Ava Max has one passable song titled, "Sweet but Pyscho." She has a new hit titled, "Kings & Queens, " which is absolutely terrible. It sounds like some overproduced sludge with a vaguely techno-medieval vibe. Her lyrics are vapid on it, rhyming about swords as a thinly-veiled metaphor for a penis and weaksauce girl-power proclamations about how she's there for Queens, "Fighting alone," which seems more like an empty gesture than actual support for go-getting women.
There is, of course, a bridge with a loud guitar shredding that sounds like something from a shitty Medival Times knock-off that wants to have the dullest and most inoffensive rock band ever playing. The song is going for an epic tonal quality, but is just awful. Oh, and I watched the music video when I embedded it into this post above and it looks like the most low-budget, "Game of Thrones," imitation ever full of imagery that makes no sense--is there a chessboard because that has kings and queens? What's with the parrot? Who knows? I don't hate all of today's new popular music, I'm not just some grouchy old man. This is garbage, though.
Honestly, Ava Max's music in general is just garbage. She's an industry plant that makes boring a cookie cutter pop music that panders to edgy 12yr olds. Her live performances are terrible, her songwriting skills are horrible, and her voice is annoying as hell, she sounds like a crying wolf. Musicians like Charli XCX, Kim Petras, Allie X, Sigrid, and Alice Chater are MILES better than her, yet they don't get enough credit. It sucks that the public would just eat up shitty, generic, and boring pop music.
ReplyDeleteOh i love Charli XCX, Kim Petras, Allie X, Sigrid, Anne-Marie, Mabel, Clairo, Slayyyter, Ashnikko and Ava Max so much
DeleteYou guys are terrible for hating such an artist, I'm a guy and I love her songs (been listening to them everytme I work). This is a beautiful song. If you have nothing good to say then dont say anything at all (haters). Ava is a queen!
DeleteThis song is an ode to the patriarchy, which is hilarious because the artist was clearly going for the opposite effect. "If all if the kings had their queens on their thrones, we would.... raise a toast to all of the queens who are fighting alone". Soooo wwomen need to be put on their thrones by men in order that we may then celebrate the women whom have not yet been lifted (by men) to their throne? Surely this is not the effect she was looking for... dont even get me started on the "sword" part..
ReplyDeleteAgreed.
DeleteThis was my EXACT complaint about the song. So hypocritical and no one says anything.
Deleteyes you are right all my sister sings is that and ava max is junky
ReplyDeletePlease please please stop playing this song ! ! ! ! Sounds like a crying wolf is spot on.....
ReplyDeleteI think that the verses that are more melodramatic sound awful and unintelligible (in the bad way, where I thought the lyrics were "raise our tones", not "raise a toast"), but the verses when she's got more swagger at least have a groove to 'em that's sonically decent. but jeez, reading the actual lyrics makes them seem even more whiney and possessive. this reminds me of some incel shit; like, I'm sorry if people don't wanna fuck you (oh sorry, "dance" with you"), that's their right. but yeah, when she's going into her lower register, I just wanna die. there are so many of these pop songs with that exact sort of performance that just sucks any life out of the tune.
ReplyDeletethe radio I'm my job plays this song at least twice a day along with bad 80's/90's hits (that can only be rightly labeled "caterwauling"), that atrocious Nick Jonas song ("This Is Heaven", which has an excellent sax solo that makes me hate it more for wasting), and that 'sucker for you' track that exits my mind as soon as it stops playing--when I know for a fact they've licensed better new pop songs like "Leave the Door Open" and "Blinding Lights".
"In chess a king can only move one space at a time, while the queen can go wherever she likes." Lmao. Not true. The "Queen" in chess can move like any piece on the board, EXCEPT for the Knight. "Queens" are a powerful piece of the board, but sure as Hell they can't do whatever they want. They are also NOT the most important piece on the board - again they are powerful, but not important. For all the power that a "Queen" has on the board, it is in fact very frail meaning that one wrong move and no matter how much spaces she moved, she can be gone in the blink of an eye. Another thing to point out, the "King" moves only 1 space because its a more strategic type of piece, while the "Queen" can just lash out at anything at the risk of getting taken off the board at any moment. A good example of this is Daenerys and Cercei from "Game of Thrones" - she was a queen and did all she wanted and whatever she wanted, and STILL she ultimately fell at the hands of a King. Let that sink in.
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah... I'm a girl who supports the patriarchy in a lot of ways, and hates this song for how it tries to undermine men (which it utterly fails at). Yeah, we girls are strong and can do stuff on our own but we also have to give a lot of credit to men. Without men, we wouldn't be anything on the majority of things and vice versa. Men don't need to put us up in any type of throne, as long as we respect and care for each other that's all that matters. A woman with power is usually not a good idea - not saying that its bad, but most of the time it does do kore harm than good as us women tend to get greedy and comfortable with their newfound freedom. Want another example? Kathleen Kennedy controlling Star Wars.
I thought I've blown up my tweeters while hearing this song. The vocals are like +12db in treble range. Sounds like a distorted guitar but then on the vocals. Absolutely terrible post processing. I don't know why the artist accepted this record... It's even a master recording on tidal and it's absolutely worthless trash.
ReplyDeleteTo me it just sounds like a wanna be lady gaga song. Lady gaga was already a wanna be madonna and madonna was just a wannabe cyndi lauper. So now we've got a copy of a copy of a copy.
ReplyDeleteAva Max is an artist that many still haven't even heard of, and those who do know of her will probably soon forget her. She's not doing anything new or exciting in the music industry & her songs are just boring & generic sounding to me. More something that pre teen/teen girls might admire, while singing the lyrics into their hairbrush as they dance in the mirror.
ReplyDeleteThis song was better in 1986 when Bon Jovi released it as You Give Love A Bad Name. I mean, my god, she even had to credit Desmond Child as a writer.
ReplyDeleteI honestly don't really care about the lyrics. The whole song just hits different especially the chorus. If y'all think that this song is about women talking about WOMEN, don't forget that this song is called "Kings and Queens" not only about queens. Some of you guys think that this song is trash just because of the lyrics, don't you enjoy this song at all? Don't be that dramatic because Ava wrote it all wrong at that part "In chess the king can move one space at a time. But queens can move wherever they like". To be honest, that line isn't that wrong cause still, King can move only one space at a time and you guys are really offended by that. I just want to tell you that I appreciate this song because of Ava's effort to make a song that is actually good. Her voice is beautiful that is what I have to say.
ReplyDelete"I appreciate this song because of Ava's effort to make a song that is actually good"
DeletePretty sure every artist attempts to make a song that is actually good, problem is most of them fail. And if that's your rationale for liking a song, then I'm going to assume that you like every song you've ever heard.
STOP. Ava Max has a beautiful voice, and she is the definition of pretty. If you have nothing good to say, keep the bad comments to yourself. Stop hating on her, and in my opinion she is underrated. STOP HATING ON AVA MAX.
ReplyDeleteNah they ain't gonna stop and I prefer Bon Jovi over Ava any day of the week, month, year. Hell! Even millennia!
DeleteYessssss I loveeeeeee her and my mum likes Kings and Queens
Deletei agree! ava max is a literal queen and unless you haters can
ReplyDeleteAva Max is a literal queen and unless you haters can preform better than she does then you should keep your comments to yourselves. Ava Max CAN sing and she doesn't deserve the hate she gets! she's doing what she loves and she's getting shamed for it! people don't seem to understand that celebs are humans too and they have feelings.
ReplyDeleteAva Max is human too! she has feelings and sure as hell does not feel good when she hears about the hate she's getting from doing what she loves!! she sounds amazing, and until any of you haters can sing like she does then you should back off and let the queen rule
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't take much to be better than her honestly....lol
DeleteI just hate this shitty song. It just makes me agitated
ReplyDeleteHer best songs are " Naked" and " Belladonna" but i love " Kings & Queens" too. She has no bad songs all of her songs are masterpieces.
ReplyDelete"Rumors" remainds me some serbian or israeli songs
At least this song is much better than some of trash entries my country of Croatia sent to fucking eurovision like Lijepa Tena, Lako Je Sve and Nebo
ReplyDeleteNah bruh, to those comments saying that Ava max is one of the greatest singers alive, I have a couple things to say. First off, she used AUTO TUNE to adjust her vocals in the song. Second of all, when I searched up top 100 singers in the world, she wasn't even on it. This obviously suggests that those who support her are extremley arrogant and oblivious to what is auto tune and what isn't. I bet if they listened to the youtube video 'Baby on Auto-tune' posted by the youtuber Salamander, they would think it was real. 💀💀💀💀
ReplyDeleteI love it. Artists like Lykke Li, Lights, Slayyyter, Clairo, Allie X, Daya, Astrid S, Alice Merton, ROZES, Au/Ra, Sigrid, Betty Who, Phoebe Ryan, Oh Land, Léon, Jain, Meg Myers and Orla Gartland are also great but forgotten
ReplyDeleteShe should've been cancelled
ReplyDeleteShe is my favourite singer. Born To The Night is my favourite song
ReplyDeleteTerrible lyrics but the song's catchy
ReplyDeleteHer songs make me as angry as Paramore makes me calm
ReplyDeletenot much then she is amazing!
DeleteSorry but she is my fav singer all of her songs including unreleased are all masterpieces she made 2 incredible albuns
ReplyDeleteIt's a parody of Game of Thrones - emphasis on PARODY!
ReplyDeleteIt's a shitty pop song with superficial feminism which stole its melody from a bon jovi song.
DeleteHer new song which steals a melody from shakira makes me wish i was deaf whenever it comes on the radio.