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?

[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"

[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.

[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?

[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!