So yesterday I heard a new collaboration song by a famous band and a legendary artist. At first, I thought it was going to be an original song, but turns out it was a cover of one of the band's tunes, and it just felt so dull. One of the most hyped up collaborations in a long time, considering the fact that the band had been cribbing from the artist for a while now, and this is the end result? It got me thinking of disappointing songs, disappointing albums, disappointing music all in all... so this will be the topic of this article and, as you can only imagine, prepare for HOT TAKES, maybe not mine, but in the comments.
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| I thought this pic was the most fitting. Via Pexels |
While I was cryptic in the intro, I'm gonna go out and say that the song that inspired this whole article was The Killers and Bruce Springsteen's "Dustland", which is only a tweak on "A Dustland Fairytale" (and by tweak I mean adding The Boss' vocals in some verses... super groundbreaking cover, y'all), a song that was beautiful to begin with and didn't improve by adding Springsteen's phoned-in vocals. The video is dullingly pandemic, too, deciding not to put the band nor the legend in the same room, even. It wasn't even a charity single!
When My Chemical Romance split up in what feels like eons ago, fans such as moi were devastated they wouldn't get new material ever again... and then Warner released a greatest hits album. With this greatest hits... A NEW SONG. Oh, wow, finally! This is going to be sup... oh, it's just Gerard Way singing over a basic backing track and all the bland voice effects possible? And the music video is just a montage of the band's previous videos? A for effort there, Warner.
Don't you just enjoy the hilariously basic "woah guys we're totes living like the 1984 book" train of thought that has been ramping up lately for people who complain about being surveilled but won't get rid of their Alexa because it's apparently the only way they can play their Facebook-logged-on Spotify playlists on, and complain about free speech's death just because they just wished death on a whole contingent of people on Twitter and got banned? Well, here's more of it, courtesy of the new Manic Street Preachers single! And if this is the first released track of the new album, just imagine the hot takes in the CD! "Wot if ya mum ran on batteries" is surely to follow. Sigh.
Let's leave songs behind for a second and talk disappointing albums. Well, I have issues with a whole album, and that's Adam Lambert's For Your Entertainment. Dude has tremendous pipes, and yet for some reason he was saddled with pop-lite tracks that were discarded by other artists and, therefore, very little suited for his vocal range. I'd say the most fitting track on that album was "Soaked" and even then it's just so OBVIOUS it was a Muse B-side at best (it was, actually) because it tailors right into Matt Bellamy's limited range, not Lambert's, but dude tried his best. Also, that fucking album cover.
Imagine being a band that rose to the top during emo time, got a decent genre-switching sophomore release... and then 3/4ths leave, and everything just devolves into musical chairs with backing musicians that allegedly can't stand the sole remaining member that for some reason keeps trudging along with the band's name because his own's doesn't have enough pull for a true solo output, and now that band's solely a depressing, disappointing showcase for a man with a puppet that does Disney songs. Purely hypothetical case, obviously.
What's a music-related disappointment you have? Are you expecting some top notch HOT TAKES on this post?
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