Katy Perry Saccharifies Her Quirky Hits In Her Third Album

Exactly two years from now, hit wonders like I Kissed A Girl and Hot N’ Cold and among others simultaneously heaved top charts successes. These antics lightly cemented Perry’s hyper controversial yet ultra orgasmic prowess in catchiness and lyricism. This time, she attempts yet again to charm her likeability to the ever scrupulous market with that fruity cocksureness. No. Sugarcoating. Here. Folks!

Almost similarly so, Teenage Dream succeeds in relinquishing her much deserved comeback and more importantly, in awakening the most subconscious in us. And I don’t mean the Nolan’s Inception kind of way but the quirkiness, that abstruse fun we have been keeping sweetly, naughtily. With heavy influences of Queen, Alanis Morrisette, and Madonna thrown into her whirlpool of 70 to 80’s accompaniment enmeshed haughtily by her sugary come-ons and futuristic innuendos, Katy Perry is sure fire exacting her renowned pace.

Teenage Dream picks up from the glorious day that was One Of The Boys. It heavily yet effectively directs us to her alter ego – that is the hypersensitive and thoroughly thoughtful Perry. Amidst the glittery, pinkish flashes we have been catching at any medium there is, any keen audiophile would not beg to let you agree that this California Gurl has indeed matured with her musical menace. Although not your typical, cohesive retrospection, Teenage Dream is unanimously a collection of hits crafted at its most meticulous.

Below are my takes on each track:

1.) Teenage Dream – that ballad which will let us ponder with a smirk about those chances we took for granted when we were still, well, sweet and sugary and naive. That crazy story that was our first romance.

2.) Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F) - fun and ultra shedding of one’s self-control hullabaloos . A damned eargasmic experience since BEP’s I Gotta Feeling.

3.) California Gurls – a sweet retaliation to Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ Empire State of Mind. But not really. It is leaning more on glorifying that stereotype on West Coast frolicking women.

4.) Firework – Perry’s house version of wooing hope and fortitude to our very ears. I hope you’d be awakened.

5.) Peacock – This track was obviously created to let us retrospect the I Kissed A Girl and U’r So Gay kind of way. It did not fail. Heck, it is still ringing in my ears!

6.) Circle The Drain - Leaving something that is convenient is most of the time is not frowned upon but celebrated instead. “You have become what you despised, a stereotype. You think you’re so rock and roll but you’re really just a joke.”

7.) The One That Got Away – Reeling in the lost, young love. The woes of leaving undisclosed feelings. Spectacularly weaved into two dimensional yet delusional repercussions rooting from an ecstatically sugary past.

8.) E.T. – The most esoteric in him brings out the ultra surrealistic side of Perry’s emotional vulnerability.

9.) Who Am I Living For? – “It’s never easy to be chosen, never easy to be called.” That being decisive and decided on what you want. My hat’s off for you Perry for touching something in me here.

1 PPearl – A vagrant, narrative track about a girl who loses her strength by letting herself stuck with a drowning man. “She was a hurricane, but now she’s just a gust of wind.”

11.) Hummingbird Retreat – a musical aphrodisiac which delves into a honey-sipping enigma brought about by the instantaneous attraction.

12.) Not Like The Movies – “When he’s the one, he’ll come undone.” An almost realistic juxtaposition of the reality of finding your real match. There is no perfect ending. Just an imperfect perfection of a sweet ending.

Teenage Dream Rating - Sizzle

California Gurls spanned six consecutive weeks on No. 1 in Billboard 100. Teenage Dream is currently topping the said chart.

Eminem’s Recovery is Almost Full

After releasing two previous albums, Encore and Relapse, that were more or less of a dud although still considerably within that Shady ghetto world structure, Eminem is effecting a comeback with his very latest. This time, he can no longer throw in some overly used, I-have-OD’d excuses. And mind you, I mean no pun here.

Up until recently, Eminem has not been quite a regular fixture in the rap world. He sure makes a gazillion of sales out of his constant grandstanding and meticulous belittling but his tracks especially lately have been, well, excruciatingly disappointing. Nowadays, it has been the Drizzy’s and the Lil Wayne’s of the world have been hovering across the rap and Billboard charts. It is as though Shady has been , well, shaded and gone.

With Recovery, Shady has indeed gained yet another notoriety. Not in a value-shocking, I-split-with-my-long-time-manager kind of scheme but rather in a convalescing, maturing standpoint. It redefines Eminem, back in his The Slim Shady days, to keen, convincing, lyrical rap prodigy. It is a proud yet heartfelt collection of proclamation leaning to regret, acceptance, and second chances. With some of the most sought artists nowadays like Rihanna and Lil Wayne in the mend, Shady’s Recovery is bound to cement his ground to stardom. Finally.

These are the official tracks:

1.) Cold Wind Blows – Some things just don’t or shouldn’t change. For sometimes, these things do not change to ascertain lesson in you in the hardest way.

2.) Talkin’ To Myself feat Kobe – Shady’s version of his melancholic plea to his solitude and the glory of being alone.

3.) On Fire – “Cause when you’re hot , it’s like you’re burning up everybody else’s cold”; The implications of being both glorious and notorious.

4.) Won’t Back Down feat Pink – “How you douche bags feel knowing you’re disposable?” Best diss line, hands down.

5.) W.T.P. – Welcome the endorphin-induced Shady in his White Trash Party. Yeah, you are reading it right, it’s endorphin not the....

6.) Goin Thru Changes – Eminem at his most vulnerable track yet. With Ozzy-luring hooks, the song’s deliberation on losing someone while moving on is all the more realized. Best Line: “I’m hating my reflection, I’m walking round the house to fight mirrors....”

7.) Not Afraid – Shady’s Recovery 101. Now, of course, for you to recover, you must first submit yourself to acceptance. Eminem’s way of proclaiming that being through the ringer is an opportunity in disguise to prove them that you can bounce from a tribulation.

8.) Seduction – Verbal pyrotechnics at its most Shady. “ Cause one minute she loves you, the next she don’t” Beware. This track might bring verbal copulation in you.

9.) No Love feat Lil Wayne – By far the most intense and most felt track. With hate, you’ll also heap the same treatment in the future.

10.) Spacebound – “I’m a spacebound rocketship and your heart’s the moon/ and I’m aimin’ right at you.” Serenading a lost love while still being nostalgic.

11.) Cinderella Man – Not blowing your second chance when it presented itself. And as it is suggesting, Shady didn’t. If you know what I mean.

12.) 25 to Life – The track which realistically suggested that regret can also be felt and expressed while being true to yourself that reconciliation is, sadly, almost quite too late.

13.) So Bad – “Same shit, different toilet.” And what could be more poignant than that?

14.) Almost Famous – Admitting defeat is a starting point to hatch yet another meaningful feat.

15.) Love The Way You Lie – Taking Shady’s love back at his most masochistic of ways. Please mind Rihanna’s hooks.

16.) You’re Never Over – Missing Doodi must be really tough for Eminem. Missing someone who is just that special doesn’t stop in this track.

17.) Untitled – “Me I’m always shitting diarrhea of the mouth ‘till your speakers crap out fart, ‘Oops,What?’” There’s a reason why Eminem has been known for his rhymes. You can hear that in this track.

Now while Eminem can be, at times, really nasty to the point of being gratuitous, his latest reveal that is Recovery, is without a doubt, maturing at its most. It is a welcoming helluva of de’ja vusthat was Slim Shady, that will guarantee both the hardcore fans and rap aficionados the quality that they deserve. It is really an effective comeback that is now making a crack. Now, there’s a pun that’s intended here.

Recovery Rating – Sizzle

Eminem’s Recovery is currently at the top of Billboard 200 with over a million copies in a span of two weeks

Drizzy Is Stranded But Croons Seductively On His First Official LP

Unless you are living beneath a prehistoric igneous rap rock ,the bets are shamelessly high that you are going to stay that way if Drizzy had not landed on your Ipod’s playlist recently.

After his series of successful mixtapes, Room for Improvement, Comeback Season, and So Far Gone, which eventually turned to an EP, Canadian Rapper Drake just could be the most unstoppable force in the rap world. Ostentatiously, you can hear him along with likes of Jay-Z, Kanye West, Jeezy, and lately, with Eminem. And with his protégés, Young Money and Lil Wayne finally securing his official studio album, Drake is set for, well, a very awing fame.

Thank Me Later is a boastful autobiographical product accompanied with semi-gesticulating influences of Kanye West’s egomaniacal lyricism and Jay-Z’s Herculean ghetto-slash-street talks. It prudently guides tones of fame and adaptability to its most subjective. It glides, stagnates, and tethered on issues of disappointment, emotional blunder, and his infamous regrets over prematurely ended relationships. Similar overtones hovered all over, there is a quandary as to whether it would end like the way it began.

“You never see it coming, you just get to see it go.”Taking off is but a beautiful thing in his Fireworks featuring the enigmatic luring of Ms. Keys. And if you are looking for a purpose, “you put the tea in the kettle and light it then put your hand on the metal and feel it”, Drizzy’s Karaoke besmirches fame with its repercussions but remained not forgetful, thankfully.

Dealing with closures was crooned seductively in The Resistance urging us that regretting and forgetting are but a part of it. Drake’s Litany of Acute Narcissism is heavily rendered in Over. “I’m doin’ me, I’m doin’ me!” I couldn’t be more gratuitous.

Stand-out phrases apparently come from Show Me A Good Time’s “I’m the Osiris to this sh*t right now, go to God for the hits right now.” Up All Night featuring – this may shock you – Nicki Minaj and Fancy with collaborators T.I. and Swizz Beatz are tracks alluring to being grateful and overkills being praiseworthy.

With Aaliyah’s version of The Isley Brothers’ At Your Best resonating, Unforgettable is the most ---- just please refer to the very title of the track. Now, getting caught up in the blitz and glamour of Hollywood has never been paparazzi-free but Drizzy just handled it quite deliriously yet steadily on Light Up.

Miss Me featuring Lil Wayne has been cemented as the most revealing of his tracks. It is the People and The Daily Mail of his official creation. What could be more overt than proclaiming his hots for Ms. Minaj? Only Slim Shady can join in that notoriety.

High school love and its shenanigans are all over on his Cece’s Interlude. Although I think Drake clearly redefined the meaning of Interlude here. Isn’t an interlude supposed to be an earlier description of the next track? But heck, I may be just dense and so within-the-structure about it.

Find Your Love is undeniably a Kanye West’s product of imagination. I couldn’t be more certain but West’s Robocop is easily reverberating. The auto-tune driven track rallies quite heavily on serenading your desire whilst you hit it Drizzy-like. While Thank Me Now is a not so astute way of taking back his LP’s title, you can find no hollowness in the rendition and ironically, the subtlety in it will wear off with Drake thanking us intead.

While I find Drake’s first official LP to be heavily stuck on not so numerous subjects and some acclaimed influences evidenced by some audio déjà vu’s incepted by his cohorts, it is unavoidable to laud his fresher takes on issues he has been dealing with alongside with his effective croonings and enigmatic come-ons. The album may be not as distinctive as it tries to evoke but it sure is quite compelling.

Thank Me Later Rating – Fisizzle.

Drake’s first official LP is going to be released today.

Aguilera Delivers, Ended Gaga Conflict Saga With BIONIC

With the seemingly negative press circulating around her first two singles ( Not Myself Tonight, Wohoo featuring Nicki Minaj) and not-so-persuasive chartings in the Billboard, Aguilera just could not lose herself with her very latest.

Bionic is a surreal sonic take to the electronic pop world. Armored with an M.I.A.-geared and SIA-filled tracks, the album lyrically killed mediocrity and surpassed Aguilera's infamous vulnerability that is --- the shrieking, the oversinging. Aguilera takes it on higher note by incorporating beautifully absurd stompings and emotionally-laden ballads.

The four year hiatus is definitely worth the wait. Aguilera's gargantuan voice has finally found it's home that is ultimately refreshing and connivingly genius at it's most lyrical.

Below are my takes of each track:

1.) Bionic - very M.I.A. I can vividly hear this stomping gloriously beyond the walls of your most frequent bars. 4/5

2.) Not Myself Tonight - I just don't know why this track did not go through well chart-wise. I guess it felt very "Stripped (her 2002 controversial album)" although the beats are just crazy and riveting. 3 1/2 / 5

3.) Wohoo - Minaj may have stolen the lyrics but Aguilera just found her match to create an ingenious ghetto track. 3/5

4.) Elastic Love - you can hear M.I.A. all over here. "If I was a ruler, I'd set you straight. But your love is like a sharpener, it really grates". And that is just one of those one-liners you can't possibly ignore.5/5

5.) Desnudate - totally a stand-out track. Please. This space is not enough to start the parade.Tricky Stewart is finaly doing his thing here' 6/5

6.) Love & Glamour / Glam - a tribute to Madonna's Vogue. Ok. I'm gonna be honest. It kind of lacked this certain "ooommph". But then be grateful that Aguilera killed it at the end.3/5

7.) Prima Dona - a saving grace after Glam. Pure futuristic pop bliss. 4/5

8.) Morning Dessert / Sex for Breakfast - absolute morning starter. Lyrically sweet notwithstanding. 3 1/2 /5

9.) Lift Me Up - I can daresay you'll play this track while the train is about to depart from an uneventful evening confrontation...Superb emotions incorporated. Linda Perry and Aguilera deserved another "Beautiful" ovation. 4/5

10.) My Heart / All I Need - Maternally and emotionally satisfying. SIA just doest not disappoint. 5/5

11.) I Am - dissociatively realistic. Lyrics at its finest. "I have insecurities. You showed me I am beautiful" Perfectly imperfect. 5/5

12.) You Lost Me - major SIA and Aguilera genius creation. If you havent seen and heard Aguilera in American Idol lately, you are living under a prehistoric igneous rock. 5/5

13.) I Hate Boys - very Gwen Stefani. Man and boy-bashing. My very least favorite track. Well, at least there's an imperfection. 2 1/2 / 5

14.) My Girls - a remnant of Aguilera's women empowerment stance. But you'll be surprised what the track is subtly alluding to. 3/5

15.) Vanity - Desnudate version 2.0. The beat is just sick. " If I were her I would kiss me" Just how fun is that?

BIONIC Rating - Sizzle

Aguilera's Bionic is out in stores this month....