Killer roundup with the Marina take being especially sharp. That point about her willingness to interrogate incomplete development preventing feminist ossification is exactly what seperates self-awareness from self-pity in pop lyrics. I've been burned by too many albums where the introspection stays surface-level and just cycles through feelings without examining them, which makes the whole confessional thing feel kinda hollow. The Water from Your Eyes classical songform critique hits too, those choruses really don'tcarry their weight.
Killer roundup with the Marina take being especially sharp. That point about her willingness to interrogate incomplete development preventing feminist ossification is exactly what seperates self-awareness from self-pity in pop lyrics. I've been burned by too many albums where the introspection stays surface-level and just cycles through feelings without examining them, which makes the whole confessional thing feel kinda hollow. The Water from Your Eyes classical songform critique hits too, those choruses really don'tcarry their weight.
Glad that spending ten minutes agonizing over word choice before opting for "ossification" might have been of value!