Grim week, as Merriweather and Coldplay reach for Meaning while Eminem barely tries.
Eminem "Crack A Bottle": Sigh. So he's singing. In the old days, when he played ringmaster it'd be a riff on the idea of his becoming a spectacle and would actually be funny. This is just trying to be a party and not succeeding. "'Cause when I spit the verse the shit gets worse than worcestershire sauce." How uninspired can you get? Beat and tune are catchy enough, however, though just barely. Best line I heard was from Dre, "I'm a niche that they can't scratch," though unfortunately that's probably a mishearing. BORDERLINE TICK.
Daniel Merriweather f. Wale "Change": Impassioned singer singing about whatever he's singing about. I kinda like the sound. Wale is no great splash of light, but "Get higher than the background singers singing" is wittier than anything in the Em song. BORDERLINE TICK.
Coldplay "Life In Technicolor 2": Remember when meaning meant something, or something? Not altogether unpleasant in its soaring blah. A very poor man's U2. But no need to listen twice to this vapidity. NONTICK.
N-Dubz "Strong Again": The guy-voice is dogged, sorta OK, and the woman singing "Never ever ever ever" pushes the wall a few millimeters. BORDERLINE TICK (unless it isn't; guess I've got another week to decide).
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Date: 2009-02-09 04:00 pm (UTC)Eminem "Crack A Bottle": Sigh. So he's singing. In the old days, when he played ringmaster it'd be a riff on the idea of his becoming a spectacle and would actually be funny. This is just trying to be a party and not succeeding. "'Cause when I spit the verse the shit gets worse than worcestershire sauce." How uninspired can you get? Beat and tune are catchy enough, however, though just barely. Best line I heard was from Dre, "I'm a niche that they can't scratch," though unfortunately that's probably a mishearing. BORDERLINE TICK.
Daniel Merriweather f. Wale "Change": Impassioned singer singing about whatever he's singing about. I kinda like the sound. Wale is no great splash of light, but "Get higher than the background singers singing" is wittier than anything in the Em song. BORDERLINE TICK.
Coldplay "Life In Technicolor 2": Remember when meaning meant something, or something? Not altogether unpleasant in its soaring blah. A very poor man's U2. But no need to listen twice to this vapidity. NONTICK.
N-Dubz "Strong Again": The guy-voice is dogged, sorta OK, and the woman singing "Never ever ever ever" pushes the wall a few millimeters. BORDERLINE TICK (unless it isn't; guess I've got another week to decide).