The Majesticons - Beauty Party: C/D

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I have to review this, and I'm not digging it. Lots of others here have mentioned it, though, so can somebody tell me why they like it?

― Dave M. (rotten03), Saturday, 29 March 2003 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)

i think they like it because it cocks a snoot at the pop rap they love but realize is frequently ridiculous.

i downloaded it and it has some moments, but the production in no way shape or form beats the neptunes, ever.

that's right, i said "snoot!"

― your null fame (yournullfame), Sunday, 30 March 2003 00:09 (twenty-three years ago)

that's what i thought of it too, roughly. not ladd's finest hour by any stretch. think i should still add it?

― Dave M. (rotten03), Sunday, 30 March 2003 01:56 (twenty-three years ago)

it's kinda pointless. I have to review it too.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 30 March 2003 01:16 (twenty-three years ago)

i already did review it!

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0307/harvell.php

i don't like it either.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 30 March 2003 01:31 (twenty-three years ago)

shit dude I don't even wanna WRITE mine now. You nailed it my friend

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 30 March 2003 01:45 (twenty-three years ago)

it makes me sad too because it had such potential

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 30 March 2003 01:49 (twenty-three years ago)

It's pretty much a waste of time. Too bad.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 30 March 2003 01:50 (twenty-three years ago)

i agree with the review, though i think 'middle of my boy move' (from a thread whose name escapes me) was much better than the actual non-mispelled sentence

― Dave M. (rotten03), Sunday, 30 March 2003 01:50 (twenty-three years ago)

i tried

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 30 March 2003 01:55 (twenty-three years ago)

(as soon as i can work "oh no! blankey blank! OH NO!!" into a review, i'm retiring.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 30 March 2003 01:58 (twenty-three years ago)

i hear that's the working title of momus' next album - your wish may be granted

― Dave M. (rotten03), Sunday, 30 March 2003 02:04 (twenty-three years ago)

all of you like Scarface more than fun. ;)

― jack cole (jackcole), Sunday, 30 March 2003 02:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I reviewed it and loved it but you must keep in mind the caveat that it is rap that Nate Patrin likes.

Then again, I agree that it's not Ladd's finest hour. That'd be Welcome to the Afterfuture.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 30 March 2003 03:03 (twenty-three years ago)

It's got a couple really good songs.

― Dan I., Sunday, 30 March 2003 06:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey jess did you get any emails from the artists involved telling you how wrong you were for your negative review? I did after reviewing it for Popmatters, although I've since gotten to be kind of friendly with Sun Singleton.

Hey Nate Patrin did you get any emails from the artists involved telling you how cool you were for your positive review?

― Neudonym, Sunday, 30 March 2003 13:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Didn't review it and share everyone's general ambivalence, but I liked some of this record - just not enough of it... Jess I completely agree about the "post-Cartesian ambition" factor, too...
i also found the general conceit less effective than Gun Hill Road simply because Gun Hill Road sounded like what it was: undie hip hop. with beauty party, the problem is that the beats lack the crisp, bumping, hyperproduced sheen of the neptunes/dre/timbaland/swizzbeats et al and it really needs it in order to work.
to be truly successful beauty party should match the quality of these productions punch for punch and sneak into people's record collections without them noticing it, then usurp the time they'd be listening to the shit ladd is dissing.
however, it won't do that because it's just not convincing. as it is, it just comes across as a smirking in joke for the converted and converesely shows just how clever mainstream hip hip actually is, cos he can't do it... my 2 pennies...

― Dave Stelfox, Sunday, 30 March 2003 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey Nate Patrin did you get any emails from the artists involved telling you how cool you were for your positive review?

No. This surprises me because I'm probably one of the few to write one.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 30 March 2003 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

no, no emails. i guess it's too much effort to track down my email address when it's not on the site itself. still, BRING IT ON MUHFUHS

see, i quite like some of it..."prom party" (or whatever it was called)...but the problem was that so much of it doesn't have the replay value of the stuff it's parodying (i'd much rather listen to tupac - at least "california love", i don't really rate him in general - than "majestwest party" every again

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 30 March 2003 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

But it has the BEST CHORUS OF 2003 (so far)! I mean damn, it was all in my head and I was starting to go crazy and I contemplated drilling a hole in my skull to get it out but then I got a beatdown by a bunch of Hasidic cats and oh forget it.

That Murs solo album's kind of blah, though.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 30 March 2003 15:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Exactly what I think Jess, some of it stands up as individual tracks but it fails to work as an overall concept... Prom Party works, though and I really like it... And Nate, the Murs album is great! How can you fault and album with the line: "I'm big pimpin' with no money and less women" and Murs one of a kind so there's nobody like me and I and I guess that's the reason that nobody likes me - or is it that I don't like anybody else..." It's got attitude and it's funny and, crucially, his style is exactly what he says: too street for your backpack undie boys (and they're ALL boys) too "intelligent" to be commercial because it's not "conscious" (hate that word!) ... I like it anyway...

― Dave Stelfox, Sunday, 30 March 2003 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Eh, maybe I'll give it another listen. I do admit that it's pretty fun listening to an MC go on about how he's mediocre at skateboarding.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 30 March 2003 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

well, that's the thing - he breaks loads of hip hops's basic tenets - he's not afraid to say that he's actually quite crap at stuff (how he goes home to masturbate cos he can't get a girl etc, skateboarding etc) but he's by no stretch a Paul Barman - his flow's convincing tough and there's nothing ironic about him at all...

― Dave Stelfox, Sunday, 30 March 2003 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Dave M said:
think i should still add it?

yeah, why not? it doesn't really work as an album but hearing the occasional tune would be nice.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Sunday, 30 March 2003 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not a parody of Playa Rap; it's a parody of what underground rap thinks Playa Rap is like (Mike Ladd might not actually know this)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 30 March 2003 20:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I think he does...

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 31 March 2003 06:04 (twenty-three years ago)

eight years pass...

Haha, remember this?

― uhhhhhh (admrl), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 18:08 (fourteen years ago)

I still have this somewhere I think. I had such high hopes after Infesticons and Welcome to the Afterfuture.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 19:26 (fourteen years ago)

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