Notes from the frontline of pop music.

Sunday, December 05, 2004

Micheal Mayer - Lovefood

Okay, now i'm no 'Kompackt'-head or whatever those microhipsters call themselves. I haven't heard any of Micheal Mayers own stuff before the 'Touch' album that this is taken from. It begins with a distant guitar pattern, which seems slightly off key. Then the whispered 'Give me love. Give me love food' comes in. A beat starts to build (with filtered handclaps - no song is complete without handclaps, if you put handclaps into a song you don't need to do anything else). Finally the bass is introduced and finally left on its own with the now complete beat.
It fizzles minimalistically like this for a while before bringing the guitar and vocal back. 'Give me love so i can kill. She's unreal'.
'Lovefood' is romantic and sexy, while at the same time being creepy and haunting. There's a fine line i suppose. 'Every Breath You Take' for the 21st century?

Scoring:

Hipster cred = -5
Brings the sexy = 30
Handclaps = 10
Kompackt = 5

Total = 30

Saturday, December 04, 2004

Nivea - Okay

Nivia is a Lil' Jon protege (who, it seems, is about to emerge from his cocoon as 'shouty one from 'Yeah' into hip genre creator, in the mainstream British concious. I for one can't wait until Lil' Jon and Banner are household names) and 'Okay' is the first thing i've heard from her and (forgetting Ciara) this so called 'crunk 'n' B' or 'bubblecrunk' or something simularly confusing. The harsh hi-hat tones and handclaps from Lil' Jon's 'crunk' productions are still there but everything in the mix is sparse; even Lil' Jons shouts seem distant and crackly.

Just got up in this party, tipsy off this Bacardi, bout to take this flight, so high, say bye, bye. We up in here all
night now, my girl like hey that's my song, cuz I'm feeling fine, so fine, so fine.

So we join as Nivea arrives at a party, she is feeling a bit 'tipsy' and is about to fly somewhere (we aren't sure where yet).

All the girls that feel me say okay...in the club u hear me say okay feeling good, feeling great I look good don't hate. If
the fellas feeling good say oh yeah and if your liking what u do say oh yeah...feeling good...feeling great u look good boy
too don't hate. All my girls get your hair fixed and your nails done put your hands up and say okay (okay) okay (okay)
okay (okay) okay (okay) ...u got the drink, get another one make him pay for it....put it anywhere and say okay (okay) okay
(okay) okay (okay) okay (okay)..

So it turns out the party is at a club and theres lods of guys feeling great and girls making them may for drinks. Okay?

Your hands all on my boobs, two stepping in my coochie, they're like go girl (go girl) go girl (go girl) go girl
(go girl) u like the way I shake it, you wanna see me naked, it could be your night, your night...your niiighhtt.

Uh oh.

After this Sean Paul and Youngbloodz drop guest verses. And then its pretty much all over.

Scoring:

Lil' Jon = 20 points
The word 'Boobs' = 10 points
Sean Paul = 3 points
Confusing genre title = -2 points
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= 5 points