As far as I’m aware Kanye is one of the few artists in the charts as of late who hasn’t had a song about butts. This is articulated with lines like “ Is it weird that your ass reminds me of a Kanye West song?”
In Trumpets he tells the girl of his dreams that she is so beautiful that whenever he sees her, he hears music. And I say that without fear of contradiction. Furthermore, it never, ever, EVER successfully scored chicks. Puh-lease! That joke was only marginally amusing during The Flintstones initial run, it won’t have improved with age over the subsequent half-century. It’s almost a bad a line as that awful Bedrock song from a few years ago, where Lil’ Wayne and his gang built an entire lyric around the old joke “ Call me Mr Flintstone, I can make your bedrock”. Plus, if you’re making a point of bragging about the sheer length of your wang, then we’ll prepare for disappointment. I could down a gallon of whiskey and regurgitate a wittier line than that. Look at some of these lines “ Our conversations aren’t long, but you know what is”. He may be the most juvenile lyricist I can think of. Then he opens his stupid gob and it all goes downhill.
It’s got a bit of an early 90s vibe to it. If you take him and Bootsy Collins-without-the-flamboyance lookalike 2Chainz off the record (that’s right, this song has not one, but two chainz) and it’s not a bad track. Think about Talk Dirty if you can even remember it. It sounds like a “ yeah, that’ll do” technique that should solely be the divine right of people who write online articles trashing people for no good reason. I consider this sect to be among the laziest artists of all time. She may make me wince, but at least she conjures some kind of reaction. That’s why I’d still take a Nicki Minaj over him. I have never heard the majority of these guys (and they are primarily guys) really own a song. There’s nothing more offensive than blandness. In some ways that’s ingenious, but it doesn’t change the fact that musically speaking he fades into the background with so many of the other R&B/pop singers out there. That’s the only reason I remember him and am even able to use him as an example in this piece. Give his songs to anybody else and what changes? Someone else’s name said in that horrible autotune at the beginning. Pretty much a gang of singers whose only reference points seemed to be Michael Jackson and Usher, of which Derulo is certainly a part of.
There was a spate of people who came through after Chris Brown revealed himself to be this generation’s Ike Turner, trying to nix his audience. At first I assumed I was baffled due to his sheer blandness. He’s releasing a new album soon, the stupidly titled Everything Is 4, and it got me thinking. He’s not the only one, but he has come to represent the sheer lack of substance out there. Contrary to what my friends, family and exes might tell you, I’m not arrogant enough to assume I am the King of Music with my tastes.īut there’s just something about Derulo’s success that baffles me. In any other profession, Monae would be promoted and Derulo would be given limited responsibilities because of his continued display of incompetence that has on occasion put the company’s reputation into disrepute.įor the most part, I’m not one to trash an artist. That really only happens in the entertainment industry. Someone as creative and unique as Janelle Monae can be largely missing from the wider realm of popular culture, when Jason Derulo is having continuous hits. The music industry is an astonishing study. As Jason Derulo announces his fourth album, Shaun Ponsonby laments him and his lazy ilk.