Upon release, the accompanying album received an overwhelmingly negative response from audiences. Feminist website
Jezebel called the lead and sole single, "Finally Getting Up from Rock Bottom", "the most horrible combination of sounds to ever be assembled in the history of audio recording." Despite garnering mockery in popular media, the arrhythmic and cheaply digitized presentation of deeply confessional lyrics was bewildering enough to be viewed as a contemporary example of
outsider art.
My Teenage Dream Ended was mostly met with acclaim from music critics, who considered it to be among the weirdest albums of the year. Writing for
The Atlantic, David Cooper Moore suggested that the album "is to teen angst what
Eraserhead was to domestic angst", making it "a dark and compelling experiment in abstracting and compressing the vicissitudes of 'high school drama.'"
The Guardians David Renshaw described the album as "an agonising, disconcerting clatter" and "as if someone is translating chart music into an alien language and back again." Discussing the album's positive reception among
avant-garde circles, Renshaw concluded: "All in all, it's as if
Joey Essex had ditched
TOWIE to record an album with
Autechre and
Lars von Trier." In 2014, Mitchell Sunderland of
Vice interviewed Abraham, and referred to
My Teenage Dream Ended as a "critically acclaimed
noise album", to which she replied "I just create therapeutic music." In a 2017 review for
Charli XCX's
Pop 2 mixtape, Meaghan Garvey of
Pitchfork retrospectively summarized: "Sweepingly ridiculed as one of 2012's worst albums, that judgment, five years later, feels wildly narrow-minded. It is a baffling work, to be sure: frantic layers of
dubstep,
EDM, witch-house, and
breakbeats seem to run in the opposite direction as Abraham's absurdly AutoTuned narratives about surviving the death of her husband. [...] After my first full spin of
Pop 2, I couldn't shake the thought: 'This sounds like Farrah, but good.'" In late 2017, Duncan Cooper of
The Fader wrote that "Farrah Abraham's pop music should make her an avant-garde icon."
Accolades ==Track listing==