CW: sexual themes. This review is rated 18+
Yes, this review is technically hidden. Mainly because I don’t want my parents seeing it due to the insane about of sexual innuendo and themes in this 7-song EP. However, since I listed this album relatively high in my top 25 most important it’s accessible to those who don’t have access to the NSFW part of the site (which totally doesn’t exist.) If you are my parents, skip this review OK?
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Ok, now everyone likes sex here, right? Well everyone but me it seems.. My relationship to sex is unorthodox. I’m certainly into it, and I can be rather kinky from time to time, but the idea of sex as seen traditionally, inserting one thing into another just makes me feel kinda gross. Chalk it up to me being on the asexual spectrum, but the concept of anal or vaginal sex isn’t for me. I also don’t really feel sexual attraction, at least not for strangers. Apparently for you allo people you can see someone hot on the street and just.. get horny? Weird.
So this EP being so high on my list of most important albums sort of stands as a representative of my experience with sex and sexual attraction. Aside from the songs being very catchy, the wording of songs like Wet and Nice Nice are very, very horny. The album does tone it down at points, though, especially for the title track Maggot, which comes in the middle of a sort of lull in the albums energy. It starts bombastic but mellows out in the middle to deal with slightly more serious topics like toxic relationships and gender dysphoria.
I was riding in the car with a friend once and we were recommending each other music. She was playing songs by artists like EVE, while I listened. She said I could play something I liked, and I chose this, for whatever reason. When we got to Maggot I turned off the GPS and the air conditioning so the only noise, the only thing to process aside from the highway would be that song, because I needed her to feel the same passion and love for this album that I did. I don’t think she did, but at least I didn’t play Ed Sheeran or something like that. Never say I’m not original.
I think this album is so high in the ranking for the memories I have with it, playing it for friends when they say "play the kind of music you like." And for whatever reason, despite being somewhat ace all I can think of is this punky poppy queer horny smorgasbord of pent up sexual energy and teenage rebellion. I gel with this album in a way I don’t with others like it. Sure Chappell Roan is great (I’ve reviewed Midwest Princess in that nonexistent totally not NSFW part of the site) but it doesn’t hit like this does. This feels like all of the lust was transmutated from the heart to the page and left there, like it contains it all for the artist. Maybe I’m thinking too much about it. This albums is available for streaming anywhere, including purchase on BandCamp. And no, there are no other releases by this group but the artists have gone on to new projects, so there’s always those. I’m fine with just this, though.
Written may 30 2024