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Techno Takeover Episode 16
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Ranting:
David Guetta Part one
And
Where Them Girls At
Review
Hello wonderful people
Halloween is over, meaning the end of my Halloween blog and return of Techno Takeover. This was actually going to be a review for Without You by Guetta and Usher, however taking a listen to another song requires a bit rant in it so this is Part 1 the history, why I dislike Guetta, and a mini rant on Where Them Girls at.
**I know Mues already made a video focusing on that song, however I can do what I want it's my blog**
**I know Mues already made a video focusing on that song, however I can do what I want it's my blog**
David Guetta's real name is Pierre David Guetta; he's French isn't he... Yes indeed, Pierre born November 7 in 1967 is from Paris France. Like everyone else I have mentioned on Techno Takeover, he started out as a DJ then worked his way up to being a producer (for the French House genre of music.) He started his career as a DJ at age 17 at the Broad Club in Paris playing popular music at first until he discovered house music after hearing a Farley Master Funk track. In 1988, he began hosting his own club nights and the following year he did a collaboration with French Rapper Sidney Duteil.
During the 90's he continued playing clubs and releasing singles, which were mainly collaborations with other house artists. Gum Productions founded in 2001 by Guetta and Joachim Garraud, that same year Guetta released his first hit single "Just A Little More Love" with American singer Chris Willis the album of the same title was released in 2002 on Virgin Records it sold over 300,000 copies. His second album Guetta Blaster came out in 2004 produced four singles, two were with Chris Willis ("Money" and "Stay") the other two featured JD Davis "(The World Is Mine and In Love With Myself.)" A mash-up of Just A Little More Love's single "Love Don't Let Me Go" was re-released as mash-up with the Tocasdisco remix of "Walking Away" by The Egg entitled "Love Don't Let Me Go (Walking Away) it charted higher than the original release of the song.
From 2007 through 2010 were the years Guetta popped up on American radio, he released Pop Life making his album count up to three, which was very successful in the UK, Ireland and Europe. The lead single "Love is Gone" reached number 1 on American Dance Charts and charted on the Billboard Hot 100. In July of 2008, he toured in many countries to promote his album as well as planning an event that took place on July 5 that year at the Stade De France event called "Unighted" with Tiesto, Carl Cox, Joachim Gurraud and Martin Solveig. He was elected Best House DJ by the DJ Awards in 2008 and in 2009, he placed third on the Top 100 DJs poll by DJ Magazine he also started a radio show in April called RauteMusic that took place on Saturday evenings but was moved to Fridays after Tiesto's Club Life.
Guetta would perform an hour set of house music presenting mainly new talents.
**Random tangent time, a quote from his website's biography: "With 2009’s multi-platinum One Love, two-time-Grammy-winning artist/producer/DJ David Guetta cemented his status as a genre-busting hitmaker whose in-your-face fusion of electro and hip-hop beautifully warps the pop landscape."
Pop just means what's popular I don't think it has a 'clear cut' definition at to what it has to sound like. A better example of genre busting would be Wumpscut’s "In the Night" and "Black Death" (and it's variety of version) it's industrial and it's metal. I think Wumpscut wins this battle, sorry Guetta. **
The year 2010 happened and so did Guetta's collaborations with Kelly Rowland ("When Love Takes Over" which peaked at number 1 in the UK and many other countries) and Akon, the fun song called Sexy Bitch. This was also the time where he decided to pull a Lil Wayne and be in every single song possible that was constantly repeated on every radio station because variety is overrated and people apparently enjoy hearing the same five songs every time they change the radio station. (I've held out this long, my hatred for this man is leaking through the cracks now) After his slew of collaborations topping every dance chart known to man he got some Grammy nominations for Best Electronic Dance album (One Love album) "When Love Takes over was nominated for Best Dance Recording and Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical and won the latter. One More Love was reissued in 2010 and the first single was “Who's That Chick” a collaboration with Rihanna (a song that I had in my head for weeks and still hear in my head on and off on occasion. Thanks David for being annoying it's greatly appreciated)
The two things Guetta did right was produced the song "I Got A feeling" for the Black Eyed Peas second single from their fifth studio album, The E.N.D. and collaborated with Flo Rida on the "Club Can't Handle Me Now" which was included on the Step Up 3D soundtrack. Yeah I like that song. Why do I like that song? I have no clue... don't judge me...
Nothing but the Beat
Now for 2011, he released “Nothing but the Beat” on August 30th, it was a double disk album; one disk being vocal and the other being electronic and he also decided to add a touch of rock to his dance tracks taking inspiration from bands such as Kings of Leon and Coldplay. That has nothing to do with the first single off the album, "Where Them Girls At" because it doesn't sound the least bit influenced by rock, what it does sound like is Sexy Bitch.
I bring that up because in his biography on his website he says this:
"When I listen to the radio in the U.S., every song sounds like ‘Sexy Bitch' the urban dance thing has become huge. Now I have to push it because my sound has become so popular. It’s a challenge, but I like that.”
Well Guetta I am sorry to inform you that you failed at that because this song is "Sexy Bitch" just with different people singing and different words. Sadly I like this song... and I can tell you why I like it. It is because I like Sexy Bitch, and I like electronic music and this happens to be slightly catch and a hell of an earworm.
Right before that sentence is this one:
"...the dizzying and deadly catchy “Where Them Girls At” marks a one-time return to the straight-up club-anthem sensibility of Guetta’s “Sexy Bitch” (the 2009 monster hit that moved 5 million units worldwide)."
I didn't know listening to a song could make you dizzy. Honestly that's not a good thing considering his audience he's aiming for are all clubbers. Being in a club and getting dizzy means, you're on the dance floor with a bunch of other people and you’re probably bumping into everyone else stumbling and spilling people's drinks or your own drink all over the place. The club is the last place you'd ever want to be dizzy at.
"Nothing but the Beat features no fewer than 17 guest artists,"
No fewer than 17, that's a lot of people to have on your two-disc album of 12 vocal tracks and 10 electronic tracks. The longest song being 6 minutes and that's on the electronic album...
"...from hip-hop royalty (Snoop Dogg, Ludacris, Timbaland) and game-changing rappers (Minaj, Lil Wayne) to R&B superstars (Usher, Chris Brown, Akon) and breakout pop acts (Dev, Jessie J). Rounded out by Jennifer Hudson, Flo Rida, Taio Cruz, Sia, and Guetta’s “fellow mad scientist” Will.I.Am, that roster was carefully culled to guarantee a filler-free album destined to deliver hit after hit. “I produced about 40 songs to get these 13 records together,” Guetta, explains. “I wanted every song to be huge, phenomenal.”
If that doesn't seem egotistical then I don't know what does. Mues said it best "David Guetta looks like a colossal tool" and he is a colossal tool read look at his list of songs he's released and how many times he's reissued albums, this man has an ego from infinity and beyond and lets the entire world know it!
Moving on to "Where Them Girls At" it's not rock, I know what rock sounds like and this has no rock influences. Unless he just said forget this song everything else will have some rock-like sound to it, then I don't know what Guetta was on when he cited Kings of Leon and Coldplay as his rock bands of influences. This song had nine writers and three producers and it's only three minutes and thirty seconds long.
The Review
So Flo Rida opens the song with this:
"So many girls in here, where do I begin?
I seen this one, I’m bout to go in
Then she said, I’m here with my friends
She got me thinking and that's when I said”
I seen this one, I’m bout to go in
Then she said, I’m here with my friends
She got me thinking and that's when I said”
If I could put sound in bubbles like that, I'd be so entertained for like the next year. It might replace my computer that's how epic it would be however, I wouldn't let it just take over someone's body and make them spastically dance. That's just creepy and wrong on so many levels. What it is about that bit that draws me into the song is a mystery. I honestly don’t know what makes my ears so happy but there is something pleasing about it… most likely because it sounds just like “Sexy Bitch.”
Chorus (the rest of it):
"Where dem girls at, girls at?
Where dem girls at, girls at?
Where dem girls at, girls at?
So go get them, we can all be friends"
Where dem girls at, girls at?
Where dem girls at, girls at?
So go get them, we can all be friends"
No Flo Rida, we can't all be friends so stop asking because the answer won’t change.
(Flo Rida)
Verse 2:
"Hey, bring it on baby, all your friends, You’re the shit and I love that body.
You wanna ball, let’s mix it, I swear you’re good, I won’t tell nobody.
You got a BFF, I wanna see that girl, it’s all women invited.
Hair do’s and nails that Louis, Chanel all up in the body, president’s in my wallet, no rules I’m bout it.
Blow the whistle for the hotties I got it, shawty, it’s never too much, can’t be doing too much 10 to one of me, I can handle that love.
You wanna ball, let’s mix it, I swear you’re good, I won’t tell nobody.
You got a BFF, I wanna see that girl, it’s all women invited.
Hair do’s and nails that Louis, Chanel all up in the body, president’s in my wallet, no rules I’m bout it.
Blow the whistle for the hotties I got it, shawty, it’s never too much, can’t be doing too much 10 to one of me, I can handle that love.
Outta of my reach, we can all get buzz, Holla cause I’m free, no matter it’s no rush"
Well wait do you like just the one girl or do you like all of her friends too you can't say oh you're the shit after saying bring all your friends. Pick one option before you really confuse someone! Other than that this verse makes my head hurt and you'd never know half the things Flo Rida is saying because he says them at rapid speed, do dare I even call whatever Flo Rida is doing rapping...
(Nicki Minaj)
Chorus:
So many boys in here, where do I begin?
I seen this one, I’m bout to go in
Then he said, I’m here with my friends
He got me thinking and that's when he said
Where dem girls at, girls at?
Where dem girls at, girls at?
Where dem girls at, girls at?
So go get them, we can all be friends
I seen this one, I’m bout to go in
Then he said, I’m here with my friends
He got me thinking and that's when he said
Where dem girls at, girls at?
Where dem girls at, girls at?
Where dem girls at, girls at?
So go get them, we can all be friends
I have nothing to say to this chorus so onto Nicki's verse in the song. I have to be nice here; I like her voice during the chorus. However, this is completely demolished once her verse happens. She apparently can’t be bothered to answer where her girls are at. He asked her three times and she doesn’t even answer in the next verse, way to be rude.
[Nicki Minaj - Verse 2]
Peebe, Peebe, who's Peabo Bryson
Two years ago I renewed my license
Anyway why’d I start my verse like that
Cause I can do it, you can suck on a ballsack"
First off, Nicki I don’t even know who the hell Peabo Bryson is and if you want to find out you should just Google it. Second, I honestly think Nicki is scary and she's doing it because someone told her about Gaga and she said I'm going to be the black version of Lady Gaga so that's what she did. She's so creepy in her videos and for what reason I will never know nor do I want to know but this gimmick of being scary because Lady Gaga did it is stupid and cheap, let her have her own thing and get some originality. Now these opening lines make no sense and then proceed to insult the listener for questioning why Nicki just says, "I renewed my license two years ago" for no reason other than they needed something to keep the rhyming scheme going. You know how annoying that verse got, the level annoying slowly progresses with this next verse that she sings.
"No, no I don’t endorse that, pause that, abort that
Just the other day mi go London, saw dat, kids down the street
Paparazzi, all dat
Hey, hey what can I say?
Day-day day da-day day"
I honestly want to tell Nicki to shut up. This is horrid and I hate the fact my ears decided they sort of like hearing this song when my brain is yelling there is no logical reason to like this song. Why there are nine writers on this song and the verses and chorus are complete and utter shit? I've reviewed some redundant songs before with weak verses and choruses but epic electronic tracks to back it up but that's because the lyrics were added in for shits and giggles honestly. It wasn't meant to be a lyrically focused track but this one clearly is considering it's on the vocal CD, so why in the world are the lyrics complete crap? Someone please tell me how you have nine completely incompetent lyricists working on one song and not one of them question anything that is going on in the writing process… did they forget to bring their brains to work because that might be the only excuse that works here.
"Coming through the club all the girls in the back of me
This ain't football why the fuck they tryna tackle me?
Really, I pick dude at the bar like really, looking like he wanna good time like really
Said he had a friend for my home girl Lilly, Lilly, Lilly, Lilly"
Why is Nicki having a spas attack over the guy having a friend who would be interested in her friend Lilly? Calm down Nicki it's okay you don't need to flip out because he's offering to set up your friend with his friend. Well we're back to talking about the club again for five seconds, and who is tackling you? You're walking into a club nobody's trying to tackle you the minute you walk into a club. The way that sentence is structured it looks like her girlfriends are all trying to tackle her. Why did you make them walk behind you if they're now trying to tackle you? So unless the place is so crowded that you all have to walk in single file line to get in then there is no reason for them to have to walk in the back of Nicki and then proceed to try and tackle her as she's walking into the club or they haven't been to this club before. Realizing this, she says “follow me I'll show you around” (or something of the sort) and then they try to tackle her. It's just frustrating, I know I previously said I like this song but it sure as hell isn't for the lyrics or the two featured artists and it damn sure isn't for David Guetta. It's for the electronic track, which is Sexy Bitch so I am naturally inclined to like this song. This song has nothing other than the fact it took Sexy Bitch's tracking and put new lyrics to it and the lyrics suck.
[Flo Rida chorus]
"So many girls in here where do I begin
I see this one, I’m bout to go in
Than she said I’m here with my friends
She got me thinking and that's when I said
Where dem girls at, girls at?
Where dem girls at, girls at?
Where dem girls at, girls at?
So go get them, we can all be friends.
[Nicki Minaj]
Day-day da-da-day day-day da-da-day
Day-day da-da-day day-day da-da-day
Where my girls at Ohh, hmm, Ohh
Where my girls at Ohh, hmm, Ohh
Yo, where my girls at Ohh, hmm, Ohh
Yo, where my girls tryna get to jumpin’”
I see this one, I’m bout to go in
Than she said I’m here with my friends
She got me thinking and that's when I said
Where dem girls at, girls at?
Where dem girls at, girls at?
Where dem girls at, girls at?
So go get them, we can all be friends.
[Nicki Minaj]
Day-day da-da-day day-day da-da-day
Day-day da-da-day day-day da-da-day
Where my girls at Ohh, hmm, Ohh
Where my girls at Ohh, hmm, Ohh
Yo, where my girls at Ohh, hmm, Ohh
Yo, where my girls tryna get to jumpin’”
Why does her voice just change an octave for no reason? Seriously she's annoying I shouldn't like this song or her vocal parts at all in this song and yet there are parts where she's slightly tolerable. However. that wasn't one of those times.
(Flo Rida)
Chorus:
So many girls in here, where do I begin?
I seen this one, I’m bout to go in
Then she said, I’m here with my friends
She got me thinking and that's when I said
Where dem girls at, girls at?
Where dem girls at, girls at?
Where dem girls at, girls at?
So go get them, we can all be friends"
Chorus:
So many girls in here, where do I begin?
I seen this one, I’m bout to go in
Then she said, I’m here with my friends
She got me thinking and that's when I said
Where dem girls at, girls at?
Where dem girls at, girls at?
Where dem girls at, girls at?
So go get them, we can all be friends"
That's the rest of the song and I don't care for it honestly there's nothing that I want to say about these remaining verses and chorus. In the video Guetta looks like a tool, Flo Rida is just there and Nicki Minaj is just plain creepy and highly annoying. The only saving grace besides the fact they just retracked Sexy Bitch the chorus, as weak as they are, there are elements I can't quite put my finger on but I know I like it.
Overall I don't like David Guetta I don't like Nicki Minaj and I really don't care for Flo Rida and the real song I wanted to review shall be up next.
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