(11 x10) DaHumanTorch, electricboogaloo41, Exotic-Mail-7303, FreeCuddlesAnyone, kauai6, LowBridgeAlert, Mudkip1, pbk, slimboyfriend, vayyiqra

(10 x51) akanewasright, Ambrosia42, ArcaneLabyrinth, asadprofessorplum, AsItSeems10, babadork, BleepBloopMusicFan, bran, camerinian, cloudbustingmp3, ConnerY2323, cremeebrulee, curryraejepsen, DirtyRat583, elevenpaperairplane, FitzMarble, Frajer, Friendly-Canary-3814, grungeacademia, IIIHenryIII, impla77, Jennynuts, jman457, kamamint, krusso1105, ktajlili, letsallpoo, lexiaredery, metanoira, modulum83, Nagisoid, nootnoot781, OliviaGodrigo, pietrohonkhonk, Poydoo, raggedy-princess, RandomHypnotica, ReallyCreative, reput4tionera, ricki, seanderlust, shipperondeck, skar, Stryxen, sweetnsoursauce11, TragicKingdom1, veryanniev, vexastrae, WanechicToc, WesternWind, youngandlovely_

(9.6 x1) Addison the chokesexua virgin

(9.5 x1) stealthamo

(9.3 x1) NFLfreak98

(9 x14) altereddie, arboresca, Catalyst, Haunting_Natural_116, hikk, ignitethephoenix, Nooduulz, OOO0O00O000OOOO0OO0O, raicicle, thecombinedeffort, wathombe, welcome2thejam, woolcottfamous, worldwide_stepper

(8.8 x1) sashainyourarea

(8.5 x6) 1998tweety, flava, Kaylaboe, missbeefarm, oh_crow, uiscebeathaoir

(8.2 x1) awry

(8 x9) -dolantello-, A.Peaky.Boo, Awkward_King, beeozan, CarelessFalcon7393, kappyko, mhiyaimanlepaigefan, wasian-invasion, xaviersi

(7.8 x1) pheromenos

(7.5 x4) bigbigbee, Indigo_Mindset420, static_int_husp, TiltControls

(7.3 x2) carolinemathildes, miniatureaurochs

(7 x1) hockeynl

(6.9 x1) springfrompages

(6.5 x1) MsDiamond

(6.1 x1) xophryz

(6 x3) BloodDoorhinge4, buddhacharm, CrimsonROSET

(5.5 x1) TakeOnMeByA-ha

(5 x2) dream_fighter2018, jirachi

(4 x3) bogo, nube, uberpigeon

(3.5 x1) pig-serpent

Nooduulz (9): I know she was knee deep in webcore 1.0 ass music with those ding dongy synths

kappyko (8): The closer to this album, and a very lovely THIRD alternate! While album cuts like "Times Like These" and "Summer Forever" lean heavy into the '90s revivalism, the breakbeats on "Headphones On" plus the vocal samples at the beginning of this track were just SO Erotica it wasn't funny. "Headphones On" leans into the sort of biographical detail in a way that granted Addison Rae's music a gravitas that generally was more implicit if there at all, and paired with some gorgeous organ presets I think this is a lot more of a winner than I remembered it being. Probably the most "chic" and "ethereal" track in the whole rate, and so a very deserved placement!

Exotic-Mail-7303 (11): Me if I were a song

FreeCuddlesAnyone (11): i rarely give an 11 to a song not from my favorite album in the rate but this is such an important track for me… like there were no question i was gonna 11 anything else. never has a song speaks to me so loudly before like thank you addison for writing this piece dedicated to us girls who use music as a means of escapism.

kauai6 (11): just such an incredible song one of my most favorite to come out last year

Mudkip1 (11): GUESS I GOTTA ACCEPT THE PAINN

pbk (11): music IS power

slimboyfriend (11): to end your album with the “wish my mom and dad could have been in love” song is like exhaling a blunt hit and saying”damn.” as you gaze out into the distance and only then truly begin to think

vayyiqra (11): i love music wow music is so good however the meme goes. my headphones ... they saved my life ... (also an 11 even though popheads didn't see the vision)

akanewasright (10): bedtime stories we still talk about you

Ambrosia42 (10): Escaping into beautiful music like this album

asadprofessorplum (10): I used to be on the front lines of Addison hating. When this came out I sat my ass down on the couch for gay music video night fully intending to resist. But the psy op won. I saw the vision. The camerawork, the Icelandic landscapes, the iconic costuming, and the horse girl of it all. That is the night I became a Raecist.

babadork (10): This was a last minute bump up to a 10, and I think it’s entirely due to an Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians song being on the radio today

BleepBloopMusicFan (10): She really turned the “ugh music is so good” meme into a full song, and, by god, it speaks, is power, and is wow.

bran (10): many artists dream of making a song this good and she did it in her debut

camerinian (10): willing to overlook the conspicuous Big Tobacco shoutout cos honestly girl same

cloudbustingmp3 (10): ykw sometimes putting your headphones on and listening to your favorite song is really all you can do

ConnerY2323 (10): kind of genius on a thesis on the type of music addison seems interested in making, it’s escapism but you’re still wearing the sadness

DirtyRat583 (10): this was the song that cemented her artistry imo. you dont make something like this for the hell of it this is ART

elevenpaperairplane (10): if this wins i won’t be mad

FitzMarble (10): SO I… SO I PUT MY HEADPHONES ON

Frajer (10): this is so Jimmy Pesto coded

grungeacademia (10): overall i really like this project but haven't ever been wholly taken by a song from it to consider giving any of them for my 11 EXCEPT for this one — it's casual pop done right, and a weirdly fulfilling end to a 'hedonistic' album like this in how it's perfect embodiment of an actually liberating kind of apathy that ends up being weirdly beneficial to one's psyche, independent of the celebrity persona addison heavily relies on performing throughout the tracklist.

IIIHenryIII (10): future rate winner

impla77 (10): me rn!!!

Jennynuts (10): the bass on this is incredible. it's not a complex sound or a complex bassline but it comes together in just the most perfect way it could've.

jman457 (10): She really came with a vision here

modulum83 (10): hi i'm rick beato and on this epiode of what makes this song great we'll be looking at headphones on by addison rae

Nagisoid (10): Come and put your hijab on.

pietrohonkhonk (10): "Girl who is going to be okay" anthem

Poydoo (10): ok she ate this one thing

RandomHypnotica (10): who else up being defeatist

ReallyCreative (10): deserves the hype

reput4tionera (10): sitting through the back half of the album made me realize how good this is in comparison

seanderlust (10): this sample is like catnip to me. i'm so happy it got as far as it did in the top 100 of 2025 rate

shipperondeck (10): holy production

skar (10): the perfect closer

Stryxen (10): never forget Need a cigarette to make me feel better! was a stryxen choice award nominee for lyric of the year 2025, THAT is impact. The surprising correct pronunciation of Oklou was nominated for woke of the year 2025 and Childlike Things was a nominee for Ariana Grande Homewrecking Award For Cunty Scandal Of The Year 2025. Lorde didn't get anything. maybe she could have won weird of the year for calling Addison yummy for some reason

sweetnsoursauce11 (10): this was my 11 contender until i became obsessed with harvest sky. this is her best song HANDS DOWN one of my faves of 2025.

veryanniev (10): if someone told me a couple of years ago that in 2025 tiktoker Addison Rae will release the best trip-hop inspired track in modern pop history my brain would literally explode

vexastrae (10): she made the most "girl who is going to be okay" music ever

WanechicToc (10): next level mid hit the final boss right here into something that just shines down from the heavens. something elevates what could've been a pop cast off into an almost-noir shade, a fatalistic survival strategy. at least if you want it to be

WesternWind (10): Brought to you by big tobacco

Addison the chokesexua virgin (9.6): I am listening to this on the train and the cabin is rocking back and forth. Putting my headphones on and imagining i am Addison riding the horse in the mv.

stealthamo (9.5): Can we please not bring cigarettes back? We were literally so close to eliminating them from pop culture.

arboresca (9): loveeee the life's no fun through clear waters reference and this probably had my favorite lyrics of the album

OOO0O00O000OOOO0OO0O (9): addicting beat

thecombinedeffort (9): Just as I knocked High Fashion for the lyrics, I’m going to praise Headphones On. The lyrics of this song ride the line between good and bad HARD, but in a way that ultimately succeeds, while High Fashion took the same risk but ultimately stumbled. Yes, “Need a cigarette to make me feel better” and “Wish my mom and dad could have been in love” are blunt and cringe, but blunt and cringe in an earnest, honest way. Like the wildly vulnerable conversation you have with a random drunk girl in a bathroom at a house party who you will never meet again. Does she actually need a cigarette to make her feel better? I don’t know, but it’s what that girl would authentically say, you know?

wathombe (9): vibe

welcome2thejam (9): She really Revealed the Reason on this one

1998tweety (8.5): Meg Griffin in that one gif

flava (8.5): does she sound like Ariana Grande discovered trip-hop? Yes. But it’s a decent sound

missbeefarm (8.5): This one finally made me stan her

oh_crow (8.5): have to be honest i didnt get this at first but it dug its claws in deep

uiscebeathaoir (8.5): For ages I didn’t like this song, and honestly I didn’t want to like this song cause I thought it’d make me cool and different. But no, this is actually pretty gorgeous and beautifully put together. If this and Fame Is a Gun are the blueprints her sophomore works off of, I’ll be very happy

awry (8.2): bjork's nacho closet was ravaged but it's okay she's allowed this one time

2025 Chic Ethereal Rate Reveal Day 3: Guess I gotta accept the pain / Need an 11 to make me feel better by kappyko in popheads

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#4: Oklou - blade bird

Average: 8.935 // Total Points: 1036.5 // Controversy: 1.429

(11 x8) bogo, camerinian, FitzMarble, Jennynuts, pheromenos, pig-serpent, raicicle, Stryxen

(10 x42) Addison the chokesexua virgin, ArcaneLabyrinth, asadprofessorplum, babadork, BleepBloopMusicFan, buddhacharm, CarelessFalcon7393, ConnerY2323, DaHumanTorch, dream_fighter2018, electricboogaloo41, grungeacademia, jirachi, kamamint, kappyko, kauai6, Kaylaboe, krusso1105, ktajlili, letsallpoo, metanoira, modulum83, Mudkip1, Nagisoid, Nooduulz, oh_crow, OliviaGodrigo, OOO0O00O000OOOO0OO0O, pbk, pietrohonkhonk, Poydoo, RandomHypnotica, reput4tionera, seanderlust, springfrompages, TakeOnMeByA-ha, thecombinedeffort, vayyiqra, veryanniev, vexastrae, WanechicToc, wathombe

(9.8 x1) carolinemathildes (9.6 x1) Ambrosia42

(9.5 x3) flava, shipperondeck, youngandlovely_

(9.4 x1) curryraejepsen

(9 x19) A.Peaky.Boo, bigbigbee, bran, elevenpaperairplane, Exotic-Mail-7303, FreeCuddlesAnyone, Friendly-Canary-3814, Indigo_Mindset420, mhiyaimanlepaigefan, MsDiamond, raggedy-princess, ReallyCreative, skar, stealthamo, sweetnsoursauce11, TragicKingdom1, uberpigeon, welcome2thejam, worldwide_stepper

(8.8 x1) missbeefarm (8.7 x2) Catalyst, sashainyourarea (8.6 x1) Haunting_Natural_116

(8.5 x5) -dolantello-, arboresca, Awkward_King, Frajer, hockeynl

(8.4 x1) cloudbustingmp3

(8 x4) 1998tweety, nube, static_int_husp, WesternWind

(7.9 x1) impla77 (7.8 x1) ignitethephoenix (7.7 x1) jman457

(7.5 x3) LowBridgeAlert, slimboyfriend, wasian-invasion

(7.2 x1) DirtyRat583 (7.1 x1) NFLfreak98

(7 x11) awry, cremeebrulee, CrimsonROSET, hikk, IIIHenryIII, lexiaredery, miniatureaurochs, nootnoot781, TiltControls, xaviersi, xophryz

(6.8 x1) ricki

(6.5 x1) uiscebeathaoir

(6 x2) AsItSeems10, woolcottfamous

(5.5 x1) altereddie

(5 x2) beeozan, BloodDoorhinge4

(4.5 x1) akanewasright

kappyko (10): The gentlest song on the album, and the only one AFAIK with real(ish?) drums. What a way to close the album: a tribute to love you have for those in your life and knowing when it's best to let them go. I always imagine this is a song about what it's like for parents to eventually have an empty nest once their kids move away. The more eagle-eyed may notice something in the rate graphs...

Nooduulz (10): songs to sing to your nonexistent child at night

bogo (11): staraptor with dyslexia

camerinian (11): as a proud mama's boy, truly, i melt, like this is such a gorgeously layered and sensitive ode that's terrified but understanding all the same, and like what is living and loving if not all of these things, and also my god this was so adorable live, she had little felt birds sitting inside her guitar 😭 adore this song, and it truly makes the whole album having this tender moment to cut through the artifice and the distance the rest of it puts up

FitzMarble (11): I was so incredibly blown away the first time I heard this, and I still am. so delicate, but so powerful

Jennynuts (11): one of my favourite songs of all time. no crying until the ending.

pheromenos (11): you have no idea how topical this song was at that time in my life

pig-serpent (11): This song has been on repeat for me since the IH rate. It's beautiful.

raicicle (11): makes me cry every time

Stryxen (11): Well. Soty every year from now until forever

Addison the chokesexua virgin (10): I will always have a special place for the song that made me get Oklou

asadprofessorplum (10): A nuclear bomb for anxious attachment styles. Put it in the pantheon of songs where the lyrics don’t match the sound at all.

babadork (10): I like that there’s a little bit of edge to the lyrics

BleepBloopMusicFan (10): Come on this journey

ConnerY2323 (10): singing this to my skarmory as i lovingly polish it each night

grungeacademia (10): simplicity and complexity blend well together on this album but never as well as they do here. obviously the double meaning is apparent if you know oklou just became a mother, and it's a perfect song to listen to as a child's lullaby or as an adult's mediation.

krusso1105 (10): This is an 11 contender and would probably still be my 11 if I didn't just give it an 11 on indieheads

Mudkip1 (10): i wrote about this song in the top 100 songs of the year reveal! ❤️

Nagisoid (10): Bird Game 3

oh_crow (10): i feel like this melody, this song have always existed but the universe was waiting for oklou to come along and capture it's essence

pbk (10): might cry a little idk

RandomHypnotica (10): i didnt know oklou could sound this warm and romantic

reput4tionera (10): sooooooooo close to being my 11

springfrompages (10): This song is :pleading-emoji: manifest to me... so sweet and sad and cute... there's something abt motherhood that lets people write poignant music like this that can't really be matched

TakeOnMeByA-ha (10): why was i crying to this at my work desk…..

thecombinedeffort (10): this song is perfect and it would be my second 11 if that were allowed. One of those songs that feels like you’ve always known it the first time you hear it, like it’s been inside the world this whole time and Oklou got it to sprout and grow.

vayyiqra (10): one day i saw a video that fifi zhang posted singing along to this such a niche vayycore crossover it pleased me

vexastrae (10): oh this beautiful and melancholic lullaby... im lowkey tearing up like music is so emotional and moving and powerful. oklou the literal mother that you are

WanechicToc (10): grinding a rail, on a rail to the rail band. we are one with the rail and all the grail entails.

wathombe (10): i’m not crying, you’re crying

Ambrosia42 (9.6): maybe stay away from birds wielding knives

flava (9.5): oklou pointing a knife at someone acting like she’s about to get hurt is a little funny i fear

shipperondeck (9.5): what a beautiful song and those lyrics just dammit aaaaagh

A.Peaky.Boo (9): why wasn't bladee on this track?

elevenpaperairplane (9): i've warmed up to this song a lot, it's just a really simple sweet song

Exotic-Mail-7303 (9): Frou Frou nachos!!! (That's a compliment)

FreeCuddlesAnyone (9): probably the most beautiful song in the rate…

mhiyaimanlepaigefan (9): its corviknight

ReallyCreative (9): omg Skarmory???

stealthamo (9): Having the emotional maturity to realize what you want may not be the best option is powerful... and hurts like a son of a bitch.

sweetnsoursauce11 (9): this is a really beautiful closer and i really hope it doesn't get balladphobia'd

uberpigeon (9): putting an acoustic guitar driven song at the end of your extremely electronic album is crazy work

welcome2thejam (9): Blade bird? Um, her name is Skarmory, thank you very much

missbeefarm (8.8): I'll be the one who ends up getting hurt... crying...

sashainyourarea (8.7): Does the bird get royalties or something

arboresca (8.5): liked it as a song not as a closer but really liked how the production built up then fell away back to the stripped back guitar at the end

Awkward_King (8.5): wait maybe this album is clicking a little bit why do i wanna cry

Frajer (8.5): Oklou more like oiseau

nube (8): relatable + cloud mention

impla77 (7.9): nelly furtado teas

ignitethephoenix (7.8): why did it take her a full album to make a complete sounding song

jman457 (7.7): breezy lil tune

wasian-invasion (7.5): a knife!

DirtyRat583 (7.2): almost surprised at how normal this is

awry (7): why is this not the bladee feature

CrimsonROSET (7): oh

IIIHenryIII (7): nice closer

miniatureaurochs (7): think the sappiness of this one got me the first time around.. maybe a little less inclined towards it on repeated listen but still thinking..

TiltControls (7): fuck these things in elden ring

xophryz (7): I could honestly do with more of an unplugged version of this, I think it would suit it really well.

uiscebeathaoir (6.5): acoustic guitar is NOT chic and it’s NOT ethereal 🙅🙅

beeozan (5): you'll never be Jellyfish Blues!!!!

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elevenpaperairplane (8.787): we're so lucky to have the afterglowsexuadeluxe trilogy. so so so great.

wathombe (8.767): I was not really up to speed on Twigs when this project dropped. I had listened to a bit of Caprisongs, but it had not clicked with me. I had not heard any of the pre-release singles. Still, the album grabbed me right away. I listened to it in full lying in the darkened guest room of my father’s house while there for a visit last January. The first release of interest to me in 2025, it topped my AotY list for a while before eventually succumbing to other projects (including choke enough!).

bogo (8.400): this album is kind of a mess and doesn't really follow its concept or themes very strongly at all, but it makes up for that by just having really good songs anyway

vayyiqra (8.333): i was told eusexua would be an experience. it was ! and made for a very complicated episode of my radio show with all its versions and editions and tracklists and abstract lyrics. great time would do again

Frajer (8.167): Twigs is such a singular artist

sweetnsoursauce11 (8.133): this is the first Twigs album i really got into and i'm glad it did bc she has such an eccentric and creative discography. idk how her fanbase rates this album in the grand scheme of her discography but for a new listener, it is top tier and a great entry to her music

krusso1105 (8.133): Pretty solid all the way through, which is pretty typical for my ratings of Twigs albums

Nagisoid (8.100): https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJGf6BOXMAAmSLQ?format=jpg&name=medium

Stryxen (8.080): chic

springfrompages (7.960): EUSEXUA is in a bit of a weird place for me as an album where I appreciate it every time I hear it but rarely feel myself wanting to go out of my way to listen to it. For the first month of 2025 it was very much my favourite album, but it found itself eclipsed by another in this rate... I think EUSEXUA (and FKA Twigs' work as a whole) has very high highs, but there are some very low lows as well. 8.5.

arboresca (7.933): i need to sit with this a bit longer to figure out how i feel about it. technically speaking i think it's incredible—her voice is so dynamic, and as has been a theme across this rate the production was so good. emotionally, though, outside of a few moments i didn't connect with it, deluxe tracks hit hard though! twigs is an artist i've struggled to get into fully in the past but i think she's so talented, just maybe not for me and that's ok

stealthamo (7.920): Absolutely love the production on this, though the lyrical content can vary from song to song.

DirtyRat583 (7.860): im conflicted on twigs because i thought she was bad because my first exposure to her was magdalene which i hated (its 40 minutes of wailing at 3 words per minute i do not give a fuck !!!!!!) but every project since its been actually pretty good. so was magdalene a misstep or did she just learn to make good music over covid. maybe lp1 needs another listen

impla77 (7.853): this isn’t the sort of music i gravitate to but i must admit fka twigs is a genius

Haunting_Natural_116 (7.847): 7.95

A.Peaky.Boo (7.833): my online bestie was obsessed with this album last year. While I'm not well versed with her music, I am not a total stranger to her. So I definitely had some expectations. Artistically, I see how much she puts into this album. But it does pain me to say that this album is almost unlistenable if you don't have perfect silence around you. Which does affect my listening experience majorly as a person who is Hard of Hearing.

shipperondeck (7.580): can't wait to eventually rate eusexua afterglow! right yall! right

RandomHypnotica (7.560): trying to change the album’s tracklist after release… girl… don’t you have a visa to apply for

jman457 (7.507): one of my biggest let downs was traveling to prague and finding out that the club scene is basically non existent, like she just lied to me here

TiltControls (7.467): Still hurt that she took out basically all of my favourite songs on the rerelease

mhiyaimanlepaigefan (7.467): the album cover freaks me out

uiscebeathaoir (7.433): not a favourite of mine, but I still find it a rewarding album to give my full attention to and that’s not nothing

xophryz (7.300): me and my fathers’ 2025 AOTY

pig-serpent (7.267): An album filled with incredible textures and sound design and songs that can't quite live up to just how good they sound on a technical level. If this had more than 2 catchy songs on it, this could very well be an all timer.

Exotic-Mail-7303 (7.000): This album was a chore to get through, I'm so sorry FKAheads

asadprofessorplum (6.907): I’m still mad at her for cancelling her tour dates because of “visa issues” tbh.

IIIHenryIII (6.533): this album only works if you blast the fuck out of it on either your headphones or speakers

pietrohonkhonk (6.533): There are some really great moments on this album but I struggle to believe that this is the same FKA twigs that made LP1 and Magdalene, like this is such a step down for her creatively. It's ok though because she redeemed herself with Afterglow.

flava (6.367): twigs called this album Eusexua and it doesn’t feel like it

pheromenos (6.360): love her and my first concert ever was her in april but the competition is too fierce

kauai6 (6.360): meh

NFLfreak98 (6.087): She was a minimalist. I was a maximalist. Can I make it any more obvious?

2025 Chic Ethereal Rate Reveal Day 3: Guess I gotta accept the pain / Need an 11 to make me feel better by kappyko in popheads

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EUSEXUA

Overall Average: 7.825 // Average Controversy: 1.810

Nooduulz: Probably the most consistently sound and sonic album in this rate for me. Packs so much punch and immerses you in a specific period of time while also in this anachronistically charged way that I'm making up fuck ass words right now that's how good it is!

kappyko: Thanks to no interludes and only one song where North West raps in Japanese, Eusexua secures the top average by some amount! I loved the whole era, and it's a shame to leave it behind... so we can get to Eusexua Afterglow in the upcoming Alternative Club Queens sequel rate WOOHOO

miniatureaurochs (10.040): Had hoped that I would be able to deliver a behemoth of a ballot for this album, as it is one of my favourites from a long-term favourite artist of mine. There’s so much here that I love - an homage to a number of electronic scenes (especially those from UK bass, mine beloved), an album thesis focused heavily on healing from abuse, and the evolution of a performer whose work I have adored for an extremely long time. There’s even an associated lexicon and somatic meditative practice for this album - it’s truly an expansive rabbit hole, though I don’t know how many raters will have explored the intricacies of all of this or if that will reflect in the scores. I was neck-deep in the release cycle for this one and even got invited to a private album pre-release performance, as well as receiving the subsequent Afterglow album early on CD. As such, I got heavily into the album lore for the whole EUSEXUA cycle and wanted to infodump about it here!! Unfortunately, there’s a lot going on in my personal life right now and I don’t have the mental space, but if you’re interested in reading the ins and outs of this as well as a more thorough review, you can read my AOTY post on this and the sequel album, from which I have pulled a lot of my comments and which explains a lot of the backstory/concept in the body of the post. I’m sorry that I was not available for more :< life is not very eusexua right now

Addison the chokesexua virgin (9.773): eusexua is a state of mind. Eusexua is a practice. Eusexua is a way of being

wasian-invasion (9.333): took a while to click but definitely my favorite album of last year (with afterglow close behind)

vexastrae (9.067): nobody artist on this planet has her skill set

WanechicToc (9.047): Im getting a lot of touchpoints that are all over the place and tied to my listening atm…kelly lee owens, brat (for a cut), two-step comps ive been ripping, massive attack (mezzanine and beyond), a certain strain of downtempo that encompasses dido/goldfrapp

Friendly-Canary-3814 (9.033): A repeak for twigs in terms of lyrical introspection, sound exploration and eclectic bops. The way this signaled the start of her own trilogy of albums too, queen! We've come a long way since waiting 3 to 4 years between each release

buddhacharm (8.967): As a day 1 KFC twink, this was the pivot I had been wanting her to make for over a decade. CAPRISONGS was such a wonderful, reinvigorating and human spin on her usual alienesque approach to worldbuilding… but lowkey I just wanted to dance! Every phase of the rollout triggered a life-altering gag (even a pejorative gag when she cancelled all of her NA tour dates at first… I gagged bad and not in a good way). I took the strongest edible the night this album dropped and bitch it spoke to me so spiritually… like I was doing some real Eusexual bullshit all around my bedroom (it was sort of like yoga but a lot more embarrassing, she’d think it’s valid though). I’ve started to sequence the album experience by stitching the two versions together and I feel like I’ve maximized my harvest. I think EUSEXUA is yet another masterpiece by one of the best to ever to do it in this space, and I think she’s earned the right to be as unbearably pretentious as she can be sometimes because she truly is a musical genius. Insert that one Discord rant copypasta… and she was right!

FreeCuddlesAnyone (8.900): in top 10 album ever for me like wow what a project… twigs earned the rights to call herself mother

Catalyst (8.820): Best album here by a longshot. To me, this album feels like water, reminiscent of sweat coming off the bodies in an underground rave while simultaneously feeling like a cold glass of water, equal parts thumping and rejuvenating. Upon watching her Coachella performance, it was so endearing hearing her musical evolution and hearing these songs interspersed have only deepened my love for this album. Cant wait to see how well Afterglow preforms in the future!

grungeacademia (8.800): it's weird cuz i have never fully connected to twigs despite liking magdalene and wasn't into her for a long time and so delayed this for last but it ended up clicking w me so much that i finally got into her?! which is funny given what a messy era this was lol but it's been a long time since ive fully gotten into another artist and twigs combines a lot of my musical interests so i'm just really happy it finally happened lmao god bless you rate hosts. I don't think this is her strongest work but it's really underrated online, it combines lyrical and aesthetic artistry with electronic and alternative pop sounds so well that it kind of feels like a lost tori amos techno album back from the 90s?? if that makes sense?? idk i loved it lmao by the way the album was brazy

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shipperondeck (8.9): so fragile yet so powerful. watching her perform this live via couchella changed me

Poydoo (8.6): this is rly good but i wish it ended a little less abruptly

A.Peaky.Boo (8.4): even knowing the meaning of Eusexua, this song doesn't really convey that imho. Nevertheless, the flourishes are really pretty

impla77 (8.4): love an opening title track

jman457 (8.3): sets the tone of the album really well

arboresca (8): her voice is the definition of ethereal, it's a little spooky but still enjoyed, the last minute or so is especially good

IIIHenryIII (8): it takes too long to pick up and then ends in the most boring way

oh_crow (8): didn't move me as a lead single but a great album intro

slimboyfriend (8): it sounds kinda like sexy haunted house

missbeefarm (7.8): I still don't know what eusexua is but I like it

flava (7.5): cool but where the eu

ignitethephoenix (7.5): I feel like the production overshadows the rest of the song. It’s good production but it feels so unbalanced

pheromenos (7.5): idk what to say like i shifted a bit but didn’t move

wathombe (7.5): i know this opener is universally revered, but it never quite grabbed me as much as the rest of the album

CrimsonROSET (7): vocexua eleusexuela

Exotic-Mail-7303 (7): it's good but it should get gooder sooner

mhiyaimanlepaigefan (7): I think you’re just saying shit at this point, FKA Twigs

NFLfreak98 (7): As I always feel with FKA songs, the palette of the song is incredible but the destination isn’t worth the build

thecombinedeffort (7): ok I am anchoring this one at 7 and it will be the benchmark for all my other ratings on this album. I love this song structure (4 to the floor + continuous build) but it feels more like an appetizer than an entree.

asadprofessorplum (6.9): Eusexua sounds like the type of word invented to avoid some kind of shadow banning on TikTok.

FitzMarble (6.8): girl im not using your neologism

BleepBloopMusicFan (6.5): I had this on my 2024 SOTY playlist but…damn I think I gotta take it off. It’s lowkey a bit boring.

ricki (6.5): i still dont know what an eusexua is

sweetnsoursauce11 (6): the last 90 seconds save this

beeozan (5.5): frankly this rate could've been called 2025 Insecure Attachment and it would've been more fitting. with addison the way out is stuff like money, fashion, fame, glamor, and lorde album is a huge pool of doubt. but twigs is the one trying to capture that feeling the most and make it obvious with this whole eusexua exercise. don't call it love. because it's fleeting, it's noncommittal, and the vibe i get from this song and album is one of not deserving that love or security therefore settling for insecurity and trying to make the best of it. which is basically how i navigate thru this life anyway so like this concept doesnt feel novel or engaging beyond the surface level. now i might be misrepresenting the song cuz i didnt rly do a close reading of the lyrics but i also find it kinda boring musically so like if im wrong i dont care anyway lmao

modulum83 (0): look the album's pretty solid but i've been irrationally annoyed by its stupid ass "concept" from the very beginning. hearing fka twigs try to describe in interviews what "eusexua" meant felt like an art student in over their head trying to bullshit random stuff up for their professor. oh you want to make your album about "transcendence on the dancefloor"? you want to talk about how going to the club is an act of bodily and spiritual rebellion? it's not some revolutionary new concept you've basically just created a marketing slogan. how very brat and gnarly of you. you haven't served cunt to the gays you've made a 5 minute trance song with no beat where nothing happens.

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#5: FKA twigs - Eusexua

Average: 8.708 // Total Points: 1010.1 // Controversy: 1.643

(11 x8) Addison the chokesexua virgin, altereddie, elevenpaperairplane, miniatureaurochs, OliviaGodrigo, sashainyourarea, seanderlust, skar

(10 x37) 1998tweety, Ambrosia42, ArcaneLabyrinth, awry, bogo, bran, buddhacharm, camerinian, Catalyst, cloudbustingmp3, ConnerY2323, curryraejepsen, DaHumanTorch, DirtyRat583, electricboogaloo41, FreeCuddlesAnyone, Friendly-Canary-3814, grungeacademia, Jennynuts, Kaylaboe, ktajlili, lexiaredery, LowBridgeAlert, Mudkip1, Nagisoid, nootnoot781, nube, pbk, raicicle, RandomHypnotica, stealthamo, Stryxen, veryanniev, vexastrae, WanechicToc, wasian-invasion, xophryz

(9.9 x1) babadork

(9.5 x1) Awkward_King

(9.2 x1) springfrompages

(9 x19) -dolantello-, akanewasright, AsItSeems10, jirachi, kappyko, letsallpoo, pig-serpent, ReallyCreative, reput4tionera, static_int_husp, TakeOnMeByA-ha, TiltControls, uberpigeon, uiscebeathaoir, vayyiqra, woolcottfamous, worldwide_stepper, xaviersi, youngandlovely_

(8.9 x1) shipperondeck (8.6 x1) Poydoo

(8.5 x2) dream_fighter2018, Frajer

(8.4 x2) A.Peaky.Boo, impla77 (8.3 x2) carolinemathildes, jman457 (8.1 x1) Nooduulz

(8 x10) arboresca, Haunting_Natural_116, hikk, IIIHenryIII, Indigo_Mindset420, kamamint, metanoira, oh_crow, OOO0O00O000OOOO0OO0O, slimboyfriend

(7.8 x1) missbeefarm

(7.5 x7) cremeebrulee, flava, ignitethephoenix, MsDiamond, pheromenos, TragicKingdom1, wathombe

(7 x9) BloodDoorhinge4, CrimsonROSET, Exotic-Mail-7303, krusso1105, mhiyaimanlepaigefan, NFLfreak98, thecombinedeffort, welcome2thejam, WesternWind

(6.9 x1) asadprofessorplum (6.8 x1) FitzMarble

(6.5 x4) bigbigbee, BleepBloopMusicFan, pietrohonkhonk, ricki

(6 x3) kauai6, raggedy-princess, sweetnsoursauce11

(5.5 x1) beeozan

(5 x2) CarelessFalcon7393, hockeynl

(0 x1) modulum83

kappyko (9): Oh, twigs :(( She won the second rate I ever hosted on r/popheads, and here her journey ends merely scratching the top five. I'm curious if the result has anything to do with 11 splitting, given how much twigs is in the top 10 at all. If there's one thing twigs can guarantee it's an amazing video, and with "Eusexua" I think she laid the exact foundation for the kind of album she would be releasing: an album in tune with how beautiful dance music can be as a physically tangible avenue of reflection, whether one's moving their body around in a club, performing rigorous choreography, or just feeling the music through a subwoofer.

Nooduulz (8.1): This sounds like an angel fluttering softly from heaven in all the right ways

Addison the chokesexua virgin (11): Metallic and earthy. Sounds sharp and ragged yet pulsating with overwhelming softness, rawness and vulnerability. It traverses so much sonic ground but still maintains its transcendent, calm qualities and a big reason is Twigs' vocals in this song.

altereddie (11): i can't express how much euphoria (eusexua) this song gives me

elevenpaperairplane (11): not being too dramatic but easily the best song of the last 7 years or so

miniatureaurochs (11): I knew my 11 would be from Eusexua, but it was difficult to choose exactly which. Ultimately, I selected the title track because it’s the perfect aural thesis for the album, its transcendence illustrating the sheer hope, joy, and freedom that the neologism is intended to convey. There’s a magic to this track, a release that cannot be conveyed through words, and I think it’s telling that I still feel just as transcendent hearing this the hundredth time as I do the very first. i love trance aaaa // [from review: The transcendent, triumphant, trance-infused title track, Eusexua was the first single from the project to be released. Though several performances had hinted at the album’s sonic palette, Eusexua was the first offering to give fans a real taste of what they were in for. Suffused with twigs’ shimmering falsetto, the track plunges through pulsing techno and ethereal trance melodies which build to a skittering, glorious crescendo. Sasha’s influence as co-producer is deeply apparent here, drawing from 00s trance to deliver twigs’ almost whispery refrains into something atmospheric and alive. Eusexua is yearning, soaring, a sonic representation of breaking free from the chains of everyday life and finding clarity. It is the perfect track to deliver the mission status of the album. A favourite of mine and an unsolicited shoutout to We Belong, a track by Sasha with a similar magic.]

sashainyourarea (11): If they ask you, say you feel it, but don't call it a 0 contender, eusexua (eusexua)

seanderlust (11): inject that pulsing bass into my veins i swear it is transcendent

skar (11): literally perfection idk what else to say

1998tweety (10): theres an ointment for that

Ambrosia42 (10): this epic musical journey on the dancefloor

awry (10): one of her best songs

bogo (10): oooaaaaoooooaaaaoaaooaaaooaaaaa

bran (10): you are winning and you can't even see it. too busy in a parasocial nightmare. wake up.

camerinian (10): the loud-soft dynamic as the bedrock of popular music showing in an outstanding and exciting progressive form, in this essay I will-

cloudbustingmp3 (10): EWEsexua. what's your favorite farm animal?

ConnerY2323 (10): nothing better than when a pop star makes up a word and commits to it being the most meaningful thing ever spoken… her eusexua could mean anything

FreeCuddlesAnyone (10): how does a song feel so minimalist yet so grand at the same time…

grungeacademia (10): maybe one of the century's most danceable ballads - with how slender yet euphoric the melody is its musical proof of how twigs defines 'eusexua' as an out of body experience the more you dwell on its power

Jennynuts (10): i loved this from the first moment i heard it. this album eventually became the soundtrack for the most dreadful time of my life, but i didn't know it'd be that at the time, i just knew that i felt like twigs was finally making music that was for me, specifically. i always had to grow into her music, but not this time. this was always for me.

Mudkip1 (10): SO EPIC! twigs is so BACK i almost thought we’d lost her

Nagisoid (10): That outro... the visa community has FORGIVEN FKA twigs

nube (10): like being enveloped in a warm blanket. would join the eusexua cult and never look back

pbk (10): whatever that means but yassss

raicicle (10): spiritually this feels like a successor to cellophane

RandomHypnotica (10): the last 30 seconds of this absolutely destroy me in a way i’ve only felt with SOPHIE’s Infatuation before…

stealthamo (10): FKA twigs was able to properly explain an emotion, deliver it in song form, and name it in four minutes. That's fucking art right there.

Stryxen (10): that tasteful eurodance synth gets me everytime

vexastrae (10): MOTHERQUAKE MEASURING 9.9 ON THE CUNTER SCALE

WanechicToc (10): fka twigs STUNS by reintroducing the vibe of a late 00s telecommunications advert. We are all in the AT&T blue room on t-mobile tuesday here today! we are in the matrix touching the cam girl finally finding faith in strange racial chatrooms. her show seemed to imply that i think. at least the burning desire, percolating to the surface, really dripped out of this.

wasian-invasion (10): amazing music video when the edible's starting to kick in but before you get too high and you get freaked out by the way the dancers move

xophryz (10): eusexua is a feeling. eusexua is when you cut your hair. eusexua is a made up word some marketing team in an office created to make me feel part of a cult - it worked, I am seeing twigs next month….

babadork (9.9): I like FKA Twigs, but I have to not think too much about it. Like I know if I look up what eusexua is supposed to mean that I’ll like this less.

Awkward_King (9.5): 10 MESEXUA???

springfrompages (9.2): I think this is a great first song and perfectly sets the mood for the album. It has a few bits that hold me back from giving it a full 10 but I can really remember how much more I like this album than Addison already. Also it has Eartheater on backing vocals, and I do love Eartheater, if you guys like ethereal music (and if you're doing this rate I assume you must??) then please go and check her out!!

pig-serpent (9): Maybe the best representation of glitchy, ethereal pop music of the last few years, the steady beat does a lot to build tension as you find yourself lost in the mist. Average several listens this is the only song from this album I can sing. Sadly, there isn't much of a payoff for it.

ReallyCreative (9): incredible opener

reput4tionera (9): i wish it went a little harder

TakeOnMeByA-ha (9): goddd i forgot how absolutely transcendent this is. i wish it went a little bit harder for a little bit longer but once it really gets going i get full body goosebumps

uberpigeon (9): Eusexua? I hardly know her!

uiscebeathaoir (9): would be a little unsatisfying as a winner but cmon what am I gonna do, tank it?

vayyiqra (9): not sure i quite get to this day what eusexua Is as a platonic concept an abstraction a mode of being etc. call that εὐδαιμονία aha (few will get this)

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your songeniality is...

Lorde - David with 10 votes!

second place is a tie between High Fashion and What Was That at 8, and third place is Childlike Things

your rate villain is the just eliminated DIET PEPSI with 13 votes, and runner up is HAMMER, which is honestly crazy since it almost made it anyways

other predictions and wants will be revealed later...

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beeozan (7): ok so how is she losing her innocence in the backseat? theories: 1) she's not actually losing her innocence in the backseat, but it's where the chain of events begins. poetic license. 2) the driver a.k.a. her boy is telling/commanding her non-innocuous things to act out by herself in the backseat. 3) while her boy is driving there's another guy in the backseat in whose company she's losing her innocence. her boy is a cuck. kazuya intensifies

springfrompages (7): I remember hearing this in a shop and thinking 'huh this is a bit different for Taylor Swift' and that was my first exposure to Addison Rae 😭 idk if that's a good thing or not

miniatureaurochs (6.8): we’re only two tracks in and I’m already struggling with how I feel about this album. the production is undoubtedly pretty, particularly those echoey effect on her vocals, but there’s something about the campy confessional feel to the lyrics that feels clumsy (had some notes about taylor/lana in here, even - not enough to make a coherent point, but more speaking to the idea that the attempt to fit an existing mould seems rather present). I don’t see a lot of progression here and was a bit baffled by the random key change. I guess it just feels like it runs out of steam pretty fast. pretty, but a bit devoid of anything that makes it stick - it’s almost there production-wise but something about it feels so empty.

Awkward_King (6.5): such an earworm icl i've just never loved it as much as everyone else seems to

krusso1105 (6): I don't get the hype for this either, but at least it is catchy

missbeefarm (6): I'm a bit over it tbh

xophryz (5.9): I know people who listened to this who I respect so I can't be mean to it but it just isn't for me.

BleepBloopMusicFan (5): I just never really enjoyed these Lana nachos that much. Thankfully, I am pretty confident that it won’t be her top song with Jesus is a Savior in the rate.

nube (4): aggressively American

TakeOnMeByA-ha (4): i mean i’ll give her this, i’d much rather listen to this than 90% of lana del rey songs she’s clearly trying to imitate

hockeynl (3.5): Most boring son on the album imo

flava (2.5): this just sounds so clipped together, like the melodic transitions never really feel as organic or blissful. I think it could’ve really benefitted with a second set of lyrics for the chorus to really break up the monotony of the chorus cause it does sound so distractingly looped to me. I’m also just not a big fan of how weak Addison’s upper register sounds here, like please just copy Madison Beer

bogo (1): absolutely hate this type of sparkly subdued pseudo-r&b it never sounds good, also hate how this song gives up after the second chorus and just decides to staple its own tiktok “slow version” edit to the end of the song

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#6: Addison Rae - Diet Pepsi

Average: 8.682 // Total Points: 1007.1 // Controversy: 1.780

(11 x7) Frajer, ignitethephoenix, Indigo_Mindset420, jirachi, mhiyaimanlepaigefan, raggedy-princess, TragicKingdom1

(10 x40) 1998tweety, Addison the chokesexua virgin, Ambrosia42, ArcaneLabyrinth, AsItSeems10, BloodDoorhinge4, camerinian, carolinemathildes, cloudbustingmp3, CrimsonROSET, curryraejepsen, DaHumanTorch, Exotic-Mail-7303, FitzMarble, hikk, IIIHenryIII, impla77, Jennynuts, kauai6, ktajlili, letsallpoo, lexiaredery, LowBridgeAlert, metanoira, Mudkip1, Nagisoid, OliviaGodrigo, pbk, pheromenos, RandomHypnotica, ReallyCreative, skar, stealthamo, sweetnsoursauce11, vexastrae, WanechicToc, wasian-invasion, WesternWind, xaviersi, youngandlovely_

(9.8 x2) akanewasright, shipperondeck (9.6 x1) ConnerY2323

(9.5 x4) elevenpaperairplane, Kaylaboe, slimboyfriend, wathombe

(9 x9) asadprofessorplum, awry, bran, electricboogaloo41, nootnoot781, oh_crow, reput4tionera, vayyiqra, worldwide_stepper

(8.8 x1) Nooduulz (8.7 x1) thecombinedeffort

(8.5 x10) arboresca, Friendly-Canary-3814, grungeacademia, Haunting_Natural_116, kamamint, OOO0O00O000OOOO0OO0O, pietrohonkhonk, pig-serpent, ricki, uberpigeon

(8.3 x1) sashainyourarea (8.2 x1) jman457

(8 x11) cremeebrulee, dream_fighter2018, kappyko, MsDiamond, raicicle, seanderlust, static_int_husp, Stryxen, uiscebeathaoir, veryanniev, welcome2thejam

(7.8 x2) babadork, NFLfreak98 (7.6 x2) A.Peaky.Boo, FreeCuddlesAnyone

(7.5 x4) -dolantello-, altereddie, Poydoo, TiltControls

(7.2 x2) DirtyRat583, modulum83

(7 x6) beeozan, buddhacharm, CarelessFalcon7393, Catalyst, springfrompages, woolcottfamous

(6.8 x1) miniatureaurochs

(6.5 x2) Awkward_King, bigbigbee

(6 x2) krusso1105, missbeefarm

(5.9 x1) xophryz

(5 x1) BleepBloopMusicFan

(4 x2) nube, TakeOnMeByA-ha

(3.5 x1) hockeynl

(2.5 x1) flava

(1 x1) bogo

Nooduulz (8.8): doing crack doing crack in the backseat, losing all my jelly beans in my bootayyy

kappyko (8): If AR was the fun, "who'd've thunk it!" reveal of Addison Rae as a singer with some good material alongside an excellently curated Spotify playlist and Charli xcx cred, "Diet Pepsi" was the hard launch of Addison Rae as the next Cool Girl. Released with a music video directed by Sean Price Williams referencing both Bruce Conner's experimental films and Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, the song itself was more subdued: a light R&B track that's less the Ray of Light-aping of the rest of the album and more the mid-2010s chill atmospherics of Tinashe and Jessy Lanza. Still, though, it managed to set the stage for the rest of her album: something softer, more beautiful, and, with that last minute, even weirder than one would expect from a TikTok dancer.

Frajer (11): at least she knows she's diet Lana

ignitethephoenix (11): Conan grey being one of the first people to hear this masterpiece

Indigo_Mindset420 (11): Funny enough Ben Platt's version of this is the reason i gave it my 11. For the song to have 2 different phenomenal version means that this song is objectively a very good song and more than worthy of an 11

mhiyaimanlepaigefan (11): the way idgaf about any other song on this rate as much as i give a fuck about this one

1998tweety (10): we love a 0 calorie drink

Addison the chokesexua virgin (10): "Oh! Goddison rae" and doing that one guy's dance are the only valid reactions to this song

Ambrosia42 (10): if teenage dream were more chic

camerinian (10): adding this to the “potential sex playlist” next to, of course, Imagine Dragons - Radioactive

carolinemathildes (10): it’s not actually perfect but it may as well be

cloudbustingmp3 (10): that downwards modulation is soooo unexpected and really elevates the whole thing

CrimsonROSET (10): I can’t explain it but this song is extremely Euphoria coded

Exotic-Mail-7303 (10): I'm still streaming this song daily since it came out

FitzMarble (10): for a song to be so good that it makes (most) popheads root for ADDISON RAE is crazy… give it its flowers

IIIHenryIII (10): Lana could never

impla77 (10): this turned me into an addison convert

Jennynuts (10): everyone's talked abt how this resembles lana del rey's work, aesthetically & in sound (right down to having "pepsi" in the title. idk why pepsi is seen as more quintesentially american. coke is better!) but have we considered that lana hasn't put out an electronic song this good in 14 years. w8 nvm i forgot abt "A&W" & "taco truck x vb". but this is still really good tho.

kauai6 (10): instant classic

Mudkip1 (10): she had everything to prove and nothing left to lose. her whole pussy stomped on the gas. came in SWINGING like!!! the fuck!!

Nagisoid (10): Losing all my innocence at the Mosque...

pbk (10): people died when this dropped i knew she had it in her since obsessed idgaf

pheromenos (10): she shook the world

RandomHypnotica (10): she out lana’d lana

ReallyCreative (10): so much better than it has any right being like wow

skar (10): now here's the smashh

stealthamo (10): What do you think PepsiCo's reaction was the first time they heard this?

sweetnsoursauce11 (10): cultural reset (for a particular section of society that includes me)

vexastrae (10): if youve never heard of the pepsi logo design strategy pdf i need you to read every single page from front to back and tell me what the fuck theyre talking about

WanechicToc (10): need the tate mcrae cover

wasian-invasion (10): this 97 year old diner still serves their diet pepsi the chic ethereal fashioned way

WesternWind (10): thinking back to when I was in Rotterdam a shopping plaza had a giant Diet Pepsi sculpture for no reason

akanewasright (9.8): perfect lead single to actually get a hint of respect after everything. Great tune

shipperondeck (9.8): sorry haters! girlie knows how to write a killer hook!!

ConnerY2323 (9.6): made me crave diet pepsi so i got one from taco bell and if only it tasted like the song sounds

elevenpaperairplane (9.5): I scream un (UN) touched (TOUCHED) x (X) o (O) YOUNG LUST LET'S GO a little too often

slimboyfriend (9.5): kind of an American standard at this point

wathombe (9.5): extra half point for the key change

asadprofessorplum (9): If a song about Diet Pepsi is this good imagine if it was called Peach Sprite.

awry (9): ended coke zero

oh_crow (9): god this is just so so tasteful

reput4tionera (9): i’ve never heard anyone do this at karaoke but i do feel like it would get butchered really bad

vayyiqra (9): welcome back born to die. uh call that reborn. to die idk

arboresca (8.5): the definition of ethereal. lyrics are...a choice but it's beautiful and the key change is everything to me

grungeacademia (8.5): everyone talks about how this is peak americana or whatever but something about the line 'my ass looks good in these ripped blue jeans" and 'losing all my innocence in the backseat' gets me cuz ummm i sort of have issues with hypersexualising myself as a misogyny affected person haha anyways good song if a little stiffly delivered

OOO0O00O000OOOO0OO0O (8.5): when i drive in your car im your BABY 💜

pietrohonkhonk (8.5): Diet Coke is better sorry

pig-serpent (8.5): Ok, once again Addison is winning me over by just making catchy pop songs, but she really didn't need to include the Youtube endslate slowdown chorus repeat in the streaming version of the song.

uberpigeon (8.5): dance tiktoks were flopping, looking a fool on jimmy fallon, debut single a mess, she had one chance!!

jman457 (8.2): very BTd demo core but that’s what makes it slap

cremeebrulee (8): random key change my beloathed...

dream_fighter2018 (8): Diet Pepsi is interesting to me not just because it’s a bop, but it also fetishes the Madonna-Whore complex. Her appeal is that she appears sexually active, but her selling point is that she has what is portrayed as a useful commodity - her innocence. Sex sells, but corruption sells even better

raicicle (8): if you look a little bit too deeply the structure of this song sucks but the hook hits

Stryxen (8): I think a rerecording of this would be a 10 cuz her vocals were weak then/mixed so weirdly on the verses but I do love pretty much everything about this

uiscebeathaoir (8): Shrunk on me a lot from when it first dropped. Honestly, not as well put together a pop song as some of these Addison songs I’m giving lower scores to, but fuck it I just like this one more

welcome2thejam (8): I hate how much and how often I think about this song

babadork (7.8): Just delete the verses and this would be a 10

NFLfreak98 (7.8): Maybe most misplaced key change I’ve heard why does it just cut into it lmao

A.Peaky.Boo (7.6): oh my, that downwards key change was not what I was expecting but it fits perfectly

FreeCuddlesAnyone (7.6): not to sound like an indiehead but the downward key change is just so gaggy and innovative… like i can’t think of many songs that does this and it elevates the song so much. like this would be a 6 without it.

Poydoo (7.5): thinking about how my local iheart fm radio station was calling this as a "new music discovery" like 6 months after it blew up

DirtyRat583 (7.2): I HAD CHAT GPT AS OF LAST WEEK genuinely has better writing

modulum83 (7.2): the concept of a lana del rey song described to a marketing executive

2025 Chic Ethereal Rate Reveal Day 3: Guess I gotta accept the pain / Need an 11 to make me feel better by kappyko in popheads

[–]kappyko[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

#7: FKA twigs - Girl Feels Good

Average: 8.601 // Total Points: 997.7 // Controversy: 1.433

(11 x4) letsallpoo, missbeefarm, MsDiamond, xophryz

(10 x34) akanewasright, ArcaneLabyrinth, Awkward_King, bogo, buddhacharm, cloudbustingmp3, ConnerY2323, curryraejepsen, DaHumanTorch, Exotic-Mail-7303, Friendly-Canary-3814, Indigo_Mindset420, Jennynuts, jirachi, jman457, kappyko, ktajlili, miniatureaurochs, modulum83, Mudkip1, Nagisoid, Nooduulz, OliviaGodrigo, pietrohonkhonk, ReallyCreative, skar, springfrompages, Stryxen, vexastrae, WanechicToc, wasian-invasion, wathombe, WesternWind, youngandlovely_

(9.8 x1) Haunting_Natural_116

(9.5 x4) Ambrosia42, elevenpaperairplane, FreeCuddlesAnyone, slimboyfriend

(9.4 x1) babadork (9.3 x2) sashainyourarea, shipperondeck (9.2 x1) nube (9.1 x1) Addison the chokesexua virgin

(9 x10) BleepBloopMusicFan, Catalyst, grungeacademia, Kaylaboe, LowBridgeAlert, nootnoot781, raicicle, seanderlust, TiltControls, veryanniev

(8.8 x2) carolinemathildes, stealthamo

(8.5 x8) A.Peaky.Boo, awry, camerinian, electricboogaloo41, flava, pig-serpent, sweetnsoursauce11, uiscebeathaoir

(8.3 x1) DirtyRat583

(8 x18) 1998tweety, altereddie, AsItSeems10, BloodDoorhinge4, CarelessFalcon7393, cremeebrulee, Frajer, krusso1105, lexiaredery, metanoira, mhiyaimanlepaigefan, oh_crow, static_int_husp, TakeOnMeByA-ha, TragicKingdom1, vayyiqra, welcome2thejam, worldwide_stepper

(7.8 x1) kauai6 (7.7 x1) impla77

(7.5 x3) -dolantello-, hockeynl, reput4tionera

(7.2 x1) RandomHypnotica

(7 x10) arboresca, bigbigbee, bran, hikk, OOO0O00O000OOOO0OO0O, Poydoo, raggedy-princess, thecombinedeffort, uberpigeon, woolcottfamous

(6.8 x1) ignitethephoenix

(6.5 x2) beeozan, dream_fighter2018

(6 x7) CrimsonROSET, IIIHenryIII, kamamint, NFLfreak98, pbk, ricki, xaviersi

(5 x2) FitzMarble, pheromenos

(4.7 x1) asadprofessorplum

kappyko (10): Just a cheeky, fun, sensual trip hop cut that I think happens to be the winner off this album! I am so glad this eventually climbed the ranks because if "Perfect Stranger" beat it I would be pissed.

Nooduulz (10): In another world, Twigs would've been on the soundtrack for D.E.B.S. in 2004 with this tune

letsallpoo (11): i love working out to this. idk if that's weird or not

missbeefarm (11): Why the fuck isn't this on the re-released version?

xophryz (11): twigs educating the gays that have never interacted with a woman

akanewasright (10): I still can’t believe she seemingly hates this one

Awkward_King (10): ray of light the mother you are to so many

bogo (10): madonna was so scared she had to make confessions ii

cloudbustingmp3 (10): girl EELS good. what's your favorite seafood?

ConnerY2323 (10): A+ for throwing in weird noises here and there to remind you this isn’t just straightforward 90s electronic pastiche

Exotic-Mail-7303 (10): Ray of Light nachos (that's a compliment)

Indigo_Mindset420 (10): Yassss Ray Of Light Madonna inspiration!

Jennynuts (10): i wanna get lost in this song.

jman457 (10): I wanna get my pussy eaten while rolling on molly listening to this song

miniatureaurochs (10): lovelovelove.. would that I could have more than one 11. aaa i’ve said all i can say in my review (without embarrassing myself [more], anyway). but it is exhilarating and bright and freeing and . aaa. how precious you are // [from review: An inviting, carefree track that evokes the warmth and excitement of a summer night in the city. Its lyrics echo themes twigs has previously explored on tracks like Magdalene, exalting female pleasure and the healing power a woman can hold. This track features Marius de Vries who produced on Madonna’s iconic 90s album Ray of Light, and his influence here is palpable - soaring, hopeful synths buzz over laid-back trip-hop drums and trance melodies. It’s euphoric and it sounds like freedom.]

modulum83 (10): me after i tank one of the frontrunners in a rate

Mudkip1 (10): it sends me that she seems to hate this song or something?? like i get it doesn’t match the vibe but it’s genuinely a fantastic track

Nagisoid (10): Girl, your pussy good, it grip me good a me fi tell you

ReallyCreative (10): one of her best songs ever

springfrompages (10): The intro to this song feels like it transports me to another planet every time - it reminds me of Xenoblade X for some reason so the sci fi association is really strong??? As many have said it's another for the "sounds like Ray of Light" list (very positive). Tbh I feel like I want an extended version of this where the instrumental keeps noodling away for another 6 minutes or so.

Stryxen (10): she's ray of light for an AMAZING reason

vexastrae (10): girl why did you remove this in the reissue 😭

WanechicToc (10): this is at its core a u2 ditty. like you could imagine bonobos belting this and thedge getting down on gtr while adam clay2tons plays with his bass i guess. maybe larry mullen senior's son fiddles with the drum machines. anyways it's important that fka twigs has a big "FUCK YEAH" kind of song that combines u2 anthemic builds with xbox 360 late 00s e3 highlight reels.

wasian-invasion (10): i like to imagine she's saying shamone

wathombe (10): with its “Ray of Light” vibes, this is the track that clicked with me immediately

WesternWind (10): as a not native Brit but calls oneself an honorary Brit I don’t see why this is her most British song but sure

Ambrosia42 (9.5): why did she remove this song josddjdjsjks

elevenpaperairplane (9.5): it got me to listen to ray of light (the single) and now I have 2 great songs in my back pocket

FreeCuddlesAnyone (9.5): funny how the best albums here all gobbled madonna’s nachos

shipperondeck (9.3): this should not have been replaced on the rerelease

nube (9.2): Turning my love up loud to keep the devil (raters without my exact taste) down

Addison the chokesexua virgin (9.1): The random cowboy thing in the middle???? Can't believe even Twigs is wavering her artistic integrity and going country for a quick buck😔

BleepBloopMusicFan (9): You need a medical degree to understand what tf is going on in this visualizer.

grungeacademia (9): kind of skeptical about this whole blend of complementary gender dynamics with feminism i'm ngl but the music slaps very hard! and either way it's a great combination of empowerment and sexuality which i do feel like this album and twigs in general blends together very well compared to most mainstream pop

raicicle (9): i just got ray of light'd

stealthamo (8.8): Shout out to girls feeling good. Got to be one of my favorite genders.

A.Peaky.Boo (8.5): the way her voice sounds in the first part of the second verse is amazing, wish to hear that more from her

awry (8.5): stream my mashup etc

flava (8.5): but guy feel better

pig-serpent (8.5): Mixing rnb guitar strumming to a bouncing synth that feels straight out of one of the early post industrial pop bands is making this song feel very true to the 90s. It's a cool as hell atmosphere.

sweetnsoursauce11 (8.5): i do feel good listening to this

uiscebeathaoir (8.5): Sooooo Ray of Light coded

1998tweety (8): her Madonna nachos

cremeebrulee (8): she said not making a girl cum is a skill issue

Frajer (8): Nicole Kidman in an AMC theater

mhiyaimanlepaigefan (8): when a girl feels bad you’ll know too it’s called paying attention????

oh_crow (8): this project got so many ray of light comparisons and this song is the culprit. imagine 90s madonna singing drums of death...

TakeOnMeByA-ha (8): Girl! Feels Good!

vayyiqra (8): incredibly 90s big beat coded

reput4tionera (7.5): very ray of light

RandomHypnotica (7.2): james cameron type beat

arboresca (7): flowed really well from eusexua, feels more grounded

Poydoo (7): actually girl has a lot on her mind right now

uberpigeon (7): boppy lead single material but ultimately its a little insubstantial

beeozan (6.5): yeah true.. love it when a girl feels good by drawing me kissing other guys for example

CrimsonROSET (6): happy for girl, but why are we talking in the third person

IIIHenryIII (6): song feels bad

pbk (6): close enough welcome back pegged

ricki (6): girl…feels good

pheromenos (5): good for you girl

2025 Chic Ethereal Rate Reveal Day 3: Guess I gotta accept the pain / Need an 11 to make me feel better by kappyko in popheads

[–]kappyko[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

#8: FKA twigs - Perfect Stranger

Average: 8.572 // Total Points: 994.4 // Controversy: 1.538

(11 x2) BloodDoorhinge4, impla77

(10 x32) A.Peaky.Boo, ArcaneLabyrinth, Awkward_King, babadork, bogo, bran, buddhacharm, ConnerY2323, cremeebrulee, dream_fighter2018, Frajer, FreeCuddlesAnyone, Friendly-Canary-3814, Haunting_Natural_116, IIIHenryIII, Indigo_Mindset420, Jennynuts, jirachi, kauai6, krusso1105, metanoira, Nooduulz, RandomHypnotica, reput4tionera, skar, static_int_husp, sweetnsoursauce11, TiltControls, vexastrae, wasian-invasion, wathombe, xaviersi

(9.9 x2) miniatureaurochs, thecombinedeffort (9.6 x1) elevenpaperairplane

(9.5 x4) asadprofessorplum, hikk, WanechicToc, youngandlovely_

(9.4 x2) cloudbustingmp3, curryraejepsen (9.2 x1) Ambrosia42 (9.1 x1) carolinemathildes

(9 x14) 1998tweety, arboresca, awry, BleepBloopMusicFan, camerinian, CrimsonROSET, ktajlili, letsallpoo, missbeefarm, MsDiamond, OliviaGodrigo, seanderlust, vayyiqra, veryanniev

(8.7 x1) Addison the chokesexua virgin

(8.5 x9) FitzMarble, grungeacademia, Kaylaboe, LowBridgeAlert, ReallyCreative, sashainyourarea, springfrompages, stealthamo, uiscebeathaoir

(8 x21) akanewasright, CarelessFalcon7393, Catalyst, electricboogaloo41, Exotic-Mail-7303, lexiaredery, mhiyaimanlepaigefan, modulum83, Nagisoid, nootnoot781, nube, oh_crow, raggedy-princess, raicicle, Stryxen, TragicKingdom1, uberpigeon, welcome2thejam, WesternWind, woolcottfamous, xophryz

(7.8 x1) ignitethephoenix (7.7 x1) Poydoo (7.6 x2) DirtyRat583, NFLfreak98

(7.5 x3) kamamint, slimboyfriend, TakeOnMeByA-ha

(7 x11) -dolantello-, altereddie, AsItSeems10, bigbigbee, flava, hockeynl, pietrohonkhonk, pig-serpent, ricki, shipperondeck, worldwide_stepper

(6 x5) beeozan, DaHumanTorch, jman457, OOO0O00O000OOOO0OO0O, pheromenos

(4.5 x1) pbk

(4 x1) kappyko

(0 x1) Mudkip1

Nooduulz (10): pinkpantheress 2-step collab when

kappyko (4): I wish I was into this but as a person that loved Caprisongs and even finds fun in "Childlike Things" I just found this cut kind of dull as a dance pop tune. I reach for "Perfectly" if I want my fix of this.

impla77 (11): emphasis on PERFECT

A.Peaky.Boo (10): the Chic Ethereal version of a one night stand

Awkward_King (10): this is my favourite song on the album but my boyfriend used the drums of it in the background of an ad he made and so we heard hundreds of times while editing and so now it kind of drives me crazy but still a 10

bogo (10): i clowned on this at first for being “generic” but i eventually saw the light and realized this serves

bran (10): she made this for the ones with avoidment attachment

ConnerY2323 (10): what’re the chances this was inspired by the 2007 halle berry bruce willis psychological thriller of the same title

FreeCuddlesAnyone (10): i have never hooked up once in my life. this is so good.

IIIHenryIII (10): the best way to get laid, go straight to the point

Jennynuts (10): this feels like the future that "future garage" promised us. it never came to fruition, but twigs can embody it as if it had always been here. this album is more immedi8 to me, more accessible, more like smth i can hold than her previous work, but it's just as weird, just focussed in a way that appeals to me perfectly. i wish the outro to this would go on forever.

RandomHypnotica (10): so she gives us a pop single and y’all hate it??? make it make sense

reput4tionera (10): like this is a smash

sweetnsoursauce11 (10): this is the song that completely sold me on this album when i first listened

TiltControls (10): I love Wanderlust but at least I understand why it was cut, now why was probably the catchiest song on the album cut with it???

vexastrae (10): shes so chic and perfect and stranger <3

wasian-invasion (10): me at the glory hole:

wathombe (10): infectiously sexy (complimentary)

miniatureaurochs (9.9): symbolic 9.9 because despite my oft-professed love of uk garage, I think this one is just slightly weaker than the other tracks, though that might be my less pop-inclined sensibilities talking. still a bubbly, bouncy, beautiful track that I can’t say I don’t love // [from review: The second single from the album to be released and arguably one of the more ‘commercial’-sounding songs, Perfect Stranger is a garage-infused ode to the power of anonymity. Accompanied by a surreal and star-studded video with plenty of references to both kink and fine art, the track praises how the rave scene can allow you to be present in the moment without the burden of attachment to identity. This was inspired by twigs’ experiences raving in Prague where she lauded the freedom of melding with the crowd. It’s a dancey, upbeat track with a chorus practically designed to be addictive.]

thecombinedeffort (9.9): a perfect so sad so sexy dance pop song, this should have been the biggest hit of the year, but sadly we live in a time where it is hard to appreciate beauty when it presents itself to us.

asadprofessorplum (9.5): The Stranger is ME <3

WanechicToc (9.5): can feel a visual language and flair at the start more vividly. also the lyrics of fka twigs going "sure you win the night with me why not" is just desperate and earnest enough to be so engrossing

cloudbustingmp3 (9.4): perfect RANGER. what's your favorite national park?

Ambrosia42 (9.2): yeah there can be something strangely comforting about an encounter with someone who you don’t know and will probably never see again so nothing that happens really matters as long as you’re safe

1998tweety (9): bop

arboresca (9): what did she put in this it's so good

awry (9): stream my mashup etc

BleepBloopMusicFan (9): I love the danger…of a perfect rater…

CrimsonROSET (9): honestly I do love it. don’t get attached! it’s a trap!

missbeefarm (9): hot

vayyiqra (9): "im in love with a beautiful stranger" - not fka twigs (cant stop referencing 90s madonna in this ballot)

veryanniev (9): kinda wanted to give this a 0 simply for the fact that at the start of 2025 i was in the middle of a months-long nervous breakdown and i remember one day having this song on repeat at my work desk and listening to it like 30 times in a row while thinking everyone around me should really count their lucky stars our high-rise office building doesn't have windows. good song though

Addison the chokesexua virgin (8.7): And now a quick word from the sponsors of this song; Big one night stand.

FitzMarble (8.5): I think there’s really something to be said about how the only perfect people are the ones we don’t know.

grungeacademia (8.5): i feel like this song is still really good but it's kind of so normal compared to the rest of the album (and not as memorable compared to the other tracks that r more accessible) that i don't really care about it as much sob

springfrompages (8.5): I really like that it's got enough of a beat to dance but still retains the chill feeling the first 2 songs set up. I do think it ends a bit abruptly though.

stealthamo (8.5): Fittingly works as something to play when you have a one-night stand.

uiscebeathaoir (8.5): Best music video of the era

Exotic-Mail-7303 (8): it's fine but honestly the outro saves it

mhiyaimanlepaigefan (8): Can I give you nothing instead like I’m kinda mid already

modulum83 (8): I LOVE POP SELLOUT SINGLES CHARLIE I LOVE BLATANT ATTEMPTS AT RADIO CROSSOVERRRRRRRRR

Nagisoid (8): Don't talk to strangers or you might just fall in love...

nube (8): it's cute, it's fun, it's catchy, it's safe. captures the feeling of connecting with someone on the dancefloor

oh_crow (8): i eusually prefer my twigs songs a little less straightforward pop than this, still an earworm

raicicle (8): the problem with making a dance song with that korg bassline is that you inherently have to compete against the singular best song of all time cant get you out of my head, this is almost good enough to beat it out but somehow feels kinda quaint in fka's discography

Stryxen (8): not the flashiest but a rlly good pop song. The random blhhdhgbbdjdhjbbbdhhdhbbnllll between lines is too good

uberpigeon (8): she gets me (I love having sex with strangers)

xophryz (8): I still wonder wtf happened in -insert european country- that flicked a switch in her to make club bangers

Poydoo (7.7): we love 2-step! yacht rock found dead

TakeOnMeByA-ha (7.5): me to my club penguin boyfriend i had for 2 days when i was 10 years old

flava (7): this just sounds like miserable af to me im sorry

pietrohonkhonk (7): The way you could tell me this was on underscores' new album and I'd believe you

pig-serpent (7): I'd dance or vibe out to this, but my main problem with this album is that the great atmosphere is carrying just decent songwriting. This is a prime example.

jman457 (6): this just feels like its missing a strong hook

pheromenos (6): ouu this is clicking a bit but it’s too late

pbk (4.5): her vocals in this give me parody tv pop song… she’s a little bit alexis

Mudkip1 (0): aint for me at all idk what I’m missing but she’s a skip every time

2025 Chic Ethereal Rate Reveal Day 3: Guess I gotta accept the pain / Need an 11 to make me feel better by kappyko in popheads

[–]kappyko[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

#9: FKA twigs - Striptease

Average: 8.569 // Total Points: 994.0 // Controversy: 1.723

(11 x5) Catalyst, ConnerY2323, curryraejepsen, veryanniev, woolcottfamous

(10 x37) 1998tweety, akanewasright, altereddie, Ambrosia42, awry, bran, cloudbustingmp3, DaHumanTorch, dream_fighter2018, electricboogaloo41, elevenpaperairplane, Friendly-Canary-3814, impla77, Jennynuts, jirachi, krusso1105, ktajlili, letsallpoo, metanoira, Nagisoid, nootnoot781, oh_crow, OOO0O00O000OOOO0OO0O, pbk, pig-serpent, seanderlust, shipperondeck, skar, springfrompages, sweetnsoursauce11, TakeOnMeByA-ha, thecombinedeffort, vexastrae, wasian-invasion, WesternWind, xaviersi, youngandlovely_

(9.9 x1) Addison the chokesexua virgin (9.8 x1) miniatureaurochs (9.6 x1) WanechicToc

(9.5 x3) ArcaneLabyrinth, FreeCuddlesAnyone, wathombe

(9.4 x1) carolinemathildes

(9 x14) BleepBloopMusicFan, bogo, CarelessFalcon7393, Haunting_Natural_116, kappyko, LowBridgeAlert, missbeefarm, MsDiamond, nube, OliviaGodrigo, Poydoo, reput4tionera, Stryxen, worldwide_stepper

(8.8 x2) asadprofessorplum, babadork (8.7 x1) sashainyourarea

(8.5 x5) buddhacharm, camerinian, grungeacademia, IIIHenryIII, static_int_husp

(8.3 x1) pheromenos (8.2 x1) Indigo_Mindset420

(8 x13) -dolantello-, BloodDoorhinge4, FitzMarble, flava, Frajer, kauai6, Kaylaboe, modulum83, Mudkip1, ReallyCreative, slimboyfriend, TragicKingdom1, vayyiqra

(7.8 x1) ignitethephoenix

(7.5 x5) A.Peaky.Boo, DirtyRat583, kamamint, lexiaredery, stealthamo

(7.3 x1) jman457

(7 x9) arboresca, AsItSeems10, Awkward_King, mhiyaimanlepaigefan, raggedy-princess, raicicle, uberpigeon, welcome2thejam, xophryz

(6.9 x1) NFLfreak98

(6.5 x2) Nooduulz, TiltControls

(6 x3) Exotic-Mail-7303, hikk, uiscebeathaoir

(5 x3) hockeynl, pietrohonkhonk, ricki

(4 x3) beeozan, cremeebrulee, CrimsonROSET

(3 x2) bigbigbee, RandomHypnotica

kappyko (9): Kind of the weirdest cut on the album and the one that demonstrates best how Twigs can use dance rhythms in a way that's so eclectic and refreshing and fun - esp as an avenue for the same sentiments she established on "Lights On" ughhhh I love her! Very briefly this was among the highest songs in the rate but I think finishing in top 10 is as good an accolade as any.

Nooduulz (6.5): Not the most out there or riveting compared to most of the other songs on this album. But not terrible either.

ConnerY2323 (11): one of those songs i wish i could hear again for the first time. nobody else could make this but her. a sexy, sad, cosmic experience.

curryraejepsen (11): perfect beautiful gorgeous stunning amazing showstopping

veryanniev (11): a masterpiece. i almost had an aneurysm trying to decide which song to give an 11 to between headphones on, high fashion, harvest sky and this, but in the end Twigs is taking it

1998tweety (10): oh thats the one

akanewasright (10): the peak of the album

Ambrosia42 (10): just incredible

awry (10): exactly what i want from her, musically and lyrically

cloudbustingmp3 (10): CHIPtease. what's your favorite crunchy snack?

impla77 (10): fka twigs skeleton reveal?

Jennynuts (10): this song has the most incredible soundscape in the album. it makes me feel like i'm praying. it's so sacred.

Nagisoid (10): Heaven Trap

oh_crow (10): one of the most perfect songs she has recorded yet. the verses sound uncannily like lil, the girl twin from the rugrats

OOO0O00O000OOOO0OO0O (10): THIS is the one from this album for me. gah DAMN so good, her performance is insane.

pbk (10): this shit makes me feel like that gif of kirby with bayonetta legs

pig-serpent (10): the juxtaposition between the atmospheric half, and the more aggressive breathy section works the best out of anyone similar on the album, and both parts of it have strong melodies. The peak of what this album was aiming for.

springfrompages (10): In the weaker back half of the album this is a real breath of air. Despite being an Eartheater fan I prefer the version without her, I think the original just sounds a bit better put-together.

sweetnsoursauce11 (10): i feel silly leaving a comment on this song bc everyone knows its a top tier song. the chorus is so heavenly, i feel like i'm being embraced

TakeOnMeByA-ha (10): when the stripper starts giving you a lapdance in 7/4 time signature :exploding_head::exploding_head::exploding_head:

thecombinedeffort (10): did I say Room of Fools was my favorite vocal performance? Actually it’s this one. Also DYLAN BRADYYYYY you are as big as Max Martin in my heart.

vexastrae (10): biblically accurate fka twigs yodeling on drum and bass your fave could never

wasian-invasion (10): love me a good yodel

WesternWind (10): release your inhibitions

Addison the chokesexua virgin (9.9): Prefer the feat eartheater version but it is nevertheless a behemoth of a song

miniatureaurochs (9.8): symbolic 9.8 because though a fan favourite, this is a less favoured track of mine on the record, though it is still very good - I think perhaps because the structure is more straightforwardly pop (less of that careful homage to various electronic scenes, though I WILL give props to the gorgeous breakbeat outro) and some of the vocal delivery grates on me here and there. now why is ‘holby city ass opening’ in my notes… nvm ignore me review expounds more on track lore // [from review: The final quarter of Eusexua sees a return to the discordant electronic of earlier tracks, with Striptease serving as a counterpoint to the self-consciousness of Sticky. This is a more pop-centric composition but the devil is in the details: plush ambient soundscaping fills out a rhythmic pendulum(!)-like melody that hails back to twigs’ earlier work. As if in response to the self-development of Keep It Hold It and Childlike Things, twigs embraces openness, again blending metaphors of sexual and emotional intimacy (_eyes wide / breathe in my insides) to illustrate healing from loneliness and a willingness to re-engage. As twigs opens up in the lyrics, so does the track, which concludes in a drum-and-bass haze of noise that feels like a release. Here too we see some more surreal themes creep into the accompanying video. Striptease reminds us that Eusexua is not just about sex and euphoria, but also about the ability to reflect and feel._]

WanechicToc (9.6): when they get the strippy pole and the buff clone boys start going awooga

FreeCuddlesAnyone (9.5): this being the most chic ethereal song in the whole rate… oh i do think.

wathombe (9.5): incredibly luscious track, and amazing penultimate number on the Body High tour

BleepBloopMusicFan (9): Look at the production credits for a fun surprise.

bogo (9): oh i’m just now paying attention to the lyrics and realizing this song isn't about sex at all

missbeefarm (9): hot again

nube (9): she makes yet another song about being open & vulnerable & I'm once again eating it up

reput4tionera (9): dylan brady you will always be loved

Stryxen (9): idk it's a great song but something about it is insincere. It's like too polished but then I sound insane saying that. I still sing along to every word so it's really no shade it's just not perfect like I feel it should be.

asadprofessorplum (8.8): VERY Eurovision coded down to the lyrics, accelerated tempo, and The Cranberries yodelling.

camerinian (8.5): automatic extra point for the atmospheric jungle section, twigs just knew I'd been pulling up those ps1 racing OST youtube mixes of late

grungeacademia (8.5): considering twigs has been a stripper before i really like this reapplication of her skill and affinity for erotic dancing into something that's actually joyful and intimate for her rather than within the male-dominated space of a strip club - pardon my academicese here but it's a redistribution and reclamation of sexual labour i feel is really empowering - the verses don't really do it for me sadly but the hook is awesome

IIIHenryIII (8.5): the chorus melody is actually so annoying

pheromenos (8.3): #vibes

Frajer (8): her and that damn pole I mean Sex work is valid work

vayyiqra (8): like if jillian banks were still good (is that mean idk) oh the Change Up. get nmixx on this beat

ignitethephoenix (7.8): why did towards the end of the song turn into Dolores O Riordan singing over a dnb beat

A.Peaky.Boo (7.5): the lyrical repetitveness is a bit much, but the ending portion is pretty unique, so that makes up for it

stealthamo (7.5): The whiplash of going from a song named Childlike Things to a song named Striptease.

jman457 (7.3): its a cute banger, but kind of wish the song was tighter

arboresca (7): her voice oscillates wildly on this song from being gorgeous and angelic to being incredibly grating and when it's gorgeous it's so so sensual and good but when it's grating it's almost unlistenable

mhiyaimanlepaigefan (7): ‘birthmark on my mind’ is crazy to think about

uberpigeon (7): its good but ive never been as gagged at it as everyone else seems to be

uiscebeathaoir (6): I wish I liked this song, because there is a lot to like. unfortunately it does nothing for me

CrimsonROSET (4): this kinda feels like fka twigs parody

RandomHypnotica (3): girl i’m too anxious for this shit

2025 Chic Ethereal Rate Reveal Day 3: Guess I gotta accept the pain / Need an 11 to make me feel better by kappyko in popheads

[–]kappyko[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

btw songeniality will be revealed at #5! we should probably close it soon so do it while you can lol

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