![]() “ Thanks for nothing, lasts forever,” she sang on 2018’s “Thanks 4 Nothing.” Two separate idioms-“thanks for nothing” and “nothing lasts forever”-merge. Throughout the album, Yanya uses circularity and ambiguity to her advantage, which will be recognizable to listeners familiar with her work to date. These lyrics communicate not only Yanya’s deeply felt disgust but also the idea that this person’s problems are far from over. “ Look at you/ I can’t look at you/ Standing there with all your problems solved,” she spits, her sights on someone specific. The lyric hints that, even though the LP has comprehensive aspirations, Miss Universe chooses to take on the degradation of all things through just one thing: the individual. “ I cannot tell if I’m paranoid/ Or it’s all in my head,” Yanya sings on the album’s first full track, “In Your Head.” No matter that the two options here are identical: everything is broken, either way or both ways at once. This universe is ours, Yanya suggests, and it’s imploding as we speak. Its songs tell of a universe amiss or misused, a cosmos where self, other and sickness inextricably align. Although the name of Nilüfer Yanya’s debut LP is Miss Universe, its title could just as easily be Mis-universe. ![]()
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