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...Kojak-inspired night, each woman is shown laid out on a bed of lollipops. But no matter how many women or how much money and candy Lil’ Wayne manages to flaunt, the video can’t overcome the awful song that accompanies it. The song??s lyrics are absolutely pathetic, reaching their intellectual peak with the double entendre “I let her lick the (w)rapper.” The only line in the song that doesn’t include a rap cliché is just as bad: “When...
...female vocal interplay borrowed from the likes of Belle and Sebastian and the New Pornographers form the backbone of most songs. Rarely is this better shown than on the old song “Don’t Tell Me to Do the Math(s).” The song??s oblique lyrics are shouted out at maximum intensity: “You know that we could sell you magazines / If only you could give your life to literature / Just don’t read ‘Jane Eyre.’” Producer David...
...previous albums simply opened and shut, here the band almost seems to be telling a story. The opening track, “All You Ever Wanted,” ambles like southern folk through a warm, strange, watery atmosphere, before building strength and catapulting skyward into symphonic ecstasy. The song??s coda grips urgently, with organs piling on climbing guitars, then slips away, ghostlike. Before there’s time to process the transition, the Keys start storming again, with the sinewy, unhinged rocker “I Got Mine.” “Strange Times...
...with handclaps and heart-on-sleeve lyrics. Lead single “Run (I’m A Natural Disaster)” features short bursts of horns and children screaming, while Cee-Lo warns, “Run away / Run for your life!” Unfortunately, the song??s flat production detracts from any sense of urgency. The most amusing track by far is “Whatever,” a satire of teenage emo-punk. In his best impression of a whiny 14-year-old, Cee-Lo delivers ridiculously blunt lines like...
...analysis of his subject. For example, Reeves says that Snoop Dogg’s obscenely misogynistic “Ain’t No Fun” “offers its acidic views towards women as a theme for merriment and building male camaraderie” when the song??s lyrics talk simply about running train. Moreover, his writing isn’t always straightforward and can at times be disorienting. Reeves sometimes wanders in and out of subject matter; a paragraph that starts off talking about Run-D.M.C. as the voice of a generation ends...