Caroline Polachek - Desire, I want to turn into you (ALBUM) |Reaction| 

I definitely think Billions is like an epilogue. The whole album was her feeling all these intense emotions, the chaos, and the world it created. Every song was like an emotion put into physical form, and Billions is the aftermath of feeling of these motions and coming through at the end. Smoke really felt like the big finish and Billions was the here we are now having “Never felt so close to you”

there are no words to describe this album! I am amazed how Caroline comes up with these fantastic melodies, and with each new listening I fall in love with this creation more and more. I can say that Desire is already for me along with the Pang album of my whole life! So fascinated by this album that I can't choose my favorite songs!

butterfly net is SOOOOO FASCINATING

LOVE IT! “Smoke” have a second phrase that Caroline sings like the “tararara tararara” in “Pretty In Possible”. THIS ALBUM IS PURE PLATINUM, THE FCKNG ALBUM OF THE MTHRFCKNG YEAR ALREADY!!! ❤️❤️❤️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

i'm absolutely obsessed with how she sings velveteen 4:36

Bunny is a rider and welcome to my island are my favorite songs ❤️

She wrote and dedicated the song "I Believe" for Sophie citing from the lyrics: "I don't know, but I believe We'll get another day together"

absolutely listen to grimes' albums and DIDOs still on my mind album

See this is why you are my fave album reactor!!! Cus I know you genuinely like the artist you are listening to and not faking. You know about her vocal gymnastics, unique delivery, her POETRY, the wacky production choices that miracuously work, and etc! You have taste sir!!

23:48, that fly scared me so much 💀

Pretty in possible is one of my faves because I love songs that surprise me/are different. Caroline said pretty in possible was made by dropping a beat and just flowing into the song, no clear path/structure.

My album trifecta (3 best songs back to back to back): Sunset, Crude Drawing of an Angel, I Believe. How about yours? Hihi

PEIGHTERR I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOUU!! This video is wonderful.

When you harmonized with you on fly to you my heart did a lil flip. And your ad libs being so complimentary to the song shows such an instinctual ear for melody. I don't know if you sing consistently or make music but you have the raw ear for it.

I love the reaction at 10:10 😂

You SHOULD listen to art angels its so good

Dido (DAI-dough) is the female singer from 'Stan' by Eminem. She's the literal origin of the term 'stan'.

Did you hear the bunny is a rider whistle in the end of I believe??? 😭🧚🏼🥺

I would love to go back in time and don't listen to Welcome to my Island before the album release and experience THAT intro for the first time hearing the album

The enough for love live reaction video is gone🙁

im a smoke stan yus

omg been waiting for so long for this reaction

I love how you compared Pretty In Possible to the Corrs when she covered them in her last era! 😍

Pitchfork has also given Tool a 1.9; especially since their acquisition by Condé Nast they have no clue what they’re talking about. There is a real, serious problem with music reviews these days. The entire scene CP is in along with Sony engage in social signaling (industry circle jerking)-they’re scenesters causing a scene to be seen, that is their manipulative desire. It centers around the producers (Danny L Harle in UK and Jack Antonoff/Dan Nigro/Max Martin/Daniel Lopatin in US). It is encoded aesthetic signaling where you just want to be seen as someone who listens to such music. Lopatin/Polachek have the audacity to refer to Lilith fair artists as CVS-core cringe whilst borrowing from them freely or as if CP’s vocals can top Celine or Sarah’s. They did not include Dido in their CVS-core enumeration since she has a feature in the album but it’s pretty obvious Dido gets drugstore plays. Sarah McLachlan is associated with ASPCA but if you shed those associations of it, the music itself is stunning, truly genuine, transcendent, resplendent and heartfelt storytelling in ways CP can only hope to emulate. CP claims finding your own voice would make you go crazy yet so many artists actually have…and actually pioneer their style…whether it’s instrument or vocals…it’s just a cop out and excuse for borrowing heavily from Frou Frou (Caroline donated to/paid Imogen to cover her song door in Imogen’s marathon promoting her tech invention/tool, it is mentioned in the full length marathon on Imogen’s RU-vid not the edited version of just the cover which CP Stans want to take out of context/misconstrue). CP stans also have the audacity to diss the original artists she steals from claiming she’s better in an effort to make her creative theft acceptable. Even CP’s “mmm” sounds in her songs make me laugh, it’s trying to be quirky r&b with d&b, they do not compare to someone like Kelela (who does it better in Raven album). You can tell CP Stans don’t have ears to appreciate real music and are only at concerts because fashion mags wrote all about it, because they will talk during the quietest song (crude drawing of an angel) and erupt in applause at the start of a bagpipe solo instead of letting the solo play out first. The group calls themselves open/minded but they are the most provincial and narrow minded if they can’t disassociate Sarah McLachlan from the fact that the ASPCA or CVS uses her music. They, of anyone, self-admit to an incapacity of liking music for the music rather than what it does for your image. The whole music industry needs sonic cringe exposure therapy. Lopatin himself is an ersatz William Basinski but prominent figures in music especially men, propelled his career. Meanwhile his music is unlistenable pretentious noise. His 2020 album claimed to be like switching through the radio but is no different from any of his prior albums which are just pretentious noise (understandably it can have a place in a movie OST here/there but to listen to???). Not to mention Sega Bodega’s false narrative about how sunset came to be is hilarious trying to craft an aura around their artistry when clearly they just had Claudia Leitte’s Amor Perfeito cover in their brain. Lopatin just like Polachek are cringe themselves, trying to gatekeep cringe, but have had decades long strong industry connections from the beginning, since the Apple commercial (Apple, BBC, Spotify pretty much just work for Sony). Hyper pop wants to be ironically sincere so badly that they deride artists who are simply just sincere like Sarah McLachlan, Celine Dion and Suzanne Vega whilst taking from them (Vega’s influence is pretty obvious). “The average Pitchfork writer doesn’t appear to care about music at all; they seem only to care about what the music they like and dislike might say about them. The Rosetta Stone of Pitchfork is the publication’s 2021 piece in which its writers went back and re-scored old albums. This is an act of almost impossible self-obsession on its face, but it’s the method that’s really telling: in many of the listed cases, they didn’t even pretend to adjust the score based on the musical quality of a given album itself.” freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/pitchfork-and-the-death-of-things