Everybody keeps talking about Lil' Wayne. Blender magazine rated his album Tha Carter III four and a half stars. The dude has "fear god" tattooed on his eyelids. I feel like people are only making a big deal out of this album because the artist hasn't released a thing in years. It's a comeback, yes, I know. But Blender, of all music magazines, does not have the musical background they need in order to rate some of the albums proposed. Ratata's new album got 2 and a half stars. David Bowie's Live at Santa Monica got a whopping five. Yes I'm sure it's a fantastic live set but Bowie got a full page preview, while bands like CSS and N.E.R.D get small collums with variable reviews that must have been written by a monkey. Blender values the old tried and true artists who are known to always give a good show but they lack a direction forward into music that is actually new and innovative. It's quite depressing actually. I, personally, value Spin as a much better magazine because it gave a full 6-page spread over Kid Sister, the Cool Kids and A-Trak in a previous issue and the mag also allows many of it's features to be written by interns, those with new and fresh musical taste.
On that note, I'd like to share my new favorite Crookers song. I like it because it's has a rico swave feel to it. New house for the dance floor.
Crookers - Midnight Square
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5 comments:
well i like the song but it doesn't really sound anything like rico suave by gerardo in the early nineties, that is the reference right? keep posting the good stuff
no. not really. the style, not the particular song, sorry.
i totally knew what you meant.
sara
thank you :]
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