Word: synth
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...this clear first. The song is s***.” There’s clearly a certain degree of irony that the Cambridge paper seems to have elected to ignore. Jones—who is both an organist and a composer when not writing Broadway synth jams about websites—is an officer in the Facebook group, “The Facebook Song is Terrible.” He seems to have laughingly embraced his increasingly recognizable connection with the Facebook, as other group memberships include “The Facebook Song Group...
...that even the most abrupt shift feels integral to the shape of the song. And often, the foundations of traditional song structure rest beneath all the whistles and bells. The hypnotic “With Dirt And Two Texts-Later Version With Love” alternates two sing-song synth melodies like chorus and verse. “Creating Cyclical Headaches” works like a bell curve: it begins with a simple, bubbly keyboard, layers on sound after sound with increasing thickness, and then whittles the song back down to its roots by the end. These familiar structures serve...
...York mainstream mainstay Cam’ron takes things to a whole new level of absurdity, sampling Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” (the whole backing synth line, not just the vocal) for his 2004 single “Girls,” and categorically failing to imbue Lauper’s kitschy girl-pop anthem with any street cred whatsoever...
...aahs.” Then the whole thing descends into breakcore entropy while the lady gets slaughtered.Underground robot heroes 8-Bit take “Hell Yes” to its logical conclusion, replacing the idiotic old-school backing track of the original with a huge, pixilated synth attack. They even give Christina Ricci’s ridiculous sushi waitress voice-samples a counterpart robo-voice companion. Electronic highlanders Boards of Canada make “Broken Drum” genuinely wistful and anguished, if a bit too long and slow. Anticon post-hoppers Subtle take the blues-horror...
...Hung Up,” which borrows its unshakable hook from ABBA, is one of the great dance tracks of the year. “Let It Will Be” features sweeping symphonies and a thumping bass a la “Die Another Day”; synth-heavy “Forbidden Love” recalls Cher’s smash hit “Believe”; and “Get Together” bears a resemblance to Stonebridge’s “Put ‘Em High...