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she was THIS good from the get-go??? | “Messy” by Olivia Dean” | Album Reaction

Olivia Dean heard “debut album” and handed in a fully formed thesis on anxiety, love, and growing up. In this video I’m reacting to her first album Messy front to back and comparing it to her newest project The Art of Loving, which is actually my favorite album released this year. It’s wild hearing how polished and refined her sound already was here, even if this version of Olivia feels a little less sure of herself than the one we just met on The Art of Loving. All the way through Messy, you can feel how much uncertainty and anxiety about the future sits at the center of the record. Love isn’t something she’s choosing yet; it’s something that happens to her, slips away from her, or leaves her feeling off-balance. The title track literally begs us to accept that life is “a little bit messy,” but you hear that tension everywhere: in the lyrics, in the restlessness of the themes, and in the way she keeps circling questions she doesn’t quite know how to answer. It makes her more confident, intentional energy on The Art of Loving hit even harder. In the reaction I talk about how the “Getting There (Interlude)” works as a beautiful bridge from Act 1 to Act 2, where she moves from “a tidal wave of questions” into a quieter acceptance and starts to land on some of her own conclusions. I also get into the way Olivia really knows how to let moments breathe: “Getting There” is simple in content but lets you revel in the transformation, and “Carmen” spends the last couple of minutes just ringing out her grandmother’s name in the celebration she promises earlier in the song. Knowing that, live, she has rooms of thousands of people echoing her grandma’s name back at her makes that track feel extra special. I do have one big critique, which is the title track “Messy” itself. For such a central idea, the song leans really heavily on repetition and negative space and ends up feeling more like a transitional piece than a true load-bearing title track. Other songs, especially “Everybody’s Crazy,” do a better job of tying the album’s themes together in a deeper and more satisfying way. That makes me question why Messy was chosen as the album title beyond having a simple, neat name for the concept. Even with that, I’m honestly blown away by how strong this debut is. The introspection here is just as deep as on The Art of Loving, and you can tell she’s been this adept of a songwriter since the beginning. Getting to sit with this more anxious, uncertain version of Olivia makes her current confidence and success feel even more rewarding: thanks to her learning to accept her anxiety and the chaos of life back then, she now feels like someone who knows who she is and is sure of it. My current ranking: 1. Dive 2. Carmen 3. Danger 4. Everybody’s Crazy 5. Dangerously Easy 6. Ladies Room 7. The Hardest Part 8. I Could Be A Florist 9. UFO 10. No Man 11. Getting There (Interlude) 12. Messy Let me know your top three tracks from Messy in the comments, how you’d rank it against The Art of Loving, and which project or performance I should react to next. And if you enjoy these reactions, don’t forget to like the video, subscribe, and hit the bell so you don’t miss the next album deep dive. 💿✨ #OliviaDean #Messy #OliviaDeanMessy #TheArtOfLoving #OliviaDeanReaction #MessyReaction #AlbumReaction #MusicReview #SoulPop #NeoSoul #EverybodyIsCrazy #Carmen #Dive #SabrinaCarpenterTour #NewMusic #PopSoul #ReactionChannel 00:00 Introduction 01:49 UFO 07:06 Dive 12:52 Ladies Room 19:12 No Man 23:23 Dangerously Easy 30:18 Getting There (Interlude) 34:35 Danger 41:39 The Hardest Part 49:59 I Could Be A Florist 54:46 Messy 59:43 Everybody’s Crazy 1:05:56 Carmen 1:12:53 Final thoughts