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an entry in which i eventually review celebrity
7-27-'o1: 11:26am monday night, i went to bed with a fantastic headache. big enough to send me looking for the painkillers, but not big enough for me to go bizurk when i couldn't find them. i figured that i could sleep it off, and that everything would be fine and dandy in the morning. BZZZT! wrong. i woke up the next morning with a headache of monsterous proportions. i mean...nausea, involuntary shaking, and splitting pain every time i moved. it was bad enough that i woke up at 6am, BEFORE my alarm, and couldn't go back to sleep. that's just wrong. i drug myself out of bed and stumbled out into the kitchen to see if i could find the painkillers. once they were located, i slammed down two and sat down at the computer. i had set my alarm for 6:30am so that i could take a shower and go to the colourguard rehersal down at the school and help...but as i sat shaking, i figured it may not be such a smart move. and after i took a shower and STILL felt like ass, i called in sick to kelly and went back to bed. but i set my alarm for 9am. i did, after all, still have to go out and purchase *nsync's new cd, celebrity. merrick and i had planned to make it a supah bassmaster outing, complete with mmc teeshirts purchased in disneyland. she had called while my body was fighting off the evil death-headache, but my phone had not rang. so i called her back and she said "i'll pick you up in 45 minutes." and thus, celebrity became mine, on the day of it's release. no self respecting musician would have done this. good thing i'm not self-respecting. so i present to you, the 11-point review of celebrity. 1] what is with the song "gone"? purely as a song, i like it a lot. but i thought this was an *nsync cd...not the justin timberlake solo album. the legnth, construction, and nature of the song would have allowed for both jc AND chris to have good solos. but hell...justin's voice even dominates the backup vocals. give me a break.
2] is that chris i see, in the middle of the cd booklet, wearing THE COOLEST SHOES EVER?! why, yes...it is. and speaking of chris...buddy, i don't know what to make of your thanks because i'm sure you meant something deeper than what you said and i'm too stupid to figure it out [ that part of my brain is closed for repairs, folks. so i can hack my sociology lecture course come fall ]. the "actually, could you switch jc and joey?" thing was pure genius, though. so chris gets an a+++. they don't give that grade in skool but he is too cool for skool. which leads me to my next point...
3] would it kill them to GIVE THE MAN A FREAKING SOLO? good lord.
4] it took me forever to figure out that the cd was a camera lens. yeah. i'm dumb.
5] jc is to be commended. "the two of us" and "the game is over" are two of my absolute favourites on the album. both repeat-listeners. and the pictures in the album book...beautiful. well...er...i could do without the one that accompanies the song "gone" but we all make our mistakes. the one with his thanks...man. and he even pulls of "that hat" in the center collage thing. good work, chasez.
6] what is with the parts of some songs [ such as "girlfriend" ] where jc is apparently supposed to sound like justin? i think that justin does it a lot better, and he does PLENTY on this album. let jc sing his way. we all like a change of scenery every once in awhile.
7] good use of lance to get the lower octave. his pictures are also noteworthy, and good use of the psalms even though my cd booklet is screwed and the first one is cut off. i'm glad that he is no longer forced to pluck his eyebrows...he looks a lot better au natural. don't even try to convince me that they never gave him a wax job. i'll have none of that.
8] one of my favorite songs, which came to me in mp3 form a bit before the album was released, was not present on the album. falling. chris' tune...it should have been on the album. i am going to burn myself a new copy of the cd today, WITH that song.
9] wade. back. down. i mean...proper use isn't even made of the existing members of the group [ coughlancejoeychriscough ]...there is no need for a sixth member. danceboy should keep churning out the delightfully robotic choreography and production. let, say, lance take over those "chanting" parts.
9 1/2] this is where i say that i'm not bitter or anything about the fact that justin and jc get most of the solos. as far as soloing goes, that's what they do. but i won't step back from saying that it has got WAY out of hand [ coughgonecough ]...to the point where it's just silly. there's no reason not to give at least chris and joey solos SOMETIMES. they sing perfectly well. i can understand not giving lance solos...his function is a foundation for the group [ you build a house from the bottom up, as i was told...and a house without a foundation SINKS into the ground, especially in the south :o) ]...but it would be possible to give him one, too. anyway...there are five singers in this group, and i happen to enjoy listening to all their voices.
10] everyone seems to play up the fact that joey is "fat". HE IS NOT FAT. so he's not bone skinny. get the hell over it.
11] "do your thing" is brilliant [ we'll ignore the danceboy rap-break in the middle ]. chris even gets a solo-type thing at the end and the chords are gorgeous. i could listen to this tune for hours. i think they need to do this one live, acapella. for my enjoyment. and that's all i have to say about that. for now, anyway.
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