{"id":12212,"date":"2020-09-29T11:31:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T16:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=12212"},"modified":"2020-10-06T13:01:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T18:01:05","slug":"everything-means-nothing-actually-means-everything-a-blackbear-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/12212","title":{"rendered":"everything means nothing Actually Means Everything: A blackbear Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>by Mari Pizzini&#8211;<\/strong>The summer of 2020 can only be described one way: a bummer. Well, except for the August 21 release of blackbear\u2019s newest album, <em>everything means nothing. <\/em>Even his track \u201chot girl bummer\u201d is a banger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opening five tracks of the album were pre-released as singles. I hopped on those as soon as they were released. Just like @isabellaparis said, \u201c\u2018ft. blackbear\u2019 means I\u2019m listening,\u201d and in this case it means I\u2019m listening nonstop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cqueen of broken hearts\u201d and \u201cme &amp; ur ghost\u201d became fan favorites (of mine) almost immediately. It didn\u2019t hurt that they both have easy-to-remember choruses. Does that make them simplistic? Maybe. But does that also make them memorizable and easy to vibe to? Absolutely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>everything means nothing<\/em> continues blackbear\u2019s hip-hop, R&amp;B, and pop sound that he is so famous for. However, unlike his previous albums <em>ANONYMOUS <\/em>(2019)<em> <\/em>and <em>digital druglord <\/em>(2017), <em>everything means nothing <\/em>discusses topics I\u2019d consider to be more \u201ccarefree.\u201d At least, kind of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>blackbear\u2019s constant \u2018the world sucks and I hate it\u2019 mentality is still clearly seen throughout this album, but songs like \u201csmile again\u201d stray from his usual messages. Additionally, blackbear seems to discuss emotions and being able to \u201cfeel\u201d more openly than previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my opinion, \u201ci feel bad\u201d and \u201cif i were you (with Lauv)\u201d stole the show (p.s. I\u2019m also a bit of a Lauv fan, so that may have played into my choices). Although I RARELY skip any song on this album, \u201ci feel 2 much\u201d and \u201csmile again\u201d would be my also choices to occasionally fast-forward through.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a song on this album for almost anyone, and I\u2019ve been playing it on repeat for weeks now. For that reason, I\u2019m giving it a perfect 12 out of 12 tracks (crazy, I know!).&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mari Pizzini&#8211;The summer of 2020 can only be described one way: a bummer. Well, except for the August 21 release of blackbear\u2019s newest album, everything means nothing. Even his track \u201chot girl bummer\u201d is a banger. The opening five tracks of the album were pre-released as singles. I hopped on those as soon as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":12213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12215,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12212\/revisions\/12215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}