music isnt as strong as visuals/branding

it's not a issue unique to her but does anyone else feel like her visual image + branding is way stronger than her actual music? i remember the MAHWOW rollout thinking maybe she was going to make a sonical pivot/be more experiment with her sound just for her to make the same typa music she did for self-titled. she had an entire artistic visual experience where the focal point was how scary & hard it is to be a woman growing into this world just for the album to explore none of these concepts or have any relating themes. the first half is literally just mediocre rage. the melodic half was better & kinda fit the visuals more but it still didn't really correlate. or vice versa where you have the blackpunk clip (which im pretty sure isn't an actual song, just a visual teaser) & the teasers for solo which both made me think she was going to head in a dark/edgy direction & develop her rage sound just for solo to sound like a melodic scrap from one of her last 2 albums. idk i just feel like her visuals have more depth & interesting elements than her actual music. but it seems like this is a common trend in the UG to have more focus on the looks & branding than the sound. it also doesn't help that i feel like people know/like molly more for her aesthetic than her as an artist. even in this subreddit there's more of a focus on her looks + the highest liked posts are just pictures of her looking good (also a issue not unique to her but impacting female rappers in general).

Posted Mar 1, 2026, 1:42 AM UTC

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