Yes, another review.
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foxmonkeySometime soon I'll stop posting these. But since it's his first CD, a solo CD, well...I'm still posting them. :-) JC owns me, we all know this.
Posted at the House of Pain by Jayne. From The Detroit News.
More of the usual, good and bad comments. Why these people expect/want JC to be Justin, .
JC Chasez, "Schizophrenic" (Jive)
By Adam Graham / The Detroit News
An expatriate of an extremely successful, five-member bubble gum group breaking off on his own and describing his sound as “schizo.” Where have we heard that before? Oh yeah, on ex-Spice Girl Geri Halliwell’s completely forgettable “Schizophonic,” which killed the career of the one-time Ginger Spice. *NSYNC’s JC Chasez fares better with his solo debut, “Schizophrenic,” which, despite laughable lyrics such as “lazy days I’m in a hazy phase of watching countless ways in which my life goes crazy,” is a cut above standard boy-band solo fare.
While “Schizophrenic” — named for its spastic genre-hopping, from faux-funk (“If You Were My Girl”) to Eurotrash dance (“All Day Long I Dream About Sex”) to puppy love balladry (“Dear Goodbye”) — falls short of Justin Timberlake’s “Justified” benchmark, it is more accomplished than solo efforts from the Backstreet Boys’ Nick Carter and 98 Degrees’ Nick Lachey. That’s because Chasez — who’s taken a page out of Jordan Knight’s playbook by reinventing himself as a sex-obsessed freak — is willing to take musical risks, settling into a sound that’s full of carnival chaos, stuttered hand claps and furious foot stomps. In that respect, “Schizophrenic” is more adventurous than the comparatively predictable “Justified,” but that’s beside the point. What we need is a “Rock Your Body,” and there’s none of that here.
GRADE: B-
Posted at the House of Pain by Jayne. From The Detroit News.
More of the usual, good and bad comments. Why these people expect/want JC to be Justin, .
JC Chasez, "Schizophrenic" (Jive)
By Adam Graham / The Detroit News
An expatriate of an extremely successful, five-member bubble gum group breaking off on his own and describing his sound as “schizo.” Where have we heard that before? Oh yeah, on ex-Spice Girl Geri Halliwell’s completely forgettable “Schizophonic,” which killed the career of the one-time Ginger Spice. *NSYNC’s JC Chasez fares better with his solo debut, “Schizophrenic,” which, despite laughable lyrics such as “lazy days I’m in a hazy phase of watching countless ways in which my life goes crazy,” is a cut above standard boy-band solo fare.
While “Schizophrenic” — named for its spastic genre-hopping, from faux-funk (“If You Were My Girl”) to Eurotrash dance (“All Day Long I Dream About Sex”) to puppy love balladry (“Dear Goodbye”) — falls short of Justin Timberlake’s “Justified” benchmark, it is more accomplished than solo efforts from the Backstreet Boys’ Nick Carter and 98 Degrees’ Nick Lachey. That’s because Chasez — who’s taken a page out of Jordan Knight’s playbook by reinventing himself as a sex-obsessed freak — is willing to take musical risks, settling into a sound that’s full of carnival chaos, stuttered hand claps and furious foot stomps. In that respect, “Schizophrenic” is more adventurous than the comparatively predictable “Justified,” but that’s beside the point. What we need is a “Rock Your Body,” and there’s none of that here.
GRADE: B-
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Date: 2004-02-27 06:55 pm (UTC)But you know...I love it, my f-list loves it and that's what matters to me.
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Date: 2004-02-27 08:00 pm (UTC)And you know, I want JC to be with Justin. They just need to rearrange their words a bit.
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Date: 2004-02-27 08:32 pm (UTC)That said, I think everybody's missing the point that JC's album is as much about Justin as Justin's album was about JC. And britney. Take that for what you will, I guess.
Hey! I liked Sex-obsessed Jordan Knight, and Darrin Henderson backing him up. Now THAT'S an OTP!
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Date: 2004-02-28 06:20 am (UTC)I can't even imagine the crap we'd have to endure if he'd ventured into an R/B-flavored album.
JC's album is as much about Justin as Justin's album was about JC.
Bwahaha! 'Right Here By Your Side' started up as I started writing. Guess that answers that. ;-)