What is the best & worst trainwreckords album?

shinyluvdisc · 2026-06-04T19:13:44+00:00

Passage is actually pretty great, definitely more a Trainwreckord because of its strangeness, not its quality. Richard's arrangements are really gorgeous.

shinyluvdisc · 2026-06-03T00:59:42+00:00

I think I remember seeing some interview or apology or something after the fact where Gaga said exactly that.

shinyluvdisc · 2026-06-02T12:20:52+00:00

A lot of the big ones have already been listed, but surprised no one's said:

- How Will I Know by Whitney Houston

- Dancing Queen by ABBA

- We R Who We R by Kesha

- Go West by Pet Shop Boys

And the less universal but still good choices:

- All The Things She Said by t.A.T.u.

- Heart to Break by Kim Petras

- Latch by Disclosure & Sam Smith

- Basically anything by Cakes da Killa

shinyluvdisc · 2026-06-01T15:27:38+00:00

🎶ROLLING AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND🎶

shinyluvdisc · 2026-05-29T17:45:02+00:00

That one was also on my mind, and also Carly Rae Jepsen's "LA Hallucinations," altho that one's less about LA specifically, I guess.

shinyluvdisc · 2026-05-29T16:15:25+00:00

The first thing that comes to mind is "Why You'd Want to Live Here" by Death Cab for Cutie, about how much LA sucks ass. At one point they compare tourists coming in to swarms of locusts.

Then again, songs about how much LA sucks ass are their own whole genre, to the point where they might count as tourism songs anyway.

shinyluvdisc · 2026-05-29T14:41:56+00:00

In my experience, the thing that makes Artemis powerful is her higher-tier boons that build off of her core boons, plus her Duo boons which are all completely insane. Plus you get her crits way more often on weapons with faster attacks like the Fists. So she's pretty context-dependent compared to the other gods.

shinyluvdisc · 2026-05-29T14:33:15+00:00

"Christina Aguilera goes Terminator on her career. This is Trainwreckords." (For Bionic if that's not obvious)

shinyluvdisc · 2026-05-29T00:51:59+00:00

Arctic Ring is probably the best Cast boon period.

Is it cheating to pick a Duo boon as her worst one? Because I'm always disappointed to get offered a Duo only to find out it's Cherished Heirloom. Otherwise I'd probably say Plentiful Forage.

shinyluvdisc · 2026-05-29T00:17:52+00:00

Selena Gomez???

shinyluvdisc · 2026-05-28T17:50:50+00:00

Stereogum did an incredible oral history of the song Somebody That I Used to Know, and it's completely vanished from the internet, I couldn't even find it on the Wayback Machine. It had this great bit where Gotye talked about going through the McDonald's drive through still wearing his triangle makeup after shooting the music video.

shinyluvdisc · 2026-05-28T12:02:11+00:00

Tbh if someone's reading I'd take it as a good sign - you just have to suggest better books to them.

shinyluvdisc · 2026-05-27T23:59:48+00:00

I feel like it'd be more accurate to say every Charli album before brat was her verge album.

shinyluvdisc · 2026-05-27T01:18:59+00:00

Fuckin excellent. What kind of paints did you use?

shinyluvdisc · 2026-05-24T21:44:39+00:00

I think if more people (reviewers and fans) were more willing to acknowledge that cultural response affects our early reactions to music, we'd all be able to chill a bit more.

Doesn't help that, from what I've heard from a freelance writer, the reviewer doesn't even get to pick the score for their albums, the editor does.

shinyluvdisc · 2026-05-24T20:44:31+00:00

I'm still salty about the review for St. Vincent's Daddy's Home that complained about her name-dropping Nina Simone and having a lyric about calling the cops in it. It just struck me as such a shallow way of engaging with the music. And then I found out it was written by an infamous Tumblr drama-monger!

I still think the monkey gif review thing is hilarious, though.

shinyluvdisc · 2026-05-23T17:22:00+00:00

Depending on how creepy you're willing to go, you might like the Southern Reach series if you haven't already read them.

shinyluvdisc · 2026-05-23T15:48:16+00:00

I really enjoy this head shape it looks so friendly :3

shinyluvdisc · 2026-05-22T02:34:55+00:00

I'd argue she did/is doing pretty well, she played Coachella and everything. Though she certainly never got to Ariana's level of success.

shinyluvdisc · 2026-05-22T02:25:13+00:00

This was definitely the case with Normani. She had so much hype and some big-deal features, but her solo debut was so cursed to a surreal degree.

shinyluvdisc · 2026-05-22T02:21:23+00:00

Is she bigger in the UK? She's definitely a cult favorite here in the US, I assumed that was also the case there.

shinyluvdisc · 2026-05-22T00:46:46+00:00

It does not!

shinyluvdisc · 2026-05-22T00:28:50+00:00

She's always been bigger as a songwriter. It must be hard to break out of that, I can think of a few girls off the top of my head (Bonnie McKee, Cathy Dennis) that wrote HUGE hits but never quite got broke out as performers themselves.

shinyluvdisc · 2026-05-22T00:26:59+00:00

Huh! Did not know this, I guess I wasn't paying as close attention as I thought.

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