I love how closely tied The Rina and Chloe and Halle fanbases are🤣😭I can always count on Ungodly Hour being recommended under SAWAYAMA reactions and vice versa.
✨ SAWAYAMA TIMESTAMPS ✨ Dynasty ❤ - 5:10 XS 🤏🏻 - 9:50 STFU! 😡 - 16:03 Comme De Garçons (Like the Boys) 🧒🏻 - 19:35 Akasaka Sad 😢 - 22:41 Paradisin’ 🌴 - 26:42 Love Me 4 Me 💕 - 29:58 Bad Friend 🥺 - 32:41 Fuck This World (Interlude) - 🖕36:14 Who’s Gonna Save U Now? - 🤷🏻39:05 Tokyo Love Hotel 🏩 - 43:07 Chosen Family 👨👩👧👦 - 47:07 Snakeskin 🐍 - 49:52
Another smart thing about the title XS is that it’s actually a size. Like size extra small. And her line about “make me less so I want more” > xs to excess. Because access to more often comes with being smaller and fitting into beauty standards. “Make me less” being about both size and tearing down one’s self esteem and confidence so that more can be taken, and more can be sold to that person. Rina’s lyrical work is SO impressive. So much depth and layers.
Oh. My. God. I should have known that, I heard snakeskin years ago when I got into the album, and I’ve heard it many times since then and could never figure out where I heard it, thank you!
This album is amazing. Still remember how it gagged me during the pandemic just with the first track. And Rina even watched few reaction videos of people reacting to Sawayama on her youtube channel.
@@foxesamu i really don't see it honestly. Sure it wasn't as complex or experimental as her previous work but its honesty and intimacy really spoke to me and made me like her as a person and an artist even more.
@@ex.static you could say it wasn't MUSICALLY complex (which i disagree), but that album is a very emotionally complex album. and a lot more relatable too. send my love to john? it got me BAWLINGGGGG
YEAH im gonna need you to now listen to her album 'Hold The Girl' because ITS LITERALLY FUCKINNNN INCREDIBLE and quite literally changed me as a person
this is one of my all time favorite debut albums. i feel like this album was like an internet cult favorite in 2020 along with Ungodly Hour by Chloe x Halle
oh whoa i was NOT expecting a reaction to this, such a welcome surprise! this album blends so many sounds together in such a neat way. not to mention she’s a wonderful vocalist
i saw her live and wasnt expecting bad friend but when she did it i sobbed the whole time and sang it clutching my ex. she's amazing live. i'll never forget that concert...
LOVE this album and glad you did too! Also fun fact about Snakeskin, that interpolation in the prechorus is the victory theme from Final Fantasy which has got to be one of the nerdiest things to drop into a pop song imo
Dynasty - 5:10 XS - 9:50 STFU! - 16:03 Comme De Garçons (Like the Boys) - 19:35 Akasaka Sad - 22:41 Paradisin’ - 26:42 Love Me 4 Me - 29:58 Bad Friend - 32:41 Fuck This World (Interlude) - 36:14 Who’s Gonna Save U Now? - 39:05 Tokyo Love Hotel - 43:07 Chosen Family - 47:07 Snakeskin - 49:52
i don’t even remember how i found this album at the start of the pandemic but omfg it still changes my life to this day. still on repeat and i swear every 4 months my fav song changes it’s all SO GOOD
Omg i was waiting for LUCID and didnt realise it's on the deluxe 😭 i need him to react to that too - not as deep and experimental as the rest of this amazing album but just the perfect dance track!
love this reaction 😭 rina sawayama is seriously my favorite music artist. when i saw her live, it was truly an experience. hope you can react to hold the girl next, it’s a lot more personal- 3 major themes in the album are healing her inner child, confronting her traumas, and embracing her queerness❤️🔥
that was actually a very pleasant surprise! Rina is one of my favorite artists right now and sawayama was THE album that got me thru 2020. really happy that you like it as well!
It’s crazy how the first stream I got to watch after subbing to the Patreon was Troy reviewing my favorite album of all time and one i’ve requested so often lol. Definitely a sign this was a good idea
She is an incredible vocalist live. Her show was actually truly incredibly moving and fun and elaborate and healing like i got therapized at the hold the girl tour
Can I just say how much I love this channel for exposing me to artists that I likely wouldn't had seen without it? My music taste has broadened so much since I started watching you and it's all for the better
DEF THE BEST DEBUT ALBUM. SO GLAD YOU FINALLY REACTED TO IT. AND SHE'S INDEPENDENT LIKE OH GOD. REACT TO HOLD THE GIRL, IT'S MY SECOND FAV ALBUM OF ALL TIME LIKE LITERALLY. A MASTERPIECE.
Such a fun vid of an amazing album! You were so close with identifying the interpolation in Snakeskin - it's the victory theme from the Final Fantasy series!
COME ON RINAA also since you enjoyed this I’d say another hit of an album you should totally check out is “I miss you already + I haven’t left yet” by del water gap! my favorite album of 2023 and is definitely one of the best indie pop records I’ve heard
i gasped when i saw this. this album got me out of such a deep and lost part of my life, thank you Rina Sawayama. and thank you Troy for deciding to choose such a work of art to react to
