ATRL Contributor
Member Since: 9/3/2012
Posts: 29,405
|
" Pharrell changing up his game stylistically isn’t a twist, it’s the only way any record label in its right mind would hand the guy a budget. To put it another way: listeners had to at least contend, even if only to dismiss, with Daft Punk’s artistic ambitions on Random Access Memories, but need not do the same with G I R L, because this record has no artistic ambitions, only commercial ones.
The real embarrassment is that more than the work of his peers or his idols, mostly Pharrell’s just ripping off himself to seriously diminished returns. Thought “#GETITRIGHT” was the best track on Miley Cyrus’s godawful Bangerz? Try “Come Get It Bae,” an identical Miley team-up that’s not truly worse than its predecessor only because nothing could possibly be worse than that.
Rock bottom, though, is “Hunter,” the album’s “Loved ‘Blurred Lines’?” moment. It’s pretty disheartening that after the tempestuous controversy surrounding Pharrell’s Robin Thicke collaboration, he still found it appropriate to trot out “Hunter,” which is just as sleazy, cocksure, and sexist, and somehow even more suggestive of rape. Some sample triggers from hell: “Just because it’s the middle of the night, doesn’t mean I won’t hunt you down.” “If I can’t have you, nobody can! That’s the animal speaking who’s going to hunt you down.” “’I ain’t never smoked this before!’ Some would say it’s time to go.” “Taxidermy is on my walls with full descriptions of the killing cause. I’m a hunter!”"
http://prettymuchamazing.com/reviews/pharrell-girl
|
|
|
|
