I find it incredibly offensive considering its literally what Im doing to avoid having to face my own issues. I might not be narcissistic or abusive, but man, I have enough issues to ignore anyway 😅 (also I dont actually think its offensive, I have anxiety and I imagine people will not understand I was joking haha 😅)
@@lisastormo5803 Thats okay tho, we all have our ways to cope and distract ourselves. We cant be thinking about our problems 24/7 that would just makes us stressed and thats even more unhealthy for our own mental health. You doing alright Lisa!
@@lisastormo5803 naw girl it’s all good, it’s mostly a criticism on gabby because she actively doesn’t work on her problems, repeats patterns, and blames others for her problems. It’s just a real bad repeat cycle she has and you can tell in her music since it’s an extension of her beliefs
@@lisastormo5803 oh no, You’re good. I believe Brad‘s main problem is that Gabbie‘s basically trying to profit off of her issues instead of trying to do anything about it. It doesn’t feel like she’s trying to cope with it (like you do), but instead like she’s using it to gain something from people.
Gabbie doesn’t get that a lot of edgier bands don’t TRY to be edgy. The writing, vocals, emotion, and music are what make them edgy. They’re edgy because of how they express themselves authentically. Gabbie is trying to portray something. Not express something. It seeps into every part of her media. She WANTS to come off as something. If she were authentic it wouldn’t be so flat.
I mean that's just genius explained. It can work if something is lyrically deep but a lot of the time they get very surface level songwriting on there so the artists just have to phone it in. I'm not trying to be elitist and say every artist needs to be Kendrick Lamar, but the genius explained series doesn't have much of a point if the lyrics aren't meant to be that deep
As someone who grew up with abusive narc parents in a household where a complete lack of emotional intelligence was normalized, seeing Brad's clear read on Gabbie's mannerisms and self-absorbed behavior in the first few minutes of the video was astonishingly healing. I still struggle to clearly identify those "get me away from this person" traits because it was so normal around me for so long. Thanks Brad
"You can't keep everyone in your life-your friends from first grade, second grade, third grade..." Gabbie knows that most people don't get a new set of friends every year, right?
there is no way she knows that. also the way she hyperbolizes "you can't keep everyone in your life" so people who keep some, but not everyone, in their lives can see themselves in her, to deflect that she can't keep ANYONE in her life, is so telling of her manipulative behavior and insecurities.
Right?! I've known about 1/2 of my closest friends since Elementary School. Of course people come and go. And people grow up and don't hang out as much. But I still see alot of my childhood friends on the regular.
It really depends on each person and each specific situation but yeah some people come others go and even sometime you reunite again with people from your past but coming from Gabbi I think is cause no one wants her around once they realized her true colors
I swear to god these lyrics and music remind me of when I wrote lyrics as a 12 year old rebellious emo kid sitting all alone in my room waiting for someone to save me.
Her voice could be decent, if she didn’t feel the need to overdo EVERY single line. Nothing is emphasized because she goes way too hard on every line, there’s no sense of control and it’s obviously not intentional. Her aggrandized sense of self overwhelms EVERY part of this albums: the vocals, the lyrics, the style. It’s a bad album not because it has bad ideas (a little because it has bad production) but because she’s the one writing and singing it
In "i sold my soul" when she said "watch me BURN" (at 20:22 ) that scream on "burn" is why her vocals get raspy afterwards. One, it was a TERRIBLE attempt at a fry scream. Two, she didn't use her false chords to do it, she essentially FUCKED up her voice doing that and destroyed her voice for the rest of the song which is why you hear the rasp when she goes back to clean vocals. If you are gonna attempt a fry scream, do NOT under any circumstances do what she did, you will destroy your voice and if you do it enough you'll sound like Brendon Urie and be voice cracking left and right
jeeeeezus, for an album called trauma queen she never once discusses any actual trauma and instead spends the whole album blaming her breakup on her ex not reading the red flags instead of the fact that she has red flags. Warning shots was especially egregious.
@@ImpendingRiot83 remember when rachel oates negatively reviewed her poetry book and gabbie immediately went on a social media rant calling her a bitch
@@hiverbleu8878 idk man taking the side of a rapist instead of her friend and never actually admitting to it then spewing immature and racist shit on tiktok a year later isnt the best way to clear up ur name
@@hiverbleu8878 oh please, the girl is horrendous. and people rightfully do not like her. her "accountability" is always, yes BUT or yes AND. That's not accountability. Never will be.
@@hiverbleu8878 if she gets backlash for her actions that's her fault. She can't be an abuser and a victim that's just being devils advocate for no reason besides that you can
Warning Shots is especially scary because it seems like it was written to be like 'haha I'm aware of my red flags, I'm the actual worst and I'm evil and terrible and I know that but you wanted to love me and I ruined you like I ruin everything I hate myself' but due to Gabbie's consistent and documented behaviour, it comes off 'I abused/traumatised you but it's your fault because you didn't leave me after I abused/traumatised you the first times' like maybe we should work on the fact that you continued to abuse him Gabbie
Gaslightcore at it's finest. She could at least have been discrete about her narcissism, but nooo, narcissists cant be humble and discrete, and it feels like she liquidified her self-centeredness and used it as the ink she wrote the lyrics on.
“I love you enough to let you go” lyric isn’t a conflicting message, it’s a manipulative lie. This is a big red flag the abuser is likely trying to manipulate their partner/victim into staying with them out of their own choice by saying they love you and placing guilt of a potential break up on the victim. Bet if in that situation the victim says “cool see you later” an abusive outburst should be expected.
This album has lyrics that I would expect from a male Midwest emo singer with multiple SA allegations against him, I’m not even aware of what drama and scandals gabbie has had in the past/present but I know that she has posted many freakouts and mental breakdowns online and that in itself make it really hard to take anything she says in this album seriously
something not a lot of people are talking about that i cant stop thinking about when it comes to this album is the quality of her singing. While she does *sound* good, you can really hear her straining to hit that emotive belt she's become known for. If she goes on tour and tries to sing these songs like how she does on this album every night she WILL do permanent damage to her vocal cords
Yes she will… I already did this to myself and always thought I would bounce back but I permanently messed up my vocal chords from straining my high belt repetitively
Like one or two songs an album that are really emotionally driven where she can do that? Okay! A lot of artists have that song or two either every album or couple albums because it works *sometimes* but over using it not only becomes gimmicky, but also does *so* much goddamn friction on your vocal chords and can cause some serious damage. I like a good raw belt. Kelly Clarkson, Hayley Williams are all absolutely delightful to listen to on their hella emotional songs, but they also have a lot more control of their vocals than Gabbie (and while gabble is no where near bad, she is also not near their level or talent, control, and skill just technically speaking). She will probably start have the same vocal sufferings Brendon Urie is starting to have as well. Seems to be a problematic person thing lol.
funnily enough, i didn't like olivia very much when sour came out but ever since the wave of shitty pop punk sludge that has come in her wake i appreciate her a lot more
Exactly. People need to differentiate between lousy, dime-a-dozen pop punk and good, artful pop punk. People think that all pop punk is lousy and dime-a-dozen, so Olivia gets thrown under the bus even thought she makes some really solid music, despite being very derivative
That final "shut the fuck up" by Brad at the very end of the last song was so perfectly succinct for having sat through an entire album of gaslighting bullshit only to have it end on a song that for once sounds like she's approaching acceptance. Fuck that noise, no thank you.
I love how she never skips an opportunity to make herself look like a victim. The codependency line, for example, basically suggests that she and her partner are equally culpable. But according to the rest of the album, the partner has been running away and shes been chaining him up. That is just abuse, not codependency. Or possibly kidnapping.
Back when she was posting videos explaining her side of dramas, her boyfriend ended up leaving her from all the backlash she got on speaking about Jessi Smiles and Joey’s “escape the night.”
Shoutout to the stream chat who said this is RWBYcore, they’re GOATed I haven’t yet found a musical term that better describes that class of music anyone familiar with online fandom and independent productions knows all too well, but it hit like a truck when I made the connection
YEAH NO KIDDING I looked at some of the songs and was like ‘sounds like early RWBY’ At least RWBY it was like kind of earnest and they did have some really good melodies at times esp with Ruby’s leitmotif. And also they weren’t gaslighty lmao worst crime they had (in terms of the music at least) was just having a teenage vocalist and lyrics that tried too hard to be edgy sometimes
RWBY's ost is cringey yet endearing because the songs were made by a young teenager in a show aimed at young teenagers. Hanna's songs are cringey and offputting because they were written by a hateful 30 year old woman with the mind of a teenager
Imagine putting out a whole album of songs saying "I'm an awful person... But everyone should have already known this so I can't really be blamed" and not once ever stopping to think "Huh, you know what, maybe people didn't actually know I was awful? And maybe I can improve?"
Imagine if she had a clear head and actually used her platform for good🙄🙄instead of calling herself a “c*l*red person” (I used asterisks just to be polite lol sorry if that made it confusing)
I'm so mad G@bbie H@nnah wrote the line "You can walk on water, I'll bring the fire" because it literally would sound so much better if it is about loving someone who you see as preforming miracles where you fell you can only ruin things.
The person who implemented the censoring on RUclips (Susan Wojinski) got fired a while ago because so many content creators and commenters complained. Don't worry, you're safe. (Although I still censor my comments too, just in case.)
“This is a classic case of ‘Get Me the Fuck Away From Whatever the Hell This is’ and you don’t need to be a psychologist to know that.” THIS is best argument for discussing people like Gabbie Hanna, Trisha Paytas, Nikocado Avocado, James Charles, etc. They may not be a complete sociopath or narcissist and you can’t say that they are because you don’t have the credentials, but you never want to meet these people anyways lol
Yeah, when someone acts like them, I’ve learned to just call it Main Character Syndrome. They don’t think about other people because we’re just NPCs to them lol.
You would rarely diagnose a personality disorder in a first session. Usually it takes around 6 months of observing social/relational/occupational functioning patterns. It can take even longer to help a client understand their diagnosis. People with personality disorders may not be fully honest in treatment (who is at first) or may be motivated to get help for a co-occurring issue (depression, substance use, couples therapy) before they address the deeper issues. So no, that’s highly unusual unless you work in higher levels of care where treating PD is primary or have extensive patient history on file. Personality disorder features have to be present since adolescence so it takes time to get the full story.
@@beccas7424 thank you for saying this. I am really sick of people throwing around diagnoses online and making claims like "any psychologist would agree" like wtf. these are serious labels and the stigma surrounding them does not need to be added to.
celebrity as a role in society self selects for narcissistic traits. this is why so many artists, including some of the greatest of all time, were predatory/abusive in some way.
I can safely say if this album had have come out in 2005-2006 during the myspace days, 14 year old pre-years of therapy emo/scene kid me would have loved it 😂 and I feel like that says everything
My thoughts as I go along: - “Stone Heart” gives me “You’ll regret leaving me and it will haunt you forever. I will always be a part of you even if you try to forget me.” - “Rewired” sounds like “Give me empathy; I’ve changed. But also, I’m better than you.” - “I Sold My Soul” 22:17 Here I think that, because she is forcing herself to “take accountability” for her behavior, she’s labeling herself as a villain (who is actually a hero in disguise), but she just can’t accept that, so she has to bring her “enemies” down with her. She’s being all like “well if I’m a villain, so are you,” or “well I did bad things, but you did too.” She can’t accept the problems she had with people were her fault and not theirs. She just can’t accept that she was the only one who was in the wrong; there always has to be a caveat with her. If she’s admitting that her behavior was wrong, she has to put everyone else on the same level as her because if she doesn’t, she looks worse than them. She’s not really taking responsibility, she’s saying “we all made mistakes, so the fact that I’m the only one being villainized is wrong, and just you wait because you’re going to get the treatment I’m getting when this all finally catches up to you.” It’s not self reflection, it’s animosity and vindictiveness. It’s bitter and spiteful. It’s petty. - “Trouble” is the quintessential “I don’t give a fuck, but I wrote a whole album about it” song. - In “Runaway” she wants someone to stay even though she knows she is bad for them and they should run away, but I can’t tell if she’s being genuine or passive-aggressive. - “Warning Shots” is literally just “I’m the Victim: The Song” it’s actually disgusting to hear. She’s literally just saying the quiet part out loud now even though she tried to “take responsibility” 3 songs ago; she constantly contradicts herself throughout the entire album. She actually said verbatim “You’re to blame,” like she has completely dropped the mask. She truly views this stuff as “you knew what you got into with me, so all my bad behavior is absolved” and “I told you I was crazy, so none of this is my fault, and I’m actually the victim in this situation.” It is so delusional and honestly really fucked up and a bad message to send to use her mental illness as a shield for her shitty behavior (and that’s coming from a mentally ill person myself). She’ll literally do anything to avoid accepting responsibility. - “Wish We Never Met” sounds like “I’m sad you left and I’m sorry I was shitty. I miss you and love you, but I just couldn’t show you.” Again, I can’t tell if this is genuine or not. - “Hangups” is just an awful version of “Irreplaceable” by Beyoncé (which actually tackles this subject matter amazingly). And “Guess I’m not the problem / You always put the blame on me.” Really Gabbie, really??? The hypocrisy and lack of self awareness is astonishing 🙄 - “Head in the Clouds” is basically “I need to get high to forget about my problems,” which I honestly can’t give any shade to. I’m pretty sure a lot of us have been in a place like that before. - “Silver Lining” seems genuine in saying this person helps and/or makes her happy when she is depressed, and again, no shade to that. - “When I Die” is just more excuses, excuses, excuses and her saying that she’s more than just her mistakes. - “Happy (In the End)” is so backhanded!!! I would never forgive Gabbie after hearing this album. She blames everyone else the entire time and then in the last song (genuinely?) asks people to forgive her as she literally continues to blame them in the same lines. Acting like she’s the only one who cares about them and complaining that if she’s dead to them, then they’re dead to her. She’s trying to be the bigger person, but she’s actually the immature child. She’s saying that reason the friendship is over is because they wouldn’t accept her apology and forgive her, not because she ruined it and gave an “apology” in which she takes no accountability and instead blames everyone else. It makes the whole “I hope you’re happy in the end,” thing sound so fake even if she actually means it.
@@tyffaneelavely8087 it's not giving her any credit though. It's basically saying she's so awful she can't even see how awful a person her own songs show her to be
It's not terrible but I'm not a fan of it either. There's straining and I think the huskyness is a bit put on like in a nickelback sort of way. Not bad but can be cringe at times.
Yeah she's actually a dope singer it seems, but the lyrics are pretty like, pretty uh, idk I've only seen like 2 minutes of this video so far but the lyrics are uh, silly, at least some of them are
I really think Gabbie thought this would come off…and I hate to even compare…as some Taylor Swift-esque album drop. Like how Taylor’s fans will break down each song line by line to find out exactly who the song is about, where she was, what happened behind the scenes. I think Gabbie wanted people to get THAT invested.
“I love you enough to let you go” surprisingly fits the direct next line of “you can run but you can’t hide” perfectly. They’re both completely batshit things someone who is genuinely insane would say, they’re almost synonymous with each other lol.
Yeah if I ever meet someone that genuinely connects with this album, it’s an actual red flag to them as a person and I will not hesitate to drop them because holy fuck
This album is something you'd hear in a Wattpad fanfiction Specifically from the song Runaway, deadass I've read Wattpad fanfictions that play out *EXACTLY* like this
at first i thought brad was being too harsh and that this chick was just writing honest lyrics but after listening to his criticisms i realize this truly is Narcissism:The Album
Same. I listened to the album when it came out and idk I didn’t hate the sound of her voice but didn’t delve into the lyrics much. Holy shit. Couldn’t quite place why it was making me feel icky but see it now lol.
You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? She's done worse. That interview! Are you telling me that a mic just happens to clip like that? No! She orchestrated it! Gabbie! She made a whole album! And we listened to it! And we shouldn't have. We listened to her rants on TikTok! What were we thinking? She'll never change. She'll never change! Ever since she was on Vine, always the same! Couldn't keep her hands out of the drama! But not our Gabbie! Couldn't be precious Gabbie! Publicity stunts! And she gets to be a singer!? What a sick joke! We should've stopped her when we had the chance! And you - you have to stop her!
A lot of the songs sounds like the type of Christian rock my mom used to let me listen to when I was an edgy teen because I wasn’t allowed to listen to mainstream “ungodly” music lol Example: listen to Gabi Hanna’s “Rewired” then compare it to “Unbreakable” by Fireflight, or “Monster” by Skillet, or “Again” by Flyleaf It’s uncanny.
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I figured out why I keep coming back to this video. Brad takes a look at an album that is not good, and not only does a great job of pointing out what’s bad with it, but also points out great examples of songs that do things well in comparison, and WHY they work. Which is my long way of saying Brad is a great teacher!
Of all influencers-turned-musicians, Joji is actually one of the best because it doesn't feel like he's doing it because it makes money (or because his manager told him to). It's genuinely what he wants to do, and even if it doesn't always work I can respect it. I would be extremely surprised if Gabbie actually poured her heart and soul into this
Even though I found Joji through Filthy Frank, i remember his Pink Guy rapping on comments video, and that's when i searched if he had music,. Ever since finding it on Bandcamp, i loved his music more than his Filthy Frank stuff. So i'm really glad he's making music now
I lowkey miss his meme songs, because most of his songs are sad-toned, which makes me get a bit tired of listening to them. But nonetheless I totally respect him for his decision of not being Filthy Frank anymore.
Some people get into music through sheer ego and hubris and not because they have a love or talent for it. IIRC Joji was always into creating music even when he sucked (like we all do as beginners) but he stuck with it while some people think they were born great and don't put any effort into it.
I mean I think she did pour her heart and soul into this, she’s just as deep as a puddle and can’t see past the end of her own nose, so the contents of her heart and soul are just as shallow and self-absorbed as her small talk
Guys 😩😩you just don’t get it-the shit she’s done…she’s a villain…she’s like playing with fire and a bomb just ready to go off, you couldn’t begin to unravel her sins. She sold messed up make up brushes to her fans. She was a r*pe apologist and pick me. She tried to flirt with her ex bffs bf. YOU GUYS CANNOT HANDLE THIS EXPLOSIVE ENERGY THAT SHE INTERNALIZES EACH DAY😩😩😩
Honestly not the worst shit out there, but it just sounds like something we've heard multiple times within the last 2 decades, making it completely forgettable, which is arguably worst than being laughably bad like A2TC
Honestly, Gabbie’s persona and actions are what make the music so bad. If she was just any random person, this music would be bad, but unremarkable and probably forgettable. It’s her personality, which bleeds into her music, that makes it so toxic
I agree about her trying so hard to be deep that it is so transparent that she isn’t. I’ve always felt like her music just sounds like journal entries and elementary poems set to music even more so now. She feels like she’s trying to mimic emotions when she sings or writes but it never seems genuine. You’re review really nailed it.
The dna thing always stood out to me. She describes her life like it’s a tv show, and we’re gonna find out about her genetics in a later season or something
@@GhostSwisspeople used her song honestly (encore) as fnaf music and in the context of vengeful possessed robots and internet music it works pretty well. but no i don't think it was intended to be a fnaf song. gabbie's too pretentious for that
I don't leave comments often. Most of the time I feel like they are unnecessary considering that there is a wave of feedback and my voice is more than likely not going to be heard. But I have gotten so much enjoyment out of watching this video that I just felt I needed to share my positivity. Gabbie is a creature of a person and you commentating on that with your view of the music industry is fantastic. You've gained a new subscriber, love your work and keep improving! 👑
Yeah, the album would’ve been lowkey more enjoyable and authentic to her if she had just leaned into the concept of being a creepy stalker who won’t let things go Edit: actually would’ve been very cool if she started off on that note, and then got to that sold my soul song about selling her reputation for a dime had some self reflection, and by the end of the album realized that the drama she created was what caused her perceived trauma. Boom, trauma queen concept album.
In case you’ve never dealt with an abusive person who can’t accept that they could do anything wrong, this is what it sounds like when they try to make excuses for themselves.
She explaining the basic ass line “clearly I’m the reason” longer and more in depth than Nicki Minaj took to explain the meaning of “beez in the trap”.
Bro these videos are great background noise and I don't always pay attention to the chat but I did during the consuming of the soul moment and the wave of skull emojis in the chat absolutely sent me. Fantastic content with a fantastic community.
Okay real talk: I actually do not hate some aspects of this album. Some of the melody writing (not sure if it's done by Gabbie or someone else) is pretty good especially the last few songs. The vocals are good. The problem that would completely prevent me from ever enjoying it (aside from the bad production and generic, subpar instrumentation) is the constant thought that this was written by a narcissist who hurt people to insane degrees and then seems to genuinely believe that they're the victim in every situation in which they did, and has injected that false sense of martyrdom into their lyrics.
Someone commented on one of her TikToks to ask who produced her album, and all she said was “they should be listed on the website” or something like that. I was dumbfounded.
@@katiemitchell410 sorry but that doesn't cut it gabbie. that's absolute trash. you need to credit them on all platforms. how hard is it to respond in a comment with their names? what's wrong with her?!?
It sounds like the kind of song they'd put in the background in a teen/young adult drama that fits what's happing on screen too much but is affordable enough for the producers to license for season 1.
Her singing is actually alright but it's so wrought and the lyrics and instrumentals are extremely mid, she should join a symphonic metal band where someone else does most of the songwriting no joke.
At points she sounds good and at other points it hurts my throat listening to her. Having that kind of rasp can damage your voice if you don't know what you're doing, and I highly doubt she knows what she's doing.
never will there be a better line pairing than "I love you enough to let you go" followed by "You can run but you can't hide" like these lyrics really read as not very consensual, she gives the vibes of 'crazy person who will do something bad if you don't do what she wants' throughout
One thing that could have kept the theme of the album but totally changed the meaning is if she had wrote it as a progression, beginning she's super toxic and manipulative, then as the songs progress she realizes that she's bad for the other person and being with them is bad for herself, and then at the end she still loves them, but she knows she's hurting them, so she let's then go while moving on herself to become a better person without them then she could ever be with them. But let's be honest, that would require self-introspection/awareness and we all know she ain't here for that. 🙄
i feel bad for that one person in chat trying to show brad some muse thing lol. i was hoping he'd see it eventually because they sent it so many times but i dont think he did
@@VileCarnival Very true but also, this is an extremely common occurrence with bpd parents.. My mother had bpd and co-morbid npd… 50% of ppl with bpd have npd and 50% of ppl with npd have bpd… I think that’s where the negative stigma mostly comes from honestly!
@@linskynew true but also bpd and npd are both very complex disorders and negative stigmas only prevent people with those disorders from wanting to get help, in fear of being seen as crazy. Stigmas, no matter if they have some basis in reality, do more harm for everyone
@@couldyounotdude3168 I know that! I was just stating where the negativity usually stems from.. people with npd are much more likely to be abusive and it’s just a fact.. not saying the negative stigma is healthy, but there is definitely truth to what many abuse victims experience! Most people with npd and bpd have a very hard time as it is with self awareness, so to hear about these occurrences, It could possibly give them some outside perspective on how they might hurt their own loved ones 🤷♀️
*Stone Heart:* I don't mean to hurt you, I'm just obsessed with you and want you to remember me forever *Hangups:* LOL why are you so obsessed with me? I'm totally over you already lmao *Wish We'd Never Met/Happy (In the End):* Jk I still love you, actually I'm literally codependent on you, you leaving me is literal death, agony, a tragedy *Rewired/Trouble:* I literally work with the devil and enjoy every second of it, don't fck with me I have the power of God AND anime on MY side *When I Die:* I'm not a monster! I'm just like everybody else!! *I Sold My Soul:* I'm actually a tragic hero that didn't know what I was doing :( ... I ruined myself through my own choices... But also you deserve to burn for some reason lol *Run Away:* I'm glad you left because I was literally abusive and a burden on you, but also please don't leave :((( *Warning Shots:* You low-key like that I was abusive and a burden on you lol you've got no right to run away from me anyways 😈 *Head in the Clouds:* I can get over all my problems as long as I get high *Silver Lining:* I can get over all my problems as long as you never leave me It's the inconsistency for me dawg.
@@psstitsastrangerOk, let's assume you're correct. My point still stands abt it being contradictory. Like how could you even _imply_ that there's anything to appreciate about an album with a song that goes "I'm not a monster, I'm a tragic hero 😢" and another that's all "YOU HEARD THE WARNING SHOOOOTS IM THE DEVIL YEAH YEAH 😈🔥🔥🔥" with the same levels of sincerity, without the meaning and impact of one song detracting from the other. Litetally every song has a counterpart or multiple that say the complete opposite things. There's no journey from one state to another, she's flipping back and forth like a cartoon character that had a Hyde potion. Like, Taylor Swift at least knows how to frame her tracks around a single person or concept. The nerve of you to say anything. The audacity of you to give me your cute quirky emoji like you had some W gotcha. How about you listen to more albums to understand how the art form of music works before you act like a jackass in my presence again, "pookie".
whats crazy to me is that, most pop songs are about obsession and abuse, but because of who gabbie hanna is, there is no ignoring it. that combined with the absolute lack of self awareness....... she could have, technically, made a self aware album about all the same stuff, and it would have been honest, and vulnerable, and self scathing. People love when you cop to your shit, and she just has not figured that out. Well, she figured out that people like it, she just doesnt know how to actually do it, because you need a motivation besides performing a self for others to actually change.
see, I disagree with the A2TC comparison because that is at least memorable by being so incredibly bad that it actually becomes something to admire in a way, like it becomes a perfect work in the most horrifying way possible.
Is this really A2TC level bad? I mean, this definitely isn’t good but like… A2TC is basically unlistenable unless you’re being ironic. Like the first song uses the Ableton stock synth demo lol.
hearing this album on stream was a NIGHTMARE, an absolute nightmare… never again. gabbie’s singing sounds like she’s having the worst head cold possible and she’s in desperate need of some aspirin.
@@steezydan8543 everyone's vocals are effected by pitch correction. Paul McCartney, Death Grips, Pup, JPEGMAFIA, ect Even the versions of songs by the Beatles you see on streaming services have the vocal stems pitch corrected
One pretty obvious point he missed in Runaway: She said "Don't walk away from me, runaway, run away from me" So, I think the point is not that she wants them to stay, instead she says walking away is not enough, they need to run away from her.
15:48 line should’ve been “I can walk through fire” or something to that effect. It would seem less like a retaliation and more “together, we have no weaknesses”
"dont let the fact that shes worked on her singing distract you from the fact that she hasnt worked on her mental health" immaculate take
I find it incredibly offensive considering its literally what Im doing to avoid having to face my own issues. I might not be narcissistic or abusive, but man, I have enough issues to ignore anyway 😅
(also I dont actually think its offensive, I have anxiety and I imagine people will not understand I was joking haha 😅)
@@lisastormo5803 Thats okay tho, we all have our ways to cope and distract ourselves. We cant be thinking about our problems 24/7 that would just makes us stressed and thats even more unhealthy for our own mental health. You doing alright Lisa!
@@lisastormo5803 naw girl it’s all good, it’s mostly a criticism on gabby because she actively doesn’t work on her problems, repeats patterns, and blames others for her problems. It’s just a real bad repeat cycle she has and you can tell in her music since it’s an extension of her beliefs
@@lisastormo5803 oh no, You’re good. I believe Brad‘s main problem is that Gabbie‘s basically trying to profit off of her issues instead of trying to do anything about it. It doesn’t feel like she’s trying to cope with it (like you do), but instead like she’s using it to gain something from people.
I can't belive what are people who are 30+ years old who think what the mental health is just a zentenial type of get off crying for attention
SHE RHYMED DUCK AND FUCK IM CRYING
autocorrect-core
That’s so ducking funny
Xiu xiu referrance
Next album : Trauma Duck, With a remake of Rick Dees "Disco Duck" 😆
Brad just made himself target number 172 on Gabbie's shitlist
she's going to make a song about this I bet
nah she only goes after women who criticize her
She's going to appear behind him at night like Bloody Mary
Possibly also on Keemstar’s shitlist as well. He is a major simp for Gabbie.
at this point, brad has more fans than her. i doubt she’d willingly do so 😅
Gabbie Hanna is the only songwriter who can say "So sorry I trapped you, chained you to my walls" and make me think that it's not a metaphor.
Yeah…
Onision: "hold my vegetarian smoothie"
@@tommyjohnson1066 I think calling Onision a musician is a crime against humanity lol
@@Taylor-pz7cj i didn't mean the musician part,i meant Greg would literally chain someone to his basement wall
@Tommy Johnson Fair enough, I know that Onision makes "music" though so I thought that was where you were coming from
Gabbie doesn’t get that a lot of edgier bands don’t TRY to be edgy. The writing, vocals, emotion, and music are what make them edgy. They’re edgy because of how they express themselves authentically. Gabbie is trying to portray something. Not express something. It seeps into every part of her media. She WANTS to come off as something. If she were authentic it wouldn’t be so flat.
PERIOD!
Almost like a teenager trying to fit in and not understanding why things do and dont, and just comes off as a poser throwing a tantrum
This entire album could be used in college psychology classes to show what victim complexes and delusions of grandeur look like
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Wahahah please 💀
Same class that uses Kanye as an example of bipolar disorder
The very thing that "killed rock music", as they say. And I will take no other explanation.
@@thecosmicblueautie yes
Gabbie Hanna seems like the human manifestation of a Twitter checkmark.
Eloquently spoken
Didn't even know she still makes videos.
good for me since i'm a twitter not-checkmark 😈
nice👌
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Man this girl must really love the sound of her own voice if it took her like 3 minutes to explain a couple of basic ass lines
yeah her voice is pretty good but also like just listen to billie eillish at this point
I mean that's just genius explained. It can work if something is lyrically deep but a lot of the time they get very surface level songwriting on there so the artists just have to phone it in. I'm not trying to be elitist and say every artist needs to be Kendrick Lamar, but the genius explained series doesn't have much of a point if the lyrics aren't meant to be that deep
She'd be a good English teacher, taking the most basic shit and making it sound like it's actually super deep
or just be bad at explaining stuff, but both things can co exist tbh
Ayo Narcist dropped?
As someone who grew up with abusive narc parents in a household where a complete lack of emotional intelligence was normalized, seeing Brad's clear read on Gabbie's mannerisms and self-absorbed behavior in the first few minutes of the video was astonishingly healing. I still struggle to clearly identify those "get me away from this person" traits because it was so normal around me for so long. Thanks Brad
youre so valid ❤ ik how it feels like
Youre parents were right. Get over it
@@trteeerryfse-wy2ww lol you don't know what you're talking about so hush
@@myrianrose3619 lol hahahaha okay maybe
@@trteeerryfse-wy2ww right about what💀
"You can't keep everyone in your life-your friends from first grade, second grade, third grade..." Gabbie knows that most people don't get a new set of friends every year, right?
there is no way she knows that. also the way she hyperbolizes "you can't keep everyone in your life" so people who keep some, but not everyone, in their lives can see themselves in her, to deflect that she can't keep ANYONE in her life, is so telling of her manipulative behavior and insecurities.
Right?! I've known about 1/2 of my closest friends since Elementary School. Of course people come and go. And people grow up and don't hang out as much. But I still see alot of my childhood friends on the regular.
It really depends on each person and each specific situation but yeah some people come others go and even sometime you reunite again with people from your past but coming from Gabbi I think is cause no one wants her around once they realized her true colors
only if you move every year or are horrible to be around
@@wisteriaclaw Moving almost every year is a special kind of hell
I swear to god these lyrics and music remind me of when I wrote lyrics as a 12 year old rebellious emo kid sitting all alone in my room waiting for someone to save me.
How dare she
Except she’s 31… lmfao
@@kriskross6934 that is my point. I’m 33 now.
Yup, exact same sentiment here.
No but actually though lmao
She’s a 14 year old who thinks she’s not like the other girls, inside an adult body
True dat
I'm 14 and this is deep - vibes
It's like the tv shows in the past where they very obviously use adults to portray teenagers.
She's the misunderstood ''14 year old''.
I was genuinely baffled when I looked her up (having never heard of her before this video) and seeing she is apparently 31....
You'll find that's actually most adults....
"Can't escape my love for 50 years" gives the vibe of Megamind saying "Multiply that by SIX!!!"
Love this reference
WAKE ME UP
or mr waternoose "i'll kidnap 1000 children before i let this company die!!!!"
Her voice could be decent, if she didn’t feel the need to overdo EVERY single line. Nothing is emphasized because she goes way too hard on every line, there’s no sense of control and it’s obviously not intentional. Her aggrandized sense of self overwhelms EVERY part of this albums: the vocals, the lyrics, the style. It’s a bad album not because it has bad ideas (a little because it has bad production) but because she’s the one writing and singing it
So basically, nothing is emphasized because EVERYTHING is emphasized? Hmm…yeah you’re right.
In "i sold my soul" when she said "watch me BURN" (at 20:22 ) that scream on "burn" is why her vocals get raspy afterwards. One, it was a TERRIBLE attempt at a fry scream. Two, she didn't use her false chords to do it, she essentially FUCKED up her voice doing that and destroyed her voice for the rest of the song which is why you hear the rasp when she goes back to clean vocals. If you are gonna attempt a fry scream, do NOT under any circumstances do what she did, you will destroy your voice and if you do it enough you'll sound like Brendon Urie and be voice cracking left and right
she wasnt going for a scream, her technique is just so bad that trying to sing with any form of push ruins her voice lol
jeeeeezus, for an album called trauma queen she never once discusses any actual trauma and instead spends the whole album blaming her breakup on her ex not reading the red flags instead of the fact that she has red flags. Warning shots was especially egregious.
@@ImpendingRiot83 remember when rachel oates negatively reviewed her poetry book and gabbie immediately went on a social media rant calling her a bitch
so many red flags, you'd think you were in hong kong.
@@ImpendingRiot83 jesus. that's sickening honestly.
I'm assuming her idea of trauma is "internet breakdowns" that involve ranting about exes on TikTok
More red flags than China
This entire album is just “I’m an abuser and I don’t care”
Oop- jail for this comment 💀💀💀💀💀
@@kiddook4002 you can silence me but you can’t silence the tru-
@@hiverbleu8878 idk man taking the side of a rapist instead of her friend and never actually admitting to it then spewing immature and racist shit on tiktok a year later isnt the best way to clear up ur name
@@hiverbleu8878 oh please, the girl is horrendous. and people rightfully do not like her. her "accountability" is always, yes BUT or yes AND. That's not accountability. Never will be.
@@hiverbleu8878 if she gets backlash for her actions that's her fault. She can't be an abuser and a victim that's just being devils advocate for no reason besides that you can
Stone heart was so funny
“I love you enough to let you go” And then the next line is “you can run but you can’t hide”😂😂
She gives you a head start before The Most Dangerous Game starts
and i don’t think that she’s a good enough songwriter to use contradiction as a literary device
@@mariaerdgznher poetry backs this claim
Warning Shots is especially scary because it seems like it was written to be like 'haha I'm aware of my red flags, I'm the actual worst and I'm evil and terrible and I know that but you wanted to love me and I ruined you like I ruin everything I hate myself' but due to Gabbie's consistent and documented behaviour, it comes off 'I abused/traumatised you but it's your fault because you didn't leave me after I abused/traumatised you the first times' like maybe we should work on the fact that you continued to abuse him Gabbie
She really does hate her behaviour, but only because of how it hurts her.
Gaslightcore at it's finest. She could at least have been discrete about her narcissism, but nooo, narcissists cant be humble and discrete, and it feels like she liquidified her self-centeredness and used it as the ink she wrote the lyrics on.
“I love you enough to let you go” lyric isn’t a conflicting message, it’s a manipulative lie.
This is a big red flag the abuser is likely trying to manipulate their partner/victim into staying with them out of their own choice by saying they love you and placing guilt of a potential break up on the victim.
Bet if in that situation the victim says “cool see you later” an abusive outburst should be expected.
This album has lyrics that I would expect from a male Midwest emo singer with multiple SA allegations against him, I’m not even aware of what drama and scandals gabbie has had in the past/present but I know that she has posted many freakouts and mental breakdowns online and that in itself make it really hard to take anything she says in this album seriously
this us the best description i’ve read ever
Real Dahvie Vanity vibes from that album 🤢
I'd add: it's 2007
@@dor4376Yes totally agree, this is a very necessary addition. I feel like midwest emo guys have honestly improved tonnes compared to this. LMAO
being a midwest emo fan i know you're talking about the dude from mccafferty lmao
something not a lot of people are talking about that i cant stop thinking about when it comes to this album is the quality of her singing. While she does *sound* good, you can really hear her straining to hit that emotive belt she's become known for. If she goes on tour and tries to sing these songs like how she does on this album every night she WILL do permanent damage to her vocal cords
good
Yes she will… I already did this to myself and always thought I would bounce back but I permanently messed up my vocal chords from straining my high belt repetitively
Like one or two songs an album that are really emotionally driven where she can do that? Okay! A lot of artists have that song or two either every album or couple albums because it works *sometimes* but over using it not only becomes gimmicky, but also does *so* much goddamn friction on your vocal chords and can cause some serious damage. I like a good raw belt. Kelly Clarkson, Hayley Williams are all absolutely delightful to listen to on their hella emotional songs, but they also have a lot more control of their vocals than Gabbie (and while gabble is no where near bad, she is also not near their level or talent, control, and skill just technically speaking). She will probably start have the same vocal sufferings Brendon Urie is starting to have as well. Seems to be a problematic person thing lol.
yeah she has no knowledge of her voice and hasn’t continued voice lessons. she doesn’t care about singing, she cares about being An Artist™️
yeah she has no knowledge of her voice and hasn’t continued voice lessons. she doesn’t care about singing, she cares about being An Artist™️
Show this to anyone who doesn’t like Olivia Rodrigo and they’ll suddenly understand what she got right
funnily enough, i didn't like olivia very much when sour came out but ever since the wave of shitty pop punk sludge that has come in her wake i appreciate her a lot more
pop punk has been in the gutter for a while now, at least she managed to take its sound and make smth good of it lmfao
Exactly. People need to differentiate between lousy, dime-a-dozen pop punk and good, artful pop punk. People think that all pop punk is lousy and dime-a-dozen, so Olivia gets thrown under the bus even thought she makes some really solid music, despite being very derivative
@@l4ssc Pop punk pretty much gets worse and worse with each wave lol
Her earlier stuff is a lot better.
That final "shut the fuck up" by Brad at the very end of the last song was so perfectly succinct for having sat through an entire album of gaslighting bullshit only to have it end on a song that for once sounds like she's approaching acceptance. Fuck that noise, no thank you.
It felt oddly cathartic. Is that weird?
@@TheMadcap919nah, seeing a narcissist admit defeat is satisfying, even if it isnt a honest admittance.
I love how she never skips an opportunity to make herself look like a victim. The codependency line, for example, basically suggests that she and her partner are equally culpable. But according to the rest of the album, the partner has been running away and shes been chaining him up. That is just abuse, not codependency. Or possibly kidnapping.
I hope the poor dude being talked about in these songs made it out ok
He's locked up in Gabbie's basement
@@rootfish2671 This genuinely made me laugh 😂.
@@miriamdelgado421 I bet you she really does have a secret underground dungeon
Back when she was posting videos explaining her side of dramas, her boyfriend ended up leaving her from all the backlash she got on speaking about Jessi Smiles and Joey’s “escape the night.”
For me I think that most of them are about Jessie Smiles, she is obsessed with her 😂😂😂
The lyrics are horrendous. Her singing isn't that bad though. If she got a decent songwriter and a good producer behind it, it would probably be ok.
Yeah her singing voice isn’t half-bad
Her singing can be great tho her phrasing with these lyrics makes it unlistenable
Her voice is horrendous.
@@zacharywoloszynski4258 it's merely OK I don't know why she has so many fans
Her voice isn't bad but her constantly being on full blast the entire time makes it exhausting while listening to a full album
Fortunately Gabbie couldn’t gaslight me into liking this album
She's forged a new genre though. Gotta respect it
@@KaisTestKitchen1 Respect? Nah.
@@KaisTestKitchen1nah
Shoutout to the stream chat who said this is RWBYcore, they’re GOATed
I haven’t yet found a musical term that better describes that class of music anyone familiar with online fandom and independent productions knows all too well, but it hit like a truck when I made the connection
YEAH NO KIDDING I looked at some of the songs and was like ‘sounds like early RWBY’
At least RWBY it was like kind of earnest and they did have some really good melodies at times esp with Ruby’s leitmotif. And also they weren’t gaslighty lmao worst crime they had (in terms of the music at least) was just having a teenage vocalist and lyrics that tried too hard to be edgy sometimes
RWBY's ost is cringey yet endearing because the songs were made by a young teenager in a show aimed at young teenagers. Hanna's songs are cringey and offputting because they were written by a hateful 30 year old woman with the mind of a teenager
@@spacecadetkaito couldn’t have said it better myself
@@spacecadetkaito OMG FRRRR
Please don't lump RWBY music in with this dumpster fire of an album 😭😭
Imagine putting out a whole album of songs saying "I'm an awful person... But everyone should have already known this so I can't really be blamed" and not once ever stopping to think "Huh, you know what, maybe people didn't actually know I was awful? And maybe I can improve?"
Imagine she actually had a clear head, and used her voice to sing about something meaningful and sensible. You might actually have something!
Imagine if she had a clear head and actually used her platform for good🙄🙄instead of calling herself a “c*l*red person” (I used asterisks just to be polite lol sorry if that made it confusing)
Imagine Gabbie being a decent person
I like her song medicate but other than that its basic asf
I think she’d be great at doing song covers, just not thissss
Yeah it's a shame her singing is generic too.
I'm so mad G@bbie H@nnah wrote the line "You can walk on water, I'll bring the fire" because it literally would sound so much better if it is about loving someone who you see as preforming miracles where you fell you can only ruin things.
The person who implemented the censoring on RUclips (Susan Wojinski) got fired a while ago because so many content creators and commenters complained. Don't worry, you're safe. (Although I still censor my comments too, just in case.)
My thoughts exactly. I heard this line and was like "ugh why was this good.... And in a GH song"
GOOD OBSERVATION I DIDN'T EVEN PEEP THAT
“This is a classic case of ‘Get Me the Fuck Away From Whatever the Hell This is’ and you don’t need to be a psychologist to know that.”
THIS is best argument for discussing people like Gabbie Hanna, Trisha Paytas, Nikocado Avocado, James Charles, etc. They may not be a complete sociopath or narcissist and you can’t say that they are because you don’t have the credentials, but you never want to meet these people anyways lol
Yeah, when someone acts like them, I’ve learned to just call it Main Character Syndrome. They don’t think about other people because we’re just NPCs to them lol.
Don’t include nickocado he’s just a fetishist
@@MrHarrystank but you can diagnose someone with being an asshole but not with being a narcissist
You would rarely diagnose a personality disorder in a first session. Usually it takes around 6 months of observing social/relational/occupational functioning patterns. It can take even longer to help a client understand their diagnosis. People with personality disorders may not be fully honest in treatment (who is at first) or may be motivated to get help for a co-occurring issue (depression, substance use, couples therapy) before they address the deeper issues. So no, that’s highly unusual unless you work in higher levels of care where treating PD is primary or have extensive patient history on file. Personality disorder features have to be present since adolescence so it takes time to get the full story.
@@beccas7424 thank you for saying this. I am really sick of people throwing around diagnoses online and making claims like "any psychologist would agree" like wtf. these are serious labels and the stigma surrounding them does not need to be added to.
for some reason this is my comfort video when I’m cleaning or organizing my apartment. Ty Brad
Yo, you also use BTiM reviews for stuff like that? Damn
Damn we weird aren't we? Lmao
Do I get a pass if it usually goes on itself through auto play?
My biggest fear is If that's what my music would sound like to people once they hear it.
Ugh I know! I don’t even make music but when I think of doing it or the few stuff that I did when I was young I think of this and wanna gag
Deadass, her music sounds like she got inspiration by flipping through classic alternative radio stations and took pieces of each song she heard
Yeah I hear little bit of Hole Courtney Love influence in there. Courtney could actually write rock songs though.
@@Darth_Melvis hole has a special place in my heart
This whole shit sounds like the rants my abusive ex would bombard me with whenever I set boundaries lmao
Haha you have no idea how accurately that describes her entire being.
Me too
Same I am reminded of my ex step mom toooo much
HAHAHAHA
OMFG me too!
This album is concrete proof that the kindest celebrities are the ones who don't have a massive social media presence
celebrity as a role in society self selects for narcissistic traits. this is why so many artists, including some of the greatest of all time, were predatory/abusive in some way.
Ya you either have to be like that or like.... Somehow alter yourself so you can handle it. Ugh.
Not gonna lie, I love the title “Trauma Queen” and I’m mad that she thought of it and used it unironically and with no self awareness
I thought the same thing! Such a banger title gone to waste
If you're in skramz, hardcore, punk there's a band called xTraumaqueenx bot sure if they actually predate this album
I encourage someone else to use it to get the sound of this album out my ears
@@famrti1495trauma queen is also the title of an Agoraphobic Nosebleed song from 2009
Go listen to Trauma Queen by Cheems, one of my friends bands and it’s pretty good
I can safely say if this album had have come out in 2005-2006 during the myspace days, 14 year old pre-years of therapy emo/scene kid me would have loved it 😂 and I feel like that says everything
100000000% ugh my teen tumblr days where I was obsessed with boys and read toxic blogs
My thoughts as I go along:
- “Stone Heart” gives me “You’ll regret leaving me and it will haunt you forever. I will always be a part of you even if you try to forget me.”
- “Rewired” sounds like “Give me empathy; I’ve changed. But also, I’m better than you.”
- “I Sold My Soul” 22:17 Here I think that, because she is forcing herself to “take accountability” for her behavior, she’s labeling herself as a villain (who is actually a hero in disguise), but she just can’t accept that, so she has to bring her “enemies” down with her. She’s being all like “well if I’m a villain, so are you,” or “well I did bad things, but you did too.” She can’t accept the problems she had with people were her fault and not theirs. She just can’t accept that she was the only one who was in the wrong; there always has to be a caveat with her. If she’s admitting that her behavior was wrong, she has to put everyone else on the same level as her because if she doesn’t, she looks worse than them. She’s not really taking responsibility, she’s saying “we all made mistakes, so the fact that I’m the only one being villainized is wrong, and just you wait because you’re going to get the treatment I’m getting when this all finally catches up to you.” It’s not self reflection, it’s animosity and vindictiveness. It’s bitter and spiteful. It’s petty.
- “Trouble” is the quintessential “I don’t give a fuck, but I wrote a whole album about it” song.
- In “Runaway” she wants someone to stay even though she knows she is bad for them and they should run away, but I can’t tell if she’s being genuine or passive-aggressive.
- “Warning Shots” is literally just “I’m the Victim: The Song” it’s actually disgusting to hear. She’s literally just saying the quiet part out loud now even though she tried to “take responsibility” 3 songs ago; she constantly contradicts herself throughout the entire album. She actually said verbatim “You’re to blame,” like she has completely dropped the mask. She truly views this stuff as “you knew what you got into with me, so all my bad behavior is absolved” and “I told you I was crazy, so none of this is my fault, and I’m actually the victim in this situation.” It is so delusional and honestly really fucked up and a bad message to send to use her mental illness as a shield for her shitty behavior (and that’s coming from a mentally ill person myself). She’ll literally do anything to avoid accepting responsibility.
- “Wish We Never Met” sounds like “I’m sad you left and I’m sorry I was shitty. I miss you and love you, but I just couldn’t show you.” Again, I can’t tell if this is genuine or not.
- “Hangups” is just an awful version of “Irreplaceable” by Beyoncé (which actually tackles this subject matter amazingly). And “Guess I’m not the problem / You always put the blame on me.” Really Gabbie, really??? The hypocrisy and lack of self awareness is astonishing 🙄
- “Head in the Clouds” is basically “I need to get high to forget about my problems,” which I honestly can’t give any shade to. I’m pretty sure a lot of us have been in a place like that before.
- “Silver Lining” seems genuine in saying this person helps and/or makes her happy when she is depressed, and again, no shade to that.
- “When I Die” is just more excuses, excuses, excuses and her saying that she’s more than just her mistakes.
- “Happy (In the End)” is so backhanded!!! I would never forgive Gabbie after hearing this album. She blames everyone else the entire time and then in the last song (genuinely?) asks people to forgive her as she literally continues to blame them in the same lines. Acting like she’s the only one who cares about them and complaining that if she’s dead to them, then they’re dead to her. She’s trying to be the bigger person, but she’s actually the immature child. She’s saying that reason the friendship is over is because they wouldn’t accept her apology and forgive her, not because she ruined it and gave an “apology” in which she takes no accountability and instead blames everyone else. It makes the whole “I hope you’re happy in the end,” thing sound so fake even if she actually means it.
Good analysis
and the worst thing is, she didn't even have the courtesy to make her abusercore album sound any good
great frikin analysis
nah man, you're thinking too deep for Gabbie. You are trying to give her songs more than what they are.
@@tyffaneelavely8087 it's not giving her any credit though. It's basically saying she's so awful she can't even see how awful a person her own songs show her to be
It sucks that her voice isn't absolutely terrible because her lyrics are. 😂
It's not terrible but I'm not a fan of it either. There's straining and I think the huskyness is a bit put on like in a nickelback sort of way. Not bad but can be cringe at times.
Yeah she's actually a dope singer it seems, but the lyrics are pretty like, pretty uh, idk I've only seen like 2 minutes of this video so far but the lyrics are uh, silly, at least some of them are
@@jessterflies 🤓
Jk good analysis I agree
@@p_o_o_g8139 Thank you 😊
It's ok and I've definitely heard worse. But how do you make an orchestral backing sound so cold, dull and lifeless
I really think Gabbie thought this would come off…and I hate to even compare…as some Taylor Swift-esque album drop.
Like how Taylor’s fans will break down each song line by line to find out exactly who the song is about, where she was, what happened behind the scenes. I think Gabbie wanted people to get THAT invested.
Think of how many genuinely talented, incredible singer/songwriters are hanging in their studio apartment while this girl sits in her mansion.
“I love you enough to let you go” surprisingly fits the direct next line of “you can run but you can’t hide” perfectly. They’re both completely batshit things someone who is genuinely insane would say, they’re almost synonymous with each other lol.
I need you to know that whenever I rewatch this video, I have to go out of my way to find this comment, it's so funny
What if she was the monster?
and what if she was here all along?
She absolutely was
Maybe the real monster was this album she made along the way
What is society was the real monster all along? #Inspirational
what if she was hitting the griddy for ukraine???
Yeah if I ever meet someone that genuinely connects with this album, it’s an actual red flag to them as a person and I will not hesitate to drop them because holy fuck
Drop them as in kill them?
@@Eeter26 Yes! KIll all the narcs!
@@Eeter26
Lol NO, buddy! As in dropping them as a person in their life.
Only maybe a 13 year old girl would like this album
As a skillet fan, I can't deny that rewired is a good song LOL.
It's really gross how she only ever alludes to her faults when it's in a self aggrandizing way
This album is something you'd hear in a Wattpad fanfiction
Specifically from the song Runaway, deadass I've read Wattpad fanfictions that play out *EXACTLY* like this
The way she says stoOOONE HEART is one of the most unintentionally hilarious things I've ever heard
at first i thought brad was being too harsh and that this chick was just writing honest lyrics but after listening to his criticisms i realize this truly is Narcissism:The Album
Same. I listened to the album when it came out and idk I didn’t hate the sound of her voice but didn’t delve into the lyrics much. Holy shit. Couldn’t quite place why it was making me feel icky but see it now lol.
I miss Tally Hall at least their worst songs were about being mediocre white dudes and not about destroying your target with psychological efficiency
Tally Hall come back pls😭
You better put some respect on their name!
One of the funnier comments I’ve ever read
The mediocre white dudes ever 🫶 love em
As a fan of tally hall I agree
You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? She's done worse. That interview! Are you telling me that a mic just happens to clip like that? No! She orchestrated it! Gabbie! She made a whole album! And we listened to it! And we shouldn't have. We listened to her rants on TikTok! What were we thinking? She'll never change. She'll never change! Ever since she was on Vine, always the same! Couldn't keep her hands out of the drama! But not our Gabbie! Couldn't be precious Gabbie! Publicity stunts! And she gets to be a singer!? What a sick joke! We should've stopped her when we had the chance! And you - you have to stop her!
Slippin'Gabbie
Chicanery memes are so good. It makes sense because it's basically a reddit copypasta if you take away the references to the BCS plot
Why is this typed so theatrically lmao
nvm im a dumbass
@@spectralyte watch better call saul immediately lol
@@therealwelfin better call saul is a very underrated, indie gem.
A lot of the songs sounds like the type of Christian rock my mom used to let me listen to when I was an edgy teen because I wasn’t allowed to listen to mainstream “ungodly” music lol
Example: listen to Gabi Hanna’s “Rewired” then compare it to “Unbreakable” by Fireflight, or “Monster” by Skillet, or “Again” by Flyleaf
It’s uncanny.
STOPPPPP WHY WAS THIS MY LIFE Flyleaf had some genuine lyricism on the Memento Mori album
The fireflight comparison was spot on, even the way she sings the chorus is the same
You leave Skillet out of this 😭💀 “Monster” and “Hero” have been musical guilty pleasures of mine for far too long.
I MUST CONFESS THAT I FEEL LIKE A MONSTER
"I'm a terrible person"
"please leave me, i'm terrible"
"you should have left, you saw how terrible i was"
"YO WTF WHY'D YOU LEAVE ME?"
A mango is an edible stone fruit produced by the tropical tree Mangifera indica. It is believed to have originated in the region between northwestern Myanmar, Bangladesh, and northeastern India.
Im allergic to mangos
im not allergic to mangos
@@zacharywoloszynski4258 lucky
stone?
@@naranciagaming the shape is similar to a stone that’s why it’s called that.
THE BRAD GRIND IS CRAZY
Those theme tunes he plays when he transitions to a song had tricked me each and every time that the next song was gonna sound actually good
Same, it hurt having to listen to the next ACTUAL song
when the home depot music started i almost died thought she was really trying to make that artistic
She's the trauma queen because she's the queen of causing ppl's trauma
I figured out why I keep coming back to this video. Brad takes a look at an album that is not good, and not only does a great job of pointing out what’s bad with it, but also points out great examples of songs that do things well in comparison, and WHY they work. Which is my long way of saying Brad is a great teacher!
Of all influencers-turned-musicians, Joji is actually one of the best because it doesn't feel like he's doing it because it makes money (or because his manager told him to). It's genuinely what he wants to do, and even if it doesn't always work I can respect it. I would be extremely surprised if Gabbie actually poured her heart and soul into this
Even though I found Joji through Filthy Frank, i remember his Pink Guy rapping on comments video, and that's when i searched if he had music,. Ever since finding it on Bandcamp, i loved his music more than his Filthy Frank stuff. So i'm really glad he's making music now
I lowkey miss his meme songs, because most of his songs are sad-toned, which makes me get a bit tired of listening to them. But nonetheless I totally respect him for his decision of not being Filthy Frank anymore.
Some people get into music through sheer ego and hubris and not because they have a love or talent for it. IIRC Joji was always into creating music even when he sucked (like we all do as beginners) but he stuck with it while some people think they were born great and don't put any effort into it.
I mean I think she did pour her heart and soul into this, she’s just as deep as a puddle and can’t see past the end of her own nose, so the contents of her heart and soul are just as shallow and self-absorbed as her small talk
*Charlie Puth & Troye Sivan has left the chat
Guys 😩😩you just don’t get it-the shit she’s done…she’s a villain…she’s like playing with fire and a bomb just ready to go off, you couldn’t begin to unravel her sins. She sold messed up make up brushes to her fans. She was a r*pe apologist and pick me. She tried to flirt with her ex bffs bf. YOU GUYS CANNOT HANDLE THIS EXPLOSIVE ENERGY THAT SHE INTERNALIZES EACH DAY😩😩😩
THIS COMMENT AAAAHHHH
Honestly not the worst shit out there, but it just sounds like something we've heard multiple times within the last 2 decades, making it completely forgettable, which is arguably worst than being laughably bad like A2TC
angelic 2 the core is a goddamn masterpiece and i will NOT HEAR OTHERWISE
@@manboy4720 it is certainly a masterpiece in its own right
Honestly, Gabbie’s persona and actions are what make the music so bad. If she was just any random person, this music would be bad, but unremarkable and probably forgettable. It’s her personality, which bleeds into her music, that makes it so toxic
@@erikdaniels0n THIS
I agree about her trying so hard to be deep that it is so transparent that she isn’t. I’ve always felt like her music just sounds like journal entries and elementary poems set to music even more so now. She feels like she’s trying to mimic emotions when she sings or writes but it never seems genuine. You’re review really nailed it.
The dna thing always stood out to me. She describes her life like it’s a tv show, and we’re gonna find out about her genetics in a later season or something
Fun fact: the only time I ever listened to gabbie hanna's music was involuntary
I’m so sorry you’ve had to put up with that trauma, I hope you’re in therapy now
What abt FNAF
I’m in the same boat. You can tell a lot about a person based on the music they listen to sometimes, and this was one of those instances.
@@heartnsoulintodeglocc9975 did...did she make a fanf song 😨
@@GhostSwisspeople used her song honestly (encore) as fnaf music and in the context of vengeful possessed robots and internet music it works pretty well. but no i don't think it was intended to be a fnaf song. gabbie's too pretentious for that
The whole album is what “if you call me an abuser I will gaslight the SHIT outta you,” gabbies absolute venom and confusion spits through every line.
Holy shit brad, I feel so bad for you having to endure this.
Also any chance we’ll get a moon shaped pool video?
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No
i feel BRAD for him
eh? eh? anyone?
didnt he do one? maybe it got taken down
We gotta get the king of limbs video first
I don't leave comments often. Most of the time I feel like they are unnecessary considering that there is a wave of feedback and my voice is more than likely not going to be heard. But I have gotten so much enjoyment out of watching this video that I just felt I needed to share my positivity. Gabbie is a creature of a person and you commentating on that with your view of the music industry is fantastic. You've gained a new subscriber, love your work and keep improving! 👑
“I treated everyone like an anus just to get on that A list” 😂
I wanted to give the lyrics the benefit of the doubt, but _wow_ Warning Shots has more red flags than a Swiss embassy
I’m stealing this 😂
It feels very "I'm 14 and this is deep" but she's like 30
Love how brad kept trying to escape gabbie hannas album by playing other songs as comparison. gotta do whatever you can to survive
Yeah, the album would’ve been lowkey more enjoyable and authentic to her if she had just leaned into the concept of being a creepy stalker who won’t let things go
Edit: actually would’ve been very cool if she started off on that note, and then got to that sold my soul song about selling her reputation for a dime had some self reflection, and by the end of the album realized that the drama she created was what caused her perceived trauma. Boom, trauma queen concept album.
In case you’ve never dealt with an abusive person who can’t accept that they could do anything wrong, this is what it sounds like when they try to make excuses for themselves.
She explaining the basic ass line “clearly I’m the reason” longer and more in depth than Nicki Minaj took to explain the meaning of “beez in the trap”.
Wasnt expecting that "WAKE ME UP" but it really did fit. 😂👏🔥
Bro these videos are great background noise and I don't always pay attention to the chat but I did during the consuming of the soul moment and the wave of skull emojis in the chat absolutely sent me. Fantastic content with a fantastic community.
Okay real talk: I actually do not hate some aspects of this album. Some of the melody writing (not sure if it's done by Gabbie or someone else) is pretty good especially the last few songs. The vocals are good. The problem that would completely prevent me from ever enjoying it (aside from the bad production and generic, subpar instrumentation) is the constant thought that this was written by a narcissist who hurt people to insane degrees and then seems to genuinely believe that they're the victim in every situation in which they did, and has injected that false sense of martyrdom into their lyrics.
gabbie has worked with 5-6 music producers in the last 5 years and doesn't credit ANY OF THEM on Spotify or Apple music.
Someone commented on one of her TikToks to ask who produced her album, and all she said was “they should be listed on the website” or something like that. I was dumbfounded.
@@katiemitchell410 sorry but that doesn't cut it gabbie. that's absolute trash. you need to credit them on all platforms. how hard is it to respond in a comment with their names? what's wrong with her?!?
It sounds like the kind of song they'd put in the background in a teen/young adult drama that fits what's happing on screen too much but is affordable enough for the producers to license for season 1.
Her singing is actually alright but it's so wrought and the lyrics and instrumentals are extremely mid, she should join a symphonic metal band where someone else does most of the songwriting no joke.
Symphonic metal would suit her. Put her on an Amaranth track, that could be cool.
Don’t subject any metal genres to Gabbie Hanna!
@@Bruh-ob9mi Maybe subject her to a Black Metal Sacrifice.
@@malachiblack8573 Y E S
She's genuinely got some talent. She's just a clown.
I was surprised how good her vocals turned out at times! If only she had therapy and a team of songwriters.
A tool is only as effective as the person using it. Same way that great actors can give bad performances if the script is mediocre or doesn't fit them
Does she tho.
At points she sounds good and at other points it hurts my throat listening to her. Having that kind of rasp can damage your voice if you don't know what you're doing, and I highly doubt she knows what she's doing.
no talent and a clown
never will there be a better line pairing than "I love you enough to let you go" followed by "You can run but you can't hide" like these lyrics really read as not very consensual, she gives the vibes of 'crazy person who will do something bad if you don't do what she wants' throughout
Her voice sounds like the feeling you get when you force yourself to sing but your mind and body aren't in the mood to
the excited yet disbelief look on his face whenever she said some of the most incomprehensible bullshit gets me 😭😭
"lying in the bed over here that I made"
so deep, she's a true gamer chungus
i agree pip
he's a big chunky boi
@@aporue5893 chubby
@@ironyslab it was a joke
@@aporue5893 i know i thought it was funny
She wasn't raised in the hood but still knows a thing or two about trauma
I'm fucking done 💀💀💀💀
One thing that could have kept the theme of the album but totally changed the meaning is if she had wrote it as a progression, beginning she's super toxic and manipulative, then as the songs progress she realizes that she's bad for the other person and being with them is bad for herself, and then at the end she still loves them, but she knows she's hurting them, so she let's then go while moving on herself to become a better person without them then she could ever be with them. But let's be honest, that would require self-introspection/awareness and we all know she ain't here for that. 🙄
i feel bad for that one person in chat trying to show brad some muse thing lol. i was hoping he'd see it eventually because they sent it so many times but i dont think he did
Usually people on genius interviews just kinda speak the lyrics or do it just like quickly and softly. Gabbie had to be *_unique_* though
645AR sang his heart out, fym?
@@brb.8962 645AR actually had some 🔥 to sing tho
Next time I think to myself “am I too obsessive and stuck in the past?” I’m gonna watch this stream again
This album sounds like a BPD parent trying to “apologize” for being terrible after their child quit talking to them
let’s not demonize borderlines, thank u
@@VileCarnival Very true but also, this is an extremely common occurrence with bpd parents.. My mother had bpd and co-morbid npd… 50% of ppl with bpd have npd and 50% of ppl with npd have bpd… I think that’s where the negative stigma mostly comes from honestly!
@@linskynew true but also bpd and npd are both very complex disorders and negative stigmas only prevent people with those disorders from wanting to get help, in fear of being seen as crazy. Stigmas, no matter if they have some basis in reality, do more harm for everyone
@@linskynew hi as someone with both these disorders and a mother who has both as well the stigma does nothing but make life harder for us
@@couldyounotdude3168 I know that! I was just stating where the negativity usually stems from.. people with npd are much more likely to be abusive and it’s just a fact.. not saying the negative stigma is healthy, but there is definitely truth to what many abuse victims experience! Most people with npd and bpd have a very hard time as it is with self awareness, so to hear about these occurrences, It could possibly give them some outside perspective on how they might hurt their own loved ones 🤷♀️
*Stone Heart:* I don't mean to hurt you, I'm just obsessed with you and want you to remember me forever
*Hangups:* LOL why are you so obsessed with me? I'm totally over you already lmao
*Wish We'd Never Met/Happy (In the End):* Jk I still love you, actually I'm literally codependent on you, you leaving me is literal death, agony, a tragedy
*Rewired/Trouble:* I literally work with the devil and enjoy every second of it, don't fck with me I have the power of God AND anime on MY side
*When I Die:* I'm not a monster! I'm just like everybody else!!
*I Sold My Soul:* I'm actually a tragic hero that didn't know what I was doing :( ... I ruined myself through my own choices... But also you deserve to burn for some reason lol
*Run Away:* I'm glad you left because I was literally abusive and a burden on you, but also please don't leave :(((
*Warning Shots:* You low-key like that I was abusive and a burden on you lol you've got no right to run away from me anyways 😈
*Head in the Clouds:* I can get over all my problems as long as I get high
*Silver Lining:* I can get over all my problems as long as you never leave me
It's the inconsistency for me dawg.
Omfg you put it in perspective 😂
@@psstitsastrangerOk, let's assume you're correct. My point still stands abt it being contradictory. Like how could you even _imply_ that there's anything to appreciate about an album with a song that goes "I'm not a monster, I'm a tragic hero 😢" and another that's all "YOU HEARD THE WARNING SHOOOOTS IM THE DEVIL YEAH YEAH 😈🔥🔥🔥" with the same levels of sincerity, without the meaning and impact of one song detracting from the other. Litetally every song has a counterpart or multiple that say the complete opposite things. There's no journey from one state to another, she's flipping back and forth like a cartoon character that had a Hyde potion.
Like, Taylor Swift at least knows how to frame her tracks around a single person or concept. The nerve of you to say anything. The audacity of you to give me your cute quirky emoji like you had some W gotcha. How about you listen to more albums to understand how the art form of music works before you act like a jackass in my presence again, "pookie".
whats crazy to me is that, most pop songs are about obsession and abuse, but because of who gabbie hanna is, there is no ignoring it. that combined with the absolute lack of self awareness....... she could have, technically, made a self aware album about all the same stuff, and it would have been honest, and vulnerable, and self scathing. People love when you cop to your shit, and she just has not figured that out. Well, she figured out that people like it, she just doesnt know how to actually do it, because you need a motivation besides performing a self for others to actually change.
how can an album be so unlikeable
Because the person behind it is that unlikeable lol
This album is like if you listened to Demondice and Angelic 2 The Core at the same time while having a massive hangover.
see, I disagree with the A2TC comparison because that is at least memorable by being so incredibly bad that it actually becomes something to admire in a way, like it becomes a perfect work in the most horrifying way possible.
at least angelic 2 to the core is hilariously bad, trauma queen is just mind-numbingly horrible.
😆😆 good one Jeremy, I'm not being sarcastic that's actually quite funny.👍👍
except where angelic 2 the core is funny because it's so bad, this one is just painful to listen to lol
Is this really A2TC level bad? I mean, this definitely isn’t good but like… A2TC is basically unlistenable unless you’re being ironic. Like the first song uses the Ableton stock synth demo lol.
hearing this album on stream was a NIGHTMARE, an absolute nightmare… never again.
gabbie’s singing sounds like she’s having the worst head cold possible and she’s in desperate need of some aspirin.
I see what you did
Her singing isn’t that bad
@@steezydan8543 everyone's vocals are effected by pitch correction. Paul McCartney, Death Grips, Pup, JPEGMAFIA, ect
Even the versions of songs by the Beatles you see on streaming services have the vocal stems pitch corrected
@@steezydan8543 yeah Paul's newer stuff has pitch correction. Almost every artist nowadays requires pitch correction
@@steezydan8543 yes. And his newer albums have pitch correction. And even the Beatles discography was overproduced and touched up for the time
One pretty obvious point he missed in Runaway:
She said "Don't walk away from me, runaway, run away from me"
So, I think the point is not that she wants them to stay, instead she says walking away is not enough, they need to run away from her.
15:48 line should’ve been “I can walk through fire” or something to that effect. It would seem less like a retaliation and more “together, we have no weaknesses”