YMMV / My Teenage Dream Ended

• Bile Fascination: The album's in a unique state that's a mixture of this and genuine critical evaluation. When you have such a bonkers album that fails at what it sets out to do so hard that it transforms into a critically-acclaimed piece of Outsider Music, how can you resist giving it a listen?
• More Popular Spin Off: The album is much more notorious and acclaimed than the book, which even many fans of the album have never read.
• Periphery Demographic: It's fair to say that fans of experimental electronic music weren't intended to be this album's primary audience.
• So Bad, It's Good: Part of the album's infamy is its reputation as being so "bad" that it shoots the moon and goes back to being a fascinating work of art. As a typical pop album, it's a complete mess with poor-to-insane songwriting, performances, and instrumentals, but as a piece of performative art, it's so bizarre in just how fundamentally unlike what it sought to be that it's become hailed by some critics as an accidental bit of avant-garde brilliance.

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