Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a Fucking Liar

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Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a Fucking Liar
Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a Fucking Liar.jpg
Studio album by
Spank Rock
ReleasedSeptember 27, 2011 (2011-09-27)
Genre
Length41:27
Label Bad Blood
Producer
Spank Rock chronology
YoYoYoYoYo
(2006)		Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a Fucking Liar
(2011)		 Startisha
(2020)
Singles from Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a Fucking Liar
  1. "Energy"
    Released: 2011
  2. "Car Song"
    Released: 2011

Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a Fucking Liar is the second studio album by Spank Rock. It was released through Bad Blood Records on September 27, 2011. [1] It peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart. [2] Its lead single, "Energy", is on the soundtrack for 2011 video game FIFA 12.

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 60/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Drowned in Sound 7/10 [4]
MusicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
NME 4/10 [6]
Pitchfork 3.5/10 [7]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Spin 7/10 [10]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 60, based on 13 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [1]

John Bush of AllMusic gave the album 4 out of 5 stars, writing, "There's less of a party atmosphere, sometimes literally (since there are few guests), although there's still plenty of rhyming about girls and substances backed by martial snares and metronome bass claps." [3] Philip Bloomfield of Drowned in Sound described the album as "a bold, brash, varied, slightly confused dance record with flashes of hip-hop." [4] Will Hermes of Rolling Stone commented that "if there's a guiding spirit here, it's 1980s Prince: wildly funky pop music led by an impressive creative hard-on." [9] Puja Patel of Spin wrote, "Employing a variety of producers, Everything undertakes a cathartic reinvention via late-night, sex-driven trips through dim, sweaty basement parties." [10]

Meanwhile, Nate Patrin of Pitchfork was critical, writing, "[Spank Rock's] rhymes are occasionally vaguely political, sometimes intentionally disingenuous, but never confident enough to tell you just where he stands." [7] David Amidon of PopMatters mirrored this, stating, "Everything Is Boring sounds very uninspired, very trapped in its moment, very everything YoYoYoYoYo succeeded in being the opposite of." [8] Sam Richards of NME commented that Boys Noize's beats "generally lack any semblance of swing or groove." [6]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Ta Da"
2:55
2."Nasty" (featuring Big Freedia)
2:51
3."Car Song" (featuring Santigold)
3:49
4."Birfday"
  • Juwan
  • Le1f
2:37
5."The Dance"
2:36
6."#1 Hit"
3:09
7."Turn It Off"
  • Juwan
  • Ridha
2:20
8."Hennessy Youngman Skit" Jayson Musson 1:33
9."Race Riot"
  • Juwan
  • Chris Devlin
  • Charles Martucci
  • Ridha
2:47
10."Baby"
  • Juwan
  • Ridha
2:26
11."Hot Potato"
  • Juwan
  • Måns Glaeser
  • Carli L.
3:03
12."Cool Shit"
3:50
13."DTF DADT"
  • Juwan
  • Jahan Zeb Malik
4:02
14."Energy"
3:29
Total length:41:27

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes. [11]

Charts

Chart (2011)Peak
position
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard) [2] 14

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  11. ↑ Everything Is Boring & Everyone Is a F---ing Liar (CD liner notes). Spank Rock. Bad Blood Records. 2011.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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