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STFU! – the lead single – is similarly audacious. Blending metal and 2000s pop, Rina creates a fiery song, unleashing her pent-up anger towards the microaggressions she faces as a Japanese-British woman. The robust electric guitar instrumental can only be done justice when blasted at full volume.
Both
Akasaka Sad explore intergenerational depression: “the pain in my veins is hereditary”.
Akasaka Sad sees Rina pay homage to her Japanese heritage, singing in Japanese and English. Instrumentally, this song is substandard, with an over-repetitive trip-hop chorus. The album’s closing song,
Snakeskin, also falls into this same, slightly jarring trap. However, lyrically, it’s a strong ending, as Rina uses the metaphor of a snakeskin to reveal how she’s shedding the trauma identified on earlier tracks.
mtv Bladee And Mechatok Are Winning And Losing At The Same Time How the ethereal artists try (and, by their own metrics, fail) to make pop songs on Good Luck
By Eli Enis
Bladee and Mechatok like to think of luck as a paradox. The 26-year-old cloud-rap icon and the 23-year-old producer are sitting in a Swedish hotel room talking about how their new album documents their simultaneous failure and success at creating perfect pop music. The eight-track project is simply titled
Good Luck, but they donât subscribe to the idiomâs optimistic connotations. âWhen you say âgood luckâ to someone, youâre kind of implying that thereâs a good chance that it might not work out,â Mechatok says with a smile. âYouâre not saying that, if youâre confident, itâs going to be fine.â