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Artist: Anoop Desai
Album: All Is Fair
Oh man, I am so torn with this album. I loved Anoop on American Idol (he was my second favorite, behind Danny Gokey) and I was pretty excited to get my hands on his stuff, and the beat is decent, but some of the lyrics are just so…bad…
The first song on the album, “My Name” starts off with this gem “Girl, you pop it like a toaster/makin’ me want to get closer” and I can’t decide if that’s supposed to be funny, or if he’s just trying to come up with something clever. I have a feeling it’s the latter, and I feel bad for laughing. I don’t know that I could write anything better, let alone land a contract as a recording artist, so I am really in no place to judge, but those that can’t, blog, right?
I have made it partially through the album twice, and once more all the way through, and on that listen, I heard something else that made me groan, but now I am going back through the lyrics and I can’t find what song it was. I want to be clear that not all of his lyrics are groan-worthy, but there were a few that stuck out that made me sad that I was listening to these songs.
Overall, the album has a decent beat going on. I can get behind most of what is going on here. I feel a lot like I’m listening to BSB meets R.Kelly with a bit of Indian flair thrown in for kicks. I have caught myself bobbing my head along with the music one more than one occasion, and some of the songs are actually decent, but then I catch some of those lyrics that just seem out of place and I’m taken right out of the moment.
I guess it comes down to would I recommend this album to you, and the answer to that is…probably not the whole album, but there are a few songs on there that I can see myself falling in love with given the chance to get to know them better. The question then becomes-will I allow myself to listen to this album long enough to fall for these songs, or will it disappear from my itunes?
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