#lovetap!

American Love - Very upbeat. Now I have never been to Warped Tour, but I do imagine this would be performed at least once. Now I don’t know if it is just my speakers or if it is the sound, but for some reason I am having a hard time understanding the words. I had to pull up the lyrics to this song just to understand what was being said. That might just be me but the singer lacks in the diction department. 

Killer Whales - In the best way possible this sounds like a one direction song that would be played in a futuristic dystopia, but only before we discover who the villain is and what the protagonist plans on doing about the villain. Also while I feel as though the killer whales are being used as a metaphor for the song writers feelings about themselves, we love an activist in this house. I also feel like the chorus was either look long or used too often as this song felt like it took absolutely forever to get done. 

Dreaming - This is the song that my Spotify claims that I have listened to and it all makes sense now. This song fits the teen between ‘14-’16 in 2015 vibes and I feel like the Smallpools fans that fit this category were very happy at the time of its release. This could easily have fit in with a 1 Direction/5SOS vibe.

Karaoke - A very different vibe, especially after Dreaming. I feel like I got whiplash with the speed of that vibe change. This is giving me very much Pick Me; We Need to Get Out of This Deadbeat Town vibes and it is for that reason I think this is my least favorite song on the album. There is just something about it that I don’t like about it. I think it might be that this feels like it should be a party song and it just isn’t.

Street Fight - So I was a young teen in 2015 and I am only now entering adulthood now, so I do not have much recollection of that time in my life. But if I had to guess this song sounds like it was ahead of its time. This feels like a 2017/18 song that would have hit towards the end of the summer just as people are making montoges of their summer time adventures to show their friends. Which is unfortunate because its a pretty alright song.

Mason Jar - Automatically I am turned off of this song, purely for the name of the song. I live in the south and I just don't like the mason jar aesthetic. Like I get it, but I don’t like it. I think this is a great song, but the title is just not it for me, especially because mason jars are mentioned once and never brought up again. I do however like the song writers ability to tell a story and the general plot that runs through the song which is enough to redeme it for me. Also it is so long, I thought it was over but I was only halfway through 

Over & Over - The only thing I have to say about this song is that the vibes for the song brought my dog into the room and that's is all.

Lovetap! - We love the name of the album also being a song title. I just say that the line “your blood is still so blind 20/20 don't come free to everybody” did not age well. Do I understand that it is about eyesight? Yes. But is that still something that resonated with my soul? Yes. I do really like the chorus of this song its catchy and is nice to listen to. 

What’s That a Picture Of? -  This is a total lets run away into the night song. It is fast paced with a nice bass line and some prominent drums. It also ovbious with the lyrics describing an encounter between two potential lovers meeting for the first time but one of them holding back on their true desires.

Dyin’ to Live - A FOMO pick me song. But also nostalgia and moving on from a toxic friendship. Its the way that I can almost too heavily relate to this song that is currently hurting me. This also gives me church camp that is also trying to appeal to non religious kids that are forced to go and I just can’t do that.

Admission to Your Party - The first few seconds of this song lead me down a Smallpools rabbit hole to check that whomever was singing was from America because all I am getting is European accent. This songs lyrics have me wondering if we like the person this is being directed at or not, because we want into the party but we also have a lot of words to say about what the party thrower is doing at that party.

9 to 5 - No. No. Absolutly not. I don’t like it. There is too much happening. This has a country and carrabian sound to it. It does not work. There is a good reason it is the shortest song. This is so heavily a skip and it by far my least favorite song of the year. Sorry Smallpools.

No Story Time - Lots of big words in the beginning of this song. Really packing a punch in the beginning to draw the listeners in. There is not much to say about this song other than I feel like some of the listeners might require a dictionary for listening to this song. Which is wildly juxtaposed with nearly the rest of the song.