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Desired - Lovestory results

The participants sorted by deviation from final results:
Sheep007 (6)
Seanchan (14)
HBJDubs (18)
Fluttershy_Pony (20)
FoolFantastic (20)
Johnbobb (22)
MaxGalactica (22)

General Album Comments

Seanchan: My reaction? YEAH! Is this good in an objective sense? I don't know and I don't care! It was just very much "my bullshit"; the type of thing I'd put on when I want music I want to enjoy but don't have to think about. Also, did I immediately listen to Timeless right afterwards because it was higher up on Spotify's popularity for the band? Hell yes I did! Could I separate out the songs from those 2 albums? Heccccck no!

Fluttershy_Pony: I had a hard time picking three albums this cycle. I decided early on that I wanted something by "Was (Not Was)" [though I was torn between the mainstream popular album and my personal favorite] & Motionless in White was slotted in as my token "I'm going to keep nominating the types of metalcore I like" pick, but nothing I liked felt fitting for the final choice--if push came to shove, I probably would have nominated "Michael Bolton - Soul Provider", but I really wanted something else. So I kinda clicked aimlessly around Spotify & Bandcamp for a couple weeks, trying to find anything that I both liked & felt would nicely round out my list. Finding Lovestory was almost completely arbitrary; I'd just start somewhere random on Bandcamp & keep cicking the suggested/related albums until I got bored and somehow I wound up here, after a wildly convoluted path that I couldn't retrace even if I wanted to.

i was naturally drawn to the album almost immediately. I'm still interested in odd samples & this album is entirely about sampling and remixing music, so that's neat. It's a genre that I'd never heard of (Future Funk, an offshoot of vaporwave), so it was an enlightening experience. And it was incredibly catchy--I'm really into this lo-fi-esque, fairly low energy dance vibe the album gives off. It was a fun novelty, but i initially dismissed it as being an ill-fitting nomination: too obscure and too questionable in legality (we've had sample based music before, but this feels a bit different), so I resumed searching for a third pick...

...but I couldn't get Lovestory out of my head. It started as "let's just listen to one or two of the songs to get amped up before I start searching for a *real* album to nominate", then proceeded to "let's just take a break and listen to the whole album again", to "uhh... I've been listening to this album every day this week and I'm not actually looking for new music anymore...", and eventually "wait, this is actually one of the most popular future funk albums? And it's on Spotify? And a really short album that shows off a genre we've never covered actually kinda makes sense as a nomination??"

I became so obsessed with this album that (after confirming it was a valid nom) it actually wound up becoming my top pick! Admittedly, it's not the most diverse album--all nine songs share the same style, but that works for me since I love what it's doing. It'd probably be tedious if the album were longer, but the brisk runtime keeps it from becoming repetitive or redundant. It's definitely one of my favorite albums and I'm glad I got a chance to share it with everyone, even if I'm not entirely clear on where I found it.

Sheep007: Short, sweet, and very fun. Everything aside from the bottom track was good and even that was fine. Gives me a lot of nostalgia for things Ive never heard before. There's nothing incredibly special to it, and I don't think there's some genius artistic vision but god does it sound good. I enjoyed every single song, something I can't say about many albums. I'll give some of their other albums a listen sometime soon.

Johnbobb: this was not really my thing. also with the exception of Sunshine Aerobics, some of the most generic song titles I've seen

FoolFantastic: Not completely sure I get Future Funk but it's nice background music at the very least

Seanchan: I enjoyed this. It's just fun, easy listening music. At the same time, I have to admit it's very ephemeral music, like cotton candy that just melts away almost immediately. That is to say that while it's great fun in the moment, it doesn't have "staying power" or "message" of something like SOPHIE's album. So there's this sort of dichotomy in my mind of subjectively liking this more, while at the same time, knowing this is objectively not as "good" of an album in a more critical sense.

Listening to Desired, Spotify linked me to this Future Funk playlist, which is also great fun. Haven't listened to all of it but there was some stuff that reminded me of Homework era Daft Punk.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXbjGYBfEmjR5?si=0c99ebc919404e01

MaxGalactica: Pretty enjoyable album. I don't think there was any individual song that I'd regularly go back to, but it was a fun listen. Pretty well-produced and the vocals are pretty solid too. Not a lot else to say about this one, Seanchan's comments are pretty spot on.

HBJDubs: Solid album all-around.