Got A Girl
I Love You But I Must Drive Off This Cliff Now
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Jul 21, 2014 Web Exclusive
It feels criminal that this collaboration between the frequently-phenomenal Deltron 3030/Handsome Boy Modeling School producer Dan “The Automator” Nakamura and Mary Elizabeth Winstead—an actress we love, from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Smashed—produced an album so lacking in chemistry. Winstead is a competent singer, but most of I Love You‘s tracks draw attention to distractingly bad lyrics or are woefully devoid of personality; she poses as a limp electronic diva or in half-hearted yé-yé pose over lifeless, thin-sounding beats. (The exception is “Put Your Head Down,” a successfully giddy bit of Gainsbourg parody.)
The worst comes in the faux self-deprecation of “Da Da Da,” where Winstead groans, “This song is shit/It sucks/It’s a piece of shit.” It might be fun if it didn’t feel like posturing, or we were hearing it as a studio outtake. Left on the finished album, though, we have to agree with her about it. (www.got-a-girl.com)
Author rating: 3/10
Average reader rating: 8/10
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August 30th 2014
12:43pm
Pretty harsh review, id give it an 8 myself.
September 3rd 2016
11:32pm
Personally I loved the album. This review is really negative. I would give the album a 9.