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Re: I Go Britney Because Of You
Date: 2012-06-14 08:48 pm (UTC)I still can't keep track of who's singing when, I like the deeper voice I'm hearing in verse two, the very mechanically vibrato'ed one, and actually the Britney impression in the bridge is working well on its own. And it also doesn't do the one K-pop thing that I'm not a huge fan of, which is intimidate in the verse, smile in the chorus. (Like the CL song on your mix, which I don't have in front of me.) (Prefer the other direction I think, smiles giving way to a sneer. The other direction tends to sound like they jammed a (good) chorus in, but I may or may not have any actual evidence for this happening aside from that one song at the top of my head.)
There's one artist I can think of who pulled off what I get a sense of from the collected work of T-ara (so far), and that's Rachel Stevens, who should have pushed all the wrong Popjustice/anonopop buttons -- the ones that artists like Linda Sundblad and Roisin Murphy and Girls Aloud and Sugababes all press in too-large doses (as opposed to singles) -- but actually creates a blazing, if chameleonic, personality over the course of the album. I don't know if I can think of a single other album that works like Come and Get It does, 100% essential front-to-back even though no individual element feels amazing overall.