{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Unfortunately, Terror Jr | type = studio | cover = Terror Jr - Unfortunately, Terror Jr.png | alt = | artist = Terror Jr | released = {{start date|2019|01|25}} | recorded = 2017–2018 | genre = Pop<ref name="Newsweek"/> | length = 45:59 | label = {{hlist|Effess|Atlantic}} | producer = {{hlist|Campa|DallasK|Infinity|Joel Little|Lincoln Jesser|Michel Schulz|Ronny J|Shawn Wasabi|Simon Says|The Stereotypes|Wax Motif|Wendy Wang}} | prev_title = Bop 3: The Girl Who Cried Purple | prev_year = 2017 | next_title = Come Outside and Break Your Heart | next_year = 2019 | misc = {{Singles | name = Unfortunately, Terror Jr | type = studio | single1 = Heaven Wasn't Made for Me | single1date = July 13, 2018 | single2 = A-OK (Everything's Perfect) | single2date = September 27, 2018 | single3 = Pretty | single3date = January 18, 2019 | single4 = Terrified | single4date = January 25, 2019 }} }} '''''Unfortunately, Terror Jr''''' is the debut studio album by American pop duo Terror Jr, released on January 25, 2019, through Effess and Atlantic Records.<ref name="Highsnobiety">{{cite web|url=https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/terror-jr-unfortunately-terror-jr-album/|title=Terror Jr Drops Delicious Debut Album 'Unfortunately, Terror Jr'|work=Highsnobiety|last=Gore|first=Sydney|date=January 26, 2019|access-date=January 28, 2019}}</ref> It was supported by the singles "Heaven Wasn't Made for Me", "A-OK (Everything's Perfect)", and "Terrified".<ref name="Highsnobiety"/>
==Background== David Singer-Vine revealed that the duo started out with over 100 songs, and in order to reduce the number to 15, they kept only those that "closely represented who they wanted to be in terms of future growth", with Singer-Vine stating "We want to be great. [...] These songs on this album, it's a departure in a sense of the scale of it all. I think this is the grandest we've appeared."<ref name="Newsweek">{{cite web|url=https://www.newsweek.com/unfortunately-terror-jr-welcomes-fans-their-darkest-fears-and-favorite-1303978|title='Unfortunately, Terror Jr' Welcomes Fans To Their Darkest Fears and Favorite Pleasures With Politics, Culture and Terrified Love|work=Newsweek|last=Wynne|first=Kelly|date=January 24, 2019|access-date=January 28, 2019}}</ref> The process took over a year, and the duo said in a press release that "There are no soft moments on our album and that's intentional... We don't want to be background music... The point is to engage. We hope that people listen to these songs with questions and come out with answers."<ref name="Highsnobiety"/>
Lisa Vitale said of the album title: "I kind of think of it as the signature at the end of a letter. It's signed from us to the world. There is a bit of darkness and melancholy to a lot of the songs and to the state of the world right now. Even though they sound happy, when you look closely, it's a reflection on how we feel."<ref name="Newsweek"/>
==Critical reception== ''Newsweek'' called the album "a bubblegum ode to modern culture" that includes "blunt statements on politics", "a blatant Trump mention", and "deep, eerie and melancholy messages and images" that "defines" the duo "as something larger than pop as we know it".<ref name="Newsweek"/> ''Highsnobiety'' called the album "delicious" and "even juicier than you could have imagined".<ref name="Highsnobiety"/> ''Billboard'' said the album features "the duo combining their danceable sound with sociopolitical themes, such as women's reproductive rights, LGBT rights and substance abuse", highlighting the line "These days got me in a slump/ White women voted for Trump" in "A-OK (Everything's Perfect)".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8494702/terror-jr-kinda-iconic|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190125012539/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8494702/terror-jr-kinda-iconic|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 25, 2019|title=Terror Jr Debuts Hypnotic New Single 'Kinda Iconic': Exclusive|magazine=Billboard|last=Acevedo|first=Angelica|date=January 24, 2019|access-date=January 28, 2019}}</ref> ''Paper'' called the song "Pretty" a "dark, contemptuous take on the ennui of living in a female body", saying it "feels refreshing and rebellious".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.papermag.com/terror-jr-pretty-premiere-1-2626383389.html|title=Hear Terror Jr's Deliciously Dark New Political Anthem 'Pretty'|work=Paper|last=Goldfine|first=Jael|date=January 18, 2019|access-date=January 28, 2019}}</ref>
==Track listing== Track listing adapted from AllMusic.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/unfortunately-terror-jr-mw0003247852|title=Unfortunately, Terror Jr. – Terror Jr {{!}} Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|access-date=February 1, 2019}}</ref> {{Track listing | extra_column = Producer(s) | total_length = 45:59 | title1 = Maker | writer1 = {{hlist|Lisa Vitale|David Singer-Vine|Dallas Koehlke}} | extra1 = {{hlist|Campa|DallasK}} | length1 = 3:24 | title2 = Losers R Lovers | writer2 = {{hlist|Vitale|Singer-Vine|Koehlke|Gabriel Liebowitz}} | extra2 = DallasK | length2 = 2:57 | title3 = Yamaguchi | writer3 = {{hlist|Vitale|Singer-Vine|Justin Tranter|Nyle LeBlanc|Shawn Serrano}} | extra3 = Shawn Wasabi | length3 = 3:03 | title4 = Terrified | writer4 = {{hlist|Vitale|Singer-Vine|Michael Pollack|Simon Rosen}} | extra4 = Simon Says | length4 = 2:58 | title5 = Pretty | writer5 = {{hlist|Vitale|Singer-Vine|Joel Little}} | extra5 = {{hlist|Campa|Little}} | length5 = 3:15 | title6 = Heaven Wasn't Made for Me | writer6 = {{hlist|Vitale|Singer-Vine|John Downey|Lincoln Jesser}} | extra6 = Jesser | length6 = 2:53 | title7 = Have You | writer7 = {{hlist|Vitale|Singer-Vine|Downey|Oscar Gorres|James Alan Ghaleb}} | extra7 = Wendy Wang | length7 = 3:03 | title8 = Hungoverheadcrack | writer8 = {{hlist|Vitale|Singer-Vine|Jordan Suecof}} | extra8 = {{hlist|Campa|Infinity}} | length8 = 2:46 | title9 = Little Bit | writer9 = {{hlist|Vitale|Singer-Vine|Mauricio Rengifo|Andrés Torres}} | extra9 = {{hlist|Rengifo|Torres}} | length9 = 3:03 | title10 = Loner | writer10 = {{hlist|Vitale|Singer-Vine|Whitney Philips|Jonathan Yip|Raymond Romolus|Jeremy Reeves|Ray Charles McCollough II}} | extra10 = The Stereotypes | length10 = 3:18 | title11 = Kinda Iconic | writer11 = {{hlist|Vitale|Singer-Vine|Wendy Wang}} | extra11 = {{hlist|Campa|Wang}} | length11 = 2:33 | title12 = A-OK (Everything's Perfect) | writer12 = {{hlist|Vitale|Singer-Vine|Daniel Chein|Jesser|Liebowitz|Tony Rodini}} | extra12 = {{hlist|Campa|Jesser|Wax Motif}} | length12 = 3:33 | title13 = Favorite Bitch | writer13 = {{hlist|Vitale|Singer-Vine|Coleridge Tillman|Michael Schulz}} | extra13 = Mike Schulz | length13 = 3:10 | title14 = Isolation | writer14 = {{hlist|Vitale|Singer-Vine|Ronald Spence}} | extra14 = {{hlist|Campa|Ronny J}} | length14 = 3:01 | title15 = Happy Place | writer15 = {{hlist|Vitale|Singer-Vine|Wang}} | extra15 = Wang | length15 = 3:02 }}
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