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timbalandd · 7 years ago

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Timbaland‘s latest protégé TINK made us think of the slew of talent that he has had a hand in mentoring and producing. What’s his track record? Whatever happened to so-and-so? Who’s still pursuing the dream? And whom did I forget about until they turned up on a reality show? Get ready for all those questions and more to be answered right now.

Here is a list of Timbo's protégés, along with a little info one where they’ve been and how far they’ve come.

Keri Hilson

Introduced: 2004 Albums: In a Perfect World (2009), No Boys Allowed (2011) Hit Singles: “Turnin Me On,” “Pretty Girl Rock” While the world hashtags #PoorMichelle, it has no such compassion for Keri Hilson. The infamous Ms. Keri Baby got her start as a writer and background singer for producer Anthony Dent. Later, she wrote songs for Britney Spears and Mary J. Blige as part of production and songwriting team The Clutch and worked with Polow da Don.Keri soon caught the attention of Timbaland and was signed to his Mosley Music Group label, continuing to write and sing hooks. After achieving solo success with the Lil' Wayne-assisted single “Turnin Me On,” Keri got a little beside herself with fame and called out a certain R&B diva on the remix, which wasn’t well received. Since then, she’s been working hard to overcome the backlash. While Keri released a second album, No Boys Allowed, it failed to live up to expectations and we’re still waiting on a third. However, some would say no matter how her career goes, she calls basketball player Serge Ibaka bae, so maybe she doesn’t deserve anyone’s pity after all Bubba Sparxxx

Introduced: 2001

Albums: Dark Days, Bright Nights (2001), Deliverance (2003), The Charm (2006), Pain Management (2013), Made on McCosh Mill Road (2014)

Hit Singles: "Ugly," "Deliverance," "Ms. New Booty "

Noteworthy Factoid: After hitting the weights and losing weight, Bubba looks younger now than he did in 2001.

While a number of bands, most famously REM, got their start in Athens, GA, you’d be hard pressed to name any hip-hop acts coming from this corner of the dirty south. Except, that is, Bubba Sparxxx. A Georgia Boy by birth, Bubba learned about rap music through mixtapes his neighbor received from NYC. After creating a buzz for himself at the University of Georgia, Timbaland scooped him up for his Beat Club label.

His first album, Dark Days, Bright Nights, was certified gold, and Bubba seemed to be on the fast track to superstar status, showing up on Saturday Night Live, late night talk shows, being featured in the Def Jam: Fight for NY and Madden NFL 2004 video games and even collaborating with the production team behind Girls Gone Wild to shoot two DVDs detailing the life of a big rap star. However, his second album, Deliverance, which was critically acclaimed, failed to sell. After leaving Timbo, Sparxxx found his greatest musical success with the down south ass-shaking anthem “Ms. New Booty,” featuring such memorable lines as, “booty booty booty booty rockin’ everywhere!”

We later learned that Mr. Sparxxx, while getting the musical high of his career, was also getting high on opiates. Severely addicted at the time, Bubba spent years in and out of rehab. Sparxxx couldn’t balance the life of celebrity with sobriety and decided the best thing to do was to go live on a farm and take a step back from it all. Since then, he’s returned doing music and has also been hitting the weight room.

Ms. Jade

Introduced: 2002

Albums: Girl Interrupted (2002)

Hit Singles: “Ching Ching”

Noteworthy Factoid: Surprised Jay Z was on Ms. Jade’s first album? So was she. Timbaland didn’t let her know about the features on her own album.

Ms. Jade lucked up on a chance meeting with Missy through her management and rapped for Timbaland over speakerphone. The next thing the Philly rapstress knew, she was trading lyrics with Da Brat and Missy on “Slap! Slap! Slap!” off the Miss E...So Addictivealbum, soon followed up with her own 2002 album, Girl Interrupted. Jade had an album full of phenomenal beats (that a number of other rappers used for mixtapes), guest spots from Jay Z, Missy and Nate Dogg and a hit single with Nelly Furtado. However, like most of the artists on Tim’s fledgling Beat Club label, the album failed to succeed commercially, both from a lack of promotion and the growing pains of a new artist finding their voice.

While Ms. Jade kept her comments about Missy and Timbaland pretty friendly after the break up, a few years later she had less than kind words to say about her former mentors, especially Missy, who she feels jacked her 'round the way girl look. Today, Ms. Jade is still rapping, releasing mixtapes and an EP called Beautiful Mess and working with fellow Philly MC Nina Ross, forming the rap duo Thelma & Louise.

Kiley Dean

Introduced: 2003

Albums: Simple Girl (unreleased), Changes (2010)

Hit Singles: None

Noteworthy Factoid: Originally from Arkansas, Kiley followed the Mickey Mouse path to stardom, moving to Orlando and catching the attention of Britney Spears.

Who remembers this blue-eyed soul songstress? Kiley Dean got her start singing backup for Britney Spears on her first two tours. After meeting Tim during a GRAMMY telecast, the singer was signed to Timbaland’s Beat Club Record label. But while the LA Timesproclaimed that Kiley had conquered urban radio, the truth was far less exciting for her. After two singles and no success, her “debut” album, Simple Girl, was shelved.

Undeterred, Kiley signed with Mathew Knowles’ Music World Entertainment in 2007, but she left after six months. Dean finally released an album, Changes, digitally on ReverbNation, and continues to sing back up for stars like New Kids On The Block, Matthew Morrison and Madonna.

D.O.E.

Introduced: 2005

Albums: None

Hit Singles: None

Notable Acts: D.O.E. changed his rap name from John Doe after his label, Interscope, judged it too generic.

Pop Quiz! What does D.O.E. stand for? If you said “Dominant Over Everyone,” you’d be right. Originally know as John Doe, the Queens rapper was signed to Timbaland’s Beat Club label. However, when the imprint folded, he was sent back to the locker room with the rest of Timbaland’s ghostwriters until Tim started his new label, the Mosley Music Group. Still, D.O.E. remained on the bench as Tim focused on projects by other artists.

While D.O.E. wrote for Tim and was a regular feature on album tracks, he finally got his big break on the hit “The Way I Are” off of Timbaland’s Shock Value album, and even got to perform the song on an episode of ABC’s One Life to Live. While D.O.E. has worked with everyone from Robin Thicke to Brandy and has consistently dropped mixtapes, he still has yet to drop an actual LP. Attitude

Introduced: 2005

Albums: None

Hit Singles: None

Noteworthy Factoid: Known primarily for rap, Attitude also co-wrote Keri Hilson’s single, “Breaking Point.”

Attitude’s name is probably familiar with fans of Timbaland. He’s been part of Tim’s Beat Club crew of ghostwriters for years, writing verses on “Say Something,” “Give It to Me” and Nelly Furtado’s “Promiscuous,” and he is prominently featured on the Shock Value albums.

The Alabama MC made a name for himself on the independent scene and bounced between various rap cliques such as DJ Drama’s Aphilliates Music Group and Bubba Sparxxx's 11th Hour Entertainment, which led to his meeting Tim, which then led to a new hustle writing songs for both Tim and Sean “Diddy” Combs. However, besides releasing a few mixtapes, he’s failed to achieve solo stardom. Recently, Attitude formed a group with actor Jason Weaver and fellow musician Sky Keeton called the Triangle Sound Project and released their first single, “We Like Em All,” in spring 2014.

Sebastian

Introduced: 2000

Albums: None

Hit Singles: None

Noteworthy Factoid: Timbaland once suffered a debilitating gunshot wound to the chest while working at Red Lobster. Sebastian helped nurse his big bro back to health.

Garland Mosley, better known as Sebastian, the younger brother of Timbaland, has been a fixture of Tim’s career since the very beginning. Timbo took Sebastian under his wing while touring in the '90s. He later became part of Tim’s crew of ghostwriters, contributing to most of his brother's albums and being featured on some of his biggest hits, including “All Ya’ll” and “The Way I Are,” and even scoring writing credits for “On the Run (Part II)” for Jay Z and “Grown Woman” for Beyoncé. However, when it comes to launching his own career, things have been as “Wobbley” as his first single. While he’s been threatening to release his album, Cruel Intentions, we’re still waiting for him to finally make good on his promise.

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Who's Your Favorite Timbaland's Protégé ?

Keri Hilson

Attitude

Sebastian

D.O.E.

Kiley Dean

Bubba Sparxxx

Ms. Jade

TINK

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#Timbaland #Super Producer #JT

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efurujr · 7 years ago

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Jhené Aiko For The Cover Of Nylon Magazine November Issue.

After her brother’s death, the soulful singer lost herself in psychedelics, only to find what she was looking for

Maybe the first thing people notice about Jhené Aiko is her tattoos. She has a lot of them, but one, in particular, caught the internet’s wandering eye in early October when Miryam Lumpini, a Los Angeles-based tattoo artist who works under the moniker “The Witch Doctor,” shared on Instagram the art she had inked just above Aiko’s left elbow. It was an unmistakable portrait of Big Sean, the Detroit rapper that Aiko has been dating since last year. The tattoo features a stoic Sean, clad in a bow tie and tuxedo, and it caught my eye, too, when the 29-year-old singer arrived at The Forge studio in Cypress Park, Los Angeles, for her NYLON photo shoot. Enshrining a romantic partner’s face on your skin is risky business, so when I sat down with Aiko to discuss her latest album, Trip, I had to know what compelled her. “Well, I don’t know if you noticed, but I have a lot of tattoos,” she says, brushing her glossy black hair back behind both ears. “I just love his face. I think his face is perfect.”

If this one tattoo is a love letter to the man Aiko calls “part of my family,” then almost all the others pay tribute in one way or another to a member of her actual family, her late brother Miyagi, who died of cancer on July 19, 2012, at the age of 26. Miyagi, who was two years older than Aiko, was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2010. Miyagi’s death along with the birth of her daughter, Namiko Love, are the defining moments of Aiko’s life. Aiko and her brother were glued to each other growing up, sharing a bond that left a profound mark on her life. It’s a mark that can be found all over her body in the form of tattoos, ranging from his entire name—Miyagi Hasani Ayo Chilombo—scrolled in red cursive just below Aiko’s left collarbone, to the words “Why Aren’t You Smiling?” on her right wrist, a reference to Miyagi’s final tweet, to the seven principles of the samurai—courage, honor, benevolence among them—written vertically in Japanese along her left leg, a code of conduct that Miyagi “really believed in,” says Aiko.

If her tattoos are personal reminders of lives lived—her brother’s, her own—then Trip is meant as a paean to those lives intended for the rest of the world. The record, which Aiko surprise-released on September 21, is a psychedelic, 22-track semi-autobiographical concept album that came accompanied by a short film of the same name, directed by Girls Trip writer Tracy Oliver, and an upcoming collection of poetry, compiled with works dating back to Aiko’s teenage years. “She’s a brilliant writer and storyteller,” Oliver says. “I was really impressed with her ability to float between so many different mediums with ease: songwriting, poetry, and screenwriting.” Inspired by her brother’s death and influenced by the drugs she was taking to help cope with it, Trip is told from the perspective of Penny, an alter ego born from the nickname Aiko’s great-grandfather gave her after she was born (Aiko has a penny tattooed on her outside left wrist).

“Penny is my true self, the child that’s still within me,” she says. “We all have that seed of that child that’s still in us, so I feel like that’s who I’m getting back to. She was creative, and optimistic, and expressive.” The entire multimedia project, which Aiko calls M.A.P. (an acronym for movie, album, and poetry book), is Aiko’s purest form of expression to date, a fully realized vision of a soul in search of itself, that stands as a creative capstone to a career that began before she was a teenager.

Aiko, who was born Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo, grew up one of five siblings in the Ladera Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, with a mother who has Japanese, Spanish, and Dominican roots and an African-American, Native-American, German Jewish father. She was one of three girls, and each of the five siblings was two years apart, “like steps on stairs,” she says. “Because my family was so big, none of us really had a lot of friends—it was like we were each other’s friends.” But it was Aiko and Miyagi, who attended middle school together and shared friends, who were closest.

From a young age, Aiko found herself in L.A.’s urban pop ecosystem, first on its periphery and later navigating its labyrinthine center. Her father, a pediatrician with a passion for music, converted their home garage into a recording studio. Her older sisters, Jamila and Miyoko (the latter accompanied Aiko to the shoot), were members of the R&B group Gyrl, and it wasn’t long before a 12-year-old Aiko had her first record deal with Epic Records. Soon after, Aiko embarked on a merry-go-round of guest vocals for the boy band B2K, soundtrack appearances, and endless recording sessions (Aiko estimates she recorded over 200 songs during this period). It was all part of her label’s attempt to find a direction in which to steer their budding star’s career. Throw enough things at a wall, and something will eventually stick. But the aimlessness and lack of trajectory frustrated Aiko, who had also begun a habit of writing down poetry and ideas into notebooks, fodder for songs not yet recorded. “I would say that 75 percent of my songs are poems that I just put a melody to,” she says. “The notebooks that I’ve been keeping since I was 12 started off as scrapbooks. They’re very immature—a lot of magazine clippings and stuff like that, but eventually, that turned into straight-up writing.”

Aiko left Epic Records in 2003 when she was 16 and spent the next few years working odd jobs, attending West Los Angeles College, and giving birth to her daughter in 2008. But she never stopped writing. “I write for myself, just to get through things, just to express myself so that it’s not stuck in my head and I end up going crazy,” she says. After Namiko was born, Aiko returned to making music, releasing the mixtape Sailing Soul(s) in 2011, a confident collection of moody R&B featuring guest verses from Kanye West and Drake among others, based on an eye-opening meeting she had with a label executive who encouraged her to sacrifice her artistic integrity in the name of record sales. Miyagi, who was at home battling his illness, helped look after Namiko while Aiko lost herself in her work. “I’m an escapist,” she says of trying to distract herself from her brother’s condition. “So it was like, if I don’t pay attention to this, maybe it will go away.”

Aiko followed the mixtape with the Sail Out EP, which she released in 2013 under her new label Def Jam, featuring guest verses from the likes of Kendrick Lamar and Childish Gambino. These two releases served as the blueprint for Aiko’s debut album, 2014′s Souled Out, in which she solidified herself as a major label artist with an independent streak. The songs—soothing, atmospheric, and lush with avant-garde production flourishes—were in step with a new wave of artistically ambitious R&B being popularized by singers like The Weeknd, Frank Ocean, and Miguel. The album lacked an obvious single, and instead, was made up of deeply personal songs written by Aiko. It was the product of an artist refusing to fit into a box someone else had built for her. “My motivation is not money or fame,” she says. “Even when people are like, ‘I want you to write for me,’ or, ‘Do you have any songs to shop around?’ I’m like, ‘No, these are all songs I created for a purpose,’” she says, ensuring the last word lands.

At this point in her career, Aiko was just as well-known as a featured vocalist on songs by Drake and Big Sean as she was for her own work. After the release of Souled Out, Aiko was fielding offers of more features, remixes, and dance records, which at the time were beginning to take over pop radio. If she wanted, Aiko could have chased the superstardom tasted by peers like Rihanna and Nicki Minaj, but that’s not what drew her to making music in the first place. “Jhené doesn’t try to imitate other artists or follow trends of what’s hot at the moment,” says Oliver, who was a fan of Aiko’s music before the two of them met to discuss collaborating on the short film. “She does her own thing, even if it’s not commercial enough by someone else’s standards,” Oliver says. Aiko recalls being offered other people’s songs, in the hopes of releasing a hit. “People would say to me all the time, ‘I have a great song for you, I have a smash No. 1 record,’” Aiko says of the pressure put on her. “And I’m like, ‘That’s cool, but I write my own music. Give it to someone else who cares.’”

After Miyagi died, Aiko found herself struggling to understand a world her brother was no longer a part of. “I never thought of a life without him,” she says. “That was not something I ever thought was possible, you know?” She describes the surreal feeling of losing someone so close to her: “Sometimes I’ll have a great understanding of life, and understand he’s still here, that he’s within me and my siblings and my daughter and my parents and in the stars,” she says. “And then some days I wake up, and I’m like, ‘Wait, what? Where’s my brother?’ And it’s literally like, I don’t know what kind of day it’s going to be, and because we were so close, it feels wrong when I start to forget, when those memories start to fade.” To keep that memory alive, Aiko began taking solo trips to remote destinations like Big Sur and Hawaii, where she wrote poetry about trying to find peace in the face of overwhelming grief. She also turned to drugs, specifically psychedelics.

Aiko speaks about her history of using drugs with a candor surprising for someone who was media trained at the age of 12. (She even received a certificate from her training, which she proudly keeps in a treasure chest filled with other personal souvenirs, including her daughter’s umbilical cord). “Growing up in California, I experimented with marijuana very young, and I had older friends, so I was drinking at a young age, too,” she says. Soon after, Aiko began experimenting with sleeping pills, “over the counter stuff,” she clarifies. “I was just sort of sneaky and bad, but never bad to the point where everyone was worried about me, because I was still responsible.” Her habits escalated after Miyagi died. “That day I took a Valium, and I feel like from then on it was like, ‘Okay, what’s next?’ I was just very naive in the sense of not realizing how it was affecting me, or how it could affect my health.”

Aiko tried to counteract her drug use, which included downers like Percocet and stimulants like cocaine, with veganism, but she kept getting sick. Her small frame, she says, made her hypersensitive to whatever drugs she consumed, even birth control. During this time, she developed a habit of performing live while under the influence of alcohol. “Like, literally drunk,” she says. “I would have a drink on the stage to the point where I was just sick.” Relationships also helped numb her pain. In 2014, Aiko married Dot da Genius, a producer with whom she collaborated on several songs. (She filed for divorce last year.)

Ironically, it wasn’t until Aiko discovered psilocybin, a psychedelic mushroom, that she was able to quit everything else. She began experimenting with the drug—she made “mushroom tea”—during her trips to Big Sur. It was during that time that her vision for what would become Trip began to crystallize. Aiko, who named one of the songs on the album after the drug, used it to open her mind up to the natural world around her. “Sometimes I would talk to trees and hear them say things back,” she remembers. “But to me, it wasn’t a hallucination. It was me being open enough to receive what they really were. Hearing birds—it wasn’t them just singing, it was them communicating with each other. There was a real world all around me.”

That dreamlike mentality can be heard all over the album, on songs like the ambient opener “LSD,” in which Aiko sings, presumably to her brother, “How you like it up there?/ What’s your view from there?” On the floating ballad “Jukai,” Aiko grapples with death by singing about a place she’s only been to in her imagination, the so-called Suicide Forest in Japan. “If anyone should try and find me/ Just know I’m where I want to be/ I left the house all clean and tidy/ Don’t come searching please,” she sings, imagining her own death. But by the song’s end, Aiko offers a hopeful reprieve: “Surprise, I’m out alive/ Made it out alive/ Away, away, away.”

That journey, from world-is-ending darkness to the light of spiritual reawakening, is central to Trip, and one Aiko couldn’t have made without relying on the love of her siblings, her parents, her daughter, and her boyfriend. On “Nobody,” a mournful song Aiko wrote over a two-year period of depression and self-medication, she sings, “I’m in here in this hell that I don’t want to live in/ I smoke on my own/ I drink on my own/ I don’t need nobody.” But on “New Balance,” a song which Aiko began writing while she had a crush on someone, she sings, “You’re my salvage/ you’re my balance/ You’re so new.” When that crush ended, Aiko abandoned the song before it was done. Then, after a long friendship, she and Big Sean found romance, and Aiko picked it back up: “It hit me like a tidal wave/ Knew that I was in love with you right away, yeah/ Turned all.

As Aiko prepares to embark on a headlining nationwide tour this month, she describes her current state as one of happiness. She speaks of her newfound sobriety, which for her means an occasional drink in social situations, like the two mojitos she had last month at rapper Gucci Mane’s Miami wedding she attended with Big Sean. Maintaining a relationship with the rapper while balancing their demanding schedules is easy, she insists. “We trust each other, so there’s nothing to worry about,” Aiko says. “With cell phones, it’s easier. It’s like, ‘I love you, goodnight. Good morning, I love you, TTYL.’” Recently, the two performed the Trip song “Moments” on The Tonight Show, and their chemistry crackled. “It’s strange performing with him, because I think he’s so attractive that it’s weird for me to sing to him. I still have a crush on him,” she says.

“Moments” was recorded on a trip Aiko took with Big Sean to Hawaii, a place that has become something of a spiritual home for the singer, and where she’ll symbolically end her tour. Aiko also found out recently that her great-grandmother was born in Hilo, on Hawaii’s Big Island, one of her favorite places, a discovery Aiko describes as “full circle.” Aiko now has a tradition of visiting the island, one that began with her best friend, and which now includes her mother, siblings, and daughter. Miyagi didn’t get to see Hawaii before he died, but whenever Aiko travels to the island, he’s right there with her.

#jhene aiko #nylon #nylon magazine #interview #article #text #171101 #2017

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atommadchen-blog · 5 years ago

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Greenhouse Effect (GreenhousEfect) on Twitter – “Manipulation” 1992 Palle Carlson Drummer. SuperNetCelebrities.Com 2010.

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89,357 Views – The hillarious but highly Rocking Greenhouse Effect Videos from their “Final band meeting” Of November 1992 at El Segundo California’s Jet City Sound Studio have been spliced into other G.e clips. Four Songs were shot that night; Three Versions of “White Black Thang’, Search and Destroy, Two Versions (Or more) of the Beatles cover version of “Please Please me”, …and ofcourse several for the somewhat uptemp G.e. Rocker “Manipulation”. Clark Hagins calls the Video for “Manipulation” his favourite; “We look like we’re havin’ fun there,..we look silly but one can tell that when we played live – We Rocked,..and we rocked hard,…we were a weird unusual band,..to say the least.” Greenhouse Effect exploded in notoriety in 2007 with some of Google Videos Most watched clips World Wide; “Our drummer died in 1999 in a bizarre Gardening accident (Laughs)” says Clark Haggins. Ofcourse Hagins is only kidding as he is referring to hillarious Danish Drummer Palle Carlson , the Denmark Drummer who resembles Spinal Tap’s first percussionist in old 1965 black and white clips. “Greenhouse Effect was a World sensation for quite a long time,..we attracted alot of attention and 50,000 Twitter Followers,…I never wanted all the internet fun to end,…but I do see things now finally slowing down in 2010” says Clark Hagins. “We only get about two Million looks a day now,…thats pathetic compared to the kind of business we used to do in 2008.” – There are ofcourse no plans for Rock’s most watched band to reassemble any time soon and Hagins sees the 1992 demise of the band as just another bizarre mistake from his life’s journey; “We were around for like 7 years,…Me and Flipper (Phil Keegan Guitarist) had planned to be the biggest Rock Stars in the musical universe – but it never happened,… ,…until I was like 50 years old (Laughs) ” says Haggins. “We watched all those music industry bands like Nirvana and Green Day hit it big while we did things like work in cubes and clean Pools,..its just a damn shame” says Higgins. Hagins says that the tired band eventually grew ‘into futility’ by late 92′ ; “We had all these Great songs and a great live show but we made enemies with all of the biggest wigs in Hollyweird …there was no way I was ever gonna kiss their arsses – I would clean Swimming Pools before I would do that (Laughs).” Hagins calls the Video for “Manipulation” the absolute Last Hurrah for G.E. ; “The End of the video is hella fucking cool – it looks like Ted is trying to fuck me in the ass and then Palle just picks his nose,.. its pure Lame Rock n roll the way you love it,..it’s fuckin’ hella cool ” ================== 148,037 Views – “Ripping Reason” Comes roaring Out of the speakers with sheer Psychedelic Power !! This Track Sounds so Great in this ‘other’ version – A 1992 “Remix” by sound studio engineer Bill Krodel in El Segundo California with Clark Hagins. “Ripping Reason” is a personal favorite of mine” says Higgins. “I was trying to make it a ‘hit’ I remember,…sorta like “Brandy” but it is so much ‘more’ !! It’s not really a hit so-to-speak ,…its just a flat out Good solid song – A Great piece of Songwriting,…and it sounds Great At Jango Radio !! ‘Ripping’ was recorded in the frantic final days of G.e. and it doesn’t rely on gimmicks like punk speed or guitar solos to get by,…it drudges along in pure melody to near abstract rock perfection and brilliance !!! The confused and tortured lyrics make this track a real winner in cyberspace – and a somewhat ‘unusual’ song for the always quirky G.e. !!!!!!!!! =============== Irie Bob. This 1992 Track is a real Winner for Greenhouse Effect Music Online and in particular at Youtube and GoogleVideo.Com “I started SuperNetCelebrities.Com with Homestead Web hosting who I found through Michael Savage’s Website -…to help bands get exposure” says Clark Hagins in 2008. “Its my goal to make sure that Great bands like Los Angeles’s Batlord get seen more,….and man, do I ever get them seen – ALOT”. IRIE BOB IS THE Pixies-Like 60’s Stooges Like track that appears as the second song on the 1995 “Fountain Weird CD” available at itunes and CD Baby. “The Song was originally entitled ‘Yuri-Bawb’ says Clark Higgins; “But when I suddenly saw the Red CD out of the boxes that day – In October of 1994 from Rainbow Records in Los Angeles – ,…I was horrified to see that they called the Song “Irie Bob”,..I just laughed in horror because the CD was all printed and all done !! And it seemed to be promoting all that 420 Marijuana culture cliche crap,….’Something I personally never wanted any part of in my life,….but now after 17 years,..the name has stuck,…and sometimes people email me,..thinking that I am this pot-head,..because I wrote Irie Bob by G.e. !!! (Laughs) – IRIE BOB Has become a cult classic of G.e. lore what with it’s annoying repetition, distorted bassline, fuzzy guitars (Which Haggins feel need to be turned up more in the final mix), and meandering lyrics and singing which yappily tell the story of a guy who “has been too apathetic,…and thus finally ‘approached Gold thats gleaming”….all in a 4/4 beat of some of Hagins’ best dance beat drumming. This 1992 pop emo song would certainly influence the likes of Beck, Weezer, and others; “When ‘Irie’ was all done and recorded, I just loved the whole ‘feel’ of this little tune,..it was so built around it’s beat and chorus,….Recording Engineer Bill Krodel did an incredible great job at Jet City Sound Studios in El Segundo,….I played all the instruments on this thing myself ,..except then, I got Billy to come in and add these keyboards,..which today – turn out to be the ‘key’ as to why this song is so killer !! I would direct Billy on which sound to implement on the synth,….all the keyboards were always my call with G.e. – though there are many in the South Bay today who try to say that Billy did everything for me,…thats NOT true at all,…Bill Krodel let bands do their own thang,…though he did put in alot of input,…I always had the final calls,…the silly 1960’s keyboards here were entirely my doing,….I dreamed up all my songs,…my songs are good ,..not because of alcohol or drugs like many in the South Bay try to say,…they are good songs simply because I am creative,..and I have been since i was four years old when I drew all those ‘paintings’ at 251,…” Irie Bob, Like all G.e. material Would be rejected by the Program directors at KROQ back in it’s day; “Well,..I would painstakenly try to set up appointments with KROQ Radio Fm programming way back then and they would just say that my songs suck,….I would give them all my tapes,…and nothing would happen,…I would follow up and call back but it was pointless,…thats just the way it is in music industry – even way back then in 1992 and 94′,….you simply ‘had’ to have some kind of major label affiliation in order to achieve FM Airplay,…so thus, songs like IRIE BOB and BRANDY,….NEVER saw their potential back in their day,….I couldn’t do it all alone,….nevermind the fact that I had all the shit goin’ on with Bam Magazine and all. Today, IRIE BOB has racked up Great ‘views’ numbers at Google, Mefeedia, and other websites as it is simply one of cyberspace’s catchyest little secrets. – Originally Recorded September – November 1992 and Appears as part of the 1992 “Big Teen Dollar$” album cd. Produced By Clark Hagins and Bill Krodel. Greenhouse Effect Photos – ?µe???? ???s??? Rock s?????t?µa “fa???µe?? t?? ?e?µ???p???” t?a???d?a.Description199,403 Views – ?µe???? ???s??? Rock s?????t?µa “fa???µe?? t?? ?e?µ???p???” t?a???d?a. – “Misogynistia” is the Great Song that is heard thousands of times a day in 2007 for G.e. – This August 1992 Song was recorded right around the same day as “Five Years” (Which sounds nothing like Miso) and the epic classic “Addicted”. These Songs would compile the September 1992 “Big Teen Dollar$” CD that Clark Hagins Would issue through Massachusett’s Label “Rock City Records’ as well as on sale locally in Redondo Beach at Goboy Records and Mark Theodore’s Alternative Groove Store in Hermosa Beach. “BIG TEEN DOLLAR$” Would be recorded in Early September 92′ with Sound Recording Engineer Of the South Bay Bill Krodel at Jet City Sound Studio in El Segundo Ca. “BTD” Would be a cultural and Lyrical triumph for Haggins as he belittled and attacked Music industry Standard Barers from Kurt Cobain to Henry Rollins to Sammy Hagar to Def Leppard and Bon Jovi too; “BTD” is definitely one of my favorite songs ,..just for how silly and retardedly angry and ironic it is” says Hagins. “Misogynistia is like the anti-dote to BTD,…IT IS just like such a cheesey confused song from 1973 by the Who or Chicago ,..or maybe 80’s-like Duran,…the Song is so serious where-as BTD is absolutely toungue n cheek and DEFINITELY ‘NOT’ !!”……”Writing Sarcastic funny songs from “Star” to “Ben is dead” to “Hey Negrita” in early 91′ had prepared me for some of my ultimate Songwriter moments,…and these would be among my final recordings as I had run out of money by late 92″ Says Higgins – “Waiting 4 Your Love 2 Fail!” explodes with brutal anger, punk speed, angry passion, technical guitar and drumming and plenty of Angst from the World’s Most watched band; Redondo Beach California’s Powerful Greenhouse Efect !!!!! Guitarist Phil Keegan (Dr. Phil) blazes a revolutionary hard rock guitar path here that no other band after the Mighty G.e. could quite copy or capture (Nevermind keep up with !!) …. Clark Hagins pours every ounce of his tortured angry soul into the chilling lyrics and bassist Rick Carmody hangs on for the ride !! – “So Much Better” or Simply “Better” is an ‘ahead of it’s time’ G.e. Song From November 1992 that would also effectively function as quite possibly the last ever idea that Greenhouse Effect and Clark Hagins would ever record. “The Bam Magazine Scandal devestated our band, ruined my concerts, and shook our group’s confidence to the core,…Our bassist Rick Carmody left and soon joined up with the South Bay Redondo Beach Punk band ‘The One Handed Readers’ says Clark Higgins in January 2010 from his offices in San Diego’s “North County’ where today he is a full-time Swimming Pool cleaner,…a job that Hagins says ‘pays the bills’ in the household with just him and his wife; “My life is nothing today,…People say that back in the 90’s I shoulda been a huge Star,…after G.e. flamed out,…I turned more and more to alcohol and by 95′,…I felt my life was technically “Over” up there in Bel Air ,..where I was a Professional Landscaper,…people and other organized bands would still call me, wondering if G.e. was ever coming back,..or if I was ever gonna start throwing concerts again,…but I couldn’t get my psyche into it,…in 96′..i took my Swimming Pool cleaning job with A To Z Pool and Spa in Torrance Ca,..when I moved back down there to the South Bay, ..thats when I knew music for me was over,…I tried to get some people into my shit or to help me but no one would,..nobody cared,…I financed the Rock Opera “White Suburban Liar$” all by myself in 95′,…’put it on sale at GoBoy in Redondo,…but I was 30 years old and not in an active playing band,..man, ..it was over,…I couldn’t do it without Carmody,..atleast I knew I had to have him there”. – Today, Greenhouse Effect explode on the internet (and at itunes) with their old tracks like 1991’s “Brandy” but Hagins calls the scene of music today “almost pointless”. “You got bands like Green Day and Foo Fighters and all their songs sound the same,..they are completely boring people who have never suffered or been picked on in their lives,…they are robotic and their music reflects this,…Dave Grohl is like some jock on a football team,…that guy is ‘NOT’ Rock n roll at all,..yet today, he passes for like as if he is Great like Pete Townshend and the Who or Zeppelin or something,…its disgusting,..People today are so fucking stupid and addicted to drugs and video games,…they don’t know shit about fucking piss ass nothing !! Music sucks now,..and thats all there is to it,..I think Rap music is pathetic….People hear my music,..and suddenly, they hear a trully fucked up person who is ‘really authentically’ fucked up,…thats why I work with a large World audience,…people will never understand what i went through as a child,….but when you hear Greenhouse Effect music,…you suddenly hear it all crystal clear !! I’m a Great drummer and a great guitarist who ‘got that way’ because I had no friends,…I had nothing else to do,…I didn’t fucking learn shit in a book like Dave Grohl,….that guy is not the last of 8 kids,…fuck that guy,..he doesn’t know shit about shit !!” Hagins says that his number one goal and desire would be to see Barack Obama impeached from Office; “If me and my music can play a small part in getting Democrats un-elected,..and getting people out there to ‘learn’ about rightwing politics,..and to stop voting for these assholes,..then that is Great and more power to ‘THAT’,…DEMOCRATS ARE ELITEST TYPES OF PEOPLE WHO RAISE TAXES AND STEAL YER MONEY,…I’m not saying Republicans are all that much better or different,…but they are definitely the lesser of two evils,…..I think that drugs are one of the most serious evils of our Western culture,…We need tougher laws to stop people from using them,…People get high on weed and then they simply naturally are gonna vote for evils and snobs like Your typical Democrat type person,…’when I hear some fucker in a suit and tie say that he wants to ‘help’ people out there,…well, to me,…that is an immediate code RED FLAG word for he wants to ‘rule’ and be bigger, more important, and better – ‘OVER’ the people,…!! Because he is an insecure piece of shit !! Used car salesman,..and ,..like some Leo mother-fucker,…he naturally knows how to get over on people,….I DON’T WANT ANYONE FUCKING HELPING ME,….I HELP MYSELF THANK YOU !!” Hagins says that people need to get ‘properly educated’ and learn to stop voting for socialist minded individuals at all cost. “I practically virtually feel that we need to “Outlaw” people from saying that they are running for office because ‘they want to help people – FUCK THAT,…THEY TAKE THE POWER AND CREATIVITY ‘AWAY’ from the individual – thats what they are really trying to do – period – THEY ARE TYRANTS IN SUITS !!” ============================ In September 2009, Greenhouse Effect achieved a very important personal goal for Los Angeles Top Musician Clark Hagins. The Goal you ask ?? 10,000 Twitter Followers. “We got our 10,000th Twitter follower at One of our many Twitter accounts, but in reality, We really have over 63,000 Followers because we have like 33 different accounts,…its hard work” says Hagins. The pressure is always on Haggins because he is probobly Los Angeles’s “Most seen” musician along with his other bandmates Bassist Rick Carmody and others as his band is always loaded at the very tops of all search engines with the Net’s Top tracks of indie music from “Brandy” to the classic “22nd Street” and “Coke Snortin’ Love Boyz”. “We get seen alot – way more than any other band,…its attracted the attention of several Cable TV Networks,..among them Halogen and others,…People want us to go do a brand new album but I am now nearly 50 years old and I am a swimming Pool cleaner kinda stuck in ‘that’ life,..I doubt seriously today that I could pull off another song like “Brandy” in the studio although I am very intrigued by this new idea for “The Famous on TV”,…thats this new track I’ve been fuckin’ around with…” Hagins says that the Potential for the Halogen Tv Show could produce a windfall of itunes mp3 music sales for G.e. that the band badly needs; “Well,..My wife and I ,..we watch alot of Halogen Tv here with our new Cable Company Time Warner Cable in San Diego’s North County,..I could really improve their Tv network,..it needs to be more gritty and hip and there is nothing more hip online with people than G.e.” 10,000 Twitter Followers isn’t a small thing in an era where some of Mtv’s biggest Hip Hop artists only have 900 or so; “We are a big band online,…we are like this huge phenomenon where websites and businesses fight to link and exchange with us or just be word associated with us,…you know yer big when even porn wants to be near you” says Hagins. “I’ve been tryin’ to convince Halogen Tv to let me do it all my way and let me be 100% completely in charge of my project,…They will get big ratings if they listen to me” says Higgins. – Guitarist Clark Haggins Blogs about his band’s ability to get ‘heard’ on the Web and the importance of Jango Internet Radio and other Web Radios such as Pandora. “The key to something Like Jango.Radio or Last.Fm, Pandora, and all these is ya gotta have good songs first and foremost,…..if yer Songs suck, then its really not gonna matter what you do. You gotta have a good recording too. If you have a song or a demo that sounds like a piece of shit,…then Jango and alot of these are probobly not gonna wanna play it,…and even if they did,…a potential new “Fan” or Twitter follower is probobly gonna wanna change the channel,..just like a TV….” – For many consecutive years, the Greenhouse Effect Song “Brandy” (and other songs of theirs) have been able to fight their way to the tops of search engines and into constant rotation at Jango and Pandora. “Our Song sells itself,…because it’s a great song,..we got lucky there when we wrote that one,…alot of people say that it doesn’t even sound like a typical Greenhouse Effect Song,…but then again,..what does ??” says Hagins. “I would recommend at Jango, if yer an artist there,…don’t let people just ‘play’ yer song at yer profile,..instead rather,..let them “add” it,…that way , you will get into more playlists and stations,..you will become ‘preferred’ more,…it will add up to ALOT of Airplay” Hagins and the band’s Management Team say that “Brandy” is responsible for “about 75%” of G.e’s success in cyberspace. “We are known primarily for one song,…but we got other good tunes,..its not like we’re a complete one hit wonder on here,…When people see me in the street, they always comment on Brandy but some have said it’s really not our best Song in reality,..but it ‘is’ the one that the web seems to like and that Jango and Pandora seem to ‘use’ to get listeners to their network sites,….I would advise bands to stick firmly with just one indie radio site,…Jango is the biggest and the best,..it is sorta like a version of Myspace or Youtube in it’s own rite,…Pandora forces you to ‘mail them’ a cd and as we all in bands know – ‘that’ is a big hassel,….at Jango,…you just upload songs,..its easy,…its sorta like i-sound or Sound.cloud ,..or one of those,…all of those millions of little ‘indie’ so called web radio sites are sorta a waste of time,….yer better off just sticking at Jango,…if you get into a zillion different little sites – and i mean places like Echoboost,..well,..if you got alot’a money sittin’ around to burn ,…then maybe,…but i think it’s more likely that you’ll just go insane at night,….just get yer band onto Jango Radio,…and stick with one -‘that’ one !!” Haggins says that Last.FM has in recent years become kind of a hassel. “I used to love LAST.FM but they mix bands profiles together and they do some weird shit,..i admit that i rarely go there really anymore,…there and Pandora”… – Hagins says that if You are an indie band that the odds of getting on to a Real Fm dial Radio Station like KROQ FM or KLOS FM In Los Angeles are at best slim to none. “Alot of those so called ‘real’ radio stations are just shills for the Record Labels , lawyers, and Hollywood,..theres alot of shady shit goin’ on where there are back room ‘pay offs and payola’ no better than back in the 60’s,…I’m sorry but thats just the way it is and reality…..it would be great if you can manage to get your band played on them,…but you probobly gotta be on some major label or lndie label that gets big cred and respect,…but i would say that a good band that likes it’s own independent sound and image would have to adapt and change too much,….and that can be a bad thing,…all in the name of airplay,..its not worth it ,…but….theres really Great good news though now !! – These days in 2009 and 2010, the ratings for real FM Dial Radios have really fallen,…infact many of them are struggling to stay afloat and are going off the air too … ,..EVERYDAY,…..THE REALITY IS now, more people listen to Jango Radio than they do listen to a station like say KROQ FM,….ALOT of new bands are really gettin’ discovered and getting their sound ‘out-there”,….I would say that technically, its probobly more important to have a hit song at Jango than at KLOS, POWER 106, or Kroq FM,….because now, nobody is listening to those three anymore,…not nearly as much anyway,…the web has taken over,..as a vehicle,…plus things like Talk Radio on the AM DIAL in people’s cars – Stuff Like Michael Savage and Hannity,….nevermind the fact that alot of today’s pop music sucks,..I mean just watch the Grammys if ya don’t believe me,…it all sounds the same and it’s boring,…things like Rap music have been a God-send to guys like me,…people get sick of Rap and they listen to Songs like Brandy by Greenhouse Effect – So it all works out well” ———- “22nd Street” is the Soaring classic from G.e’s 1991 epic cd “Going Legit” which was an album Simply recorded by Haggins and Bassist Rick Carmody alone in the studio; “They Shoulda just signed me long ago” says Hagins “Now,..I’m one pissed off hombre,……I won’t stop until i take over EVERYTHING,…..I see my Google Stats n shit at Webilizers,…I get big plays,…it gives me alotta fuckin’ confidence,….I know I got good shit” – Rock City Productions Pro Management SuperNetCelebrities.Com ============== “Big TEEN Dollar$” is the Hillariously ironic Song and anthem from August 1992 that Clark Hagins wrote over the long hot 92′ summer while mowing lawns “up in Bel Air” and “talking to himself” for inspiration and “coaching”; “Bel Air was a very beautiful place,…I worked for this wealthy Arab at Owlwood Estates – thats where Tony Curtis and Sony and Cher once lived,….and Jane Mansfield lived next door at the big “Pink House” on Carolwood,…at the time, Englebert Humperdink lived there next door,….and Marylin Monroe once lived in our Dog House,..where we kept the German sheperds,…Molly, Marko, and Midnight,….Some people suggested that her ghost was in there (Laughs),….I remember those beautiful hot Beverly Hills afternoons and drinking my 40 of beer….I don’t drink now though,..i’m 45 years old,…” – Backing Vocals ; Jeff Crisfield, Bill Krodel, Mark Nathanson – Remainder; Clark Hagins. Idea for Song conceived in Redondo Beach at 251. Lyrics @ www.LyricsMode.Com – SuperNetCelebrities.Com ===================== Hagins admits that websites Like Blip Tv allow Over-self indulgent bloggers like himself to fully ‘create’ their own arenas and that unlimited blogging spaces are a Heaven ; “Vimeo and BlipTV are awesome incredible things,….I can really vent my spleen thoroughly,…and ofcourse many people read,..and thats the goal,…to get them reading,..then they go to my other sites, ..or Youtubes,…and then they go to itunes,..and they buy,….the bottom line is they get interested in me and my music,…and they get to read alot,…it gets them more intelligent,…its way MORE educational than a video game,….Video games are something that Democrats cooked up so you will just sit there and be a moron and smoke pot and be a fucking idiot,….and thats how people like Barack Obama and other Democrats get voters,…they create their own pool of morons THAT THEY CAN EASILY CONTROL,…..I would prefer to get the intelligent, more informed votes of hard working American people ,…People like electricians and or Swimming Pool People,…they tend to be way more informed and intelligent because alot of them listen to Dr. Michael Savage in their trucks during the day as they work – Him and Mark Levin talk radio too.” – “Wilson Phillips” comes barrelling out of the Speakers as a heavy Black Sabbath like G.e. Anthem of hard rock. “Ted told me on the phone one day about 1995 that he thought that ‘newer G.e.’ wasn’t as heavy and was too “Happy”,…man,…I guess he was referring to stuff like “Addicted” and “Irie Bob”…, i just fuckin’ laughed at that shit,…I think Ted just started to smoke too much pot and it fried his head !! Clark Hagins blogs that his ‘ideas’ for society and his ability to ‘copy and re-paste entire blogs elsewhere’ is as important as the music itself ; “Shit like Tubemogul can be awesome,….Everybody knows that I don’t do all this writin’ shit so much for the music,..infact, I really don’t even give a rat’s ass about the music so much as I care about getting my politics and society philosophies across to the general public,…..Greenhouse Effect was always about being political,….We were good irish boys who went to church and who had fears,….but then others in the world would come and try to corrupt us,…and try to make us be like everybody else – to conform,….I say ; fuck that,….I keep the same shit that I was at 16 and 23 today still at 44; I am an old fashioned conservative – what-ever that means,….I’m against abortion and Gay marriage and legalizing or promoting lame drugs that I know destroy great minds,…you can write better shit whilst sober !! I listen to Michael Savage,…and if people don’t like it,..then what the fuck,…they can suck my cock” – Tags – tagcloud, asher roth, politics, lil wayne, eminem, asher roth, susan, mel gibson, brandy, wayne gretzky, kroq most played, paramore, muse, radiohead, tom delonge, weezer, pork, hole tour, hip hop, bmo, brandy, lmfao, sky blu fox, cnn, smokey robinson, michael savage radio ———— ============ The exciting Greenhouse Effect are the New “Nirvana” of the internet for these times of the new millineum of 2008, 09, and 2010 !! Great Songs that evoke melody of the 1960’s and bands like the Mersey Beats to the Sounds of the 70’s and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer to Zeppelin !! High Melody is always G.e’s aim !! This little Redondo Beach three piece band has spread their music all around the World like no other band in History !! They use a tight mix of Jango Radio constant Airplay, Pandora Radio attack with the classic “Brandy”, and millions of constantly running Google Videos and Twitters !! Virtually every person you know HAS SEEN A G.E. VIDEO and probobly Downloaded it !! Clark Hagins considers himself every bit as much a “Politician” as a Great musician; “I can see why all these Arab Countries hate the west and the United States in a way sorta… – They don’t want our shit in their countries !! We despicably take our freedoms for Granted and we abuse and take libertys wrongly,…..Hollywood is a buncha fucking Liberal scumbags,….But Thank God, Our Country is on the right track now,….We have won three key races in a row in Late 2009 and here in 2010,….We won in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts and even though this Scott Brown character just seems like another RINO,….I will still choose ‘that’ over the Obama-Liberal Martha WTF her name is !! Thank God Almighty that we won that Massachusetts one – that was critical !! I am certain that the angry things that I write definitely play a role with the TeaParty Protesters,…THEY READ MY SHIT – THEY’VE BEEN READING IT FOR YEARS !!,……NOT ALL MUSICIANS are Liberals,…Some of us listen to Dr. Michael Savage and Mark Leven Talk Radio,….We are informed,….but we already ‘knew’ from the beginning,….I’ve been a conservative from birth ,…probobly because I am a Taurus born April 27,…..people say that I am crazy – and I fucking AM !! BUT I know that music is the key,….it takes beautiful music to get people to the ballot booth and pull the lever !!! As the unofficial “Leader” of the Tea Party movement, Hagins blogs are often caustic, terrifying, angry reading – but effective. “People used to pick on me,..back in the South Bay and I figured it out,…it was ‘Liberals’ that WE’RE PICKING ON ME,…..tryin’ to say how I’m so “close-minded” when all along it’s THEM who is really that… Liberal Pot-heads and People who sit around listening to Rap and playing Video Games who DON’T KNOW SHIT ABOUT ANYTHING – ‘THEY’ ARE THE ONES who are always putting other people down,…and usually because they are insecure Gealous Motherfuckers who got no TALENT – ATLEAST NOT LIKE ME !! ” ========= Tags ; tags, tagcloud, asher roth, politics, lil wayne, eminem, asher roth, susan, mel gibson, brandy, wayne gretzky, kroq most played, paramore, muse, radiohead, tom delonge, weezer, pork, hole tour, hip hop, bmo, brandy, lmfao, sky blu fox, cnn, smokey robinson, michael savage radio Likes: 40 Viewed:

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GRETA VAN FLEET - YOU'RE THE ONE

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Rock music! What could possibly go wrong?

Alfred Soto: Oh, so this is what they sound like! They sound like nothing at all, or, rather, everything: Kings of Leon refracting Skynyrd refracting Neil Young, with a vocal that imitates Bugs Bunny imitating a court fool. To dismiss "You're the One" is to give undue attention to the piano bar house band that gets twenty minutes to perform their original -- I use the term loosely -- material. We Tango in the Night fans had our moment; let Greta Van Fleet exhume Carter-era beasts if they like. [3]

Vikram Joseph: I'll admit I was expecting a singer-songwriter; instead, here's an earnest, breathtakingly unsubtle stadium-rock anachronism, bathed in Lynyrd Skynyrd guitars and honky-tonk piano, notable only for some strangely cartoonish vocals and a remarkable commitment to regressiveness. [2]

Ian Mathers: In their brief but already dramatically successful effort in emphasizing the very worst bits of Led Zeppelin smushed up with a million buttrock bands, you have to admit this about "You're the One": they've maybe never quite so effectively compressed what's odious about them than in the couplet, "Babe, you're so young and pretty/but you're evil, you oughta know." Fuck off outta here. [1]

Thomas Inskeep: They're not even good enough to be a Led Zep ripoff, they're just a generic early '70s semi-hard rock ripoff, a bar band who inexplicably got signed and promoted. This is a glass of tepid water that's been sitting out all day, and might even have a little dust on it. Who wants to drink that? [1]

Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: Approaches tolerability in the most boring ways until about one minute and forty-five seconds in, which is when Josh Kiszka stumbles through a second verse of "Babe, you're so young and pretty/But you're evil, you oughta know/Darling, ain't that a pity/Won't you stand yourself and show." These four lines take "You're the One" from mediocre to awful -- they're cliche, nonsensical, misogynistic, and contrived all at once, achieving some sort of land speed record in bad writing. [1]

Ryo Miyauchi: Greta Van Fleet's rhyme schemes are crudely elementary, and their imagination is pathetically shallow; they put nothing down on paper so they compensate by shrieking, drum fills and organ solos on record to suggest passion, or something. Their reference points committed similar crimes too, but this is just uninspired cosplay. [4]

Alex Clifton: If you didn't tell me who this was by, I would've guessed some sixties act. It has all the hallmarks needed to signify that: organ, choir-y chorus, yelping at inappropriate moments, etc. I'm so close to liking this, but there's something that holds me back from giving myself over whole-heartedly to this song. I love vintage tracks, so why is this so hard? I think the answer lies in Greta Van Fleet's apeing of sixties rock. They're trying so hard to be Dylan, Zepplin, and Baez wrapped up in one neat unit that I get no sense of who Greta Van Fleet is supposed to be. They sound like a mishmash cover band that's throwing everything into a blender with the hopes that something will stick, but it ends up coming out bland. Had there been more oomph to it -- less wailing, more feeling, just something to make it a little different -- I'd be all over this; as it stands, I can't commit. [4]

Joshua Minsoo Kim: The thing about paying homage is that you can spend so much time emulating a specific sound that, in the process, you forget that music is so much more than the literal sounds themselves. Yes, Greta Van Fleet sound like Led Zeppelin and The Allman Brothers Band and whoever else, but their music lacks virtually everything that made their forebears' best work worthwhile: the evocative lyricism, the emotional candor, the sharp songwriting. Greta Van Fleet are nothing more than a ragtag group of musicians whose shelf-life would've been limited to a spattering of gigs at local bars, but received fame because some people are shamelessly desperate for familiar rock music that'll save them from the current state of pop radio. Don't blame the band, blame the fans. [5]

Will Rivitz: Look, being the contrarian I am, I always desperately want to spite the music-criterati by enjoying young bands who succeed despite increasingly ineffectual online panning; there's little that inspires such schadenfreude as a self-righteous and mostly humorless collection of reviews that ends up inspiring both precisely the opposite of the intended effect and a non-response from the band succinctly detailing just how little of a shit they give about negative press in one brilliantly condescending paragraph. Here, though, it's unstoppable force meets immovable object, where the force is the aforementioned petty streak and the object is fetishizing the rock 'n' roll's absolute nadir. If the object can accurately be described as "troubadourian," the object wins. [2]

Katherine St Asaph: I mean, it's bad, and unexpectedly bad at that (as usual, the vocals ruin it all; imagine Nate Ruess with sudden torticollis, squeaking out the word "pretty"). But the only difference between Greta Fleet exhuming dated and gross Led Zep songs and your critical darlings exhuming dated and gross Steely Dan songs is who's currently mansplaining to you. [3]

Edward Okulicz: Until the point that the vocals come in, this comes across as a passable and quite melodic guitar rock track, albeit one stuck in a straitjacket by its era fixation/fetishisation. When the vocals come in, I hear a bored, work-a-day bar band. Then the second verse has a bit of attempt at some raw emotion and I hear a singer who just isn't very good at emoting, or lifting the level of power and tension in a song but is trying hard and failing to do so. On top of an uninspired but competent band, that's not getting me to wave my lighter. But in truth, I've heard plenty of critically acclaimed classic rock songs that put my teeth on edge far more than this. Led Zeppelin were boring, how about some Def Leppard clones instead? [5]

Tim de Reuse: So clean, so lavish, so expensive-sounding, so competent, so well-executed, so polished, so sensible. Designed to be fundamentally un-hateable to anyone who existed in the United States at any point in time between 1970 and 2019. I will not listen to this again, and it will pass effortlessly through the sieve of my memory like the empty-calorie un-statement that it is. [2]

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