"Mindkilla" - Gang Gang Dance (video)
(6.75)
ANDY: This song compels motion. I will move how I feel, damn the consequences, and my dancing will likely present a danger to myself and others. Might be my favorite album of this half-over 2011. (9)
PAT: A misguided anthem for your misguided night out in the Lower East Side! (4)
RAJ: #1: Why does the production here sound so tinny and cheap compared to St. Dymphna? #2: Why does Lizzie Bougatsos get all "We Share Our Mother's Health" on a track that probably should have been conventionally sung? #3: Anything that reminds me of Bollywood disco can't be all bad, but it suffers by comparison to actual Bollywood disco. (Also, the lullaby interpolation is dumb.) (6)
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JESSE: (8)
Raj are you saying that the problem is that LZA's voice has effects on it? Have you ever listened to any of their pre-Saint Dymphna music? Or post-Saint Dyphmna singles? Or Saint Dymphna? Or are you just saying they should make songs that are easy to be plagiarized?
ReplyDeleteI'm not saying they should bring in T-Pain, I'm saying that the vocals should fit the song - "House Jam" is a pretty straightforward synthpop song and the straightforward vocals work well with it, while something like "First Communion" is a big ol' freak-out and the vocals are appropriately spazzed-out. In this case, adding super-squeaky vocals to a song that's already kind of shrill strikes me as more annoying than distinctive or whatever.
ReplyDeleteactually i take that back - i am totally saying they should have brought t-pain in.
ReplyDeleteI feel like Mindkilla falls more in the category of First Communion than House Jam; it's basically a dance party rave jam. House Jam is much slower and more dependent on real instrumentation: the drums and guitar are easily recognized as what they are, so it fits that Lizzi's vocals go a bit more natural, right? Mindkilla is much less organic and more based on the synths and drum machines to begin with; making her vocals a bit more digital seems pretty appropriate.
ReplyDeleteJust sayin'.
A T-Pain collabo would be p bizarre
though i do agree that the lullaby thing's kinda lame. but i like the song.
ReplyDeletei'ma call that an 8, then.
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