Girls’ lead-singer, Christopher Owens, was raised by the Children of God cult, better now known as The Family International. A hefty portion of his adolescence was filled with major losses within his family: his father left the family when Owen was young, his younger brother died due to medical complications and because the cult didn’t believe in receiving clinical treatment, and Owens’ mom was forced to travel around the world to spread the word of the cult. Because of their radical beliefs, Owens left, but the imprint of their ideology is apparent in Girls’ work, especially on their sophomore LP Father, Son, Holy Ghost.
“I don’t want to be part of the machine – I want the machine to be part of me.“
We all know that Lady Gaga has a pretty wild and vivid imagination. This is quite obvious when it comes to her sense of fashion and her elaborate music videos and stage sets. It is also very prevalent in her music, as we, her adoring and yet often puzzled fans, hang on her every lyric and note. So it should come as no surprise that her new album, the heavily awaited and almost excessively promoted Born This Way, does not yield boring results in terms of being imaginative. In my opinion, it borders on the bizarre.
“With a bad bitch that came from Sri Lanka.” With that line Nicki Minaj gave us a nasty reminder why M.I.A. will and forever be a necessary staple in popular music. M.I.A. could have done the job herself with /\/\/\Y/\, her last album. But her big mouth got her into trouble on that one. Even Diplo thought it sucked. Call ViCKi LEEKX, a redux or dance floor apology, but M.I.A.’s recently released 36-minute mixtape makes it clear when she gets it right.
After overdosing on it's musical sedatives, soothing melodic tones, and sexual pornographic metaphorics, "Noise Porn" is now live in effect, starring many of today's emerging entertainers, it's a simply a classical gain to your collection.
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