BEAUTY SCHOOL DROPOUT’S newest album WHERE DID ALL THE BUTTERFLIES GO? has all of us in our emotions while we dance our hearts out – and we are here for it.

BSD’s dynamic release, dropped September 5, soars to new heights — and it’s taking you along for the ride. While taking some summer classes on the iDobi Summer School Tour, BSD teased us all with “SEX APPEAL”, “FEVER” and “ON YOUR LIPS”. This album plays with romantic dance vibes that are definitely sexy. You can hear every ounce of work put into the writing and music as you explore all fourteen tracks. It is an emotional journey as we fall in love, have hearts broken, ripped out and stomped on, only to slowly work through the emotions of learning to be okay again.

So many of the songs make you want to scream along while dancing, like “XXX” & “TWO OF US”. However, none of these songs make you want to let loose and dance your emotions out more than when you hear “daddy don’t cry so I’m dancing my tears away”. Alas, love isn’t always forever as “ADELINE” makes us ask if love was actually worth it all along. With lyrics like “Throw away the photographs/Of memories we never had/You’re over it/Don’t rub it in”, this track that explores the moments following a painful break up in excruciating detail. Adeline, while we’re so thankful for this song, why? Just why?

Following “ADELINE”, the song “CITY NEVER SLEEPS” is the perfect soundtrack to those early moments of healing. The conflicting lyrics and emotions bounce between “The city never sleeps/I guess I’ll see her in my dreams” and “I die when we kiss ya ya/You’re my apocalypse ya ya”. Then clarity hits with “MADONNA”, a solid diss track. Every song after those seems to gain more confidence as the heartbreak heals. That confidence hit a high with the catchy track “LMTFA” that sets boundaries by singing “Go home/Leave me the fuck alone”. The album comes to a satisfying close with a titular track contemplating the parts of yourself lost after a breakup and the parts that are resurfacing.

While a lot of music focuses on the highs and lows of relationships, BSD took the time to work through the entire process of becoming yourself again. The album itself hits some massive highs with only one weaker song, “SICK PUPPY”. The music is great but the lyrics don’t seem to sit right with some odd metaphors, such as “Girl I’m a real sick puppy/I’m ‘an always be a dog”. It could be noted that while the song just doesn’t quite hit the same mark as the rest of the album, its placement shortly before “ADELINE” does seem reminiscent to that weird period when a break up is starting to be considered.

Whether you’ve on the same emotional roller coaster as BSD or not, the entire album is one hell of a ride.

You can hear some of the new tracks on BSD’s current tour while on tour with Blink-182, Alkaline Trio and letlive as well as at Van’s Warped Tour Orlando.

If you’re not singing “LMTFA” like us, what tracks do you have stuck in your head? Did you find the sampled track of another famous bop? Let us know in the comments!