No new ideas - the album!
Well, if this isn't the laziest, most cynical excuse for a record I've ever seen. It's been a mammoth 10 years since "Jagged Little Pill" came out, and Alanis, sensing herself that's she's done absolutely nothing else of note, save for releasing a few other whiney albums, decides to give everyone all they've ever wanted from her - yet more Jagged Little Pill.
So we have the EXACT same album, track listing - but acoustic. Wow, thanks for that. Perfect for all those girls who bought the first album, you know, the ones that don't really LIKE music (not in a mad way, to buy more than one album a year or anything stupid like that). So in case the original album was a bit too edgy for you, a bit too extreme and hardcore, with a few loud guitars and stuff - this is the one for you. The same album but with the sound of a woman who has absolutely given up on music and making something new, content to sing the same songs and rest on her laurels forever. Isn't that all her fans want of her in the first place?
It's a depressing album, it really is. No vision or passion or inventiveness - the hits, from the only album she's made that mattered. A pointless record from a dead in the water woman. Where would the music business be if all artists pulled this stunt? Madonna would still be Like A Virgin. Michael Jackson would still be dancing with corpses instead of sleeping with children. Prince would still be wanting to party like its 1999. Those are REAL artists, not glorified one trick ponies.
And you'd think, ten years on, she would have found examples of irony that actually were, you know, ironic. Dontcha think?
1 comment:
Don't even get me started on this bee-yatch. My wife practically worshipped her for about 3 albums. Honestly, her first album wasn't too terrible; it had some catchy hooks and genuine feeling in it. I think every man remembers cringing at the sheer venom of "You Oughtta Know" the first time they heard it. Unfortunatley, after that album Alanis had nothing going for her. Horrible songs with impossibly moronic lyrics, crappy beats, childish choruses, and almost nothing that could pass as decent music. The worst songs were the ones where she played instruments herself. I actually laughed out loud at a few guitar riffs that were obviously written by somebody who had no clue that you could use the strings AND the fretboard together. Prince she ain't. The fact that she's recording her only halfway decent album acoustically only proves two things: 1) Even she knows she's got nothing left in the creativity tank, and 2)Idiots will buy anything advertised as being acoustic under the false impression that if it's unplugged, it must be good. MTV says so, you see. I say keep the rockin' songs rockin' and the acoustic songs acoustical. Every time I hear some lame nu-metal band perform an already-bad rock song acoustically I like to think that somewhere, a fluffy kitten drops dead. We must put a stop to this kind of drek. Save the kittens!
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