Year In America June 19, 2008
Jun. 19th, 2008 11:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
koganbotMy old flames Banner and Flyleaf both fizzle rather than sizzle, Estelle shows promise, and Three 6 Mafia bust one off-tackle for a score.
Three 6 Mafia f. Project Pat, Young D & Superpower "Lolli Lolli (Pop That Body)": This has everything you expect from the Dirty South: ominous tones, hauntingly pretty keyboard tinkles, tough voices, silly novelty syllables, salacious lyrics. And I still manage to be surprised by these elements all combining, that "fun" has such a dark and moody palette. DARK AND MOODY TICK.
Estelle f. Kanye West "American Boy": Didn't reach me when it hit in Britain, and it still doesn't. Her timbre is excellent, showbiz lounge soul, control and motion in quick syllables, this gliding dance of excitement as her broad gaze takes in the new boy in her New World. But the voice and the bottom beats never find their common dance, so the electric excitement never really happens. Borderline NONTICK.
David Banner f. Chris Brown "Get Like Me": Pretty plinks wobble into strangeness. Vocals go minimal and dry, the watchful tones bumping into the prettiness. Chris does his turn, sounding incongruously sweet. Then David gets emphatic while the rest of the music hides in shock. Except for David's rap, it all feels uncommitted. NOT A TICK.
Flyleaf "All Around Me": Blood covers the video walls, while Lacey Mosley layers on the ache - except the blood and ache might as well be wallpaper, they're so inactive. Disappointingly NOT TICKABLE.
Three 6 Mafia f. Project Pat, Young D & Superpower "Lolli Lolli (Pop That Body)": This has everything you expect from the Dirty South: ominous tones, hauntingly pretty keyboard tinkles, tough voices, silly novelty syllables, salacious lyrics. And I still manage to be surprised by these elements all combining, that "fun" has such a dark and moody palette. DARK AND MOODY TICK.
Estelle f. Kanye West "American Boy": Didn't reach me when it hit in Britain, and it still doesn't. Her timbre is excellent, showbiz lounge soul, control and motion in quick syllables, this gliding dance of excitement as her broad gaze takes in the new boy in her New World. But the voice and the bottom beats never find their common dance, so the electric excitement never really happens. Borderline NONTICK.
David Banner f. Chris Brown "Get Like Me": Pretty plinks wobble into strangeness. Vocals go minimal and dry, the watchful tones bumping into the prettiness. Chris does his turn, sounding incongruously sweet. Then David gets emphatic while the rest of the music hides in shock. Except for David's rap, it all feels uncommitted. NOT A TICK.
Flyleaf "All Around Me": Blood covers the video walls, while Lacey Mosley layers on the ache - except the blood and ache might as well be wallpaper, they're so inactive. Disappointingly NOT TICKABLE.
