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Bass Persuades by Miley Cyrus // Album Review

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Bass Persuades seemingly promised a rebirth for Miley as a massive, bass‑driven dance record, but somehow that never fully materializes within the project itself. The rollout was unusually quick, with the lead single announced, released, and then the full album arriving within about two weeks. Unfortunately, the music feels just as rushed as the promotion did, most disappointingly offering not much bass to be persuaded in a largely forgettable, lackluster chapter of her discography. Boring is worse than bad, and ultimately that's exactly what much of the criticism for this album boils down to. There are glimpses of something interesting conceptually, with flashes of the artist who has been known to push boundaries and reinvent herself with intention time and time again, but the highlights of this album are buried under songs that never rise to the level of persona Miley is capable of. Bass Persuades  somewhat picks up where Endless Summer Vacation and Something Beautiful left o...
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"we fell in love in october" by girl in red // Song Review

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"we fell in love in october" is a quintessential autumnal declaration of love. Throughout the song, girl in red captures a sense of unbridled devotion in the most simple and personal way possible, repeatedly returning to the phrase "you will be my girl". The song is such an intimate and unapologetic embrace of the love that defined this point in her life.  "Just screaming, "My girl, my girl!" twenty times in the chorus and sort of just owning it because I struggled a long time accepting it, and there was so much shit going on with this girl, there was just so much drama," she said in an interview with Fader. It's about when things have kind of settled and I'm like Fuck yeah, this is my girl. And you will be my girl. I don't know, I love this girl." Although she released the song independently in 2018, girl in red began writing it in 2015. It was the first song she ever wrote about a girl, marking a significant milestone in both...
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The Encore by Taylor Swift // The Life Of A Showgirl Deluxe Album Review

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Taylor Swift kicked out the stage lights with The Life of a Showgirl , but she's still performing. Following the largely critically panned and commercially polarizing release of her 2025 album, she came back for more with The Encore . For the last several years, especially after leaving her first label Big Machine Records in 2018, Taylor has become essentially a commercially invincible figure in music who can do - and release - anything she wants, whenever she wants. This freedom has allowed her the space to create and explore any artistic direction she desires, which in many cases has proven to be a crucial step in cementing her legacy as one of the most impactful pop artists of all time. The autonomy she has with music has allowed her to make some of the best work of her entire career; albums like folklore and  evermore ,  for example ,  wouldn't exist without this boundless ability to go against every norm in the music industry entirely at her whim.  The differen...
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The Life Of A Showgirl by Taylor Swift // Album Review

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A wise woman once said, "You're only as hot as your last hit, baby!" - and nothing makes that feel more painfully true than the reception to Taylor Swift 's The Life of a Showgirl , arguably the most divisive and critically panned release of her entire career. For an artist of her caliber, especially someone who releases music as frequently as she does, there are bound to be misses in her catalog. It happens, and any artist with a decades‑long career is bound to have duds, especially one examined under a microscope in the way Taylor so often is. What makes this album stand out as particularly worse than some of the other misses is just how truly bad the weakest songs are.  For a project like this to come from a woman who has shown, time and time again, how much she's capable of, it feels so subpar and indicative of a wider problem in Taylor's career right now. The question I'm left with after hearing this album is why? Why does she feel the need to keep ch...
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