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Published August 9th, 2009 at 11:39 am in Music Reviews, Video with no comments
Tagged with American Idol, Jordin Sparks, pop
It’s unfortunate but true: I did watch two full seasons of American Idol, and that would be seasons 2 and 3. After that I lost interest when I realized how similar each season was. Sure, it’s funny to watch people make complete fools of themselves, but then it gets pointless. Out of those who have won and/or became runner-up’s, many have moved on to bigger and better. Jordin Sparks is someone who has the voice and the looks, and after a successful debut release, she has returned with Battlefield (Jive).
I want to get this out of the way. Some critics have called her an R&B songstress, and yet most of her music is pop with little to no R&B/soul qualities. Are people saying this because the press releases are saying this, or because she’s black, and black = R&B? Anyway, the songs that do have some R&B qualities, “Emergency (911)” and “Postcard”, are still neck-deep in pop that there’s no doubt she’s playing it safe. But one can arguably say “why does R&B have to be unsafe?” That’snot what I’m saying, but when you hear these songs, there’s nothing that stands out as being soulful, other than her voice, and she has a great one.
I just think her producers are trying to mold her or maybe a better way to describe it is they’re trying to keep her as an American Idol winner, someone who is accessible to the general public. But her people are also assuming the general public only wants to hear pop. What I do hear are formulas that have been successful by Nicole Scherzinger, Fergie, Kelly Clarkson, Christina Aguilera, Pink, and Katy Perry, but Sparks is playing it extremely safe. I’m not talking lyrically, I would love to hear her take more risks in the music department. Get her to do some tight dance music, someone hook her up with someone from Jazzanova or something. I also think she needs to take more risks in the vocal department, but the lady is (as of this writing) only 19, she needs more time and experiences to develop more warmth and depth that is more than just emulation. The voice is great as is, but in a few years she will truly shine. The songs aren’t awful, but it sounds very pre-school compared to the collegiate sounds she could be recording without it being too risque (see Keke Palmer for references.) In “Walking On Snow” she sings about how she is so “unaffected”, but it’s almost as if she’s flaunting this, and by doing this isn’t she technically “affected”? She sings it without hesitation, as if she is complete unaware of the circumstances, something that Scherzinger mentioned in The Pussycat Dolls in “When I Grow Up” when she cautiously says “be careful what you wish for, ’cause you just might get it”. Maybe in the future, Sparks will have more direct input in what she sings.
In truth, a decent album but I await the album she’ll release once she turns 21.
(regular CD)
(CD/DVD combo)
Published August 9th, 2009 at 10:43 am in MP3, Music Reviews with no comments
Tagged with Bernardo Barros, electroacoustic, electronic, experimental, glitch, Henrique Iwao, Mario Del Nunzio, noise
Upon finding this album, I did a search and looked to see how they were classified. These were the keywords: electroacoustic; experimental; electronic; noise; glitch. I knew I was going to like this, but not as much as I ended up doing.
Musica Electronica 2004 consists of recordings made five years ago by collaborators Bernardo Barros, Mario Del Nunzio, and Henrique Iwao, each of whom have a distinct idea of what they want to do but manage to merge their minds to create this cluster falakian of sound. Some are songs, some songs feature excerpts of what could be called songs, while others are just noise pieces. One track consists of nothing but a low-end tone, a bit meditative but the extra sounds that come in and out of the mix disrupt you from full relaxation.
Barrow and Nunzio both offer four individual tracks while Iwao offers three. Iwao’s “Contrabandistas de Jeans Furiosos Ate as Narinas” starts out with what sounds like four minutes of phone tone, before a loud and blisting beat adds to the rhythm of the beep and goes in for a miniature kill. Then it melts into the sound of someone peeling their skin off digitally, scraping layers until the meat is reached and then you’re at the point of no return. Barrio’s “Frankfurt, Frankfurt” sounds like nothing but random sounds sped up, chopped and sequenced at a furious pace, where the need to know the actual source of each sound becomes pointless. You know you’ve heard it, but it feels like a food fight more than a college essay. Nunzio’s “Libidinagens Neuro-sentimentais” is abstract sounds sliced up even further, the blips turn into mini-blips, only to be served up in micro form that you tend to think he’s trying to give you a secret code. Or something.
Listening to this at high volume with headphones may do serious damage, as sounds come out of nowhere in unexpected moments, sometimes piercing through from left to right and left again, and it may make your bowels tingle, especially when they get into manipulating the low frequencies. I’d love to be stopped by a cop and have him hear this:
Police officer: We have been receving complaints about a noise disturbance in the neighborhood, and apparently you have been sitting near this intersection for 15 minutes. Um, sir, I have to ask you to step out of the car and turn off your music.
Me: I cannot, this is Musica Eletronica 2004
P.O.: I have to ask you to (starts yelling) TURN THAT THING OFF, IT’S MAKING MY EARS BLEED.
Me: I know. Cool, yeah?
(Free MP3 download)
Published August 9th, 2009 at 9:51 am in Music Reviews with no comments
Tagged with Brazilian, Forró In The Dark, world music
They have been called New York City’s best party band by some, and it makes perfect sense when you play diverse music in a city known for an incredible amount of diversity. It may be too much for some, but not for Forró In The Dark, whose Light A Candle (Nat Geo Music) will become the perfect soundtrack for this and the next decade.
Musically they sound like the best elements of Ozomatli, Illya Kuryaki & The Valderramas, and Los Amigos Invisibles, combining rock in various incarnations, reggae, a pinch of country, and various worldly folk styles and blending it in a pop-friendly blender. Lyrically they tackle on fun subjects to occasional social issues, but the main focus is to always make music that will make people dance, which is why they have the word forró in their name. The music of Brazil continues to be a huge influence for many, and Forró In The Dark are no exception, even bringing in members of The Brazilian Girls to help them in their party. The album itself is split between songs in English and Portuguese, so whether you want to groove in a funk fashion or take in your Jorge Ben-vibe, you are going to hear an album that represents a side of New York City that everyone needs to experience at least once. At least in sound, they will be able to.
(Light A Candle will be released on October 13th.)
It’s unfortunate but true: I did watch two full seasons of American Idol, and that would be seasons 2 and 3. After that I lost interest when I realized how similar each season was. Sure, it’s funny to watch people make complete fools of themselves, but then it gets pointless. Out of those who have won and/or became runner-up’s, many have moved on to bigger and better. Jordin Sparks is someone who has the voice and the looks, and after a successful debut release, she has returned with Battlefield (Jive).
