So Universal has this shady promo mp3 player, into which they apparently dump any random album they like. I got an email today informing me that Bratz - Forever Diamondz was now available, so for the first time ever I actually used it, probably at the expense of my poor old PC. The chance of this thing being bundled with rootkit cubed is likely.
Anyway, Diamondz is pretty disappointing, no more of the full-on guitar cheeze of Rock Angelz. I guess that's one of the few drawbacks of the truly anonymous performing entity -- the style is always in flux, not necessarily bad, but there's literally nothing holding over from the last album (possibly some of the singers/musicians, but I don't have the credits and it doesn't sound like the same group). This is entirely a new band, watered-down hip-hop/R&B, which loses the weird FAKEFAKEFAKE quality of the rock stuff. But I like FAKEFAKEFAKE! This just sounds competentcompetentcompetent. Ciara Lite is kind of redundant...Ciara is already Ciara Lite! And hers is way better than the Bratz equivalent. I mean as far as pop R&B knockoffs go it's pretty good, but nothing distinguishes it from a non-anonymous knockoff. It still sounds anonymous, but it doesn't announce its anonymity.
I dig the Spanish language track, "Que Tal," and there's a pretty good Nelly/Timbaland sorta knockoff, "Express Yourself," and there's some nice corner-cutting keyboard horns that are almost fake enough. But no, no, no, where's the bombast? Where's the cartoon hair metal? Where's Andreas Carlsson?
(Unrelated, but this should be interesting...)
BRATZ CLASSICZ
Bratz - So Good
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