Catching up on my letter writing

[koganbot]

Dear male dudes in the Black Eyed Peas,

There is only one person in your group who can sing, and you are not she.

Sincerely,

A Fan


Dear male singer dude in the xx,

There may not be anyone in your group who can sing, but if there were, it would most assuredly never be you.

Sincerely,

Frank

Comments

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Woops, forgot to quote the Flyleaf part.

[koganbot]

I had no idea the Flyleaf existed either.

(I own the Aldean but have yet to listen to it.)(By the way, has anyone else here listened to the BEP album?)

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

I had a similar experience with the BEP album -- the FUN on it seems to be underlined three times to make sure you know that's what it's there for -- not quite "turning fun into a genre," but the flatness of it is a little off-putting, even if I wouldn't call it BAD. Worst track on there, IIRC, is "Meet Me Halfway."

Xgua sez: "they party beginning to end, which as it happens is a far rarer achievement than signifying beginning to end." But they are signifying in much of it, which I think he kinds of hints at with his closer, "sure as showbiz isn't dumb underneath." I think I kind of want it to be a little dumber underneath, if that makes sense. "Lets Get Retarded" and "Push It" and any number of other party songs of theirs are a little dumb-dumb; and "My Humps" transcends the savvy-dumb trap by being such a one-off strange little thing, but most of this stuff just strikes me as a little to "in" on the Black Eyed Peas, if that makes sense. Needs more Fergie, not just singing but the overall sensibility that I think they really nailed on The Dutchess.

[koganbot]

It got into the Billboard top ten. Also, it apparently has nine bonus tracks, four on an expanded edition, two from iTunes, one from Amazon, one from Rhapsody, and one from Walmart. And it has a hidden track.

[koganbot]

OK, I'm six songs into the Flyleaf, and it could be a true candidate, even if the first words out of Lacey's mouth are "Unified diversity" and even if tracks 4 through 6 aren't as good as 1, 2, and 3. It'd be funny if this ended up battling with Brad Paisley for the tenth spot, since I spent several minutes this afternoon getting mad at the Christian bullshit near the end of the Paisley, and for all I know I'll get angry at Flyleaf for Christian bullshit too - not that I consider Christianity inherently bullshit, but Paisley made it seem like he was dealing with a hard spiritual issue that he was actually ducking; I don't have time to elaborate now; but I do recommend the Paisley album, American Saturday Night (the title track actually having a pro immigration subtext), has a nice sense of musical color, which he'd never really had before that I remember. Lacey Mosley still makes me think of Avril being jabbed by pitchforks.