Celebrity – Mining For Twilight Review
Posted by Frank Estrada on 04.07.2006
Did I ask to review this cd? Really? Can I act like I didn’t get it? Oh well, there is nothing I can do, its on my ipod ready for review.
Celebrity is a great name for a band who is playing for the celeb-reality generation. Lucky for me, I'm not part of that demographic. As a whole, this album is all over the place, just like your favorite episode of Best Week Ever or Flavor of Love. Mining for Twilight isn't a bad album on purpose, it suffers from American Idol syndrome. You know, you think you are a good singer, but you are not. Your family and friends are so blinded that you have enough stones to go and try out for the show, they forget you are bad, and for a brief moment, especially with the camera on them, they praise that you are the best undiscovered talent. Well that's Celebrity to me. I can't blame the guys who worked the studio, they were getting paid. But if they had real friends, they should have told them no. They should have told them to make better music. Oh well. If I have to paint a picture to you they are a mixture of Candlebox and a bad band trying to cover Coldplay.
Most of the songs here are slow. Which shouldn't be a bad thing, here it sort of is. The song They Notice really taps in to what Coldplay does without a piano and sucks the life out of it. Just because a song is slow doesn't mean it cannot be interesting. Or how about the even slower Lipstick and Rouge. It is so slow, if my car ran out of gas, this is the soundtrack to that moment where my car slows to a crawl.
I did compare them to Candlebox, so lets talk about those songs. The two upbeat rocking songs are track 2 and 3. When I say this album is everywhere on the map, this is my point right here. While the first song is already a snoozer, the next two songs are upbeat, drum pounding, psudo-rock songs. So what I really trying to say, I guess, is that this album peaks at track three Hellbent. If that isn't a warning, I don't know what is. From there the songs get slower and slower and slower and….
The 411: They have a song called They Notice, in which the singer ponders, “do you think they notice?” For your money, lets hope you don’t. This is defiantly not for me. Is it for you? I don’t know. If you really want to hear a 3rd rate version of Coldplay, by all means go ahead and grab this one today. (I tapped out after track 7)
