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Originally Posted by Zyrada
but it doesn't stand out to me as being any more or less up in itself about its "craft" than any of its contemporaries.
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Right, but I don't own any of those contemporaries, and the thread was just asking about the records we happened to have owned.
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For the record, I'm also not trying to be a "too deep for you" contrarian. I just feel like Manners had too many hooks and palatable melodies to really be considered genuine "arty sh*t".
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That's fine. I consider myself to be an expert in terrible pop music, and Passion Pit's music stands in its own way. I can't say it's fully enjoyable, because it's trying VERY hard to not be typical pop music while... just being simple pop music. It just has a glossy, sleek production that throws it into the "artsy" subgroup. Again, I don't hate the album. I enjoyed quite a few songs. But generally speaking, they're just dressed up pop songs, and that to me makes them pretentious.