Filed under: Pop Music, Pop/Rock Music, Single Reviews | Tags: 2003, Funhouse, Miley Cyrus, P!nk, single review, So What, Sober, Trouble
P!nk is back with her fourth single, the title track off her Funhouse album. This past year P!nk has already called her husband a tool, dealt with sobriety, and pleaded for her lover not to leave her. This time out she’s burning down her house!
P!nk talks about how her house used to be fun, but now it’s full of evil clowns? While the evil clown reference seems somewhat ridiculous, it luckily has a good metaphor to it, about starting over, although the verse probably deserved a better metaphor.
After you look past that part, the song is all uphill from there. P!nk wouldn’t even need to show off her great vocals since the song’s musical arrangement could have Miley Cyrus pull this off with a good outcome. But just for harm’s sake let’s forget Miley Cyrus was anywhere near this song when it was being made. Moving on, the song’s lyrics work around the stellar production, which is due to Tony Kanal(of No Doubt) and Jimmy Harry(who also helped produce P!nk’s ”Sober”).
“Funhouse” has the energy of “So What” but surpasses it half-way through, when the song breaks into true rocker mode. Something we haven’t seen from P!nk since ”Trouble” back in 2003!
Watch for ”Funhouse” to take over airwaves in the upcoming weeks, cause I know I will.
A-
Filed under: Electropop, Pop Music, Single Reviews | Tags: I Do Not Hook Up, Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, My Life Would Suck Without You, single review
Sidenote: I know I have been severly lacking updates on this website, but I promise that I’ll start getting more posts up when school is over.
So Kelly Clarkson made a huge comeback yet again with “My Life Would Suck Without You”. Now comes her follow-up single “I Do Not Hook Up”. Penned by new sensation Katy Perry, Kelly belts out the lyrics with feisty energy telling that certain-someone that she will not be another one-night stand that he won’t remember from the night before. While it looks as if the song comes off as another anti-guy anthem for teen girls everywhere, “I Do Not Hook Up” isn’t a man bash, but a woman standing her ground and knowing that giving into the man isn’t going to help either of them if they want to have a real relationship. If the plot hasn’t drawn you in, you’ll fall in love with Kelly’s vocals as they soar while singing catcy lyrics like “So if you want me, I don’t come cheap. Keep your head on my hand, and your heart on your sleeve.”
Why America makes “My Life Would Suck Without You” a bigger hit than this masterpiece is a complete disgrace to pop music. Even if it doesn’t become a Number One, Kelly, Katy, and the music arrangers should all give themselves props for creating such a brilliant piece of electropop.
A
Filed under: Pop Music, Single Reviews, Uncategorized | Tags: electronica, Hilary Duff, single review
Hilary has certainly come along way since her hit singles “So Yesterday” and “Come Clean” back in 2003 and 
‘04, for better or worse. Her new single “Reach Out” off her recent album The Best Of Hilary Duff in Hilary and company’s words “samples” Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus”, but in essence it heavily uses the beat and melody of “Personal Jesus”, with the chorus relying heavily on the Mode’s lyrics. And here’s where we hit the crossroads. While the song may seem like it is just a lawsuit waiting to happen, it actually does have some good originality. The main difference is the lyrics, for the single version, with rapper the Prophet, many new lyrics are added in, adding to the song.
The Prophet(yes I know, not the best name for an artist) in the first verse, raps, “I know your ex did you bad, but I’m your new Perfect Man”, the first part possibly hinting at Hilary’s hit song “Stranger”, released last year, and the movie Perfect Man which Hilary starred in a while back. The line following he raps “Dignity,where you stand” referring to Hilary’s album Dignity and the title track off that album. He goes on to rap “I’m here to Play with Fire” referring to another song of Hilary’s “Play With Fire”. Hilary also makes a reference to Madonna’s “Like A Prayer”, in the song, as well.
Another thing that helps this track is the strong use of electronica that is used in it. Electronica is quickly becoming the leading genre in mainstream. It may look like Hilary is jumping on this new trend, but in essence she is the founder of it’s revival, after she released her third album Dignity, in June 2007, long before Spears released her “comeback” album or hit single “Womanizer’
So overall, the song is catchy. Hilary isn’t a great singer, but she has a good voice, which has always helped her in the past. The rapping in the song also, surprisingly, helps make the song better. And you have to give her some credit, she hasn’t become another X-tina, or Britney, as she goes through her 20’s. All in all, while it isn’t the strongest single out there, it certainly has the potential for being a hit.
B
