Review Summary: Please give your ears and wallet the pleasure of not buying this album.
I found Drop Dead, Gorgeous one day on myspace. They are a rather big band on the site because they fit perfectly into the new trends, as metalcore is getting very big these days, and once any genre gets popular enough, you have watered down bands which just give you a more assessable version of the genre. Drop Dead, Gorgeous are one of those bands.
I bought this CD at a FYE store, and my choice was this or Rush's self titled debut. I truly regret not buying Rush, but I had heard The Show Must Go on by these guys and I loved it. I got home and uploaded this onto my computer and started listening to it right away. The first track I heard is the horrid
Dressed For Friend Requests which is a song with some random lyrics that are supposed to mean something thrown in. The lyrics are absolutely terrible, and the song shows that the band has no talent whatsoever, but they can write catchy melodies. The instrumentation is bland, uninspired, and extremely generic. Here I bring you an example of the lyrics:
Quote:
She's dressed to kill
I don't know what to wear
She's dressed to kill
She's dressed to kill
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Yeah, what the hell is with them lyrics?
The album from here really has no obvious highlights as every single song runs into each other to form one large gray blob. Every song follows the same structure, with screaming, clean singing thrown in, screaming and the end. With no variation between the songs this CD gets very tiring and does not flow well. Every song seems to get progressively worse and worse, until the highlight of the album comes
The Show Must Go On. The song is not really good, but compared to everything else on the album, this song is a ***ing masterpiece. It still follows the same structure as every other song, but it really is the only song on here that I will willingly listen to anymore, besides for this review. The CD finally ends after a bland hidden track, and then you can breathe again. It's finally over. Let's just all hope they break up. Don’t buy this.
Track by track
1. Dressed For Friend Requests 1.5/5
2. Girl, Are You On Your... 1/5
3. E.R. 1/5
4. Well, I Never... 1/5
5. Knife Vs Face Round 1 1.5/5
6. Marietta 1/5
7. Are You Happy 1/5
8. Fashion Your Seatbelts 1.5/5
9. In Vogue 1/5
10. Daniel, Where's The Boat? 1/5
11. The Show Must Go On 2/5
Pros
...?
Cons
Everything.
It cost me $15.
The instrumentation is bland, uninspired, and extremely generic.
Thanks for reading.
