My Dearest Beenie,
With the announcement of The Renaissance Film, I realized I completely forgot to send you my review notes (or fieldnotes hehe) from when I first listened to the album! Sure u won't remember since it's been a while now but I once mentioned that I only got to give the album my review a couple months ago. Of course I had listened to some of the songs individually before only got to fEEL and enjoy the one-big-experience album (as my dear Trish would say 🥰) recently!
SO i opened a google docs tab and STAYED THERE while listening to each song! In order not to make this letter excessively and unnecessarily huge (although I would love to share my opinion on every single song with you 🥺) I selected the best ones to send!
p.s these notes are from late August but istg still mood. nOT TO MENTION THAT I WROTE DOWN AS IF I WAS INDEED WRITING TO U 🥺 Also, these are messy but total honest as I got to write my first reactions/thoughts. Please excuse any nonsense 😆
"From the very start I could notice how the whole album has the typa energy I need in my life fr!! The confidence these songs express is completely out of this world, I DID feel so powerful just by listening to them. And how smooth the transition from one song to another is???? Like you cant fully notice that a song ended while you’re just vibing to it cause they’re all making so much sense together without extreme discrepancies on how it sounds? It’s difficult to explain it in English especially bcs I aint no musician but i hope you get what I mean! 🫠 LIKE U KNOW THESE SONGS ARE FROM THE SAME ALBUM!!!
I’m that girl or cozy are definitely on the top of the list for me. A good portion of the melody reminded me of Brazilian Funk (especially on Energy when it goes ‘He was on stop mode […]’ we have so much of it in Brazilian Funk music! same on Move!!!!!) which has lots of influence from the black culture too. The way she celebrates her own culture through the lyrics must be a boost for black people in terms of confidence and self love! It's so artistically political and I'm so glad we have an artist like her on the media rn!
The way the song increases (?))) kevin i do NOT know music terms at all i’m so sorry ☹️) in Alien Superstar totally made it my favorite song. At the same time it’s a very pointy? markable? emphatic? melody and tempo, I really like how it gets softer as the chorus approaches. LIKE IT IS TOUCHING? When she says ‘I’m too classy for this world, forever I’m that girl” BOI I REALLY FELT LIKE I AM THAT GIRL IT’S TOUCHING I ALMOST FELT LIKE CRYING. This song came at the right time tbh :’))) I think I was in need of listening to something like that about uniqueness, it feels like a party is being hosted just for the fact that you’re yourself. AM I GOING TOO FAR LOL I CAN KEEP GOING FR!!!! The fact that it’s called Alien Superstar is SO cool and beautiful too? LIKE??? IT IS BEAUTIFUL LIKE???? FIRE BENEATH YOUR FEET MUSIC WHEN YOU SPEAK YOURE SO UNIQUE???? FOR MEEEE?????????? LIKE??????? never even THOUGHT of feeling that much confidence in my life this is so cool. AND IT ALSO HAS A MYSTICAL VIBE ATTACHED TO THE MELODY? LIKE SOMETHING WEIRD AND STRANGE AND ALIEN INDEED?
Kevin, the absolute regret of letting it take me so long to listen to it 😭 from my art I think it’s pretty obvious that I love contrasts and I can perceive them in everything! it’s easy for me to notice patterns and, during songs, it usually makes me JUMP LITERALLY HOW THE SONG IS SLOW LIKE UUUHHH UUUH AND THEN BOOM IT GOES BACK TO BEING FAST LIKE IN CHURCH GIRL i was boooorn free AND THEN IT CHANGES totally sick i cant do it.
For time and space reasons I won’t talk about each song individually but just want to register that Thique is also awesome! I may be crazy crazy but All Up In Your Mind really reminded me of one of Kesha’s songs! Or at least of late 00’s songs but it also has a fresh new unique
vibe to it? America Has a Problem, the hit itself, I knew this one before!!!!!!!!"
These were my fav remarks and I hope you got at least 30% of what I meant 🤣 The lack in English vocabulary and also in music terms ain't making it easy for us but I gotta trust your skills and beyhive knowledge to understand which parts of the songs I was talking about 😭
Also a funny moment in the life of a non native English speaker. Tbh my first intention was to quote more of the lyrics to talk about which portion of the song I was referring to. But then I noticed the amount of words I didn't know the meaning of and had to delete it as soon as searched for them lollll 🤣 I got the funniest reaction from Leaf as it happened lol
Sorry I couldn't make these fieldnotes clean and organized but they were really my first reaction and I wanted to share them as they are for the honesty of it haha
That's it, Beenie! I hope you're resting properly and had a peaceful Chuseok!
I love you so much and miss you a lot 🫂❤️ I hope you're well luv!~
With love and appreciation,
vekwi (who strongly believes that every moonlight has a beyhive side within).