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Post by pce2b on Jul 26, 2024 21:08:47 GMT -5
I was so prepared for it to be a train wreck and it was sooooo not. People are so primed to be bothered. She hardily talked at all - I wish she had talked more! Much ado about nothing.
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Post by Mike on Jul 26, 2024 22:08:27 GMT -5
I have to agree. She is a known yapper and NBC knew that hiring her for this gig. I'm a stan so I didn't pay too much attention to how that may be "annoying" to some and I know everyone and their mother doesn't watch TKCS on a daily basis, but I found her more endearing than anything else. Were there a couple of times she talked over some musical moments early on out of pure excitement that she shouldn't have? Alright, I'll agree to that... But that's kinda what I love about her? It's never out of disrespect and is always unfiltered about praise and her love for music.
That ceremony was like 4+ hours long. It needed some levity and chaos. Her reaction to the Celine performance made up for any perceived faux paus in my book.
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Post by kmbgs on Jul 26, 2024 23:23:54 GMT -5
The opening ceremony was a complete and total flop IMO. It lacked any center and no pun intended all the performances felt adrift and just kind of there. Kelly wasnβt exactly the best commentator but I suspect they had not planned on using her and the other commentators as much but the rain forced other hosts (Savannah and Hoda) out of commission leaving the three indoor hosts to pick up the slack.
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Post by Mike on Jul 27, 2024 0:46:29 GMT -5
I loved the ceremony and thought Kelly did a good job. I did switch to BBC at one point but only because they ran the whole thing without commercials unlike NBC.
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Post by jessayli on Jul 28, 2024 12:26:47 GMT -5
www.instagram.com/reel/C9-CEvzJZob/?igsh=eWlyaWN6Y3M5Z3ZmHere I go with a super late response to the βKelly eras discussionβ from months back. It was sparked by this comment Kelly made on the Sirius Kelly Clarkson connection station, where says the following about All I Ever Wanted: βI would love to say there were a lot of positive memories behind the backstory of this album - there is not. But I think whatβs cool about this album for me is that it kinda represents a time . . . when I figured out I was not working with the people who I should have been working with, and it kinda represents a departure for meβ (i.e., a departure from the record label staff who made her life miserable). I think this is the most global comment about her feelings toward AIEW that sheβs ever made. It sounds like it goes beyond the isolated incidents of being forced to work with Dr. Luke on MLWSWY, her disappointment that Already Gone sounded so much like Halo, and not initially being told that the songs All I Ever Wanted and Whyyawannabringmedown were actually already released on another bandβs album. As I said in a prior post, it just seemed to me that the whole AIEW era wasnβt a great experience for her. She seemed even less happy that she was during the Breakaway and My December eras, in part because at this point she felt like she couldnβt even openly speak the truth about how she felt (in contrast to the promotion/touring of Breakaway and the lead up to My December). When I re-listen to Stronger now, it seems even more evident that Stronger is mostly about breaking free from the record label execs who made her feel so unhappy, as she alludes to in her recent Sirius XM comment. Iβm guessing that Kelly was singing about her record label, not an ex-boyfriend, when recording βbreak-upβ songs like βThe War Is Over.β And her genuine excitement about the Stronger album made her so much happier, and the era more fulfilling to witness as a fan. This continued into her Greatest Hits album and βCatch My Breath,β another song geared mostly toward moving on from awful people within RCA, and into βWrapped In Red,β perhaps her favorite (and arguable one of, if not the, best) album sheβs ever made. Then there was a bit of a step back with βPiece By Piece,β which had the βwait what? I still have to make one more album before Iβm released from my RCA contract?β vibe - and being recorded and promoted while experiencing and recovering from two difficult pregnancies. Itβs so hard for me to disentangle Kellyβs feelings about her albums from my evaluation of their quality. How much is that bias coming into play when I rank AIEW as one of her worst albums? Probably a good bit. But I really do see a correlation between her enthusiasm for each project, the support she had from her record label while making each album, the quality of the album itself, her passion while promoting each album, and her overall emotional wellbeing. And thats the end of my off-topic rant. π³
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Post by wwr on Jul 28, 2024 14:55:07 GMT -5
www.instagram.com/reel/C9-CEvzJZob/?igsh=eWlyaWN6Y3M5Z3ZmHere I go with a super late response to the βKelly eras discussionβ from months back. It was sparked by this comment Kelly made on the Sirius Kelly Clarkson connection station, where says the following about All I Ever Wanted: βI would love to say there were a lot of positive memories behind the backstory of this album - there is not. But I think whatβs cool about this album for me is that it kinda represents a time . . . when I figured out I was not working with the people who I should have been working with, and it kinda represents a departure for meβ (i.e., a departure from the record label staff who made her life miserable). I think this is the most global comment about her feelings toward AIEW that sheβs ever made. It sounds like it goes beyond the isolated incidents of being forced to work with Dr. Luke on MLWSWY, her disappointment that Already Gone sounded so much like Halo, and not initially being told that the songs All I Ever Wanted and Whyyawannabringmedown were actually already released on another bandβs album. As I said in a prior post, it just seemed to me that the whole AIEW era wasnβt a great experience for her. She seemed even less happy that she was during the Breakaway and My December eras, in part because at this point she felt like she couldnβt even openly speak the truth about how she felt (in contrast to the promotion/touring of Breakaway and the lead up to My December). When I re-listen to Stronger now, it seems even more evident that Stronger is mostly about breaking free from the record label execs who made her feel so unhappy, as she alludes to in her recent Sirius XM comment. Iβm guessing that Kelly was singing about her record label, not an ex-boyfriend, when recording βbreak-upβ songs like βThe War Is Over.β And her genuine excitement about the Stronger album made her so much happier, and the era more fulfilling to witness as a fan. This continued into her Greatest Hits album and βCatch My Breath,β another song geared mostly toward moving on from awful people within RCA, and into βWrapped In Red,β perhaps her favorite (and arguable one of, if not the, best) album sheβs ever made. Then there was a bit of a step back with βPiece By Piece,β which had the βwait what? I still have to make one more album before Iβm released from my RCA contract?β vibe - and being recorded and promoted while experiencing and recovering from two difficult pregnancies. Itβs so hard for me to disentangle Kellyβs feelings about her albums from my evaluation of their quality. How much is that bias coming into play when I rank AIEW as one of her worst albums? Probably a good bit. But I really do see a correlation between her enthusiasm for each project, the support she had from her record label while making each album, the quality of the album itself, her passion while promoting each album, and her overall emotional wellbeing. And thats the end of my off-topic rant. π³ I appreciate posts like this and I echo the sentiment I also feel more inclined to βfeelβ the albums sheβs more invested in (except the Xmas ones lol) I remember loving AIEW back in the day, but because I was in such a full fan mode at the time and letβs be honest, most of the songs are bops, but itβs such a slap in the face to her songwriting side, feels they made her βchooseβ songs from a repertoire, with so many βcoversβ - also feels many of them were completely unnecessary (the Aranda tracks, save you, if no one will listenβ And youβre right, stronger feels more well-crafted and one where she actually chose what to record (in the case of the songs she didnβt writeβ
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Post by kmbgs on Jul 28, 2024 16:06:26 GMT -5
Idk sometimes I feel like a bad Kelly fan bc aside from WIR and Stronger, I notice the more Kelly likes an album the less I do. Chemistry, MD, and MOL are definitely my bottom three Kelly albums, while I was literally thinking to myself how much AIEW could be my fav in the end. I guess I am able to disentangle Kelly's feels about these albums from mine, which I will credit my Gemini moon for.
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Post by Anticonformity on Jul 29, 2024 0:12:19 GMT -5
Idk sometimes I feel like a bad Kelly fan bc aside from WIR and Stronger, I notice the more Kelly likes an album the less I do. Chemistry, MD, and MOL are definitely my bottom three Kelly albums, while I was literally thinking to myself how much AIEW could be my fav in the end. I guess I am able to disentangle Kelly's feels about these albums from mine, which I will credit my Gemini moon for. Well, we can be bad together... lol I cannot stand Meaning Of Life at all, since day 1 and I don't even count her xmas albums as albums... and Chemistry, while miles and miles an miles better than Meaning Of Life, still can BARELY get to my top 5...
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Post by ampersand on Jul 29, 2024 0:39:22 GMT -5
I'd probably rank her albums...
1. Wrapped in Red 2. My December 3. Breakaway 4. chemistry 5. Stronger 6. All I Ever Wanted 7. When Christmas Comes Around... 8. Meaning of Life 9. Piece by Piece 10. Thankful
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Post by bee on Jul 29, 2024 8:48:10 GMT -5
www.instagram.com/reel/C9-CEvzJZob/?igsh=eWlyaWN6Y3M5Z3ZmHere I go with a super late response to the βKelly eras discussionβ from months back. It was sparked by this comment Kelly made on the Sirius Kelly Clarkson connection station, where says the following about All I Ever Wanted: βI would love to say there were a lot of positive memories behind the backstory of this album - there is not. But I think whatβs cool about this album for me is that it kinda represents a time . . . when I figured out I was not working with the people who I should have been working with, and it kinda represents a departure for meβ (i.e., a departure from the record label staff who made her life miserable). I think this is the most global comment about her feelings toward AIEW that sheβs ever made. It sounds like it goes beyond the isolated incidents of being forced to work with Dr. Luke on MLWSWY, her disappointment that Already Gone sounded so much like Halo, and not initially being told that the songs All I Ever Wanted and Whyyawannabringmedown were actually already released on another bandβs album. As I said in a prior post, it just seemed to me that the whole AIEW era wasnβt a great experience for her. She seemed even less happy that she was during the Breakaway and My December eras, in part because at this point she felt like she couldnβt even openly speak the truth about how she felt (in contrast to the promotion/touring of Breakaway and the lead up to My December). When I re-listen to Stronger now, it seems even more evident that Stronger is mostly about breaking free from the record label execs who made her feel so unhappy, as she alludes to in her recent Sirius XM comment. Iβm guessing that Kelly was singing about her record label, not an ex-boyfriend, when recording βbreak-upβ songs like βThe War Is Over.β And her genuine excitement about the Stronger album made her so much happier, and the era more fulfilling to witness as a fan. This continued into her Greatest Hits album and βCatch My Breath,β another song geared mostly toward moving on from awful people within RCA, and into βWrapped In Red,β perhaps her favorite (and arguable one of, if not the, best) album sheβs ever made. Then there was a bit of a step back with βPiece By Piece,β which had the βwait what? I still have to make one more album before Iβm released from my RCA contract?β vibe - and being recorded and promoted while experiencing and recovering from two difficult pregnancies. Itβs so hard for me to disentangle Kellyβs feelings about her albums from my evaluation of their quality. How much is that bias coming into play when I rank AIEW as one of her worst albums? Probably a good bit. But I really do see a correlation between her enthusiasm for each project, the support she had from her record label while making each album, the quality of the album itself, her passion while promoting each album, and her overall emotional wellbeing. And thats the end of my off-topic rant. π³ I feel the same way. AIEW is at the bottom for me and I rarely listen to any songs from it. I haven't listened to it from start to finish in years. I hate going through the album thinking "this is a Katy song, this is an Aranda song, this is Beyonce, this is overproduced." It does make Stronger that much better. You Love Me was definitely about the crappy people she worked with at her label. I do think Piece by Piece was her being like "I have to do another one because the Greatest Hits didn't count?" (or was it the Christmas album that didn't count?) I do like PBP but once again overproduced and RRR is that song that was already recorded by another band. It does make me wonder if she tried to fight to end the contract, she couldn't so PBP was created.
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Post by kmbgs on Jul 29, 2024 13:06:02 GMT -5
1. Stronger 2. All I Ever Wanted 3. Breakaway (Wrapped in Red) 4. Piece by Piece 5. Thankful (When Christmas Comes Around) 6. My December 7. Meaning of Life 8. Chemistry
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Post by Β€ Matthea Β€ on Jul 29, 2024 13:24:39 GMT -5
1. Breakaway 2. Stronger 3. All I Ever Wanted 4. Wrapped in Red 5. When Christmas Comes Around 6. Thankful 7. Piece by Piece 8. Chemistry 9. Meaning of Life 10. My December
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Post by kath2833 on Jul 29, 2024 17:03:00 GMT -5
I think Kellyβs best album is breakaway because of how invested, raw & emotional she sounds in certain songs like addicted, behind these hazel eyes & imo the best song in her discography, hear me. I donβt completely see the same passion she puts throughout that album in her other work, except for never again, just for now & her kellyoke ep.
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Post by musicfan134 on Jul 29, 2024 17:39:23 GMT -5
This changes fairly regularly but...
chemistry Stronger When Christmas Comes Around...
*gap*
Breakaway Meaning of Life Wrapped in Red My December
*gap*
Piece by Piece All I Ever Wanted
**** HUGE GAP ****
Thankful Kellyoke EP
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Post by StrongBreakaway on Jul 29, 2024 18:23:04 GMT -5
My ranking at the moment is:
1. Breakaway 2. My December 3. All I Ever Wanted/Stronger/chemistry 4. Piece by Piece/Meaning of Life 5. Thankful
Breakaway is a timeless classic. My December's emotional depth is unmatched, but not #1 because of its weaker songs. Given the new leaks I'm surprised by some song choices.
I can detach from AIEW's drama. The album is bop from beginning to Japanese version's end.
Time has shown that I regularly listen to 1-3, rarely to 4 and barely to 5. If my life depended on knowing the lyrics to 'Some Kind Of Miracle' I would die.
Honorable mentions: Kellyoke is incredible. I always listen to Queen of the Night on my way to work lmao
Being a Kelly stan won't make me a christmas music fan, but the following songs are incredible: UTT, Merry Christmas Baby, MC (TTOIUTK)
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Post by Jack on Jul 29, 2024 18:34:04 GMT -5
I donβt almost exclusively listen cheaply produced white aryan-adjacent pop stars from the turn of the millennium, so the Soul and R&B of Meaning Of Life doesnβt bother me as much for whatever reason.
Breakaway Meaning Of Life Piece By Piece Stronger All I Ever Wanted chemistry Thankful My December
*Canβt group them together*
Wrapped In Red When Quismos Comes Around
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Post by Mike on Jul 29, 2024 22:32:13 GMT -5
I'm surprised at the low MOL rankings! God damn, I love that album. "LSS", "Heat", "WLW", "MOL", "WYCTL", "DYP"... c'mon now. Even songs that I don't go back to as much ("Didn't I", "Cruel", "Medicine", "IDTAY" & "Move You") have something that wouldn't make me just immediately skip to the next track. "A Minute", Slow Dance" and "Go High" are probably the only ones I haven't voluntarily searched for in a couple of years.
This is always ever-changing (aside from #1 & #8) but I'd say right now (not counting Christmas albums / GH / Kellyoke V.1): 1. Breakaway 2. Stronger 3. MOL 4. AIEW 5. chemistry 6. PxP 7. Thankful 8. My December
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Post by findyourway on Jul 29, 2024 22:54:31 GMT -5
Stronger chemistry Breakaway Meaning of Life My December All I Ever Wanted Piece By Piece Thankful
Can't rank the Christmas albums with her regular ones, but WCCA > WIR (although both are great).
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Post by Active Aggressive on Jul 29, 2024 23:21:48 GMT -5
Next Level:
1. Meaning Of Life 2. chemistry 3. My December
Great: 4. Piece By Piece 5. Stronger
Solid: 6. All I Ever Wanted 7. Breakaway
8. Thankful
I love both the Christmas albums, but have a hard time ranking them with her standard albums. I would put both over All I Ever Wanted, Breakaway, and Thankful at least.
Soulful Kelly is always my #1 and she delivered that in spades with MOL. Probably her best vocally produced album, followed very closely by Chemistry. All the different styles gave me whiplash (kinda reminds me of AIEW in that way), except a much, MUCH better album and Kelly through and through. Even when she didn't write a song or it had been sung by someone else, I still felt it was only Kelly who could sing it, because she really made it her own. chemistry also has the song magic, which has grown to be my #1 Kelly song, so that album will always have a special place in my heart. Even with a couple weaker tracks, I just love it. I was such a stan for My December and it has some of the most raw, honest songs of Kelly's entire career...plus career bests Irvine and Sober. Everything after those albums has a degree of fluff to them, but the fluff I enjoyed the most was on PXP. I was not expecting the Disney string-led EDM bop of the ages that is Take You High. Plus, that was the first time I saw Kelly live, so that era will always have a special place in my heart. Good Goes The Bye and In The Blue are also career highlights. Stronger brought back the rock-pop that I didn't care for in Breakaway, but this time, it was more fully rendered and mature, so I was OK with it. We got two more career highlights - Dark Side and Standing In Front Of You and a soccer mom anthem in Stronger, so much respect to that album. I like that she was reclaiming her power with that album, too. After that, there is just amazing singles or decent singles surrounded by filler.
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Post by jeremyald on Jul 30, 2024 0:19:44 GMT -5
Gold
1. Stronger 2. Breakaway 3. Chemistry Silver
4. My December 5. All I Ever Wanted
Bronze
6. Meaning of Life
No place:
7. Piece by Piece 8. Thankful
I think Stronger, Chemistry and Breakaway are my golden trio. All have fantastic vocals, hits and have at least 5 songs I come back to every year.
My December is silver for the meaning it had to me, but it hasn't aged well overall. Sober, Maybe, Irvine and Never Again are still amongst her best so it deserves a high spot. All I Ever Wanted as a bit of a mess, but had some of the best jams of her career, e.g. Already Gone, Cry, MLWSWY, DLMSY. It's a shame she didn't have more creative control because it could have been bigger commercially than Stronger.
Meaning of Life was just a disappointing era for me for multiple reasons so goes in the Bronze category. WYCTL is the only song I come back to but damn it's good.
Piece by Piece is close the worst album in her cataloge and only saved by the title track. Heartbeat Song was a terrible single and the whole album is pretty juvenile. Thankful is okay for it's time but again nothing aged well and I have never come back to it.
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Post by bee on Jul 30, 2024 8:38:26 GMT -5
I think Stronger is still that album. I regularly listen to Stronger, chemistry and MoL. My December and Breakaway get a listen once and awhile. My December is so up and down. How some of those leaked songs didn't make the cut is beyond me. PBP and Thankful, there's a few songs on each that I return to. AIEW I rarely listen to anything on this album. I think overproduction hurts my head.
Stronger chemistry Meaning of Life
My December Breakaway
Piece By Piece Thankful
All I Ever Wanted
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Post by musicfan134 on Jul 30, 2024 18:03:07 GMT -5
I find it interesting how many different takes we have!
I really thought My December was more universally loved among Kelly fans. While there were some career high songs on the album, the overall production has definitely aged poorly for me. It's also kind of a tough album for me to listen to, content-wise. I think chemistry will end up going down the same way in the long run where I won't listen to it often because it brings back negative emotions/thoughts in me, but for now it's still my favorite due to the newness. I also can't deny that My December has some duds...Hole, Judas, and Yeah come to mind as songs people don't really seem to care about. Is anyone on here a stan of any of those songs?
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Post by Jack on Jul 30, 2024 18:25:39 GMT -5
I find it interesting how many different takes we have! I really thought My December was more universally loved among Kelly fans. While there were some career high songs on the album, the overall production has definitely aged poorly for me. It's also kind of a tough album for me to listen to, content-wise. I think chemistry will end up going down the same way in the long run where I won't listen to it often because it brings back negative emotions/thoughts in me, but for now it's still my favorite due to the newness. I also can't deny that My December has some duds...Hole, Judas, and Yeah come to mind as songs people don't really seem to care about. Is anyone on here a stan of any of those songs? I think My December would have been a great addendum/extra for a Breakaway re-release Autumn 2006. Make Addicted the single, and release with Chivas, Maybe, Be Still, Sober and Irvine. I think those would be remembered much more broadly if part of something like that.
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Post by kath2833 on Jul 30, 2024 18:43:17 GMT -5
I find it interesting how many different takes we have! I really thought My December was more universally loved among Kelly fans. While there were some career high songs on the album, the overall production has definitely aged poorly for me. It's also kind of a tough album for me to listen to, content-wise. I think chemistry will end up going down the same way in the long run where I won't listen to it often because it brings back negative emotions/thoughts in me, but for now it's still my favorite due to the newness. I also can't deny that My December has some duds...Hole, Judas, and Yeah come to mind as songs people don't really seem to care about. Is anyone on here a stan of any of those songs? I also think my December production has aged poorly, and Iβm a rock fan who can listen to never again on repeat. Itβs hard to distinguish most of the songs & whenever I try to listen to hole or one minute I think of how outdated they sound. Chemistry is a worse album to me.
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Post by piledrive on Jul 30, 2024 20:10:33 GMT -5
My top is always changing but currently:
1. Stronger 2. chemistry 3. My December 4. All I Ever Wanted 5. Breakaway 6. Meaning of Life 7. Piece by piece 8. Thankful
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Post by schnetzka on Jul 30, 2024 20:21:13 GMT -5
Since everybody else is doing it:
1. All I Ever Wanted
2. Stronger
3. Wrapped in Red
4. Piece by Piece
5. Breakaway
6. My December
7. chemistry
8. Meaning of Life
9. When Christmas Comes Around...
10. Thankful
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Post by findyourway on Jul 30, 2024 22:47:15 GMT -5
I find it interesting how many different takes we have! I really thought My December was more universally loved among Kelly fans. While there were some career high songs on the album, the overall production has definitely aged poorly for me. It's also kind of a tough album for me to listen to, content-wise. I think chemistry will end up going down the same way in the long run where I won't listen to it often because it brings back negative emotions/thoughts in me, but for now it's still my favorite due to the newness. I also can't deny that My December has some duds...Hole, Judas, and Yeah come to mind as songs people don't really seem to care about. Is anyone on here a stan of any of those songs? Hole has actually been a favorite of mine for a long time. Other than Judas (one of my least favorite songs of hers) & Yeah (depending on my mood), I find that I generally really like the majority of the songs on MD. It would be interesting to hear a remastered version of MD, but considering the current relationship with RCA, I doubt that'll ever happen.
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Post by Anticonformity on Jul 31, 2024 0:16:25 GMT -5
1. Breakaway 2. Stronger 3. My December 4. All I Ever Wanted 5. chemistry / Piece By Piece /Thankful
8. Meaning of Life
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Post by wwr on Jul 31, 2024 2:08:44 GMT -5
I find it interesting how many different takes we have! I really thought My December was more universally loved among Kelly fans. While there were some career high songs on the album, the overall production has definitely aged poorly for me. It's also kind of a tough album for me to listen to, content-wise. I think chemistry will end up going down the same way in the long run where I won't listen to it often because it brings back negative emotions/thoughts in me, but for now it's still my favorite due to the newness. I also can't deny that My December has some duds...Hole, Judas, and Yeah come to mind as songs people don't really seem to care about. Is anyone on here a stan of any of those songs? I think a lot of us are in the same boat regarding MD I used to LOVE it and lived for it I mean, i really connected to it when it came out and me songs have stuck with my over time (Maybe, Sober)β¦ but the overall production and lyrics have aged poorly some of the outtakes are better though: letter to rose, did you, racehorse, little white pill
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Post by bee on Jul 31, 2024 8:41:34 GMT -5
I find it interesting how many different takes we have! I really thought My December was more universally loved among Kelly fans. While there were some career high songs on the album, the overall production has definitely aged poorly for me. It's also kind of a tough album for me to listen to, content-wise. I think chemistry will end up going down the same way in the long run where I won't listen to it often because it brings back negative emotions/thoughts in me, but for now it's still my favorite due to the newness. I also can't deny that My December has some duds...Hole, Judas, and Yeah come to mind as songs people don't really seem to care about. Is anyone on here a stan of any of those songs? I think a lot of us are in the same boat regarding MD I used to LOVE it and lived for it I mean, i really connected to it when it came out and me songs have stuck with my over time (Maybe, Sober)β¦ but the overall production and lyrics have aged poorly some of the outtakes are better though: letter to rose, did you, racehorse, little white pill I like the fan favourites - Sober, Maybe - but the production unfortunately ruins the album. It definitely sounds dated. I think nostalgia keeps it on the higher end of albums for me even though it's not that high. I think it was a fun time to be a Kelly fan with her doing her own thing. Production seems to ruin albums for me. lol This one, AIEW and PBP, both over-produced. I listened to a clip of her on Howard Stern about how she doesn't sound like herself on Hazel Eyes. I like Breakaway but her voice does not sound like her at all. I think that is one of the benefits of her leaving RCA and working with who she wants. A Kelly album definitely sounds like her now.
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