“For maybe the first time in her discography, her positioning against a man makes her sound truly pathetic.” — gotta disagree there, she sounds wholly pathetic most of the time
Eh - that's fair, but usually I can sense a level of agency or self-awareness that gives her a bit of dignity back. But she truly just sounds so utterly unfortunate here that it just doesn't work for me. It's the song equivalent of when people complain about their exes in a way that makes you ask what kind of desperate they were to stay with them.
“For maybe the first time in her discography, her positioning against a man makes her sound truly pathetic.” — gotta disagree there, she sounds wholly pathetic most of the time
Eh - that's fair, but usually I can sense a level of agency or self-awareness that gives her a bit of dignity back. But she truly just sounds so utterly unfortunate here that it just doesn't work for me. It's the song equivalent of when people complain about their exes in a way that makes you ask what kind of desperate they were to stay with them.