My Machine

by

Princess Superstar

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Well her royal flyness is back with an ambitious new album. Real reviewers, y'know, the ones that get paid to tell you their opinions on albums and fail to cover up their snarkiness and holier-than-thou attitudes, would call this a concept album.

But I ain't gettin paid for this, so it's all outta love that I tell you to buy this album.

The concept is that far into the future we communicate telepathically and are no longer bombarded with advertising that tells us what to think or who to be, or who we should want to be. Sounds utopian, except that now everyone who is born is given an advertising slogan as a name per an agreement the government made with the advertising consortium. "Coke Is It" "Got Milk" etc.. If this happened to me, I at least hope it's for somthing cool like rat poison or edible panties. I bet the kids named after tampons get mentally picked on a lot.

Well this whole album pops back and forth from the future with skits to the actual songs on the album. They are presented as part of a report of our current time period. Ah, there's the concept.

All that aside, the music is dope. PS has always shown a lyrical command that is at the same time technically brilliant but funny and poignant.

Songs range from the bumpin trash talkin "Bad Girls N.Y.C.", the club hit "Coochie Coo", to quriky, but lyrically profound songs like "Quitting Smoking Song" and "Initially".

And at 25 tracks this thing is dense. There is a lot of work here to enjoy and try to process. A lot of the skits are pretty much mini songs.

The music encompasses everything from hip-hop, electro, rock, electronica...pretty much everything. This is a work that has been long in the making and the time and care to make every track count is shown.

I've really enjoyed this album so far, and look forward to keeping it in heavy rotation for many months to come.

Great, now I sound like a ponce music reviewer.

I like Princess Superstar. I like how she uses her white-girl wiles to approach rap from a more self-aware and less serious angle than everyone else in the game. She's just kewl and that's all there is to it. I like Princess Superstar, but I don't like this album much. The musical composition is the weak link. I didn't much appreciate the musical aspect of what I'd heard of her past work, but I bought this album confident that any musical shortcomings would be made up for by her lyrical and vocal presence. After a few listens that turns out to not be the case. Concetta's cool just isn't enough to make me want to endure the mediocrity of the music. The concept of this album isn't really that strong either. Consumerism, celebrity worship and lack of identity. Yeah that's really original subject matter. I dunno, I'm not trying to be mean, I don't hate it, but I really cannot get into it even though I was determined to. I regret buying it.