Album Evolution Lyric Bubbles

About

Album Evolution Lyric Bubbles refers to an exploitable meme format that compares lyrics from an artist's new album and an older album to show the difference in the lyrics between the two projects. A longer verse is thus contrasted with a catchy bar from a different album as a way to jokingly highlight a lack of depth or nuance. The trend was popularized in the fan communities surrounding female pop stars in April 2024.

Origin

On April 28th, 2024, X^[1] user @m8ss3ducti0n posted the earliest known iteration of the meme, contrasting lyrics from Beyoncé's Lemonade and Renaissance, gathering over 22,000 likes in two days (seen below).

Spread

The trend took hold in subsequent days, with X^[2][3] users @cloudbusting and @_neonique posting similar lyric comparison memes on April 29th, 2024, for artists Kate Bush and FKA Twigs, gathering over 2,000 and 15,000 likes, respectively, in one day (seen below).

Also on April 29th, X^[4][5] users @SLOWDANCE2ROCK and @gotmynumber posted similar jokes about singers Lana Del Ray and Kim Petras, with @m8ss3ducti0n^[6] weighing in to joke, "not a single kim petras album is deep enough to make this joke work." @SLOWDANCE2ROCK's post gathered over 18,000 likes while @m8ss3ducti0n gathered over 8,000 likes in a day (seen below).

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