Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Ri Ri -ella ella
Dear Rihanna:
I have a confession. I secretly really like you, despite a growing negative disposition that many of my friends may have against you. To some, you sound annoying and too poppy. I'll agree to some extent. At the same time, your flavor is different from many other artists currently recording.
That being said, in the same breath that I salute you, I also find myself condeming you for being a rip-off.
Reason A: Your current #1 song, Umbrella (ella ella) is at least an original tune, but once it was on the decline, you rerecorded it with some no-name Jay-Z prodigy to gain some extra mileage. Good business sense, but bad music sense.
Reason B: Over five years ago, Sean P. Puffy do wa diddy Combs invented the idea of recycling musical tracks with new lyrics. It wasn't original then, but it was a novel concept. Here we are in 2007 and you have done this not once, but twice!
Example 1: In your first album, you took the Soft Cell classic Tainted Love and bastardized it (despite my affinity for the actual song) with S.O.S.
Example 2: Last night, I heard your new single Shut Up and Drive and my first thought was "OMG! Someone redid Blue Monday!". Granted, Orgy is more obscure and Blue Monday never hit cult status, but the Candyass album was one of the major LP's of the late 1990's.
Riri. . . please learn some originality!
Sincerely,
Your Closeted Fan and Critic
Jay
I have a confession. I secretly really like you, despite a growing negative disposition that many of my friends may have against you. To some, you sound annoying and too poppy. I'll agree to some extent. At the same time, your flavor is different from many other artists currently recording.
That being said, in the same breath that I salute you, I also find myself condeming you for being a rip-off.
Reason A: Your current #1 song, Umbrella (ella ella) is at least an original tune, but once it was on the decline, you rerecorded it with some no-name Jay-Z prodigy to gain some extra mileage. Good business sense, but bad music sense.
Reason B: Over five years ago, Sean P. Puffy do wa diddy Combs invented the idea of recycling musical tracks with new lyrics. It wasn't original then, but it was a novel concept. Here we are in 2007 and you have done this not once, but twice!
Example 1: In your first album, you took the Soft Cell classic Tainted Love and bastardized it (despite my affinity for the actual song) with S.O.S.
Example 2: Last night, I heard your new single Shut Up and Drive and my first thought was "OMG! Someone redid Blue Monday!". Granted, Orgy is more obscure and Blue Monday never hit cult status, but the Candyass album was one of the major LP's of the late 1990's.
Riri. . . please learn some originality!
Sincerely,
Your Closeted Fan and Critic
Jay
# posted by Jay @ 8:32 AM 
