Actually, 2 songs.
I like music, I love music.
Almost all music.
From Simon & Garfunkel, AC/DC, Emanem, Limp Bizkit, Holsts planets, The Nutcracker, Suzanne Vega, Jean Michel Jarre, Screamin’ J Hawkins, all sorts of music.
But, when I buy an album (yes, I am old enough to still call them albums) I expect an album of 15 tracks have have 15 songs.
Well, as I type this, I am listening to the tenth track on an album called ‘Everytime we touch’ by Cascada and so far, I have heard two, and only two distinct songs.
There is a passable ballad called ‘Another You’ and then there is the dance track.
The dance track has 30 seconds of a reasonably slow tempo and finishes at the start of the first chorus, where the thumping beat and drum machine twiddling starts and continues for about 150 seconds then it ends, thankfully. Only to start up again, at the beginning of the next track.
Now, I say two songs, there is a version of ‘Kids in America’, that wonderful pop song originally performed by Kim Wilde (again, yes, I am that old.).
And I had hopes, hopes of a third (if unoriginal) song. But, what happened 30 seconds in? Yes, you guessed it, THUMP THUMP THUMP.
I am currently on track 12 of 15, and am comfortable in the feeling that the count of songs is not going to higher, but, in the interests of blogging integrity I am going to sacrifice my eardrums and my musical taste to complete the evaluation, I do this as a service to humanity.
Now, Miss Cascada does have a few things going for her, white teeth, blonde hair, and thighs that just make the album cover, I can’t really comment much more, especially about musical talent, she may have it, she may not, we will probably never know. We will never get past the thighs, the white teeth and THUMP THUMP THUMP.
Ahhh, track 14. Another ballad (Truely Madly Deeply. sorry, 3 songs. In my defence, its a ‘slow’ version of track 2 which goes….. THUMP THUMP THUMP.