 Insane Clown Posse What in HOLY HELL am I listening to? I'm the last person who'd be able to explain this CD. What is it, they're evil clowns? Is that the gimmick? Wait, no, they're ninjas? And professional wrestlers? And rappers? What the hell? This makes no sense to me. I'm a sissy, you know, I like Blossom Dearie and the Spice Girls. This just hurts my head. It makes me want to shoot my teachers, and I've been out of school for years. I can't tell what's supposed to be funny here, or what's supposed to be menacing. In some ways I'm more disturbed by the skits in between all the yelling, because I think that tons of teens are losing the ability to distinguish this kind of crap from, like, Adam Sandler. Yikes, so much yelling. Is that what music is nowadays, Jerky Boys-type sketches immediately followed by angry screaming? Well, I guess I can try to assess it on terms I do understand – i.e. musical content. I'm no "jugalo," but I know that musically this is pretty damn annoying – circus-type music forms the majority of the melodic content, which is limited to begin with. The vocals make House of Pain seem like Chanticleer (percent chance that anyone reading this review will be able to identify both ICP and Chanticleer? Maybe 1%?). So much yelling! What are these clowns so angry at? Yikes, now they're getting all misogynist: "Girl you know I love you, but now you gotta die" (that's the main hook from "Bitches" – charming). "I Stab People" – that's a song? They seem really unconcerned with writing a standard. Not to mention that I'm sure that they don't really stab people. ICP, I challenge you to prove you have ever stabbed anyone. "Another Love Song" is almost tuneful, though with all the lyrics about killing and choking and fucking, I don't see Sarah Brightman or Andrea Bocelli tackling it. What these guys need is a spanking. They need their allowance suspended. They need some serious mentoring and a whole lot of love. I have no choice, boys, but to award you the unprecedented rating of Stern Parent. You need it. It's not that I'm prejudiced against clowns, per se, but I just don't appreciate being yelled at so much when I buy a CD.
Review by Bose Cumin |
