Okay none of this is fair. I get to it late, Alexchan already makes the best possible joke, it is a good week up against Kawehi live and I am listening to the week's music which is mostly fairly up and positive at the end of the week when you listened to them before international politics got really interesting and bleak which means I want gritty dirty music.
Calvin Harris ft Rihanna - This is super polished and squeaky clean. It is a really stripped back tune and really isn't over produced. Calvin Harris is doing a lot of good work in here but really maximising the use of his Rhianna loop there. It is really good and manages to be that clean without pushing it past the point where I dislike how polished it is (probably because it isn't overproduced). A bit of a shame really.
Brad Paisley ft Demi Lovato - This one I am way more down on, but probably for all the reasons you guys like it. It is super stock pop country, it is a positive message (HOW BORING) and yeah just doesn't do anything for me. I think this is a terrible use of your Demi Lovato feature, in accompaniment she is completely dominated and her one solo part was pretty tame.
Melinda Kathleen Reese - I really dig this, it was good fun. I hadn't run into it before and I think the joke would probably not last another video for me, but this was a good one to run into.
Kawehi - This really isn't fair on the lot of them. It is one of the less boring Muse songs to me. She does a pretty decent cover (though she doesn't quite have Matt Bellamy vocal range, but Matt Bellamy is goddamned ridiculous and she damn well tried). So it starts in a pretty good place, but then it is live. I can't stress how fucking ridiculous this is. I know lots of artists do/can do it, but rebuilding the loops there is entirely unnecessary, she would be well within her rights to roll up to gigs with most of the tracks loops already setup and just engage them from her launchpad or something. Instead she constructs them on the spot. I am still trying to pick all the pieces of her kit there. She has at least one keyboard, two mics, the guitar, her launchpad is off to the side of her iPad (? for lyrics and/or reference?), one amp behind her at least. It is so over the top for a solo act to have to do. I just love this from a performer. EASILY my pick, but it plays right in to a ton of personal biases.
Bassjackers & Jay Hardway - This film clip was better when
Daft Punk did it with Leiji Matsumoto. The track is a bit more what I am after today though because its a bit dirty. Its pretty good party track.
Bonnie McKee - After this I had to go watch Bad and Beat It. She is no Michael Jackson though I still appreciate the throwbacks. The song is probably not as good as the film clip. It is okay.
Beyonce - wowwwwww okay, maybe it is a much closer week than I expected. We got super pared back beat with nice trap snare thrown in periodically. It isn't about a positive relationship (but it is a positive message!) so you know bam right in my wheel house. Those verses though... gods that's some No Vaseline shit right there.
And that is just the
song. That opening monoluge is fucking amazing. The wardrobe and hair in like... every fucking bit is amazing. This is great.
So here we go. We did it. It happened.
Beyonce > Kawehi (a LIVE Kawehi track at that) >everything else I guess I could categorise if it was even close for me but nope.
