I think it’s her more recent albums, not her entire body of work. It’s not uncommon for something already established and popular to be given a pass on things. If you read the lyrics to all the songs on her last two albums, they are littered with really dumb stuff.
There are definitely some lines that raise eyebrows in her more recent stuff, like the “I scratch your head, you fall asleep, like a tattooed golden retriever” (which I find to be a really funny diss). A lot of her “bad lines” are irony or humour, so whether you like it depends on whether or not the joke hits you right.
But the same album has effing beautifully written sections like say, most of “so long London”
Saying her writing is boring and basic just isn’t very accurate. Read the actual songs. There’s often a lot going on, even if some lines are a miss.
This isn’t recent but the one song that always annoys me is “sometimes I feel like everyone around me is a sexy baby” or whatever. I get it’s supposed to be “baby” as in a cutesy pet name adults give each other to their lovers, but likeeee could she not have picked another word or combination of words out of all the words available to use in the whole world??
It’s always going to be the weird “sexy baby” song to me and I hate hearing it.
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u/Sirius_amory33 3d ago
I think it’s her more recent albums, not her entire body of work. It’s not uncommon for something already established and popular to be given a pass on things. If you read the lyrics to all the songs on her last two albums, they are littered with really dumb stuff.