Kinda wanted the opinion of everyone, and this is in USD btw, of this 7” vinyl.
It kinda upsets me bc I was literally wanting to get all 7” vinyls of this album, but this is annoying (not as annoying as the green one I had to track down but still).
please tell me im looking at a fabricated screenshot? i know some pitchfork stuff was discussed just a few days ago around phoebes album but i feel like this is less subtle than what we were talking about previously. like i understand taylor and olivia arent necessarily in the best of standings, but this is a little much. so im just gonna hope it isnt real (????)
an edit, which i think is necessary: 1) it is real. just a fact. oh well. 2) this is just my opinion yall. in my personal opinion this isnt professional. you can feel how you want i was just trying to facilitate discourse. i promise i go outside.
A snub?
If so, why?
To me her videos have never been great (her best video thsi cycle, for the cure, was nommed for Best Alternative which is an interesting choice as well). But still a shutout is a surprise.
Basically the title. Posted about this in the main sub, but it got deleted. I love GSIL and Olivia a lot, but I have no one to talk about it with IRL, even with people who like her other records.I was hoping she would finally have her big moment with the general public, artists, and critics, all at once. Her VMA snub is not the best omen, and frankly, why schedule a tour in the middle of awards season for an album you expect to get awards?
I'm older (26F) and also an artist, and Olivia used to be someone a lot of people around me, my friends, family, peers, and colleagues, enjoyed listening to and following. But when I talk about GSIL - definitely my favorite album of hers narratively, with a new sense of sonic cohesion - I haven't met another person with a similar opinion. Other artists usually pay attention to new and young artists' work, but I am consistently met with people who don't like this album, or even stopped partway through because they lost interest or were confused. Artists and critics whose taste I respect and care about, who listen to music as part of their job, mostly shrug at me when I ask. Like "I listened, but meh."
It's very isolating actually. I'm trying to deal with the consistent dislike of GSIL among other people around me, but I'm not really able to talk about it in the main subs, and in real life, I can't talk about *liking* it at all when it's a top five record of 2026 for me. I'm sick of feeling shame for liking a record my friends will outright ask me to turn off, and then feeling shame for the fandom backlash and censorship when I talk about not everyone liking it.
So, what gives?
I’m being sarcastic, obviously, but my point stands.
I want someone to describe, in detail, what it is that man does for a living.
I don’t think any of y’all actually know what it is, which is why you speak in such general terms.
I think her relationship with him has received substantial criticism because of the hypocrisy of it all; being an artist but still getting into a relationship with someone who invests in AI, directly or indirectly. It hurt her image with a part of the public. When it comes to PR and preserving her career, I would have advised her to cut ties with him, or never make such a relationship public.
What do you think?
Sorry, the pictures are out of order. But like The Cure and the limited edition Honeybee + Cigarette Smoke vinyl all have the full song on it (with the choir for Honeybee, the last couple of lines for Cigarette Smoke, and the ending instrumental for The Cure). However, the full one doesn’t have any of these extra parts to the song, and they tried to play it off like they pressed the 12” vinyls early. It takes the same amount of time, or longer, to press these earlier 7” records that have the full thing on it.
So they really did just cut the extra content to make it one 12” vinyl right?
Or am I just missing something?
P.S. a little necklace hate too btw
“if Taylor did this” “if Sabrina did this” I feel like she’s being equally criticized for all of the questionable and weirdo behaviors she exhibited in this album run (multiple variants, shitty vinyls, ai boyfriend, fantano interview, smashing pumpkins collab)? I think the only difference is that Olivia and her team are hell bent on maintaining her A+ student image, so whenever she does something weird there’s like a puff piece 5 seconds later, but I don’t think her PR tactics are really fooling anyone. I just find it odd that when she’s being called out, pepole are saying that she *isnt* being called out like other celebs? It implies her team is succeeding in maintaining her good girl image and I really don’t think they are?
which sister are they? For example, for me, Sour is the naive sister (younger twin), Guts is the rebellious sister (oldest), and YSPSFAGSIL in the older twin of Sour, and the most creative! Give them any labels you want! I can’t wait to see what you guys come up with!
I love olivia, my first ever album that I listened to in english is SOUR and it's one of my favourite albums of all time. I love n adore both the albums sour and guts so much.
My problem with this album is the lyrics. If u disagree give me a lyric from this album. I'll take sour, the least streamed song Hope ur ok, that is better than any of her lyrics from previous songs.
I listened to yspsfagsil with no expectations and thought it was good but the lyrics were so off and song writing seemed so not her?? In the sense that her metaphors used to complement the story and add context that is only through the metaphor to the song and are so meaningful but now it's like a scrap soup of metaphors adding nothing to the song.
"Hope he took his bad deal and made a royal flush"
This adds meaning and context to the song which wasn't implied already, she hopes he got out of the situation he was in. Which wasn't said before in the song.
"Address the letters, to the holes in my butterfly wings
Nothing's forever, nothing is as good as it seems
And when the clouds are ironed out
And the monsters creep into your house
And every door is hard to close"
This is full of metaphors, so beautiful and clever. Also none of the context of these metaphors are a new addition to the song.
But in yspsfagsil, the metaphors are so redundant. Says the same thing again and again. The imagery is too much, too different, too many in the same song. Maggots for brains, zombie in my body, dirty, rotten, train off the track. If all these are used and the song was longer and more lyric and context heavy, it would've worked so good, but there's nothing in it, no context nothing more is being said in the song other than when he's not around i do nothing i feel like a couch potato.
The reviews were so bizarre??? I think this is her weakest lyrical album????? Literally her debut album has so many good lyrics?? I was like.. are we listening to the same album?? Did we listen to the same album?? Cuz sour and guts are way better lyrically.
I fking hate "the songwriting is so mature" what?? I don't understand what people mean by it. What is mature songwriting?? Themes can be mature, the concept can be mature.. songwriting???
My least favorite album of hers, my most favourite is what's wrong with me (quirky production) and my least favorite is honeybee (cringe lyrics)
Melodies and production were good for the most part except for some.
Apparently fans were airdropped this version of Purple at her show tonight in nyc.
Does anyone know where to find a full recording of her one night only show from a few days ago? I've been scouring the internet trying to find one but the best I could find was full videos of maggots for brains and the cure😭