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Celeb News: Pitchfork DRAGS Kreayshawn for filth
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Pitchfork DRAGS Kreayshawn for filth
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Somethin' Bout Kreay would elicit the embarrassment of, say, walking in on a younger sibling dancing awkwardly in front of her bedroom mirror, were its shrill clatter not so forcefully distracting. These are dance songs so strident that no one could ever hope to move to them, pop songs so thin that no one could choose lines worth singing along to, rap verses so fumbly that practically anyone could rewrite them and make them better. Excepting "Gucci Gucci"-- which shoots out of the mess like a geyser of glitter-- each track can be appreciated primarily for the relief it offers from the previous clunker. To put things into perspective, Lil Debbie, Kreayshawn's mannequin twin of a sidekick, is currently making music miles catchier than Somethin' Bout Kreay, while Gucci Mane and Kreayshawn associate V-Nasty's BAYTL, lyrically speaking, might as well be Watch the Throne in comparison. Imagine watching the "Gucci Gucci" video for the first time and knowing that in the near future-- just about a year later-- you'd be nostalgic for how traditional, how authentic, it felt. Time can move in strange, unsettling ways.
While she's always been discussed in a hip-hop context, Kreayshawn doesn't so much rap here as half-sing or speak. She sounds as though she's been called on in class to read aloud, sometimes short of breath, often painfully off-key and off-beat ("beat" here usually meaning a fizzy, atonal thump). The closest she comes to rapping is on the female-revenge anthem "Left Ey3", where her presence is almost offensively performative. "I should key your car/ But I'd rather slap your mom/ Only a bitch could give birth to such a ****in' dog," she shouts. Later in the song, during a rare moment of 2 Chainz-like hilarity, she raps: "I'm Lorena Bobbitt chillin' in your bed/ I'm Britney Spears off hella drugs/ And I just shaved my head."
Elsewhere she's a deer in the headlights, lost and meandering through half-assed boasts about how much gold she's got, dismissing her haters and forcing out unmemorable lines that make zero sense. "Them white girls keep on mobbin'/ Yeah we do, your chance is over/ But not to be my lover/ All them haters ask me what I'm doing/ I just simply tell them, 'Kreaysonic,'" she says on "K234YSONIXZ", a song that is unlistenable in spite of a beat reminiscent of Salt-n-Pepa's classic "Push It" and a hook pulled from J. J. Fad's "Supersonic". At some point, on tepid New Orleans bounce homage "Twerkin'", we even run into Diplo, a fish out of water, trying to rap: "And we slow it down/ Slappin' on the bass/ Baby drop your booty down/ Til your booty's lower case," he mutters.
It would be difficult to argue that Somethin' Bout Kreay is a waste of Kreayshawn's talent, because talent has been something of a non-factor in her story.  If anything, "Gucci Gucci" helped usher in an era of artists for whom "talent" is beside the point, artists who've triumphantly remapped a hierarchy of values so that charm, branding savvy, and novelty rule supreme. Kreayshawn is one of the first of these artists forced to reconcile her own wiles with tradition in the form of a full-length album on a major label. And the final product finds her allure and charisma entirely lost in translation.
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http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/...in-bout-kreay/
Did she really deserve this scalping?
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damn they jabbed her with their pitchfork
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I was disappointed in them. This album is complete trash, but it's also unabashed fun. Like, how can you hate songs lik Left Ey3, The Ruler, Breakfast, and Kreaysonic?
Should be around a 5 o r 6.
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Who is she?
And that review is giving me "Who You Are" teas 
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They dragged her for filth in this
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Elsewhere she's a deer in the headlights, lost and meandering through half-assed boasts about how much gold she's got, dismissing her haters and forcing out unmemorable lines that make zero sense
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Daaaaaaaamn
Go Hard is still a bop tho 
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I wonder what it's metacritic score is gonna be
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She gets on my nerves, but, damn.
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That mess of an album deserved it.
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It would be difficult to argue that Somethin' Bout Kreay is a waste of Kreayshawn's talent, because talent has been something of a non-factor in her story.
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Oh my God.
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I thought the album was fun amidst a few bumps of mediocrity. 
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Oh my, was it that bad? Are there songs like Gucci Gucci on it?
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because talent has been something of a non-factor in her story
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Oh my god that one line 
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Originally posted by madonnas
I was disappointed in them. This album is complete trash, but it's also unabashed fun. Like, how can you hate songs lik Left Ey3, The Ruler, Breakfast, and Kreaysonic?
Should be around a 5 o r 6.
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This tbh  It was an OK album, with some catchy tracks and some god-awful ones  , It definitely didn't deserve such a super-negative review.
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I wonder what it's metacritic score is gonna be |
Coming for K-Fed's wig.
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They really tore into her. Poor Kreay. 
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Originally posted by Honey
Coming for K-Fed's wig.
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Oh god
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