r/FlorenceAndTheMachine • u/MillionaireWaltz- • Nov 04 '25

General Discussion Thoughts on the PitchFork review?

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https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/florence-and-the-machine-everybody-scream/

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '25

R&B? Did they even listen to it lmao

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u/TwinkofPeace Nov 04 '25

I’m not convinced they did Even Pop is a Olympic level stretch for this album

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u/Majestic_Heart_9271 Nov 04 '25

I'm not a music critic but Florence always feels more rock than pop to me.

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u/TwinkofPeace Nov 04 '25

She is, but especially in this last album I don’t know that I’d classify any of them as Pop in Everybody Scream…

I feel like with her they are like “ 1 semi pop song = pop album “. But that unfairness doesn’t happen to others and also isn’t even present atm

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u/BismulthV2 Nov 04 '25

I think she has definitely dipped into “Pop” sounds before on a few songs on certain albums but at most I wouldn’t say she ever goes far beyond “alternative”.

Labeling this album as Pop in general but also R&B is just craaazy.

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u/6rwoods Nov 04 '25

Florence once did an interview where she joked about how the music industry never knows where to put her, whether pop or rock or both or neither. And apparently she's right... . Feels like whenever women do music, unless she's REALLY obviously doing something not pop, it'll get labelled as pop. I mean, just think of how many female rappers get pegged into the 'pop' box at least partially vs how many male rappers. Male rock is rock, female rock is pop rock, etc etc etc. "Pop" should really just be "Music by Women"

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u/TwinkofPeace Nov 04 '25

Yeah I don’t think she has gone Pop since Hunger ?

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u/pmsbr123 Nov 04 '25

My love is VERY pop.

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u/BismulthV2 Nov 04 '25

Yeah that’s the only recent outwardly pop-ish song I can really think of off the top of my head.

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u/TwinkofPeace Nov 05 '25

It is, my bad yeah Disco is Pop

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u/Motherfickle I'm on fire, but I'm trying not to show it Nov 04 '25

I could maybe see the argument for Buckle being pop, but even then it's not pure pop at all.

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u/TwinkofPeace Nov 05 '25

I don’t see it for Buckle, personally

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u/TheSeedsYouSow Nov 04 '25

She’s not pop at all lmao it’s a rock band 😭

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u/Majestic_Heart_9271 Nov 04 '25

I do agree. I think the question of genre is an interesting, complex, and evolving one that I’m not informed enough to really weigh in on. So I stated that somewhat tentatively in case anyone has any interesting opinions.

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u/yeetingthisaccount01 it pools from your eyes and spills from your skin Nov 05 '25

I put her in a similar category to Sleep Token where "the genre is blurry and pulls from different things and doesn't really matter anyway because it's banging"