OK first of all I want to say that
I’m a fan of the little blond Canadian or use to be, why use to be? Well
because of this album mostly but I’ll explain a little more, so grab a cup of
Timmy’s bring the family and gather around for my first review of a music
album.
Well first I want to show my
credentials, because you can say I don’t liked that song or that other thing,
but why can you say that if you don’t know the artist, if you are not familiar
with his/her work? That is what makes deeper your statement, if you know it,
you don’t have to like it, but know it. So yes first how I started to like her.
But I realized it was too long so
you can just click here to read the whole story :P
Well now the real deal, what happens
with the album that is not that great? Well I was listening to the first video “Never
growing up” and I hear something off, something that wasn’t right wasn’t the voice
but I didn’t like it as the past albums, so I forgot about it and keep going
with my life then the “Hello Kitty” song came out and everybody said that it
was horrible, so I had to listen to it, and it was not that bad but I saw in
YouTube that there were more videos from the last album and oh, the horror. I
listen to every single song of the new album and I concluded what happened…
She turned into Nickelback! One of
the worst things that could ever happen to anyone! And I realized what was the
thing that was off about the song never growing up, and the rest of the album,
is the rhythm! Avril has a very particular way of singing how her voice is part
of the melody, where she takes the high notes and where she makes longer the
words and in that album she was hitting all the wrong places, sounds like she doesn’t
know her own strengths or even her natural rhythm, is like she try to sing like
somebody else, is just awful, like a train wreck or somebody choking on her own
blood.
Also I saw that the best 2 songs of
the album were Never Growing Up and Hello Kitty, and are not in the same level
as the worst of the other albums.
Never Growing Up is a song where you
are waiting that the tempo of the song pick up, to have some ups and downs like
a normal song, but you just wait for the song to “get to the good part” and
never gets there, is just the same pace, I feel that it was like the first
draft of the song, just the first idea and never work on it again, feels like
it got stuck on the beginning, but in some level it feels still like Avril.
Hello Kitty for me is the best song
of the album, but not because is great, but because the album is very bad, the
song is fun, it would be a good song as filler of a good album, but is by no
means a good song to buy the album for it, is repetitive and also if you pay
attention to the lyrics you can see that is not a song written by a girl,
because it has some connotations that can be taken as sexual references from a
guy to a girl, because is calling a girl (That is the kitty) to have a slumber
party and is tells the girl to invite more girls, and calling them silly. I
know this might seem a little far fetch or a stretch but if you listen to the
rest of her albums she is always very direct and this one feels like somebody
else gave her this song. Also I don’t think the video is racist is just a way to
hide the lyrics, because it has nothing to do with the cartoon “Hello Kitty”
And for the rest of the songs, they
feel like nickelback and that is never a good thing.
Even the cover is awful, I think
that always reflect something of the album, what was going to be, some
evolution, but here is just… that.
So if you want to buy the album it
would be against my advice because this one is nothing like any of the past
ones, there is no feeling in it, no evolution or even a hint of life in it.
