TonyTilt wrote:I think this is about to be Yela's best work. Just because of who he's been developing into musically and it's kinda like his Radioactive redemption, even though Radioactive was amazing..
Amazing? really? I think it has some amazing tracks but...
I'm a huge Yela fan, I was majorly let down personally.
I think like a lot of albums lately - it starts off amazing, up until like... well it's just "Good Girl" which fucks up the flow of everything I think. It's like "Lighters" on BME... I'd rather they did a full-blown compromised album than keep doing this, it keeps happening on Em / Em-related projects now where you have an album of greatness then 1-3 totally compromised tracks which sound fuck all like the rest of the material, trying to appeal in one way or another, but blatantly and cringing...
1. Relapse = Beautiful, Crack a Bottle
2. Recovery = didn't actually happen, as the whole album was compromised
3. BME = Lighters
4. Radioactive = Good Girl, The Hardest Love Song in the World
It's really only a few tracks which fuck up
Radioactive for me when I look at it, it's not like the whole album was bullshit, but just ONE really obvious compromise can taint the entire memory of an album I think, it weighs it down. You can have five healthy men on a boat, and the boat may float; but if Bizarre jumps on, that fucker is sinking. Fast. And you don't remember how the healthy men were floating, you just try to stop yourself from fucking drowning, and remember it was Bizarre's fat smelly ass that put you in the water. "Good Girl" is the Bizarre of the
Radioactive boat.
Ironically coming in at? #6.
Problem is there's a few Bizarre's on Radioactive... and they just disjoint the otherwise cohesive album, so the overall effect feels messy and inconsistent. It's such a fucking shame too because with that title and imagery... awh man, it could have been such a classic. It SHOULD have been.
Also "No Hands"... >
Should have stayed on the album and been a proper single. People need to stop caring about what they THINK radio will like, and start trying to dicTATE what people will NOW like.