This Title Is Just Way To Fitting...

Britney Spears - 3 (2009 - Single)

So here is the newest single from the original "Madonna 2.0" (which I think we can all agree, Lady GaGa is on her way to taking over), and is another catchy/dancey hook-fest.

3 is produced by the same people who brought us "Stronger", "...Baby One More Time", and "If U Seek Amy" and sounds like something that should have been on B's third studio album; Britney, but also sounds A LOT like Fergie's "Fergalicious". This is Britney's third single to come out around early fall, three years in a row, and is her third single of 2009.

I also expect this to be her third #1 lead single off an album in a row ( Following 2007's "Gimme More" and 08's "Womanizer"). The song is like a 3 min hook, but has a lot more listening value than "Radar".

3 is the lead single from The Singles Collection (out November), which is basically a re-issue of 2004's My Prerogative, dropping the lesser singles from her 6 studio albums and including the recent singles (excluding "Break the Ice" for some mind-boggling reason), but i will more than likely review that when it comes out. As for this single, it's nothing too great/original/memorable, but will do well for the time being and is worth a listen.

3.5/5

The Bravery - Slow Poison (2009 - Single)

So if you are completely in the dark, The Bravery have been around since '03-'04, or that's when they first broke into the mainstream with their single "An Honest Mistake" from their self-titled album. They got big around the same time The Killers did, and they both had very similar music styles so they were compared early on. The Killers got more mainstream success, but I've always found The Bravery to have more substance to their music, making it worth listening to. Besides...Brandon Flowers (Killers) is alternative music's answer to Kanye West...and nobody wants that...

Slow Poison is the lead single for the band's upcoming third album, and though I wouldn't exactly call the song "single-worthy", it is a solid track that stays loyal to their trademark style. It reflects more on the side of the songs from their second album The Sun And the Moon (and the re-issue The Sun And The Moon: Complete); being more down tempo than their songs from their first album The Bravery, but shows elements that were absent from The Sun And The Moon. While not going backwards, they seem to be headed to a new sound that is a blend of both of their past albums, a lil more alt-rock, but with that electro/punk undertone. Interesting music to say the least.

Slow Poison will take a while to grow on you, but it is definitely worth a listen, and it has gotten me excited for their album (Stir The Blood, due out November 10th). Personally I would hope they take back up the electronic element to their music (or some of the Disco pop element used in Shakira's "She Wolf", which they helped write/produce), but they have yet to seriously disappoint me, so I eagerly await to see what they've been working on.

3.5/5

I think I'd Rather Walk...If That's Okay With You...

Karl Wolf - Carerra (2009 - Single)

long time no post, but I was waiting for something i felt the need to write about, and loooky looky, it has come forth!

Karl Wolf is a Canadian, not that we are especially proud of him, who has been on the music scene for a couple of years. Wolf even won a Juno award..or was nominated for one...I think... but even Canadians knows how much of a joke award the Juno is... not exactly something you ever brag about having...similar to winning Canadian Idol (which got cancelled I might add)

Wolf's music is in the same kind of hip-pop genre as Shawn Desman, and Massari and Danny Fernandes. All of those examples previously mentioned are fellow Canuks, unfortunately Canada breeds this music..it exists else where I'm sure, but I'm just going on what I know. While not especially awful, (like Massari), and not as awkward to listen to (Shawn Desman), it's not overly great or special in it's own right. His career is basically "I can sing half decently, but I have a hot body so you will all love me"... and this is why I hate tweenage girls at times...because they have the mental path of "guy = hot, music =good?, MUST GO BUY!"...and presto, he is relevant.

this loverly number, "Carerra", is about a car...as if Karl Wolf's music wasn't boring enough, he chooses to sing songs about hip-hop stereo types, (which must make shooting the videos super easy). the lyrics are also singing about a woman at the same time..so they don't make a whole bunch of sense, but then again as B44 knows (also Canadian...sensing a pattern yet?) that teenage (usually female) music listeners will sing things and not think about it until someone points this out to them.

I am kind of ragging on the guy, and not all of it is deserved. This song is 10 levels of awful, but his previous single, and other tracks on his album Bite The Bullet are not such travesties, especially his "cover" of Toto's "Africa" (I use the term cover loosely, as the songs really only share a hook, chorus and basic melody).

I would also like to add that there are good Canadian singers, but they do not run on the "Much Music" circut... at least not successfully.

1/5

To Fall Down...Does that not Imply You Were Somewhere To Start?

Selena Gomez and the Scene - Falling Down (2009 - Single)

Okay another Disney protogé (only this one is still employed by them). Selena Gomez has made her way around the Disney scene, as a guest star in the Suite Life and in Hannah Montana, and stars in Wizards of Waverly Place... but of course because she can act she MUST be able to sing... right?

Well auto-tune thinks she can..now. the song is so cliché-d it's not even marginally amusing. the entire track is just noise, if I were to compare it to anything it'd be The Pussycat Dolls' "Flirt" (B-Side to their PCD album), but gone HORRIBLY WRONG! She whines through the entire song about some guy who thinks he is top shit, and then how he will eventually "fall down"... but really. there is no point where I care about what she is saying.

This song is a waste of perfectly good sound waves, like unlike the previous singles I reviewed (Heidi Montag's and Adrienne Bailon's) I may actually delete this song from my library, it's that bad. Disney; when auto-tuning someone, at least make them sound good, this is just a pathetic effort.

.25 / 5 (I won't normally do things in .25, but I can't justify giving this .5)

NOTE: the actual cover cover for this single is FUGLY, so I wasn't letting that shit fly on my blog, so the cover (which I might add is rather pretty) is from COVERLANDIA

The Title is Very Accurate

Flyleaf - Again (Single - 2009)

this will be a very short review be cause I have no quarrels with this song.

Again is the lead single of the band's sophomore album Memento Mori set to drop at the end of October. Again is a great rock song. (Once I know the lyrics) you can sing to it, you can jump around to it, and sounds great blared at unnecessarily loud volumes. It has a new sound to it, but it's not too far away from their previous releases that fans will get agitated and revolt. I'd almost say it sounds TOO much like old Flyleaf, but i wouldn't have it any other way. I'm very pleased.


3/5

former Disney + Def Jam = Superbad?

Super Bad - Adrienne Bailon (Single? - 2009)

So Ladies and Gentlemen! As you can see from the little math equation title, another Disney alumni is trying to launch an adult sin(g)ing career by "releasing" (freshly leaked) a song that is miles away from previous work, and thus makes them all grown up and worthy of respect... if only it worked that nicely


Super Bad is your run-of-the-mill radio song, is sounds very much like Eva Simmons' "Silly Boy" and also has heavy influence from "Let It Rock"- Kevin Rudolf + 'Lil Wayne's hit of last summer. So now not only is this song 2 seconds from playgarisim, it doesn't improve anything, lyrics aren't better, the hook is less catchy, and this song ls 10 levels of forgettable.

that being said, it is catchy as shit, but I already see this song having a short play life in my Library, and I will be done with it in 3 weeks, if it makes it that long. It'll all depend how embedded in my head it gets after writing in this review ( as anything I review is put on repeat until I'm done).

So like many Disney stars before her, Adrienne Bailon (former member of The Cheetah Girls), is giving us average music, ripping off the songs that have already charted and people have moved on from. Hopefully the rest of her album that is to drop late this year or spring '10 isn't as 'blah' as this song.

2/5

EDIT: Changed the rating from 1/5, the song is growing on me, but i stand by what I said.

No Heidi, I Don't Wanna Hear What Your Body Has To Say

Heidi Montag - Body Language (Single 2009)

Mrs.Heidi Montag's Body Language, wich is the "first official" single off her debut album; which has had like 8 names and I will only bother to remember it when the album is released as at least by that point it will be difficult for them to try and change it,... but really it's not only the 5th single off the album, but technically it is a re-release of the 2nd or 3rd single. This album is a mess and a half and it's still in production.

Of Heidi's recording session tracks (ALL of which have leaked), there is like 4 songs that are worth listening to, and this WAS one of them. I put emphasis on 'was' because "Body Language" like many songs before it have fallen to over production and unnecessary guest vocals by someone who has no business being a rapper.
Body Language's demo is a fun pop track, but when they were 'polishing' it in the studio, it lost something so it is a lot less fun, and seems like it tries WAYY to hard. but I have a feeling the over-compensation is just her trying to get her music career anywhere and will carry into all her music. Oh, and the next thing that kills this single is hubby Spencer Pratt's lovely rap contribution to it... like I said above UNNECESSARY GUEST VOCALS BY SOMEONE WHO HAS NO BUSINESS BEING A RAPPER!

so the single is a mess, just like the rest of the album will be. This single's demo (which I thought was the final version) would have done well, but this new version will not only flop, but will become great fodder for Video On Trial if a video is ever made, or released (what ever happened to the video for "Look How I'm Doing" anyways?).

1.5 / 5