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...Molina & Johnson’s melancholic strums of acoustic guitar, there are generations of American songwriters and miles of frontier. Both singers have explored a similar fascination with American themes in their other bands. Here, these traditional themes and sounds are omnipresent, and something about Molina & Johnson’s minimalist approach makes them feel better developed. Many similarly spare acts craft their natural sounds. They record separate tracks for fretboard squeaks, chair cricks, and the sound of a thumb dully thumping against the guitar’s body. Here, the sounds feel like natural parts of the recording...
...You’re Daddy,” co-written by Dr. Luke and Cuomo, continues the power-pop theme of the album’s opener. Combining synthesizers and mechanical beats with the high energy guitar creates a more prevalent pop sound which nearly masks such ridiculous rhymes such as “I will egg the goomba / If you tire / Try my best to moonwalk / On a wire...
...Okay bitch it’s Weezer and it’s Weezy / upside-down MTV.” Musically, “Can’t Stop Partying,” an adaptation from an acoustic demo off of Cuomo’s solo album, sounds like a Lady Gaga B-side. The song is filled with overdubbing, drum machine beats, and synthesizer-based melodies that sound only a few notes different from Lady Gaga’s early 2009 hit “Poker Face,” which Weezer covered in concert earlier this year...
...mentioned, the scenery is mostly just barroom décor completed by a totally inexplicable jigsaw pattern painted on the floor. The lighting has a few select moments where it explicates the atmosphere of a scene, but otherwise it does little to aid the drama at hand. The sound is a dismal effort, relying largely on tacky, cartoonish underscoring that reduces the tone of any given scene to garish musical stereotypes...
...stock ticker - a machine that tracked financial data over telegraph lines and stamped it on strips called ticker tape for the sound the printing made - had barely been around two decades before Wall Streeters realized that throwing its ribbony paper out the window was a fun way to celebrate. They first did it on Oct. 29, 1886, inspired by the ceremony to dedicate the Statue of Liberty. The practice was still a novelty 10 years later, when the New York Times reported that office workers had "hit on a new and effective scheme of adding to the decorations...