Betty Curse - Excuse All the Blood/ Met on the Internet EP Review
Betty Curse - Excuse All the Blood/ Met on the Internet EP Review
Originally published at http://www.disordermagazine.com/article.php?id=195
According to Betty Curse's publicity she is the poster girl for the new goth-pop generation. Now, either I'm walking around with my eyes and ears closed or this new generation has been dreamt up in an attempt to create a new genre and corner it before anyone else realises it exists. Granted, Betty Curse provides pleasing pop songs but neither song on this double a-side contains any identification with the goth genre at all.
Excuse All the Blood is a fist pumping meander through teeny bopping pop, laced with in-no-way-gothic guitars that represent the extremely thin separation between Curse and genre-hopping poppers such as Kelly Clarkson. Rock music is currently in fashion (Thin Lizzy and Avenged Sevenfold shirts line the high street), a fact that both the aforementioned artists are attempting to capitalize on by using imagery and stylists to make their audiences forget that what they are listening to is essentially bubblegum pop.
Second track Met on the Internet is so un-gothic it borders on sleazy cock-rock, a genre that Curse manages to imitate and nothing more. I doubt Velvet Revolver would consider this as a filler on a B-side album, such is the uninspired monotony of the riffs and vocal hooks. It may fool younger fans with less experience of the music Curse carelessly recycles on this single, however I'm intrigued to see how the Download crowd at Castle Donington will take to Betty after experiencing Arch Enemy or Hatebreed. Im hedging my bets on not well.
4/10
Released 29th May on Island Records
29 May 2006 by Matt S.
Originally published at http://www.disordermagazine.com/article.php?id=195
According to Betty Curse's publicity she is the poster girl for the new goth-pop generation. Now, either I'm walking around with my eyes and ears closed or this new generation has been dreamt up in an attempt to create a new genre and corner it before anyone else realises it exists. Granted, Betty Curse provides pleasing pop songs but neither song on this double a-side contains any identification with the goth genre at all.
Excuse All the Blood is a fist pumping meander through teeny bopping pop, laced with in-no-way-gothic guitars that represent the extremely thin separation between Curse and genre-hopping poppers such as Kelly Clarkson. Rock music is currently in fashion (Thin Lizzy and Avenged Sevenfold shirts line the high street), a fact that both the aforementioned artists are attempting to capitalize on by using imagery and stylists to make their audiences forget that what they are listening to is essentially bubblegum pop.
Second track Met on the Internet is so un-gothic it borders on sleazy cock-rock, a genre that Curse manages to imitate and nothing more. I doubt Velvet Revolver would consider this as a filler on a B-side album, such is the uninspired monotony of the riffs and vocal hooks. It may fool younger fans with less experience of the music Curse carelessly recycles on this single, however I'm intrigued to see how the Download crowd at Castle Donington will take to Betty after experiencing Arch Enemy or Hatebreed. Im hedging my bets on not well.
4/10
Released 29th May on Island Records
29 May 2006 by Matt S.
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