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Honestly I thought I was going to get roasted harder for this opinion. Live HB is usually alot more distorted and bleeds more into gecs usual stuff, but this version does nothing for me.
It is absolutely more reminiscent of Dylan Brady's OG stuff, but even his og stuff is more artistically closer to the Melvins and grunge than to straight up pop-punk like this is. This really feels like an artistic regression to me, which can be interesting if it's re-exploring themes that aren't already present within the popular sound-scape, but it's exploring stuff that everybody else is already doing .
It feels like a gambit to really break into the mainstream ala stuff like what charli xcx does with her singles being completely pop oriented moneymakers and her albums being much more diverse and artistic, but I think it's going to backfire because the music industry is already over-saturated with this specific sound. Sure, hyper-pop is never going to be as big as it was in 2020, but it was never a distinct genre to begin with, which means you could go anywhere, but they chose to go backwards. I hope I'm wrong though. We'll just have to see.
I think you're right that there's a sense of artistic regression, it's evident with how uncohesive the singles for this album have been. I still like the songs but they're definitely a step down. I think they're struggling under the pressure of their first album being an unexpected critical darling. Where do you go from there? Hopefully they'll figure out where they want to go with their third effort.
Honestly I thought I was going to get roasted harder for this opinion. Live HB is usually alot more distorted and bleeds more into gecs usual stuff, but this version does nothing for me.
It is absolutely more reminiscent of Dylan Brady's OG stuff, but even his og stuff is more artistically closer to the Melvins and grunge than to straight up pop-punk like this is. This really feels like an artistic regression to me, which can be interesting if it's re-exploring themes that aren't already present within the popular sound-scape, but it's exploring stuff that everybody else is already doing .
It feels like a gambit to really break into the mainstream ala stuff like what charli xcx does with her singles being completely pop oriented moneymakers and her albums being much more diverse and artistic, but I think it's going to backfire because the music industry is already over-saturated with this specific sound. Sure, hyper-pop is never going to be as big as it was in 2020, but it was never a distinct genre to begin with, which means you could go anywhere, but they chose to go backwards. I hope I'm wrong though. We'll just have to see.
I think you're right that there's a sense of artistic regression, it's evident with how uncohesive the singles for this album have been. I still like the songs but they're definitely a step down. I think they're struggling under the pressure of their first album being an unexpected critical darling. Where do you go from there? Hopefully they'll figure out where they want to go with their third effort.