Hot Take/ Musical Confession Thread!

I absolutely fell in love with the boygenius debut last year and I never really gave any of their solo works a proper chance before so I was excited to jump in. My hot take is that as solo artists I find all three of them to be total bores. I hope to regret this take one day soon but my god I just can’t get into any of them. As boygenius I really feel like they bring out the best in each other and elevate each other. Solo I just find them all pretty forgettable and boring
 
Fleetwood-Matt said:
I absolutely fell in love with the boygenius debut last year and I never really gave any of their solo works a proper chance before so I was excited to jump in. My hot take is that as solo artists I find all three of them to be total bores. I hope to regret this take one day soon but my god I just can’t get into any of them. As boygenius I really feel like they bring out the best in each other and elevate each other. Solo I just find them all pretty forgettable and boring
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I like Bridgers and am meh about BoyGenius and the other two.
 
Fleetwood-Matt said:
I absolutely fell in love with the boygenius debut last year and I never really gave any of their solo works a proper chance before so I was excited to jump in. My hot take is that as solo artists I find all three of them to be total bores. I hope to regret this take one day soon but my god I just can’t get into any of them. As boygenius I really feel like they bring out the best in each other and elevate each other. Solo I just find them all pretty forgettable and boring
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Before Boygenius or Punisher or Historian or Sprained Ankle, I stumbled across this. I still play it back to back to back sometimes.
Here’s the hot take : it’s the best thing any of the Boys-Genius have done to date.
Side Hot Take Ranking: JB > LD > PB.

 
Fleetwood-Matt said:
What about her do you like that isn’t there for the others/boygenius? I was excited to give her and especially Punisher a shot but outside of Kyoto I felt nothing for the rest of the album
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I don’t know? BoyGenius is slightly better but the rest just plays as kind of slow middling indie rock. Between a certain bit of a shoegazy wall of sound behind Bridgets and her lyrics just speaking to me, not sure I could tell you. The others I find kind of boring, she speaks to me. 🤷‍♀️
 
Fleetwood-Matt said:
I absolutely fell in love with the boygenius debut last year and I never really gave any of their solo works a proper chance before so I was excited to jump in. My hot take is that as solo artists I find all three of them to be total bores. I hope to regret this take one day soon but my god I just can’t get into any of them. As boygenius I really feel like they bring out the best in each other and elevate each other. Solo I just find them all pretty forgettable and boring
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They all have their moments. I feel like if you made a playlist of their best tracks it would be quite excellent. I’ve never been blown away by any of their solo records, but they all contain at least one or two superb tracks.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
I read the meme and could not for the life of me imagine which one of these guys was writing about a dope habit.
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Bull Shannon said:
Here's one: beyond Bowie, any time a musician has developed a "character" for an album cycle, you're in for a bad time.
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Disagree. I feel like most musicians do this on the regular. The whole “rock star” thing is performative. Some iterations are better than others. Chasing “authenticity” is a fool’s errand.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Disagree. I feel like most musicians do this on the regular. The whole “rock star” thing is performative. Some iterations are better than others. Chasing “authenticity” is a fool’s errand.
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Maybe I'm letting specific examples stick in my craw (Bono and St. Vincent, for two), but I think the whole "I'm putting on a costume and adding a layer of abstraction onto my extant, inherent persona" schtick is in conversation with "authenticity;" instead of chasing it, you're running in the exact opposite direction.

Every album cycle comes with its own aesthetic; colors, costumes, backdrops. The trouble comes when you're putting on a gas mask and bunny ears and calling yourself Trait.
 
Bull Shannon said:
Maybe I'm letting specific examples stick in my craw (Bono and St. Vincent, for two), but I think the whole "I'm putting on a costume and adding a layer of abstraction onto my extant, inherent persona" schtick is in conversation with "authenticity;" instead of chasing it, you're running in the exact opposite direction.

Every album cycle comes with its own aesthetic; colors, costumes, backdrops. The trouble comes when you're putting on a gas mask and bunny ears and calling yourself Trait.
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I kind of agree with this depending on the artist. If St. Vincent was what spurred this thought, then I agree with that regarding her.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Madonna, Prince, The Beatles, Dylan, they all would lean into different characters throughout their careers. It’s the perforative nature of the biz.
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You got me with Prince switching to a symbol (though that was a much-malgined move) and the Beatles becoming Sgt. Peppers' LHCB, but wouldn't Madonna and Dylan fall more under the category of a constantly shifting image?
gaporter said:
Where would someone like DOOM fall into this conversation?
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The artist is the character in that case. See also: The Ramones, Chris Gaines.
 
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