Category Archives: Music

The beats of “Pearl Remix” create the image of a club scene filled with flashy strobe lights and hundreds of sweaty people rubbing up against each other. Although It would have been much better without Tamar-kali singing. Without her voice it is a song that you probably hear at a beach party, with her it sounds like an older woman screaming at a bunch of kids to get off her lawn.

The singer is very talented and the vocals in her song are powerful. However, I wasn’t too crazy about the music video. It lacked creativity and substance. It was essentially about a bunch of girls getting ready and going to a party. If I heard the song alone I probably would have liked it better, but after hearing it along with the video I’m not a fan and it’s definitely not worthy of my ipod.

Tamar Kali’s Pearl (remix), is one of loud confusion. Literally. Kali’s loud voice combined with unknown lyrics only leaves one to rely on the video for understanding. What seems like a quest to find freedom and true beauty in women through “naturalness” and a collection of body piercing, it is still a work left up in the air in meaning. Different, maybe. Trying too hard, more likely.

The visual Lotus Flower blooms modern awkwardness as Radiohead’s lead vocalist Thomas Yorke attempts to echo Christopher Walken’s epic solo performance in Fatboy Slim’s Weapon of Choice music video by way of comical moments. To boot, the song’s alternativeness of sounds fits, in an ironic manner, into place with the video’s out-of-place direction.

Lotus Flower represents the mindset of a legendary rock-n-roll band: spacey, modernistic, delusional,  and at the same time free. From their new album The King of Limbs, Radiohead’s new single feels like a stoner’s dream, sounding as if it is flowing through cloud nine, attempting to touch the base of Heaven. The song is soft, hypnotic, and the video only adds to the feeling of a loss of conscience in reality and the feeling of being diverged into a dream.

This is the type of song that you either love or hate. I think the artist was making a point to show his personality in both the song and the video. While his dancing is more like drunken convulsing, it’s entertaining to watch. I admire him for making such a bold move and exposing himself to the criticism that I’m sure he anticipated. He sings in a high but soothing voice. It’s a catchy song and it’s one of those beats that gets stuck in your head easily.

The kind of music you would hear in a mental institution. A slower and more horrible version of the music of Fatboy Slim and their song “Praise You.” The music that would accompany a deranged dream that was brought on by an acid trip. By the end it will leave you with a headache that leaves you thinking “why in the hell did I listen to that?”