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Elvis vs. Shark
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I wish it had REAL HUMAN HAIR.
Is she singing in Simlish? I can’t understand a word. Love the music though.
I find it interesting and also a little sad that the once critical darling Bright Eyes has been ignored not only on all these lists, but every corresponding comment section. Not one mention of The People’s Key by anyone, critic or commenter! Poor Conor. Now he will be super mega sad.
I misread the title as ‘Betty White & The Roots’.
One can dream…
“I wrote a song called F*** You! / it was all about you / but you still love me anyway”
A lot of the things I wanna say have already been said by other commenters, but I’d just like to expand on Evan’s comment here. The rationale is absolutely correct. With the logic that’s been applied to posting this review, you could just as easily make the next “Album of the Week” the new Nickelback album. In fact it would actually be more eligible, considering that Chad Kroeger writes nearly all his own material, and Miranda Lambert doesn’t. She’s an interchangeable blonde country girl whose songs could have been anyone else’s. It could have been a flip of the coin that put those tracks on her album rather than Carrie Underwood’s or Taylor Swift’s. Until she’s featured as a guest on a Fleet Foxes track, I believe that she and her kind shouldn’t be talked about here, much less lauded with critical acclaim.
But hey, your site, your rules.
#2 looks like Jared Leto from 30 Seconds of Farts.
Well seeing as it’s the People’s choice, always assume the worst will win. So yeah OneRepublic has it in the bag. Dunno why though, they haven’t put out a record in two years.
I’m about 20 seconds into the first song and this is exploding my brain.
(good exploding)
I initially read that as “I’d rather hear an Eddie Murphy & Godsmack cover Jesus Christ Superstar”, which I think would be pretty ffffffreaking awesome.
Don’t really hear any ‘gems’ in this one, but as a whole it’s palatable. I think what saves it is the unconventional song structures. Anyone else notice how the song with Rihanna doesn’t even have a real chorus? A lot of the songs are built in cool ways that you would never find on an actual pop album.
However, the song ‘Don’t Let it Break Your Heart’ is a prime example of what Coldplay could be (and mercifully isn’t). Sounds like The Fray/The Script/The Cab/Lifehouse/latter-day Goo Goo Dolls/ any of the generic wallpaper pap you hear in the dentist’s waiting room.
I ACTIVELY DESPISE THIS
AND WILL NOT WORSHIP IT.
It’s the end of R.E.M as we know it.
I can confirm this, I work in television and we have ginormous libraries of stock tracks that come from albums that are made to “sound” like a certain scene, and the track descriptions actually list the artist that the track is supposed to sound like. It’ll be something like ” A high-octane rock and roll blast that has a Lenny Kravitz feel to it”. They pick songs that sound like whatever’s popular now.
Blah chorus. The rest of the song has all the right pieces to it but the chorus is dead weight.
Hopefully I’ll have better things to say if/when there’s a Mylo Xyloto comment party but I don’t think it’ll match the redemptive high of Viva La Vida. Violet Hill is such a great song.
Love the new verse vocals, but the world beat drums sounded better in the original. I think a mash up of the two versions would create a perfect song.
I feel like the whole album he’s trying to say “Hey guys look I can sing now! Listen!” and he does that weird Kings of Leon wounded yelp too many times. I preferred his older, more subdued style of vocals.
Also, the ambient interludes are a little overdone as well and a lot of them sound similar and try too hard to be “epic”. They could have been part of other songs, or left off the record entirely and it wouldn’t have been a problem. I agree with Jon Fox above– this would have been an incredible single album. I can’t see anyone saying “Oh man, ‘Train to Pluton’ is my fav M83 song ever. Totes amazeballs.” Well, I could see people saying that, but those are people I really dislike.
With all that said, there are many, many amazing songs on this thing. Midnight City obviously, but also Steve McQueen, New Map, Splendor, Intro, Reunion…all fantastic.
You know what I heard? If your into discovering new awesome music check out Alex Hartley’s music blog….
Love it.
Hey man nice snark, did you pick that up at Kensington’s snark sale this past weekend? It was amazeballs and won all of the internets, lulz!
It was kind of a damned-if-you-do/don’t situation for the Chilis….on the one hand, they could have written another Chili Peppers song that sounds like every other one of their songs. On the other hand, they could have experimented with sounds/styles they hadn’t before…which is what they’ve done.
It’s not great, but there are much worse mainstream songs on the radio. If this were the new single from a band I was actually looking forward to I’d be disappointed but given the fact that the Chilis are past their prime, it’s tolerable.
tl;dr- I like the bass.
Someone needs to tell Jim Farber that Limp Bizkit just released an album today…that’s like the manliest music ever.
Like it, don’t love it.
In my opinion he kinda ruined ‘You & I’. Listen to the one from last year, and then this one. Even though he added new synths and more understandable vocals, it sounds like a demo, rough and unfinished. The gloss on it is gone.
As for the rest…they’re decent, but I prefer when he sticks to slower tempos. If he put out a whole record that had slow beats like Feel it All Around/Belong/You & I, I would not complain at all. It’s what he excels at.
I can’t wait for the new song from Queen Day, “Bohemian Idiot”.
Or Fall Out Boyz II Men with their new track “Sugar, we’re going down on bended knee”
Also, Hot Hot Coldplay.