Idolator

Maybe this will grow on me? Saw last night on the tv, and was kind of disappointed. (Though, carry on, T-Pain, in your acquisition of awesome top hats!) It didn't help that the new, shrill, incomprehensible Danity Kane followed it -- WTF is up with that one? I wanted DK to be like, an American Girls Aloud, but they're just becoming a Pussycat Dolls retread, which is about the worst fate I can imagine for any girl group.

@the rich girls are weeping:

I'm with you on this video. I was all excited when I saw a video still with Lil Wayne wearing a shirt that says "He Raps" and T-Pain wearing shirt that says "He Sings", and then I pressed play and found it all a little underwhelming. I did enjoy the fact that he tried to inject some sort of plot into the mix instead of making some tired hip-hop video retread filled with "money, cash, hoes" and nothing else. [I'm looking at you Rick Ross] I don't know. The song is such a boastful call to arms to be all loud, point in the air and get crunk and shit, [or am I the only one who does that whenever the track is playing?] but the video just doesn't match that for me.

Now as for Danity Kane. I should really stop sticking up for these girls, but they get too much flak because the group's kind of faceless [you try to tell me who sings what part on most of their songs without reverting to a video], and often look like they can't dress themselves in public, but Welcome to the Dollhouse, and their debut disc has got some jams on them that are far superior to some of the fluff that the Pussycat Dolls put on wax. Plus they have Diddy behind them! DIDDY! He'll always make sure they are supplied with some fresh beatz from hot producers right? Right?*

*That is until he finds another group/solo artist/circus animal to take from the streets to MTV and then, of course, the top of the charts.

@Tauwan: Those shirts were precious (!!!), but yeah. The "plot" just kind of fell apart, and not in good way.

As for DK, I really actually genuinely do like them, but the production on "Bad Girl" is so ear-splittingly terrible (what ARE those tweety noises high up in the mix? why won't they stop?!?! why is every square centimeter of the song drenched in noise? it's one thing to multi-track, but that's just ridic.) that not even the appearance of Missy Elliot can save this one. "When I Grow Up" suffers the same (excessively loud) fate. As does "Donk" -- it just makes me feel so old...or am I missing something? Does anyone think this sounds good?

@the rich girls are weeping:

Yeah when I grow up is ffing PAINFUL to listen to. MY GOD! When that "HA HA HA HA" part pops up I am not sure if it is a genuine hummable, part of the song or the girls having a laugh at the listener's expense, as if to say "yeah you thought you were getting another smooth, go down easy Don't Cha like jam, and instead you got THIS! HA HA HA HA!" Oh Pussycat Dolls. Why do you taunt us so?

Yeah... and what is with that creaking on the DK track? It was fine as an introduction but yeah, you're right, it can be a little much from that point forward. [As if, as you mentioned, there ain't enough sounds and shit popping off in the track.]

i like when i grow up, sort of. i mean it's no buttons, but it's sort of good in a really abrasive novelty song sort of way, where i'm okay with it when i get in the car and it's on the radio until i find a CD to listen to. which is at least once a day, now.

@Tauwan: I hate feeling like I'm being beat around the head with a song. That's totally what "When I Grow Up" is like. But oh no! The HA HA HA HA is stuck in my head now, and the mushy, overprocessed vocals. It just seems to me that there's too many songs currently that fall into that camp, actually. I can't get anything but a few words of the chorus. Annoying!