This week's track is called 'Sexy Bitch'
The feminists out there will no doubt point out that the song title is a disgrace, and I would agree...if not for the fact that the radio release is called 'Sexy Chick' (which is slightly better) and also that if you've ever seen David Guetta who produced the song, you know he would never intentionally offend anybody; he looks like a cross between Nicky Clarke and Avril Lavigne.
Anyway, Guetta, he of 'When love takes over' fame, has worked with the self proclaimed worst lyricist in the world, Akon, to create this over the top dance track which really, though it pains me to say it, hits the spot with regards to filling the dancefloor. Watching the way that Guetta has melded Dance and RnB is almost like watching a four year old get the bread-filling-bread ratio right on a sandwich for the first time. So many (Flo-rida...eurghhhh) have tried and got it so wrong but this song sounds flawless. The synths and echo effects as well as the thumping bass will satisfy even the most hardcore Dance freak and yet at the same time, Akon's terrible lyrics and amazing range will keep the RnB squad begging for more.
The song starts strong, a trademark of DG's (see; BEP's 'I gotta Feeling') with echo effects and bass. Strangely, and to great effect, during the verses and Chorus, Akon's voice sounds completely different to the Akon we know and hate. Think more, Ray J, deeper, more serious, less Fresh. Ok, he reverts to his old irritating voice for the bridge but by then the stolen synths from 'Tainted Love' (don't think I didn't notice Guetts...) have hooked us and Akon could even try comparing the woman to meat like he did in Slow Wind and in all honesty, we would not care. This is one of those songs where the lyrics don't really matter.
Sorry Feministas, I don't think you have a case- this song is awesome and should be taken with a pinch of salt and in all fairness, Akon does reliably inform us that he has tried and failed to 'find the words to describe this girl without being disrespectful'. Its not his fault his English is limited. Thats just ignorance Ladies, tut tut.
I saw atleast three girls out on graduation night who my best mate worryingly informed me had just obtained A,A,A at A level going crazy for this song. Strong independant women know that the best way to succeed around men is to smile and let us beat our chests and open doors, all the while not rubbing your emotional/intellectual superioty in our faces but just by actually achieving and letting your results speak louder than words
Well, that's what all the women I know who have succeeded in life have done, like Guetta's missus Kelly Rowland. Remember gyaldem; nobody likes Misogynists, but nobody likes whiners either! :P
Playlist
David Guetta ft Akon- Sexy Bitch
Tinchy Strider- You're not alone
Esmee Denters- Outta here
Calvin Harris- You used to hold me
Leona Lewis- Dont let me down feat Justin Timberlake
Frankmusic feat Tinchy Strider- Better off as two
Sugababes- Get sexy
Whitney Houston- Million Dollar Bill
Saturday, 22 August 2009
Saturday, 1 August 2009
You cant put her in a box...if you try she'll escape like Howard Moon
Greetings to all and sundry,
This week were going to switch the style up a little bit. I was so tempted to cover the new Taio Cruz track 'Break your heart' this week, as its been receiving massive play from Ras Kwame, Trevor Nelson and my i-pod over the last few weeks, but I decided that it was my duty, as a seeker of new music, to find something utterly different for you guys. See the sacrifices I make? I love my work, what can I say?
Well ,this week's track is from South-African-born-but-Brixton-raised Diva in the making Mpho. Pronounced 'Umm'pa' I am reliably informed by her website. So, what's all the fuss about the girl with the difficult name? Box n Locks is a simply beautiful song, lyrically, musically and with regards to what it does and says about british 'Urban music' on the whole. This is the kind of track that could as easily be played by Nelson as it could be by Zane Lowe or even Moyles,it is truely a genre spanner (as opposed to Dizzee last week, who proved for all his success that he was just a 'spanner'). From the outset we have a track in the cast of, I dont know, vocally think the sound of the ting tings but lyrically slighty deeper. We open with the infamous strings from Echo beach by Martha and the Muffins.
What?!?! You've never heard of them?!?!
Don't worry, neither had I. They were a Canadian new wave band from the eighties and produced the song Echo Beach, which to be honest, apart from the opening strings, which are hauntingly beautiful, is a rather standard song. Flash forward twenty years, and Mpho has stripped the strings, looped them and strengthened them with a catch hook and slick verses dealing her own identity as an immigrant but also a die hard Brixtonian, The fickle nature of the british music indstry and the north south divide in Britain....and this is in her first few bars.
Surprisning, her politically fuelled lyrics dont drag, she paces herself beautifully around her bassline, racing through her lyrics with a speedy swagger that usually Mariah Carey can only pull off (listen to allllllll the mumbling in 'Touch my body'). The result is upbeat, a dance track and an instant indie-dance-urban fusion. I saw one of her concerts, Lovebox, and her fanbase looked like a bag of skittles, it was beatiful I tell you; there was every colour of the rainbow. She attracted all races and ages; appealing to the Louis Vuitton dons and the acoustic set alike. When this song lifts off, she is going to be huge.
Well, to wrap things up, I would give my word that this is a song worth listening to. I was hooked in the first few seconds and it only got better, and I would wager most of you out there would be too. This imaginative, great sounding debut from the exciting young star Mpho is a tune that manages to 'please everyone', though her lyrics say otherwise. A brilliant new addition to British music. Mpho, the Beatsmith salutes you.
Beatsmith rating- 5/5
Playlist
Taio Cruz- Break your heart
Serani- No games
Livvi Frank feat Pitbull- Now Im that chick
Pitbull- Hotel Room service
Mimms- One last kiss (feat Soler mesh)
Major Lazer feat Ricky Blaze and Nina Sky- Keep it going Louder
LMFAO feat Little John- Shots
This week were going to switch the style up a little bit. I was so tempted to cover the new Taio Cruz track 'Break your heart' this week, as its been receiving massive play from Ras Kwame, Trevor Nelson and my i-pod over the last few weeks, but I decided that it was my duty, as a seeker of new music, to find something utterly different for you guys. See the sacrifices I make? I love my work, what can I say?
Well ,this week's track is from South-African-born-but-Brixton-raised Diva in the making Mpho. Pronounced 'Umm'pa' I am reliably informed by her website. So, what's all the fuss about the girl with the difficult name? Box n Locks is a simply beautiful song, lyrically, musically and with regards to what it does and says about british 'Urban music' on the whole. This is the kind of track that could as easily be played by Nelson as it could be by Zane Lowe or even Moyles,it is truely a genre spanner (as opposed to Dizzee last week, who proved for all his success that he was just a 'spanner'). From the outset we have a track in the cast of, I dont know, vocally think the sound of the ting tings but lyrically slighty deeper. We open with the infamous strings from Echo beach by Martha and the Muffins.
What?!?! You've never heard of them?!?!
Don't worry, neither had I. They were a Canadian new wave band from the eighties and produced the song Echo Beach, which to be honest, apart from the opening strings, which are hauntingly beautiful, is a rather standard song. Flash forward twenty years, and Mpho has stripped the strings, looped them and strengthened them with a catch hook and slick verses dealing her own identity as an immigrant but also a die hard Brixtonian, The fickle nature of the british music indstry and the north south divide in Britain....and this is in her first few bars.
Surprisning, her politically fuelled lyrics dont drag, she paces herself beautifully around her bassline, racing through her lyrics with a speedy swagger that usually Mariah Carey can only pull off (listen to allllllll the mumbling in 'Touch my body'). The result is upbeat, a dance track and an instant indie-dance-urban fusion. I saw one of her concerts, Lovebox, and her fanbase looked like a bag of skittles, it was beatiful I tell you; there was every colour of the rainbow. She attracted all races and ages; appealing to the Louis Vuitton dons and the acoustic set alike. When this song lifts off, she is going to be huge.
Well, to wrap things up, I would give my word that this is a song worth listening to. I was hooked in the first few seconds and it only got better, and I would wager most of you out there would be too. This imaginative, great sounding debut from the exciting young star Mpho is a tune that manages to 'please everyone', though her lyrics say otherwise. A brilliant new addition to British music. Mpho, the Beatsmith salutes you.
Beatsmith rating- 5/5
Playlist
Taio Cruz- Break your heart
Serani- No games
Livvi Frank feat Pitbull- Now Im that chick
Pitbull- Hotel Room service
Mimms- One last kiss (feat Soler mesh)
Major Lazer feat Ricky Blaze and Nina Sky- Keep it going Louder
LMFAO feat Little John- Shots
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