JC - review blurb for 'Until Yesterday,' Yay!

[foxmonkey]

Relevant bit snagged from monstersandcritics.com: Music Reviews: Single Review: Evanescence, Alan Jackson, Jewel, Norah Jones, JC Chasez, Josh Kelley.

"Until Yesterday" - JC Chasez

To date, JC Chasez`s post-`N Sync career has met resistance due to a bagful of musical tricks that attempted to cast the singer as a hip-hop aficionado to less-than-convincing effect. "Until Yesterday" marks a dramatic change in his musical approach, with a minor-chord-driven Beatles-esque meets 'Rocky Horror' track about discovering your girlfriend is pregnant with another man`s kid.

It doesn`t hurt that former groupmate Justin Timberlake co-produced and co-wrote the track, giving Chasez newfound cachet. He remains a fairly nondistinctive vocalist, but "Yesterday" is a head-turner that could pave the way to a formidable new identity down the hitmaking highway.

"Fairly nondistinctive vocalist," jigga wha? Asswipe. Gotta give the "head-turner paving the way to a formidable new identity" part a big thumbs up, though.

Asswipe.

JC! Yay!

Comments

[joeysdramaqueen.livejournal.com]

I posted that the other day... http://joeysdramaqueen.livejournal.com/1250124.html

and ""Fairly nondistinctive vocalist," jigga wha? Asswipe." seems to be the consensus. lol

[withdiamonds.livejournal.com]

Hip-hop afficianado? Fairly nondistinctive vocalist? What has that person been listening to?

[foxmonkey02.livejournal.com]

Hip-hop afficianado? Fairly nondistinctive vocalist? What has that person been listening to?

Aiiiiiiiiiiii, isn't that the truth? I'd forgotten how crazy these reviews make me. ;-p Bastiges.

[foxmonkey02.livejournal.com]

I posted that the other day... http://joeysdramaqueen.livejournal.com/1250124.html

Jeez, I'm off the internets for a few days and miss all the fun. ;-)

I just told Donna (below), that I'd forgotten how insane these JC reviews make me. OH MY GOD, and it's just the beginning!!!

[joeysdramaqueen.livejournal.com]

LOL yeah I figured you had missed it. :)

I know, I don't know if I want to read anymore!

[withdiamonds.livejournal.com]

Because "100 Ways" is the epitome of hip-hop.

[kgoodbuddy.livejournal.com]

The hip-hop thing? Huh? Isn't that Justin? To be fair, I can kind of see where the "non-distinctive voice" thing may come from. JC's voice has so many different colors that it's almost like listening to different people---there's no one distinguishing vocal characteristic. That's part of why I never get tired of listening to him, but then I'm sure I've spent way more time than this guy getting to know ALL of JC's "voices"

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

JC's voice has so many different colors that it's almost like listening to different people---there's no one distinguishing vocal characteristic.

Thats actually a very good point. He's so vocally flexible and has such amazing range that he really *can* sound completely different from one song to the next. Which brings us to...

That's part of why I never get tired of listening to him

...and that's why I don't get tired of listening to him, either!

[nopseud]

The 'hip-hop afficionado' comment is one of the most random things I have ever read in a review. I can only assume that the only other piece of JC's solo music the interviewer has ever heard is the Some Girls version with the rap bit. (And, come to think of it, has never heard Space Cowboy either.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_somebrowngirl/]

"Hip-hop aficionado"? Okay, okay, question: From the depths of whose asscrack does this label come? The hell...

Nondistinctive my ass. JC has one of the most versatile yet underappreciated voices in mainstream music. He can do (and has done) damn near everything, and he's done it remarkably well...

Okay. Stopping. Right now.

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

I forgot to ask...who's in your icon??? Those lips look so familiar! I'm thinking a guy in drag. Am I right?

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

Because "100 Ways" is the epitome of hip-hop.

Seriously. I'm surprised he hasn't been on Soul Train. ;-)

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

Okay. Stopping. Right now.

I know! I swear, I get all whipped up and crazy when I read these things. I don't know how I'm going to survive another album promo with my sanity intact!

[kgoodbuddy.livejournal.com]

Nope. Just Jensen. I'll see if I can find the original picture.

[kgoodbuddy.livejournal.com]

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

Yes! I stand behind the drag comment though, because there's something slightly feminine about his face - in that picture, at least. :-) He kind of looks like a male Hilary Swank!

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

The 'hip-hop afficionado' comment is one of the most random things I have ever read in a review. I can only assume that the only other piece of JC's solo music the interviewer has ever heard is the Some Girls version with the rap bit.

I read these things and I want to punch someone in the head vigorously and repeatedly.

Hip-hop. Seriously, what the hell? He's painting JC with a hip=hop brush because of Blowin' Me Up and the Some Girls remix. Based on that last comment,I'm hoping that the reviewer will give the CD a fair chance when it finally drops, though I'm sure the review will be riddled with back-handed compliments not unlike the ones in this blurb. Asshat!

Aiiii! I'm frothing already! I'm never going to last.

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

I love that icon! I'm a big fan of fortune cookies. :-)

[marythefan.livejournal.com]

that attempted to cast the singer as a hip-hop aficionado

I ... that .. what? No, really. What? What the hell is this person talking about? I really want to know, because I thought I had a pretty good handle on JC's career so far, and I don't know WTF songs this could be referencing.

I mean, I'm missing something, right? The person who wrote this is not completely talking out of their ASS, right?

[kgoodbuddy.livejournal.com]

Actually, Hillary Swank looks like a male Hilary Swank most of the time ;) I have no idea where this pic is from---he looks awfully thin, doesn't he? I'm amazed at how his face can go from really masculine to unbelievably delicate just by relaxing a muscle or two. I don't think I've ever seen anyone as consistently beautiful.

[prurient-badger.livejournal.com]

career has met resistance due to a bagful of musical tricks that attempted to cast the singer as a hip-hop aficionado to less-than-convincing effect.

I beg your pardon, annoying critic guy? But other than that, I say hooray for JC! Work that media!

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

I ... that .. what? No, really. What? What the hell is this person talking about? I really want to know, because I thought I had a pretty good handle on JC's career so far, and I don't know WTF songs this could be referencing.

I mean, I'm missing something, right? The person who wrote this is not completely talking out of their ASS, right?

No, they're not talking out of their ASS at all! Except maybe for the part where they completely and totally are.

Aiiiii! I can't believe I inflict this punishment on myself. Gotta...Google...Chasez... ::zombie walk, flies into zombie rage::

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

I beg your pardon, annoying critic guy? But other than that, I say hooray for JC! Work that media!

Whee, JC! As frustrating as some of these things are, I do enjoy the randomness of the blurbs that pop up, especially considering the mash-up that's laughingly called promotion.