Yet Another Year In America June 10, 2010
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koganbotWeek of weirdly detached new tracks - weird detachment from your reviewer, at least. Taio Cruz gets to be hot top pop mess of the week, I guess.
Drake ft. Lil Wayne "Miss Me": Pleasantly dissonant flourishes, like a marching band doing its morning stretches, the flourishes reaching me more than Drake's rapping, which trudges along doggedly clamped to the beat; he inserts a couple drifty-dreamy singing bits, unlocking himself, a good song that coulda been, and Wayne ambles in with human hesitations and shifts of speech, less stapled to the rhythm but far more confident in it. But even he has trouble lifting his feet by the end. NO TICK.
Taio Cruz "Dynamite": Sorta flabbergasted by this one. Chopped rhythm, the floorboards uneven but Taio stepping like everything's just normal and pretty. Meanwhile, on the ceiling, loose electrons hop restlessly from atom to atom. A mess too far, perhaps, but worth a tick for its - unintended, I think - strangeness. BORDERLINE TICK.
T.I. ft. Keri Hilson "Got Your Back": A Hallmark card to the devoted woman, four months too late for Valentine's Day. This is another track where I keep jumping from stream to stream, wondering if the weirdness is in the song or in the rip. T.I.'s semi-drawl is nimble enough, but doesn't really click; Keri is like a painting on the backdrop, the picture receding as the rap gets close. Interesting, but the much-maligned Diddy gave T.I. a much better setting last month than Troomp does here. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Nickelback "This Afternoon": Zillionth single from Dark Horse, this is a poor man's "4th of July," cheerfully countryish with clumps of rock chordage that Chad relaxes into well enough - not that I'd ever call him laid back, but he's kinda sittin' back, like in a chair. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Drake ft. Lil Wayne "Miss Me": Pleasantly dissonant flourishes, like a marching band doing its morning stretches, the flourishes reaching me more than Drake's rapping, which trudges along doggedly clamped to the beat; he inserts a couple drifty-dreamy singing bits, unlocking himself, a good song that coulda been, and Wayne ambles in with human hesitations and shifts of speech, less stapled to the rhythm but far more confident in it. But even he has trouble lifting his feet by the end. NO TICK.
Taio Cruz "Dynamite": Sorta flabbergasted by this one. Chopped rhythm, the floorboards uneven but Taio stepping like everything's just normal and pretty. Meanwhile, on the ceiling, loose electrons hop restlessly from atom to atom. A mess too far, perhaps, but worth a tick for its - unintended, I think - strangeness. BORDERLINE TICK.
T.I. ft. Keri Hilson "Got Your Back": A Hallmark card to the devoted woman, four months too late for Valentine's Day. This is another track where I keep jumping from stream to stream, wondering if the weirdness is in the song or in the rip. T.I.'s semi-drawl is nimble enough, but doesn't really click; Keri is like a painting on the backdrop, the picture receding as the rap gets close. Interesting, but the much-maligned Diddy gave T.I. a much better setting last month than Troomp does here. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Nickelback "This Afternoon": Zillionth single from Dark Horse, this is a poor man's "4th of July," cheerfully countryish with clumps of rock chordage that Chad relaxes into well enough - not that I'd ever call him laid back, but he's kinda sittin' back, like in a chair. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
