Her kiss-offs have Rossdale's name etched into them with scissors.
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No more lap dancing and kiss-offs; this was the big one.
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While she sang tart kiss-offs, they bobbed around not quite menacingly.
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Swift and Mayer wrote the brutal kiss offs "Dear John" and "Paper Doll," respectively, about each other back in the day.
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Meanwhile Shayne's Biblical kiss-offs ("Repent, repent / Being with him is a sin") only make it go down more like holy water.
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It might've been more fitting in a way—the record's 14 tracks are built on a language of kiss-offs and fuck-yous, each more deserved than the last.
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There are few sneakier and sadder kiss-offs than the duo's melisma on the word "lonely," which threatens to spin the song out of control before the rubber-band bass snaps back.
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Together they're fun and funny, offering kiss-offs to "piss baby[s]" who ride around town in tiny trucks (on "money machine"), and cycling through goofy plasticine sounds, as if they're just fooling around in the studio (on "I Need Help Immediately").
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The spaced-out grayscale works can seem merely grim, but listen closely and you'll find more complicated sentiments—conflicted kiss-offs, paeans to the grandeur of the world, and in the case of the record's title track a summation of both the comfort and anxiety that comes in a long-term relationship.
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As a queer club kid growing up in Brownsville, he had to embrace his outsiderdom, which he applies here in glorious kiss-offs like "Stingy," in which he sends away both haters and copycats with a sing-songy taunt ("When they try to come and talk to me / Imma tell 'em to go and brush their teeth").
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Playlist: "Spanish House" / "Rain of Crystal Spires" / "Primitive Painters" / "She Lives By the Castle" / "Roman Litter" / "Don't Die on My Doorstep" / "Whirlpool Visions of Shame" / "Stained Glass Windows In the Sky" / "Fortune" Apple Music | Spotify The joy of being a perennial underdog is that virtually anyone around you becomes a plausible target for an unending choir kiss-offs, put-downs, and fuck-yous.
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Billboards Rob Arcand praised Lovato's vocal range on the track, writing it reaches "near-Adele limits in melisma and virtuosity". While reviewing Tell Me You Love Me, Jamieson Cox of Pitchfork described the track as a "soaring breakup anthem" and said the track "seeks to overcome with sheer athleticism". Aidin Vaziri of the San Francisco Chronicle described the track as "brassy kiss-offs".
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AllMusic gave the album 3.5 stars out of 5. Although they said the album had been labored over and revised. > On the one hand, there's a collection of romantic ballads — "Wanna Be Your > Joe," "I Wouldn't Be Me," "What About Us," "I Wonder," "Lonely Wins," > "How've Ya Been," and "Ole What's Her Name" — that run the gamut from > sincere pledges of commitment to expressions of frustration and outright > kiss-offs. The album debuted at number 113 on the Billboard 200, number 118 on the Top Comprehensive Albums and number 24 on the Top Country Albums chart, where it stayed at the peak position for two consecutive weeks.
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According to Metacritic, Robyn was the tenth best-reviewed album of 2008, as well as the best-reviewed pop album of the 2000–09 decade. Slant Magazine listed it as the second best album of 2008. Entertainment Weekly ranked it at number four on its list of the 10 Best CDs of 2008, praising Robyn as "an autonomous, thrillingly eccentric dance diva capable of both wrenching techno ballads [...] and saucy, whip-smart kiss-offs". Pitchfork, on its list of the Top 50 Albums of 2005, placed the album at number thirty-nine on its list and hailed Robyn as "one of the best things that happened to music this year that folks on the wrong side of the Atlantic never heard".
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