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Malize - She Turns Cold
I'm conflicted. I've said before in my reviews that I wanted to keep them positive for the most part, but after hearing the Paradoxchild's music I'm going to foray into negativism for a bit. Bare with me.
I heard about Paradoxchild after reading his blog post referencing the fact that he is going to start a podcast. I'm a bit of a podcast junkie so I figured I would check him out.
While hip-hop has notoriously had a twisted sense of humor, employing violence, misogyny, and potty language (as my mom calls it) there comes a point when it begins to border on self-parody. I think that era came and then Eminem turned the humor on its head and was ridiculously funny and incredibly clever adding a needed jolt to the mainstream hip hop world.
I think it's fairly obvious that Paradoxchild aspires to be some sort of Eminem figure. However, as I was listening to his songs I thought more of Wesley Willis (the hilarious schizophrenic Chicagoan infamous for blubs such as "suck a male camel's dick!") Willis had a bit of a monotone, stream of consciousness delivery, and paradoxchild's delivery echoes it.
So perhaps the most important question for this music is: Is it funny?
That's where I'm conflicted. Parts of it are very funny and off the wall. Much of it relies on hyperbole though and after a 4 minute song I found myself getting rather bored with it. Weird Al Yankovic is funny because I can still listen to "Eat It" fifteen years later and laugh my ass off. Humor needs to have some sort of staying power and while I think paradoxchild probably has the potential to find that voice, he is decidedly not there yet. But he's young. There is still plenty of time to experiment and make mistakes.
One last thing about the music itself. The arrangements are perhaps funnier than the lyrics! They are decent little beats underneath sappy, overly dramatic, string and synth parts. It sounds like they were all conjured out of a Korg Triton series, or some similar workstation that has all the beats built right into them. But this is a good thing, because the juxtaposition of the dramatic music with the ridiculous lyrics creates a tone of self-important irony. And that's funny.
I heard about Paradoxchild after reading his blog post referencing the fact that he is going to start a podcast. I'm a bit of a podcast junkie so I figured I would check him out.
While hip-hop has notoriously had a twisted sense of humor, employing violence, misogyny, and potty language (as my mom calls it) there comes a point when it begins to border on self-parody. I think that era came and then Eminem turned the humor on its head and was ridiculously funny and incredibly clever adding a needed jolt to the mainstream hip hop world.
I think it's fairly obvious that Paradoxchild aspires to be some sort of Eminem figure. However, as I was listening to his songs I thought more of Wesley Willis (the hilarious schizophrenic Chicagoan infamous for blubs such as "suck a male camel's dick!") Willis had a bit of a monotone, stream of consciousness delivery, and paradoxchild's delivery echoes it.
So perhaps the most important question for this music is: Is it funny?
That's where I'm conflicted. Parts of it are very funny and off the wall. Much of it relies on hyperbole though and after a 4 minute song I found myself getting rather bored with it. Weird Al Yankovic is funny because I can still listen to "Eat It" fifteen years later and laugh my ass off. Humor needs to have some sort of staying power and while I think paradoxchild probably has the potential to find that voice, he is decidedly not there yet. But he's young. There is still plenty of time to experiment and make mistakes.
One last thing about the music itself. The arrangements are perhaps funnier than the lyrics! They are decent little beats underneath sappy, overly dramatic, string and synth parts. It sounds like they were all conjured out of a Korg Triton series, or some similar workstation that has all the beats built right into them. But this is a good thing, because the juxtaposition of the dramatic music with the ridiculous lyrics creates a tone of self-important irony. And that's funny.
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At least you speak your mind. Which is more than most of the sheeples in here that suffer from low-self esteem, and bend over backwords while ass kissing to certain artists in here who i won't mention, but you may have a good idea of whom I speak. I'm tired of it. See my blog below yours today. This place right now is a disappointment to me. You see, I hate all politicians, activists are no better, although they think they are and are just as disingenuous and religion sucks and kills people. People are kinda' low level in here at times. ....immature. I'm getting bored with them in here.
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Also, I like your dinosaur.
cheers,
dd
Perception is certainly the key, but some people's perception needs serious adjusting from time to time, hehehe. That's why there's people like you & I around who speak our mind and aren't worried about weather we are popular or not. I think that in and of itself makes us unique as most people are sheeples and worse, they don't even know it!
In other news, the cowards, no one else except you has responded to their precious little polularity list smackdown....I'm still chuckling about it. Joiners!...all of them bwahahaha....
The Rexxy is cool...if you listen he is in the song, Social Decay. Did you see the video I did of that song? It really makes it all come together...although I just don't know what genre it would be in;) I guess that's where perception comes into play. As my song Factotum goes, "I don't care, didn't want that job anyway."
Smack a self-serving activist today, it's almost as fun as a solid hip-check to a politician or a pope. Hope you're not offended, but if you are, well, I think you know what my reaction would be.
peace for now, leaving for the Mirage tomorrow will be there all week in Vegas for the Fest For Beales Fans, the LOVE Show & then David Spade.
very well then,
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