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American Idol beatbox boob Blake Lewis gave MTV a preview of his forthcoming debut album, an album that belongs to a “new genre I made up” called “2080″ that’s “a mix of all the great pop music that’s inspired me.” Oh, and his description of one song is almost as scary as his album cover.
“I wanted to make a hip-hop mixtape or a great electronic mix — just one mix, start to finish, that takes you on a journey through metal, drum-and-bass with scratching on it to Michael Jackson pop into Erasure into Depeche Mode into some dub reggae. This album goes everywhere, and it was an amazing process to work on it. There’s a song on the record that’s [the Police's] ‘Every Breath You Take’ meets [1984 film] ‘The NeverEnding Story.’ “
He does kinda look like a luck dragon. (Maybe it’s the fauxhawk.) Lewis also claims that his nickname “came from watching aggressive inline-skate videos during the 1990s.” Drum and bass? Inline-skate videos? Limahl? His passions are so adorably out of step. Or they would be if his whole shtick didn’t kinda make you want to poison yourself with hair frosting.
‘American Idol’ Runner-Up Blake Lewis Creates Own Genre On A.D.D. Debut [MTV]
If the whole record was going to be a concept album based on ‘The Neverending Story,’ I’d be first in line.
(shudder)
Turn around
Look at what you SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
if M.I.A. has ushered in a new era of world party music, does that mean Blake Lewis is the new Peter Gabriel, offering aggressively bland hybrids of disparate musical genres from across the globe?
So he’s doing what people have been doing for years and claiming it as his own invention?
How delightfully American Idol of him!
@FunkyJ: HE INVENTED BEABOXING!!
Or at least you’d think he did the way Randy, Paula & Simon creamed their respective undergarments every time he subjected them to it.