Because she’s not and it’s quite embarrassing to see her trying to be cool and failing. It’s like when your mum tries to take an interest in pop music, or your dad trying to dance at a wedding. You just cringe and feel a huge amount of embarrassment for them.
Yes, she used to be shocking and abrasive, but we’ve seen it all now and there’s nothing left for her to do but shut up and go away.
She obviously does it because she enjoys it, and I respect that, I just find it hard to believe she actually thinks she does it well.
On this album, she’s just surrounded herself with rap artists and I do believe that the people who will buy this album, will do so, not for her, but for all the other people on the album. Does this make her the winner?
Everything on the album does have a degree of success, plenty of the songs are quite catching and I find myself bopping along to the music, but seeing where Madonna came from it just feels like such a fall from grace.
Listen to this album: While being a mutton dressed as lamb.
Rating: 67%
Extracts from ‘Miles Away’, ‘Heartbeat’ and ‘Incredible’
A jaunty sound, a glamorous persona and a fake punk attitude this band do seem to be trying to mimic Madonna, also, the singer sounds a bit like her.
Just looking at the band name and the title of the album, I imagined either whining girls complaining about boys, or militant feminists who think that all boys should have their balls cut off because one once broke up with one of them. Thankfully neither of these things are true, but unfortunately it’s all a bit mindless, shouty and fake punk. They do have a nice mix of pop songs, shouty punk and slow and weird, which all indie girl bands need to have nowadays, but it all seems very contrived to me.
There are a few nuggets of wisdom in the mix here, “Round the Hairpin” is a very interesting track and I did very much enjoy it, although through most of an album is a muted vibrating noise like the sound a mobile phone makes when it’s on silent mode. This was rather distracting. “I like the boys” is quite good, although I lost interest in the last minute of the song and wandered off to see if my legs would unscrew.
There isn’t a song on here that I thought was bad enough to embarrass and name and shame it here, but much of the album was of a sub-standard.
The most annoying song of the album was “Here comes the serious bit” repeating the lyric over and over again, without even approaching the subject matter indicated by the song title and lyric left me rather unfulfilled.
There are a couple a skit pieces before some of the songs and these are by far the best bits of the album. Totalling approximately 7 seconds in total. Well worth the cost of the album.
Extracts from “Century”, “I like the boys” and “Round the Hairpin”
“Weekend Without Makeup” from the album “Someone to Drive You Home”
Listen to this album: On a motorbike wearing high heels
