My Life Would Suck Without You (Afrocentrixxx)

[(Artie Ziff)]

New Promo Only Modern came in today. This is the only song on there without a topic devoted to it, so I kinda felt obligated to start it. Nothing special to say about the song itself. A little to electronic alternative for my taste.

[Deleted]

I love how you're pretending not to know that it's a Kelly Clarkson cover. And I don't know what universe you'd have to live in to consider this 'electronic'.

Anyway, pretty standard pop punk cover, but it's no worse than the original. I can imagine it turning up in the background of a teen gross-out comedy or something in the near future.

[(Artie Ziff)]

Probably the universe where CHR is never played. No pretending here, no clue on a remake. I checked the credits in the liner notes, and it's credited to Luke / Martin / Kelly. But I'll take your word for it. I only meant the electronic drum beats and voice alterations were not to my liking. I also should have mentioned this is the "Punk Pop Version" in the title, so maybe it's different than what you've heard.

[pen]

Wouldn't the Kelly in those credits be Clarkson? Or am I just dumb for putting two and two and making four?

[My Life Is A Stereo]

The song isn't just a remake Artie, its a remake of a song that's still charting, it was only released like 4 months ago.

[(Artie Ziff)]

Promo Only lists by last name. So no clue why Kelly would go by first name. And I don't follow CHR charts or radio, so that wouldn't help me.

[pen]

It's kind of an obvious title though, isn't it? I mean, if someone made a song called "American Idiot", wouldn't your first thought be, gee, is this a hot Green Day remake?

[(Artie Ziff)]

I've heard American Idiot and have seen its chart action. My Life Would Suck Without You did not trigger any song title familiarality. But it sure will now!

[pen]

Good.

[WotUNeed]

Apr 24, 2009 17:51:53 GMT -5 pen said:

Wouldn't the Kelly in those credits be Clarkson? Or am I just dumb for putting two and two and making four?

The Kelly would be Claude Kelly.

[pen]

Ha, silly me thinking Clarkson writes her music.

[Modern Myth]

Apr 24, 2009 20:12:37 GMT -5 pen said:

Ha, silly me thinking Clarkson writes her music.

So co-wrote half her current album, co-wrote everything on the last, and co-wrote half the one before that.

[tortuga]

Apr 24, 2009 20:32:23 GMT -5 Modern Myth said:

Apr 24, 2009 20:12:37 GMT -5 pen said:

Ha, silly me thinking Clarkson writes her music.

So co-wrote half her current album, co-wrote everything on the last, and co-wrote half the one before that.

"Co-wrote" meaning she writes like 3 lines for each song.

[Modern Myth]

Apr 24, 2009 20:40:38 GMT -5 @tortuga said:

Apr 24, 2009 20:32:23 GMT -5 Modern Myth said:

So co-wrote half her current album, co-wrote everything on the last, and co-wrote half the one before that.

"Co-wrote" meaning she writes like 3 lines for each song.

If that's what you want to believe, okay.

[pen]

It's not like anyone can prove otherwise.

[(Artie Ziff)]

You're the one accusing. You need to prove it. I'm sure she co-writes at least four lines per song. Hard to rhyme with three.

[pen]

That was almost clever.

[American Idiot]

So, this is a pop-punk cover song? I'm wondering why I've never heard of this band then.

[Crushcrushchris]

www.myspace.com/afrocentrixxx

Yep.

[American Idiot]

Definitely not a bad song at all. I never would have known it was a cover though since I hardly know anything by Kelly Clarkson. I see they also made a cover of "I Love College" and man it puts the original to shame. Shit, it actually makes it a good song.

[pen]

I still think the title is a dead giveaway.

[PHOBES]

What? Not this again

Apr 24, 2009 16:34:41 GMT -5 jvandyck87 said:

While Kelly Clarkson doesn't own a copyright on this song title, it's just so blatantly named after an extremely popular song with a not-so common song. It's almost like naming a song "American Idiot" or "In The End." I think it's a bad move.

On a side note, didn't Clarkson cover two Aranda songs for her latest album? "Whyyawannabringmedown" and something else I think.

[pen]

The other song is "All I Ever Wanted". Which is also what she titled her album.

I guess all she ever wanted was someone else's songs, BAM!

[Nicholas2.0]

Apr 25, 2009 14:09:32 GMT -5 pen said:

I still think the title is a dead giveaway.

It is. I'm of the belief that anyone who pays this much attention to music in general, let alone "Alternative/Rock" or any specific format, and comes to Pulse to talk about it, oughta know better in the case of a song like this.

Apr 25, 2009 15:34:17 GMT -5 PHOBES said:

On a side note, didn't Clarkson cover two Aranda songs for her latest album? "Whyyawannabringmedown" and something else I think.

I had completely forgotten that before seeing Aranda the other night. Then this was the last song they played and I thought, "Oh yeah, right."

I found it a little self-indulgent for a band with two brothers who named their band after their last name and don't have any interesting album artwork or image to incorporate into a set backdrop, to create one out of their band name with a maximum-contrast black & white action shot of either brother's face above and below the name. But that was just my impression.

[ZAYN]

I was clicking into the CHR/POP section and noticed "My life would.." on the latest post in here so I had to see if that crap song was charting here...thankfully it's just some mess topic...but their cover is so much better...same with "i love college.."

[(Artie Ziff)]

A cover of I Love College already? Wow. Did not care for the original too much, though only hearing less than five times.

Does this band do covers only or what?

[K.]

This is like a spoof to me. I hate the original to begin with, but this takes it to a new level of corny.

[(Artie Ziff)]

The rock version is cornier than the pop version? That sounds strange.