'I learned that sometimes the bad takes sound good.' EmpressOf
,"A younger version of me would try to mask a lot of stuff by being dreamy, but the lyrics on this record are really straightforward." Indeed, she was at her most astral and prophetic on her debut."I've been eyeing your plate of diamonds/ With an envy that kills the pride/ See the solstice that lived before/ Wasn't easy to let die," she sermonized onwas a series of vivid scenes and confessions.
, writing was more of a life-line than ever."I'm really bad at expressing myself in relationships and with family," says Rodriguez."I was really heartbroken when I was on tour and I didn't process it until I went home and started writing." During one songwriting session, Rodriguez realized she needed to take her mental health more seriously.
The album charts the full life and death of a relationship, from the thrill of letting someone call you"baby," to screaming matches, to apologies like"an anthology of empty words," to self-medication with casual sex, to begging for another chance, to wishing desperately to move on.
The album offers two different answers. On the opener and title track, Rodriguez sings the lyric"I'm your Empress Of," over and over again on a helium plinking keyboard. Her mother Reina, who returns as a character through spoken interludes across the album, speaks the line"I only have one girl/ But the only girl is like having thousands of girls/ Because look how she reproduces herself in each bunch of you.
This feels like the easy answer. Across the album, often in the voice of her mother, you can hear Rodriguez questioning how to claim and define herself as a woman, after losing herself so completely in a relationship."I can't decide what type of girl I like/ What type of girl to be," Rodriguez sings on"Hold Me Like Water.
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