I happened to listen to When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Like a month before finding out this was a thing, and then quite promptly added it to my films I wanted to watch from this year.
Because I think whether or not you like that album, you can't deny that it's one of the weirdest and most unique records to come out of pop music in the last decade, and I really like that even the least played song from that album on Spotify still has 170 million plays, which is absolutely insane, especially for something so undefinable and strange. I mean, the only thing I could possibly think of to list all the songs on it under would be a very vague "art pop" label, and even then, there's some industrial, some hip hop, and even some jazz here and there, while Billie and Finneas still managed to create a style that is unmistakably theirs.
Anyway, I like that something so far from the norm was so ridiculously successful, as I always do, because I enjoy being proven right when I say that there can be a pretty huge market for weird stuff that goes against the grain.
And while I haven't listened to Don't Smile At Me or Happier Than Ever yet, what I'm trying to get across with all this rabbiting is that this is coming from a fan of hers, and I thought that a documentary about the making of her first album would be interesting.
And you know what, it was. It is interesting seeing the creation process of that record in relation to her mental state and everything else happening in her life at the time.
The problem is that that's the first half of the film. After that point, it just becomes any other music documentary, and as such, pretty boring. And like I said, this is coming from a fan of hers. If you're not one, then you probably won't even get anything out of the first half of this film, never mind the second, so my recommendation would be to not bother.
There's only a small handful of moments of interesting directing or editing, and while the story is very interesting for a while, after the Coachella scene, it starts feeling real repetitive.
So you know...like I've been prattling on about for a while now...if you're a fan, I guess...
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