<![CDATA[It's Time For A Good Old-Fashioned Flo Rida Vs. Norsemen Smackdown - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[It's Time For A Good Old-Fashioned Flo Rida Vs. Norsemen Smackdown - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:23:10 EST Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:23:10 EST http://idolator.com/348730/its-time-for-a-good-old+fashioned-flo-rida-vs-norsemen-smackdown <![CDATA[It's Time For A Good Old-Fashioned Flo Rida Vs. Norsemen Smackdown]]> http://idolator.com/348730/its-time-for-a-good-old+fashioned-flo-rida-vs-norsemen-smackdown#c3880557 To Matos et al.: I think I went with "strummy" because, as with anything on a megapop production by the likes of StarGate, you never know how organic any instrumental part is. "Strummed" implies an au naturale guitar vibe that I don't associate with anything on a heavily worked StarGate production.

Not that I dislike heavy pop production, mind you--I wouldn't write this column if I didn't--but..."strummed"? That implies some dude sitting in the studio and just playing a guitar. And sure, that's where the sound no doubt started. And sure, maybe on each of these soundalike tracks the guys have been doing lately, they actually record a new guitar line. But there's also a part of me that suspects they have two hard drives' worth of acoustic samples they summon up and deploy by keystroke.

Chris Molanphy

]]> 33:348730:c3880557 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:23:10 EST <![CDATA[It's Time For A Good Old-Fashioned Flo Rida Vs. Norsemen Smackdown]]> http://idolator.com/348730/its-time-for-a-good-old+fashioned-flo-rida-vs-norsemen-smackdown#c3876527 i don't know what Chris meant, but I meant they're strummed and crummy.

Al Shipley

]]> 33:348730:c3876527 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:54:01 EST <![CDATA[It's Time For A Good Old-Fashioned Flo Rida Vs. Norsemen Smackdown]]> http://idolator.com/348730/its-time-for-a-good-old+fashioned-flo-rida-vs-norsemen-smackdown#c3875739 I think "strummy" implies relatively rapid strumming. "Strummed" could be any tempo.

Chris N.

]]> 33:348730:c3875739 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:04:55 EST <![CDATA[It's Time For A Good Old-Fashioned Flo Rida Vs. Norsemen Smackdown]]> http://idolator.com/348730/its-time-for-a-good-old+fashioned-flo-rida-vs-norsemen-smackdown#c3875503 they're not "strummy," they're strummed. it's like describing a blonde as "blonde-ish."

Michaelangelo Matos

]]> 33:348730:c3875503 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:43:52 EST <![CDATA[It's Time For A Good Old-Fashioned Flo Rida Vs. Norsemen Smackdown]]> http://idolator.com/348730/its-time-for-a-good-old+fashioned-flo-rida-vs-norsemen-smackdown#c3875087 Those guitars totally are strummy, though, and I was getting very very sick of them. As much as I liked their work on Ne-Yo's first album, all of Stargate's identical post-"Irreplaceable" hits soured me on them big time. Didn't know they did "Don't Stop The Music," too, that's definitely an encouraging sign of something a little different.

Al Shipley

]]> 33:348730:c3875087 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:04:30 EST <![CDATA[It's Time For A Good Old-Fashioned Flo Rida Vs. Norsemen Smackdown]]> http://idolator.com/348730/its-time-for-a-good-old+fashioned-flo-rida-vs-norsemen-smackdown#c3874696 I had to be directed to the Internet in order to be convinced that that Linkin Park song was really them. Wow, is that song wussy.

MrStarhead

]]> 33:348730:c3874696 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:35:40 EST <![CDATA[It's Time For A Good Old-Fashioned Flo Rida Vs. Norsemen Smackdown]]> http://idolator.com/348730/its-time-for-a-good-old+fashioned-flo-rida-vs-norsemen-smackdown#c3874407 edit nitpick: why "strummy acoustic guitars"? why not just "strummed"?

Michaelangelo Matos

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