DOOM pt. 2
I realized I wasn't done. I forgot the worst song ("Supervillainz") and some various other bits.
The end of the album is a disaster, with the worst song on the album, "Supervillainz," as the last real song, which is followed by a phone-message skit and an outro interlude type deal. Could all three of these things been on the album? Sure, but when your album goes "terrible song you want to skip-->skippable skit-->outro that's the same as the intro," it sounds a lot like you ran out of ideas right before you started the terrible song.
That terrible song, "Supervillainz." The song, along with radio hit "Pop Champagne" by Ron Browz, proves that autotune cannot fix everything--autotune cannot fix an inability to set up autotune properly. Someone should have probably told DOOM, historically earless, that his singing track was out of key--I assume he did not set autotune to tune to the same key as the beat. Also, there should probably be a melody...or lyrics...before you start mumbling words that rhyme with "villain" into the mic because, well, "schmillin" is not a word at all.
Upon revisiting, I realize that the people yelling "villain!" that I complained about last time and the amateur comic book voice stuff are closely related, and that the voice stuff, particularly "TIME TO GET THE FETA" or whatever that is, is way worse than all the "villain!" yelling. It's like the "hydroponic" guy from Vaudville Villain's "Open Mic Night" skit, except it wasn't intended to be mockable, unless I'm missing something.
Now, where I did miss something, I now realize, is "Batty Boys." I had noticed the song was full of superhero references, but I did not realize that the point of the song is the superheroes and how they look, well, gay. Leave it to DOOM to flip hip hop's standard homophobia to point toward "underwear perverts," who, in hip hop, only DOOM cares about anyway. It's homophobia, but it's homophobia with a concept.
Yeah, when the album is just DOOM or his fellow MCs rapping, the album is great. Most everything else...
The end of the album is a disaster, with the worst song on the album, "Supervillainz," as the last real song, which is followed by a phone-message skit and an outro interlude type deal. Could all three of these things been on the album? Sure, but when your album goes "terrible song you want to skip-->skippable skit-->outro that's the same as the intro," it sounds a lot like you ran out of ideas right before you started the terrible song.
That terrible song, "Supervillainz." The song, along with radio hit "Pop Champagne" by Ron Browz, proves that autotune cannot fix everything--autotune cannot fix an inability to set up autotune properly. Someone should have probably told DOOM, historically earless, that his singing track was out of key--I assume he did not set autotune to tune to the same key as the beat. Also, there should probably be a melody...or lyrics...before you start mumbling words that rhyme with "villain" into the mic because, well, "schmillin" is not a word at all.
Upon revisiting, I realize that the people yelling "villain!" that I complained about last time and the amateur comic book voice stuff are closely related, and that the voice stuff, particularly "TIME TO GET THE FETA" or whatever that is, is way worse than all the "villain!" yelling. It's like the "hydroponic" guy from Vaudville Villain's "Open Mic Night" skit, except it wasn't intended to be mockable, unless I'm missing something.
Now, where I did miss something, I now realize, is "Batty Boys." I had noticed the song was full of superhero references, but I did not realize that the point of the song is the superheroes and how they look, well, gay. Leave it to DOOM to flip hip hop's standard homophobia to point toward "underwear perverts," who, in hip hop, only DOOM cares about anyway. It's homophobia, but it's homophobia with a concept.
Yeah, when the album is just DOOM or his fellow MCs rapping, the album is great. Most everything else...
posted by Will at 8:03 PM
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