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Title: Poolside - Let it Live
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Artist: TwiTerror
Genre: Rock/Pop: Rock
Reviewed by: Spectra on October 11, 2007 (All reviews by Spectra)

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1Overall Description
Very very catchy song crosses somewhere between Daft Punk, Sugar Ray (more so than anything else), and, dare I admit, the kind of catchy pop-reggae-type stuff Paris Hilton writes (yes she does in fact write music).
This song essentially has two melodic parts and only one of those (0:13-0:25) repeats for about 65-70% of the song and the second part starts around (2:10) and both rotate for the entire song. The first part is incurably catchy...odd because the first time I heard the song I thought it was about a 4.5 wow that's catchy and smooth...but, by the third time, I had a headache from the redundancy of the piece.
My prediction is this song will quickly and justifiably rise but also quickly in listeners' eyes as they repeat this same process I went through.
 
2Creativity Description
The way the vocoded vocals fly over the bassline is brilliant it truely has it's own sound. On the other hand the same can't be said of the overly simple though very catchy 4-chord melody that repeats for the entire song.
 
3Artistic License Description
It's a combination of pop reggae, Sugar Ray's style, and disco-esque vocal overtones...it sounds like nothing else on the site, or anywhere else. I can even hear some Basement Jaxx influence...yes this has all been done before but the way it is combined gives it a certain recognizability flare.
 
4Arrangement Description
Yes, it's "plain" pop arrangements, but it takes about 4 different palettes of pop style instrumentation (mentioned in part 3) and manages to mix them all together, which makes the brilliance in the mix.
 
5Sound Quality Description
No gripes here...it sounds purely major label.
 
6Does it work as a piece of music Description
Beautifully the first listen, but fades quickly in value after that. Last-ability is the issue here...more counter melodies, key changes, and a longer progression (think 7 chords if sticking to one main melody for most of the song) would help save this song's last-ability as would some creativity with the drums (for now the beat just innocently taps on through like a country song's). Stylistically though, it's quite a sight to behold.
 
Comments
Oct 26 2007 5:47 pm
by Spectra
>Fantassstic. Yeah that's Paris alright... :-D



Oct 26 2007 4:53 pm
by TwiTerror
Haha, it really just occurred to me that I was compared to Paris Hilton! Fantassstic.



Oct 11 2007 12:47 pm
by TwiTerror
I couldn't agree more full-heartedly with this review. I very much feel that I suffer from the one-time-play-awesomeness syndrome. Thanks for the review, although I never really understand how all 4 and 5 star components add to a sum of 3, I'm about what you say in your review, and here you've said a lot. This is a very helpful and constructive review that I appreciate. Thanks! (: