Every album has its high and low points. Ex-singer of Hollywood Undead, Deuce, had just released his debut album back in April 2012. It had sold 11, 425 in the first week and had sold 153,000 units by April 2013. The album can be seen in positive and negative lights. Positive lights would be songs such as “Help Me”, “Nobody Likes Me”, “Til’ I Drop” “I Came To Party” and of course Deuce’s number one single, “America”. The choruses, Deuce’s specialty, are of course funny, passionate, or serious. For a debut album, in my opinion, Deuce had chosen many good people to do collaboration with, Travie McCoy of Gym Class Heroes, long-time collaborator Truth, Ronnie Radke of Falling In Reverse, frontman and rapper of alternative group Kinda Major, Gadjet, rappers Veze Skante, and Skee-Lo.
The only collab I had trouble with was Jeffree Star. He had collabed on two of the “nastier” songs of the album “Let’s Get It Crackin’” and “Freaky Now”. Though the choruses are catchy, Jeffree Star seems to ruin it for me whenever I listen to these two tracks due to his crude and uncomfortable lyrics. Deuce had given a warning that the tracks would be “nasty” and it was my mistake for not listening.
I had listened to Escape the Fate before when I was younger when they had come out with Dying Is Your Latest Fashion and this also led me to Falling In Reverse. I had not known who Ronnie Radke was but when I heard him sing and then heard him rap on the album, I was amazingly surprised. Some may say beginners luck, I say genius. I’m also a fan of how Deuce collabs with talented, but generally less known artist. I had no idea who Truth, Gadjet, or Veze were. But I’m glad I had listened to the tracks because these three are extremely talented, especially Gadjet who some other fans have compared his vocals when rapping to Eminem’s. I give the album a 7.5/10 for creativity and style. |
