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leroy's "status update music": A Review of Emotional Specificity and Pop Collage

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Kieran Press-Reynolds

5d ago· 3 min readenReview

Summary

A review of leroy's album "status update music," focusing on the track "#BOYLETMEKNOW" which blends pop influences from artists like Tinashe, Carly Rae Jepsen, Doja Cat, and Kim Petras into a sample-collage about unrequited communication. The review highlights the album's emotional specificity and references another track "GET UGLY" where Jane channels Zara Larsson in a sci-fi themed exploration of music-making as a physically demanding struggle.

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Powering the reckless ecstasy is a new level of emotional specificity.
The ghosts of a generation of pop girls—Tinashe, Carly Rae Jepsen, Doja Cat, Kim Petras—team up to call out to a boy who won't text Jane back.
There's a poignance to the way the music comes out as a tumble of atemporal yet strangely coherent stems, mirroring the way memory can work.
On 'GET UGLY,' Jane channels Zara Larsson for what feels like a sci-fi manifesto depicting music-making and performance as a body-bloodying struggle.
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