Hi Everybody

I’m going to review every album that Jane Remover has put out because I heard Revengeseekerz, and now frailty and I like them so now it’s going to be your problem. This is part 1.

One day I just thought to myself “I’m a trans, I’m in the beginning phases of being a bit more open about that and believing it more myself. I also need some new music to listen to because Car Seat Headrest is cool but that’s new one band and I haven’t listened to a different genre of music in years now. I heard Jane Remover is good.”

And then I made a post asking for which one I should listen to first, got a few posts basically saying “Revengeseekerz and Frailty”, I also got a detailed post about someone’s personal opinion on three albums which I really appreciated knowing going in because I’m just interested like that. :P

I’m not going to go through every song, just a few highlights. I also don’t know any music terms or even touched a DAW other than a school project at 11 years old. I’m just a big fan of music that’s all.

Revengeseekerz

Like Jane I also believe that 3 years ago I had that magic in my hands.

TWICE REMOVED

is a crazy beginning track but you kinda gotta prepare the audience for what they’re getting into. I had no idea what the fuck a Jane Remover song sounded like before I booted this up, and the only thing I thought I knew was the album art from Census Designated (which I still haven’t listen to at the moment of writing) which gave me the vibe this was gonna be a sort of chill type thing I didn’t really know what to expect.

But was not expecting that. It’s a great blast to the head when I first heard it, like being hit by a truck. Favourite lyric was “D-D-Dead man flexin’, show some ass now!”. I like that one.

Psychoboost

is important to mention for me because it’s got Danny Brown and I like Danny Brown. It was like a hint of familiarity hearing unc and that. Fucking voice of his. Like having going to a stranger’s party with a friend. Anyway.

Jesus never had it with a freak bitch.

Moving on.

Dreamflasher

is my second favourite song on the album and I’m gonna be devastated if this is the basic bitch option (most played song of the album on Spotify) because that’s what I usually do. Let me check…

I’m in the clear.

Yeah the beginning is just great, “Please, God, save me, I’m so turnt right now” is a perfect beginning lyric to this beat and then hearing “A thousand people scream my fucking name !!!!” (i just found out it’s A not Ten) but fuck yeah it’s so fucking. I don’t know it makes me excited for them. First time I heard this song I thought yeah bitch let’s fucking go despite not knowing shit or dick about Jane.

The entire song is just like, it’s got that scent of longing for someone with the lyrics but the performance feels like the complete opposite, like the emotion I’m registering (maybe incorrectly) is just confrontation? That’s kinda what it is, “Cards on the table, I ain’t got shit left to hide except my whereabouts”. yeag… Talking about it and hearing the second chorus where the last line is almost screamed in desperation(?) makes a lot more sense with that narrative but I just thought it was an artistic choice. No way to actually go louder in a song without killing people’s ears so you have to resort to shit like that.

Out of all the horny lines that I usually hear in music I actually fuck with anything Jane Remover says so heavy and I don’t know why. I think I just see bits of myself in her and something I’ve struggled with a lot is being myself. To me the horny lines are her being openly herself. Maybe I give them a pass because they’re my age and I’m usually hearing shit like that from artists in their 30s/40s. Danny Brown you filthy fuck.

TURN UP OR DIE

sounds like tiktok phonk but is legally distinct so I can like it guilt free.

That aside, fucking love this song too. I CAN’T LIE YOU BORED THE LIFE OUT OF ME ! and then the fucking I don’t know what the fuck that sound is that just HIT HIT HIT HIT HIT. It’s good. It’s a good sound.

Thank god I didn’t consistently play Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games on Wii, I would not be able to take these samples seriously, my worst flaw is soying at samples I know and if it’s a sample of someone saying something then I just can’t take it seriously to save my life (this happens in frailty but it’s saved by another sample).

feels like I should have more to say about this but I don’t. I just like the song. It’s great.

Dancing with your eyes closed

I just learnt is the most listened to song on this album so I feel like it needs a place. I don’t even know how to describe this sound but I think it’s very unique from the rest of the album, it’s like a stereotypical alien sound put into a regular Earth song.

Okay I forgot that Verse 3 was sick, the build up to Verse 3 and then the change is emotion in their voice. I love shit like that, and then it goes slow Real quick, and then Back to Schedule Programming. Yes bitch give me whiplash !!!!!

Fadeoutz

is a standout. Which I guess fits, it feels a lot more mellow, not as busy as everything else. Those sounds right before the lyrics begin reminds me of Stevie Wonder’s talkbox rendition of Close To You that was heavily sampled in Frank Ocean’s Close To You and if you don’t know how much I like Frank Ocean then here is more information about the matter. Either way I really like the slow beginning, and one of the songs I first listened to the lyrics of without so much other stuff to focus on. “I’m still the same pretty little face that you met”, “And if I say you can’t relate you’ll start to cry.”, “I feel lovе just like a popstar ‘Til it turns into a problem for me and all my friends” stand out to me a lot. Even after the music starts to get busier in the style of this album there’s still that sentiment in the vocals, the lyrics, the tone. That same “warping” of the song towards the end, and the tuning down of everything before one last punch that isn’t quite as impactful as the last, and then it all just devolves from there.

I think I’ve heard songs do things like this before where they intentionally do some effect to wind down the song like it’s “losing power”, but it feels different this time. I usually hear it in the context of waking up like in strawberry swing and there’s obviously an emotional aspect to all wind-downs that happens but a change in the singer’s tone is something new to me. (Although I’m not listening to 100s of new songs every single day so this shit could just be menial).

Professional Vengeance

JANE’S SERVICE !

I love the upbeat-ness of this fucking song this shit’s great. Also one of my favourite phrases “Turn me out” in the chorus. It’s all just good after good after good after good. It sounds like song they’d have during an 80s workout VHS and then Professor Utonium accidentally added an extra ingredient to the concoction: I don’t know the name of it, but that sound that compliments the beat during the words “When I turn my back, singing ‘bout you (Get down)”. It’s Chemical X.

Last thing to say is at the end of the final chorus “I was dollar bill dreaming o-” and it goes all fucked it’s great. It’s peak. It’s Kino even. And then the outro does it too with the like piercing sounds, it’s like they play this at the club and there are like 3 moments where you think you can rest and then Jane whips you at the feet and says “YOU’RE NOT FUCKING DONE! KEEP GOING!”.

This is my favourite song on the album.

JRJRJR

Joe Rogan.

Everything in this song I related to, or rather have related to in the past, I’ve had my “wanna suck the life out of him” moments but that’s rare these days. Another thing is “I might ball out on a new face, change my name, then my city”, yeah I’m not even famous and I’ve thought about doing that several times in my life, and I’ll probably change my name again in the future.

The repetition of Two White Horses following me through the 2nd half is so vivid, I see it in my mind everytime I hear it.

“bitches like me get to be happy” is something that I heard and thought way too much about that’s completely irrelevant from the song. esp over the last 2 years most of my friends have just been miserable. Everything’s is awful, and being introduced to a whole community’s worth of awful living situations, having human rights taken from them, mental health struggle, just a lack of control over your own life. When I hear that I think of everyone I know that’s happening and I really hope for the best for all of you. My friends haven’t done anything to deserve the shit that gets thrown their way from all sides and as much as I hate just patting people on the back and saying “it’ll get better!” i’m powerless to do anything else.

I don’t know the significance of this song in general, or this album. It’s my first jane remover album, and there’s a “Him” all throughout. I don’t know who this is. I don’t even know if fans know who this is. I know I’ve said emotion a thousand times already but that’s the most important thing in music for me, and this album is teeming with it. So many high and low points, the music managing to match that vibe and then you have songs that completely flip the dynamic. This last song with such vivid imagery of Christianity, Two White Horses, the words, the everything. It’s a great album. I feel quick to judge on this because I feel like I haven’t listened to enough of it but I won’t stop myself from laying out my thoughts like this.

I never know how to end shit so here you are, abruptly ended. See ya.