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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2014 0:13:17 GMT -5
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Post by josh on Oct 6, 2014 6:19:17 GMT -5
review me first
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2014 23:19:45 GMT -5
Best New Music: Single: 'Dead 2 Me' Artist: CeCe Label: LaFace Records X-Factor underdog CeCe Frey-- now known only as "CeCe"-- spent the past two years quietly perfecting her craft under the wing of label-head and former critic, LA Reid. Her debut, 'Dead 2 Me', is a cheeky Katy Perry-meets-Ke$ha dance anthem that, somehow, succeeds to be better a better effort than a lot of her contemporaries. This is a debut from an artist who wants it. Listen here.Buy it on iTunes here.
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Post by josh on Oct 6, 2014 23:35:35 GMT -5
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Post by Ginger Spice on Oct 8, 2014 22:29:16 GMT -5
This is really random, but I thought they got rid of LaFace Records years ago?
I haven't heard the song yet, but I'm interested. I'll check it out soon.
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Oct 8, 2014 22:35:17 GMT -5
LaFace is still a thing in the UK, isn't it?
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Post by surfy on Oct 8, 2014 22:42:37 GMT -5
Keesha inspired her!!! <3
Anyways, yes, this song is pretty good!!! :)
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Post by Lahey's Lucky Star on Oct 9, 2014 0:09:19 GMT -5
If Amelia Lily had this single, she would have still been in the UK Top 50 rather than that flop "California"  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2014 8:00:59 GMT -5
This is really random, but I thought they got rid of LaFace Records years ago? I haven't heard the song yet, but I'm interested. I'll check it out soon. According to Wikipedia, apparently-- but according to google she's signed with them? Like, literally google, not some random website. Googling Cece Frey record label pops up with a box that says LaFace records with her name under it lmao. She has to be signed somewhere to afford all this. |
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Post by Zeebz on Oct 11, 2014 12:25:49 GMT -5
Nice review! I listened to "Dead 2 Me" and I really enjoyed it. Thanks for introducing it to me!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2014 15:46:16 GMT -5
If anyone cares more reviews should be up by Friday.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2014 11:49:07 GMT -5
Upcoming reviews:
'Tell Me' - Danity Kane
'Baby Don't Lie' - Gwen Stefani
'Numb' - Nick Jonas'
Wonder Where We Land - SBTKRT
1989 - Taylor Swift
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Oct 24, 2014 12:08:33 GMT -5
One review in 2 weeks... @touch we're going to need to discuss your work ethic.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2014 12:24:31 GMT -5
One review in 2 weeks... @touch we're going to need to discuss your work ethic. Why? You gonna pay me? |
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Oct 24, 2014 12:54:24 GMT -5
One review in 2 weeks... @touch we're going to need to discuss your work ethic. Why? You gonna pay me?  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2014 21:55:14 GMT -5
Taylor Swift, your diva next door, successfully jumped the shark when she recorded 'I Knew You Were Trouble'-- the song that transformed a Shania Twain into a Britney Spears. Two years later and the idea of Swift crooning over dubstep or anything like it still sounds outrageous (if not totally badass); yet it was in that moment that Swift became something more than a pop-culture phenomenon. She was a force. When the general public was teased with news of her latest, whispers of an empowered and improved "pop" sound spread like wildfire. In a post-RED world, a Taylor Swift record sitting pretty at the top of the pop charts could only be a good thing, right? There's no possible way one of the most talented writers of the twenty-first century could f**k this up, right? For the most the part, these assumptions would be correct-- it's not a bad record. Just maybe not her record.
1989 is an experiment, taking a few nods from whatever your local Urban Outfitters is spinning; but that might be the record's biggest problem-- her success in replicating the sounds of her "edgier" peers has more or less removed herself from the record. Swift is more than capable of baiting a pop audience while retaining the quintessential-white-girl charm that defines her writing; and while songs like 'Blank Space' and lead single 'Shake It Off' have something of that left, she loses herself in the artists she's trying to emulate. This is an unfortunate fate that most of the record was faced with-- I count maybe three songs that didn't explicitly remind me of something I'd already heard within the first ten seconds-- and although songs like 'Out of the Woods' and 'New Romance' still sound fresh in 2014, the lack of originality takes the intended edge off of material that otherwise wasn't intended to be pop in the first place. Even worse, the two songs that succeed in sounding the most distinct, 'This Love' and 'Welcome to New York', only manage this by being truly awful.
To her credit, there is a silver lining to this situation. Swift has always been a take no prisoners go-getter when it comes to her own exposure-- and there's plenty left on 1989 to further her plans for world domination. Songs like 'Style' and 'All You Had To Do' make it easier to forgive her absence from them. Although a record full of 'I Know Places'-- the one song that gets it right-- would've been preferred, the longer you listen, the more the album sounds like a well-crafted business platform than anything else. 'Wildest Dreams' is the best example, as it's identical to Lana Del Rey's 'Without You'. It's the same song-- it's also a good song; and as much as that shouldn't work, it does. Now, take that sort of image and combine it with Taylor Swift's exposure. You've got a very powerful combo that can only be in her best interest. From a business standpoint, her only fault was relegating the bonus tracks to the deluxe-- all three are hits waiting to happen. Otherwise, it's borderline genius.
That in mind, 1989 sounds most like a Now That's What I Call Music: Indie Pop compilation album. It's as fun as it is forgettable. In a rather stupidly ironic way, it's perfect for a pop album-- but that's as much the problem as anything else. It's not a bad album by any means, and it will likely be a very successful album too; but whatever your favorite song on the record may be, there's a very good chance another artist has recorded something like it, and something better.
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- 'I Wish You Would' would've made a top-tier 1980s power ballad.
- 'I Know Places' is light and moody-- the most distinctly "Taylor" track here.
- 'You R In Love' has arpeggios and reverb drums for days, which can only be a good thing. |
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Post by surfy on Oct 26, 2014 1:43:08 GMT -5
I knew I heard Lana Del Rey in "Wildest Dreams"  |
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