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I'm always taken aback when people don't like JAPONESQUE, but then I guess I tend to forget a lot of the songs I love from it aren't like legitimately great songs. I love VIP, but it's a verified hot mess. I love Lay Down, but it's not really that exciting. ESCALATE is OK but it's just sort of generic old school etc. etc. I just love the way the album is laid out and how it provides so much. It's a little bit of everything without feeling like a mixtape in the vein of Colours. And I think the songs are all for the most part pretty strong examples of what she can offer.
Bon Voyage to me is too much like, idk, she picked a bunch of catchy songs out of a hat and called it an album. There's no direction. There's some variety, but at the same time, there really isn't any lol. It just doesn't work for me as an album, because by the end of it I'm just sort of like, "That's it? The album's over?"
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