"Prelude to Ecstasy" - The Last Dinner Party *FULL ALBUM REACTION*
Added 2024-02-03 16:10:04 +0000 UTCHowdy howdy! Looks like on today's stream we hit one or two new tracks but mainly we dived into this new project from the so called "industry plants" The Last Dinner Party. Now industry Plant or not, I'll leave that up to yall, these gals have got some SERIOUS tunes and chemistry. I have written up my review on AOTY and I hope you enjoy the video! As always, let me know your thoughts down in the comments. Cya on Saturday!
AOTY: https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/hthaze/album/784695-prelude-to-ecstasy/
Discord: https://discord.gg/jbQ2xAHBPG
Comments
This one's for my catholic trauma queer girlies so let me just expand a little bit more on it (vs. Preacher's Daughter which to me rings more protestant trauma): The most important song on this album to me is Mirror where essentially Abigail falls into the martyrdom section of religious guilt. She's a mirror. Worthless without our gaze and exists so that we can take a pretty piece of her shattered soul to fix our own by reliving and healing our trauma through her music. That's why she says she's worthless these days without crying. Killing herself at the piano composing is all she can do, and through it she hopes for some kind of absolution. After all, if all you can focus on is the negative impact of your trauma over and over again eventually you'll drown so far you can't return from it. In this way the lack of "true" emotion in some of the songs hit so eerily because they'll only hit you as hard as you relate to the song— after all, she's just a mirror. This is one of my favorite albums and will definitely be in my Spotify wrapped this year and I'd invite you to revisit the album again at some other point maybe with this lens in mind. There are also aspects of the Church/Medieval art that come into play as well (such as the imagery of virginal maidens lying with dangerous creatures in their laps, taming them and to show off how pure and incredible they are used in "Portrait of a Dead Girl" or the imagery conveyed by the words "Lady of Mercy" an iteration of the Virgin Mary with her cloak expanded to protect her flock (sometimes from arrows if the painter is feeling dramatic)). Lyrically this album is so rich but I definitely think it requires the knowledge and study that usually comes with being involved with the Catholic Church and the deconstruction of the trauma that comes with it. Anyways lol love your content! Had so much fun watching you react to this album.
Kharissa Newbill
2024-03-15 04:38:53 +0000 UTCLoved this one!
Jo
2024-03-06 21:15:56 +0000 UTCEmbarrassed to say I only know Burning Down the House from the Moulin Rouge stage musical...
Kimberley Bryan
2024-03-02 12:06:59 +0000 UTCTroy please watch Twilight. The movies are sooo cringe, but the soundtracks go HARD. You'll love them!
Autumn Micketti
2024-02-14 17:37:33 +0000 UTCpsycho killer is my fave!
Emily Haikney
2024-02-05 10:32:42 +0000 UTC‘caesar on a TV screen’ gave ‘the man’ but if kate bush and queen had a baby
adri ʕ ᵔᴥᵔ ʔ
2024-02-05 09:11:57 +0000 UTCLiterally one of my fav albums recently I love them
Matilda Edwards
2024-02-04 20:00:55 +0000 UTCI hope the new jungle album is still on your radar, would love to hear your thoughts!!
Nina Marie
2024-02-04 12:08:29 +0000 UTCSYNA-GAGGED IM DEAD
Elle
2024-02-04 07:32:42 +0000 UTCIVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE
Briony
2024-02-04 02:57:00 +0000 UTCOff topic but PLEASE watch beyonce homecoming coachella concert on netflix
MarkTheShark
2024-02-04 01:31:43 +0000 UTCYou gotta listen to more Talking Heads even if it's just on your own, they are iconique. Once in a Lifetime is the best track imo.
Miranda
2024-02-04 00:29:28 +0000 UTCi would love if you did florence & the machine! dance fever was one of my fav albums from 2022 :))
emma 🌷
2024-02-03 20:08:48 +0000 UTCI love that clean face, looks like you when you were in High School
DEBRA Hayes
2024-02-03 16:17:47 +0000 UTClet’s goooooo
Mols
2024-02-03 16:17:32 +0000 UTCPLEASE react to haim if you liked TLDP PLEASE . P L E A SE
Holly
2024-02-03 16:15:47 +0000 UTCYay thanks Troy 🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️
Leah ✨
2024-02-03 16:15:40 +0000 UTC
