all saints - rocksteady

a bit 138 trek. or you know, even more like artful dodge's "ruffneck sound" but with all saints over the top singing a propellerheads james bond theme thing. it sounds desperately afraid of being ignored by the fickle public. not a good look.

there's this thing at the moment where first single off album has to have a big sign which says YOU COULDNT POSSIBLY MISTAKE THIS FOR A BALLAD COULD YOU, cutting out an enormous swathe of options for modern pop ppl. i mean look at janet and "call on me" which a) isnt even that ballady, b) has a 'tune' (cf every twatty paper and internet rvw ive read) and c) is perfectly aight, but it seemed like non-rnb people* just could not pick it up on their hearing radars** at all, so expectant are they that every comeback single or new album campaign will try to outdo the last one for fantastic pop wackiness. and desperate, uncomfortable all saints is what you get!

* not that rnb people didnt hate on it as well but they had different reasons

** yes these are sometimes called ears but i mean we are all selectively listening and no record has been lashed out at more erm offensedly this year than "call on me", which i must assume is to do with 06 values and expectations rendering the song literally inaudible! it is certainly a failure on the terms it has been judged but i think any other year would have been a lot kinder to it, just as 1997 would have been a lot kinder to "rocksteady".